Temple Trekking



Temple Trekking is a members-only activity in which the player must escort victims of vampyre rule from Burgh de Rott through Morytania to the Paterdomus, the temple on River Salve, on the way guiding them through bogs and over rivers while defending them from dangerous packs of monsters, some unique to this activity. (Requires In Aid of the Myreque)

Burgh de Rott Ramble is the reverse route in which the player escorts potential Myreque recruits from the Paterdomus to Burgh de Rott. (Requires Darkness of Hallowvale)

The difficulty of either activity is determined by whether the player chooses weaker or stronger people (called followers) to escort and whether the player chooses to take easier or harder paths through Morytania. Escorting weaker followers means more time and effort in healing and defending the follower when a monster attack event occurs. Taking harder paths means the monsters will have higher combat levels when a monster attack event occurs.

A journey succeeds if the player and follower reach the destination, whereupon the player receives a reward. A journey fails if the player or follower is killed. A journey is aborted if the player chooses the escape path. If the player teleports out of the activity they can speak to their follower at their start point and choose whether to abandon or continue their journey with them.

Several events are likely to occur in each journey. There are three types of events: friendly events in which the player and follower can be healed and have their defences raised; combat events in Multicombat area in which monsters attempt to attack the player and follower; and puzzle events, which typically involve overcoming terrain obstacles, that the player must solve. All combat and some puzzle events are dangerous.

These two activities provides opportunities to cross-train in most skills. Combat experience (including Prayer) is gained during battle events. Monster drops and activity rewards provide some of the staple materials used in Crafting, Cooking, Farming, Fletching, Herblore, Runecrafting, and Smithing, while Tomes of experience can be awarded for Agility, Firemaking, Fishing, Mining, Slayer, Thieving, and Woodcutting. Players can also pick up pieces of Lumberjack clothes and earn the Constructor's outfit, which are found only in this activity. Also, you gain the ability to gain two cosmetic items, the Rambler's backpack and the Walking stick, and the ability to unlock two new shortcuts routes: An option to teleport once you reach the swamp gates straight to the Nature Grotto, and an option to travel from Hair of the Dog's trapdoor straight to Mort'ton.

Since the player loses if the follower is killed, one basic tactic in most combat events is for the player to shield the follower from the monsters. This means the player's body will typically be a meat-shield between fairly strong melee enemies and the follower. There are two practical strategies to achieve this:
 * Wear high-defence melee armour. This helps protect the player from the monsters' attacks. This strategy means that the player should typically use melee, as the melee armour will interfere with using ranged or magic.
 * Use protection Prayers. Most monsters attack with melee, so Protect from Melee or Deflect Melee can be used. Giant Snails attack with ranged, so Protect from Missiles or Deflect Missiles can be used. When using prayer, any combat style can be used against most monsters, except Vyrewatch which must be meleed. For magic, Ancient Magicks could be quite useful in some events, as some spells can affect a group of monsters.

Players are allowed to take Summoning familiars into the activity. A beast of burden helps store food, while a combat familiar could fight alongside the player since the activity is multi-combat.

'''Note: This is a dangerous activity. If you die, you will need to return to the starting place to retrieve your items; if you played Temple Trekking, you must return to Burgh de Rott to retrieve your items; if you played Burgh de Rott Ramble, you will need to return to the Paterdomus Temple.'''

Getting there
There are several ways to reach Canifis quickly, where the activity may be started. Some of these include:
 * Fairy ring code C-K-S
 * Kharyrll Teleport (Requires completion of Desert Treasure and 66 Magic)
 * Ectophial and running west to Canifis
 * Teleport to the Slayer Tower just north of Canifis using a slayer ring
 * Walking from Varrock
 * Using a Player Owned House with a Kharyrll Teleport
 * Using your game necklace after unlocking the reward to teleport to Burgh De Rott

Supplying your follower
A follower can hold 28 items of food in their backpack, also called the Follower Inventory. They will retain items from one trip to the next, even after logout. The Follower Inventory is used by all followers, so anything given to one is available to all followers, regardless of difficulty and location.

It is a good idea to fill their pack before starting a trek, while talking to them, and before agreeing to escort them.

To fill their pack, trade them the desired food. They will accept the trade immediately. It is not possible to see what they already have in their pack, only how many more items that can be given. The follower inventory can only be filled with food. If a player tries to trade the follower something else it gives the following message: 'You can only trade food to trek NPCs.'

