It seems at last Arianwyn has need of your skills. He believes there is more to the Mourners than meets the eye and he wishes for you to find out just what they're up to. Can you gain the trust of the Mourners?
Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.
Requirements
60 Ranged
50 Thieving
The ability to defeat a level 11 enemy with your combat stats set to 20 each.
Completion of the following quests:
Roving Elves
Regicide
Underground Pass
Biohazard
Plague City
Waterfall Quest
Big Chompy Bird Hunting
Sheep Herder
Items required
Bear fur (obtainable during the quest near Jorral's Outpost)
2 silk
Each of these dyes: red, yellow, green, and blue (can be bought during the quest for 6 coins each at the Lletya Seamstress).
You may want to bring additional dyes to collect multiple coloured toads in case you miss when firing the device.
Bucket of water (can be bought from the general store in Lletya during the quest, and used on the well)
Feather
Rotten apple (must be the rotten apple on the ground north of the Mourner Headquarters in West Ardougne, obtainable during the quest)
Toad crunchies or Premade t'd crunch
Magic logs
Leather
Ogre bellows (obtainable during the quest)
Barrel of naphtha, or 5-9 coal to make one
7 empty inventory spaces for the Mourner gear
Recommended
60 Combat
Weapon
Food if your combat level is low
Ardougne or West Ardougne teleport tablets (runes may be inconvenient as your Magic will be lowered by the Mourner)
Ring of dueling to reset drained stats at the Pool of Refreshment in the Ferox Enclave
Necklace of passage for faster access to Arandar, via the Outpost
Fast travel to Taverley (House teleport, Balloon network, Falador teleport)
Fast travel to Feldip Hills (Feldip hills teleport, Gnome glider, Fairy rings to AKS or the Eagle transport system to the jungle)
Fast travel to Rimmington, if you have not yet made a barrel of naphtha (Rimmington teleport or Teleport to House if it located there, Skills necklace to the Crafting Guild or a Falador teleport)
Enemies to defeat
Mourner (level 11) (will decrease all combat skills to 20, including Hitpoints)
Ironman notes
A method to obtain magic logs:
75 Woodcutting (boostable) for chopping magic trees
50 Woodcutting and 50 Firemaking to obtain magic logs as a possible reward for defeating the Wintertodt skilling boss
50 Woodcutting and 46 Hunter to obtain magic logs as a possible reward for completing Hunters' Rumours
58 Hunter(boostable) to obtain magic logs as a possible drop from nature implings
ACTION CHECKLIST
Walkthrough
Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.
Starting the quest
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Talk to Eluned. Dialogue: Yes, I should go see him now.
02
Talk to Arianwyn in Lletya.
03
Teleport to the Outpost using your necklace of passage.
04
Go to the Arandar Pass gate, west of the Outpost, and kill a mourner (this will drain your stats including hp to 20).
05
Take everything it drops (7 items), and hold onto them.
06
(Optional) Use a ring of dueling teleport to Ferox Enclave and drink from the Pool of Refreshment to negate mourner potion resetting stats and hp
Top
01
Make your way to Tegid by the Taverley lake, and talk to him.
02
Search his laundry basket to get Tegid's soap. Dialogue: Steal the soap.
03
Use the soap on the bloody mourner top with a bucket of water in your inventory to clean it.
Trousers
01
Teleport to Lletya using the teleport crystal.
02
Talk to Arianwyn.
03
Talk to Oronwen who is directly north-west of the teleport crystal's destination. Dialogue: Do you mend clothes?
04
Give her the silk, bear fur, and trousers.
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Buy dyes here if needed, you'll need more than 1 of each if you miss the target later on.
The mourners
01
Go to West Ardougne.
02
Equip the full mourner outfit.
03
Enter the mourner HQ in the north-east corner of West Ardougne.
04
Go down the trapdoor and talk to Essyllt in the basement. (2 free inventory spaces needed)
05
Talk to the gnome on a rack. Select the chat option about being tickled and toad crunchies. Dialogue: You said about toad crunchies and being tickled.
06
Use the feather on him.
07
Release the gnome and talk to him with soft leather, a magic log, and either toad crunchies or premade t'd crunch.
The sheep
01
Go to the Feldip Hills swamp (east of fairy ring AKS) or the less dangerous swamp south-west of Castle Wars (north-east of fairy ring BKP)
02
Use the desired dye on an empty ogre bellow, then the dyed ogre bellows on a swamp toad to get a coloured toad (at least 1 of each colour).
03
Re-dye one sheep in each group their respective colour.
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Go to a coloured sheep herd north of East Ardougne used in the Sheep Herder quest.
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Use the respective coloured toad on the fixed device and equip it.
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Select the Aim and Fire attack style.
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Use the controls to aim at a coloured sheep and fire the fixed device.
Poisoning the food supply
01
Talk to the head mourner, Essyllt.
02
Take the rotten apple, located north-west of the Mourner Headquarters by squeezing through the gap in the western fence.
03
Talk to Elena west of Ardougne log balance shortcut, you'll be given a sieve.
04
Go to the apple orchard to the north-west, west of the Combat Training Camp. North-east of The Outpost using a necklace of passage.
05
Pick up an empty barrel inside the orchard and use it on one of the Rotten Apple Piles.
06
Use your barrel of rotten apples on the apple press (slightly west of the rotten apple piles) to mash them.
07
Use your barrel of naphtha on your mushed apple barrel (in your inventory); then, use your sieve on it.
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See the full guide if you do not have a barrel of naphtha.
08
Use the toxic naphtha on a range, not a fire. Make sure you have two open inventory spaces to receive both toxic powders.
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There is a range in the mourner HQ that you can use to save time.
09
Add the toxic powder to grain sacks to poison any 2 of the food stores in West Ardougne. The closest 2 are:
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The western room of the main building north of the town square.
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The church south of the town square.
10
Talk to Essyllt.
11
Talk to Arianwyn in Lletya.
12
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
40,000 Thieving Thieving experience
25,000 Hitpoints Hitpoints experience
Access to the Mourner HQ basement and the village of Lletya
Elf teleport crystal
The fixed device
Full mourner clothing
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