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The Summers end quest was released a couple of days ago and yesterday I decided to do it, I packed up my wood cutting clobber, put on some dragon hide and headed to the Farm North of the Graveyard of shadows, I spoke to Summer Bonde the little ghost girl who I helped in Spirit of Summer quest.
She said I should speak to the Elders in another dimension, I did this by operating Jennica’s ring when stood on the portal and I appeared in a white area with Summer and 3 other ghostys, we had a chat and they told me that the beast was breaking its way from the alternate dimension and coming into ours to devour our souls (mmmmmm souls), they said I need to lure it into a cave in the north of the area in the spirit world.
The Tunnel is blocked so you need to go to the normal world and collapse the tunnel there, this can be done by clicking collapse on the tunnel with a pick axe in your inventory, collapsing the tunnel there opens up the tunnel in the spirit world.
The Elders give you a clue that the beast is used to my tricks and that the answer on how to lure him is in the rings used to trap him last time, the rings are coloured crimson, runescape gold and green therefore the beast is not familiar with familiars made with blue charms, use a familiar made with a blue charm and lure the beast into the tunnel by walking into the tunnel with your familiar out, your familiar gets eaten but the beast will follow.
When you are inside you can speak to a ghost who tells you how you can help him kill the beast, this part of the quest is very hard you are very likely to die multiple times, wearing armour is no good just take some energy pots, axe and a tinderbox and a home teletab is also very handy, you need to chop the tree roots to get cursed willow logs, put 5 on a pyre area, these are small disks scattered around the dungeon area and light them, you need to do this 3 times.
The first time I did it was easy I chopped the logs set up the pyre and lit it, the second time I ran around taking lots of damage from the beasts mage attack, he mages with clusters of hits, one cluster hitting full on can kill even the toughest of players, yes I was a victim and died, several times, eventually I lit the second fire, I teled for food and went back, ran back in and died in seconds.
He gets more angry after each fire, eventually for the last fire, I put on protect mage prayer ran in chopped 6 logs one from each root in succession, do not stay on one root for too long or the mage attack will cluster you and kill you, with the logs in my inventory I teled home, I still had good health and a lot of food but I wanted to be ready to build the pyre and light it, I topped up prayer and ate to 99hp than teled to clan wars ran inside, I got myself composed ready for the last fire, protect mage on (This reduces the damage considerably but a full cluster can still kill) I ran in to the first pyre area and put a log on, the beast fired at me, I ran to the other side of the pyre and put another log on, the distance moved and the mage protect prayer doing a good job of me receiving little damage, I kept putting a log on until all logs were placed and lit it, immediately a cut scene saves me any more damage and the monster goes into the tunnel further.
Restock on food and prayer and return to the tunnel with a spade, you get a cut scene telling you that you need to bury the dark core of the beast that has been freed by the elders cracking open the beasts chest, you need to go near a hole, the dark core will come out and try to get you, digging near a hole will draw him in and trap it, this is easiest done by getting close to the beast, when you get close the dark core will emerge, make sure you are near a hole and dig, this is quite easy and he will go inside and be dealt with by the friendly ghost, you are being attacked by the beast all this time so mage protect is a help but this part is not difficult if you are close enough to the beast.
You need to bury the dark core 3 times, you can leave to restock between captures, after the third time the beast retreats further into the cavern.
This final part of the cavern is the tricky part, I never died here in fact I took little damage but it is a little complicated so may take some time, the 3 elders return to their graves and are represented as different colours, the beast builds up a colour charge and spits it at the graves, if you see the beast build up a red charge you need to bless the grave with the red spirit in it, the same with green and blue, if you do this successfully for each colour it reflects back to the beast and damages it, on the third colour it kills the beast and he flies up in the air.
After the beast is defeated the elders come and thank you for your help and offer you their rewards for helping them. at this stage you can have the escort you outside.
Quest done, you get lots of XP and a coooool spirit shield that can be made better by using an elixir and a sigil (sp) to make it beter.
I loved this quest, it involved strategy and not just get this get that talk to him and come back again, it was difficult even for a high level player.
Please note, I have friends who tell me the cursed logs turn into normal willow logs when you exit the cave, It did not for me so bare this in mind if you try my tactics, I was also told that Mage prayer does not help, again it reduced my hits considerably so it helped me.
Could you let me know if you keep cursed logs from this quest when exiting or if they resort to normal and if prayer reduces your damage.
Yippeee!