Gleason's Gielinor GuideAn adventurer's field notes← All quest guides

QUEST 109 · MEMBERS

The Eyes of Glouphrie

After you foiled a plan to destroy the Grand Tree things have been quiet in the gnome world. Brimstail has found a strange machine, though, built by Oaknock the Engineer during the Gnomes' Golden Age. What does the weird device do? Why on Gielinor was it built? If you agree to help this bookworm gnome get this confusing device working, you will learn a little about gnome magicks, gnome history, and you will start to uncover a new threat (or is it an old one?) to gnome security - a threat that is

Start walkthrough →Check requirements
Difficulty
Intermediate
Length
Medium
Quest points
2
Released
15 August 2006
START POINT

Talk to Brimstail in his cave south-west side of the Tree Gnome Stronghold, directly west of the bank near the Stronghold Slayer Cave.

BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK

Preparation

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

Requirements

  • Completed The Grand Tree quest
  • 5 Construction
  • 46 Magic

Items required

  • Bucket of sap (If you do not have one, you can use a knife on any tree that looks pointy (evergreen shaped trees) with a bucket in your inventory)
  • Mud rune
  • Maple logs
  • Oak logs
  • Hammer
  • Saw
  • Pestle and mortar

Recommended

  • Several free inventory slots (about 8) to solve the puzzles more easily
  • Fast travel to the Tree Gnome Stronghold (Balloon Transport System, gnome glider, Spirit Tree or Slayer ring to the Slayer Cave to directly reach the Stronghold -- alternatively, use a necklace of passage to the Outpost and walk north)
  • Fast travel to Hazelmere (Fairy rings to CLS, or Watchtower or Nightmare Zone minigame teleport and walk east if you have no access to fairy rings)
  • Slayer ring to the Slayer Dungeon or a necklace of passage to the Wizards' Tower for easy access to fairy rings

Enemies to defeat

  • 6 x Evil creature that each have 1 HP

Ironman notes

  • A method to obtain mud runes:
  • 13 Runecraft to craft them
  • As a reward from the Mage Training Arena with 33 Magic
  • 1/100 drop from essence implings with 42 Hunter
  • A method to obtain maple logs:
  • 45 Woodcutting (boostable) to cut maple trees
  • Guaranteed from the Managing Miscellania activity (requires Throne of Miscellania Quest)
  • 50 Firemaking for maple logs from the Wintertodt Reward Cart (drop chance based on Woodcutting level).
  • Completing Hunters' Rumours with 46 Hunter to receive Hunters' loot sack (drop chance based on Woodcutting level)
  • Using Serum 208 for a 1/128 drop of maple logs from curing Afflicted (requires Shades of Mort'ton Quest).
  • A method to obtain oak logs:
  • 15 Woodcutting to chop oak trees
  • 1/17.2 drop from sorting small salvage with 15 Sailing, 1/11.6 from fishy salvage with 26 Sailing, 1/5.68 from barracuda salvage with 35 Sailing
  • 1/16.2 drop from Brutus (30 Combat), requiring completion of The Ides of Milk Quest

ACTION CHECKLIST

Walkthrough

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

Digression

  1. 01

    Talk to Brimstail in the cave found in the south-west corner of the Gnome Stronghold. Dialogue: What's that cute creature wandering around? → Yes, that sounds fascinating... → Oh, yes I love a bit of History. → Of course!

  2. ↳

    Optionally right click teleport on Brimstail for an easy Western Provinces Diary completion

Elven Mystery

  1. 01

    Inspect the singing bowl in the western portion of the cave.

  2. 02

    To the north, attempt to unlock Oaknock's Machine.

  3. 03

    Talk to Brimstail. Dialogue: I've had a look in the other room now. → Of course, I'd love to!

Memories

  1. 01

    Talk to Hazelmere, located upstairs in his house (on the small island east of Yanille, fairy ring code CLS goes directly to his house, Nightmare Zone minigame teleport or Watchtower Teleport). There will be several cutscenes, the last being King Healthorg and the white Spirit Tree Argento. You'll know you're done when you get a Violet pentagon in your backpack.

