Monkey Madness

''For the location sometimes called MM, see Mort Myre Swamp. For the queen of the sea slugs, see Mother Mallum.''

Monkey Madness is a long quest instalment in the gnome storyline, and is among one of the most challenging of RuneScape's quests. The majority of the quest is set on the Ape Atoll: an island inhabited by civilised but unfriendly and high-level monkeys. Among the rewards is the much-coveted ability to purchase and use the Dragon scimitar.

Monkey Madness is the only quest divided into sections with visible transitions between each section. Some of the logic in Monkey Madness was rewritten with the Patch Notes of 9 November 2009.

Tips

 * Always bring anti-poisons or super anti-poisons, emergency teleport, prayer potions, and food (sharks are great, monkfish will do just as well) when visiting Ape Atoll, even after the quest is complete! Going to Ape Atoll without a proper amount of safety provisions is always a way to guarantee death.
 * One-click teleports are going close to a bank and a quick way back to the grand tree are invaluable for this quest. Lumbridge teletabs, Varrock Teletabs, and fully charged Glory amulets are recommended.
 * Prayer can be recharged at the altar in Ape Atoll.
 * World 23 is the unofficial world for this quest - Other players will be able to help you on parts.
 * If you are low on food/health, bananas can be picked and eaten in a garden west of the prison, but be careful not to let the monkey aunt see you or you will be taken to jail and dealt heavy damage.
 * For low combat levels: Instead of fighting the demon you should run to the ledges at the edge of the arena where you cannot be attacked and let the gnomes do the killing. Note that you must do the last few hits otherwise the demon will heal himself.
 * The Protect from Melee, Protect from Range, and sometimes Protect from Magic prayers all are crucial to your survival on this quest. The quest is very, very hard without them. However, do not be put off if you do not have these stats-many a 1 def pure wihtout 43 prayer has done this quest.
 * DO NOT bring ANY valuables to Ape Atoll, as death is always one mistake away.
 * Fill your inventory with food (Swordfish or higher) 12-16 doses of anti-poison and 12-16 doses of prayer potion.
 * Watch out for ALL the monsters on this island when not wielding your greegree. Like revenants, they hit much higher than their combat level suggests. The level 38 scorpions can hit into triple figures and the level 83 Monkey Archers can hit over 200.

Walkthrough
This quest is divided into four chapters.

Chapter 1 - Monkey Madness


Inventory: 12-16 doses of Anti-poison, 12-16 doses of Prayer potion, 12 pieces of food (Swordfish or better), One-click teleport (Lumbridge or Varrock teletab), and optionally 200,000 coins (if players want Glough to solve the puzzle instead of them). (Throughout the quest, always restock potions and food when possible.) Initially, players can pick up these things from the bank just after talking to the king at the start.


 * Talk to King Narnode. He tells the player to investigate Glough's old shipyard and gives the player a Gnome royal seal.
 * Ascend the tree (visiting the bank, if required) and take a Gnome glider to Karamja (Gandius on the pilot's map).
 * Go to the shipyard, going north following the coast, and talk with G.L.O. Caranock, a gnome who is located in the building in the southern area of the shipyard, by the fence. He acts suspiciously. Players must have the seal to enter the shipyard.
 * Return via glider to the king. The king gives the player Narnode's orders to take to Daero.
 * Talk to Daero, the new head tree guardian, on the second level of the Grand Tree near Blurberry's Bar (level 1, east side). He blindfolds players and takes them to an underground hangar, where they must solve a Reinitialization puzzle.
 * Begin the puzzle by clicking on the panel to the south-east. (See the solution to the right.) Avoid logging out or teleporting, as the puzzle resets, forcing the player to start again. (If necessary, see the puzzle box guide.)
 * Alternately, players can pay 200,000 coins to Glough, who still resides where he did during the Grand Tree quest. This option leaves the puzzle with a single piece out of place.
 * Players can use the Teleportation device at the southern end of the hangar to return to the Gnome Stronghold.
 * Talk to Daero, then talk to Waydar. Waydar reminds players to stock up on food and anti-poison, then flies them to Crash Island.
 * On Crash Island, ask Lumdo to sail to Ape Atoll. He refuses, so talk to Waydar, then talk to Lumdo again. After a short cutscene, Lumdo sails the player to Ape Atoll.