After giving food to the follower it is recommended to then return to the bank to retrieve additional food for the trip. Once ready, restart the dialogue and agree to escort them.

You cannot take the food you have already given your follower.

The best food that can be given to the follower is Rocktail.

During the events the follower can be resupplied with food. For this reason, it is advantageous to allocate one inventory slot for a sack filled with a food, such as cabbages, allowing for the healing and food replenishment of the follower as much as 10 times per inventory slot.

Your follower will lose all of their food if you use the escape option to leave the event or if you teleport out of the activity. (Completing the event or using the evade option to evade an event does not cause follower food to be lost.)

Your follower will also have a Druid pouch.

Requirements to start
The following Quests must be completed to play this activity:


 * The Darkness of Hallowvale for Burgh de Rott Ramble
 * In Aid of the Myreque for Temple Trekking

Temple trekking starts at the town of Burgh de Rott. Start the activity by reading the noticeboard nearby.

Burgh de Rott Ramble starts on the east side of the River Salve just outside the temple. A player can start at either side.

The following items are recommended:



Weapons and Armour

 * One standard weapon (Abyssal Whip shown). Fast weapons are recommended for this activity, especially on route 3: You have to kill a monster quickly when he attacks your follower.
 * Dragon dagger or Dragon Claws for its special attack to protect the follower.
 * Ancient Mace may be used to regain some prayer points mid-trek.
 * Rod of Ivandis (prior to completion of Legacy of Seergaze) or other silver weapon. See below.
 * Ivandis flail is highly recommended after having completed Legacy of Seergaze. It is the only way to deal with the vyrewatch event. The more experience with the flail, the better.
 * Salve amulet (e) many of the combat encounters are undead; a salve amulet (e) boosts accuracy and strength against undead by 20% the non-enchanted version only boosts by 15%
 * Dragon halberd can be very useful to melee monsters safely, especially if they get stuck behind obstacles.
 * A high Melee defence and Prayer bonus setup is recommended. Veracs or Proselyte will conserve both prayer and food.
 * Snelm for fighting giant snails.

Inventory

 * Guthix balance potion for slaying vampyres.
 * Druid pouch or Ouroborus Pouch to defend against Ghasts. Stock up before starting. Not really needed because companions will use their Druid pouch.
 * Knife to skin Swamp snakes and trimming swamp trees.
 * Dwarven army axe or Bronze hatchet and Tinderbox (depending on the companion you bring they will help by cutting trees and making fires)
 * Food -- both for personal healing and to heal the follower. Remember that the follower can accept any type of food mid-trip, so a basket or sack of food is highly recommended. A sack filled with food also saves a lot of work with the campsite event.
 * A Combat potion can help you deal damage to normally hard to kill juvinates.
 * Enough open space to pick up items quickly during events.
 * A Prayer potion is optional, and recommended for players who intend to make significant use of prayers. In this case a Holy Wrench from Rum Deal can also be helpful, as it give a prayer boost when using a prayer potion.
 * Optional: Bring a wheel of cheese, because in case of a campsite event, it can be cut into pieces for each person, and extra can be used for healing. A full basket of fruit or sack of cabbages both serve the same purpose.
 * Familiar: Beast of burden familiars and combat familiars are very useful as noted above.

Prayer
During treks it is recommended, but not necessary, to have full prayer points. Certain monsters in the events can hit hard (so Protect prayers come in handy). Also, you need prayer points to collect items for druid pouches, if you need any. The Paterdomus temple and Nature Spirit altar are quite close by to the start of each route. Prayer potions can be used too. However, higher-level players who have brought the correct equipment should have little need of prayer though it does make it safer and easier for lower-level players.

Silver weapon
Vampyre Juvinates can only be harmed by relatively weak silver weapons. A Rune defender or Dragon Defender will greatly increase accuracy against Juvinates if using a one handed weapon.
 * Rod of Ivandis will perform capably, and using its special with Guthix balance potion allows the player to finish off Juvinates at slightly below 50% health. This does not use any charges however if its special is used and the Juvinate is killed using the Rod a charge will be used up.
 * Wolfbane is fast and has a prayer bonus, but will not perform as well.
 * Darklight or Silverlight
 * Blessed hatchet
 * Silver bolts used with a crossbow (iron or better.)
 * Silver Sickle (b) (Also good against Ghasts)
 * Ivandis flail is recommended if accessible, since it acts as both a silver sickle(b) and rod of ivandis, thus allowing the player to deal with both ghasts and juvinates. It is also essential since it is the only known way of dealing with vyrewatch, which may appear during a trek, so having one after completing Legacy of Seergaze is necessary.

