TokTz-Ket-Dill

TokTz-Ket-Dill (roughly translated as Obsidian Guard Armadillo) is a quest where players are asked to defeat a monster terrorising the city of TzHaar. This monster's burrowing has already caused some tunnels within the TzHaar to collapse; it must be stopped before the entire city is threatened!

Starting Out
To begin the quest speak to one of the three guards (TzHaar-Mej-Malk, TzHaar-Xil-Tog or TzHaar-Hur-Frok) guarding a collapsed tunnel located immediately east of the TzHaar city entrance (down the stairs from the gold ore in Karamja volcano). They will explain that some tunnels have been knocked down, trapping a few TzHaar.

The TzHaar Tourist Guide

 * Talk to TzHaar-Ket-Grol south of where you are when the dialogue has ended. He will not allow you to go in unless you have the proper materials. He writes them down on a stone tablet, but it is in the TzHaar language!
 * Go to the TzHaar Library to get a translation book for the list of required items. The Library is located on the other side of the city between the furnace pit and summoning obelisk just west of the fairy ring, and is labeled "Library."


 * Talk to the Librarian, TzHaar-Mej-Lor, who sadly (and amusingly) shows you that all the books have been burnt to ashes by the heat! It then tells you to go to Varrock for the original book.
 * Now head to the Varrock Castle. The library is in the back of the castle, the northernmost room on the ground floor. You can teleport or use the nearby Fairy ring (coordinates DKR lies outside the nearby Grand Exchange).
 * Talk to Reldo and he will tell you to search the bookcases for the TzHaar Tourist Guide.
 * Search the second bookcase from the south on the western wall, and you will find the book. The bookcase that it is in is slightly discolored.
 * Get to TzHaar again. The fairy ring for TzHaar is BLP; alternatively, you can use your Amulet of Glory to go to Karamja and walk to the volcano.
 * Go to TzHaar-Ket-Grol. He will now ask what have you been able to translate and ask you some questions and the answers are: a pickaxe (you'll need a Rune pickaxe), oak planks (you'll need 13-15 oak planks) and blocks of stone (18-20 blocks of stone from TzHaar mine). (Also, you will need a hammer and chisel, but these are not asked for.)
 * Go east and tell TzHaar-Ket-Rok that you are allowed in the mine.

The TzHaar Theatre

 * Now enter the mine and speak with TzHaar-Hur-Brekt and keep talking until you get to change the plot of the play so that "the humans started it." At this point you have to help "write" a play.
 * Then talk to TzHaar-Hur-Klag and choose the option "How can I make the story better?" (choose this first for all the miners). Next choose "TzHaar who gets assaulted in its home is TzHaar-Hur."
 * Then talk to TzHaar-Mej-Kol and choose the option "One is a TzHaar-Mej who is aware of the situation."
 * Talk to TzHaar-Xil-Mor and choose the only option. (That they are to be the criminal)
 * Then return to TzHaar-Hur-Brekt and choose "we should decide an ending" then "the criminal's plans are foiled."
 * Retell the plot to the miners, then go to TzHaar-Xil-Mor and choose "The plans aren't always foiled."
 * Talk to TzHaar-Hur-Brekt and tell him that "They are all happy with the plot."

The TzHaar Plot

 * Though you are not required to do so, speak with TzHaar-Ket-Lurk to find out the personality traits of the elders.
 * TzHaar-Ket-Jok gets the role of JalYt Jenny. Ask if he is happy with the role and slightly modify the role. Say no to his request.
 * TzHaar-Xil-Mor gets the role of TokTz-Ket-Ek-Mack. His role needs no modification to make him pleased with his part.
 * TzHaar-Hur-Klag gets the role of TzHaar-Hur. Say yes to his request for modification of the role.
 * TzHaar-Mej-Kol gets the role of KetKul-Schmul. Then click modify after he gets upset.
 * Finally speak to TzHaar-Hur-Brekt, tell him that all the roles have been assigned, and he will tell you how to mine magma.

