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Contents 1 Non-members' quests 1.1 Black Knights' Fortress 1.2 Demon Slayer 1.3 Dragon Slayer 1.4 Pirate's Treasure 1.5 Shield of Arrav 2 Members' Quest 2.1 Another Slice of H.A.M. 2.2 As a First Resort... 2.3 Back to my Roots 2.4 Between a Rock... 2.5 Catapult Construction 2.6 Regicide 2.7 Dealing with Scabaras 2.8 Monkey Madness 2.9 Grim Tales 2.10 The Fremennik Isles 2.11 Death to the Dorgeshuun 2.12 Kennith's Concerns 2.13 Enlightened Journey 2.14 Meeting History

[edit] Non-members' quests

[edit] Black Knights' Fortress

• The quest point requirement was added to discourage players from creating new accounts to do the quest and transfer the 2500 coins to their main characters. At the time the quest was first released, 2,500 coins was considered very valuable.
• At first, the quest gave around 250 Thieving experience as a reward. Thieving was in the skill menu at the time, but had not been programmed yet. The skill was later removed and added back in 2002, but the quest no longer gives Thieving experience.
• When you ask Sir Amik Varze for your quest, he will tell you: "Your Mission, if you decide to accept it", and when he gives you the dossier it self-destructs, references to the TV series Mission: Impossible.

[edit] Demon Slayer

Denath appears briefly in a cutscene during this Quest. When he sees you with Silverlight, he mumbles that he shouldn't be there and flees.

[edit] Dragon Slayer

• In RuneScape Classic, Telekinetic Grab was the only way to complete the quest after some quest items were made nontradeable. Players with level 1 magic who can wear the rune platebody (called "pure plate pkers") are very rare, if they still exist.

• Before the Crandor isle update, there were no cut-scenes of Elvarg at all. The dragon never set fire to the ship, but rather, the captain who sailed it said he made a "Wrong turn". Strangely enough, there is no mention of the cabin boy after you sail out to Crandor. Also, as soon as you kill Elvarg the dragon, she simply dies, you do not behead the dragon, and the quest was formerly complete after the dragon was slain.

[edit] Pirate's Treasure

When the quest was first released, Karamja rum was tradable and the bottles would not break if players tried to teleport. Some players simply bought a whole load of rum and sold it to players doing the quest, allowing them to skip a large part of it. When this was posted on fan forums, a Jagex developer saw it and the problem was soon corrected.

[edit] Shield of Arrav

• Originally , when a player and the player's partner both collected their half of the shield, one of them had to give his half to the other so he could make it a whole shield by using the two parts on each other and give the whole shield to the museum to receive both the certificates. This wasn't very safe because quite often the person who received the certificates didn't give one of the certificates to the other but instead he would sell it for a high price to other players. The problem was solved after several complaints.

[edit] Members' Quest

[edit] Another Slice of H.A.M.

• Sigmund ties Zanik to a railway track. This is a classic scenario from old silent films and cartoons, such as The Perils of Pauline and Charlie Chaplin films from the 1920s (hence the music in this scene: Slice of Silent Movie).
• The quest page had a different spoiler message on the first day of release. Instead of the usual message it said "Stop! H.A.M. time! No spoilers for you, this day." This refers to "Stop! (one-beat pause) Hammertime!" from the song "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer.

[edit] As a First Resort...

• On the first day of release, when a player clicked to see spoilers it said "The ogresses' customer relations has not yet incorporated this information into their incentivised pre-warning development plans. Please return when they have re-envisioned their interfacing and fed back to us."
• While talking to the Chef, you refer to the common misconception that your thumb is not a finger. (The thumb is considered one of the 5 fingers.)
• This quest has many Australian references in it, such as Eucalyptus logs, and unlocking platypi (plural of Platypus) as a pet after the quest.
• Balnea's name probably has something to do with balneology - one of the most common spa methods. Baleum means Bath in Latin, which there are 6 of in Oo'glog.
• The Davy kebbit hat, which can be unlocked by talking to Frawd and asking her to make one from a diseased kebbit pelt, is a reference to a Davy Crockett hat, or better known as a Coonskin cap.
• When the ogre calls another creature stupid, the player mentions something about pots and kettles which refers to the idiom Pot calling the kettle black.

[edit] Back to my Roots

• On the first day of release if players clicked to see the spoilers they received the message, "Good quest spoilers need time to take root. Come back when they're in season."

• When speaking to Garth about preserving the vine root, he will mention Wizard Cromperty is a "wonderful wizard", and then he and your character will take turns saying "because" a few times. This is a reference to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

• When speaking with Horacio at the start of the quest the player will say that he will be "off to see the wizard". This is another Wizard of Oz reference.

• This quest has 72 Woodcutting as a requirement, which makes it have the highest skill requirement in any quest, surpassing Grim Tales's requirement of 71 Woodcutting.