People to escort


There are a total of six people that can be escorted - three people for the journey to the Temple and three for Burgh De Rott. You can choose who to escort by using the noticeboard at the start point at Paterdomus or in Burgh De Rott. Each of the three people on each journey has a different difficulty - easy, medium and hard. For Temple Trekking, two are villagers and one is an adventurer, and for Burgh De Rott Ramble two are adventurers and one is a villager.

By being escorted, the follower will gain experience and levels. As they do so, they will gain new abilities and become more adept in combat. Their examine information and appearance will also change after recieving some new abilities. It will also allow the player to unlock certain rewards - some rewards require all of the followers to have reached a certain level.

Routes
Once you have chosen someone to escort, you will need to choose which path to take. There are three paths, each a different difficulty, the main difference being the combat level of the monsters faced. This will only be the difficulty of the next event faced. Choosing the best path will be dependent upon combat level, available gear and which character is being escorted.

After each encounter, players will be given the option of changing the path that they are currently taking. If players find themselves having a hard time, they can take an easier route for instance or take a harder route when things are too easy.

Your follower will be able to predict the events by clicking on "Continue-x" option, after the NPC changes appearance from gaining a certain level.


 * Easy route: Players can choose to evade any combat events. The monsters on this path are around level 80. Rune armour should be a minimum for combat events on this route. If monsters appear there will be at least 2. (Note: it has been proven that 50% of a combat event must be completed to evade it, even if on an easy route).
 * Medium route: In order to evade combat events, the player must complete at least 50% of the event first. Monsters will be around level 110. Prayer may be useful for certain events depending on the player's level, so choosing pure defence armour or prayer armour will be at the player's discretion. If monsters appear, there are at least 3.
 * Hard route: There is sometimes no way to evade any event. The monsters are around level 140. Prayer will be important to surviving this route at any level, so having Prayer boosting gear is recommended. Escorting a weak follower is not recommended for this route but is still possible. If monsters appear there are at least 5.

Follower's predictions
Easy route: 


 * "Do you see that river down ahead this way? It looks like we'll have to get over it if we go that way." - River puzzle event.


 * "Oh no! I can see a fair few ghasts this way. We should be careful." - Ghasts combat event.


 * "I can see some sort of vampyric creatures down there. They won't give in without a fight." -  Either Juvinates or Vyrewatches combat event.
 * "What in the name of Guthix is this? I can see injured people ahead in the way!" - Campsite puzzle event.
 * "That's the town of Mort'ton up ahead and it looks like it's in trouble. We should be ready to fight if we head that way." - Shades combat event.
 * "There is something moving around ahead and I fear it heard the hiss of a snake..." - Swamp snakes combat event.
 * "Did you see that? There seems to be some sort of broken bridge ahead." - Bridge puzzle event.

Medium route:


 * "The nature spirit's grotto is this way, and it looks like he's under attack!" - Grotto puzzle event.


 * "Watch out. There are spectral beings floating around that way." - Ghasts combat event.


 * "It looks safe ahead, but there is a bit of water we'll have to traverse if we want to go this way." - River puzzle event.
 * "It's difficult to see, but I think there are people ahead. It doesn't look good." - Campsite puzzle event.
 * "I can just about make out a graveyard down there. It looks like it could be an ambush." - Skeleton Graveyard combat event.
 * "You'll need to be handy with repairs to head this way, if we are to cross the river." - Bridge puzzle event
 * "I can't see properly, but there are some slimy trails on the floor." - Giant snails combat event.
 * "There doesn't seem to be much moving this way, except perhaps the floor!" - Bog puzzle event.
 * "The curse of Morytania is strong that way. There are vampyric creatures lurking ahead" - Either Juvinates or Vyrewatches combat event.
 * "Be careful if we go this way. I can see some things sneaking around." - Nail beasts combat event.
 * "There's something moving up ahead, but I can't make it out properly." - Abidor Crank friendly event.
 * "Tread carefully this way. I'm pretty sure snake slithered across the Myre in the distance." - Swamp snakes combat event.

