Holiday Events from the Past.
All of these events are no longer available. This is just if you want to read about what Graal Classic holidays were like before, or if you are reading for memories.
I started playing in 2011, so I don't know what the 2010 holidays on GraalOnline Classic were like. Sadly, even for the events I did participate in, I have none of my own pictures. All of the pictures on this page I found on the Graalians.com forums. So thank you to those users.
I started playing in 2011, so I don't know what the 2010 holidays on GraalOnline Classic were like. Sadly, even for the events I did participate in, I have none of my own pictures. All of the pictures on this page I found on the Graalians.com forums. So thank you to those users.
Valentine's Day
This short event was usually hosted by NYN or Azrael in the past. I don't know if this still happens every year or not. I forget the name of the event, but you had to have a friend as a partner, and everyone gathered in Onnet Town. The host would announce a theme such as "cartoons." You and your partner would have to dress up as a famous duet that fits the category, such as "Tom and Jerry," and change your names. The host and other Graal Police would go through the crowd and find a handful of the best dressed pairs, and the winners were given a Statue of Liberty crown. There would be several rounds.
St. Patrick's Day, 2011.
This event was quite disturbing. You had to go find a giant leprechaun and you would get a hat. That's all. The giant leprechauns only spawned in a handful of fixed locations, so people would camp at all the spawns for an hour. The first person to touch the leprechaun gets the hat. I think I finally found mine on Belle (Delta) Island.
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Easter, 2011.
However, the main event this Easter was fun. This was the first egg hunt. Unlike the current egg hunt, eggs were not numbered or anything, you just had to collect as many eggs as you could find.
All the eggs were ground spawns, and most of them were found indoors. So everyone was running around the entire map on horses going in every building.
If you got at least 50 eggs, you would get a rabbit mount. The top egg hunters (had over 1,000 eggs) got rabbit mounts that have a ribbon around their necks. I this was when all your leftover eggs were turned in for holiday tokens at a 10:1 ratio. I think I had ~500 eggs.
Also, note that there was no Easter 2012 event. The current egg hunt event started in 2013.
Sorry I don't have a picture of this event yet.
All the eggs were ground spawns, and most of them were found indoors. So everyone was running around the entire map on horses going in every building.
If you got at least 50 eggs, you would get a rabbit mount. The top egg hunters (had over 1,000 eggs) got rabbit mounts that have a ribbon around their necks. I this was when all your leftover eggs were turned in for holiday tokens at a 10:1 ratio. I think I had ~500 eggs.
Also, note that there was no Easter 2012 event. The current egg hunt event started in 2013.
Sorry I don't have a picture of this event yet.
Graaloween, 2011.
Halloween on Graal is always a blast. I think this year was entirely done by Azrael, with help from the Graphics Team. This was back when the east side of Deadwood existed. Every event this Halloween was located there.
Dark Side of the Gardens
This half was boring, but really good Halloween graphics in the garden. You walked through the garden, and at the end you talk a girl's ghost. I don't remember what she needed help with.
She gives you some hint that leads you to a hidden cave in the graveyard. You walk through the cave and kill ghost baddies. You get warped back up to the girl ghost's grave, and she gives you a hat. You could do this 3 times for 3 hats. |
Deadwood Forest and Maze
This was the fun part. You had to walk all the through a new forest level in Deadwood (this part was useless, but again, good graphics and leveling).
Halfway through the forest, there was a witch who gave you a list of ingredients for you to find. At the end of the forest, there was a mansion. Inside were the girl ghost's parents and you talked to them. Anyway you went down to their dark basement to find the ingredients for the witch. The basement was dark and a lantern only gave a small circle of light. And the whole thing was a huge maze. You had to pick up all 12 ingredients down there. This was hard. Anyway, when you had everything, you took it back to the witch. She rewarded you with a red or green skeleton morph. |
Murder Mystery Theater
I didn't get to watch this, but from what I heard, it was hilariously stupid. Only 90 people were allowed in per show, and there were only a few showings per night. Even then it was so laggy. I watched a Youtube video of this and whole thing was frozen for 5 minutes of a 7 minute video. Anyway, it was basically a scripted roleplaying show.
