Requirements
- 15 Agility (boostable)
- 30 Cooking
- 5 Fishing (boostable)
- Completion of the following quests:
- Jungle Potion
- Druidic Ritual
QUEST 58 · MEMBERS
Tai Bwo Wannai Trio
In Jungle Potion, the Shaman Trufitus communed with the gods to determine the fate of his people. Now, Timfraku, the Chief of Tai Bwo Wannai, wishes to see his people and family return to the abandoned village. Help a depressed fisherman, encourage a raging hunter and satiate an eccentric priest in this extreme test of aptitude and patience!
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Length
- Medium
- Quest points
- 2
- Released
- 14 September 2004
Talk to Timfraku in his house in Tai Bwo Wannai.
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
- Knife or bladed weapon, such as a Sword or a Spear
- Sliced banana (obtainable during the quest)
- Small fishing net
- Pestle and mortar (obtainable during the quest for 6 gp)
- 2 Logs to quickly make Poison karambwan at fishing site and to cook Pasty jogre bones later in the quest
- Iron spear, Steel spear, Mithril spear, Adamant spear, Rune spear or Dragon spear which will be consumed during the quest.
- Agility potion(4) (must be 4 doses)
- Ranged equipment, Magic equipment, or a halberd to kill a monkey for a monkey corpse (adjacent melee does 0 damage to monkeys)
- Tinderbox (If you wish to avoid running back to the range in Brimhaven)
- Jogre bones (obtainable during the quest)
- Seaweed (obtainable during the quest)
- Karamjan rum or 30 coins to purchase (if obtaining the rum before starting, add the sliced banana or the rum will disappear when you leave the island)
Recommended
- 30 Firemaking to make burnt jogre bones on a fire instead of at a furnace
- Extra Raw karambwan in case you burn the one given to you by Tiadeche
- Access to the gnome glider system (requires partial completion of The Grand Tree quest)
- Rimmington or Ardougne teleport, as well as coins if you are chartering a ship to Brimhaven
- Stamina potions
- Food
- Antidote++ or other Antipoisons
- Amulet of glory
- Brimhaven teleport
- Weight-reducing clothing
- Lunar/Dramen staff for fairy rings
- 42 Ranged, 53 Agility, 21 Strength, a mith grapple, and crossbow for the Strong Tree shortcut
Enemies to defeat
- Monkey (level 3)
Ironman notes
- A method of obtaining an agility potion(4):
- 34 Herblore (boostable) to create one
- Giving Dr Jekyll a clean irit leaf during the Jekyll and Hyde random event
- Killing skeletons in Tarn's Lair for a 1/25.6 drop per 2 dose potion, which can then be decanted into a 4 dose
- A possible reward from defeating the apparition during Icthlarin's Little Helper
- A possible reward from a Apprentice potion pack obtained through Mastering Mixology
- 65 Fishing (boostable) to catch raw karambwan (necessary if you burn the one given to you)
- The ability to defeat a level 53 enemy (can be safespotted and the bones telegrabbed at the Ardougne Zoo)
- Obtaining an iron spear or better. A steel spear spawns in the Ancient Prison in Neypotzli at the western wall. Alternatively, it may be bought from the Mount Karuulm Weapon Shop, Fortis Blacksmith in Varlamore, or dropped by enemies such as Moss Giants, Jogres, Tribesmen, and Hobgoblins
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 out
- 01
Make sure that as many items above are prepared as possible
- 02
Head south to Tai Bwo Wannai (or use a Brimhaven house teleport and run south if you have them)
- 03
Talk to Timfraku, who is located upstairs in the western hut north of Tai Bwo Wannai. Dialogue: I am a wandering wayfarer. → Trufitus sent me., wait, then Dialogue: So far?? → Yes
- 04
Use a Brimhaven house teleport or simply run north to Lubufu by the fishing spots south of the Player Owned House portal
- 05
Talk to Lubufu. Dialogue: I wasn't going anywhere...
- 06
Talk to Lubufu again. Dialogue: Talk about him... → What do you do? → How old are you? → I could help collect the bait. → You sound like you could do with the help.
- 07
Talk to him again and give him 20 raw karambwanji.
- 08
Talk to him again. Dialogue: What do you use to catch Karambwan? → What do you do with your Karambwan?