Obsidian Pillars

 * Simply click on one of the striped areas of wall to the East of TzHaar-Hur-Brekt with a pickaxe in your inventory to obtain a piece of stone slab. Two pieces of stone slab can be mined from each 'wall' before the ore runs out (40 mining xp each), and the respawn rate is quite fast. (Note: If you are having trouble mining the ore, try clicking the wall repeatedly. Don't wait for the mining emote to finish; if you are going to get the ore successfully, it will happen right away.)  You are told to take 20 stone slabs into the tunnel, but it is a good idea to mine as much as you can carry in case you make any mistakes later on and need additional pieces. Go back to the TzHaar bank and with a hammer and chisel in your inventory use the chisel with the stone slabs (20 crafting experience each) to create stone pillars, which you will need to repair the tunnel.
 * Now withdraw from the bank your armour (a good idea is to use mage robes for the mage attack bonus and minimal negative range attack), runes to cast enough spells to deal with several enemies (water based attacks are effective against the fire monsters), and a ranged weapon (with ammunition). You can use prayer against the monsters in the tunnel, but take some food if you are cautious, your pickaxe, and 16 oak planks. Fill the rest of your inventory with stone pillars.

Treating the Planks

 * Now go talk to Tzhaar-Hur-Frok, one of the three mine guards north of TzHaar-Ket-Grol, and ask if he can turn your oak planks into treated oak planks.
 * Go back to TzHaar-Ket-Grol, then enter the crack in the wall to the south.

Repairing the Tunnels



 * Players enter three connected tunnels which have been damaged by TokTz-Ket-Dill. To get to the next tunnel, all damaged areas in that particular tunnel need to be fixed.
 * Some sections of the walls have caved-in (shown as red corridor sections on the minimap) and some sections of the ceiling have caved-in (shown as piles of rubble, as well as pale brown shapes on the minimap).
 * If players try to mine into the next tunnel before stabilising all the cave-ins in the current one, they fail and take 40 to 130 life points damage.
 * To repair both kinds of damage, first examine them.
 * On a caved-in wall, if the damage is very bad, use a stone pillar. Use oak planks otherwise.
 * On a caved-in ceiling, if the damage is not too bad, use oak planks. Use a stone pillar otherwise.
 * If the wrong kind of material is used, the repair collapses, damaging players 40 to 130 life points.
 * Players can safely walk past or jump over cave-ins before they are repaired.
 * After placing a stone pillar, players cannot pass through it. Players should survey each tunnel and plan what goes where before unwittingly trapping themselves behind a pillar or blocking off something else they need to repair.
 * If players need to pass a pillar, they must collapse the pillar, destroying it permanently.
 * Players can safely walk past the oak planks once in position.
 * The first tunnel requires 6 planks and 4 pillars to repair.
 * The second tunnel requires 6 planks and 6 pillars to repair.
 * The third tunnel requires 2 planks and 7 pillars to repair.
 * A player may quit the tunnels at any time (e.g., to restock supplies) without losing progress by returning to the dungeon entrance.
 * The second and third tunnels contains fire monsters and lava monsters. Both types of monsters stay behind a lava stream and are level 47.
 * Players cannot cross the lava streams with a monster waiting on the other side. The game doesn't permit it.
 * Fire monsters attack with magic and must be fought with magic. Protect from Magic protects from the fire monster's attack.
 * Lava monsters attack with magical ranged and must be fought with ranged. Protect from Missiles protects from the lava monster's attack.
 * The second tunnel, contains a fire monster.
 * The third tunnel, contains a fire monster and two lava monsters.
 * One of the lava monsters is hiding behind a rock. Players must kill it from a dead-end side tunnel. Darts do not reach far enough to kill it, so it is best to bring a bow or crossbow.
 * The other two monsters attack players simultaneously, one with magic and one with ranged, since the tunnel is a multi-combat area.
 * A Ring of Recoil is useless against these creatures.

Battling the TokTz-Ket-Dill

 * Bring Rune or Dragon Pickaxe to break the shell.


 * In the next tunnel are the trapped TzHaar-Hurs.
 * Right-click and talk to them. Ask them if they've seen the TokTz-Ket-Dill. They say it has a small home in a tunnel to the north.
 * Clear the rubble to the south to get quick access to the bank, get some melee-resistant armour and a crush weapon for the fight with level 100 TokTz-Ket-Dill, and return.
 * Enter the tunnel to the north.


 * Warning: The TokTz-Ket-Dill can slam its tail on the ground and cause the ceiling to fall onto players. Heavy damage from the falling ceiling penetrates prayer. Although the monster can do it at any time, it appears to do it much more frequently if players are using prayer before the shell is broken. Players should not use prayer before breaking the shell. Players should use Protect from Melee after breaking the shell.


