Dealing with Scabaras quick guide

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Walkthrough

Start point	Speak with the High Priest of Sophanem
Member requirement	Members only
Official difficulty	Master
Official length	Long
Requirements	Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable. Quests: Dealing with Scabaras Contact! Icthlarin's Little Helper Diamond in the Rough Stolen Hearts Gertrude's Cat The Restless Ghost The Feud Zogre Flesh Eaters Big Chompy Bird Hunting Jungle Potion If Contact! was completed prior to the addition of Stolen Hearts and Diamond in the Rough, they must be completed before Dealing with Scabaras can be started. 21 Firemaking 50 Agility 60 Thieving 60 Strength Recommended: 60 Crafting 43 Prayer The higher your Agility, Thieving and Strength levels are above the required levels, the easier and shorter the quest becomes
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. Equipment and good food (Lobsters or better) to deal with several high level monsters (including a level 92) Ugthanki dung 10 gold artefacts from the Pyramid Plunder activity, the gold artefacts are tradeable and can be purchased from the Grand Exchange (Gold seal, golden scarab and golden statuette) 1 Pyramid top from the Agility Pyramid Random Bronze armours/weapons (See Task 2: Artefacts)
Recommended	Some Waterskins Rope (for use on an optional agility shortcut) 18 bronze bars (used to make the random items asked for in the quest) Coins for carpet rides 3-6 logs lightable at your Firemaking level minus 20 Antipoison (for the final dungeon). Ring of charos for cheaper carpet rides Keris to help damage scabarites and the Giant Scarab (level 92). Desert amulet 2 for unlimited teleports to Nardah.
Enemies to defeat	Giant scarab (level ) (possibly many times depending on luck and power allocation) Several Skeletons, Dried zombies, Scabarites, and Mummies

Running errands

• Talk to the High Priest in Sophanem. ( 1)…

  1	What news?

• Climb the ladder behind the prayer altar.
• Talk to Maisa. ( 1)…

  1	Why are you here?

• Talk to the High Priest.
• Go to the agility pyramid, take the rope shortcut in the south east corner.
  • If you haven't unlocked this shortcut, go south-east of the Sophanem gate, enter the swamp, and go north.
• Talk to the people by the campfire. Read their questions carefully and always round down. ( 1)…

  1	I've had dealings with his sort before; feel free to test me.

• Talk to them again for an empty crate.
• Talk to Simon Templeton at the agility pyramid. ( 1•1•1)…

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• Fetch the bronze items that are written in your quest guide.
• While standing in the desert, use Ugthanki dung on the bronze items.
• Use the bronze items on the crate, and give it to Simon.
• Retrieve the gold pyramid from the agility pyramid.
• Loot 10 golden items from the pyramid (or buy them).
• Talk to the archaeologists for a book.
• Kill undead creatures nearby until you get 4 different Scabarite notes. They should have different examine texts.
  • Zombies and Skeletons to the north.
  • Mummies to the west.
  • Locust Lancers in the swamp to the southeast.
• Copy the 4 notes to the log.
• Talk to the archaeologists.
• Run north and enter the northernmost dungeon.
• Remove the logs from the storage box.

A test of speed, skill and luck

• The next section is a race against time. Read it fully before continuing.
  • Stoke the furnace.
  • Talk to the golem. ( 3•4•1•2)…

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  • Relight the furnace.
  • Thieving room:
    • Click the runes to find matches of 3. You need to find all the matches. You have limited tries, but clicking the controls on the right hand side will increase your attempts. If you don't take notes of where the runes are you are doomed to fail.
  • Agility room:
    • Cross the pipe and pull the lever.

• • Strength room:
    • Pull the lever.
  • Combat room:
    • Kill the level 92 Giant scarab.
    • Pull the lever.
• Run to the High Priest of Scabaras using the map below. Disarm the traps along the way.
• Talk to the High Priest. ( 2•2)…

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• Defeat him.
• Talk to him again. ( 4•1)…

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• Defeat him.
• Talk to him once more. ( 4•2)…

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• Return to the High Priest in Sophanem.
• Quest complete!

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• 7,000 experience
• 7,000 experience
• 7,000 experience
• 7,000 experience
• The ability to craft an Enchanted water tiara - protects you from the Desert heat effect
  • To craft an enchanted tiara, use water runes on a normal water tiara (they will be stored inside the tiara); every time the player takes a 'drink', the total number of water runes stored in the tiara will decrease by three.
  • Destroy the enchanted tiara to get the normal water tiara and remaining water runes back—they will drop on the ground.
  • You can have only one enchanted water tiara at any given time.
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys and 2 Hearts of Ice
  

Additional rewards/activities

• Talk to Simon Templeton about the job he mentioned during the quest. He sends you to talk with the Pyramid Plunder mummy. After the mummy refuses, return to Simon. Simon will now accept noted pyramid treasures (from Pyramid Plunder), except golden ones, to exchange for money.
  • The dialogue for doing so: "Jokes aside, you've been a good sport. As a favour, from now on I'm willing to take bank certificates of any objects you get from that miserable mummy's pyramid plunder. Well, any but the gold ones, that is - you might [be?] tempted to fake stuff if theres profit involved, as we both know."
• Scabarites Notes miniquest
  

Music unlocked

• Copris Lunaris - In the Scarabite Dungeon
• Scarabaeoidea - Inside the room with the Scabaras High Priest
• Tune from the Dune - South of the Agility Pyramid, in the swampland