• This quest also gives 40 000 Woodcutting experience as a reward, also breaking a record in quest experience given in a single skill as a reward. The previous record holder was Monkey Madness, which gave 35 000 experience in 2 combat skills of the player's choice.

• Players must have all required skill levels to start quest; temporary skill boosts will not help.

• The quest's Master status is probably due to the high skill level requirements to start the quest. The quest itself is fairly short and the greatest challenge seems to be the vine maze.

• After burying Clarence in the miniquest, the Robe Store Owner says "...he was...a member of a society within the Guild called the New Order Occult Bookists..." Their acronym would be NOOB! If you enter the God Wars Dungeon you will see a frozen person that looks vaguely wizardish. By the frozen man engraved in the ground is the word NOOB. Coincidence?

• After opening the R.P.D.T. smelly package to find the hand, Wizard Cromperty later refers to the player as a handy person.

• After being told by Wizard Cromperty to get a pot lid, player says: Sure, some people make pottery to urn a living, but not me: I just run errands for potty wizards... Urn, a type of pot, is used instead of earn as a homophone. Also the term 'potty wizards' could be a reference to harry potter.

• Horacio states about the Jade Vine: If you let this species get wild by leaving it unpruned, it will attack anything. Some closely related species that can pop up pretty much anywhere has a large purple fruit, you've probably seen it. See Strange plant.

• During the burial of Clarence, one of the wizards says "one foot in the grave" a reference to the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave, the player replies with a pun "footing the bill," another says "rest in pieces" yet more examples of Jagex's humour.

• When talking to Zavistic Rarve after handing him Clarence's body bits, he offers to teleport you to Sandy's house on the island of Karamja, he jokingly says "click your heels together three times", then he says "only joking it sometimes fools them, only the other day a girl came along she clicked her heels three times and it actually worked." This is yet again a reference to Dorothy and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

[edit] Between a Rock...

After the quests, you may attempt to make an offer to buy Dondakan's Granite boots, but no matter how much you offer, he will never sell them.

[edit] Catapult Construction

• Instead of wearing a sailor's hat to get the metal parts from the drunk dwarf, you can wear a tricorn hat, obtained from Trouble Brewing.
• On the first day of release, if players clicked to see the spoilers, they received the message, "Alas, it seems the Tyras guard looking after the reward list has misplaced it. Check back tomorrow."
• On the day of release of the quest, all servers failed due to unknown reason, and the forum post rate went up to more than 1000 posts per second.
• After the server crashes, some people got "404 error" when they tried to get onto a server log-in screen.
• It is the first quest in the Elf Lands not directly related to the Plague City series.
• When examining the drunken sailor outside the Port Sarim inn, it says, 'shave his belly with a rusty razor!', referring to the classic song, 'What do we do with a drunken sailor'.

[edit] Regicide

• The name of the author of the Big Book O' Bangs is "Mel Achy", an anagram of "Alchemy".

[edit] Dealing with Scabaras

• The lead archeologist remarks on how she would not want to 'have a ghastly death marked on a makeshift grave', refering back to the recent update of gravestones.
• When the quest first came out the spoiler said that:

'Alas, the scarabs have eaten the scroll with the rewards. You'll have to wait until tomorrow for us to find the spare.'

• There was a mistake for the level entry where it said you need a Agility level higher on the main website, but in the quest journal it was 5 levels lower.
• Originally there was a mistake on the website saying that you now had access to a new slayer monster.

[edit] Monkey Madness

• If you talk to Zeke, the scimitar seller of Al Kharid, and ask him for a Dragon scimitar, he will respond, "The banana-brained nitwits who make them would never sell any to me. Seriously, you'll be a monkey's uncle before you hold a Dragon Scimitar." Obviously this is a reference to this quest, since you are required to pretend to be a Monkey Child's Uncle to obtain a Monkey talisman.

• The 35 000 combat experience you get twice for completing the quest was the most experience in a single skill given as a quest reward until Back to my Roots was released.

• Originally, G.L.O. Caranock said the word damn in his dialogue. This was later removed. An incident similar to this occurred in the The Fremennik Isles quest.

[edit] Grim Tales

• The entire quest, including the name, is a reference to the well known Grimm's Fairy Tales. A few tales are referenced throughout the quest such as getting a feather from a griffin by telling stories, climbing Rupert's beard (a parody of Rapunzel) and climbing a magic beanstalk for a golden reward.
• On the first day of release when you clicked to see the rewards you got the message, "Spoilers are only given on the day of release in fairy tales."
• After the player names the gnome in the story with Grimgnash, Grimgnash gets upset. He claims "You shouldn't name food! If Human had a carrot, would Human call it Jasper?" This is a reference to the British Comedian Jasper Carrot.
• The silent q in the princess' name (Miazrqa) is a reference to the book shop sketch by Monty Python.
• When trying to pronounce the princess' name, your character says "...Marzipan?" - a reference to either a character in the online comic Homestar Runner or the sugar and almond confection that she's named after.
• Glod, the quest's final boss, resembles The Hulk in many ways. Both are bare-chested, both have discoloured skin, both have a similar face and hairstyle, and Glod even yells "GLOD SMASH!", just like the Hulk.
• Glod may possibly be named after characters in Norse mythology, Glut, who was a particularly evil giant, and Hod, the god who guarded the Bifrost Bridge, who is similar in build to Glod.
• The shrinking potion is a reference to Alice in Wonderland.
• If you take the 'd' off the end of Rupert the beard, you're left with Rupert The Bear, a once popular fictional charcter Rubert Bear. And the name of Stewie Griffin's teddy bear (from Family Guy)
• This quest had the highest skill level requirement of any other quest, with Woodcutting at level 71. The release of Back To My Roots surpassed this record by having a 72 Woodcutting requirement.
• When a player is in the mouse hole, if he/she kills a mouse, the mouses drops (bones, coins, and cheese) will be larger then normal. If the player pick them up, they will appear as "normal" in the player's inventory.

