Hallowe'en Event: Deathcon Ii
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After a two week sojourn, it was time to reclaim my Gielinor life. I started off in Miscellania, so did a bit of tree-chopping and replenished the coffers, as was only sensible. Then meandered off to Varrock (Guthix! I love having a spirit tree between the two!) to buy staffs and check out my Grand Exchange sales. I'd forgotten that I'd left my bank ridiculously full, because I'd been slaying. Nothing fills a bank like slaying with ignorance over drops. I'd been up the jadinkos, without any notion of what I was picking up. Naturally that meant I picked it all up.
I have a tab full of seeds, which I know nothing about. I really should look them up and see what I should be doing with them, though I suspect that the gardening patch over in that 'hood will factor in somewhere. I've also got a load of Excrescence, which sounds like something you'd want to take Imodium to deal with; and hundreds of mutated vine. There was talk in Canting about whip vines, into which I blithely commented that I had hundreds of them. Amidst the shock, Zach correctly predicted that what I really had was mutated vine. I checked. He was right. But the central issue remains - I have lots of new stuff that I haven't researched dealing with, so my bank is up to capacity. Not to mention needing Joshua Mack to stop working so hard IRL and log on occasionally, so he can look at my summoning pouches and do maths and stuff. Then he can tell me what to sell, swap or use. I have been told the mathematical formula to work it out for myself. It was definitely a mathematical formula. *nod nod* When is Josh back?
After running around doing weeklies, I was informed that the Hallowe'en 2011 event was up and running. I dropped everything and went to check it out. I liked it!
I love that they had cosplayers there!
The part sorting out the statues was easy enough. It was like one of those puzzles, where you have to seat people at a dinner party with clues. It got more tricky when I had to sort out a dancefloor. I opened the book and read the instructions. Maths. I turned the page and there was a picture of a skull. Win! I just copied the picture of the skull and ignored all of the blathering about mathematical formulas. (Josh IS coming back, isn't he?) I stepped back and proudly surveyed my skull. It was a good skull. I skipped over to Infinity the DJ and waited for him to look as pleased with me as I was with myself. He didn't. He just curtly said, "72 squares correct. The rest wrong." What?! But I'd followed the picture precisely! :o So I had to read the bit about maths after all.
Then I read it again.
Around the third time of reading I figured that I'd just experiment with pictures and hope for the best. So I danced over the floor, removing squares and adding others, with constant checks to see if I was doing it right. After a while, I started to get my head around it. You didn't have to do maths at all! You just had to ensure that the numbers matched the lit squares! I eventually made a pumpkin and Infinity liked that.
Next up was the chess game, which I found easy enough. I know how to play chess anyway, though it was strange doing so sober. The only thing that bugged me was the dialogue going in. It's song lyrics and I can't remember the song! It's right on the tip of memory and I just can't grasp it! I spent the whole game, moving that chicken around the chess-board, trying to remember the blooming song!
Worst of all, I've got the feeling that it's Carter or the Manics or someone I listen to a lot. :glasses: I'm going to be so embarrassed when I find out, aren't I? Oh! Oh! Is it Stereophonics? I almost heard Kelly Jones singing then. >.>
Anyway, song debating aside, I soon finished the quest.
Armed with a tip off from Helm Lardar, D1D, Kicker and There, I knew about the hidden extra in the theatre, so meandered on up there. I thought it was a nice touch, doing a crossover between Runefest and us lot in-game, though I was there a day too late to actually participate in it. Nevertheless, I had the code (handed to me on a plate >.>) and so quickly told Fame the answers. Yay! My grubby hands closed over a mask! I did go and look for Pumpkin Pete though, just because I wanted to see what one.
I was a little disappointed that there was no end party. Last year's Hallowe'en event had that funky disco. When I ended up in the theatre, I thought that there might be a show or something on, but there wasn't. I did see another couple of players come in, so decided to put on a show of emotes for them. Unfortunately the invisible narrator wouldn't let me. I kept getting all manner of reasons why I couldn't do this emote nor that emote on that particular stage. *sigh* My 15 minutes of fame was over, so I went slaying instead.
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