Halloween 2009
Overview
Halloween 2009 brought back some popular Halloween-related activities from previous years as well as new additions and special items to celebrate the holiday. It was a major part of Publish 62.
Event Loot Items
Special event-themed loot may be found as loot on some monsters:
- Black Cat Statuette
- Pumpkin Scarecrow
- Ruined Tapestry
Trick or Treat
There are 5 new common treats this year. Simply walk up to an NPC and say "Trick or Treat" and then target them.
Beware - NPC's may opt to play a trick on players instead of giving them a treat. However, this year there will be no death involved but players may still be surprised at what can happen.
If a character has Grandmaster (100.0 skill) Begging there is a small chance to receive one of two new rare items.
Randomly, a character may suddenly yell out "MAKE IT STOP!"
Treats
Common Treats
- Jellybeans
- Nougat Swirl
- Taffy
- Wrapped Candy
- Lollipop in random flavor of Cherry, Lime or Orange
Semi-Rare Treats
- Creepy Cake
- Harvest Wine
- Murky Milk
- Mr. Plain's Cookies
- Pumpkin Pizza
- Small Web(left or right, same as Halloween 2008)
GM Beggar-only Semi-Rare Treats
- Grim Warning
- Skulls on a Pike
Tricks
New 2009 Tricks
Instead of an Evil Twin which would attack you in years past, a Naughty Twin may appear which may:
- Teleport you to a random moongate on same facet.
- Steal some of your candy
The new trick to temporarily polymorph a character into a Pile of Maggots was removed with Publish 62.2 without clear explanation.
Recurring Tricks
- No apparent effect (likely a polymorph to human male/female that goes unnoticed) Skin turned pale white for a time and then a message saying "You have returned to your normal form"
- Bleeding profusely (harmless)
- Polymorph (as per the Magery polymorph)
- "Haunted" Each step the player takes will play a random sound.
Mystery Quest
A new quest starting at the Court of Truth in Yew: Speak with Jasper the Inspector there.
- Can be done completely in either Felucca or Trammel.
- Every step required in the chain, skipping steps will keep you from completing the event.
- May be repeated.
- Participating characters must be 15 days old (except for Test Center).
For full step by step details of this quest (including lots of spoilers) see: Halloween 2009 Quest.
Pumpkin Patch
Farmers are once again harvesting pumpkins this season. Pumpkins can be picked up from most any farm land. Some of them may be double-clicked and thrown as a fire bomb. Additionally, the named pumpkins may be used with the Cooking skill to prepare food items requiring pumpkin. The pumpkins can weigh anywhere from 3-25 stones and very rarely a Jack O' Lantern will spawn.
Jack O' Lanterns
Very rarely, a named pumpkin will spawn as a large Jack O' Lantern with a carved face. They may spawn in a variety of designs and can be locked down in a player's home and left lit or unlit.
Named Pumpkins
Pumpkins are named after devs, GM's and EM's.
- 2009 List
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