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The Party Room is a building in north-east Falador. This room is used to host drop parties where items, regardless of value, can be indirectly given to other players. These items drop randomly from party balloons, which players have to pop, in order for the items to appear on the ground.

When the King's Ransom quest was released, the Party Room was moved from Seers' Village to Falador. After the move, it became available to non-members, and is one of the few improvements of the free version of RuneScape. As of 17 March 2009, the party room only functions in special worlds (102, 103, 131 and 152) with "Party Room" as their official activity. Jagex has justified this change as a way of further combating Real world trading.

Features

Party Pete

Main article: Party Pete

The owner of the Party Room, Party Pete is a fun-loving character, and one of the few characters in RuneScape who wears a party hat. Although he wears a party hat, it is generally thought that this is because of his name and role, not his wealth. He will dance, chat, and count down until the release of the party balloons. He will also remove 'cheap' items from the Party Chest. He also sells Afroes.

Dancing Knights

Main article: Dancing Knights

Dancing knights of the Party Room.

Pulling the lever near the Party Chest will give a player the option of summoning the 6 dancing knights for 500 coins. The knights will dance on the tabletop, singing a song in parody of a similar scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Examine: You'd need a tin opener to get him out.

Talk-to knight: "He's too busy to talk!"

Party Chest

Two players in the Party Room, with many balloons.

Players can donate items to the Party Chest, but cannot withdraw them again. Items that cannot be dropped or traded may not be put into the chest. Pulling the lever next to the chest for 1000 coins will cause balloons to float down around the Hall. Popping these balloons may yield an item from the Chest. If stacked or noted items are put into the chest, they do not necessarily have to appear in the same balloon. As an example, twenty noted lobsters put into the chest can appear in four different balloons, with random amounts in each whose sum is twenty. This feature, and the bar upstairs, makes the Party Hall a popular place for drop parties.

On occasion, Party Pete will check the chest for "junk" and take it out, so be sure to use discretion when putting items in the chest.

Note: Gnomeballs may be deposited, even though they cannot be bought on the Grand Exchange.

Bar

The bar upstairs serves several kinds of ale. You can also dance with the barmaids.

Postie Pete

Bankers counting down to the next big drop.

Party Pete telling players of a drop party that is worth over 100 million coins.

Postie Pete frequently visits the Party Hall. Players can converse with him one at a time.

Party announcements

After an update in late 2007, certain NPCs would announce that a party was about to take place. According to Jagex, this was to stop players from making covert trades (especially real trades) by attracting lots of people into the room to take the items. The party advertisement varies depending on the value of the items in the chest:

• 0-50,000 No advertisement. Ten second delay between pulling the lever and the balloons dropping.
• 50,000-150,000 Falador Bankers and Party Room barmaids advertise. One minute delay.
• 150,000-1,000,000 Falador men, women, bankers and Party Room barmaids advertise. Five minute delay.
• 1,000,000 or more Falador men, women, and Party Room barmaids advertise. Also, nearly every banker in RuneScape will advertise and offer free teleports to the Party Room. Ten minute delay.

The NPCs in Falador, such as the bank staff and the guards, react with excitement when a party is in progress. One of the phrases said refers to "high value items", but it is hard to tell if that is true.

The NPC chat only appears on the main screen, not in the chat box.

Falador achievement diary

Talking to Party Pete is one of the easy tasks in the Falador diary.

Criticisms

• Many people criticised that the fact that they can receive random events while in the party room. If the player receive a random event in a crowded room, they may get teleported away and receive something less valuable if anything.
• It has been discussed on the forums, that players should not be able to make fires or summon familiars inside the room, as many players accidentally pick up the ashes from fires or click on the summoned familiars instead of clicking on the balloons.
• People criticise the fact anything can be put in the party chest, therefore many people put more useless items in than valuable items. There are also "party crashing" clans that gather useless items to fill treasure chests.
• People also criticise how people always close the chest when other players try to see what is being dropped in the chest.
• Another criticism is that players may set free lots of toys (toy dolls, toy soldiers, etc) so that players might accidentally click one instead of a balloon.

Trivia

• During the RS2 beta, there was originally a glitch which allowed players to duplicate any item by depositing a greater amount than they had into the chest and then withdrawing it. In this way, many players made millions by duplicating rune platebodies and dragon medium helmets.
• Players were able to close the door in the Party Room until sometime in April 2008. This was changed because of door spamming.
• The party room was built in response to the large popularity of "drop parties". Many players were complaining about how people would cheat by just telegrabbing the item and making it impossible for other players to get anything. When built, it was just an empty building in which the telekinetic grab was disabled. When the game was updated to RS2, the building became quite a bit more structured, adding the chest, lever, and bar. The telegrab still will not work inside the party room, however.
• After-parties commonly follow a drop party, which consist of items players obtained from the first drop party that they re-deposited.
• The Falador Party Room is one of the few areas where players cannot attack each other in PvP worlds.
• Some players who quit RuneScape would buy millions of needles from Crafting stores at one coin each and then put them in the Party Room. This caused many players to come to the party room in hopes of getting an item worth a large amount of coins, because the bankers and other non-player characters will say how much coins' worth of items is being dropped in the Party Room, but will not distinguish between an item such as a Dragon chainbody and 5,100,000 needles. It is no longer feasible as shops do not carry unlimited stock.
• On 22 August 2009, a glitch caused the lever in the Party Room to disappear.
• When activated the dancing knights will use the old dance emote.
• If a large amount of an item which is regarded as hard to sell is put in the chest, the items may still be in drops several days later, with players constantly re-adding them.

Images

Items in the chest.	Falador before Kings ransom update.	An example of how busy it can be at the Party Room.	A very expensive drop in the Party Room.
A glitch in the Party Room.	The Falador Party Room.	Elemental runes and Catalytic runes somehow wind up in the Party Room.	Someone gliched onto the falador party room table.
The Party room lever is missing.

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