Zogre Flesh Eaters

Zogre Flesh Eaters is a Feldip Hills area quest in which you must venture into the crypts of Gu'Tanoth, an ogre resting ground, now crawling with undead zombie and skeleton ogres.

Containment
Begin by speaking to Grish in Jiggig, located a short run south of the Castle Wars and east of the Fairy ring (BKP).

When you talk to him, he instructs you to leave the area immediately as it is infected with certain creatures called Zogres. These zombie ogres are appearing from the ground and spreading sickness over the ogre ceremonial site. Ask if you can help, and he says that the underground burial dungeon must be the reason for the zogres' presence.

Ground Zero
Grish gives you two Super restore potions (3) and three Cooked chompy birds (make sure you have enough inventory space or you will not receive the super restore potion). If you have other food, you may wish to get rid of the Cooked chompy birds quickly, as they are quite heavy.

Talk to the ogre guard to the east, by the barricades. After you mention Grish's mission, he removes the barricade to allow you inside the zogre-infested area. Jump the barricade, and attempt to avoid the zogres and skogres while running east to a set of stairs going downward. Take these stairs into the dungeon.

Note: You may now have become diseased, unless you are 89 combat or higher. Make sure you carry restore or super restore potions with you, as the disease will temporarily reduce a random skill by up to 10 levels, striking another random skill about every 18 seconds, with gradually diminishing effects until it finally fades out. You may also use Relicym's balm to cure disease; it takes a variable number of doses to fully cure the disease, however.

Evil Roots
Proceed to the far north-west corner of the dungeon to an area with several ogre coffins. When you enter the room you will see a short cutscene where the contents of the room are focused on - a skeleton and an ogre coffin. Search the skeleton propped up on the broken lectern, spawning an aggressive zombie; if it manages to hit you, you will become diseased. Kill it to obtain a backpack, which contains a dragon inn tankard, some rotten food, and a knife.

The food and knife can be discarded. Search the broken lectern to find a torn page that contains a spell used to place a curse on the area, raising the dead "for all time"; also, the page reveals a guild emblem on closer inspection. Keep the page, as it will be needed later on. Search the coffin and then use the knife on it to unlock it. Search the coffin again to lift the lid; you may need a couple of tries. When the coffin is open, search it to obtain a black prism. Now proceed to Yanille to begin your investigation of the objects.

Dark Arts
In Yanille, proceed to the Dragon Inn, located in the southwest corner of the city, and use the dragon inn tankard on the bartender. The bartender explains that the tankard belonged to Brentle Vahn, a not-so-moral customer who was usually seen with a shady wizard. Talk to Zavistic Rarve in the Wizard's guild. If the player doesn't have the required magic level to enter the guild, ring the front bell and Zavistic will appear outside.

Talk to Rarve and show him the black prism and torn page. He mentions that although practicing black arts is forbidden, studying it is not; a certain Sithik Ints was often seen reading about it. Rarve points you to Sithik - in the guest house north of the guild.

Portraiture
Proceed to the top floor of the guest house, and into the west bedroom. Sithik is ill and currently bed-ridden. Talk to him, and he denies any connection to the zogres. You tell him you will search the room for evidence. Search the drawers, the cupboard, and the wardrobe on the west side of the bed. You find a Book of Portraiture, a Necromancy book, papyrus and charcoal, and a Book of 'h.a.m.'.

Read the books, then use the papyrus on Sithik to draw a portrait of him on it. When done, use the portrait on him.


 * If Sithik appreciates the "truth" of the portrait, then the portrait isn't realistic enough and you should try again.

If this happens, search the drawers for more papyrus and sketch him again.


 * With an accurate portrait, Sithik will appreciate the "honesty" of the portrait.

Head over to the Dragon Inn and use the portrait on the bartender. Show the bartender the tankard first. The bartender recognises Sithik, and returns it as a signed portrait.

Incriminating Sithik
Return to the magic guild, and talk to Zavistic Rarve about some items you'd like him to look at. He goes through the evidence automatically, starting with the necromancy book and the torn page, followed by the book of 'h.a.m.' and the dragon inn tankard. However, what tips him over the edge is the signed portrait. This is enough evidence for him to gather more information from Sithik. He gives you a strange potion, which you must use on Sithik to solicit some answers.

Return to Sithik and try using the potion on him; he flatly refuses. Empty the potion into the cup of tea on Sithik's drawers. Leave and re-enter the area to find that Sithik has turned into an ogre. Talk to Sithik, and he confesses to being a H.A.M. member.

He spills out information on the zogres. Firstly, he had hired Vahn to cast the spell to eradicate the ogres, and that it is irreversible. The only way to contain the disease is by containing the afflicted. The undead ogres can be harmed by a special type of arrows - 'brutal', which are made from flat sides of nails - providing powerful crushing power against the zogres and skogres. Finally, the cure from the sickness is by using the healing properties of rogue's purse and snake weed.

Optional: Making Relicym's balm/Ogre Composite Bow/Brutal arrows
Obtaining the answers from Sithik unlocks your ability to make items that are tremendously helpful for finishing the quest: Relicym's balm, the Ogre Composite Bow, and Brutal arrows. However, making the ogre composite bow/brutal arrows and relicym's balm yourself is not necessary.

You can speed up the quest quite a bit by purchasing these items from the Grand Exchange, as obtaining the ingredients for each can take a substantial amount of time.

