21 Dec 2009 - A Christmas Warble (Christmas 2009)

Southrend · **Posted:** December 21st, 2009, 7:57 am

www.runescape.com wrote:

21-Dec-2009 - A Christmas Warble (Christmas 2009)
Christmas time has come round again and the Queen of Snow has invited guests to her realm for one of her legendary Christmas feasts, and perhaps a snowball fight or two. Hop into one of the Christmas cupboards in Varrock, Falador or Draynor to join in the festivities along with Santa Claus, Jack Frost, and an entourage of guests from across RuneScape.

Hard as it may be to believe, not everyone in the Land of Snow is full of Christmas cheer. The Queen of Snow’s neighbour, Ebenezer Scourge, isn’t known for his goodwill or for his love of a good party, but that’s nothing to worry about. Nothing’s going to go wrong. I’m quite sure that this year we’ll have a quiet Christmas. I’m almost certain that there’ll be no kidnapping, ghosts of Christmas past, magical curses or vigilante snow imps.

Adventurers with the impish cunning to see this one through will be richly rewarded with a dramatic new emote, a fiendish costume, and not to mention a tasty-looking and festive wieldable item.

Merry Christmas from all of the RuneScape team!

Mod Edam
RuneScape Content Developer

Summary:

Where to start A Christmas Warble:
Enter one of the magic wardrobes in Varrock, Falador or Draynor Village.

Requirements to complete A Christmas Warble:

None.

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In other news...

We’ve enabled a new graphical feature called 'particles' in the game engine. You’ll most likely notice our first use of particles during the Christmas event. Use of particles can be set to high, medium or low in the Graphics Options menu. Players with older versions of Java might not be able to experience the effects to their full potential. If this is the case, you may not be able see the snow particles or change this detail setting.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 21st, 2009, 7:57 am

Flash · **Posted:** December 22nd, 2009, 1:33 pm

Oddly enough, my class is reading A Christmas Carol right now in English, and that is what the event is based off of.

Arb 67 · **Posted:** December 22nd, 2009, 4:58 pm

Bad event really pointless in my mind. of the quest 0/5 of reward 3/5 overall 2/5

Brimmk · **Posted:** December 23rd, 2009, 5:48 pm

good particle effects, hope to see more of those in the future. the rest was better than the halloween update, but it's not hard to improve on crap. decent event with relatively poor rewards.

Alex_SE · **Posted:** December 23rd, 2009, 8:51 pm

I liked the event this year.
Of course it still doesn't beat Wintumber 2005 (That was when the bobble hats and scarfs were given as a reward).

The storyline was really well adapted, nice effects, and really neat rewards.
The emote dramatic point could be a LOT better.

I did this event in the first day, 1 hour after the release.
It was FULL of people!! "OMFG"
GODDAMMIT when I say Full I mean it! I couldn't find my fricking imp! Had to randomly click other people's Imps until I found mine!
I couldn't see the snow queen nor Scourge! I was stuck there for 2 hours because I couldn't find the NPCs! They were covered by other players Imps! ALL OVER THE PLACE IMPSSS!! LAG-Attack!

Despite that:
Once again jagex followed the Christmas spirit and lead their player into happiness (wt* am I saying).

Overall I'll give it a fair 4/5.
Thanks

Anoi · **Posted:** December 23rd, 2009, 11:59 pm

4/5 a lot better than the halloween event and gave us a new emote.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 23rd, 2009, 11:59 pm

MetalManiac9 · **Posted:** December 24th, 2009, 10:17 pm

It was an decent update imo.
The music was pretty good and that house of Scrouge looked pretty good too.
The story lacked depth for me.

But on the other hand the rewards are great.
The christmas ghost robes look good I must say.

I rated it a 4.