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The Nights of the Dead is the annual Halloween EQ2 Live Event.

Contents 1 Nights of the Dead 2011 2 Nights of the Dead 2010 3 Nights of the Dead 2009 4 Nights of the Dead 2008 5 Nights of the Dead 2005 - 2007 6 Crafting materials 7 Summary

Nights of the Dead 2011 Edit

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:

• Survive the Night (in Nektulos Forest)

Returning quests:

• Nights of the Dead Devotee
• Hedge Hollow (in Nektulos Forest and The Hollow Hedge)
  • A Nightmarish Illness
  • A Nightmarish Return
  • Train to Zone!
• Haunted Mansion (picked up from NPC in the starting cities, and leading to Loping Plains)
  • This won't end well...
  • There Will Be Ghosts
  • They won't miss it...
• McQuibble's Farm (in Antonica)
  • Petrified Pumpkin Pies
  • McQuibble's Mystery
  • Scary Scarecrows
  • The Troubling Truth
• The Haunted House (in North Qeynos or West Freeport)
  • The Haunting
• Guide Quest
  • My Creepy Catalog

Returning collection:

• The Hollow Hedge Collection

New crafting recipe:

• Celebrations of the Dead IV

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 Edit

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 Edit

Explore the Hedge Hollow maze:

1. A Nightmarish Illness starting in Nektulos Forest at the docks.
2. A Nightmarish Return

New collection:

• The Hollow Hedge Collection

New encounter:

• The Headless Horseman

New costume illusions:

• Baleful Scarecrow
• Fresh Zombie
• Headless Huntsman
• Human Ghost
• Orc Ghost
• Rabid Werewolf

Additional rewards from old quests:

• a snarling werewolf mask
• Ghoulish Night Tapestry
• Wispy Vampiric Mirror
• Notes on special mirrors

New Lore and Legend book in Haunted Mansion:

• Destroy All Vampires! - Lore and Legend: Vampire

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)
  • a blanket of fog
  • screeching noise box
  • A Foggifier De-Foggififer 5000

New crafting recipe:

• Celebrations of the Dead II

New illusions from Gigglegibber Illusionists

Nights of the Dead 2008 Edit

Explore the Haunted Mansion:

1. This won't end well... - Start with Freid Deekat in West Freeport, Neriak and Gorowyn, or Skeer Deekat in North Qeynos and Kelethin
2. There Will Be Ghosts
3. They won't miss it...

New NPCs:

• a Gigglegibber Illusionist
• a Nights of the Dead merchant

New crafting recipe:

• Celebrations of the Dead

Nights of the Dead 2005 - 2007 Edit

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 Edit

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 Edit

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.