Festival of the Dead is a temporary member's only Holiday event released on 2 October 2012 (not to be confused with the 2012 Halloween event). The event is centered around celebrating the lives of deceased NPCs, and bringing them back to life for the celebration. This event is only available for members.
During this event you may choose to celebrate the lives of up to 5 different deceased NPCs from the game.
The decorated coffin.
Participating in this event will earn your character a Skull mask and up to a total of 251K bonus Prayer XP (depending on how many of the tasks are completed) which are awarded as double the XP received while training Prayer in the following activities (per Jagex):
Using Ectofunctus (the bonus stacks with the Ectofuntus multiplier).
Using Player-owned house altars (the bonus stacks with the Altar multiplier).
Players can participate in this event by speaking to Father Joakim, who is located next to a large coffin in two locations: south of the Lumbridge Cemetery and behind the church south-east of Burthorpe. There is no difference in gameplay between the two locations.
This event is made up of five celebrations, each requiring a higher prayer level and the completion of more quests than the last.
If you choose to complete multiple tasks, you may do them in any order desired. However, you may only have one task active at a time, and while that task is active, the items for other tasks will not be available (although you may make all the Clay skulls at once and have them in your inventory). Tasks already completed are marked with a green checkmark. You may also repeat tasks, but no additional XP awards are earned. If you attempt to be assigned a task which you have already completed, Father Joakim will give you the opportunity to either proceed or cancel the duplicate task.
There are four steps for each task:
Speak to Father Joakim, who will assign an item relating to the dead person whose life is being celebrated. You must go to the location of the item and return with it.
You must retrieve a set of decorative "Flowers of the dead" from the crate next to the coffin.
You must create 3 Clay skulls from soft clay (if asked, Father Joakim will give you the first 3 soft clay, but you must supply any further for additional tasks). Creating skulls gives 10 Crafting experience.
Click on the coffin or speak to Father Joakim with the above items in your inventory, and a dialogue and cutscene will follow, eventually awarding you with the bonus Prayer XP. Dialogue choices given do not make a difference in the final outcome of the cutscene(s).
Note: The individual items for each NPC can not be obtained prior to starting each tribute; they must be gathered individually upon starting each event.
In addition to the bonus Prayer XP, players also receive a Skull mask after the completion of any one of these tasks, assuming they do not already own one. If destroyed, it may be retrieved from Diango in Draynor Village. It can also be stored in a Toy box in a Player Owned House. Clay skulls or additional flowers of the dead, while obtainable from the crate at any time during the event, may not be banked, stored, or traded.
Ceremonies
Zamorakian Cultists (ceremony for Reese and Caitlin and Kayle if you killed them)
If you killed Caitlin and Kayle in the quest The Blood Pact, they do not appear when you celebrate the death of Reese. Instead, you get dialogue choosing whether you are glad you killed them, or if you regret killing them.
In an unannounced update, the Festival of the Dead area and Father Joakim were removed from their other location in Burthorpe (near the church in South-East Burthorpe). He still resides near Lumbridge Cemetery towards the Lumbridge Swamp.
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