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Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave/Quick guide

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Details

Start pointMap icon Inspect Evil Dave in the Lumbridge Castle dining room. Show on map
Official difficultySpecial
Official lengthMedium
DescriptionEvil Dave needs some kind of spicy stew. You will need Evil Dave's help for this one. He lives in his mother's basement...
Requirements
Items required
Recommended
Enemies to defeat None

Walkthrough

Items required: a cat or wily cat and several bowls of stew (9 at most).

  • Inspect Evil Dave
  • Talk to Doris (House west of Edgeville bank). (Chat 1•1)…
    1Is Dave in?
    1Yes, I'm evil!
  • Talk to Evil Dave in Edgeville (Down the trapdoor). (Chat 3•4)…
    3What did you eat at the secret council meeting?
    4You've got to tell me because the magic requires it!
  • Talk to Doris upstairs.
  • Use your cat to catch hell-rats. (Right-click chase). Using a fully grown cat is much more efficient, but using a kitten still works.
  • Collect spices from hell-rats there are 4 spices to collect: yellow, orange, red, brown. You only need a maximum of 6 doses of each colour.
    • The spicy stew required to free Evil Dave consists of all 4 different colour spices, 1-3 dose(s) of spice of each colour need to be added to the stew.
    • Add 1 dose of one colour and give it to Evil Dave. If he says "Hmm... I think you've got the amount of one spice right, but the others are wrong" then make a note that it is 1 dose of that colour.
    • If he doesn't say this then try again with 2 doses of the same colour, if he says "Hmm... I think you've got the amount of one spice right, but the others are wrong" then make a note that it is 2 doses of that colour. If he doesn't say this then make a note that it is 3 doses of that colour.
    • Repeat this process with the other 3 colours.
  • When you have made a note of the amount of the 4 colours individually, add these amounts to the same stew and give it to Evil Dave (he will not consume it), then give him the spicy stew in Lumbridge.
  • Congratulations, section complete!

Rewards


  1. ^ If making the unspiced stews.

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