Macaw

The Macaw is a level 41 Summoning familiar. It is summoned by using a Macaw pouch, which will give you 0.8 Summoning experience. Apart from having remote view, which lets you see from its eyes when it flies into the air, it can also improve your herb drops, (especially useful when killing Chaos druids and Aberrant spectres) and collect and store herbs for you. It also has a special move called Herbcall, which can be activated if you have a Herbcall scroll in your inventory. Herbcall has a chance of creating random herbs.

The Macaw is fairly popular among alchemists for its modest Summoning experience and as a passive herb gatherer.

Components: 1 empty pouch, 78 spirit shards, 1 green charm, and 1 Clean guam.





Pouch
A Macaw pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 78 spirit shards, a green charm and a Guam leaf in the inventory. Making the pouch earns 72.4 experience points. Using the pouch to summon a Macaw gains 0.8 experience points, and costs 3 Summoning points.

Scroll
A Herbcall scroll enables the use of the Herbcall special move for a Macaw. Using the pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates 10 scrolls. Only works outdoors.

Dialogue

 * Macaw: Awk! Gimme the rum! Gimme the rum!
 * Player: I don't think you'll like the stuff. Besides, I think there is a law about feeding birds alcohol.


 * Macaw: Awk! I'm a pirate! Awk! Yo, ho ho!
 * Player: I'd best not keep you around any customs officers!


 * Macaw: Awk! Caw! Shiver me timbers!
 * Player: I wonder where you picked up all these phrases?

Trivia

 * The examine text is a reference to the Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch
 * The line the player says about feeding birds alcohol, could be a reference to the quest Eadgar's Ruse where you feed the parrot the alco-chunks.