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Halloween Hat Contest
There was also a hat contest this year for the players. About 16 player-made hats were chosen to be sold at Onnet, all for 1 gralat each. The top 3 hats were featured in Deadwood, and sold for 100 gralats. The 3 winners were given gralat prizes.
Christmas, 2011.
In addition to the usual gift exchange, 2011 had a few other things going on as well around Christmas. After this year, the main Christmas event has solely been the gift exchange, which is covered on the previous page. Also, this was the only year that Hanukkah hats were sold.
Christmas Hat Contest
There was another player-made hat contest this Christmas. All the chosen hats were sold in Onnet for 1 gralat each.
Valentine's Day, 2012.
Holiday Token Shop.
Only two events ever gave out holiday tokens, so this was sorta a failed idea. You spent holiday tokens on whatever was in the shop.
In the middle of 2012 or 2013, I forget when, it finally closed. Management decided that the Development Team needed to focus more on permanent content than creating unnecessary events for every holiday. Before it closed, they let Baddies drop tokens for a whole week to give everyone a chance to buy stuff. Anyway, from here on the focus for holidays was to make repeatable events. This way Development isn't focused on holidays all year. |
Graaloween 2012-2013.
This was my favorite Halloween event. I'm kinda sad that it was discontinued. The event was sorta like a reverse Trick-or-Treating. It had 2 stages.
Collecting Candy
The week before Halloween, there would be ghosts with candy in their bellies all over Graal Classic's overworld. You had to collect as much candy as you could from them.
In 2012, the ghosts would fly around for about a minute, then disappear, dropping the candy on the ground. People would follow the ghosts, and the first person there gets the candy. |
In 2013, you had to swipe candy from the ghost using your Bug Net. This was a lot funner.
The top 12 candy collectors were given a candy trophy. In 2013, I dominated the Angel Clan and was in 1st place on day 1. Then I fell behind to #10. I had about 1,500 candies.
The top 12 candy collectors were given a candy trophy. In 2013, I dominated the Angel Clan and was in 1st place on day 1. Then I fell behind to #10. I had about 1,500 candies.
Reverse Trick-or-Treat
On Halloween Day, the second stage starts and last for 2-3 days. Most of the NPCs on Graal Classic are all dressed up in costumes. You had to go give your candy to NPCs that had a candy emote. Each NPC would take 5 candies from you, and in return, you would get a "trick" or a "treat."
A "treat" would be a hat, item, or gralats. A "trick" would be something mean like turning you into a green giant, or shrinking, or lock your sword and item hotkeys, etc. A "trick" would last about 10 minutes and you couldn't do any trick-or-treating until it wears off. And of course, the tricks and treats had a 50/50 probability. You could only give candy to the same NPC once every 8 hours. |
Graaloween, 2012.
In 2012, there was a second Halloween event. The witch from Onnet Forest would appear at various fixed locations on the map. There was only one witch on the map at any one time.
It was a trivia game. You had to get 5 Halloween trivia questions correct (multiple choice) to be given a broomstick mount. After about 5-10 people played, the witch would fly away and appear at the next spawn. |
GraalOnline Classic 5th Anniversary.
December 2014 marked the 5th year since GraalOnline Classic came to the iPhone, and quite a party was thrown. There was a raffle ticket drawing for a free iPad, a free year of VIP, and several gralat prizes of 50,000. You could get 2 raffle tickets everyday from a booth.
There were Prize Wheels in each of the hour clubs (Zone, Fan, Resort, Grotto). You had to wait awhile for your turn to spin. You either got gralats, a prize, or 1 raffle ticket. The prizes included a party pug mount (my favorite), 4 balloon animal hats, cake bombs, noob bombs, a party blower, a bubble blower, and confetti poppers. |