QUEST 92 · MEMBERS

Making History

A secluded outpost has served the City of Ardougne for generations, playing stage to many exceptional events. Its current occupant wants to employ your skills to construct its true history before time runs out and history itself is wiped away!

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Difficulty
Intermediate
Length
Short
Quest points
3
Released
22 November 2005
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Before you start

Where to start

Talk to Jorral in the outpost north-west of West Ardougne.

Recommended

Enemies to defeat

None

STEP BY STEP

Walkthrough

Follow the chapters below. Click any screenshot or diagram to view it at full size.

Before you begin

Outpost location Open interactive map ↗Map data and tiles: OSRS Wiki · Game imagery © Jagex Ltd

Talk to Jorral in the outpost just north-west of West Ardougne and directly south of the Tree Gnome Stronghold. In order to save the outpost from King Lathas, the player will need to talk to Erin the silver merchant, Droalak the ghost, and Dron the warrior. They can be visited in any order, and the player does not need to revisit Jorral until they've met all characters. Before all of this, Jorral takes you into a cutscene.

The Outpost
The jingle that plays while Jorral talks about the outpost.

Note: If the door is open when talking to Jorral, occasionally an aggressive hobgoblin can attack you during the cutscene, which will cancel the dialogue afterwards and force you to watch the cutscene again.

Erin the silver merchant

Items needed: Spade.
The location to dig for the chest. Open interactive map ↗Map data and tiles: OSRS Wiki · Game imagery © Jagex Ltd

Note: Erin won't talk to you if you've recently stolen from his stall.

Talk to Erin, the Silver merchant, in East Ardougne. He is at the north-western stall in the central market. He will tell you about his great grandfather, and that he has an Enchanted key. Ask him if you can borrow it and he will agree. The key changes temperature as you walk.

Travel to Castle Wars and cross both northern bridges, until you are around 4 steps north from the east side of the second bridge. As soon as you feel that the enchanted key is steaming, take out your spade and dig to find a chest. Use the enchanted key to open it and you will find a Journal.

Note: The enchanted key is used in The Enchanted Key miniquest to find and claim hidden treasures, but the miniquest cannot be started until this quest is complete. Depending on your stage of completion, Using the key will result in one of the following messages: "You have already found the chest", "You have already found the journal", or "You've already delivered the journal".

Droalak the ghost

Items needed: Ghostspeak amulet, Sapphire amulet.
Items recommended: Ectophial (If Ghosts Ahoy has been completed.)
  1. 1 Droalak
  2. 2 Melina
Locations of Droalak (blue) and Melina (red). Open interactive map ↗Map data and tiles: OSRS Wiki · Game imagery © Jagex Ltd

Travel to Port Phasmatys; if Ghosts Ahoy has not been completed, you must pay two ecto-tokens to the town guards. (Get ecto-tokens by heading to the Ectofuntus, just north of Port Phasmatys. Use the bones in the bone grinder on the second floor, get a bucket of slime from the trapdoor west of the fountain, and use those items on the fountain. Then, talk to a ghost disciple to claim your ecto-tokens.) The port can also be reached by Charter Ship to Port Phasmatys.

Once in Port Phasmatys, head to the general store. Then talk-to Droalak in, or around the general store. He will give the player a scroll if they give his wife, Melina, a strung sapphire amulet. Melina is in the building directly east of the general store.

After giving Melina the amulet, the player must go back to Droalak to receive the scroll.

Dron the warrior

Travel to Rellekka and talk to Dron's brother Blanin. He can be found near the Dairy churn, east of the Longhall.

Go north of Skulgrimen's Battle Gear, and speak to Dron. He can be found close to the northern-most dock. He will quiz the player on the information that Blanin gave them. Dron will ask various questions; these are the answers (in the order used):

To get through the conversation quickly, the numbers you can press are: 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1.

