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PostPosted: November 28th, 2012, 11:15 am 
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Ariane Quest Double Bill

We're proud to present two fully voice-acted quests featuring the adventuring enchantress Ariane: one for free players and members, replacing the old Rune Mysteries quest, and an all-new quest for members. If you like your quests full of magic and discovery, and your heroines as erudite as they are headstrong, read on.





Rune Mysteries (free to play)

Ariane's had premonitions ever since she was a child, but lately her visions have shown her just one thing: the Wizards' Tower - her former home and place of study - in flames. Sure enough, there are already magical creatures manifesting and attacking the wizards, and Ariane's convinced that Archmage Sedridor's plan to purge the tower will trigger the disaster she foresees. Ariane's banned from entering the Wizards' Tower, so she needs your help to open the archmage's eyes to the truth.
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You'll delve deep into the ruins of the very first Wizards' Tower, which was once home to four distinct orders: the serene Blue Wizards; the wise Green Wizards; the free-thinking Red Wizards and the analytical Grey Wizards. You'll need to solve the puzzle of how to enter, and decide what sort of mage you are to unlock the old tower's secrets and save the new one from its fiery fate.

Rewards include a magical staff that's handy for low-level mages, as well as a unique wizard's hat and title, both of which reflect the magical order you aligned yourself with in the old tower (you'll have the opportunity to change this, if you wish).

How to start Rune Mysteries:

Speak to Ariane in the lobby of the Wizards' Tower.

Requirements:

None.





Rune Memories (members only)

At the end of Rune Mysteries, Ariane found herself in a bit of a bind, and now she needs your help once more. You'll fully explore the arcane ruins beneath the Wizards' Tower and experience - through the memories of its former inhabitants - the clashes of magical ideals that led to the old tower's downfall. Dig deep enough and put together the pieces of this ancient puzzle, and you'll have all you need to free Ariane and avert the disaster once and for all.

Rewards for this members-only quest include a full set of magical robes to accompany the last quest's hat, as well as access to Archmage Sedridor's personal rune essence chest, which will grant you rune essence every time you level up in Runecrafting. This is applied retroactively if you've already levelled the skill, and by 99 you'll have received a mighty 24,750 essence in total! Those of you with very high Magic, Prayer and Runecrafting will find further, hidden rewards - ask around the tower once the quest's complete.

How to start Rune Memories:

Speak to Ariane in the ruins beneath the Wizards' Tower.

Requirements:

You must be a RuneScape member.

Rune Mysteries

14 free inventory spaces.



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Wizards' Tower and Runecrafting Guild Rework

While you're enjoying the Ariane Quest Double Bill, be sure to take a tour of our magnificently reworked Wizards' Tower and RuneCrafting Guild. Four storeys high and resplendent in its firmament-piercing finery, with animated, floating bookcases and the bustle of arcane academia, the new tower is some of our Graphics team's most stunning work to date. The Audio team have worked their wizardry too, with a medley of new musical tracks and amazing voice acting for the tower's most talkative inhabitants.

Enjoy!

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Behind the Scenes Video

If you haven't already, take a look at our two-part Behind the Scenes video special on the new Ariane quests and the rework of the Wizards' Tower:

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In Other News

- Want to know more about the circumstances behind Ariane's expulsion from the Wizards' Tower? Take a look at our latest Lores & Histories story: The Burning Tower - Ariane's Tale.
- Tutorial Island has been removed from the world map, overtaken by the amazing new Wizards' Tower.
- Solomon's General Store is now stocking Hero Packs styled after some of RuneScape's most iconic heroes. Dress to impress with the Ozan Pack or garb yourself in sorcerous style with the Ariane Pack: each comes with male and female versions, and comprises a full outfit, weapon override, emote and teleport animation.
- There's magic in the air, and Yelps is delving into the arcane mysteries with 3x Magic, Herblore and Summoning XP earned from lamps won on the Squeal of Fortune this weekend. More details to come soon!