Hard route:


 * "Looks like we've got a fight on our hands if we head this way. I can see Filliman ahead and he's in trouble!" - Grotto puzzle event.


 * "Did someone order the snail?" - Giant snails combat event.


 * "Careful! I can see vampyric creatures skulking around up ahead." - Either Juvinates or Vyrewatches combat event.
 * "There are some massive snakes moving around ahead; should be an interesting fight." - Swamp snakes combat event.
 * "There's a river this way and I can't see a clear way across it, I'm afriad" - River puzzle event.
 * "Nasty! Do you smell that? There's definitely a bog this way. Even though I can't see it, I can smell it!" - Bog puzzle event.
 * "Nail beasts! You don't see them much these days. We'll be in for a big fight if we choose to go this way!" - Nail beasts combat event.
 * "Ghasts! We'll need to have our wits about us to get past these." - Ghasts combat event.
 * "Hmm, it looks to be empty. No, wait... There is a man walking around up ahead." - Abidor Crank friendly event.
 * "There's a nice-looking bridge this way... Well, it would be nice if we could cross it!" - Bridge puzzle event.
 * "Careful this way, too; it's a strange graveyard. I've heard the dead still stir in the area." - Skeleton Graveyard combat event.
 * "It looks like some wandering adventurers have had a bad run in with ghasts up ahead. They might need our help." - Campsite puzzle event.
 * "There's a swamp boat this way that I'm sure will speed up our journey." - Swamp Creature combat event.

Events
There are 3 different types of events that might happen when you're moving forward - friendly events, combat events, and puzzle events. The specific event and difficulty of completing may depend on the difficulty of the route taken, although most events are possible regardless of difficulty.

Once an event occurs, the player and follower are pulled into the event area. The player will start in front of a section of path with blue stones. Right-clicking will display an Escape option, which completely abandons the trek and leaves the player wherever they have reached on the map, often in the middle of Mort Myre Swamp. At the opposite end of the area is the path that allows the player to "Continue-trek", once the event is completed. In combat events on the easy and medium routes, there are paths that evade-event that when used will skip the event and continue trekking, adding no reward and increasing the chance for another event. On the medium route, 50% of the monsters must be killed before being able to use Evade-event.

Friendly event
A man named Abidor Crank will appear as an event and heal you and the follower, above maximum health if applicable and buff defence. He also turns all Rotten foods into Stews. Getting this event adds nothing to the end reward.

Combat events
In combat events a certain number of enemies will attack the player and the escort. For most of the combat events, the monsters give a few seconds before attacking. This is the player's chance to position themselves between the follower and the monsters. All combat events are multi-way combat. Combat events provide the majority of the end reward when completed.

Puzzle events
Puzzle events will require you to do a certain thing to pass the event and get to the continue trek option. Normally there won't be any monsters to fight and if there are, they are just required to be beaten to complete the puzzle, and they're not hard to kill, as their level is always the same no matter the difficulty level. After a certain level, your follower might assist you in these events by starting a fire, or cutting logs for you.

Rewards


After successfully completing a trek, the follower will give a Reward token, which will be blue, yellow, or red tokens depending on the follower chosen, route chosen and how well events were handled. The reward amount is determined by how many monsters are fought and what level they were, and how many puzzle events were completed. This is further explained below. You can exchange your token for rewards by left clicking on the token. Note: you do not receive a reward token when your follower does all the attacking, when every event is evaded or when your follower teleports out due to low health.

Possible rewards:

This table shows the max reward possible on any trek for each item.

* Blue token 10-30 low herbs, Yellow token 3-11 medium herbs, Red token 2-7 high herbs.

Experience Tomes
A Tomes of Learning can be chosen as a reward. Unlike most experience tomes, the skill is predetermined and not selectable. These tomes give some experience in one of the following specific skills: Agility, Thieving, Slayer, Firemaking, Fishing, Woodcutting, or Mining. The colour of the tome depends upon which route the player has chosen.

Follower Rewards
In addition to the rewards recieved from completing a trek, rewards are also gained through getting the followers to reach a certain level. These rewards can be claimed by using the noticeboard at the start point for the Treks. Rewards for a single followers can be claimed from the respective follower's noticeboard tab. Rewards for your followers' total level can be obtained on the Rewards tab.