Getting the Amulet Components



 * Once on the Atoll, run north-west until reaching an east-west ridge. Run west along the southern side of the ridge until entering a north-south "valley" on the western side of the atoll. Be wary of aggressive level 24 Jungle snakes, level 38 Scorpions, and level 42 Jungle spiders, all of which are poisonous and attack players regardless of level.
 * Activate Protect from Missiles upon entering the valley and run north. Players may take a great deal of damage from multiple volleys of arrows, possibly poisoning them. Eventually players lose consciousness.
 * Players awake in a cell guarded by gorillas Trefaji and Aberab. If players go within one square of the jail bars when a guard is near, he punches them, dealing 130-170 life points damage, even through Protect from Melee.
 * The gorillas patrol their route through the corridor twice, then switch off. Take the time to see their pattern. As soon as the patrolling gorilla turns to walk back up the path towards the other gorilla, pick the lock and run behind him. Be careful not to run ahead of him. As soon as he is in the guard room to the north-west, run out of the jail (before they switch off) and hide in the tall grass along the northern wall of the jail.
 * Hint: If players struggle to get out of the jail, they can have a friend (who has already completed the quest) equip a monkey greegree and block both gorillas in the guard room. It only stops the gorillas for a small amount of time, though. They reset their positions if they are blocked for too long, so be hasty. The friend can also block them in the south-west area where they turn around. Again, it only works momentarily.


 * Do not talk to any monkeys. Doing so returns players to the jail.
 * Find Karam, the ninja-like assassin of the 10th squad. Go east of the jail to the jungle grass between the temple and the jail. Players may see only his shadow, but can click on it to talk to him. Karam is not very informative, but he lets players know he is ready to help them.
 * Find Sergeant Garkor, the 10th squad leader.
 * Travel south, against the western wall of the temple, while staying in the grass. The archer monkeys do not fire at players in the grass. However, there is an open stretch of ground at the south-western corner of the temple, so players must switch on Protect from Ranged past the temple archway.
 * Travel east along the southern wall of the temple. King Awowogei's building is south of the temple. Go south along its eastern wall to Garkor and speak to him.
 * Garkor tells the player to find Zooknock, the 10th squad mage, to have the player turned into a monkey.
 * Return west along the southern temple wall. Use Protect from Ranged to sprint into the jungle grass to the west of the open area. Continue west past the small obelisk to the southern entrance of the large building in the south central part of the town.
 * Open the door and go inside. When inside this house, players must stay on the dark brown ground around the perimeter of the room or be sent back to jail. If players need some food, the south-western crates contain bananas, which heal 20 life points. If the sleeping monkey guard catches players, he summons his friends to arrest them.
 * Step east and north, staying on the dark brown ground, to search the stacked crates on the light brown ground. The crate is full of Monkey dentures, so players can take more than one set.
 * Search the south-easternmost crate to crawl down into the basement. Players may fall and take up to 300 life points damage. Players may search the crates here, too, to find bananas.
 * Search the crates in the north-west part of this basement to find one that is full of M'amulet moulds. Players can take more than one.
 * Teleport out.

Making the Monkeyspeak Amulet
Inventory: 4 (or more) doses of Anti-poison, 8-12 doses of Prayer potion, 12 (or more) doses of Energy potion, One-click teleport (Lumbridge or Varrock teletab), Monkey dentures, M'amulet mould, and a Gold bar. The rest should be food (Sharks or better). If players reach Zooknock with multiple sets of Monkeyspeak amulet components, he still only helps players make one amulet, so there's no reason to bring more than one set of components.


 * Players are strongly recommended to use the spa facilities at Oo'glog for the salt-water spring to boost run energy. The Ape Atoll Dungeon is a long tunnel. If using Protect from Melee, wear armour to extend prayer, such as Monk's robes and a Holy or Unholy symbol.
 * Go to the Grand Tree and speak with Daero on the first level to return to the hangar. Speak to Waydar to return to Crash Island. Speak to Lumdo to return to Ape Atoll.
 * Travel west from the boat to the dungeon entrance. (Players should familiarise themselves with the map.) Turn off auto-retaliate and turn on Protect from Melee. Enter the dungeon.
 * Run east, then turn north. The passage winds for quite a distance. The roof of the passage keeps collapsing on the player's head and doing damage. Do not wait under the bridges for the rocks to fall. It wastes to much prayer. There are also monsters and traps, all of which can poison players. Keep life points, prayer, and run energy as high as possible without wasting food or potions.
 * Zooknock is at the end of the tunnel. Speak to him. After a long conversation (in which Zooknock wonders where he's heard Waydar's name before), use the gold bar, monkey dentures, and m'amulet mould on him. He gives the player an Enchanted bar and returns the M'amulet mould.
 * Teleport out and restock.

Inventory: 12-16 doses of Anti-poison, 12-16 doses of Prayer potion, 12 pieces of food (Swordfish or better), One-click teleport (Lumbridge or Varrock teletab, not runes), Enchanted bar, and M'amulet mould. A Ball of wool is optional, as players can string the amulet at a bank.


