Pinball
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Pinball is a random event where the player is transported by the Mysterious Old Man to a strange room with five pillars and two trolls wielding large clubs. (Note that this random event happens frequently when teleporting.)
The object of the game is to tag each pillar that has glowing rings around it. This scores the player one point. After he or she scores ten points they are free to leave through the exit. If a pillar that doesn't have the glowing rings around it is tagged, the score is reset to zero and the player must try again. The five pillars contains five spinning huge rune-like thing of fire, water, earth, air and nature rune respectively.
If the player tries to leave before they reach ten points, the player will be teleported in front of the two trolls, Tilt and Flippa, who knock the player back onto the pillars, dealing them some damage. This has been adjusted by Jagex upon complainants such that they will no longer deal actual damage to players. If the trolls accidentally knock the player to the CORRECT pillar, the game will indicate the player hit the WRONG pillar and score is reset.
The random event has a glitch since Runescape HD and all dialogues in the random event are out of character animations. This has been fixed.
Sometimes, when you log out during this event and then log back in, for a split second you are able to view the map of this random event before it flashes away like it normally would. An image of this glitch/bug is shown below (Only the present map) This glitch has not been fixed, Although this might not be a bug, but instead a slow server responce were the game client loads before the HD minimap is available to fully render in time before the full game load.
[edit] Rewards
Once players manage to complete the game they are transported back to where they were taken from and rewarded with a Random event gift. The music tune Pinball Wizard is also unlocked (see List of music).
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[edit] Context of Theme
This random event is themed on Pinball, an arcade game. The trolls are named after features of the machine - "tilt" is when players cheat by physically moving the machine to steer the ball (and the mechanism that detects this), and the two flippers are used to deflect the ball back into the playing field when it rolls out of play (see also Glossary of pinball terms at Wikipedia).
The tune unlocked in this random event is named after Pinball Wizard, a song by The Who.
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| Current |
Beekeeper • Certers • Drill Demon • Evil Bob's Island • Freaky Forester • Frogs • Grab the Evil Twin • Leo the Gravedigger • Lost & Found office • Maze • Mime • Pillory • Pirate's Combination Lock • Pinball • Prison Pete • Quiz Master • Sandwich Lady • Surprise Exam! |
| Discontinued |
Big fish • Candlelight • Dr. Ford • Drunken Dwarf • Ent • Evil Chicken • Exploding rock • Jekyll and Hyde • Lost Pirate • Poison Gas • Rick Turpentine • Rock Golem • Security Guard • Shade • Strange plant • Swarm • Tangle Vine • Tree spirit • Watchman • Whirlpool • Zombie |
