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RuneScape uses the British convention for floor numbering: ground floor, first floor (immediately above the ground floor), second floor, etc.

Quest details[]

Name: Ernest the chicken
Release date: 21 January 2001 (Update)
Pay-to-play: No
Start: Speak to Veronica outside Draynor Manor
Difficulty:
*****
Length: Short
Requirements: None
Items needed: Spade (obtained during the quest)
Monsters to defeat: None
Recommended: None

Walkthrough[]

To start the quest, talk to Veronica at the entrance to Draynor Manor, located to the north of Draynor Village. She explains that herself and her fiancé, Ernest, were lost. Ernest went into the mansion to get directions and he hasn't returned, and asks you to go into the mansion to find him.

The ghosts, witch, and skeleton in the manor are all non-aggressive.

Go into the manor and go up the stairs. Climb the ladder to the west to reach the 2nd floor[UK]. Talk to Professor Oddenstein. When you ask him about Ernest, he says that Ernest is helping him with his experiments but that he was turned into a chicken by the professor's "pouletmorph machine."

He can transform him back, but his machine is no longer working and the "house gremlins" have ran off with parts needed to get it working again. He says the parts are either in the manor or on its grounds, and that he needs a pressure gauge, rubber tube, and an oil can.

Pressure gauge[]

Pressaure cauge

Finding the pressure gauge.

Leave the professor's room, go down the ladder to the 1st floor[UK] and grab the fish food in the area south of the stairs. Now go downstairs to the ground floor[UK] and pick up the poison in the small room to the west near the witch. Use the poison with the fish food to create poisoned fish food.

Now go to the manor's southeast room, pick up the spade if you don't have one, and then head outside. (You cannot exit the mansion through the front door.) Walk around to the southwest side of the manor and reach the fountain.

Do not use "approach" on the trees as they will damage you up to 20% of your remaining Hits, though they cannot kill you.

Use the poisoned fish food on the fountain, which will kill some piranhas. Now search the fountain and you will obtain the pressure gauge.

Rubber tube[]

Key

Digging up the key

Go north of the water fountain to the cabbage patch. Use the spade on the nearby compost heap and you will obtain a closet key. Go back into the manor through the front entrance and use the closet key on the door to the small room behind the staircase. Enter the closet and grab the rubber tube. Use the key on the door again to leave the room.

Oil can[]

Basement

At the basement under Draynor Manor

ErnestTheChickenLevers

Names of the levers in the basement.

Head to the southwest room on the ground floor[UK] and climb down the ladder. This room contains a puzzle solved by pulling levers. Pull the levers in the following order:

  1. Pull LeverA then LeverB. Go through the northeast door.
  2. Pull LeverD. Go through the southwest door and then through the south door.
  3. Pull LeverA then LeverB again. Go through the northwest door, then the west door, and then the north door.
  4. Pull LeverE then LeverF. Go through the east door and then through the other east door.
  5. Pull LeverC. Go through the northwest door then through the west door.
  6. Pull LeverE. Go through the east door, then the south door, and then the other south door.

Now open the west door and you can pick up the oil can.

Finale[]

Now head back to the 2nd floor[UK] and talk to Professor Oddenstein. He will take all the parts from you, start up his machine, and then transform Ernest back into a human. Ernest will thank you for helping him and give you a reward, finishing the quest.

Ernest Chicken completed

Rewards[]

Trivia[]

  • Ernest will turn back into a chicken about one minute after he becomes human.
    • This is so other players can complete the quest because player-instances don't exist in RuneScape Classic.

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