As A First Resort



Difficulty: Experienced
Length: Long

Requirements:
Big Chompy Bird Hunting
Zogre Flesh Eaters
Level 48 Hunter
Level 51 Firemaking
Level 58 Woodcutting

Items Needed:
Axe
Tinderbox
Knife
Bird snares
Box trap
4 spears of any kind
2 raw chompy meats
8 tropical wagtail feathers
4 wolf bones
8 spined larupia furs (tatty or normal)
Reward: 1 quest point. 15,000 XP in Firemaking, Hunter and Woodcutting. Able to keep platypodes as pets! New hunter creatures. Full access to the features of Oo'glog.

Quest Guide:

1. Start the quest by talking to Chief Tess in the middle-north of the city. She'll explain to you that a strange human woman has come to the city and got herself very excited about a business opportunity, even to the extent that the ogresses are being offered lots of "shiny pwetties". Tess will send you to see this woman in the newly-opened bank, slightly to the south-west.
   
   
   
   
2. This business woman, Balnea, will go into FAR TOO MUCH detail about her plans to turn the ogress city into a spa resort! Unfortunately, your character's comprehension is limited, due to the fact that Balnea speaks super-quickly, and using an overdose of hythons. She'll send you to the ogress cook, Chargurr, in order to help her set up the catering.
   
   
   
   
3. Like most of the ogresses in the area, Chargurr is a complete idiot. Lying before her is an empty fire pit, and she won't get far if she has nothing to cook with! She tells you that she needs your help to set up a giant chompy spit-fire. First, you'll need to fetch plenty of logs to fuel the fire.
   
   
   
   
4. Both achey trees and eucalyptus trees can be found in a multi-combat area to the west, just outside the city's gates. Chop down eight achey logs and ten eucalyptus logs, whilst steering clear of the ogress champions wondering around looking for trouble.
   
   Talk to Chargurr again, and set the logs up for her. She'll ask for spears now, to act as a giant spit. Unfortunately, she is still having trouble working out how to express a numerical amount.
   
   
   
   
5. If you're having trouble with the spears, you can buy some from the Grand Exchange, kill monsters for some (e.g. goblins for bronze), or even smith some yourself! (After completing Barbarian Training.)
   
   Back in Oo'glog with the spears, talk to Chargurr again, set up the spears over the twin achey trees. She needs some chompy meats now to cook over the fire, which you can track down yourself in the Feldip Hills, or buy from another player.
   
   
   
   
6. Bring the meats to Chargurr, and put them on to the spears for her. Use your tinderbox to light the massive fire and watch the chompy meats cook to perfection.
   
   
   
   With the cook satisfied, head back to Balnea. She'll send you over to assist the hotel manager. After some strong persuasion, you'll find that she is called "Snurgh". Find her in a bedroom at the far east of the city.
   
   You'll be quite shocked to "meat" her. She's using raw, rotten meat as pillows! We can't have that! Briefly explain your ingenius idea of using feathers to make pillows. You'll need eight, but not just any feathers. Snurgh wants stripy feathers due to them being softer. They're obtained from hunting tropical wagtails in the Feldip Hunter area, using a bird snare.
   
   
   
   
7. After a quick visit back to Balnea, the next ogress to help is Kringk the hairdresser. You know the drill just as before: the ogress is stupid, she needs a few items, and of course, she has number trouble. This time, we need four wolf bones and eight spined larupia furs (by pitfall trapping).
   
   
   
   
8. Once you deliver those to the hairdresser and talk to Balnea again, it's time for some really nasty business. There are hundreds of bugs flying around each of the pools, and if people are going to be swimming in them, those bugs have got to go! Balnea recommends that you see Seegud, the ogress mystic, to help you drive away the bugs.
   
   
   
   
9. Seegud, with her "incredible" mystic wisdom, will explain that certain scents created by burning herbs and logs can be used to drive away insect swarms from the pools. She will explain her coloured rock system to you, which tells you which materials to burn by each pool. If you forget which rock is which, you can look at your quest journal for a reference.
   
   
   
   
10. I advise grabbing around 5 of each herb from just outside the city gates (stinkbloom is a little more to the north), and around 15 eucalyptus logs. Try burning some materials by a fire in relation to Seegud's coloured rock system. Sadly, it doesn't work, and the nearby ogre children snigger suspiciously.
    
    Talk to Seegud about this strange occurance, and you be informed that the ogre children have mixed up the coloured rocks! Now, each coloured rock represents a different kind of herb. This is different for each individual quester, so getting a pen & paper is wise to record which rock is which.
    
    Using trial and error, the easiest way to figure out which herbs to use is to visit the pools in the following order:
    • Salt-water
    • Thermal
    • Mud
    • Sulphur
    • Bandos
    
    
11. Go back to Seegud once the insect swarms are gone. She will thank you for clearing off the nuisances and send you back to Balnea for your last task. There are hunter-related parasites wondering around areas of Oo'glog that need to be killed or relocated. Balnea is too cowardly to help you hunt, so speak to Chief Tess.
    
    
    
    
12. Your task now is to hunt down 5 wimpy birds, 4 diseased kebbits, and relocate 4 platypodes. Take note that these are unusual hunter creatures, and must be lured with the smoke from a smouldering herb. Here is how to capture each creature:
    
    Wimpy birds:
    
    These are found to the west of the gift shop. Being birds, they're captured using a bird snare, and they are baited using smouldering tansymum. Unequip your weapon, use a tinderbox with the herb, and wait for a bird to be lured.
    
    
    
    Diseased kebbits:
    
    These are on either side of the salt-water pool, with deadfall traps conveniently nearby. Any log and a knife is needed to set up the traps. Smouldering fever grass is the require lure for these creatures.
    
    Platypodes:
    
    Found to the east of the red Bandos pool, box traps are needed to capture these, lured by smouldering lavender. After capturing all four, they will be in your inventory. Go to the far east of the city, near to the charter ship dock, and look for the reeds in the water. Release the platypodes next to the reeds, and they will be very "grateful".
    
    
13. With the roaming hunter creatures out of the way, you can talk to Balnea for the last time. She'll go ahead and invite loads of NPCs from all over RuneScape to see the spa's grand opening!
    
    
    
    Now that the spa resort is fully in business after all of your hard work... Quest Complete!
    
    

Guide made by: Doctor Shemp
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