Winter December: What to expect, competition and more!

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Winter December is here!

That's right friends, get exited!
This Winter December you'll have plenty do to in Runescape ranging from the awesome return of Terrorbird (Reindeer) racing to completing the new Christmas seasonal miniquests! Smile

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Here's a quick look at whats happening this month!

EDIT: Claim your free Reindeer-Terrorbird Mount here
https://secure.runescape.com/m=mtxn_rs_shop/index#category/Accessories/package/ReindeerTerrorbirdMount

>>Christmas Advent Calendar
While most of these rewards are not available to claim for Ironpeople, the freebies from this can be claimed at any day of the month for regular accounts.

>> FC Clan Wars Event (Saturday, 3rd December 1:00 game time - Clan wars cave)
Hosted by our very own Ironnospace, this is a perfect place to settle old grudges with PvP combat.
The event will be completely safe, and no red portal fights will take place.
Clan wars even over. Thanks to everyone who came, it was super fun! Smile

>> Seasonal Miniquest: A Blast from the Past! (Monday, 5th December)
Without spoiling too much, expect a nostalgia filled plot as you travel from cupboard to cupboard, while unlocking some snazzy skilling areas along the way Smile

>> Winter Weekend: Skilling! (10th to 11th December)
This is a great opportunity to get some grinding done; expect more node spawns in the Runespan, more stable fishing spots, and double respawn rates for mining rocks and trees!
(Artisans Workshop will give double experience for non-Ironman accounts during this time)

>> Winter Weekend: Bossing! (17th to 18th December)
There will be an increased chance of receiving rare drops and a 10% discount when buying instances... Giant Mole mass anyone? Smile

>> Seasonal Miniquest: Christmas Never Dies! (Monday, 19th December)
The sequel to 'Blast from the Past', help Santa to find out wrong with the past and confront the perpetrator.

>> Winter Weekend: Minigames! (31st December to 1st January)
Great time to grind the Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza, as you'll have 600 daily bonus points to claim during this weekend.

>> Winter Weekend: Dungeoneering! (7th to 8th January)
Never has there been a better time to smash out some Dungeonering, as you'll be receiving double tokens from every dungeon! Get out there and buy those Gravites! Razz

Spoilers:

Oh! And I almost forgot: I will be holding a Winter Themed Photo competition!

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All you have to do is take a screenshot of anything winter themed from Runescape and post it below! I will pick 3 winners with the most awesome/interesting/festive pictures on the 26th of December and will award smiley ranks in the FC to the chosen pictures' submitter Smile

Everyone is welcome to join in on this!

Well, Thats all from me for now, I will keep you updated on any developments and events as we go,

Have a great holiday, and happy 'scaping! Very Happy

~

Mat

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Thanks for collating all that exciting info for us Mase!
I'm looking forward to seeing some entries for the screenie competition too!

Added a link to claim your free Reindeer-Terrorbird Mount

https://secure.runescape.com/m=mtxn_rs_shop/index#category/Accessories/package/ReindeerTerrorbirdMount

You can find this in the Solomon's General Store Smile

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Pinning this for the season's duration. Smile

Cheers!

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I am already cold. I'm always up for Giant Mole, ofcourse. :-P
Will be a good winter!

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You can either sit in your basement and wait, or get out there and do some crazy things.

From discussion in FC, you can make as many submissions to the Winter Screenie competition as you like, so get posting Razz

(edit) BTW Awesome Piccy Alec! Very Happy

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The other places I could think of Smile

I'll post some more if I run into any Razz

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Wow, love these, keep 'em coming Razz

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Those are great Al! Though I still prefer your first one I think. How about putting a space between the others to show them off better? It's sometimes hard to see where one ends and the other begins. Razz

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Ah! Can see them better now. And I've changed my mind about which of yours I prefer Al - I like the 9th one down on your second post best now. Smile

Here you see an Australian christmas at a holiday destination!

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And here you see christmas where I live!

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Looks Like all entries to this screenie competition are from Alec, Awesome job too love them all can't go wrong in a screenie when theres snow involved love your Aussie Interpretations too haha.

Time to add some competition into the works, After doing that Christmas Tree with Tree HeHe
Decided to do one F2p style with just the classic red fires, Planned the Tree to fit in perfectly on the mountain around all obstacles and did the entire tree on my own which was a bit of a challenge but challenge completed.

Enjoy My Screenie

(P.s. the tree not too obvious due to the non flat nature of the hillside)

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Wow the effort, nice work Matko! Looks awesome Very Happy

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Love the tree Matko! Amazing managing to do all those fires in time on your own!

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Treemaid wrote:: Love the tree Matko! Amazing managing to do all those fires in time on your own!

yea I must admit had a bit of help from photoshop, just did portions and layered together, I know its cheating, but not possible on own otherwise needed to bank for more logs.

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War correspondent Desolare risking his life for the rest of the world to see.

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EDIT: I just realized that Alec already took a screenie of this place >_>

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Some people we're too happy me using Photoshop, so did a non Photoshop screenie entry to make everyone happy Smile

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Desolare wrote:: EDIT: I just realized that Alec already took a screenie of this place >_>

Haha I think Alec took a Screenie in every possible winter location

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I apologize Matko, wasn't being serious x'D I actually really liked the tree Razz

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Desolare wrote:: I apologize Matko, wasn't being serious x'D I actually really liked the tree

All good no need for Apologies was planning to do multiple screenies anyways. Mat Mase gave no rules so decided to have some fun with it and love to use photoshop so couldn't resist. I never took your comment seriously, thought I timed my entry to the fc perfectly with that comment so just played with it haha.