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This has actually always been an intention of ours!

In the original design we discussed having regular spirits as the base conjures (i.e. Skeleton, Zombie, Ghost and Phantom) and then gaining access to 'Heroes' or 'Legendary' spirits (e.g. Barrows brothers, Ancient warriors, maybe even Vorkath) from other content which would use up 1-4 slots.

We haven't spoken too much about ideas that are on paper for Necromancy in the future, but this is just one of them. You'll find that most/all projects have a ton of ideas that don't come to fruition for the original release, but are written down to tackle and explore in the future.

The Battle of Forinthry may have concluded, but some mysteries remain. It’s time to follow the trail of the undead dragon Vorkath – back to the bitter cold of Ungael.

Uncover the chilling secrets of what happened on the isle, and catch a glimpse into what could be coming next...

Check out the blog here - https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/new-quest--requiem-for-a-dragon

We know these upgraded Seasonal Events we can build on each year are popular, and we're not disregarding that feedback either. I think you're far from alone with wanting the same treatment for Halloween.

For the long term, the thing we've primarily taken away is that there's a balance to strike on delivering permanent update and the timing of when we make this bigger investment seasonal event upgrades.

To be open about it, whether or not Halloween gets the upgraded Hub/Quest/Activities treatment this year is TBD right now. We haven't Yay or Nay'd it either way as yet.

That's not the intention of the post for sure, we're not putting anything on players here. We just wanted to provide context on why we had this in plan for Summer in the first place.

From our perspective, listening to that feedback has been great given the positivity we've seen for Christmas and Easter. We simply made a misjudgment to prioritize another better seasonal event for Summer over a new piece of persistent content for June.

It might be an idea to return to next year, but the feedback clearly said our near-term balance was off - which is why we changed plans.

Figured, but wanted to reply anyways

Too early to say right now. The only decision we've really made today is to move our development efforts from that project to these two.

We may very well come back to it for next year, but based on the feedback, we'd look at it in context of the balance of the amount of persistently available content released around it.

We'll pass this to the team to consider. I think I recall seeing a good few mentions of this in the Community Hitlist submissions as well!

I can promise this isn't the case for 2024 content. We want to give you a look ahead beyond June as soon as we can.

When it comes to this year, we won't hold any announcements around our 2024 plans for the sake of making a moment at RuneFest - we know you want that news sooner rather than later, and holding it for that would be a mistake.

If we do end up having some 2024 news shared at RuneFest, it would only because it was the right time to announce it for other development based reasons. But that isn't our intention or what we're aiming for right now.

So the latest Seasonal Events (Christmas & Easter) have been designed to be just that - something we can bring back each year and hopefully build upon with each iteration. Any time we put into those benefits us for years ahead.

Building that foundational level event takes as much work as any other content release though, so there's a balance to strike with our development time. From player feedback, that balance was clearly wrong for our near term content plans - might be more appropriate in future years, just not this one.

Osseous will work the same as the other Matriarchs where it can be only damaged with a certain style, in this case, Necromancy

Heyo Scapers,

It's time we check in on our content plans for May and June - and some updates we've made based on your response to our Spring Content Roadmap.

Check it out here - https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/may--june-content---our-updated-plans

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Had another go at it.

As part of the oddment store refresh they have been monitoring the cost of items and making adjustments where applicable.

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Thank you for your service, being able ctrl + f is wonderful.

Stream tomorrow to chat about the upcoming quest

Last of the US stock released. There was some books that were made available in a staggered amount and this is the last of them available.

Not gonna lie, I have wanted to suggest a Willow Plush.

Unfortunately engine related issues are slower to resolve due to the nature of the systems, this is why we had worked in the more general hotfix in the meantime.

New plushies on the way and find out about the upcoming quest "Requiem For a Dragon" in our livestream on Tuesday!

Check it out here - https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/april-merch-update---this-week-in-runescape