Grim Tales

Finding Sylas and Starting out
Sylas is the old man with a walking stick in Taverley. He can be found south of the Player Owned Houses portal. Talk to him and listen to what he has to say. He will ask you to get two 'rare' items in return for his magic beans :
 * The first item he wants is a feather from the griffin Grimgnash, on White Wolf Mountain, go north on the east trail.
 * The second is a helmet from a dwarf named Rupert who is in a tower south west of Mind altar.

Griffin's feather


The griffin will state that it cannot get to sleep because of the howling wolves and will threaten to eat the player if he doesn't tell him a bedtime story. Grimgnash says he loves stories with death, fire and destruction...Tell him a bedtime story by selecting the options which sound the most violent :
 * I've heard you are a great and mighty griffin
 * There once was graveyard filled with undead
 * There live a skeleton named skullrot
 * Skullrot was insane
 * Skullrot hungrily grabbed the gnome's hair
 * Started to strangle the poor gnome
 * At this point, you can answer with any of the remaining choices.

Once Grimgnash is asleep, steal a feather from the pile next to his nest and go back to Sylas.

Warning : If you have a low hp level, beware! If Grimgnash doesn't like your story, he will hit you with high damage! (10-20 damage).

Meeting Rupert
Rupert the beard can be found in a tower in between Goblin Village and Ice Mountain.

If you attempt to get in by the door of the tower, a rather snobby looking princess will stop you. In order to get in, you will need to go around the back and jump over the crumbling wall (Level 58 Thieving).

Next you have to talk into the pipe and you will find yourself talking to the dwarf imprisoned at the top of the tower.

Talk to him a second time to find out how to get up the tower, suggest that you should climb up, he will throw down his beard, climb it (level 59 Agility). Talk to the dwarf who regrettably cannot give you his helmet as the princess has stolen his armour and locked him in the tower.

He asks you to talk to princess Miazrqa, she says that she will happily release the dwarf if you get back her pendant which was stolen by a mouse in her second cousin's (twice removed) house which is the witch's house.

Ask the princess for a door key in order to enter the witch's house or look under the potted plant just to the left of the front door of the witch's house.

Miazrqa's pendant
Go to the basement of witches house and wear some leather gloves to avoid an electric shock from the gate which can cause 16 damage. Leather gloves can be obtained by searching the boxes in the basement near the piano. Open the cage door and search the music stand to find some music sheet for the piano.



Read the music sheet, now you have to play that on the piano, this is where it gets tricky if you are not familiar with the piano, you have to play the notes; "EFEDCAEGA", the first 5 notes "EFEDC" are on the right side of the piano, the next last notes "AEGA" are on the left side of the piano.

The notes "EFEDC" are played on the right hand side, from then onwards the notes "AE" are played on the left hand side, then the notes "GA" are played in the middle (heading once more to the right).

The compartment will open, player will find three items in it (shrinking potion ingredient list, to do list, 2 shrunk ogleroots). Read the shrinking potion ingredient list, use tarromin with a vial of water and add the ogleroot. Drink the potion whilst standing next to the mouse hole (no cheese or magnet required). Player will suddenly shrink and will enter in the mouse hole.

Remark : You don't need to keep the to do list. If a player loses/uses their shrunk ogleroots, you can gain more by killing the witches experiments, found down in the sewer, accessed by going down the manhole in front of the house.

In the mouse's hole
Climb the nail walls to the top, in one of the rooms is a pendant, take it and teleport, do not go through the grates this will cause you to become tall again, watch out for the level 95 mice. Take the pendant to the princess who will free the dwarf, take the helmet he gives you to Sylas, in exchange he will give you a bean.

Sylas and the Beanstalk


Take the bean Sylas gives you and plant it in the special patch (Earth Mound) southwest of the Taverley tree farming patch. The signpost reads "This earth mound has been magically prepared. Please keep off. Farming strictly prohibited. You have been warned!" A seed dibber and Watering can are required which can be obtained from your Tool Leprechaun at the nearby tree patch just northeast or purchased at a farming store. After watering the patch, a giant beanstalk will grow up extremely fast.

The Battle
Get ready for a fight with a level 138.

Take high healing food and some prayer potions. Bring lots of runes to cast your best spell. When you're ready, climb up the beanstalk.

Glod, a cloud giant, will attack you immediately. He is level 118, but will become level 138 shortly after the battle starts. He is extremely difficult to damage with melee and he hits very hard, so magic is a much better option.

Cast your best spell at a distance while hiding behind a wall. He will sometimes taunt you, causing your character to attack him head on. Whenever this happens, run back to the wall and turn on protect from melee whenever you're within his hitting range. He may also quake the ground, hitting you hard and draining your prayer. Sometimes, Glod will heal himself. Therefore, you should keep attacking whenever you can in order to defeat him as quickly as possible. Although magic is effective, you'll still need lots of runes. Glod is immune to poison.

After the battle
Once you defeat Glod, he'll drop the golden goblin. Take it back to Sylas. He will ask you to chop the beanstalk down. Use a shrinking potion on the beanstalk first, then take an axe and fell it. Go back to Sylas for your reward.

Reward



 * 1 Quest Point
 * 4,000 Farming XP
 * 5,000 Herblore XP
 * 5,000 Hitpoints XP
 * 14,000 Woodcutting XP
 * 6,000 Agility XP
 * 6,000 Thieving XP
 * Dwarven Helm

Tips

 * If you lose Shrunk Ogleroot the secondary ingredient for the shrinking potion, you will have to kill the Experiments in the basement of the witches house to get them. Player can enter it from outside the house using the sewer.

Funny Fact
When a player is in the mouse hole, if he kills a mouse there is a pretty fun fact. The mouses drops are enormous, such as : If you pick them, they will appear as "normal" in your inventory.
 * bones
 * coins
 * cheese

Music

 * Fe Fi Fo Fum
 * Mouse Trap

Trivia

 * The entire quest, including the name, is a reference to the well known Grimm's Fairy Tales. A few tales are referenced throughout the quest such as getting a feather from a griffen by telling stories, climbing Rupert's beard (a parody of Rapunzel) and climbing a magic beanstalk for a golden reward.
 * On the first day of release when you clicked to see the rewards you got the message, "Spoilers are only given on the day of release in fairy tales."
 * After the player names the gnome in the story with Grimgnash, Grimgnash gets upset. He claims "You shouldn't name food! If Human had a carrot, would Human call it Jasper?" This is a reference to the British Comedian Jasper Carrot.
 * The silent q in the princess' name is a reference to the book shop sketch by Monty Python.
 * When trying to pronounce the princess' name, your character says "...Marzipan?" - a reference to either a character in the online comic Homestar Runner or the sugar and almond confection that she's named after.
 * Glod, the quest's final boss, resembles The Hulk in many ways. Both are bare-chested, both have discoloured skin, both have a similar face and hairstyle, and Glod even yells "GLOD SMASH!", just like the Hulk.
 * The shrinking potion is a reference to Alice in Wonderland.
 * If you take the 'd' off the end of Rupert The Beard, you're left with Rupert The Bear, a once popular fictional charcter.
 * This quest has the highest skill level requirement of any other quest, with Woodcutting at level 71.