This quest has a quick guide, found here, which briefly summarises the steps needed to complete the quest.

Quiet Before the Swarm is the first of the three Void Knight quests.

Contents 1 Official description 2 Walkthrough 2.1 Starting 2.2 The accused 2.3 Inside Jessika's mind 2.3.1 Possible solutions 2.4 Arresting Jessika 2.5 Bridge and the sword 2.6 Ship positions 2.7 The Pests Attack 3 Rewards 4 Music unlocked 5 Required for completing 6 Trivia 7 See also

Official descriptionEdit

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The Void Knights fight tirelessly to contain the pest invasion and protect us all from a threat that could destroy all of RuneScape, but rumours of pest sightings on the mainland have reached the ears of the Temple Knights. Has a pest managed to slip past the Void Knights' defences?

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WalkthroughEdit

Start point:	Speak to Sir Tiffy in Falador Park
Member requirement:
Official difficulty:	Intermediate
Length:	Medium (Requires a lot of reading if you're interested in the storyline, and time spent on the puzzles may vary from person to person.)
Requirements:	Quests: Imp Catcher Wanted! 33 Quest Points Recruitment Drive Black Knights' Fortress Druidic Ritual Lost Tribe Goblin Diplomacy Priest in Peril Win/draw/lose one game of Pest Control 42 Strength 35 Attack Must have played in at least one game of Pest Control.
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 Recommended items: Explorer's ring 3 or a Void Knight familiar (with Call to Arms scrolls) Falador teleport runes (1 Law rune, 1 water rune, 3 air runes) or tablet or use the Lodestone Network
Enemies to defeat:	Torcher (level 45) with no food or prayer (out of body, you cannot die) Shifter (level 60) with no food or prayer (out of body, you cannot die)

StartingEdit

Speak to Sir Tiffy Cashien to start the quest. He will tell you that a Pest may have escaped the Void Knights' Outpost. His job for you is to interview the residents on the island to find out how it could have escaped. Go to the Void Knight Outpost and speak to Commodore Matthias. He can be found in the north-eastern part of the island. He will tell you to speak to Captain Tyr, just south of the house he resides.

Captain Tyr will ask you to speak with nine of the residents on this half of the island. The people you must speak with (not necessarily in order) are:

• Knight Ami
• Knight Diana
• Terry Gord
• Mrs Gord
• Knight Mikhal
• Mariah
• Knight Bernard
• Jessika
• Squire Sam

To tell which of the people you have already spoken with, view your quest journal.

NOTE: You don't actually have to speak with any of the people in this list for more than one question. Simply talking to them in the beginning, or asking one question followed by "That's all, thanks." will add them to the crossed out list in your quest journal. -- Only do this in this manner if you're uninterested in the storyline, as a LOT of conversation will be skipped as a result.

The accusedEdit

After you have spoken to them, return to Captain Tyr. Captain Tyr will then ask you to single out a person who you think has committed a crime. The person that committed the crime is Jessika, the researcher, and the only one who does not interact with the locals. Talk to Jessika and talk to her about the crimes she has committed. She will act suspicious and attempts to deny that you have proof.

Go back to Captain Tyr and he will tell you to return to Commodore Matthias. After talking to Commodore Matthias, he will call in for Jessika and you will be given a potion which will allow you to go into Jessika's mind.

Inside Jessika's mindEdit

In Jessika's mind, you will have to solve a relatively easy slider puzzle. The trick is to put it together from top to bottom. It is easy to see what piece goes where, since when it is completely put together, it forms a square around the picture of the pest. This is made rather simple by the fact that there is an outside border on each tile - the empty space should be in the middle at the end.

Note: If you need to restart, exit through the portal and repeat the cutscene of confronting Jessika

Possible solutionsEdit

The puzzle is a picture of a random monster, always a 3x3 puzzle.

Arresting JessikaEdit

After completing the puzzle, you learn Jessika really did release the Pest, and you inform the Void Knights about it. Jessika is arrested, and the Commodore calls a meeting of the highest ranked Knights. You are told to return to Sir Tiffy in Falador,

Sir Tiffy then returns with you to the Docks on Port Sarim. You find Commander Korasi in a stupor, and Sir Tiffy sends Savant to get Lady Table. Tiffy brings you back to Falador, and tells you you must bank all your items (including familiars and auras) before entering the HQ to see Korasi; bank your items, and return to Sir Tiffy, who will teleport you to the HQ.

Bridge and the sword Edit

This puzzle relates to the bridge and torch problem.

Note: Logging out during the following portion of the quest will result in you returning to Falador Park, in front of Sir Tiffy.

You find yourself inside a small room with Sir Tiffy and Commander Korasi. Talk to Commander Korasi, but she won't remember anything useful. However she still has some of the potion which you drink to enter her mind. You will find yourself inside a blue plane where you need to complete a puzzle to advance.

The objective of the puzzle is to get all three knights, as well as yourself, across the bridge. However, there are a few hitches. First of all, only two people can go across at a time. The second problem is that the person crossing must have the sword. The third problem is that each person weighs a different amount. The bridge can only handle the weight of 15. Your player weighs 1, Bernard weighs 2, Ami weighs 5, and Diana weighs 8. Lastly, only the heaviest weight is counted when you go across. So if Ami went with Diana, the total weight would only be 8. Here is a possible solution:

1. You cross with Bernard
2. You cross back (talk to the toll booth, send somebody across, you go across)
3. Ami and Diana cross
4. You let Bernard cross from the other side to you
5. You cross with Bernard

Doing it this way makes the equation for weight 2+1+8+2+2=15.

