2010 Easter event

The 2010 Easter event, officially named Egg-streme Management, was released on 29 March 2010. This event sees the return of the Easter Bunny Jr and his factory in a similar fashion to the 2009 Easter event.

Starting off
First you will need to go south-west of Falador, to the north of Rimmington. There you will see Charlie the squirrel. After talking to him you will have to go down the nearby hole. You can't go in with anything in your pack. The first time (and the first time only), Charlie will give you the option to send your whole inventory to your bank account. Either way, you'll need an empty pack to enter the hole. Later on, you won't get the bank option, so when you return after finishing your deliveries, make sure your pack is empty. (however, if your pack is empty the first time you speak to Charlie, he will give you the opportunity to use the bank option when you speak to him the next time)

Once inside, you must go north into the next room where you will meet Easter Bunny Jr and Easta Buni (an Ice troll), who is extorting him for rock cake. The Easter Bunny will ask you to help him fix the modernized factory and you will agree.

Cleaning the Oven
You will need to speak to an Impling manager before you can clean the oven. Go to the oven, which is the northern-most machine in the factory. Left-click the oven to obtain the Dirty cog, Dirty pipe and Dirty pistons, and wash them in the water behind the oven by using each one on the water. Then, use the Clean cog, Clean pipe, and Clean pistons with the oven to put them back. Talk to the Impling manager, who will send you back to the Easter Bunny.

Making the Glaze
The bunny will tell you to fix the egg/bread glazing machine and so you must go to it. It is the southern-most machine. Talk to the impling in charge and he will tell you he needs glaze from one of the crates. The supplies are in one of the boxes in the workshop. The location is different for every player. Once you have found the Glaze crate, give it to the manager impling. He will then unpack the crate and give you a Vial of red glaze, a Vial of yellow glaze, a Vial of blue glaze, a Glaze colour wheel, and a Bowl. Talk to him again to discover what colour you need to make (a total of three colours). You can mix the glazes by using them with the bowl he gave you. If you mix too many (3) different colours, you will get a black mess and you will have to empty the bowl. Once you made all glazes needed, the manager will send you back to the Bunny.

Training the Squirrels
After finishing the glaze making, you must then go back to the Easter Bunny who will report that the squirrels on the conveyor belt need training. Go talk to Big Ben who will put you at the controls of the conveyor. Ignore any nuts or chocolate and let them pass but press the red button when a toy (possibly General Graardor), a broken peanut, or a screw comes by. Now go back to the Bunny again. He will put you in charge of the entire factory. But first you have to motivate the Easter bird.

Convincing the Easter Bird
Go South of the Easter Bunny until you see the Easter Bird. Talk to him, and select the responses that will motivate him to make the chocolate. Say "This isn't you." on the first one and say "Don't you see? I respect you." for the second one. There are only two multiple-choice questions. Once you are finished, go back to Easter Bunny Jr.

Factory Management
The strategy here is to build up your raw materials and then create finished goods. First, recruit more workers to enable you to get faster resources. Next, you need to increase the value of resources (Nuts, Chocolate, and Fruit) by assigning workers to make them. After, move along and increase the value of the final products (Fruit Cake, Nutty Eggs and Tangy egg bread), once you have enough resources to create them. When you do manage to get resources you can also use them to recruit more workers. You do not have to get 15 workers to finish this event, it can easily be done with 5 or 6. You will lose one resource for every 5 workers you have at the end of each turn.


 * For Fruit Cake, you will need one Fruit and one Chocolate.
 * For Tangy egg bread, you will need one Fruit and one Nuts.
 * For Nutty eggs, you will need one Chocolate and one Nuts.

When the turn is finished, one of the following events may occur:


 * Nothing happens.
 * A machine may break. You can fix it yourself or you can order the workers to fix it, by clicking the box next to the machine in your next turn.
 * You may find 3 extra resources.
 * You may lose 3 resources.



You can use the arrows to get more resources for the next turn, or to set the amount of product that need to be made for the next turn. To recruit more workers, click the recruit-button. You will need to have 7 of each product (cake, bread and eggs) to win. Once that is done, the game will automatically end. If you manage to do it within 15 turns, you will get an additional reward at the end.

