| Release date | 11 December 2017 (Update) |
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| Head developer | Unknown edit |
| Preceded by | Frostworld (2016) |
| Succeeded by | N/A |
The 2017 Christmas event is a four-part event released on 11 December 2017. After the events of November, Santa's favourite toy - the clockwork gnome - has been reassembled. With the player's help, he wants to bring the toy gnome to life, giving it the greatest gift of all this Christmas.
As well as the main event, players can take part in a number of other activities including winter weekends and the Christmas advent calendar.
Festive scenery was also added to the Grand Exchange, Prifddinas, and the Max Guild.
| Start point |  Talk to Queen of Snow north of the Grand Exchange |
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| Member requirement |  Free to play |
| Official difficulty |  Novice |
| Official length | Medium |
| Requirements | Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable. None |
| Items required | Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added.
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Walkthrough
Track Santa
Start by talking to the Queen of Snow at the northern part of the Grand Exchange. She will be distraught about the disappearance of her husband, Santa Claus. She says Santa has been complaining about the odd lack of children in Gielinor and how most are naughty, and therefore is trying to create the 'perfect child'. She says Santa was seen at the grand exchange trying to sell his old santa hat. She also mentions that rudolph is missing.
She will then ask you to talk to Orla Fairweather, Aubury and Doc if they had seen anything. All 3 can be found just north of the queen of snow. Orla, Aubury and Doc all say Santa wanted to know how to animate his clockwork gnome into a real one.
She will then ask you to go talk to Thurgo as she believes he has more information on Santa's whereabouts. He can be found south of Port Sarim near Musa Point.
Give Thurgo a redberry pie and in exchange he will tell you that Santa has been looking for a way to upgrade his clockwork gnome. Thurgo says that he directed Santa to the Queen Black Dragon to try and use the flames from her to bring his creation to life. The lair for the queen black dragon can be found north of Thurgo, just west of the port sarim lodestone.
Rescue Santa
Once the cave is entered a cutscene will begin showing you a dormant queen black dragon, a damaged sleigh and rudolph's ashes. Interacting with the damaged sleigh will awaken the queen black dragon and she will subsequently eat you.
Inside her belly, you find Santa and the clockwork gnome trapped inside sacs. You will free both of them and return back to the platform. Santa will be distraught to find that rudolph's has been killed and his sleigh damaged. He will ask you to pick up rudolph's ashes which can be done by interacting with them. After giving the ashes back to Santa, you will be teleported back to the grand exchange.
Experi-mental
Back at the grand exchange, the player will be asked by Santa to speak to Doc, Aubury and Orla in order to keep carrying out his research.
Helping Doc
Doc thinks that by blasting the clockwork gnome with a lot of power, he will be able to bring him to life. To help him out, give him the 100 pale energy he asks for. After that, he will ask you to tinker with the power generator until the generator damage has been reduced to 0%. After that, he will ask you to continue to tinker with the generator until the control panel starts to smoke. Once it starts smoking, press the control panel.
Before testing it out on the clockwork gnome, he will ask the player to test it first. It will work on the player, but ultimately not on the gnome.
This activity will grant you Crafting or Smithing experience.
Helping Aubury
Aubury will ask you to stabilise his rift (found west of him) and seal 15 anomalies that appear. Before helping him out, he will ask you to remember 3 things:
- Anomalies are bad.
- I can seal anomalies while channeling the rift.
- I will need to seal 15 anomalies.
The anomalies will not appear until you charge the energy rift to 100%. After all 15 anomalies have been sealed, talk to Aubury once more. He will ask for 10 pure or rune essence. He will use these essence to try and make the clockwork gnome into a real child, but will ultimately fail.
This activity will grant you Runecrafting or Summoning experience.
Helping Orla
Orla will ask you to carry out a trade with a menaphite smuggler. She will require 12 raw lobsters. After giving her the raw lobsters, she will ask you to meet the smuggler east of Al Kharid, in the same area as desert strykewyrms.
Once the smuggler has been met, give him the 12 raw lobsters. He will tell you to take the obelisk, at which point Orla will interrupt the conversation and offer to teleport you and the obelisk back to the grand exchange.
At the grand exchange Orla will ask you to siphon the obelisk. To do this, interact with the obelisk. A gauge will appear on the screen. Use the arrows on the sides of the gauge to align the pointer inside the circle with the small mark at the top of the circle. Repeat aligning as you siphon until percentage is complete.
This activity will grant you Divination or Prayer experience.
Powers combined
Speak with Orla once everyone has been helped out. She will start to use the power of the modified soul obelisk on the Clockwork Gnome. This will fail.
Speak with Doc and make sure you've powered his control panel. He will then ask the player to test his machine before using it on the Clockwork Gnome. It will succeed with the player, but not with the clockwork gnome.
Speak to Santa. Santa will then be grieving over the death of rudolph and will be wanting to visit the Phoenix Lair to try and revive rudolph in a similar fashion as the phoenix. This works and rudolph is reborn. Santa asks the phoenix to try it on the clockwork gnome also however it also fails.
Returning to the grand exchange, Santa suggests combining all machines to try and bring the clockwork gnome to life. This works and clockwork is created.
Rewards
- Rudolph Reborn pet
- File:Snowboard (2017).png Snowboard (2017)
- Continued usage of the energy rift, power generator and modified soul obelisk.
Other activities
Winter Weekends
Christmas Advent Calendar
Reindeer-terrorbird racing
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Same as Reindeer-terrorbird racing (2016)
Gallery
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Transcript
Trivia
- The quest is a reference to genome project and alludes to Pinocchio.
References
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 Snowboard (2017) Rudolph Reborn |
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