The Slug Menace/Quick guide

This is the quick guide for The Slug Menace. For a more in-depth version, click here.

Walkthrough

Start point	Talk to Sir Tiffy Cashien in Falador park.
Member requirement	Members only
Official difficulty	Intermediate
Official length	Medium to Long
Requirements	Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable. Quests: The Slug Menace Sea Slug Wanted! 33 quest points Recruitment Drive The Lost Tribe Goblin Diplomacy Priest in Peril 30 Crafting 30 Runecrafting 30 Slayer 30 Thieving Ability to defeat a level 51 enemy with melee.
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. Swamp paste At least 5 rune essence or pure essence (the essence can break during the quest, so to be safe, bring 10-15 or a wicked hood) Either an earth, water, fire, air and mind talisman, an elemental and mind talisman, an omni-talisman, or their equivalent tiaras, or access to the Abyss. A wicked hood charged with any of these combinations will also work. Alternative to talismans: play the Great Orb Project activity to get to the altars (50 required)
Recommended	An amulet of glory with at least one charge Melee equipment to kill a level 51 monster Activated lodestones in Ardougne and Falador Essence pouches can carry runes for you if you have completed the Abyss miniquest A traveller's necklace
Enemies to defeat	Slug Prince (level 51), who drains prayer by several points with each attack and is immune to ranged or magic-based attacks

Witchaven weirdness

• Talk to Sir Tiffy Cashien in Falador park. ( 1•✓•3)…

  1	The Slug Menace.
  ✓	[Accept Quest]
  3	Goodbye.

• Talk to Col. O'Niall on the pier in Witchaven (fairy ring BLR and run south). ( 3•4)…

  3	Who are the important people in Witchaven?
  4	That's enough for now.

• Talk to Mayor Hobb in the western building just south of Caroline. ( ~•2•4)…

  ~	[Any option]
  2	What improvements are you making to the shrine?
  4	Nothing at the moment thanks.

• Talk to Brother Maledict in the church. ( 4)…

  4	That's enough for now.

• Talk to Holgart to the north.
• Report back to Col. O'Niall. ( 4)…

  4	That's enough for now.

Imposing door

• Climb-down the old ruin entrance west of Witchaven.
• Push the wall to your immediate east.
• Run through the cave until you reach an imposing door and attempt to open the door.
  • Take the agility shortcut near the entrance which requires level 30 Agility.
• Savant will contact you.
• Scan with the commorb.
• Pick up the dead sea slug.
• Talk to Jorral in the small outpost, north-west of West Ardougne. ( 2)…

  2	Translations

• Savant will contact you straight after.
• Return to Col. O'Niall in Witchaven.
• Talk to Brother Maledict in the church.

Page pieces

The completed puzzle

• Search the Mayor's desk.
• Talk to Ezekial Lovecraft in the fishing shop. ( 4)…

  4	You are a bit too strange for me. Bye.

• Talk to Col. O'Niall.
• Try to use the swamp paste on the fragments.
• Talk to Jeb to reach the fishing platform.
• Talk to Bailey, west.
• Use the glue on the fragments.
• Use the image to solve the puzzle, there are 2 sides to the pieces so you might need to flip some.
• Talk to Jeb to go back. ( 2)…

  2	Okay, let's go back.

Shaped runes

• With essence in your inventory, right click the papers to create 5 shapes.
• Use the blank shapes on their respective runecrafting altars:
  • You can use the wicked hood to quickly teleport to the respective altars.
  • You need to enter the mysterious ruins of each altar, and use the rune on the altar.
  • Using spell book teleports will use the runes you have created.

Altar	Location
Air	West of Varrock
Earth	South of the Sawmill
Mind	East of Goblin Village
Fire	West of the Duel Arena
Water	In western Lumbridge Swamp

Final fight

Items needed: The runes you created, melee equipment, Commorb v2

• Climb down the old ruins in Witchaven, then enter the wall opening to your immediate east.
• Follow the path to the imposing door again.
• Use the runes on the door.
• Kill the slug prince with your melee weapon.
• Talk to Sir Tiffy. ( 1)…

  1	The Slug Menace.

• Quest complete!

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• 3,500 experience
• 3,500 experience
• 3,500 experience
• Promotion to Proselyte among the Temple Knights. This means you can buy and wear new Temple Knight armour with a greater Defence bonus than Initiate. You can buy each piece individually, or buy the armour pack which, when opened, gives you the plate, helm, and legs/skirt all at once. The pack is worth 25,000 coins.
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys and 2 Hearts of Ice
  

Music unlocked

• Slug a Bug Ball