Bone brooch

Bone brooch
Release	18 October 2010 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Unknown
Disassembly	Unknown
Value	Unknown
Value	Unknown
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Destroy	You can get this back by speaking to Diango.
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	0 kg
Examine	A sinister brooch that screams occasionally.

A player equipping the bone brooch.

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Trying to use bone brooch during battle.

The Bone brooch was the winning item in the Guaranteed Content poll on the RuneScape website for the 2010 Hallowe'en event. It also appeared as an option in the Guaranteed Content poll of Halloween 2007; however, it lost to the Grim reaper hood. When worn, it does not occupy any equipment slots.

The bone brooch was released to players on 18 October 2010, upon the completion of the Halloween event. The reward was chosen by players in a "Guaranteed Content Poll". It allows the player to morph into a pile of bones when worn, although these bones appear different from a real pile. If a player is attacked while wearing it, they will automatically unmorph. As it is an untradeable holiday item, if lost it can be recovered by speaking to Diango.

Trivia

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A player teleporting as a pile of bones

• When transformed, most timers will pause until the transformation has ended.
• The brooch may not be taken into the Fist of Guthix arena.
• There is currently a glitch where if you summon a champion follower whilst running, and then transform, the bones will slide along the ground.
• The log-out cross in the top-right hand corner of the screen does not show when you are in "bone" form.
• When you attempt to wear the brooch whilst using an emote your chatbox will say "You're a little busy showing off right now."
• When you attempt to wear the brooch while wearing the bed sheet from Ghosts Ahoy, your chatbox will say "You can't wear the brooch and the bedsheet at the same time."
• When you try to wear the brooch during an agility performance in Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza, your chatbox will say: "Bones don't balance well on tightropes."
• If you attempt to wear the bone brooch while you are stunned from picking pockets, your chatbox will state that you cannot transform while being bound by magic.
• If you attempt to wear the bone brooch during a round of the Great Orb Project activity, the chatbox will say "You're here to collect orbs, not turn into bones."
• If you attack a non-aggressive NPC, then immediately morph, your avatar appears to have bones falling out of it. This glitch can also be performed by "whacking" another player (with the rubber chicken or easter carrot) and quickly morphing.
• Unlike the ring of stone, which has a similar transformation effect, the brooch cannot be used from the Worn Equipment interface.
• If you try to turn to bones while pedalling at blast furnace, a message appears in your chatbox saying you don't think you could pedal effectively if you were just bones.
• It is possible to teleport as a pile of bones if the you morph, then quickly switch to the worn equipment tab, and right click any teleport jewellery. The jewellery's right click menu should stay open even while the avatar is in bone form. This works for most teleport jewellery - e.g. cabbage-port, the amulet of glory, etc.

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A player teleporting as a pile of bones

• If one transforms into a pile of bones, then rapidly clicks an emote, they turn back into a human without the long transformation back.
• If a player is wielding a toy kite and morphs into a pile of bones, the kite will be temporarily still and hanging in the air without a wielder, before disappearing. The kite will also appear hanging in the air during the reverse animation.
• On the day of the event, every emote that has something spawn out of nowhere (Freeze, Puppet Master, Zombie Hand, etc.) has a white flash before it. It is unknown whether this will be fixed, or if its a graphics glitch in the game for processing all the spiders and everything in Grim's House. (This has been happening ever since Z-buffering came out, and it happens with other things too like teleport spells and fires.)
• If one tries to report another player while using the brooch, the message "Please close the interface you opened before activating 'Report Abuse'" will appear.
• When opening the equipment screen, although the Bone brooch is worn-and there is the option to wear it, you get a message in your chat box saying that the Bone brooch can't be worn. This is because the Bone brooch is never actually worn, clicking on wear simply transforms you.
• There is a glitch when you cabbage port and repeatedly click the bone brooch, you will turn into bones instead of coming out of the cabbage.
• Many have claimed that it is impossible to turn into a pile of bones whilst having squirrel followers. This has now been proven untrue.
• Although the main option for the brooch is to wear it, quickly changing to your worn items after activating doesn't show the brooch. Also, if you "Wear" it, no other item is swapped out if completely equipped.
• On whichever angle you are facing, sometimes the skull's mouth appears to be open.
• While in bone form, you will not die of thirst in the desert until you change back which, if left for awhile you will be immediately effected by thirst. This can be used to heal some life points.
• While in bone form vyrewatches will not notice you and demand a tithe (only the non-aggressive ones, not the ones near Burgh de Rott).
• If you morph in the Dorgeshuun caves without a light source, the message about the bugs biting you comes up in your chat box, but no damage is done until you unmorph.
• If one transforms back into human, then tap clicks the ground, then tap clicks the bone brooch again, they will move as a pile of bones.
• If you morph using the Bone Brooch while wielding a sling, the sling points diagonally and seems to defy gravity. The same happens when you unmorph.
• While wielding a staff or other long weapon, like a halberd, while switching back, it appears to go through the player.
• The bones you turn into look very similar to regular bones dropped by most NPCs, except you also drop with a skull.
• There is a glitch where if you are running then turn into a pile of bones without completing the whole running distance, the bones will jerk in the direction you where running.
• The Bone brooch is popular in Role-Playing worlds because players like to "fake" kill people and now they have the option to die.
• Many players like to use the Bone Brooch to turn into a pile of bones and pretend that they are dead.