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Creature of Fenkenstrain/Quick guide

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Details

Start pointMap icon Read the signpost in the middle of Canifis. Show on map
Official difficultyIntermediate
Official lengthMedium
DescriptionDr Fenkenstrain, master and sole occupant of the castle to the north-east of Canifis, needs a new servant to go on a dark errand for him. Do you have the stomach to help Fenkenstrain complete his twisted purpose?
Requirements
Items required
Recommended
Enemies to defeat
  • Experiment (level 51) - can be safespotted or flinched
Ironman concerns

Walkthrough

The upstairs floor of the Fenkenstrain castle
The experiment cave and path to the mausoleum.

  • Start the quest by reading the signpost in the centre of Canifis or by talking to Dr Fenkenstrain.
  • Take a pickled brain off the table in the tavern in Canifis for 50gp, or by using Telekinetic Grab.
  • Talk to Dr Fenkenstrain inside of Fenkenstrain's Castle. (Chat 1•4•4)…
    1Yes.
    4Braindead
    4Grave-digging
  • Go upstairs by the eastern or western staircase to the bookcases and read:
    • "The Joy Of Grave Digging" in the west bookcase. (Chat 4)…
      4The Joy of Gravedigging
    • "Handy Maggot Avoidance Techniques" in the east bookcase. (Chat 2)…
      2Handy Maggot Avoidance Techniques
    • Combine the marble amulet and obsidian amulet to form the star amulet.
  • Right-click dig at the cross-shaped grave marker in the Haunted Woods, south-east of Fenkenstrain's castle and immediately east of fairy ring ALQ.
  • Combine the decapicated head and the pickled brain.
  • Head north out of the Haunted Woods and use your star amulet on the easternmost memorial (south-east of Fenkenstrain's castle).
  • Push the memorial to enter the Experiment Cave.
  • Inside, kill a level 51 Experiment for the cavern key. If you have started Rag and Bone Man II, kill additional Experiments (level 25) for the Experiment bone.
  • Follow the north-western path to the end.
  • Search the chest and climb the ladder.
  • Right-click Dig at the three graves to get the torso, arms and legs.
  • Return to Dr Fenkenstrain (Fenkenstrain's castle teleport) and give him the body parts. (Chat 1)…
    1I have some body parts for you.
  • Talk to him again to give him the needle and thread.
  • Talk to the Gardener Ghost for the shed key (ensure ghostspeak amulet is equipped). (Chat 2)…
    2Do you know where the key to the shed is?
  • Search the cupboard inside the shed to get a garden brush.
  • Take 3 canes from the pile of canes next to the shed
  • Use all the canes (3) on the garden brush to get an extended brush (using a total of 3 bronze wires).
  • Go upstairs to the western fireplace and use the extended brush on the fireplace for a conductor mould.
  • Go to a furnace (closest is in Port Phasmatys, teleport to Falador, fairy ring to Zanaris, amulet of glory to Al Kharid, or Home Teleport to Lumbridge) and smelt a silver bar into a conductor (lightning rod).
  • Return to the castle, go upstairs and then climb the southern ladder to reach the lightning conductor.
  • Repair the lightning conductor.
  • Return to Dr Fenkenstrain and talk to him.
  • Go upstairs, then through the metal door, then climb the northern ladder.
  • Talk to Fenkenstrain's monster.
  • Go downstairs, then pickpocket the doctor for the Ring of Charos.
  • Congratulations, quest complete!

Rewards

Required for completing

Completion of Creature of Fenkenstrain is required for the following:

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