Desert strykewyrm

Desert strykewyrms are slayer monsters located east of Al Kharid, just east of the palace, over a stile. They can only be killed if the player is assigned to kill them by a slayer master (level 77 Slayer required).

They appear as mounds on the ground. To initiate battle with one, the player must investigate it, and the strykewyrm will burst out of the ground and attack the player.

The Desert strykewyrm's special attack is burrowing under the ground and bursting out, dealing 30 damage to anyone around it, whether or not you are fighting it. This can be avoided by quickly running 5-6 squares away from the burrow. It is best to click on the ground itself instead of the minimap. If you run over the strykewyrm right after it bursts out of the ground you can be hit for 60 damage in the form of 30's. This attack can be disabled by standing near any kind of obstacle.

This special isn't common, and occurs about 1-2 times every few kills. The special attack of the Enhanced Excalibur is very useful for healing in the occasional event you are unable to dodge.

The area is in the desert, so waterskins or an enchanted water tiara are needed here. The Lunar spell Humidify is useful to fill up waterskins. Players may bring a knife to refill their waterskins from nearby healthy cacti.

Be careful where you step! You will get hit 30 damage by running over another player's monster when it goes to ground!

It is also possible to wear desert robes while killing these for higher combat levels (90+) to prevent too much damage.

Drops

 * Coins (extremely common)
 * Nothing (semi-common)

Runes

 * 15 Death runes (uncommon)
 * 2-100 Water runes (uncommon)
 * 15 Law runes (uncommon)

Weapons and armour

 * Focus sight (rare)
 * Rune hatchet (uncommon)
 * Shield left half (extremely rare)
 * 5 Rune javelins (very rare)
 * Mithril battleaxe (uncommon)
 * Rune spear (very rare)
 * Dragon spear (extremely rare)

Seeds

 * Cadantine seed
 * Avantoe seed
 * Kwuarm seed
 * Toadflax seed
 * Irit seed
 * Watermelon seed
 * Poison ivy seed
 * Snapdragon seed
 * Maple seed
 * Yew seed
 * Magic seed
 * Cactus seed
 * Torstol seed

Herbs
All herbs are noted.
 * Grimy guam (1-2)
 * Grimy marrentill (1-2)
 * Grimy harralander (1-2)
 * Grimy tarromin (2)
 * Grimy toadflax (1-15)
 * Grimy ranarr (1-4)
 * Grimy Avantoe (1-4)
 * Grimy kwuarm (1)
 * Grimy lantadyme (2)
 * Grimy dwarf weed (1-4)

Other drops

 * 2 cooked Swordfish (uncommon)
 * 2 Waterskins (4) (common)
 * Super defence potion (2 doses) (very common)
 * Uncut ruby (common)
 * Uncut sapphire (common)
 * Uncut emerald (common)
 * Uncut diamond (common)
 * 5-10 Potato cactus (noted) (uncommon)
 * 10 Yew logs (noted) (uncommon)
 * 3 Adamant bars (noted) (uncommon)
 * Tooth half of a key (rare)
 * Air talisman (uncommon)
 * Mind talisman (rare)
 * Earth talisman (rare)
 * Fire talisman (rare)
 * Chaos talisman (rare)
 * Nature talisman (uncommon)
 * Level 3 Clue scroll (rare)
 * 120 Pure essence (noted) (common)

Trivia

 * The release of strykewyrms was hinted with the Twitter Clue "Three strykes and they're out" and the Chaos Elemental hint in the Postbag From the Hedge a few weeks earlier.