Behind the Scenes � December

[Toad]

Achievement diary antics, elegant accents, delving into dungeons, and dashing hairdos are due during December. But whats all that mean?

 

 

 

In our first update of the month, youll be asked to return to Falador, where the fourth Achievement Diary will be waiting for you. With Falador being such a familiar area, you can be sure that some tasks will be straightforward, but there are challenges, too. Are you capable of slaying a skeletal wyvern? Have you encountered the vast mole beneath Wysons flowers? Rewards will include brand new white lily seeds and a shiny new emote.

 

 

 

Once youve done that little lot, your next step will be a watery one, as you cross the Fremennik Province and the islands beyond. No doubt Baba Yaga and her Lunar friends will have several tasks for the higher levels, but pet rocks, seaweed and Slayer caves await those slightly less familiar with the Fremennik ways. Rewards will include enhanced resource collection for your Etceterian workers, improved lyres, and a potential 20k experience reward lamp.

 

 

 

As we mentioned in the news post towards the end of last month, we will be making further changes to the reward items associated with Stealing Creation. We will make the rewards far more appealing and easier to use; actually doubling the experience you earn from any of the activities you use your reward objects for, including the combat ones! If you need more information about the changes to Stealing Creation, please read this news post.

 

 

 

Since our graphical update earlier in the year, weve been playing around with a variety of new haircuts for the game. Weve now gathered around 20 new styles and will be releasing them during December to the free and members games. These new hairdos include some rather interesting styles inspired by AkHaranu, a visitor from the unexplored eastern realms. Perhaps next year will unearth more fashions from these interesting folk? Only time will tell...

 

 

 

You might stumble across some new words if youre planning to try out any of the French Servers, planned for launch in December. Completely translated into French, we hope that many of you will be finding a new home here, or even just popping in to see what everythings like en francais.

 

 

 

Finally this month, we will be opening the gates to festive cheer and wintry celebrations with this years Christmas update. Much like this years Halloween, weve decided to release a quest at the same time as our Christmas event, which means that the free game will have access to that quest over the Christmas period.

 

 

 

During the event, youll be asked to track down Jack Frost, the misunderstood son of the Queen of Snow. Apparently, he loves icing things up and has been known to freeze even the warmest of Christmases. Of course, many of you will know all about what we have planned after voting in the Guaranteed Content Christmas poll we ran earlier this year, so expect Santa suits and even a chilly new necklace to show off with.

 

 

 

For the quest, Explorer Jack will have a tale a tale of fearsome creatures and bountiful riches. Sadly, the best of his adventuring days are behind him, so hell need one of those adventuring sorts to stride out bravely into the icy wastelands. I wonder if hell be able to find one? In this quest, it wont be your equipment that helps you trek through the caves, but a keen eye to work out the fiendishly cavernous puzzles. Higher levelled players will find extra rewards hidden within those puzzles, so be prepared.

 

 

 

Updates after December

 

 

 

Mobilising Armies

 

Weve reported before that we planned to release Mobilising Armies, our new strategy minigame, in December. Weve found that although we could release it, we really want to take our time to make this the best update we can, so we made the difficult choice to hold onto it until next year. Weve never ever tried to release a game like this before, and we want to make sure we get it right. So, youll have to wait a little longer for your gnomic glider bombers, pigeon messengers, dragons hoards and catapult attacks.

 

 

 

Have fun!

 

 

 

Mod Mark

 

Lead Designer RuneScape

[fronzz]

Looks nice. hairstyles from Kudos Island area?

 

 

 

P.S. First post ftw!

[dirk4slayer]

Hawt, I want hairstyles :)

[Toad]

icelands sound best its been promised for SO LONG

 

 

 

http://news.runescape.com/newsitem.ws?id=208

 

 

 

A large 'frozen lands' area including penguins, mammoths, polar bears and more.

 

 

 

i think the way its worded is intriguiging too :D

 

 

 

For the quest, Explorer Jack will have a tale a tale of fearsome creatures and bountiful riches. Sadly, the best of his adventuring days are behind him, so hell need one of those adventuring sorts to stride out bravely into the icy wastelands. I wonder if hell be able to find one? In this quest, it wont be your equipment that helps you trek through the caves, but a keen eye to work out the fiendishly cavernous puzzles. Higher levelled players will find extra rewards hidden within those puzzles, so be prepared.