 * Return to Ape Atoll and run north up the valley to be placed in the jail cell again. Remember to use Protect from Missiles. Escape the cell as before.
 * Travel east towards the temple. The door is along its western wall. Use Protect from Melee and enter the temple.
 * Descend the trapdoor along the eastern wall of the temple. The Ape guards may block the way to the trapdoor. If so, players can make the guards chase them until a path is clear.
 * In the basement are two flaming pits. Use the enchanted bar with either pit to make the amulet.
 * Teleport out.
 * Use a Ball of wool on the unstrung amulet to complete the M'speak amulet.

Making the Greegree
Inventory: 12-16 doses of Anti-poison, 12-16 doses of Prayer potion, 12 pieces of food (Swordfish or better), One-click teleport (Lumbridge or Varrock teletab), 6 Bananas, and the M'speak amulet.


 * Return to Ape Atoll to be placed in the jail cell again. Escape.
 * This time, travel west to the banana garden after reaching safety of the jungle grass. The banana garden is between the two buildings west of the jail. There is an entrance corridor at its north-east corner.
 * The Monkey's Aunt patrols a loop. Only enter the banana garden when the monkey's aunt exits the southern gate. When she returns (or is about to return) to the garden through the western gate, run into the corridor to the north-east to avoid being captured.
 * Wear the M'speak amulet and talk to the monkey child. Players need to talk to the child several times before telling him that they are his uncle.
 * The monkey child tells the player that he is supposed to collect 20 bananas in exchange for a toy. Players offer to collect the 20 bananas if they can "borrow" the toy. When players give the child the 6 bananas they have, it is enough, because the child cannot count.
 * Go into the corridor and wait for the aunt to make another patrol through the garden, then return to the child and ask for the toy. If he cries, wait for him to stop (or log out and log back in). The toy is a Monkey talisman. If players lose the monkey talisman, they can receive it from him again.
 * Teleport out and restock for the dungeon.

Inventory: 4 (or more) doses of Anti-poison, 8-12 doses of Prayer potion, 12 (or more) doses of Energy potion, One-click teleport (Lumbridge or Varrock teletab), Monkey talisman, and Monkey bones or a monkey corpse (must be from a Karamjan monkey). The rest should be food (Sharks or better). At this point, players may also choose to take a second set of Monkeyspeak amulet components (dentures, gold bar, mould) and the M'speak amulet to use the Drop trick on Zooknock. Remember to wear prayer-extending gear.


 * Return to Ape Atoll and travel through the dungeon to Zooknock.


 * Give the monkey bones (or corpse) and talisman to Zooknock. Do not bury the bones. Zooknock enchants the talisman and returns it (now a Monkey greegree) with the warning that its magic is limited. It does not work anywhere but on Ape Atoll, and the player cannot attack anything while using it.
 * A short cutscene plays.
 * If they brought the components, players can now use the drop trick on Zooknock for the M'speak amulet. Drop the amulet and begin by talking to him and telling him it's been lost. Give him the components. He returns the mould and another enchanted bar. Pick up the original amulet.
 * Teleport out.

Chapter 3 - The Monkey Alliance


Inventory: 4 doses of Anti-poison, 4 pieces of food (Swordfish or better), 2 One-click teleports (at least one of which to Ardougne), M'speak amulet, and Monkey greegree. The anti-poison and food probably are not necessary, but players have them if they need them. Players may also bring along the enchanted bar and M'speak mould, if they used the drop trick on Zooknock.


