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Ernest the Chicken/Quick guide

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Details

Start pointMap icon Talk to Veronica, south of Draynor Manor by the gate. Show on map
Official difficultyNovice
Official lengthVery Short
DescriptionVeronica is very worried. Her fiancé went into the big spooky manor house to ask for directions. An hour later and he's still not out yet.
Requirements
  • The ability to defend from a level 22 Skeleton.
Items required
  • Spade (obtainable during the quest)
  • Fish food (obtainable during the quest)
  • Poison (obtainable during the quest)
Recommended
Enemies to defeat None

Walkthrough

  • Talk to Veronica. (Chat 1)…
    1Aha, sounds like a quest. I'll help.
  • Enter the manor.
  • Pick up poison from the room south of the kitchen, on the west side of the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US].
  • Pick up the fish food on the 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US], in the room south of the stairs containing the ghost.
  • Use the fish food on the poison to make poisoned fish food.
  • Search the bookcase on the western ground floor[UK]1st floor[US].
  • Climb down the ladder and complete the lever puzzle.
    • Pull levers B then A down.
    • Enter door 1.
    • Pull lever D down.
    • Enter door 1.
    • Pull levers B, then A up.
    • Enter doors 3, 4, and 5.
    • Pull levers E, then F down.
    • Enter doors 6 and 7.
    • Pull lever C down.
    • Enter doors 7 and 6.
    • Pull lever E up.
    • Enter doors 6, 8, and 3.
    • Go through door 9 and grab the oil can.
  • Go up the ladder and pull the lever.
  • Pick up the spade in the far eastern room on the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US].
  • Exit out the back door in the same room.
  • Go north around the back of the manor to the west to the compost heap.
  • Search the compost heap to get a key.
  • Go south and use the poisoned fish food on the fountain in the south-west corner of the grounds.
  • Search the poisoned fountain to retrieve a pressure gauge.
  • Return to the manor and pick up the rubber tube in the room north of the stairs on the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US] containing an aggressive skeleton.
  • Climb up the stairs, then climb up the spiral staircase to the west.
  • Talk to Professor Oddenstein. (Chat 1•2)…
    1I'm looking for a guy called Ernest.
    2Change him back this instant!
  • Talk to him again to give him the items.
  • Congratulations, quest complete!

Rewards

Required for completing

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