Eek
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- This article is about the NPC that players were allowed to keep. For other uses, see Spider (disambiguation).
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| Race | Spider |
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| Source | N/A |
| Skill requirement? | None |
| Quest requirement? | 2009 Halloween Event |
| Food | None |
| Colours | Black |
| Examine | Eek, a spider! |
| Notable features | Can be wielded. |
| This pet does not need food to stay with you. | |
Eek is a pet spider players get from the 2009 Hallowe'en event, Web of Shadows. After the event, members can place Eek in either a Pet house or Toy box in their Player-owned house.
Unlike most pets, Eek does not eat, cannot be fed anything, and does not follow you. Instead she is wielded in the weapons slot.
During the 2009 Halloween event, Eek is given to the player by the Spider Herald, after being instructed by the Spider Queen to fill the Grim Reaper's house with webs so the Spider will move out of Grim's bath. The player must hold Eek and travel through the house, covering various pieces of furniture in spider webs. After the player finishes spinning sixty-four webs and completes the event, the Queen allows Eek to stay with the player, at Eek's request.
Players have the right-click option of Talk-to, in which a random conversation takes place between the player and Eek, and Play-with, in which the player performs an emote with Eek spinning a spider web and dropping down.
In a certain conversation, where Eek asks the player if they are scared of spiders, if the player selects the "Yes, I'm scared of spiders" option, Eek starts acting like an 'eight-legged mouse' and her dialogue name temporarily changes to 'Eek the Eight-Legged Mouse'
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[edit] Dialogue
[edit] Glitches
- A glitch was discovered when a player would play with Eek the Spider, and activate the Home Teleport. Eek would become invisible and the teleport would keep going.
- A glitch was discovered where you would play with Eek, and then use the zombie hand emote. It would look like a zombie was pulling eek into the ground.
- Another glitch was discovered when a player would attack a player that holds Eek the Spider in his/her hands with kick attack style they would punch instead.
- If a player is holding a shield when Eek running across their shoulder afterwards you wouldn't see the shield unless you begin walking or running.
- When you play with Eek, and do the snowman dance the web floats.
- A glitch was discovered when a player would play with Eek the Spider and attempt to do the "stomp" emote. Eek and the web would become invisible, but the player would do the same movements as if Eek was still there, and the effect of stomping the ground is also visible.
- If a player used the play emote then recited a prayer from a God Book Eek would keep doing the emote while the player is still reciting the prayer.
- If a player is sitting on a throne in a POH whilst holding eek and select the play option the web will appear out of nothing If the player then logs out the throne will disappear.
- Another player found that if you sit down with Eek equipped, she will disappear.
- A glitch was discovered when a player would wear a ringmaster shirt while having Eek equipped. When Eek runs up your arm, down to the other arm and back to the original hand, a black triangle is skewed across the players body.
- A similar glitch is the result of wearing a Barrows armour legs and having Eek equipped. When Eek moves up your arm, across the shoulders, down to the other arm and back to the original hand, part of the armour colour from the hip is skewed across the players body.
- There's a glitch that if you try to take a picture of Eek when she crawls up your arm, your Adventure log of your full body picture your cape disappears and Eek does too, this has not been fixed.
- When you are playing with Eek while combat, it will play and fight at the same time.
- There is a glitch if you are holding Eek and eat any food, then quickly unequip Eek it will look like you ate Eek.
- Another glitch occurs when you fight with Eek using your fists; she will appear to float in the air.
- There is another glitch found at the Grand Exchange if you play with Eek she will be invisible without doing any specific emote.
[edit] Trivia
- Eek is the only pet available to free players.
- Approximately every 10 seconds, while wielding Eek, she will run up your arm and shoulders and move to the other arm, moving back to the original hand when the player moves it closer. (Even while doing an action such as mining, smithing, crafting, etc., Eek will still do this, but it will be shorter, with Eek only just crossing your shoulders before it ends and you continue whatever action you were doing.)
- While being stored in a menagerie, unlike other pets, Eek comes up as a yellow dot on the minimap.
- Eek is also female. If you check the dismiss message it says, 'You can pick her up again from Diango in Draynor.'
- Eek looks like a specimen of Mygalomorphae, like a tarantula or a funnel web spider. These kinds of spiders don't weave webs like that shown in the game animation. They all do produce spider silk, however, and and some funnel webs handing in trees vaguely resemble the shape of the web animation (wide at the top and narrow at the bottom).
- Sometimes Eek will ask you if you are scared of spiders, if you reply yes, Eek apologises and will pretend to be an eight legged mouse. Her chat name will temporarily be changed to "Eek the Eight-Legged Mouse. That is only for that chat.
- When fighting with Eek in your inventory, if you select 'play-with' Eek, the normal animation will run, but you will continue to fight and Eek and her web will animate suspended in mid-air.
- There was also a pun on Spider-Man when Eek talks about being bitten by a magically irradiated man and becoming "Man-Spider."
- There was another pun when Eek asks what humans can do and you can say "project heat-rays from our eyes" and she will say "Don't fry me! I'm too young to fry!" which is similar to "Don't kill me! I'm too young to die!"
- You can attack while Eek is wielded in your weapon slot.
- Eek-A-Mouse is also the name of a famous Reggae musician from Kingston, Jamaica.
- Fighting with kick selected and Eek in your hands will no longer play a punch animation due to updates on 9 November 2009.
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