  • I'm after important answers
  • Why, you're the famous warrior Dron!
  • He wields an iron mace in battle.
  • He eats rats for breakfast.
  • He eats kittens for lunch.
  • He eats bunnies for tea.
  • His favourite drink is red spider blood.
  • He is 36 years,
  • 8 months (21 days) old.
  • He studies the Fifth and Fourth ages.
  • His house is on the north-east side of town.
  • His brother's name is Blanin.
  • His pet cat is named Fluffy.
  • 5 and 7 is 12.

Dron will immediately end the conversation if a wrong answer is given.

After answering the questions, Dron will reveal part of the outpost's history that involves two friends battling each other at the Outpost. One sided with Zamorak, and the other sided with Saradomin. It's later learned that they both decided to stand down after observing the destruction of the battle, and chose to side with Guthix. As time went on, one became King of Ardougne and the other ran the Ardougne marketplace.

Back to Jorral

Give everything to Jorral. He'll give the player a letter to take to the king of East Ardougne. King Lathas can be found upstairs in his castle in central Ardougne just across the river. He will give back a letter to take to Jorral, in which he promises not to tear down the outpost. After taking it to Jorral, Jorral will make a museum out of the Outpost.

Congratulations, quest complete!

Quick checklist 27 instructions

Use this when you already know the route. The full walkthrough above includes explanations and diagrams.

Starting out

  1. Walk to or use the necklace of passage to teleport to the outpost north-west of Ardougne.

  2. Talk to Jorral.

    Say: Tell me more. → Ok, I'll make a stand for history!

  3. Complete the next 3 segments in any order.

Erin the silver merchant

  1. Talk to the Silver merchant in the East Ardougne market.

    Say: Ask about the outpost.

  2. Dig with your spade to find the chest buried north of Castle Wars.

  3. Open the chest with the enchanted key to get a journal.

Droalak the Ghost

  1. Equip your Ghostspeak amulet and talk to Droalak outside the Port Phasmatys general store.

  2. In the building east of the general store, directly south of the pub, give Melina a strung sapphire amulet.

  3. Talk to Droalak to receive a scroll.

Dron the Warrior

  1. Go to Rellekka and talk to Blanin east of the longhall.

  2. Talk to Dron north of the longhall.

    Say: I'm after important answers. → Why, you're the famous warrior Dron! Answers:

    • Quick answers:

      Say: An iron mace → Breakfast → Lunch → Bunnies → Red → Fifth and Fourth → North East side of town → Blanin → Fluffy → , but what does that have to do with anything?

    • He wields an iron mace in battle.

      Say: An iron mace

    • He eats rats for breakfast.

      Say: Breakfast

    • He eats kittens for lunch.

      Say: Lunch

    • He eats bunnies for tea.

      Say: Bunnies

    • His favourite drink is red spider blood.

      Say: Red

    • He is 36 years, 8 months (21 days) old.

      Say:

    • He studies the Fifth and Fourth ages.

      Say: Fifth and Fourth

    • His house is on the north-east side of town.

      Say: North East side of town

    • His brother's name is Blanin.

      Say: Blanin

    • His pet cat is named Fluffy.

      Say: Fluffy

    • 5 plus 7 is 12

      Say: , but what does that have to do with anything?

Reporting back

  1. Talk to Jorral, back at the outpost, with the scroll and journal.

  2. Talk to King Lathas, located on the first floor of the Ardougne Castle.

    Say: F

  3. Talk to Jorral, back at the outpost.

  4. Congratulations, quest complete!

QUEST COMPLETE

Rewards

  • 1,000 Crafting Crafting experience
  • 1,000 Prayer Prayer experience
  • 750 coins
  • Enchanted key, allowing you to go on your own treasure digs until it disappears
  • Access to the museum in the outpost
  • Ability to complete master clue hot/cold Treasure Trails.
  • Ability to claim 5 Kudos and an Antique lamp rewarding 1,000 XP in any skill of at least level 20 from Historian Minas after completion of the quest

OSRS WIKI CONTRIBUTORS

Sources & credits

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