Desperate Times

Where to start

• Talk to Seren, up the stairs in Burthorpe castle.

Requirements

• • The Needle Skips
• • You Are It

• 50 Divination

  • Divination

• 50 Mining

  • Mining

• 50 Smithing

  • Smithing

Encounters

• Ability to defeat five level 50 opponents

Items to bring

• 3 rune bars

  • Rune bar

• 2 runite stone spirits

  • Runite stone spirit

• The stone spirits must not be in an ore box. They must be in the backpack.

• 10 mind runes

• 10 gleaming energy

• Old necklace or necklace of Charos (obtainable during the quest)

  • Old necklace
  • Necklace of Charos

• Any set of equipment that allows access to the Black Knights' Fortress or a Skull of Remembrance for teleporting directly inside

  • Black Knights' Fortress
  • Skull of Remembrance

Quest rewards

3 quest points

• A huge XP lamp

  • Huge XP lamp
• • Charos' clue carrier

• A master clue scroll

  • Sealed clue scroll (master)

Story context

These quests provide story context rather than mandatory prerequisites.

• • Sliske's Endgame
• • Curse of the Black Stone