- 09
Wait, then accept his gift and learn how to fish Karambwan. Dialogue: Yes!
- 10
Drop the karambwan vessel he gave you and get another Dialogue: Actually, I've lost my Karambwan vessel. → ... it floated away!, load it with a raw karambwanji then pick up the first one.
- ↳
Drop this vessel as well, and talk to Lubufu once more Dialogue: Actually, I've lost my Karambwan vessel. → ... it floated away! to obtain a vessel for use after the quest.
Helping the brothers
- 01
Head to DKP - it is south of Musa point.
- 02
Grab the seaweed nearby if you don't have one already
- 03
Talk to Tiadeche, who is directly north-east of the fairy ring DKP.
- 04
Use your Raw karambwanji on the Karambwan vessel. Then use the baited Karambwan vessel on Tiadeche. Dialogue: Yes
- ↳
Ironmen: Fish and cook a karambwan until you get a poison karambwan. Use your pestle and mortar on it to create poison karambwan paste, then use that paste on your spear to make a Spear(kp).
- 05
Use the fairy ring right next to you and use the code CKR - it's north-west of Shilo village, south of the lake between Shilo village and Tai Bwo Wannai village.
- 06
Run north-east to the mine. Talk to Tamayu twice Dialogue: When will you succeed? → Yes and watch a cutscene.
- 07
Right click and use your Agility potion (4 dose) and Spear (kp) on him - make sure he takes both.
- 08
Talk to him again Dialogue: Take me on your next hunt for the Shaikahan., watch the cutscene. Make sure he kills the beast or you won't finish the quest,
- 09
Kill a monkey in this area with magic or ranged, take its corpse.
- 10
Use the corpse on Tamayu.
- 11
Use your seaweed on the monkey skin to get a seaweed sandwich.
- 12
Either run south-west or use another fairy ring teleport to go back to CKR.
- 13
Climb up the hill and cross the bridge onto Cairn Isle, WALK across the bridge.
- 14
Talk to Tinsay and hand him all the food he requests Dialogue: Yes. whenever prompted. (He will ask for the Rum with a banana, a “seaweed in monkey skin sandwich” which is just the seaweed sandwich, and the marinated Jogre bones that you previously created. *DO NOT BURY THEM*
- 15
After handing him the marinated j' bones, use your empty (or filled) karambwan vessel on him and you'll receive a crafting manual.
- 16
Head to fairy ring DKP.
- 17
Talk to Tiadeche, use your manual on him and he will agree to go back to the village (but he'll stay for now).
Finishing up
- 01
Either use a Brimhaven House teleport, fairy ring CKR or simply walk back to the quest start.
- 02
Talk to Timfraku Dialogue: Oh it was nothing really. and finish the quest.
- 03
(Optional) Before leaving, talk to Tiadeche in the south-western house in Tai Bwo Wannai for 5,000 Fishing experience.
- 04
(Optional) Before leaving, talk to Tinsay in the middle southern house in Tai Bwo Wannai for the ability to cook karambwans and to receive 5,000 Cooking experience.
- 05
(Optional) Before leaving, talk to Tamayu in the south-eastern house in Tai Bwo Wannai to receive a karambwan-poisoned rune spear, as well as 2,500 Attack and Strength experience.
- 06
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 2,000 Coins (awarded by Timfraku immediately upon quest completion)
- 5,000 Cooking Cooking experience (claimed upon speaking to Tinsay after quest completion)
- 5,000 Fishing Fishing experience (claimed upon speaking to Tiadeche after quest completion)
- 2,500 Attack Attack experience, 2,500 Strength Strength experience, and a karambwan-poisoned rune spear (claimed upon speaking to Tamayu after quest completion)
- Access to Tamayu's Spear Stall (sells cleaning cloths)
- Access to Tiadeche's Karambwan Stall (sells raw karambwans and karambwan vessels)
- The ability to pray at the newly repaired tribal statue (works like an altar) by talking to Tinsay and Tiadeche in the village after the quest
- The ability to catch and cook karambwans by talking to Tinsay in the village after the quest
- The ability to fight the Shaikahan (level 83 - you need a kp spear to hit it)
- The ability to use Tai bwo wannai teleport scrolls
- The ability to take part in the Smithing section of the Barbarian Training miniquest (Requires talking to Tamayu and claiming combat xp after quest completion).
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
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