Requirements
- The ability to defend from a level 22 Skeleton.
QUEST 7 · FREE-TO-PLAY
Ernest the Chicken
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.
- Difficulty
- Novice
- Length
- Very Short
- Quest points
- 4
- Released
- 21 January 2001
Talk to Veronica, south of Draynor Manor by the gate.
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
- Spade (obtainable during the quest)
- Fish food (obtainable during the quest)
- Poison (obtainable during the quest)
Recommended
- (Members only) Fast travel to Draynor Manor (Draynor Manor Teleport or amulet of glory)
- Food (If lower hp a lvl 22 skeleton and dead trees attack you)
Enemies to defeat
None listed.
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
Talk to Veronica. Dialogue: Aha, sounds like a quest. I'll help.
- 02
Enter the manor.
- 03
Pick up poison from the room south of the kitchen, on the west side of the ground floor.
- 04
Pick up the fish food on the first floor, in the room south of the stairs containing the ghost.
- 05
Use the fish food on the poison to make poisoned fish food.
- 06
Search the bookcase on the western ground floor.
- 07
Climb down the ladder and complete the lever puzzle.
- ↳
Pull levers B then A down.
- ↳
Enter door 1.
- ↳
Pull lever D down.
- ↳
Pull levers B, then A up.
- ↳
Enter doors 3, 4, and 5.
- ↳
Pull levers E, then F down.
- ↳
Enter doors 6 and 7.
- ↳
Pull lever C down.
- ↳
Enter doors 7 and 6.
- ↳
Pull lever E up.
- ↳
Enter doors 6, 8, and 3.
- ↳
Go through door 9 and grab the oil can.
- 08
Go up the ladder and pull the lever.
- 09
Pick up the spade in the far eastern room on the ground floor.
- 10
Exit out the back door in the same room.
- 11
Go north around the back of the manor to the west to the compost heap.
- 12
Search the compost heap to get a key.
- 13
Go south and use the poisoned fish food on the fountain in the south-west corner of the grounds.
- 14
Search the poisoned fountain to retrieve a pressure gauge.
- 15
Return to the manor and pick up the rubber tube in the room north of the stairs on the ground floor containing an aggressive skeleton.
- 16
Climb up the stairs, then climb up the spiral staircase to the west.
- 17
Talk to Professor Oddenstein. Dialogue: I'm looking for a guy called Ernest. → Change him back this instant!
- 18
Talk to him again to give him the items.
- 19
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 300 Coins
- Access to the Killerwatt Plane (Members only)
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
Verify the guide after updates.
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- Ernest the Chicken ↗full guide · revision 15316578
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