  2. 02

    Return to Brimstail. Dialogue: I've visited Hazelmere, he told me all sorts of interesting things.

  3. ↳

    Get the bucket of sap outside of Brimstail's cave on your way back.

Incapacitated

  1. 01

    Use your Mud Rune on the Pestle and Mortar to make Ground Mud Runes.

  2. 02

    Add the Ground Mud Runes to the Bucket of Sap to make Magic glue.

  3. 03

    Repair Oaknock's machine (click on the machine twice).

  4. 04

    Talk to Brimstail. Dialogue: I think I've fixed the machine now!

Anti-Illusion

  1. 01

    Talk to Brimstail twice more to receive more discs. Dialogue: I

  2. 02

    Optional: Drop the discs and talk to Brimstail to receive even more discs. Dialogue: I can't work out what to do with these discs!

Front Panel

  1. 01

    Head back to the Oaknock's machine and unlock the machine.

Control Panel

  1. 01

    Unlock the front panel by inserting a disc with a value equal to the green number. (When done, click the green box next to the number.)

  2. ↳

    You will need to exchange some of the tokens to obtain certain values. (see full guide here).

  3. 02

    Talk to Brimstail for more discs. Dialogue: I

  4. 03

    Complete the three puzzles inside the unlocked machine

  5. ↳

    You need to fill up every slot, the first puzzle's single slot, the second's two slots, and the last puzzle's three slots.

  6. 04

    Talk to Brimstail. Dialogue: Phew! I've got that machine working now. What do I need to do now?

Assassination

  1. 01

    Talk to Brimstail again. Dialogue: Phew! I've got that machine working now. What do I need to do now?

  2. 02

    Kill all Evil Creatures: (wait for the whole death animation to end before running or teleporting away!). Their colour is now black.

  3. ↳

    The one by Brimstail, if you haven't killed it already.

  4. ↳

    One outside of the main gate (south-east from Brimstail's cave). Note: It must be killed within stronghold walls. If it is outside, simply kill it, let it spawn, and kill it again for credit.

  5. ↳

    One by the gnome agility course entrance (near the spirit tree).

  6. ↳

    One by King Narnode, at the bottom of the Grand Tree. If it is stuck behind a trapdoor, kill it with mage or range, or hop worlds. Make sure you wait a few seconds after killing before using the ladder.

  7. ↳

    One at the top of the Grand Tree, by the prison. Make sure you wait a few seconds after killing before using the ladder.

  8. ↳

    One by the giant tortoises north-west of the Grand Tree (in the pen north of the swamp).

  9. 03

    Talk to King Narnode.

  10. ↳

    Optional: Use the crystal saw seed on the singing bowl by Brimstail to get an enchanted crystal saw, and complete a medium Western Provinces diary task.

  11. 04

    Congratulations, quest complete!

QUEST COMPLETE

Rewards

  • 12,000 Magic Magic experience
  • 2,500 Woodcutting Woodcutting experience
  • 6,000 Runecraft Runecraft experience
  • 250 Construction Construction experience
  • A crystal saw seed — Either take it to Ilfeen in Tirannwn or use it on the singing bowl by Brimstail to get an enchanted crystal saw. It allows items (that require a saw) to be made three levels above your Construction. It has a limited number of charges (28), but the recharge is free - use the bowl again.

REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE

Verify the guide after updates.

Facts and walkthrough actions are adapted from Old School RuneScape Wiki contributors under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. This page is fan-made and not affiliated with Jagex.

KEEP QUESTING

INTERMEDIATE

A Soul's Bane

Short · Members

Open guide →INTERMEDIATE

A Tail of Two Cats

Medium · Members

Open guide →INTERMEDIATE

Animal Magnetism

Medium · Members

Open guide →INTERMEDIATE

Another Slice of H.A.M.

Short · Members

Open guide →