Easter Hide and Seek Winners/Recap/Clues/Explanations etc...
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Congratulations to the winners of the event!
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This Event included a puzzle box which was located on the World Transport Map
at the western entrance to the Draynor Village sewers. This puzzle box (when solved)
told you to bring a tin ore and a rope.
There was added code behind the puzzle box to find people who attempted to cheat the
puzzle and instead just decrypt the code. This would lead them to bring far more
extensive items and even make an announcement.
In the fake answer they were told to:
"Wear a Blue Gnome hat, Adamant plate body, Red dhide legs, and carry an Anti-dragon
shield while wielding an Adamant scimitar. Before speaking to me say the phrase
-The tulips have bloomed in Varrock harbour!- in the public chat (not the CC!)
Ignore all other clues about wearing items!"
The real answer (tin ore and a rope) was in a code section designed to make it -look- like
it was a cheating admonition...until it was decrypted
The word search was in a forums post by user: Jalarast
(See next post for solved word search)
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This asked players to find the answers to the following within the word search
and then locate where some answers intersected to decode a message:
The widow west of Port Phasmatys: ALICE (Animal Magnetism quest)
Gertrude's herb: DOOGLE (Gertrudes' Cat quest)
Puppy types available from the pet shop in Taverley: DALMATION (Taverley area)
Loves redberry pie: THURGO (Knights' Sword quest & Smithing cape)
A type of Leprechaun: TOOL Leprechaun (Farming skill/Vinesweeper)
Sleeps in a box south of Barbarian village: COUNTDRAYNOR (Vampire Slayer quest)
Sells Woad: WYSON (Goblin Diplomacy quest)
The place Farmer Blinken went: MARKET (Vinesweeper)
A type of rock at Shilo: GEM (Shilo Village area)
A goblin General: WARTFACE (Goblin Diplomacy quest)
The fairy ring code for abyssal space: ALR (Fairy Ring codes)
Someone near the chemist's in Rimmington: HOPS (Rimmington near the chemist's)
The output of herlore work: POTION (Herblore skill)
The witch in Taverley: NORATHAGG (Witch's House quest)
When completed the following message appeared:
DLR ON MAP
Going to DLR (Poisonous Wastes) on the WTM gave a link to the following riddle:
What to get:
Above you the grass (COLOR: GREEN, ITEM: HAT)
below that the rain (COLOR: BLUE, ITEM: TOP)
still deeper the emerald (COLOR: GREEN, ITEM: LEGS)
Your feet yet remain
Three levels above them (4th LEVEL)
past shades and undead (Shades and Ankou)
a cradle before them (Cradle of Life)
the prism you tread (Fancy boots which are rainbow (prism) colored)
Where to go to get the first part of the above:
famed seven hilled city
but not in the game: (ROME)
the end of the noodles
are the end of my name: (SPAGH-ETTI)
Answer: "Rometti" who runs the gnome clothing store (Rometti's Fine Fashions) in The Grand Tree
The location clues (given in CC):
> You must cross a bridge to get to me.
See bridge marked as location 1 on map. Note this is up the first ladder and between the trees.
> Yew can only get here from the east.
All teleports or entrances to this location in the Tree Gnome Stronghold are east of this location.
> You can only reach me from the north.
From the first ladder you must travel south to reach the second ladder.
> There's something magical nearby!
Magic Tree marked as location 2 on map, just southwest of the nearby Tree patch.
> A walking testimony to sqills is not far away.
The NPC Prissy Scilla works to protect the tree patch at location 3 on the map.
A Scilla is a type of "Squill" which is a family of bulb bearing perennial herbaceous flowering plants.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilla
> If you're trying to find a way into the house you're a bit south.
When examining Hazelmere's statue (see later clue) you are informed it is "A way into the house".
> If you knock on an oak will it let you in?
A reference to the statue of Oaknock west of the southern entrance to the Tree Gnome Stronghold (location 4 on map)
> You might pass something sounding like a hospital getting here.
A reference to the statue of Healthorg east of the southern entrance to the Tree Gnome Stronghold (location 5 on map)
> Someone who lived near spiders is not far to the south.
A reference to the statue of Hazelmere found directly south of this location. (location 6 on map)
During The Grand Tree quest Hazelmere is located on an island east of Yanille guarded by spiders.
> you'll go up 2 ladders to get to me.
Referring to the 2 ladders one must take to reach the location.
> A famed silver tree lived once nearby.
Argento is the name of a famous silver spirit tree whose stump yet remains at the spot
marked as 7 on the map. This entity plays a part in The Eyes of Glouphrie quest.