Dimension of Disaster

Dimension of Disaster is RuneScape's 200th quest. It features an where the player character never existed, changing the course of history in Gielinor. It has no requirements to start, and is based in alternate Varrock. It consists of five subquests similarly to Recipe for Disaster. These include an introductory quest and "twisted" versions of existing quests, namely Shield of Arrav, Demon Slayer, Defender of Varrock and The Curse of Arrav, with the latter requiring completion of all the former to start.

Players cannot bring any of their own items into the quest, and there is not a bank or Grand Exchange, meaning players will have to create or purchase their own equipment to complete the quest. Like Broken Home, it is replayable, with some additional rewards available for doing so.

Official description
Have you ever stopped to think what would happen if you did not exist? In a pocket dimension of Varrock - an alternate reality - you were never born, the Sixth Age never happened, and the villains you would have defeated rule with impunity.

In this reality, Varrock has suffered greatly over the past year; its citizens massacred when the demon Delrith was summoned by Denath. Shortly thereafter, the city was conquered by the Mahjarrat necromancer Zemouregal's horde of armoured zombies.

Zemouregal has since corralled Delrith behind a demonic ward in the south-east corner of the city, and raised any Varrock citizens who are still reasonably intact as zombies.

Can you find your way into this dimension and overthrow the villains once more?

Subquest 1: Coin of the Realm
The quest may be started by speaking to Gypsy Aris in her tent in Varrock Square. This will start a short introductory subquest, which is required to complete the other subquests in the quest.

A Guide to New Varrock
After completing the first subquest, you will arrive in New Varrock, an alternate version of Varrock under the control of the Mahjarrat Zemouregal. It is wholly separate from the rest of the game, and you cannot bring any items in. Thus, you will need to obtain new armour and weapons from around the area. You will have to make most items yourself, either using items gathered or bought in shops with zemomarks, the currency of New Varrock. Alternatively, you can trade with other players.

Obtaining Zemomarks
Zemomarks can be obtained by completing tasks, quests and selling things to shops.


 * A good way to get some Zemomarks early on is to claim some free runes from Aubury and free arrows and bolts from Lowe and sell them to the general store for 690 Zemomarks in total. This can be repeated.
 * If you have Level 29 Crafting, then another way to make money is by killing the cows just east of east bank and taking the hide to the tanner south of the west bank. Tan the hides to hard leather, and craft them into shields. You can get the thread from Zaff who owns the staff shop or the tanner himself, and they will sell for 71 each at the general store.
 * If you have a higher level of crafting ( 58+ optimal ) you can buy one of each type of gems from the gemstall just outside the general store and make them into bracelets at the furnace south of the west bank to gain 1500+ Zemomarks.
 * Buying 10 iron ore from the smith in west varrock, then turning into iron knives (smith north of Lowe) can make lots of profit. Each bar makes 5 knives, and each knife is worth the price of each ore (17).
 * Cutting trees, turning the logs into arrow shafts, and selling them to the general store is a good way to earn Zemomarks. Each arrow shaft sells for 3 Zemomarks, meaning you get 45 Zemomarks per log, or 1260 per inventory of logs.

Obtaining equipment
Armour and weapons can be obtained from a variety of places in New Varrock. Only equipment up to level 20 can be obtained, although as level 20 equipment is very rare, it is more practical to create level 10 equipment.


 * Melee equipment
 * Bronze armour and weapons may be purchased from Horvik and the sword shopkeeper relatively cheaply.
 * Sani the smith sells tin, copper and iron, which may then be smelted and smithed into iron armour and iron weapons.
 * Darklight is a reward from completing Dimension of Disaster: Demon Slayer. It is the strongest melee weapon that may be obtained within New Varrock.
 * Magic equipment
 * Zaff sells wizard robes, wizard wands and wizard's books. He also sells Imphide, which may be crafted into Imphide robes and an imphide wand and imphide books.
 * Ranged equipment
 * A leather body can be found in a house near Aubury's rune shop. Soft and hard leather can be purchased directly from the tanner's stock or tanned from the hides of undead cows. These can be crafted into leather and hard leather armour.

Obtaining food
A wide variety of food can be found throughout New Varrock.
 * Xaun in Varrock Square sells cabbages, raw onions and tomatos, which heal 210, 200 and 200 life points each, respectively.
 * Zombie cows and Undead chickens may also be killed to obtain raw undead beef and raw undead chicken, which may be cooked to obtain cooked undead meat and cooked undead chicken, which heal 200 life points each.
 * Gertrude sells Chocolate cake and Stew for 170 and 140 zemomarks each, respectively. The cake heals for 1250 hitpoints and the Stew heals for 625 life points. Both of these are stackable.
 * Using an empty jug on the barrels of wine located southeast of the castle will give you Wine of Zemouregal which heal for 865LP. Only one Wine of Zemouregal can be held at one time, but you can keep refilling and drinking to restore LP. Drinking the wine will lower your attack. Empty jugs can be purchased at the General Store for 1 zemomark, or be picked up from a spawn next to the wine barrel.

New Varrock Tasks
During the quest, a number of tasks may be completed for Tiny Zemouregal for additional rewards. These are saved between quest resets.

Subquests 2-4
Three subquests must be found and completed within New Varrock in order to finish the quest.

Subquest 5: The Curse of Arrav
After completing Shield of Arrav, Demon Slayer and Defender of Varrock, the final subquest may be started by speaking to Arrav in New Varrock Palace gardens.

Finishing up
After completing Curse of Arrav, you will be returned to standard Varrock. Speak to Gypsy Aris, and she will tell you some statistics about things you did in the quest, and give you some additional rewards.

Congratulations, quest complete!

Rewards

 * 10 quest points
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 * The ability to replay Dimension of Disaster
 * The ability to wear cosmetic overrides in New Varrock
 * 10 silver pennies in Gypsy Aris's reward shop
 * 12 Treasure Hunter keys for use in Treasure Hunter
 * 12 Hearts of Ice for use in Treasure Hunter

Music unlocked

 * Evil Spirit
 * Exorcism
 * Grave Parade
 * Medi-Evil
 * Misadventure
 * Soiled
 * Undead Army II

Trivia



 * The quest's location and the inclusion of twisted Shield of Arrav were the result of two Player Power polls. Gertrude's Cat also won the same Player Power poll, but was added to a task set unique to alternate Varrock. It was originally supposed to be its own quest, but lack of time (and connection to the main storyline) prevented this from happening.
 * Other titles for the quest included The Edge of Disaster, Nothing Interesting Happens, City of Villains and A World without Heroes, while New Varrock's originally suggested names were all based on Zemouregal's name.
 * When battling Zemourgal as Arrav, if you use the immortality ability you can change back into your character when you are revived, and you will have your Darklight and shield during the cut-scene along with Arrav. This might be a glitch due to the fact that there are two shields of Arrav in the cut-scene.