Swept Away

Swept Away was released at the same time as the 2008 Hallowe'en event.

Starting off



 * Begin the quest by speaking to Maggie, the travelling witch. She can be found south of Falador, and east of the Crafting Guild.
 * Maggie wants your help to finish her goulash in her cauldron, because she cannot leave her sick oxen, Babe and Norman, alone. She needs you to get her broomstick enchanted by her three friends: Hetty at Rimmington, Betty in Port Sarim, and Aggie in Draynor Village.

Note: While doing the quest, you will face three puzzles, one for each of her friends.

Hetty's basement

 * Speak to Hetty in Rimmington. Instead of enchanting the broom, she says that she will make some broom ointment for you.  However, but she needs a newt to complete it.  She will tell you to get a newt from her basement.

The delivery ghoul

 * Go down to the trapdoor south of her house and enter. Talk to Gus, the delivery ghoul.  He explains that he mismatched the labels for the crates located in the basement, and asks you to put the correct label for each crate.
 * Gus will give you 3 labels: Newt label, Toad label and Newts and toads label. You must put these labels on each of the 3 boxes correctly. The combination is different for every player.

Identifying the crates
Keep in mind that ALL of the boxes are mislabelled.


 * Search the box labelled "Newts and toads".
 * Identify what you obtain; it is either: a toad, or a newt.
 * Use the label for the obtained item on the crate.
 * Now, here comes two possibilities:

If you make a mistake, Gus will let you know and you can start the whole process all over again, until you get them properly labelled.

Broom ointment

 * Take the newt out of the properly labeled newt crate.
 * Go back up to Hetty and she will give you some broom ointment in a vial.
 * Use the ointment on the broom to infuse it with Hetty's magic.

Betty's basement

 * Speak to Betty in Port Sarim. She will tell you to talk to her assistant, Lottie, in her basement.
 * The goal here is to open a chest that contains Betty's magical wand, but you have to fix the menagerie of creatures before that can be done.
 * Lottie will give you a magic slate that can help you to keep track of where all of the animals are at while you are moving them around.
 * Keep in mind that the animals can only be moved from one cage to an adjacent cage, and that you cannot have two animals in the same room at the same time. The arrangement of these animals are the same for every player.

The creatures
All creatures have the Destroy text: "If you release this creature, you will have to restart the puzzle in Betty's basement."


 * {| class="wikitable"

! !! Creature !! Examine text
 * [[Image:Blackbird (item).png|Blackbird.]] || Blackbird || Bleak and beaky.
 * [[Image:Bat (item).png|Bat.]] || Bat || Most at home in a dead tree.
 * [[Image:Snail (item).png|Snail.]] || Snail || Rather quick, considering.
 * [[Image:Rat (item).png|Rat.]] || Rat || Cheese-eater.
 * [[Image:Spider (item).png|Spider.]] || Spider || Isn't eight legs rather excessive?
 * [[Image:Reptile (item).png|Reptile.]] || Reptile || Desert dweller.
 * }
 * [[Image:Rat (item).png|Rat.]] || Rat || Cheese-eater.
 * [[Image:Spider (item).png|Spider.]] || Spider || Isn't eight legs rather excessive?
 * [[Image:Reptile (item).png|Reptile.]] || Reptile || Desert dweller.
 * }
 * [[Image:Reptile (item).png|Reptile.]] || Reptile || Desert dweller.
 * }

Holding pens


''Please note to begin with, all animals are not in their proper pens EXCEPT snail and bat. Players will have to look in the pens to see the animals.

Betty's wand

 * After completing the puzzle, open the chest and search it. You will obtain Betty's wand.
 * Go upstairs and speak with Betty. She will enchant the broomstick for you.

Sand sweeping



 * Speak to Aggie in Draynor Village. She informs you that in order to enchant the broomstick, she will have to do it in a special place.
 * Agree to teleport to this place. Here, you will notice several geometric lines in the room, resembling a puzzle with triangles.