[edit] The Fremennik Isles

• The window tax may sound somewhat ridiculous, but it is the origin of the real-life phrase "daylight robbery"; people claimed that to tax windows would be equivalent to stealing daylight from people's homes.
• The beard tax of 1698 is the best known of a series of measures enacted by Tsar Peter I to transform and regulate the appearance of his subjects.
• The window tax was a British glass tax during 1696-1851.
• Neitiznot is a German/English mixture for "No it's not" or "Nay, 'tis not".
• Jatizso is German/English mixture for "Ya 'tis so" or "Yes it is"
• The choice of password to give to Slug, Colorless green ideas sleep furiously, is a reference to that sentence devised by linguist Noam Chomsky.
• The password "free stuff please" used to talk with Slug Hemligssen may have been used.
• The watchtowers between the two islands have a surprise cut scene, which should give the guards a permanent ban from the game. The guards are yelling insults to each other which are quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. "Your mother was a hamster. ... And your father smelled of winterberries."
  • The Jatizso guard also shouts "Our king's better than your burgher." This is a reference to the fast-food chain Burger King.
• When the quest was introduced, if players lost the jester outfit, they were unable to get another. This bug was later fixed.
• When the quest was introduced, the troll cave where a player needed to kill 10 trolls was a easier place to get drops as the NPCs were helping to lower troll's HPs. This area was later closed. The west entrance remains open for the other cave areas.
• The Helm of Neitiznot quest reward initially was nontradeable. This was changed after a complaints from PK-ers on the RS forums.
• The Ice Trolls used to have fairly decent drops. The rune items (kite and warhammer) are the few remaining items that players with high level smithing can sell in modest volume. Their complaints resulted in a significant downgrade of the drop list from Ice Trolls.
• Bring an Amulet of Catspeak if you want to hear what the king's cat is saying.
• Morten Holdstrom (near main gate to Neitiznot) eats surströmming, a Swedish delicacy consisting of fermented Baltic herring
• In the music 'Norse Code' (playing while in Jatizso), the high pitch flute plays the Morse code letters for 'RuneScape'. The short notes are the dits and the long notes are the dahs: dit-dah-dit R, dit-dit-dah U, dah-dit N, dit E, dit-dit-dit S, dah-dit-dah-dit C, dit-dah A, dit-dah-dah-dit P, dit E.
• The NPC in Jatizso named "Keepa Kettilon" is a play on words for "Keep the kettle on". Suprisingly, Keepa is also a chef.
• When the quest was first released, one of the NPCs used the word damn, which Jagex considers offensive. It was later changed to blasted. A similar situation occured in the Monkey Madness quest.
• Several of the quest's NPCs (in particular the ones on Jatizo) are copies from the NPCs of Fremennik Trials. eg, 'Hring Hring' the armour salesman is a copy of Sigli the huntsman and Mord Gunnars is a copy of Sailor who takes you to Miscellania.
• Some of the quest is similar to the epic Scandinavian story Beowulf, as you have to cut off the head of the Troll King in the quest, but in the story Beowulf had to cut off the head of the monster Grendel and its mother.

[edit] Death to the Dorgeshuun

• Towards the end of the quest, where the player and Zanik are fighting Sigmund, if you examine Zanik, it would say "She's kicking HAM ass." This has been changed to "A goblin fighting for her tribe", as Jagex finds this offensive.

[edit] Kennith's Concerns

• On the first day of release if players clicked to see the spoilers they received the message, "There are no spoilers for you here. Come back later, when 'the work' is finished."
• At the end of the quest Kennith says "The Queen is coming for you!". This is a hint for the next quest in the series.
• In the end, Ezekial Lovecraft says "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you". This is obviously a movie pun.

[edit] Enlightened Journey

• The quest gives some references to the Star Trek series. The collar of Auguste looks like the one of a Star Trek: The Next Generation uniform with the rank of a commander. He also looks a bit like Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

[edit] Meeting History

• If you examine the Portal of Life during Roger's cut scene, it will read, "There's cake through here, apparently." This is an obvious reference to Portal.