Another couple of months passed, and summer break came to an end. I had gotten tons of work done during the summer. By September 2006, I was level 86, with a total level of 1893. I had Tons of different kinds of armor, but every day I looked at the Party Hat sitting in my inventory. I even thought about dropping it, but I quickly changed my mind. I had about 50 million of hard earned cash, pretty much enough to buy anything but rares in the game.
Then one day, actually September 28th, someone hacked into Jagex's server and duplicated party hats out of control. Prices dropped down to 50k or less for Blue Party Hats, and I bought about 5 sets of them, only costing me about 2 million. A week passed, and with enough party Hats for everyone, so prices dropped down to an average of 500 coins, and it didn't matter what color.
The next day, I was reading the forums, when I came upon a post in the "general" forum. It was by a Jagex Mod, explaining that they got their server back, and they were going to delete all the duplicated party hats on Halloween, about three weeks away. I read this post, praying that my original party hat would not be deleted. I posted this message,
"If I had an original Party Hat (which I don't) would it be deleted as well?"
I was answered right away by a message saying that no, original Party Hats would not be deleted, as the duplicates had a different Java code. I let out a sigh of relief, as my Anti-Virus software made me jump. Someone saw my post and tried to hack my computer, again, but the software caught the viruses.
I looked at my 5 sets, and felt saddened. Now I couldn't wear any and be safe, Lately I had enjoyed wearing the hats 24/7, even when combat training. If I lost 1, I could just go back to the bank and grab another. It was awesome.