Broken Home

Broken Home is a repeatable quest that becomes harder every time it is completed. While it is standalone, there are references to existing quests as well. It can be started by talking to Maria, west of Paterdomus.

Start
Start the quest west of Paterdomus by talking to Maria. She can be found just outside of the huge mansion to the east of Varrock, close to the start of the quest: Rag and Bone Man. She will tell you that a ghost is haunting her house and killing people. She tells you that Ingram, the owner of the house, was looking for something but found a ghost. She will ask you to enter the house. Note: To enter the house, you must have no items equipped or in your inventory. There is a bank deposit box next to Maria.

Inside the House
Always keep an eye for smoke coming from behind the doors to avoid getting hit by Ormod. If there is smoke, first peek through the door and then click enter room. You don't have to wait for it to show him leaving — he won't be there when you walk through the door.

While inside the house, your minimap will be replaced with the layout of the house with the location of the house's doors. Some doors will be bolted and can be unbolted from the other side. Every door in the house is locked except the first door on the west side, downstairs. Enter the door and you will reach a save point. When a save point is reached, you are free to log out and resume the quest at the beginning of a save point. Search the chest to find Mystery meat (will heal you to full health so don't eat until very low on health) and walk inside the door to the north. Walk into the west door and you will see a Servant being eaten. Pick up the clock hands and the raven key. Walk back to the first room and use the clock hands on the grandfather clock. You will receive an eye gem. Go back into the corridor and unbolt the east door to go back to the entrance of the house. Go east and unlock the eastern, raven door.

The Raven door
A cutscene occur where you see a ghost of a boy walking through a wall. Go through the southern door and search the desk. You will find a note from Ingram, explaining that the ghost is Ormod's son and other facts about the ghosts. Head to eastern room to find a magically closed chest, which you can't open and a stack of books. Click on the books to begin a sorting puzzle.

Sorting the books
The puzzle may be different for every player, but after every combination, hints are given to what the order is. The aim is to stack books in right order. Start with any order and hints will be given. The easiest way to complete the puzzle is to swap books between 1 position (starting from the bottom), until the hint tells that the position has the correct book in it and then move to next one. After completing the puzzle, the books will fall and you'll find 2 eye gems.

Statue puzzle
After solving the book puzzle walk back to the study and head north to the corridor. Go through the eastern door and enter the room. Enter the only door in the corridor then you will run into another corridor, with the door you came through, two sets of doors, and a staircase. At the western end there is another chest with a temporal magic seal. Open the first door to the left and there will be a puzzle. The aim is to reach the table at the end of the room.
 * 1) Push the guard west. (Westernmost guard, closest to the door).
 * 2) Walk as far as possible to the south as you can and push the eastern guard.
 * 3) Walk south again and push the guard west.
 * 4) Push the most western guard at the back south.
 * 5) Push the most eastern guard east.
 * 6) Push the guard south of where you are standing south.
 * 7) Push the last guard west and retrieve another eye gem.

Spider Key
Leave the room, and inside the corridor, ascend the stairs as the last set of doors will be locked. When you get to the top of the stairs, take the eastern doors immediately next to the stairs. This will lead into a hallway with only one exit to the east. Go through that door into another hallway. The southern door will be locked, but the western door at the southern end of the hallway will be open. Enter this western room and search Ingram's research notes which are difficult to see but on the floor. These notes will talk of Ormod's madness and his attempts to cure it. When you are done reading, you will receive the spider key and first part of scroll fragments. Trace your steps back to the hallway where you ascended to the first floor. From here, unbolt the southern doors and you will arrive in the main hall's upstairs.

When at the main hall's upstairs go through western door which uses spider key and head immediately to south. You'll find a dead servant laying in bed - search him for another Eye gem. After searching him, head to west to find a room with sink. The southern wall of this room is actually a curtain. Open the curtain and there's a Faceless servant trembling behind it. Try talk to her and search her for statue key. Statue key opens a door in the north-western part of upstairs.

Statue Door
From dead servant's room head north, then take the north wall door and the northern door again. Enter the statue door, which is the middle door, to find another eye gem and a Statue. At this point you should have 6 eye gems. Investigate statue 2 times (uses 2 eye gems) to open the western door. You find another statue here, again investigate it 2 times to use 2 eye gems to open southern door just to find another statue. After investigating 3rd statue 2 times you can head to room in the east to find a scythe key and another statue. Again statue needs eye gems to open the door, but these we don't have yet. Scythe door on the other hand can be found at the eastern part of main hall's upstairs area - so head there.

Scythe Door
Behind the scythe door you'll find a corridor with 4 more doors. Try to open the south-western to end up into a conversation with Ingram, just to find out you shouldn't enter the basement. The north-western room offers nothing at this point, so head to unbolt the north-eastern door. After this head to south-eastern door to find a Shrine and a chest. This room is also a save point for the quest. Search Shrine for Grand piano key and a skull key, chest for another piece of mystery meat. Skull door can be found in the downstairs north-western room (northern door). Upon leaving the safe room you'll hear a scream - go and peek through the scythe door just to find another dead servant leaning on the door and therefore blocking it, so you must leave this room through the door you unbolted. While taking the detour around the upstairs and entering the room with another stairs, you'll find out someone has bolted the southern door - so you must head downstairs and take another detour. The most eastern room in the downstairs suddenly starts shaking and turns purple. This purple energy deals damage to you, run through the southern door. Also the main hall area of the mansion is purple and will deal damage to you, run through it and enter the north-western door and then head to northern skull door.