NOTES:
 * If you do not think you will be able to complete the orders in 15 turns or less, simply talk to the Easter Bunny again and select the second option to reset the factory. You can then try again to get it in 15 turns or fewer so that you can get the bonus reward.
 * The lower the score at the end of the game, the better. Each turn you take adds 101 points to your score. Employing squirrels and having left-over resources subtract from your score, -10 points for each left over resource and -10 points for each employed worker (keep in mind, lower scores are better).
 * Don't leave any broken machinery unfixed because it will add 50 points to your final score. Also, if you finish in 15 or less turns, 100 points will be subtracted off your score as well. It seems to be most beneficial to use the first couple turns to get as many workers as possible to make your score as low as possible, since they will both reduce your points for being hired and will gather resources faster (fewer turns and more leftover resources).
 * If you are trying to minimize your score, repairing the machines yourself will save you since you will not need to use up a worker to do it. You can exit the management window and restart from where you left off, so this is not a problem. Simply fix the machines (or train the squirrels) in the same way you did previously in the event. Once they are fixed, talk to the Easter Bunny again and choose the first option to resume managing the factory.
 * Recruiting to 15 employees in the first few turns by producing only resources and then producing each finished good and resource in a balanced way will allow a finish in 7 to 9 turns.

Deliveries
The Easter Bunny will give you a map and a delivery box, you have to deliver goods to recipients in three different cities:
 * A Strange Courier, in Lumbridge (the bridge east of the courtyard)
 * Goblin courier, in Varrock (entrance to the Grand Exchange)
 * Courier, in Falador (Falador Square)

You should talk to each courier to finish your delivery. You must finish the whole conversation, otherwise he will not have taken the supplies. If you need to know exactly where to go, check the map that the Easter Bunny gave you. It will open up the World map with three special markers for the couriers. If walking, home teleport to Lumbridge (or walk to Falador, then Varrock then Lumbridge if you have ancient magicks. For lunar spells, go to a non-members world and cast home teleport) and deliver the supplies to the Lumbridge courier. Then go through Varrock (delivering the supplies) then to Falador and back to the Easter Bunny. For non-members, use the home teleport after getting the items then head to Varrock via any path then to Falador through the Barbarian Village route. After the last delivery, go back to Easter Bunny.

Finishing off
After you have finished with the deliveries, you must speak with the Easter Bunny for your reward (no need to talk to Charlie again).

'''Congratulations! Event Complete.'''

Rewards

 * Squirrel ears, which give access to summoning Charlie the Squirrel and Fluffy once every 30 minutes (only one at a time if you didn't complete Factory Management in less than 15 turns) and the Juggle Emote, which you can activate by right-clicking the worn ears.
 * Players who didn't have the "Around the World in Eggty Days" emote unlocked the emote.
 * Players who didn't have the "Bunny-hop" emote, unlocked the emote.
 * You can replay the Factory Management game as long as the event stays.

