2008 Easter event

The 2008 Easter event started on 18 March 2008, and is still going on, so, first of all, Happy Easter! Players are rewarded a chocatrice cape, among other things, for completing it.

Starting
Players have to make their way south of Falador, near the Rimmington Mine to the Easter Bunny's rabbit hole. To start the event, players have to investigate into the hole.

Easter Egg Hunt
The Easter Bunny's Bouncer will ask the player to first run around Asgarnia to find 3 chocolate eggs. There are 9 altogether, but you only need 3 to enter the hole.

There are five clues that are given by the Bouncer to suggest locations for the eggs:


 * One egg was for an extremely retired gentleman in Draynor, but nobody down in the warren seems to remember his name.
 * One egg was to be delivered overseas. I doubt the ship has set sail yet.
 * We've has some peculiar deliveries this year. One egg was even for Saradomin!  Of course, nobody in the warren knows where Saradomin lives, so we just had to deliver the egg to a statue of him.
 * One egg was meant to be delivered to the dwarves under Falador, but it never arrived. Maybe the delivery bunny took it to the wrong mine.  He wasn't gone for long, so it can't be too far away.
 * One rabbit said they mislaid an egg at a drop party. Always was a bit of a party animal, that one.

The eggs can be found in the following places:

South and East: North: (The three locations in italics are closest to the hole).
 * 1) In the middle of Rimmington mine on a wheelbarrow.
 * 2) On the Mysterious Statue west of the Port Sarim fishing store.
 * 3) Port Sarim on a barrel on the boat to Karamja.
 * 4) On a rock northeast of Port Sarim near the stone wall.
 * 5) The second floor of Draynor's Wise Old Man's house, on a book shelf.
 * 1) In gem store in Falador, on the counter.
 * 2) On a shelf in the furnace room in Falador
 * 3) The second floor of the party room, at the bar.
 * 4) On the outstretched hand of the Saradomin Statue to the north of Falador.

Returning the eggs
After you have found the 3 eggs, you have to return them to the Easter Bunny's hole. The bouncer will thank you and tell you to come in and see the Easter bunny. Enter the hole and go and see the easter bunny (he is north-west of the entrance). He will explain that the critters have eaten the chocolate while he was gone, and that he needs to make more eggs with the eggs you have brought him. He will ask you if you know what a cockatrice is. Say yes. He says he is going to make a 'Choc-atrice'.

Hatching the Choc-atrice
Grab a cockatrice egg from the pile nearby and dip it into the large bowl of 'Molten Chocolate' (resembling a chocolate pool in the middle of the room), to receive a Chocatrice egg. You then have to incubate the egg in the eastern area of the hole. You will need coal, water and buckets but they are all supplied. Place the egg into the incubator and it will automatically start up. Then grab 24 buckets off one of the two tables. Click on the pile of coal to automatically start filling all of your buckets with coal. Stop it by walking away when you have 12 buckets of coal (3 rows). Do the same for the water pool across from the coal. Once you have 12 buckets each, click on the incubator coal scuttle to add the coal (You will automatically fill the scuttle until it is 12 buckets full). Do the same for the incubator water scuttle. Go to the other side of the Incubator and click on the incubator controls. You have to adjust the temperature to match the blue arrow on the dial by adding coal and water using the buttons respectively. It might take you a while to fiddle with the controls and you may have to refill the scuttles but you will soon enough get it. You must do this 5 times.

You will then have to wait around about a minute.

Messages while adjusting temperature:
 * Contains your freshly-made egg.
 * It looks like your egg is started to grow.
 * It looks like your egg is getting much larger.
 * It looks like your egg is ready to hatch.
 * You have hatched a chocatrice. Well done!

Once the egg has hatched, it will run away into the Main Warren.

Getting the Chocolate chunks
Speak to the Easter Bunny and he will tell you that he teleported the Chocatrice into the southern warren. He wants you to go and help it but the hole to get in is small, and you need to be transformed into a Bunny to get through. Once you're a bunny, enter through the hole. You need 12 chunks of chocolate.Once you enter, you will have a conversation with your Chocatrice. It gets angry with you and nearly turns you into chocolate but in the end obeys you. You must move through the tunnels using the target on rats, spiders, snails and cockroaches, turning them into chocolate. Make sure to pick up the chocolate chunk remains. Your Chocatrice has to be able to see the creature you want to turn to chocolate, or your attempts will fail!

Finishing Up
Once you have 12 Chocolate chunks, work your way back through the tunnels to the entrance and exit. Talk to the Easter Bunny to change back to a human. Add your chunks to the chocolate mixer near the Easter bunny to recieve a Chocatrice cape.

Event Complete!