Skull Door
Behind the skull door you'll find another room, the south-eastern room offers a study. Search Ormod's notes to find another scroll fragment. The north-eastern room has a mysterious glass in the middle of the room and Ghostly waif on the other side of it. You can talk to and mimic the waif but it offers nothing no matter how many times you try. So head out and through northern door. In this room, enter the western door to find the grand piano. Try to play it with the key in inventory to open a hidden door. Behind the door you'll find a few skeletons and the purple damaging light starts damaging you again. Skeleton in the south-eastern corner contains an eye gem so quickly grab it and then leave the room. From piano room head east and enter the eastern door to find stairs leading down and another door which leads again to the room with mirror and the ghostly waif - again, the mirror room offers nothing new except ghostly waif smiling at you. So head to downstairs to enter the basement area.

Basement
The western door on northern wall is another safe room, so head there and open the chest to find some mystery food. Back to bigger area of the basement, head to northern door on west wall to find another dead person, butler. Search him to obtain cleaver key and use the key to open the eastern door at the northern wall of the greater basement area. You will find yourself in a room with flying knives and broken glass. Dodge the knives and go through eastern door to enter a room with cauldron and a door with some ectoplasm blocking it. Enter the middle-northern room where you can search chest of drawers to get a large pipette, then head to eastern door on northern wall. Use pipette on pig to fill it with pig bile and exit the room. Head to eastern room and search the furnace to find human ashes. Use the ashes and filled pipette on the cauldron, then use the pipette on the cauldron again to fill it into alkaline concoction, and finally use the alkaline concoction on the door with dried ectoplasm to make ectoplasm vanish. Upon entering this door it gets bolted therefore you can't use it to get back to cauldron room. Enter the western room to find a frozen servant and tear the doll key from her mouth - Doll key opens a door in the western part of upstairs. The southern door of this room with frozen servant cannot be opened, so head back to corridor. The southern door from corridor room offers nothing but another magically closed chest and some wine barrels so head to north-eastern room. Search the key hooks next to ladders to get the snake key - a way to open the door top of these ladders. Climb up to find yourself at main hall and head to upstairs and through western door.

Another Eye gem
Head through the western door using the doll key finding some stairs leading up. Climb these to find Emaciated spirit and Tusks key, Tusks key opens a door in the northern part of upstairs so after talking to Emaciated spirit, who says about her hairbrush being lost, head down the stairs, through the doll door and enter northern door here and from the next room. You enter the room with statue door and tusks door, one on the east. Enter the tusks door here. Inside the room investigate the bust to open a trap door leading down, just to find a dead thief - apparently he has been here for quite a while. Search the Thief to find another eye gem.

Back to Statue room
You should now have two eye gems which can be used at the last statue on the statue room to open a hidden door. Climb up, head through the door and enter the middle door from the corridor. Run through the statue rooms to the last one with the hidden door and investigate the statue twice to use the eye gems and unlock the hidden door. Behind this room is another safe room and a shrine of son. Take from it to obtain the mother's hairbrush. This hairbrush should be taken to the emaciated spirit upstairs, behind the doll door. He tells you his name is Lenian and he is the son of Ormod and explains why Ormod haunts the mansion.

A small cutscene will occur and ghostly waif will consume Lenian's spirit and you'll find yourself downstairs with a noose key. The noose key opens a door in the north-eastern part upstairs. Head east just to notice the monstrous ghostly waif following you. Note that this monster will instantly kill you if it happens to catch you. Run east through the door and head to the eastern door in the northern wall - also move the servant at this point, if you haven't done so yet. Head through the northern door next to the stairs and enter the door immediately south of you to escape from the monster. When you reach the noose door, open the wardrobe and take the ladder down to the basement.

Basement and mausoleum
The nearest door to the ladder leads to a mausoleum with two coffins in it. After reaching the mausoleum, go back out to the ladder tunnel - go down the tunnel and look for a peephole on the walls. Peep through it, then head to the far door and go through. You'll be in the basement again. Take the north door, then the stairs down; keep going down. You'll automatically put in the code from the peephole, and after a few flights of stairs will reach a pressure plate door. Push all the statues except the north one so all the pressure pads are purple. Stand before the door, then go down the flights of stairs to reach the pit. Go down the pit to reach a safe room with two chests; one requires level 60 in all skills. Go out of the safe area into the hotel-like room and search the reception desk. Explore the hotel area until you find a dagger key - then go back up to the ladder to the top floor, and find Ingram's room which was previously locked (upstairs in the main hall, go to the east where you pushed away the dead butler, then the first door south). Avoid the monster, as always. '''Be extremely quick, as the monster on occasion spawns on the door you need to enter, giving you a small window of time to click the correct door before the monster kills you. An example of this would be the door to the room where Ingram hid. ''' Unlock Ingram's room and search Ingram's rantings for the final piece of the Break Curse scroll, which you can now put together. The room next to him has a level 90 chest.

Use the scroll on the monster, and talk to it - make your choice of whether to kill Ormod's ghost or grant him forgiveness. Regardless of your choice, meet the monster in the main hall, in the form of Lenian. Watch the cutscene, then exit the mansion and talk to Maria outside for your reward. Quest complete!

Reward

 * 1 Quest point
 * A small prismatic lamp
 * An emote
 * An Asylum doctor's ring, that causes monsters to drop food items
 * The ability to replay the quest for more rewards

Early Bird Bonus
The early bird bonus consists of the following rewards and are only rewarded if the quest is completed within two weeks of the release of the quest.
 * A large prismatic lamp in place of the regular small lamp
 * A prismatic large fallen star
 * Boosted damage against ghosts in the 2014 Hallowe'en event

Replay bonuses
After completion, the quest can be replayed for the following rewards.
 * More XP lamps, some of which are unlocked on level milestones between level 10 and 90
 * A pet
 * The asylum surgeon's ring

Trivia

 * "Broken Home" is a term for a family in which the parents are divorced or separated.
 * Mod Jack confirmed prior to release that this quest would have an Early Bird Bonus.