Music

 * An Easter United

Trivia



 * This is the first time players can summon two pets at the same time.
 * When you complete the event, your Adventurer's Log will say "Ran the Easter Bunny's factory and gained a squirrel friend."
 * The Twitter hint for this update was: EBJ requires a middle manager. Are you up for it?
 * If your character has never seen an Elf, he won't recognize the "Hooded man" as one.
 * In the Factory Management Help on the right side of the screen during the Management Planning minigame, there are a few spelling errors which have not been fixed yet.
 * After you summon your squirrels, Fluffy will sometimes yell "DOG!" This is an apparent reference to the animated movie "Up" where in the Dogs would interrupt themselves in mid-sentence to yell "SQUIRREL!"
 * Charlie the squirrel speaks in Scottish slang and his personality pokes fun at the movie Braveheart.
 * There is a bug on the Easter Bunny's face if you try to summon the Squirrels inside the factory. This has yet to be fixed.
 * If you attempt to summon Squirrels in the cave, an interesting dialogue will appear (see right).Buggy.PNG
 * One of the items that appears on the conveyor belt appears to be a plush General Graardor Doll, similar to the one in the 2009 Easter event.
 * This is the first time free players get to speak and see Elves (though they won't recognize them) and Ice trolls (though this one looks different from the other known ones).
 * The ice troll is called Easta Buni (pronounced the same as 'Easter Bunny'), because he was born around Easter and tried to eat the Easter Bunny; trolls are named to the first thing they (try to) eat.
 * Near the start of the quest, the Easter Bunny mentions that he should not have given Charlie coffee. This could be a reference to Hammy, the squirrel from the movie 'Over the hedge' who goes crazy on caffeine. It could also be a reference to Twitchy the Squirrel from a movie named "Hoodwinked."
 * Big Ben is possibly a reference to a large bell clock in London, UK, or to the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback.
 * When trying to enter the rabbit hole with the 10th squad sigil from Monkey Madness quest equipped, Charlie will say "Monkey Madness is it? I'll gie ye madness, Pal! Get that sigil off ye afore ye go doonstairs."
 * Several times throughout the event references to Charlie the Squirrel biting people are made. This is a reference to the popular internet video "Charlie Bit Me."
 * When you talk to Easta Buni and Phlegm Knee they make sounds when speaking. This has not happened with any other character before.
 * This is the second Easter event where one can re-enter the Easter Lair after completion of the event. (In this instance, to do the minigame)
 * If you use the Home Teleport and use the Juggle Emote, the squirrels will jump about on you. Your character will remain motionless and the teleportation spell will be cancelled.
 * If you use the Juggle Emote, all of your weapons which are wielded will stay wielded. When using the emote with a 2h weapon, your character will hold onto the 2h weapon with one hand.
 * After the release of the 2010 Easter event it is possible to kill people's summoned Squirrels using Range or Magic (this has been patched).
 * When you log into the game after summoning the Squirrels; you can summon the Squirrels immediately, instead of waiting 30 minutes.
 * The site's article states that "at this rate, you’ll be the one wearing the big bunny suit next Easter." This could possibly be a hint as to next year's reward.
 * While talking to Fluffy, you will see a new chat-head when he says he will eat you.
 * After you have completed the deliveries, the Easter Bunny mentions the 'Popular Squirrel Front'. This is a reference to the 'Judean People's Front', the 'People's Front of Judea', the 'Popular Front' and other similarly named organisations from Monty Python's Life of Brian.
 * When talking to Charlie he threatens to give a Miscellania kiss, which is a head-butt also known as a Glasgow kiss.


 * When summoning one of the Squirrels they will yell out "Feel my Squirrelly WRATH!" this is a reference to a popular Newgrounds series called Neurotically Yours where Foamy the Squirrel yells out the same thing.
 * When talking to the Goblin Courier, if you have completed the Goblin Diplomacy quest, you ask if they would rather have brown fireworks because they "like the colour brown better", but the Goblin Courier says, "Brown okay, we like brown, just look silly for fireworks."
 * Although Charlie the Squirrel makes you empty your pack before entering the rabbit hole, you can enter if the only thing in your pack is Squirrel ears.
 * The Elf is thought to be Arianwyn, though this is unlikely because his hair is slightly darker, his skin is slightly brighter, and Arianwyn would likely be too busy with the Mourning's Ends story to participate in this event.
 * Even though you cannot summon the Squirrels inside the rabbit hole, you can still use the Squirrel ears emote, and the Squirrel will appear to you, and other players.
 * When first talking to Charlie the Squirrel your character says "No good deed goes unpunished," a reference to the song of the same name in the musical Wicked or it could simply be a reference to the popular phrase.
 * The elf in EBJ's office is called 'Hooded client', but his name in the chat box is Hooded Man.
 * Many players were confused and began looking for a bucket in the part where they had to clean the sooty oven, where the player should use the parts directly on the water tank.
 * The examine info for the summoned Charlie The Squirrel is different from the one in front of the hole.
 * You can summon the Squirrel right next to Charlie and have both squirrels on the screen.
 * If you have done all the required elf quests to be able to recognize the elf in EBJ's office, he says something about the rebirth of the crystal city and that you shall never speak of this again. This may be a hint to a new quest in the elf series and that Prifddinas is soon to be opened.
 * When right clicking on the Easter Bunny it says Easter Bunny when its actually the Easter Bunny Junior.
 * The Easta Buni could be a reference to Rock Biter, who is a character from The Neverending Story. He claims to have bitten the Easter Bunny.
 * Even after the couriers receive the deliveries, when you examine them, it still says "One of RuneScape's many citizens./An ugly green creature. He seems to be waiting for something." and "An odd-looking person. Seems to be waiting for something."
 * While doing the Management Planning, if you clicked the "Recruit" button when you've reached the limit of 15 workers, it would say "Not Enough Resources" before "Worker limit reached", even if you already had 15 of each supply.