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Nights of the Dead

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The Nights of the Dead is the annual Halloween EQ2 Live Event.
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Nights of the Dead 2011
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Nights of the Dead 2011 will start at midnight US/Pacific time on 10/13/2011 and run until midnight US/Pacific time on 11/7/2011.
New for 2011:
- New Plague Cloud mount!
Additional rewards from old quests:
- Rattlin' Bones Candy Dish (From Nights of the Dead Devotee)
- Asylum's Chandelier (From A Nightmarish Return)
- Troll Zombie Plushie (From Train to Zone!)
- Somborn Double Lightpost (From This won't end well...)
- emerald cave bat (From There Will Be Ghosts)
- Destroyed Scarecrow Plushie (From The Troubling Truth)
- a Bone Sculpture (From The Troubling Truth)
- Condemned Prisoner (From The Troubling Truth)
New quests:
Returning quests:
- Nights of the Dead Devotee
- Hedge Hollow (in Nektulos Forest and The Hollow Hedge)
- Haunted Mansion (picked up from NPC in the starting cities, and leading to Loping Plains)
- McQuibble's Farm (in Antonica)
- The Haunted House (in North Qeynos or West Freeport)
- Guide Quest
Returning collection:
New crafting recipe:
Returning recipes:
- Celebrations of the Dead
- Celebrations of the Dead II
- Celebrations of the Dead III
- Notes on special mirrors
Nights of the Dead 2010
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New for 2010:
- Be sure to visit New Halas as they join in the celebration this year.
- Show your holiday spirit with the new Nights of the Dead Devotee quest and get the dish on its cool reward.
- New rewards for many of the returning Nights of the Dead events.
- Check out the new costume illusions, a new recipe book and new house items available from Nights of the Dead merchants.
- The Headless Horseman is back and tougher than ever, and he's carrying some new loot in his pack.
- Wandering through Nektulos Forest might provide some spooky fun, too!
- New crafting recipes, Celebrations of the Dead III, are available from the Nights of the Dead Merchant.
Nights of the Dead 2010 will end November 8th, 2010 @ 11:59pm PST.
Nights of the Dead 2009
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Explore the Hedge Hollow maze:
- A Nightmarish Illness starting in Nektulos Forest at the docks.
- A Nightmarish Return
New collection:
New encounter:
New costume illusions:
Additional rewards from old quests:
New Lore and Legend book in Haunted Mansion:
New items in Loping Plains:
- Have a lost necklace from the Hollow Hedge in your inventory and collect a cube in Somborn Village at ( -312, 12, -51 ) /waypoint -312, 12, -51 (on the floor behind Havras "Hack" Scutter)
New crafting recipe:
New illusions from Gigglegibber Illusionists
Nights of the Dead 2008
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Explore the Haunted Mansion:
- This won't end well... - Start with Freid Deekat in West Freeport, Neriak and Gorowyn, or Skeer Deekat in North Qeynos and Kelethin
- There Will Be Ghosts
- They won't miss it...
New NPCs:
New crafting recipe:
Nights of the Dead 2005 - 2007
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In North Qeynos or West Freeport you can:
- Go trick or treating with the Gigglegibbers
- Explore the Haunted House
In Antonica you can:
- Solve the mystery of McQuibble's Farm and save Ponchy's pies!
- Petrified Pumpkin Pies (25)
- McQuibble's Mystery (25)
- Scary Scarecrows (25)
- The Troubling Truth (25)
Crafting materials
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The following crafting resources are dropped from spooky-type creatures, even grey ones.
They are required for recipes Celebrations of the Dead and Celebrations of the Dead II.
| Candy Corn | Caramels | Cherry Gumdrops |
| Chocolate Bar | Chocolate Buttons | Cotton Candy |
| Cupcake | Chewing Gum | Fruit Flavored Hard Candy |
| Fudge | Green Chocolate Buttons | Gum Ball |
| Gumdrops | Gummy Worms | Jawbreaker |
| Jelly Beans | Licorice Candy | Licorice Rope |
| Lollipop | Marshmallows | Nutty Chocolate Bar |
| Peanut Brittle | Popcorn Ball | Red Licorice |
| Taffy | Were Cupcake |
Summary
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| Feature | Starting quest | First appeared in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trick or Treating | 2005 | ||
| Haunted House | The Haunting | 2005 | Make sure you take the skeleton mask before you leave the Haunted House. |
| The mystery of McQuibble's Farm | The Troubling Truth | 2005 | |
| Haunted Mansion | This won't end well... | 2008 | Some Lore and Legend quest starters are available in the Haunted Mansion after completing There Will Be Ghosts. Make sure you take the dirty mask before you leave the Haunted Mansion. |
| Gigglegibber Illusionists | 2008 | They give you a random illusion buff when hailed. | |
| Nights of the Dead merchants | 2008 | They sell recipes, charged costume illusions and furnitures. | |
| Hedge Hollow haunted maze | A Nightmarish Illness | 2009 | |
| The Hollow Hedge Collection | 2009 | ||
| The Headless Horseman | 2009 | A new Epic x2 encounter located in Nektulos Forest. | |
| Nights of the Dead Devotee Challenge | Nights of the Dead Devotee | 2010 |
| This article refers to events, personae and activities only present in-game during the annual Nights of the Dead festivities, which come to Norrath each year from (roughly) mid- to late-October through to early- to mid-November. |
| EQ2i credits EQ2 ZAM for some of the info in this article. |