Evil Chicken

The Evil chicken is a quest monster in Recipe for Disaster and a retired random event (Feb. 25 2009).

During Recipe for Disaster, the player must go to the Evil Chicken's Lair, defeat the evil Chicken to obtain a special egg which is an ingrediant in the Brulee. The player must then come back again to kill a Black dragon to obtain a dragon token to summon a fairy dragon to turn the Brulee into a Creme brulee supreme.

The chicken as a random event could occur at any time, during any action, even while standing around or in combat. It was one of only two hostile random events that were not skill related, the other one being the Swarm (also retired). The Evil Chicken can also be randomly encountered in various chicken farms throughout the world, provoking other chickens to fight against their human masters.

The Evil Chicken hits a maximum of 5 damage, at any level. Despite its low maximum hit, it has high accuracy regardless of player's defence, though it sometimes misses. The Evil Chicken cannot move and has a range of 5 squares. If you try to step on it, it will say "Bwaark! Get off of me!" and your character will take damage and automatically step one square away from the chicken.

Recipe for disaster


The Evil Chicken is part of the Recipe for Disaster: Sir Amik Varze subquest during which you must kill it. It is always slightly stronger than its random event version (see below), so the random event chicken would have been level 79, you will get attacked by a level 81 chicken. The highest level it can reach is 159. A player will have access to the Evil Chicken's Lair for Black dragons and mining ores after they defeat the Evil Chicken, but the bird itself will not appear.

The Wise Old Man of Draynor Village has a book on the origin of the Evil Chicken, titled "Book on chickens".

Random event
As a random event its level depended upon the player's level, with a maximum level of 159. Many lower levels could still kill it.



The Evil Chicken yelled the following while attacking:


 * "Bwuk bwuk bwuk"
 * "Flee from me, [player's name]!"
 * "Begone, [player's name]!"
 * "MUAHAHAHAHAAA!"

When he appeared underwater, the phrases were different:


 * "Swim faster, [player's name]"
 * "Bwaaaauuuuk glub glub"
 * "Even here you cannot escape me, [player's name]"
 * "My fury is deeper than the oceans!"
 * "Glub"

You could only avoid its attack by running away or staying behind a solid wall, not behind a obstacle. When a player ran far enough, a message appeared in the chatbox reading "The Evil Chicken realises you're out of range and vanishes." If a player was not out of range but nonetheless could not be attacked by the chicken, after approximately a minute a message appeared with "The Evil Chicken gets bored and vanishes." Through a glitch, it was possible to move up or down levels in a building and then return to the level the evil chicken is on without being attacked.



Drops

 * Raw chicken
 * Feathers (more than a normal chicken, from 32 to 750 feathers)
 * Bones
 * Evil Chicken's egg

The Evil Chicken (as a random event) used to drop an egg upon killing it. However it was probably removed to avoid confusion with the Evil Chicken's egg in Recipe for Disaster.

Trivia

 * The Evil Chicken is male and can lay eggs. In reality, all male "chickens" are roosters and unable to lay eggs.
 * The Evil Chicken had one of the lowest wander range of any monster (along with Monkey Archers), at only 1 square (this means he cannot move at all).
 * If you walked on the Evil Chicken as a random event, it would shove you away, dealing up to 4 damage. It would say "Bwuk! Get off of me!". If the random event chicken appeared in front of a furnace, a player could step on it for a moment by clicking the furnace, although the chicken would finally expel the player.
 * According to Evil Bob, in the parallel world of ScapeRune there is a "cheery old chicken" instead of an evil chicken.
 * If you were under water when the Evil Chicken attacked, it will be wearing scuba gear and a fishbowl with air bubbles coming out, just like you.
 * Although the tested max hit of the level 159 evil chicken was only 5, the Monster Examine on the random event one stated 21.
 * It is possible the Evil Chicken is a reference to an "evil" chicken from Terry Goodkind's novel the "Soul of the Fire" (1999) from the "Sword of Truth" series. In the book a chicken is possessed and attacks several people, even killing one.
 * In the console-based video game, Fable 2, there may be several references to the evil chicken, such as a book titled "Megafowl", which is about a "wickedly evil chicken"
 * When using an egg upon the evil chicken shrine, the text "Nice idea, but nothing interesting happens." appears, rather than the typical "Nothing interesting happens."
 * In the first Postbag from the hedge, a player writes a letter to a chicken in Lumbridge, asking why he never leaves. The chicken responds by saying that there is a old chicken legend that speaks of a strong chicken who trained on logs and dummies until he managed to get over the fence. No one knows the fate of this chicken, for he has never been heard of since, altough the chicken claims he heard players talk of this 'Strong evil chicken' terrorising warriors all over RuneScape.