Delays, Delays, Can't Help Them Sometimes...

Okay, I haven't touched my laptop in close to a week. This term has been nuts, courtesy of the rugby season in full swing and the Mid Year drawing nearer.

Still, managed to sneak on to do the Easter event for this year. I've already missed the one last year, and while I'm not exactly big on holiday events, I don't want to miss stuff like new soundtracks and emotes.

This year's Easter involves helping the problem prone Easter bunny out of trouble. Again. This time, he's let his entire stock of chocolate eggs get eaten by rats, mice, and other nasty chocolate munching cretins (Not sure when snails got into chocolate though), which conveniently got themselves trapped in a chamber. Of course, that still means the Easter bunny is out of eggs.

So, being the helpful adventurer you are, one has to set out to find and retrieve at least 3 eggs that were delivered before the pests invaded and finished every bit of chocolate. Wasn't that hard, although I did get the wrong statue of Saradomin. According to Tim, its the one outside Falador, not the one inside the park there.

Once retrieved, the Easter bunny will allow you into is warrren, complete with Easter flags and little rabbit guards. He then tells you of his plan to make more chocolate using a chocotrice, which turns people into chocolate, instead of the original with turns people to stone, since stone doesn't really taste good in Easter eggs. Making a chocotrice is a simple, just take a cockatrice egg and dip in chocolate apparently.

Manipulating an incubator, a contraption similar to the fractional distiller in the Regicide quest, to maintain optimum temperature for the egg to hatch. Once done, the Easter bunny will turn you into an adorable bunny as well so you can squeeze your way into the rabbit hole and into the cavern which the pests are trapped in, and where the chocotrice awaits your command. One has to turn 15 animals into chocolate to gain enough chocolate to save Easter.

Chasing and chocolatifying helpless animals by insulting the chocotrice so it attacks them was funny at first because of the hilarious taunts your player comes up with (Hey, that snail said you lost your tinderbox and cried)(Hey, that mouse said you took 3 months to get off Tutorial Island) but it eventually gets repetitive and boring.

Once done, one chucks all chocolate into a giant melting vat, and the Easter bunny gives you a cape that allows you to do a pretty odd emote. Speaking of which, getting more chocolate for the Easter bunny will help you unlock past emotes that you might have missed earlier on, like the bunny hop emote, which I missed last year.

Out of curiosity, I checked to see if there were any more rewards aside from getting a past emote. I almost fainted when I saw the Easter bunny was giving out EASTER EGGS!!! Now a discontinued item, one egg is about, say, 5mil to 6mil?? I rushed in to get one, but it turned out to be too good to be true. A quick check on the forums showed these new eggs can't be traded, although the old ones can.

Sorry for the lack of pics, too tired to upload...