Creature of Fenkenstrain/Quick guide

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Creature of Fenkenstrain
(#69)
Members only?	Yes
Release date	31 January 2005 (Update)
Quest series	None
Official difficulty	Intermediate
Developer	Martin B

Details

Start point	Read the sign in the middle of Canifis.
Official difficulty	Intermediate
Description	Dr 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?
Length	Medium-Long
Requirements	20 Crafting, 25 Thieving Priest in Peril, The Restless Ghost Able to defeat a level 51 monster and run past level 72 monsters.
Items required	Amulet of Ghostspeak Silver bar 3 Bronze wire Needle 5 Thread Spade ~100 coins Recommended: Holy symbol (for safety against vampyres) 2 Ectotokens (for access to furnace, only if Ghosts Ahoy not completed) Ghosts Ahoy for Ectophial Fenkenstrain's castle teleport for getting to the start point 6 Empty inventory slots.
Enemies to defeat	Experiment (Level 51)

Walkthrough

The upstairs floor of the Fenkenstrain castle

The experiment cave and path to the mausoleum.

Overview of the locations in the Fenkenstrain quest.

• Take a pickled brain off the table in the tavern in Canifis for 50gp.
• Talk to Dr. Fenkenstrain inside of Fenkenstrain's Castle to the north east of Canafis. ( 1•4•4)…

  1	Yes.
  4	Braindead
  4	Grave-digging

• Go upstairs to the bookcases and read:
  • "The Joy Of Grave Digging" in the west bookcase. ( 4)…

    4	The Joy of Gravedigging

  • "Handy Maggot Avoidance Techniques" in the east bookcase. ( 3)…

    3	Handy Maggot Avoidance Techniques

  • Combine the marble amulet and obsidian amulet to form the star amulet.
• Talk to the Gardener Ghost downstairs with the Ghostspeak amulet equipped. ( 2)…

  2	What happened to your head?

• Travel to the graves spread around the Haunted Woods (fairy ring alq) and dig in front of a grave marker immediately south-east of the fairy ring.
  • The gardener does NOT have to be following you, this step will work even if he disappears.
  • Be quick, the area is infested with vampyres. Take a Holy symbol and maybe food with you.
• Combine the brain and head.
• Go to the experiment Cave, use your star amulet on the easternmost memorial, south-east of the castle, then push it.
• Inside, kill a level 51 Experiment for the cavern key.
• Follow the north-western path to the end.
• Search the chest and climb the ladder.
• 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. ( 1)…

  1	I 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. ( 2)…

  2	Do you know where the key to the shed is?

• Take 3 canes from the pile of canes next to the shed. then search the cupboard inside the shed to get a broom.
• Combine three canes and the broom into an extended brush (Using 3 bronze wire).
• 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 or fairy ring to Zanaris) 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.
• Talk to the doctor.
• Go upstairs, then climb the northern ladder.
• Talk to Fenkenstrain's monster.
• Go downstairs, then pickpocket the doctor for the ring of charos.
• Quest complete!

Rewards

• 2 Quest points
• 1,000 Thieving experience
• The Ring of charos, which allows access to the Werewolf Agility Course, and, when activated during Garden of Tranquillity, reduced cost to many transport links.

Required for completing

Completion of Creature of Fenkenstrain is required for the following:

• Garden of Tranquillity
• The Great Brain Robbery