 * Return to Ape Atoll. Wear the amulet and wield the greegree to become a monkey. In this form, players are not approached or attacked by any NPCs. They may still be damaged by traps, poison, or agility courses, but are safe from most other threats.
 * Travel north-west as usual, but this time players need not use prayer and can pass through the town gate unharmed. Go to Garkor (south of the temple) and speak to him. He wants the player to pretend to be a Karamjan envoy seeking an alliance with the king.
 * Speak to an Elder Guard outside the king's palace to seek an audience with the king. The guard sends the player to ask Kruk, the captain of the guard. Kruk is on a hill east of the town gate.
 * Travel west of the gate, climb the hill from the south-west, and cross the bridge. (Players do not need to take the agility arena shortcut.)
 * Speak to Kruk. He takes the player to King Awowogei.
 * Speak to King Awowogei and ask for an alliance. He asks the player to rescue a monkey from the Ardougne Zoo.
 * Players must ask a guard to let them leave the palace.
 * Players may choose this time to craft an additional M'speak amulet, if they brought an enchanted bar and M'speak mould with them. If so, go to the temple basement and craft the amulet, continuing to wield the greegree.
 * Go to a safe place, unequip the greegree, and teleport to Ardougne.
 * Enter the Ardougne Zoo and wield the greegree again. Notice that the magic works someplace other than Ape Atoll, despite what Zooknock said.
 * Speak to the Monkey Minder, who puts the player in the monkey cage.
 * Speak to any monkey to take it into inventory.
 * Unequip the greegree and speak to the Monkey Minder. The Monkey Minder ignores any players who don't unequip the greegree first. The Monkey Minder frees the player from the cage.
 * Do not teleport with the monkey in inventory. Walk or run to the Grand Tree. Any method of teleportation, including the spirit tree, results in the monkey escaping the player's inventory.
 * Return to Ape Atoll as usual and equip the greegree.
 * Speak to the Elder guard and ask for alliance with King Awowogei, then speak to the king. The monkey is automatically freed from the player's inventory.
 * Exit the palace and speak to Garkor.
 * A short cutscene plays. Players may cancel it by clicking on any character in it, if they desire.

Chapter 4 - Rumble in the Jungle

 * Speak to Garkor again. He tells players to prepare for the final battle. Players must not equip the 10th squad sigil he gives them. Doing so teleports them to the final battle.
 * If players lose the sigil, they can talk to Garkor. He sends them to the dungeon to talk to Waymottin, one of Gnome sappers with Zooknock. Players can use the drop trick on Waymottin to obtain multiple sigils, doing away with potentially multiple journeys to the dungeon.
 * Unequip the greegree and teleport out.



The Jungle Demon is a formidable foe, hitting up to 320, but with preparation, the fight is relatively easy. The demon uses magic if players are out of range of its melee. If players get too close, then it attacks with both magic and melee. The surviving 10th squad helps with the fight, although they typically hit less than 10 life points damage.


 * Before the Fight
 * It is recommended to get spare 10th squad sigils from Waymottin before proceeding. If the player dies, spare sigils in the bank are effectively direct teleports to the gravestone.
 * Players should make sure their life points and prayer points are at their maximum. Using the +2 prayer bonus at the Monastary can be beneficial.
 * Players should make sure their inventory matches the combat style they are going to use. Include a one-click teleport for an emergency and a dose of anti-poison.
 * While fighting, players should closely monitor their life points and make sure to keep them as high as possible without wasting food. Dropping below 320 makes players vulnerable to dying with a single hit.
 * To begin the battle, activate Protect from Magic and wear the 10th squad sigil.
 * The Easiest Method
 * Letting the 10th squad do most of the killing is the easiest method.
 * There is a border that goes around the combat platform. To the north-west there is a bridge that leads to this border. The demon does not attack players, with either melee or magic, if they are on this border.
 * Angle the camera correctly to see the demon's life points. When the gnomes have almost killed the demon, drink a super attack and super strength potion, and run in to finish him off, using all available special attacks.
 * Simply letting the gnomes kill the demon does not work. It can heal itself.
 * Wear any armour, preferably the highest dragonhide possible.
 * The best weapon for this method is a Dragon Dagger. Make sure the special attack is on and auto-retaliate is off before teleporting.
 * A weapon other than the Dragon Dagger also works. For example, Ranged Pures can use Diamond bolts (e) or Dragon bolts (e).
 * Ranged combat
 * Wear armour, such as dragonhide, which gives the best range attack bonus.
 * Wear a Holy or Unholy symbol, instead of a range-boosting amulet, to increase the time the player can use Protect from Magic or Melee.
 * Wield a crossbow with the highest bolts it can use.
 * It is also possible to set up a Dwarf Multicannon for the fight.
 * Include 1-8 doses of Prayer potion (depending of the player's range level) in inventory.
 * To kill this demon easily, players should be at least Level 61 Ranged.
 * Melee combat
 * Wear rune or better armour.
 * Wield the strongest weapon possible. Consider using Silverlight/Darklight.
 * Wear a Holy or Unholy symbol, instead of a melee-boosting amulet, to make Protect from Magic prayer last longer.
 * Using Protect from Magic is essential.
 * Include 3-15 doses of Prayer potion (depending on the player's Strength and Attack level) and as much food as possible in inventory.
 * Magic combat
 * This method is highly not recommended unless players have very high Magic, Constitution, and Defence levels.
 * Include the runes needed for the player's best combat spell in inventory.
 * Wear the best mage robes (mystic or better) and a Broodoo shield.
 * Wear a Holy or Unholy symbol, instead of a magic-boosting amulet, to make Protect from Magic or Melee last longer.
 * Once the Demon is dead, talk to Garkor, then to Zooknock. Zooknock offers to teleport the player out of the arena.
 * If players accept, the teleport is to the jungle on Ape Atoll, so be sure to have the anti-poison recommended previously.
 * If players decline the offer and stay, they are free to explore. However Zooknock leaves, meaning that the other gnomes are the player's teleport out.
 * Players may walk along the edge of the arena to go down trap doors they can find. At the bottom level are lots of Banana trees and the base of the statue.
 * In the base of the statue is a rack which players can enter and speak to Bonzara, an ancient monkey who hints at a possible sequel. He offers to teleport the player out of the arena at the end of the conversation. However, the teleport puts players in the jungle on Ape Atoll, so be sure to have the anti-poison recommended previously.


