2014 Midsummer event

2014 Midsummer event
Release date	26 June 2014 (Update)
End date	10 July 2014 (Update)
Reward	Druidic wreath, Disk of returning, Half full wine jug
Preceded by	2013 Midsummer event
Preceded by	2013 Midsummer event
Succeeded by	2015 Midsummer event
Succeeded by	2015 Midsummer event

In the 2014 Midsummer event players needed to help Kaqemeex in Taverley that started 26 June 2014. The event consisted of you helping him protect nature from evil corrupting spirits.

Walkthrough

The chant is not working.

Speak to Kaqemeex in the druidic circle in Taverley. He will be concerned as the ritual to protect nature from evil spirits isn't working, and the Guthixian altar isn't responding to their chants. He asks you to chant at the Altar of Guthix, but it still isn't working.

After pondering Kaqemeex decides to send you to an old friend of his, Thordur, because he cannot leave the altar. He will teleport you there.

Thordur facepalms.

Once you are in the blackhole, speak to Thordur, who will be frustrated because there was no offering given during the ritual, and that this occurs every year. He asks you to listen to the faint noise, and that it is the riddle to tell the player what is necessary for the ritual to work. Before leaving, Thordur will give you a disk of returning. Use the right-click Activate on the disk on returning to leave the blackhole, you will find yourself in the Dwarven Mines of Falador. Make your way back to Kaqemeex with the answer to the riddle in your inventory, and chant at the altar while it is in your inventory (or use the item on the altar). Kaqemeex will thank you for your efforts and give you a Half full wine jug, and that players should repeat the ritual tomorrow, and that doing so three times will earn a special reward.

After each day, players will have to solve a new riddle by speaking to Kaqemeex again, and having him teleport you to Thordur again. Doing so will get another half full wine jug and another disk of returning each day. Players who repeat the ritual three times will receive a druidic wreath.

Post-event: hugging trees

A player hugs a tree.

If you wore the druidic wreath (having it in your inventory will not work), you were able to hug any of the four very small trees (smaller than a regular tree) around the Druidic circle (a small tree was located at each of northwest, northeast, southeast, and southwest of the Druidic circle where the 2014 Midsummer event took place). Hugging trees increased a player's tree-hugging rank, and gave players a tree hugging title.

• 0 hugs - What's a tree?
• 15 hugs - Tree Cuddler
• 30 hugs - BARKing Mad
• 55 hugs - Tree Hugger
• 75 hugs - At One With Trees

Riddles

Date	Riddle	Answer
7 July	A ruiner about magic stone	Air rune
6 July	To take a charger we hear, mass for protection	Steel platebody
5 July	Deer and French exploit this ingredient	Bucket of milk
4 July	Mat wraps around this sticky item	Swamp tar
3 July	Press the lawyers hard	Iron bar
2 July	Encourage to be a good one	Egg
1 July	When mining we hear someone who might want the river police	Copper ore
30 June	A cow's feet?	Leather boots
29 June	This valuable is about log grind	Gold ring
28 June	I hear some cheese before the advert for a staple	Bread
27 June	This makes you an innocent runecrafter?	Rune or pure essence
26 June	Falsified the coward, yum!	Cooked chicken

Rewards

• Disk of returning
• Half full wine jug
• Druidic wreath

Trivia

• The chant is an anagram to the Old School teams Twitter accounts. From left to right: JagexMatK JagexReach JagexJohnC JagexAsh JagexAlfred JagexWeath JagexRonan
• Logging out after Thordur gives you your disk of returning will return you to the druids circle.
• During the initial release, players were able to complete the event without the need of a cooked chicken. This was later fixed.
• If a player is to drop their disk of returning in the black hole their player will start dancing or receive a message saying "well that was disappointing"