2008 Christmas event



The 2008 Christmas event was released on 16 December 2008. It involves both the traditional event and a holiday quest called Myths of the White Lands.

The Event






To start the event, you'll first have to find one of the three festive-looking head snow imps. They will look like other snow imps except that they have on a santa hat. There are three especially important imps, who don't have to bother with moving around, stationed at the scenes of some of Jack Frost's vandalism. (Frost's vandalism is creating large ice patches that you can skate on). You can find them near the ice patches in the following locations:

The snow imps will gladly tell you of their woes, and, if you'd like to help out, they'll provide you with an ice amulet that you can use to summon one of their more proactive friends.

To get started hunting for the Jack, wear the necklace and right-click to 'Operate' it away from snow ground. You'll suddenly discover that a snow imp has appeared to give you a hand. Snow imps are naturally aware of extraordinary cold, and can tell when they're heading towards someone as cold as Jack Frost. As you start moving around, you'll be able to click on your imp to check whether you're getting hotter or colder - follow the imp's directions and you shouldn't go wrong.

1. Head to any of the Head Snow Imps.

2. They will give you an ice amulet. Operate it away from a snowy field to summon a snow imp. You cannot have any pets/familiars/followers while operating this ice amulet.

3. The colder you are, the nearer you are to Jack Frost. This is somewhat similar to the Enchanted key in Making History. The descending order for distance is Hot > Warm > Cool > Cold > Freezing.

NOTE: Jack Frost will only be in one of 15 locations, these are ice patches which can be viewed on the minimap. Also, the location of Jack is based on the name of your imp.

4. Once you find Jack Frost, you will be frozen but your ice amulet saves your life. Now, the snow imp will be able to teleport you to his hideout any time.

5. Once there, Jack will tell you that he won't go back until you defeat him.

6. Slide on the ice patch such that you will bump into him, you will shout "Oof!" make sure that you are in front of him so when you slide you hit him.

7. The Queen of Snow will appear and you will learn that the Ice Sculpture is Nick (Jack Frosts' father who is actually Santa Claus) frozen by Jack Frost.

8. After a cut scene, Nick is defrosted and you are rewarded with a Santa suit.

Rewards


When players find Jack Frost their imp will tell them that he isn't a bad person but just a naughty kid... after that players will be rewarded a Santa costume for saving Christmas.

Rewards:
 * A Santa suit comprising:
 * Santa costume top
 * Santa costume legs
 * Santa costume gloves
 * Santa costume boots
 * A Santa hat is not included as part of the set.


 * Freeze emote.


 * The Snowman Dance emote for players who didn't get it during the 2007 Christmas Event.


 * The ice amulet, which can be used to summon a snow imp follower will only available during the two weeks of the Christmas 2008 event. It can no longer summon the imp after the holiday. The Snow Queen confirms this if you talk to her after freeing Nick.

The Santa Costume and ice amulet can be stored in the toy box of a player-owned house.

Trivia

 * You can go behind Jack Frost without hitting him back by going diagonal to him.
 * There is a glitch in where when you are fighting and use the Freeze emote, you won't fall.
 * There is a glitch where right after you are teleported back, destroy the ice necklace and then the imp will still be there.
 * There is a glitch where if you use the freeze emote then quickly bury a bone the ice will still encase you but you will be bending over.
 * Jack Frost's hideout is located on a previously unreachable strip of land due north of Silvarea.
 * There is a glitch where if you walk/slide across the snow, then click talk on someone else's imp (nearest clickable NPC) you will turn around, the sliding sound will stop, your legs will stop moving, and it will look akin to the moonwalk glitch, but you don't move your legs, instead you simply slide, unmoving, backwards.
 * There is a glitch where when you use the Freeze emote and then click on the portal to leave your house it will finish the rest of emote when you finish teleporting.
 * It is believed that all locations are described as "North of ..." as a reference to the commonly accepted place of Santa Claus's residence, the North Pole.
 * Upon release, there was a bug that if you used the Give Thanks emote as soon as you stepped off solid ground and started to move onto ice, you would perform the emote on ice and thereby not slide across the ice, thereby being able to walk on the ice. This was soon fixed.
 * When pelting a player with snowballs, if there is an obstacle in the way and the player moves over the ice, they will not slide around and be free to walk on the ice like normal ground.
 * You can change your clothes when you're doing the new emote. It looks like a transformation.
 * The examine information for the Santa costume gloves and boots is "Some red and jolly gloves/boots", even though they are not red at all
 * If you ask Maggie to teleport back to Wendy during this event, you will land on the ice in which you will not slide over it. This was fixed later.
 * Snow imps don't appear as yellow dots on the mini-map.
 * You don't get any Firemaking experience for lighting the fires to unfreeze Santa.
 * Even if you bring your own tinderbox, the imp brings you one.
 * There is a glitch where if you do the Give Thanks emote then when you are seen in human form of the emote (near the end) and then press the "Freeze" emote REALLY fast, the ice forms around you and you just stand there.
 * If you use a ring of egg or ring of stone when you go on the ice you go across as an egg or rock.
 * As a reference to Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' film, Jack is not referred to as evil but just 'a very naughty boy'.
 * Your Snow Imp will follow you even if you remove and/or destroy your ice amulet.
 * If you try to remove your amulet while talking to Jack Frost when you first find him, your summoned imp will say "No! If you do that you'll ruin the whole operation!"; even if the imp is dismissed at that time, the player would refuse to remove the amulet as he/she remembered the words.
 * The Ice Queen's name is Lumi, a Finnish/Estonian word for 'snow'.
 * Interestingly enough, Santa isn't even wearing a Santa Hat.
 * From the dialogue after you bump into Jack Frost, it appears that the Ice Queen is a follower of Guthix.
 * The Snow imps have wings but they do not fly nor have an option to.
 * The area that Jack teleported to can be found north of the Lumber Yard near Varrock; although it is in the wilderness, it is not considered a wilderness area and you are therefore safe from any revenants. Strangely, the ice walls surrounding Jack are no longer present, but the sliding ice floor (and the frozen sleigh, if you have not completed the event) are. Revenants will periodically walk just along the boundary of this area, however they will not be able to attack you.
 * When you bend over *in the male Santa suit* you can see a piece of something white, it is near the top of the pants, and it might be underwear accidentally put in as a glitch.
 * There is a glitch were if you are wearing the Void Knight top and the ice amulet you can't see the pendant from front on you have to twist the camera and can only see it from the side.
 * If a player tries to light a fire near the ice, it will say: "You can't light fires so close to the ice."; If he/she tries to light a fire ON the ice, it will say: "You can't light fires on ice. The ground is too wet."
 * You can take off the ice amulet when you are in the area where Santa Claus is without getting frozen.
 * If you talked to another snow Imp that has the same name as your snow imp, The Imp will say "Hey, Bro any luck?" instead of, "Hey, (snow imp's name) How's Fings?"
 * If you take off the ice amulet when next to Jack Frost he disappears until you equip it again
 * Santa Claus' actual name is Nicklaus.
 * Jack Frost is 44 years old, equal to a 17 year-old human

Music
Music tracks unlocked:
 * The Dance of the Snow Queen
 * Winter Funfare