Ship positionsEdit

After completing the bridge puzzle, you will find yourself with the 5 knights who were on the ship: Commodore Matthias, Korasi, Diana, Bernard and Ami. Each of them holds a hint to where the other knights were, what they saw, and what they were thinking about. To complete this puzzle you must correctly match up each person with the hints given by the other knights.

You will know when you have completed the task, as when you fully complete the last NPC, the task will end.

The best way to solve such a riddle is to make a table, answer is below.

Name	Positions	Thinking About...	Saw
Commodore	At the helm	Jessika	Clouds
Korasi	In the hold	Promotion	The pest
Diana	Main Deck	Fighting	A seagull
Bernard	In the crow's nest	Lunch	Seaweed
Ami	In the rigging	Sister	Shark

The Pests Attack Edit

After finishing the second puzzle, you go into a cut-scene. You are Korasi, in the hold of the ship. Upon seeing a Torcher, attack it and kill it. After you finish killing it, proceed up the ladder onto the main deck. There you see the other three knights and a squire fighting pests, who are unfortunately killed by them.

A Shifter stops you in the path, forcing you to kill it in order to continue. After killing it, your character automatically goes up the ladder to find Commodore Matthias fighting a Mysterious Figure. Using the last of his energy, he teleports Korasi to Port Sarim which is where you find her. Once the cut-scene is over, talk to Sir Tiffy Cashien. He will tell you to talk to Captain Tyr (Now Commodore Tyr) at the Void Outpost. Travel back to the Void Outpost and speak to him.

Congratulations! Quest complete!

RewardsEdit

• 1 Quest point
• 4,000 Experience
• 4,900 Experience
• Void seal
• 2 extra spins on the Squeal of Fortune

Music unlockedEdit

• Mindful - inside Jessika's mind
• Void Knights' Theme - at the Temple Knights' HQ
• Lortnoc Tsep - during Korasi's memory

Required for completingEdit

Completion of Quiet Before the Swarm is required for the following:

• A Void Dance

TriviaEdit

• On the day of release, the spoiler read: We're currently delving into the developer's mind to help her remember what the rewards are. Back in a jiffy, what?
• The unlock hint of Lortnoc Tsep and Mindful used to say Calm Before The Swarm instead of Quiet Before the Swarm.
• When Korasi escorts Jessika out of the room during the cutscene, you can still see Korasi's robe at the top of the screen.
• It is easy to tell that Jessika is the culprit, because the new option after speaking to everyone once is "Confront about misdeeds" for the other eight NPCs but "Confront about a crime" for only Jessika.
• After completing this quest, your Adventurer's Log will read: Overcoming many challenges, I unlocked Korasi's memory and learned of the pest attack on the Void Knight ship.

• After solving the puzzle and returning to Void knight headquarters, Jessika will say, "I taught it, him, to remove himself from the hive mind." This is a reference to Star Trek: the Next Generation, and a Borg named Hugh.
• The music during the ending cutscene of Korasi's memory is not an unlockable piece of music.
• While in Jessika's mind, if one is holding a Faithful shield, the glowing particle effects will appear severely detached.
• While fighting on the ship in Korasi's memory, looking at the attack style menu her weapon will be listed as an adamant scimitar.
• Also, during Korasi's memory, you can go to the worn screen, where you will find she is wearing full adamant armour. Removing the armour and the scimitar has no visual effect, however, if the weapon is removed, Korasi will attack as though she is unarmed despite the visual appearance of her sword.
• Around 21 March 2012 The Adventurer's Log, when this quest was completed, showed that the quest Cabin Fever was completed, with the description of Quiet Before the Swarm. The same problem occurred with part 2 in this series A Void Dance. this bug has not yet been fixed as of 21 March 2012
• Quiet Before the Swarm is a reference to the idiom "quiet/calm Before the storm". This means that you know something bad is about to happen but it hasn't just yet, as is the case with the quest series.
• During the battle on the main deck of the ship, Bernard says "Never give up, never surrender" which is a reference to the movie Galaxy Quest.
• When in Korasi's mind, the Void Knight Spirit manning the Toll Booth still has the old black, diamond eyes, whereas the other Spirits have the new eyes.
• Whilst talking with Knight Bernard, he mentions his friends Sam hoarding cake and lying about it, a probable reference to the Portal games.

See alsoEdit

• Commander Korasi
• Commodore Matthias
• Captain Tyr
• Void Knights' Outpost
• Pest Control
• Void seal
• Korasi's sword
• A Void Dance
• The Void Stares Back

v • d • e Void Knights quest series
Main series	1. Quiet Before the Swarm 2. A Void Dance 3. The Void Stares Back
Related	Conquest • Pest Control • Imp Catcher • Wanted!

v • d • e Temple Knight series
Main series	1. Black Knights' Fortress 2. Recruitment Drive 3. Wanted!
Sea Slug quest series	Sea Slug • The Slug Menace • Kennith's Concerns • Salt in the Wound
Void Knights quest series	1. Quiet Before the Swarm 2. A Void Dance 3. The Void Stares Back
Mahjarrat quest series	Devious Minds • While Guthix Sleeps • Ritual of the Mahjarrat