[Mercifull]

*claps at the prospect of customising appearance* ^_^

 

 

 

I like achievement diaries too so i'm looking forward to that. Done all the other ones so far and will give me something to doo after I finish the grandmaster quest this week.

 

 

 

Excited about the lunar exploring too :)

[spooferfish]

Ooh, another achievement diary! I'm way behind on Varrock and Karamja already though. :(

 

 

 

Sounds like a fun month to me.

[Mercifull]

What happened to the screenshots promised in future BTS though? :(

[Kietaro1]

2 achievement diaries or one with 2 places? Oh who cares, enhanced resource collection for your Etceterian workers ftw :D

[langer]

Is fremennik the 5th diary they are planing later on? Or are we going to have a quest relating to fremennik in december? I'm a bit confused about that. I sure hope the rewards for falador diary is better than just an emote and some useless seeds (mithril-like seeds...). I'm not too worry though...

[obfuscator]

I'm glad they delayed mobilising armies, it has never appealed to be at all.

 

 

 

Other than that it looks decent. :)

[Uula]

Wewt, french.

[diib]

icelands sound best its been promised for SO LONG

 

 

 

http://news.runescape.com/newsitem.ws?id=208

 

 

 

A large 'frozen lands' area including penguins, mammoths, polar bears and more.

 

As much as I'd like to see mammoths, I think that, when they say "the islands beyond" , they mean Lunar isle, neitiznot, jatiszo, miscellania and etceteria.

[aznmidget448]

Hmmm... A chilling neclace? Soujnds cool to me :

 

 

 

Other than that, All i have to look forward to is Christmas :( Darned ftp, but I guess I get what i pay for...

[Ollyc3]

Yay new diary :thumbup:

[bluehooloovo]

Wow, 2 new diaries, which I love reading about, even if I can't do them (and being f2p, I almost certainly will not be able to), a Christmas quest like the Halloween one (w00t! More questpoints!), new hairstyles (meh, I'll give them a try), and FRENCH!! Yes! I'm a native English speaker, but I'm trying to learn French, and this certainly won't hurt! :thumbsup: Sounds like a good month to me!

[bmnp]

this doesnt look like the most exciting of months, but im just thankful they arent releasing a lvl 95 slayer monster this month. i should be getting 95 slayer early next month and i dont wanna miss out on the fun if that monster ever comes out!

[stormveritas]

Sweet Lord God and Baby Jesus.... please give us the ability to harvest pure essence from our Etcetrian followers. Please. I need this.

[Peronix]

Hmm, since they're releasing a whole two new diaries, we'll have a total of five... maybe they'll finally release the achievement diary cape?

 

 

 

And anyone else thinking that the reward for the fremenik one sounds like our workers will be able to gather pure essence? I hope so.

 

 

 

The new hairstyles sound interesting, too. Hope they'll have some awesome styles in there.

[SirHartlar]

Looks a promising month, I love the achievement diaries and I could do with a wacky new hairdo. :P :D

[Snipers_end]

Finally french worlds! I have been dieing for another empty world ever since the german worlds became crowded

[Kenneh]

Id prefer a new skill to new hair but hey :|

[PhaperPlane]

Dissapointed they delayed Mobilising Armies, I was looking forward to that. :( Rest of the month looks good though :) And yes, where is our preview for the future updates?! :o

[knight10071]

PLEASE pure essense from Etceteria + more workers enabled = more money, less work

[acenator]

TWO new achievement diaries?! And one of them's the Fremminick one with rewards reguarding MTK?! Looks like a good month to me! :thumbsup: :mrgreen:

[hrmn]

Mod luke on RSOF:

 

 

 

Hi everyone,

 

 

 

I've slightly adjusted the opening sentence about the Fremennik Achievement Diary - yep: two Achievement Diaries!

 

 

 

New sentence.

 

 

 

"Once youve done that little lot, your next step will be a watery one, as you cross the Fremennik Province and the islands beyond for their Achievement Diary. No doubt Baba Yaga and her Lunar friends will have several tasks for the higher levels, but pet rocks, seaweed and Slayer caves await those slightly less familiar with the Fremennik ways. Rewards will include enhanced resource collection for your Etceterian workers, improved lyres, and a potential 20k experience reward lamp."

 

 

 

So, yay two diarys :