Requirements
- Completion of Priest in Peril
- Partial completion of The Restless Ghost
- 20 Crafting (boostable)
- 25 Thieving (boostable)
- Able to defeat a level 51 monster and run past level 72 monsters
QUEST 69 · MEMBERS
Creature of Fenkenstrain
Dr Fenkenstrain, master and sole occupant of the castle to the north-east of Canifis, needs a new servant to go on a dark errand for him. Do you have the stomach to help Fenkenstrain complete his twisted purpose?
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Length
- Medium
- Quest points
- 2
- Released
- 31 January 2005
Read the signpost in the middle of Canifis.
BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK
Preparation
Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.
Items required
- Ghostspeak amulet
- Silver bar
- 3 bronze wire (unnoted)
- Needle (costume needle does not work)
- 5 thread
- Spade
- 50 coins OR 1 law & 1 air rune for Telekinetic Grab (requires 33 Magic)
Recommended
- 30 Combat
- Combat equipment to defeat a level 51 Experiment
- Food and Holy symbol (protection against Feral Vampyres) for low combat levels
- Weight-reducing clothing and stamina or energy potions
- Fast travel to several locations
- Canifis to start the quest - Salve Graveyard Teleport or Kharyrll Teleport or fairy ring CKS
- Fenkenstrain's Castle (2 trips) - Fenkenstrain's Castle Teleport
- Quick access to a furnace:
- Ectophial or 2 ecto-tokens for access to the Port Phasmatys furnace
- Amulet of glory to Edgeville
Enemies to defeat
- Experiment (level 51) - can be safespotted or flinched
Ironman notes
- 4 Smithing (boostable) (to make a bronze wire)
ACTION CHECKLIST
Walkthrough
Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.
Walkthrough
- 01
Start the quest by reading the signpost in the centre of Canifis or by talking to Dr Fenkenstrain.
- 02
Take a pickled brain off the table in the tavern in Canifis for 50gp, or by using Telekinetic Grab.
- 03
Talk to Dr Fenkenstrain inside of Fenkenstrain's Castle. Dialogue: Yes. → Braindead → Grave-digging
- 04
Go upstairs by the eastern or western staircase to the bookcases and read:
- ↳
"The Joy Of Grave Digging" in the west bookcase. Dialogue: The Joy of Gravedigging
- ↳
"Handy Maggot Avoidance Techniques" in the east bookcase. Dialogue: Handy Maggot Avoidance Techniques
- ↳
Combine the marble amulet and obsidian amulet to form the star amulet.
- 05
Right-click dig at the cross-shaped grave marker in the Haunted Woods, south-east of Fenkenstrain's castle and immediately east of fairy ring ALQ.
- ↳
Be quick, the area is infested with vampyres. Take a holy symbol and food for low levels.
- 06
Combine the decapicated head and the pickled brain.
- 07
Head north out of the Haunted Woods and use your star amulet on the easternmost memorial (south-east of Fenkenstrain's castle).
- 08
Push the memorial to enter the Experiment Cave.
- 09
Inside, kill a level 51 Experiment for the cavern key. If you have started Rag and Bone Man II, kill additional Experiments (level 25) for the Experiment bone.
- 10
Follow the north-western path to the end.
- 11
Search the chest and climb the ladder.
- 12
Right-click Dig at the three graves to get the torso, arms and legs.
- 13
Return to Dr Fenkenstrain (Fenkenstrain's castle teleport) and give him the body parts. Dialogue: I have some body parts for you.
- 14
Talk to him again to give him the needle and thread.
- 15
Talk to the Gardener Ghost for the shed key (ensure ghostspeak amulet is equipped). Dialogue: Do you know where the key to the shed is?
- 16
Search the cupboard inside the shed to get a garden brush.
- 17
Take 3 canes from the pile of canes next to the shed
- 18
Use all the canes (3) on the garden brush to get an extended brush (using a total of 3 bronze wires).
- 19
Go upstairs to the western fireplace and use the extended brush on the fireplace for a conductor mould.
- 20
Go to a furnace (closest is in Port Phasmatys, teleport to Falador, fairy ring to Zanaris, amulet of glory to Al Kharid, or Home Teleport to Lumbridge) and smelt a silver bar into a conductor (lightning rod).
- 21
Return to the castle, go upstairs and then climb the southern ladder to reach the lightning conductor.
- 22
Repair the lightning conductor.
- 23
Return to Dr Fenkenstrain and talk to him.
- 24
Go upstairs, then through the metal door, then climb the northern ladder.
- 25
Talk to Fenkenstrain's monster.
- 26
Go downstairs, then pickpocket the doctor for the Ring of Charos.
- 27
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 1,000 Thieving Thieving experience
- The Ring of Charos, which allows access to the Werewolf Agility Course, and, when activated during Garden of Tranquillity, reduced cost to many transport links.
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