4Requirements
- 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
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Before you start
Where to start
Talk to Veronica, south of Draynor Manor by the gate.
Items required
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
STEP BY STEP
Walkthrough
Follow the chapters below. Click any screenshot or diagram to view it at full size.
Ernest the missing
Talk to Veronica standing just outside the courtyard of the Draynor Manor. She wants you to find her fiancé, Ernest, who had gone to the manor an hour ago for directions and has not come back yet.
Enter the manor and climb up the staircase in the centre room. Then climb up the spiral stairs immediately west to find Professor Oddenstein. He will explain that Ernest was turned into a chicken when he was helping on an experiment with his 'pouletmorph' machine. However, to change him back, the professor needs parts that were stolen and hidden by the poltergeists in the manor.
You need to help him find a pressure gauge, a rubber tube, and an oil can in any order.
Pressure gauge
To get the pressure gauge, fish food and poison are required. Fish food is in a blue box, one is found on the 1st floor (UK) in the room directly south of the main staircase. Poison is in a green bottle, one is found on the ground floor (UK) in the small north-western room south of the kitchen.
Use the poison on the fish food to create poisoned fish food. Go to the south-eastern room (of the ground floor (UK)), grab the spade next to the door leading outside (respawn every 48s), if you do not already have one to get the rubber tube. Leave the manor by exiting the door in the south-eastern room, go to the south-western corner of the manor grounds to the fountain. Use the poisoned fish food on the fountain to kill the piranhas then search the fountain to get the pressure gauge.
Rubber tube
On the west side of the grounds look for a compost heap, north of the belladonna special patch near a patch of cabbages. Search the compost heap, requiring a spade and you will get a key. Go back into the manor through the front door then go through the door to the room behind the stairs containing the aggressive skeleton and take the rubber tube. The skeleton will attack you, so if you are a low level it is recommended to get the tube and leave as quickly as possible.
Oil can
Go to the western room on the ground floor (UK), search the bookcase on the western side on the wall to gain access to a secret room. Go down the ladder into the basement where there will be doors and levers around you. It is not possible to use Telekinetic Grab to pick up the oil can.
Note: The levers can be reset by leaving the room and returning.
Follow the steps given below to obtain the oil can:
- Pull levers B then A down.
- Enter door 1.
- Pull lever D down.
- Enter doors 2, then 3.
- 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.
Transmogrification
Leave the basement and leave the secret room by pulling the lever on the eastern wall.
Finally, go back to the top floor and talk to Professor Oddenstein. Give him the items, he will fix his machine which turns Ernest back into a human.
- Note: You are still required to leave the manor through the back doors.
Congratulations, quest complete!
Quick checklist 32 instructions
Use this when you already know the route. The full walkthrough above includes explanations and diagrams.
Walkthrough
Talk to Veronica.
Say: Aha, sounds like a quest. I'll help.
Enter the manor.
Pick up poison from the room south of the kitchen, on the west side of the ground floor.
Pick up the fish food on the first floor, in the room south of the stairs containing the ghost.
Use the fish food on the poison to make poisoned fish food.
Search the bookcase on the western ground floor.
Climb down the ladder and complete the lever puzzle.
Pull levers B then A down.
Enter door 1.
Pull lever D down.
Enter door 1.
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.
Go up the ladder and pull the lever.
Pick up the spade in the far eastern room on the ground floor.
Exit out the back door in the same room.
Go north around the back of the manor to the west to the compost heap.
Search the compost heap to get a key.
Go south and use the poisoned fish food on the fountain in the south-west corner of the grounds.
Search the poisoned fountain to retrieve a pressure gauge.
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.
Climb up the stairs, then climb up the spiral staircase to the west.
Talk to Professor Oddenstein.
Say: I'm looking for a guy called Ernest. → Change him back this instant!
Talk to him again to give him the items.
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 300 Coins
- Access to the Killerwatt Plane (Members only)
OSRS WIKI CONTRIBUTORS
Sources & credits
Walkthrough text and preparation lists are adapted from Old School RuneScape Wiki contributors under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Game imagery © Jagex Ltd; individual image sources are linked in their captions. This page is fan-made and not affiliated with Jagex.
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