Relicym's balm
Relicym's balm cures the disease spread by the zogres. The cure requires three doses when the disease is at full strength. To make the cure requires rogue's purse, which you mix with a vial of water to create a rogue's purse potion(unf). Mix the unfinished potion with snake weed to create the Relicym's balm.

Both snake weed and rogue's purse are untradeable items located in different parts of Karamja and take some time to obtain. Snake weed is south of Tai Bwo Wannai, while rogue's purse is up north, there is a small pile of rocks near the beach, search them and go down into a cave. You have to run past aggressive level 53 Jogres to get the rogue's purse, which looks like mold growing on the walls.

Ogre Composite Bow & Brutal arrows
You can make an Ogre Composite Bow by using a knife on an achey tree log with wolf bones in the player's inventory creating an unstrung comp bow, which can then be used with a bowstring to create the finished bow. To make them, use a knife on an achey tree log to produce 2-6 Ogre arrow shafts, and then fletch them with feathers. This creates flighted ogre arrows. Use nails on the flighted ogre arrows with a hammer in inventory to create brutal arrows.

Note: There is no ranged level requirement to equip or use brutal arrows, so the only limitation on ammunition is what the player can fletch or obtain through the Grand Exchange. Thus, if a player has level 77 Fletching and rune nails, they can make and use rune brutal arrows even before the quest is completed.

Relocation
Items recommended: Ring of duelling, Relicym's balm, Prayer potion and/or Super restore potion(s), food, equipment to kill Slash Bash.

Return to Grish, and tell him what Sithik told you. Grish tells you that although he can shift the ceremonial grounds, he needs the sacred ogre artefact to move on and gives you an ogre gate key to obtain access to the ceremonial chamber. Following that, ask him if there is a more effective way to kill zogres. He shows how to use an ogre composite bow. While you can make one prior to this, only after your conversation with Grish can you wield it. Climb over the crushed barricade again, dodge the zogres and skogres, and climb down the stairs to the east.

Head straight west to the side of the cave, and look for two successive ogre stone doors. Proceed through these using the gate key and descend the stairs. Head north-east, past the zogres, and then go east to the far end of the room filled with skulls. Search the stand amongst the skulls (if maging or ranging, find a safespot to run back to).

A level 111 zogre named Slash Bash comes out from behind the skulls and proceeds towards you to attack. If using ranged, fire off the ogre composite bow; it should take about 30 or 40 mithril brutal arrows to kill him. If maging, cast Entangle or Snare, if you want, followed by Crumble Undead or a wave spell. Melee may be more difficult, due to Slash Bash's high defence and his switching between ranged and melee attack styles.

Your prayer randomly drops 100 or more points several times, so make sure to have prayer potions or super restore potions handy. A Falador shield may come in handy, and with 60+ prayer, may eliminate your need for prayer potions completely. If you wait too long to kill Slash Bash, he will get bored and disappear. Additionally but optional; If all of your melee combat stats are 85-90 or higher then the need of prayer isn't neccesary and it's easy to hit through him with melee but with still fairly low hits.

Once Slash Bash is dead, pick up the two zogre bones, three ourg bones, and ogre artefact he drops. Return to Grish for your reward.

Congratulations! Quest complete!

Rewards



 * 1 Quest Point
 * 3 Ourg bones which reward 140 prayer experience each
 * 2 Zogre bones which reward 22.5 prayer experience each
 * 2,000 experience
 * 2,000 experience
 * 2,000 experience
 * Access to Jiggig
 * Ability to make Relicym's balm
 * Ability to equip Inoculation brace
 * Ability to fletch Composite ogre bow and brutal arrows
 * Bonus: Take a bottle of Relicym's balm to Uglug Nar to open up his shop.
 * Bonus: Take the black prism to either Zavistic Rarve for 2,000 coins or to Yanni Salika in Shilo Village for 5,000 coins.
 * 2 extra spins on the Squeal of Fortune

Music unlocked

 * Wayward (Zogre Dungeon)
 * Zogre Dance (Jiggig)

Required for completing

 * As a First Resort...
 * Dealing with Scabaras
 * Rag and Bone Man wish list
 * Rum Deal
 * While Guthix Sleeps

Trivia
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 * The name of the quest, Zogre Flesh Eaters, is a play on the 1979 film Zombie Flesh Eaters.
 * Taking the signed portrait back to Sithik and using it on him prompts him to first remark that he has a common face, then to offer a 2 million coin bribe. However, if the player tries to accept the bribe, Sithik will retract the bribe and insult the player.
 * When asked about what he does, Sithik talks about bringing the dead back to life. The player remarks about how important he must be then, referencing how players always come back to life after being killed.
 * This quest is also necessary to be able to make Sanfew serum potions. Without the ability to make Relicym's balm, the ability to "cure disease" is not "known" by the player. Hence when trying to make Sanfew Serum all the player gets is a message that "you don't know what adding that will do."
 * If you try to start the quest without the requirements, a never-ending argument will ensue. He will say you "are too green around the ears" and you will say "no, I'm not" and he will say "yes, you are". This argument continues for several cycles until Grish finally responds "yes you are and that's final!"
 * After completing the quest, if you talk to Juna, your character will say, "...Those Zogres were disgusting! But I learned how to fight them with brutal arrows and disease balm." to which she replies, "Zombie Ogres!? Some of the foulest creatures of Zamorak. In the great wars the zogre armies could repel the forces of Saradomin with their stench alone!" This is odd considering that ogres are creatures of Bandos.
 * Level 8 herblore is needed for the quest but Jungle Potion, a requirement for this quest, will take a player to herblore level 9 even with no additional experience gained after druidic ritual.