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QUEST 61 · MEMBERS

Shades of Mort'ton

The townsfolk of Mort'ton have some form of strange affliction and the town is full of Shades. Can you find some way to reverse this?

Difficulty
Intermediate
Length
Short
Quest points
3
Released
18 October 2004
START POINT

Search the shelf in the southern-western house of Mort'ton.

BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK

Preparation

Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.

Requirements

  • Completion of the following quests:
  • Priest in Peril
  • 20 Crafting (boostable)
  • 15 Herblore (boostable)
  • 5 Firemaking (boostable)
  • Must be able to defeat 5 level-40 Loar Shades.
  • Must be able to survive an onslaught when rebuilding the Temple (Being surrounded by many players makes this much easier).
  • Access to Mort'ton

Items required

  • 1000+ coins (bring plenty of money just in case)
  • 2 Tarromin potion (unf) OR 2 vials of water and 2 tarromins (both obtainable during the quest)
  • 2 ashes
  • Tinderbox
  • Logs OR an axe to obtain some
  • 1 hammer
  • Using a Flamtaer hammer is highly recommended in case the minigame is unpopulated, as a regular hammer is insufficient to build the temple alone. An additional 13,000 coins (or current Grand Exchange price coins on the Grand Exchange) allows you to buy a Flamtaer hammer from Razmire.

Recommended

  • 25 Combat
  • Combat equipment
  • Food
  • 1-4 Flamtaer bracelets (HIGHLY recommended; the minigame is occasionally unpopulated)
  • 11 free inventory slots
  • Fast travel to Mort'ton to start the quest - Mort'ton Teleport, Barrows Teleport, fairy ring BKR and take the swamp boaty, or Morytania legs 3+

Enemies to defeat

  • 5 Loar Shades (level 40)

ACTION CHECKLIST

Walkthrough

Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.

Start

  1. 01

    Enter the ruined house in the south-west of Mort'ton. Search the shelf on the wall. Read the diary. After reading the diary, the quest is started and you are able to create Serum 207.

  2. 02

    If you didn't bring Tarromin potion (unf): Pick up the empty vials (can be filled in the house north-east) and search the smashed table for 2 grimy tarromin and one grimy rogue's purse.

Serum 207

  1. 01

    Make two Serum 207 by adding clean tarromin to a vial of water and then adding ashes.

  2. 02

    Use one dose on Razmire (afflicted) in the general store. Dialogue: What are all these shadowy creatures? → Yes, I'll dispatch those dark and evil creatures. (Recommended to not use official Mort'ton temple World 377 yet to not get interrupted talking to the NPCs, until the step with repairing.)

  3. 03

    Kill five loar shades and pick up their remains. Note: any shades that you killed before talking to Razmire will not count.

  4. 04

    Return to Razmire and give him the remains. He may require more Serum 207.

  5. 05

    Right click and open his General store, buy an Olive oil.

  6. 06

    Open his builders' store, buy 5 timber beams, 5 limestone bricks, 25 swamp paste and optionally a Flamtaer hammer.

  7. 07

    Use the serum on Ulsquire Shauncy, located in the house east of the general store. Talk to him with Loar Remains.

  8. 08

    Talk to him again and ask about the remains and the temple. Dialogue: What did you find out about the remains? → What can you tell me about that temple?

Repairing the temple

  1. 01

    Head north-east of Mort'ton and repair the temple until you reach 100% repair and at least 20 sanctity. (Recommended to use official world 377.)

  2. 02

    Light the sacred altar in the centre of the temple (or wait until someone else lights it if you don't have level 5 Firemaking)

  3. 03

    Use your olive oil on the flame to make sacred oil.

  4. 04

    (Recommended) Use Serum 207 on the flame to make Serum 208, which permanently cures NPCs.

Burning a shade

  1. 01

    Use the sacred oil on a log to create a pyre log.

  2. 02

    Head west of Mort'ton general store, to any grouping of 4 stone funeral pyres. Use the pyre log, then Loar remains on a funeral pyre.

  3. 03

    Light the funeral pyre. Note: This will grant 25 Prayer XP.

  4. 04

    Collect the reward.

  5. 05

    (Recommended) Use the Serum 208 on Razmire.

  6. 06

    Use the Serum 208 on Ulsquire and finish the dialogue.

  7. 07

    Congratulations, quest complete!

QUEST COMPLETE

Rewards

  • 2,000 Herblore Herblore experience
  • 2,000 Crafting Crafting experience
  • Ability to play the Shades of Mort'ton minigame
  • Ability to use the Shades of Mort'ton minigame teleport
  • Bonus: If you take the Diary of Herbi Flax to the Apothecary in Varrock, you'll get an extra 335 Herblore experience (can only be done once).

REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE

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