Note: After completing the event, if you haven't unlocked the Bunny Hop Emote yet talk to the Easter Bunny after getting your cape. He will say that if you collect 10 more chocolate chunks, he'll give you an extra special reward. Once you collect the chunks, turn them into chocolate, and you'll have unlocked the Bunny Hop.

Rewards
The rewards are:

(Note: If you add more chunks to the chocolate mixer, you will receive a message that says: The Easter Bunny beams down at you as you helpfully bolster his chocolate stockpile.
 * For 12 chunks - The chocatrice cape
 * If you have not unlocked the bunny hop emote, for 10 chunks you will get the bunny hop emote
 * 8 chunks - A chocolate egg
 * 6 chunks - A second chocolate egg
 * 4 chunks - A third chocolate egg

In order to get all rewards you will need a total of 40 chunks. If you do not have bunny hop emote, you will need a total of 40 chunks. It is highly recommended to not eat any of your three reward eggs as they cannot be retrieved again once eaten. A Jagex moderator has posted on a forum topic, mentioning that you DO get to keep the three reward eggs after the event. However, they will still remain untradable.

When you Operate the Chocatrice cape, you will do the Giant Easter Egg emote.

When you go into the hole and there are a lot of players there so there is a chance your character will disappear but you still can finish everything.

Chocatrice Anger Remarks
The following is some remarks your player said as a rabbit to fuel your chocatrice's anger so it would turn the creatures to chocolate. They all start with 'Hey, see that [ rat/spider/cockroach/snail] over there...'. A lot of them often refer to the chocatrice being a 'noob'. If you target your own chocatrice, you will receive a message: 'The chocatrice refuses to target itself. How smart!'
 * ...It said you can't even wear bronze armour!
 * ...Oh dear, it said you've never finished a quest!
 * ...It thinks you probably taste terrible!
 * ...It said you still burn shrimp!
 * ...It said you lost your tinderbox and cried!
 * ...It's threatening to melt you into hot chocolate!
 * ...It says you still try to wear Goblin armour!
 * ...It says it took you three months to finish Tutorial Island!
 * ...It read your diary and said it was boring!
 * ...It said you put it off chocolate milk for life!
 * ...It said you're just an egg on legs!
 * ...Oh my, I think it is staring at you menacingly!
 * ...It said I must have dropped your egg!
 * ...I heard it plotting to pull your feathers out!
 * ...It's going to chop you up to make a selection box!
 * ...It said you couldn't even do the Cook's Assistant quest!
 * ...It said you're even afraid of butterflies!
 * ...It says it saw you die in Lumbridge cow field!
 * ...It said you're thicker than toffee!
 * ...It said you would probably get owned by a chicken!
 * ...It said you're just a jumped-up piece of candy
 * ...It made up a song about you and it wasn't very nice.
 * ...It said its going to make you into a Chocolate Cake!
 * ...It said it's going to leave you out in the sun to melt!
 * ...It said you just look stupid.

If you try to target another chocatrice you will receive a message: 'The chocatrice is not interesting in targeting that.'

Music

 * Bittersweet Bunny

Glitches
There was also a glitch that occurred in several worlds which prevented players from entering the rabbit hole after obtaining the 3 eggs. The majority of the players in those worlds believed that only one person was allowed down the hole at a time. However, for some reason the only solution was to be killed, which did something, and be able to participate by going into the hole.

If a snowball is thrown at someone using the Giant Easter Egg emote the player who got pelted will dissapear until the time when they should break out of the egg. This emote is possible to do while wearing a ring of stone or Easter ring.

If the chocatrice turns more than 1 target into chocolate on the same spot, you will only be able to collect 1 chocolate chunk.

If you are attacked while performing the Giant Easter Egg by another player, there is a glitch where you are standing, and the egg will continue to form.

If you use the Zombie hand emote, and quickly operate the cape, the egg continues to form.

Trivia

 * This event was the one and only time when Free-to-play players had a Summoning interface screen, during the time of the event when having to turn other animals into chocalate.


 * If players bring all 9 eggs to the hole, the guard will ask "Are you sure you aren't the Easter Bunny in disguise?"


 * The 2008 easter area is the same area as the 2007 Easter event. The part of the chocolate chunks is the area where the player entered the hole and the part with the chocatrice egg and the easter bunny was the bowling area.


 * If the player tries to hit another player with a snowball in the bunny hole, they will recieve a message that says "This is Easter, not Christmas! You don't see the Easter Bunny interfering in Christmas events now do you?"


 * If the player tries to require assistance while you're a bunny, it says "You can't request assistance while in bunny form".

Reference

 * RuneScape Knowledge Base
 * Easter 2008 Event guide