 * Speak to King Narnode in the Grand Tree to finish the quest.
 * Speak to Daero to get experience reward.
 * Players have a choice as to what experience they want. The experience for the first two skills is 35,000 points and for the second two, 20,000 points. Defence and Attack are one set of two skills. Strength and Constitution are the other.
 * Pure players should be careful when speaking to him after the quest. It is possible to talk to Daero to travel back to the Crash Island without getting experience.

Rewards



 * 3 Quest Points
 * 10,000 coins
 * 3 diamonds
 * The ability to buy and wield the Dragon scimitar
 * Ability to create greegrees to transform into different monkeys. Bring the bones of the type of monkey you want to become and a Talisman (1,000gp from the Magic Shop) to Zooknock, the Gnome Mage.


 * If you talk to Daero after the quest, he will ask you if you prefer to train Strength and Constitution first, or Attack and Defence. You will gain 35,000 experience in (the one you trained first), and then 20,000 experience in the other two. Once you say you want to focus on one thing, you cannot choose the other one! Due to an update, pures (who often don't want unnecessary defence experience) can now return to the island or talk with Daero without taking the experience.

Music
Music tracks unlocked:


 * Anywhere
 * Find My Way
 * Island Life
 * Marooned
 * Monkey Madness
 * Showdown
 * Suspicious
 * Technology
 * Temple

Trivia

 * If you deliver the monkey to Awowogei, he will walk around there. If you talk to him, he will ask Are we there yet? you say not, and he should jump in your backpack, even though you gave it to Awowogei.


 * This quest might be a reference to the famous book and movies of Planet Of The Apes.


 * Originally, after completing the quest, players could not return to Ape Atoll until they accepted the additional combat experience from Daero. It remained this way until Evil Trees were released, which allowed players to teleport to Evil Trees which appeared on Ape Atoll. Soon after this, however, Jagex simply added an option to Daero's chat to decline the training and go to Ape Atoll.


 * The 35,000 combat experience you get for completing the quest was the most experience in a single skill given as a quest reward until Back to my Roots was released, which gives 40,000 Woodcutting experience.


 * Monkey Madness also held the record of the highest total experience reward, adding up to 110,000 experience in total. It held the title until While Guthix Sleeps was released, which gives a total of 400,000 experience. Since then, the quest Blood Runs Deep has since claimed the highest amount of experience for a quest at 450,000.


 * The experience rewards from the prerequisite quests would put a player with no other combat stats to level 15, meaning this is the lowest possible combat level to even start Monkey Madness. The first level 15 player to complete the quest did so on 30 July 2008.


 * Previously while doing this quest, chapter 4 was called The Final Battle. It is now changed to Rumble in the Jungle.


 * During a cutscene, after you get both the amulet and talisman, if player eats or drinks, the player will move into the cutscene.


 * If you speak to Zeke in Zeke's Superior Scimitars in Al Kharid and ask him "Can you sell me a Dragon Scimitar?" he will say "You're going to be monkey's uncle before you will ever hold a dragon scimitar!". As shown in step "Making the Greegree", you must say to the monkey child that you are his uncle. Also, if you climb the bamboo ladder in the Monkey Child's house, his real uncle is upstairs. This is a joke added by Jagex on purpose.


 * Before a hidden update, the blindfold used by Daero to lead you to the hangar resembled what seemed to be an eyepatch.


 * Upon the completion of this quest, one's Adventurer's Log will read: "During a mission to Ape Atoll I uncovered a plot against humankind. With the help of the 10th Squad, I’ve put an end to Glough’s scheme."


 * If you speak to King Narnode after the completion of the quest for you reward, your character will say "They all alive" instead of "They're all alive"
 * When you're delivering the monkey it may say "In the Jungle The Mighty Jungle" as a reference to The Lion King