The Great Orb Project

The Great Orb Project is a Runecrafting minigame released 12 August 2008. The goal is to collect your team color's orbs, and to prevent the other team from collecting their orbs. The two teams will be collecting two types of orbs: yellow and green. Players need level 50 Runecrafting and must have completed the Rune Mysteries quest.

Location
⌊undefined⌋ The minigame is located in the Runecrafting Guild, through a portal on the first floor at Wizard's Tower south from Draynor Village, or through the East teleport in the Wizards' Guild.

Members may use Fairy rings code DIS (behind the Tower) or Amulet of Glory (at Draynor market) as a faster mode of transport.

Free players can use the cabbage teleport of Explorer's ring.

Requirements
To play this minigame you must have:
 * Completed the Rune Mysteries quest,
 * Level 50 Runecrafting.

Gameplay
Talk to either Wizard Acantha (green orb gang) or Wizard Vief (yellow orb gang) to join the game. Each gang requires at least two members to notify Wizard Elriss to open the portal to start the game.

The objective of the game is to get as much as orbs as the gang can. The team with more orbs wins.

There are 8 rounds for pay-to-play, 6 rounds for free-to-play, which is the runecrafting altars, in the following order:
 * Air altar
 * Mind altar
 * Water altar
 * Earth altar
 * Fire altar
 * Body altar
 * Chaos altar (members only)
 * Nature altar (members only)

Three wands are given when you enrol to either one team, namely (colour) attractor, (colour) repeller and the (colour) barrier generator.

To score points, orbs must be led to the 1-grid square around the altar, by either attracting or repelling the orbs.

At the same time, players can also set up barricades which block the way of orbs of both colours. Only the members of the same colour can pass through the barricades. Members of the opposing team can destroy the barricades by simply choosing 'destroy' option without going near the barricades. Possibly players may fail, but that is still possible to break down. When the two teams finish scoring points within a time limit, they will be teleported to the next altar by means of portals. The next round then begins.

Every time a round finishes, some Rune essences or Pure essences would be given according to the number of orbs that players led to score marks. If players already have full inventory of essences already, they can choose to bind them into Runes. That will be identical to normal runecrafting, the effect of Explorer's ring and multiple runecrafting are present.

Leaving the portals in the altars will exit the game.

When all the rounds are finished, Runecrafting Guild Tokens will be awarded. These can be traded with Wizard Elriss for gears, tablets and essences. Each player receives 100 tokens for every alter at which their team won during the minigame, regardless of which team won the game.

Equipment

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! !! Name !! Use
 * [[Image:Repeller_wand.gif]]||Repeller wand||Push the orbs away from the caster.
 * [[Image:Attractor_wand.gif]]||Attractor wand||Drag the orbs towards the caster.
 * [[Image:Barrier_generator.gif]]||Barrier generator||Block the way of members of opposing team and orbs of both colours from passing through.
 * }
 * [[Image:Barrier_generator.gif]]||Barrier generator||Block the way of members of opposing team and orbs of both colours from passing through.
 * }
 * }
 * }

Personalities

 * Wizard Korvak - Repairs and sells Runecrafting pouches. Binds omnitalismans into runecrafting staves
 * Wizard Acantha - Wizard of the green orbs.
 * Wizard Vief - Wizard of the yellow orbs.
 * Wizard Elriss - Exchanges rewards for Runecrafting Guild Tokens. Exchanges omnitalismans for regular talismans.

Runecrafter Outfit

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! !! Name (they all come in green, blue and yellow; some pictures are still missing)
 * [[Image:Runecrafter_gloves_g.png]][[Image:Runecrafter_gloves.gif]]||Runecrafter gloves
 * [[Image:Runecrafter_hat.gif]]||Runecrafter hat
 * [[Image:Runecrafter_skirt_g.png]][[Image:Runecrafter_skirt.gif]][[Image:Runecrafter_skirt_y.png]]||Runecrafter skirt
 * [[Image:Runecrafter_robe_g.png]][[Image:Runecrafter_robe.gif]]||Runecrafter robe
 * }
 * [[Image:Runecrafter_skirt_g.png]][[Image:Runecrafter_skirt.gif]][[Image:Runecrafter_skirt_y.png]]||Runecrafter skirt
 * [[Image:Runecrafter_robe_g.png]][[Image:Runecrafter_robe.gif]]||Runecrafter robe
 * }
 * }
 * }
 * All three sets can be stored in the Magic Wardrobe in the Costume Room

All runecrafting items cost 1000 tokens apiece.

Bonuses:
 * Runecrafter gloves provide a +2 bonus.
 * Runecrafter robes provide a +3 bonus.
 * Runecrafter skirts provide a +3 bonus.

The Omni-Talisman (Members Only)
The omni-talisman is a remarkable object created by Elriss to enable the devoted runecrafter to access almost every altar freely. If you are able to show her a talisman for each of the Runecrafting altars that require them (so there's no need to find a talisman for the Ourania Altar, for instance), she will grant you a hefty chunk of Runecrafting experience for each (a total of 20,000 experience), as well as the omni-talisman.

To craft an omni-talisman into a tiara or staff, take it to Wizard Korvak, who can be found staggering about in the Runecrafting Guild, jumping at shadows and being generally terrified of everything.

Runecrafting Staves
Runecrafting staves are much more than just a pretty ornamentation: you can use them exactly as you use a Runecrafting tiara, as well as distracting the eyes in the Abyss to help you sneak past. To bind a talisman to a staff, simply take the talisman and the staff to the talisman's altar and use either of them on it.

Note: The law staff (created by attaching a law talisman to a Runecrafting staff) has no combat bonuses, so it can be taken onto Entrana. A staff that does not have a talisman attached cannot be wielded.

Runecrafting Teleport Tablets
Runecrafting teleport tablets are identical to the teleport tablets you can build in your player-owned house and can be used to teleport you to any altar you have the requirements to craft runes at. Players cannot craft their own runecrafting teleport tablets. Air - 30 tokens

Mind - 32 tokens

Water - 34 tokens

Earth - 36 tokens

Fire - 37 tokens

Body - 38 tokens

Cosmic - 39 tokens

Chaos - 40 tokens

Astral - 41 tokens

Nature - 42 tokens

Law - 43 tokens

Death - 44 tokens

Blood - 45 tokens

Runecrafting Guild - 15 tokens

Trivia

 * It is interesting that when two players of the same team attracts the same orb, the orb would not move more quickly than that by one player.
 * This minigame is the first skill-related minigame that free players can play.
 * The idea of attracting the orbs is different from the combat spells of normal spellbook, which emits bolts to the enemy.
 * When you examine the Portal in each Altar, the examine info is, "Look at you, examining things when there's Runecrafting to do!". This is a reference to the game, Portal. A similar line in Portal appears in the song "Still Alive" and reads: "Look at me still talking, when there's science to do."
 * The way the players attract the orbs looks similar to the stance of the character during duelling scenes in the Harry Potter film series.
 * When the Runecrafting hat is put on you, it adds Harry Potter film series glasses, but when you put the hat on yourself the glasses are on top of the hat.

Music
Music unlocked:
 * Second Vision