2009 Christmas event





The 2009 Christmas event is a holiday event released by Jagex on 21 December 2009.

Walkthrough
You can start A Christmas Warble in either Draynor, Falador or Varrock.

To begin, enter a wardrobe in any of these locations.

The Draynor cupboard is situated just outside Aggie's house. The Varrock cupboard is located in Varrock Square. And the faldor cupboard is located just outside the north entrance. Head to the snow imp near the ice culptures and Jack Frost. Go now to Ebenezer Scourge's house, in the east. He is in the western chamber. Now go to the western chamber and talk to scrooge, then search the cupboard for Bedsheet, head to the eastern chamber and find in another cupboard a needle and some thread.You will find chains in a barrel. Use them on the wardrobe and you get ghost armor. after this go talk to the Queen of Snow then go upstairs in Scourge's house

Walk up the stairs to scare Scourge. He will not be pleased and will curse the guests with a magical fire. Before you leave, search around some of the cupboards or barrels for a few buckets. When you get back, fill the buckets at the large fountain to the South and use one on any guest. Unless you free the guests in the right order, the curse reestablishes itself. To find the order, pay attention to the cutscene after you unlock in the wrong order. The fires will flash red momentarily. The order that the fires flash is the OPPOSITE order in which you must unlock the guests.

Go back to Scourge, have a little chat and you'll end up failing.

Have a chat with your snow imp; and then go back upstairs. Scare Scourge three times and he'll release Santa. Talk with Santa at the feast to get a present and go to the Christmas tree at the southeast.

'''Congratulations, you have finished the event! '''



Reward

 * Christmas ghost hood
 * Christmas ghost top
 * Christmas ghost bottoms
 * Candy cane, which when wielded has the option to "Spin". When spun, your character will throw it into the air, it will rotate 360 degrees and then be caught.
 * You also get the Dramatic Point emote.
 * You can get food of the table: Turkey drumstick, Roast potatoes, Yule log and Murred Wine. You can't take it out of the land of snow, but you can fight guards and get into the land of snow to eat and drink it and heal!

Music
Music tracks unlocked:
 * Silent Knight
 * Ghost of Christmas Presents
 * Smorgasbord

Developement
The event was developed mainly in September and October of 2009 and is the first project developed by Mod Edam. Mod Ajd has said that the Christmas event will be better than last year's, but Jagex will "leave the players to decide that one." A new particles graphics effect will be added with the event in the form of snow. It will be the first time that players will see this in RuneScape.

Many users on the RuneScape Forums have commented on the delay of the release of the event. The 2006, 2007, and 2008 Christmas events were all released on either the 16th or the 18th of December, but the 2009 Christmas event was released on 21 December.

History
The 2009 Christmas event was first announced in the news item "Christmas Cards and Blog". It linked to a developer blog written by the developer of the event, Mod Edam. In the developer blog, titled "Holiday Event: A Christmas Warble", Mod Edam gave a few details about what the event would be like.

Mod Edam wanted the graphics of the event to have a "Christmassy" atmosphere, and said that he was "really pleased with what was produced." To add to the "Christmassy" atmosphere, Jagex will be releasing a new particle system in RuneScape that will include a more realistic look of snow. Players will see it coming out of a wardrobe, a possible reference to the novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. At least some of the event will take place in the Land of Snow, where a "surprise" will be seen. This year, the entrance to the Land of Snow will be in the wardrobe mentioned above.

New characters will be released with the event, but Jack Frost and snow imps, characters seen in a previous Christmas event, will have small cameos. Santa Claus will presumably appear, based on Christmas cards that represent the event. The event's plot will be based on a traditional Christmas story, but will have some changes.

Mod Edam has confirmed that the rewards of the event will not be the same as the rewards from previous events, and they will not be tradeable. He has also said that the new rewards of the event will not give any player any notable advantage over another, but will still be fun and somewhat useful.

Some players have speculated that the traditional Christmas story that Mod Edam is basing the event on will be Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but this has not been confirmed. The title of the first blog by Edam is "A Christmas Warble", "warble" being a variation of the word carol (i.e. A Christmas Carol). The caption for one of the pictures posted on Edam's blog stated, "Beware of the Humbug", "humbug" being a well-known word that Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol's main character, often says in the book. One of the Christmas cards released at the same time as the "Christmas Cards and Blog" news post is titled "A Christmas Warble" and captioned, "Santa brings a Hint of Christmas Future in this festive card." The picture is of Santa Claus, an old man (speculated to be Scrooge) and a young boy (speculated to be Tiny Tim, hinted by the crutch under his right arm). Furthermore, "Christmas Cards and Blog" makes a reference to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who is one of the four ghosts that visits Scrooge in the novel: "Like the Ghost of Christmas Future we're here to offer a hint of what's to come this Christmas, in the form of a new Christmas card and developer blog."

Based on a screenshot from the event, it may also involve Jack Frost freezing living things into what look like ice sculptures like he did last year. This idea is also supported by the fact that if you summon your snow imp after the event, it talks about Jack still creating ice sculptures, but this time, he is making the real ones instead of freezing them.

Trivia

 * Tiny Tim is also in the land of snow, he and Ebenezer Scrooge were characters in the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which most of the event is based on.
 * Smorgasbord is swedish and mean "Sandwichtable"
 * You say "I'm the Ghost of the past.", "I'm Ghost of Chirstmas Present" when you wake him, also a reverence from the carol. Also Ebenezer guesses you are the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. You say nothing, like the carol.