Sand puzzle

 * In order to complete the puzzle, you have to sweep four lines and end up with four triangles. If you do this correctly, you should end up with two triangles on top, and two at the bottom.
 * There are various other ways to do it, and two solutions are shown here in the images.

The enchantment

 * After completing the puzzle, Hetty teleports you back to Draynor, and enchants the broomstick for you.

Finishing up

 * Bring the enchanted broom back to Maggie. She explains that since you have enchanted it, you have the honour of stirring the Goulash in the cauldron.
 * Stir the goulash in the cauldron with the broomstick. After this, talk to Maggie again, and she'll give you a bowl to drink the goulash.

Congratulations, quest complete!

Rewards


To collect this experience use the bowl with the cauldron or click on the cauldron to fill the bowl. Then click on the bowl to drink the Goulash, and select what skill you would like your experience in. It is recommended to put it in a hard skill to level up, such as summoning or runecrafting. Repeat 10 times.
 * 1 Quest point
 * A broomstick
 * 10 portions of experience-giving Goulash. Each one gives experience equal to the Skill level * 10. (e.g. level 80 skill would give 800 experence)


 * Access to the Purple cat miniquest.
 * A purple cat, after talking to Wendy and completing the miniquest. (Note: Freeplayers will eventually get a members' item, but they can still finish the miniquest as if it were a free-to-play object)
 * Other witches around RuneScape give additional rewards to members who have the Broomstick in their inventory. The witches are listed below. Note that you can use temporary boosts (such as a Magic potion) to reach the Magic requirements.


 * {| class="wikitable"

! NPC ! Magic lvl ! Reward
 * Sorceress' Apprentice in Al-Kharid
 * 1+
 * Ability to operate the broom to teleport to the Sorceress's Garden.
 * Ali the Hag in Pollnivneach
 * 33+
 * 1 997 Magic XP
 * The Old Crone near the Slayer Tower
 * 53+
 * 7 139 Magic XP
 * Baba Yaga on Lunar Isle
 * 73+
 * 10 338 Magic XP
 * Kardia in the Underground Pass
 * 93+
 * 14 979 Magic XP
 * }
 * Kardia in the Underground Pass
 * 93+
 * 14 979 Magic XP
 * }
 * }

Music
Music tracks unlocked:


 * Magic and Mystery
 * The Art of Hocus-Pocus

Trivia

 * On the day of the quest's release, the spoiler page said, "The spoilers are too afraid to show themselves today. Maybe they will be feeling braver tomorrow..."
 * This was the first holiday quest.
 * When viewing the slate, the blackbird pen says "raven". Most people think this is a typo, because Raven is different species of bird "commonly known as rook, crows, jackdaws."
 * This was the first quest that is temporarily available for free-to-play users. For the first two weeks of the Hallowe'en event, anyone can do the quest; after that, only members may start the quest.
 * The broomstick actually won second place in the Guaranteed Hallowe'en Poll for the 2007 Hallowe'en event, where it and the Grim reaper hood was very close to the end. The broomstick that featured in the poll could be used to fly around and hover on.
 * During the time of the release, Jagex decorated Draynor, Port Sarim, and Rimmington for the holiday. Some of the decorations were "Giant Jack-o-lanterns", "Giant glass lanterns", and skeleton-themed banners.
 * Maggie often says "Cha". This may be referential to English slang for "Drink of Tea".
 * After the quest, players may speak to Wendy to receive a purple cat as a reward from a miniquest.
 * Lottie is the name of a witch's assistant in Diana Wynne Jones' book "Howl's Moving Castle".
 * The Ancient Pine trees, in the area in which Aggie teleports the player to, are the same as the animated trees in Neitiznot.
 * If you have a hellcat you want to turn purple, you are warned that it will revert to an ordinary cat.
 * During the duration of the event, all penguins in the Penguin Hide and Seek were dressed as giant pumpkins.
 * Currently, there is no known way for treat-or-tricking the Wise Old Man.
 * In traditional Scottish witchcraft, "warlock" is a term used for wizards, or a male witch. A synonym is sorcerer.
 * During the 2008 Hallow'een event, whenever you died, the "Reaper" would appear and say a random phrase.