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Contents 1 Official description 2 Development team 3 Walkthrough 3.1 Pouletmorph-ism 3.2 Piranhas 3.3 Bones 3.4 Doors 3.4.1 Cheatsheet 3.5 Ernestly 4 Reward 5 Music unlocked 6 Required for completing 7 Transcription 8 Trivia

Official description

“

Veronica is very worried. Her fiancé went into the big spooky manor house to ask for directions. An hour later and he's still not out yet.

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Development team

• Developer: Paul Gower
• Conversion: James B
• QuestHelp: Nishal K
• Audio: Ian T

Walkthrough

Start point:	Veronica, south of Draynor Manor gates.
Member requirement:
Official difficulty:	Novice
Length:	Short (5 - 12 mins)
Requirements:	Be able to run away from or fight a level 16 skeleton.
Items required:	Items from the toolbelt do not need to be listed unless that version won't work, or aren't automatically added to it. None Toolbelt: Spade
Enemies to defeat:	None

Pouletmorph-ism

Talk to Veronica standing just outside the courtyard of the Draynor Manor. She wants you to find her fiancé, Ernest, who had gone to the manor an hour ago for help and has not come back yet.

Enter the manor and climb up the staircase and then the ladder to the west to reach the top floor. Talk to Professor Oddenstein, who will explain that Ernest was turned into a chicken, when he was helping on an experiment with his 'pouletmorph' machine. However, to change him back, the professor needs parts that were stolen and hidden by the poltergeists in the manor.

You need to help him find a pressure gauge, a rubber tube, and an oil can, in any order you wish.

Piranhas

To get the pressure gauge, you will need some fish food and poison. The fish food is found on the 1^st2^nd floor^[help], in the room behind the staircase in a blue box (Beware the level 36 ghost). To get the poison, you need to go to the small north-western room on the ground floor.

Once you have obtained both items, use the poison with the fish food to create some poisoned fish food. Go outside the manor through the east door and look for the fountain on the south-west corner of the garden. Use the poisoned fish food with the fountain to kill the piranhas and search the fountain to get the gauge.

Bones

From the fountain, head north and look for a compost heap; search it to obtain a grimy key. Return to inside the manor and go to the room behind the staircase.

Unlock the door to the room and a Skeleton (level 16) will attack you if you get within a square away from it. Take the rubber tube and leave the room, killing the skeleton if you wish.

Doors

Go to the western-most room on the ground floor. Search the candle sconce hanging on the wall to gain access to a secret room. Look for a ladder that leads downwards, and climb down into the basement. There will be doors and levers around you. Follow the steps given below to obtain the oil can.

Notes:

• Players can reset the levers by home teleporting and going back.
• It is not possible to use telekinetic grab to pick up the oil can.

Cheatsheet

All levers start in the "down" position.

1. Pull levers A, B up
2. Enter Door 1
3. Pull lever D up
4. Enter Doors 2 & 3
5. Pull levers A, B down
6. Enter Doors 3, 4 & 5
7. Pull levers E, F up
8. Enter Doors 6 & 7
9. Pull lever C up
10. Enter Doors 7 & 6
11. Pull lever E down
12. Enter Doors 6, 8 & 3

Finally, go through door 9. Grab the oil can and leave the basement. You must pull the lever to exit the room.

Ernestly

Go all the way up to the top floor and talk to Professor Oddenstein. Give him the items and he will fix his machine, which will turn Ernest back into a human.

Congratulations, quest complete!

Reward

• 4 quest points
• 3000 coins
• 10 eggs
• 300 feathers
• Access to the Killerwatt Plane (members-only)
• 2 extra spins on the Squeal of Fortune

Music unlocked

• Tiptoe

Required for completing

Completion of Ernest the Chicken is required for the following:

• Animal Magnetism

Transcription

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Trivia

• Upon completion of the quest the players adventurer's log will read: "It seems that Ernest became the subject of an unfortunate transformation. He's back to being henpecked by Veronica."

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