 * The fight is fairly unique, since the TokTz-Ket-Dill has very thick armour that can only be broken with a rune pickaxe or a dragon pickaxe with the spike (accurate, stab) attack style. Players must keep hitting it with a pickaxe until its armour breaks. The need to shatter the armour, this armour is also shared with the bulwark beast.
 * Players hit 0 while this is happening, but they get a message saying its armour is breaking.
 * The area is single combat.
 * When the TokTz-Ket-Dill's shell is broken, use any melee weapon with crush attack style, like warhammers, the Gadderhammer, Dragon Maces, Saradomin Sword, the Godsword, or just simply the pickaxe (The Dharok's Greataxe is also useful but requires 70 attack and strength). The Barrelchest Anchor from The Great Brain Robbery is also effective, especially with its special attack (Sunder) that doubles the chance of hitting.
 * If players use the wrong style or weapon, they do not damage it.
 * It uses slow, but strong, ranged and melee attacks, and can hit over 200 with ranged.
 * The TokTz-Ket-Dill rarely uses ranged attacks, but they are much more accurate than the melee attacks.
 * After killing the TokTz-Ket-Dill, it drops 1,000 Tokkul and Big bones.

Completing the quest
Head out of the caves, and talk to any of the three TzHaar to finish the quest.

Rewards

 * 1 Quest point
 * 5,000 Experience
 * 5,000 Experience
 * 10,000 Experience
 * 15,000 Experience
 * 20,000 Experience
 * Access to new Mining area with coal, mithril and adamantite rocks (access after third dungeon; don't have to kill boss monster to mine)
 * Ability to mine obsidian in the TzHaar mines
 * After killing the TokTz-Ket-Dill, you can pick up 1000 Tokkul and some big bones
 * The possibility of watching TzHaar-Hur-Brekt's play

Music unlocked

 * Arma Gonna Get You
 * Dillo-gence is Key
 * TokTz-Ket-Ek-Mack (After the quest, if you ask to watch TzHaar-Hur-Brekt's play.)

Trivia
Man Spricht TzHaar TokTz-Ket-Dill TokTz-Ket-Dill TokTz-Ket-Dill
 * Assembling a pillar gives 40 construction exp and pushing it down gives 30 strength exp.
 * The TzHaar playwright TzHaar-Hur-Brekt is a reference to the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, writer of The Threepenny Opera (parodied as The Three Tokkul Opera if you talk to TzHaar-Hur-Brekt after the quest). The name of the villain, TokTz-Ket-Ek-Mack, roughly translates to "Mack the Knife", who is the villain from that same work.
 * If one asks to see the play, it turns out that the production is a bit unusual, or as the character puts it, "different." TzHaar-Hur-Brekt attempts to tell the story which the character helped to script, but the actors take issue with the direction of the plot, and when things threaten to get violent on stage, TzHaar-Hur-Brekt puts an end to the play by abruptly saying "The end." He has to say this twice before they stop bickering. This sort of theatre seems to be the norm for the TzHaar, as TzHaar-Hur-Brekt does not seem bothered by his actors' behavior.
 * On the first day of release, when a player clicked to see spoilers it said "Sadly the rewards were written with chalk (in a circle, for some reason) and has been smudged by a large rodent, please check back tomorrow." This may be a reference to the Brecht play 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle'. It also sounds similar to the Free Home Teleport in the modern spellbook. A circle you draw with a chalk, and in which ending up in Lumbridge where you find giant rats.
 * One of the 'ashes' on the TzHaar bookshelves in the JalYt section has the name 'Fight Caves for Dummies' on it. This is a reference to the 'For Dummies' series of reference books.
 * The HAM storerooms are visible from the obsidian mine.
 * As of 23 March 2010 Jagex updated the TokTz-Ket-Dill fight so that you can now use a dragon pickaxe as well as a rune pickaxe to break it's shell.
 * With the Orb of oculus, the Stronghold of Security is visible to the north-west, and the theatre at the north, along with some other TzHaar rooms.
 * The strategy for defeating the Bulwark Beast in the Abandoned floors of Daemonheim is similar to the one for defeating the TokTz-Ket-Dill, in which you also need to use a pickaxe to break its outer shell.