The patch notes archive can be seen here.

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Patch Notes:
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28th November 2012

Graphical:

- Players left hands now grip a fishing pole correctly.
- An issue with the animation for crafting battlestaves has been fixed.
- The illuminated holy book no longer stays in the player's hand when performing emotes.
- The easter carrot now has an animation when using the 'Whack' option.
- The ward of subjugation now sheathes correctly.

Quests, Challenges & Achievements:

- Dimintheis' information for finding Caleb in Family Crest is now up to date.
- Players can now light the dragon heads under Baxtorian Falls.
- Salty water can once again be obtained from the salty lake north of Sophanem.
- The Embalmer now offers clearer instructions during Icthlarins Little Helper.
- The Ourania Mania task can once again be completed.
- Morytania 4 legs once again gives a chance of creating a 4-dose prayer renewal potion.
- The Hard leather challenge can now be completed.
- A problem preventing the Elemental Workshop quests from being completed has been fixed.
- The amulet of cat speak should now locate Bob correctly.
- Daily challenges to make weapon poison and weapon poison+ can now be completed.

Skills & Minigames:

- Players now receive combat XP from Dominion Tower.
- Player are now able to now cast Bind, Snare and Entangle on Implings in Puro Puro by first targeting them.
- All of the NPCs in Temple Trekking are now as powerful as they should be post-Evolution of Combat.
- Players can once again create Guthix balance potions.
- Creating a Fletching Potion (3) will now give the correct XP.
- Dungeoneering vials now simply fill all instead of asking you how many you want to fill.
- Spirit Cobra pouches now recognise Temple Trekking snake hides.
- Praying mantis pouch materials have been corrected.

Combat:

- Glacors have been tweaked and are now a bit tougher.
- Dungeoneering NPCs have been tweaked to hit a bit harder.
- Dungeoneering skill doors now hit players a bit harder.
- Familiars intelligence has been improved to allow them to attack and “tag” monsters for you with their primary attack.
- The King Black Dragon now awards drops and XP to groups correctly.
- Yt-Mejkot will now heal properly.
- The amulet of fury and its ornamented version now have same stats.
- We've fixed the information on the Zamorak coif so it no longer displays incorrect ranged requirements.
- The Borrowed Power spell should now work correctly with Home Teleport and Telekinetic Grab.
- Group combat XP is now assigned correctly.
- Various items no longer show a level 1 requirement in error.
- Lesarkus is now weak to ice arrows once again.
- Prayer potions and flasks now restore the correct amount of prayer points.
- The Ghastly Request scroll will now restore 100 prayer points.
- The degraded corrupt dragon spear now has the correct attack speed.
- We've fixed the decorative armour tooltip so it now displays the correct defence level.
- We've fixed a typo on the welcome screen for people logging into RuneScape for the first time since the Evolution of Combat update.
- Fixed some level requirements for a handful of rune and steel items.
- Matched the stats of a number of enchanted helms to their basic versions.
- Infernal mages no longer deal damage after they've been killed.
- We've brought all the slayer helm variants up to the stats that they should be, regardless of their colour.
- You can no longer use the greater runic staff to cast spells higher than your level.

Other:

- Festival of the Dead content has been removed.
- Removed a forcewalk tile in the Goblin Village.
- Players will no longer receive an erroneous "loyalty shop items awaiting delivery" style message when logging into game.
- Opening a stats interface and the player loyalty store at the same time no longer causes the top-level interface to go blank.
- Sacred pyrelogs once again work for creating eucalyptus pyre logs.
- Players can now pick belladonna flowers with gloves of silence equipped.
- The Lumbridge cook food hamper now works as intended.

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 Post subject: Re: Nov-28-2012 - Ariane Quest Double Bill
PostPosted: November 28th, 2012, 1:02 pm 
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Well, merching opportunity. Pure ess will fall as a ton of players get many thousands of essence. then the price will steady out after(hopefully).

Bye bye tutorial island <3

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