 * Constructor's outfit - An outfit that when worn gives a bonus to Construction experience recieved. The pieces are obtained separately as follows:
 * Constructor's gloves - Training Pazuzu to level 85.
 * Constructor's boots - Training Zachory Bragg to level 25.
 * Constructor's hat - Training the companions to a total level of 200 or higher.
 * Constructor's trousers - Training the companions to a total level of 300 or higher.
 * Constructor's garb - Training the companions to a total level of 400 or higher.
 * Rambler's backpack - Obtained by training Dean Velio to level 25. This is a cosmetic item worn in the cape slot.
 * Walking stick - Obtained by training Rolayne Twickit to level 40.
 * Ouroboros pouch - Obtained by training Jayene Kliyn to level 99. the pouch acts as unlimited Druid pouches.
 * Ghast familiar - A familiar that prevents food decay in Mort Myre Swamp, gives Prayer experience for damage, makes ghasts non-aggressive in Morytania and restores 10 prayer points when the special move is used. Obtained by training the companions to a total level of 594, with an additional cost of 50,000 coins.
 * Burgh de Rott Teleport - unlocks a teleport to Burgh de Rott on the games necklace. Obtained by training the companions to a total level of 500 or higher.
 * A Shortcut from the swamp gates to the Nature Grotto - Obtained by training the companions to a total level of 100 or higher.
 * A trapdoor shortcut in Canifis to Mort'ton - Obtained by training Zachory Bragg to level 99.

Drops
Many of the monsters faced in this activity will drop items, and these can be useful or valuable. Some of these drops can only be obtained by taking part in the activity. These include:
 * Lumberjack clothing - a four-piece set that when worn gives a boost to woodcutting experience. The clothing is recieved as a drop from Undead Lumberjacks during the Bridge puzzle event.
 * Nail beast nails - Dropped by Nail beasts. Used in Herblore to make Sanfew serum
 * Talon beast charms - Dropped by Nail beasts. Can be used in Summoning to make talon beast pouches for a large amount of experience.
 * Swamp snake hides - Dropped by Swamp snakes. Can be made into Snakeskin armour, or used in Summoning as the tertiary ingredient for Spirit cobra pouches
 * Snail shells and Perfect snail shells - Dropped by giant snails. Can be sold to Barlak in Dorgesh-Kaan for 600 coins or 1,000 coins & 500 Crafting experience, respectively.

Trek ratings
The rewards above are distributed based on the difficulty of the Trek. Trek ratings are theoretical numbers, as there is no display in game to show how a Trek is rated. Assuming that when less than the maximum reward is given, a certain percentage is given according to a rating accumulated on a Trek, and that any rating in excess of 100 will result in a 100% reward is received, then each event adds the following amount to the Trek rating.


 * Abidor Crank and Bridge with Lumberjacks add nothing.
 * Bridge (with trees), Bog, and River add about 6.5 to the trek rating on all routes.
 * The swamp creature only appearing on Route 3 adds 50 to the Trek rating.
 * The remaining combat events and the Campsite event add the following approximate amounts of reward based on the number of monsters and the difficulty of the route. The table below shows how much is added per event completed.


 * A Trek with no rating will give 4% of the reward.


 * The amount of experience given by a Tome of experience is unaffected by Trek ratings.

It is possible (and common) to exceed a 100 Trek rating on Route 3, and even a 200 rating with the hardest combination. However, there is no extra reward for exceeding a 100 rating. A case study of 30 Treks shows that guiding the strongest followers on Route 3 tends to average a Trek rating of 89.9, with a reward average of 88.0% when excluding Tomes of experience, and an expected reward value of 82.3% had those Tomes been measurable rewards. The approximate market value of the rewards totalled 786,000 Coins, with 23,843 experience from Tomes.

History

 * Before the 13 March 2007 update it was required you travel back to Burgh de Rott to collect the reward and restart the game. Now, the player has the option to escort mercenaries from the Paterdomus to Burgh de Rott for a reward in the same fashion if Darkness of Hallowvale is completed. This allows the game to be endlessly repeated with rewards at each end of the trip.
 * Before 24 April 2007, Wildblood seeds were given instead of Watermelon seeds, the maximum amount being 55.

Revamp
On 17 August 2011, the minigame received a major overhaul. A great deal was changed with this update. Previously, there were many more followers that could be selected (see below), and the follower would not take part in combat, unless attacked. There was also no levelling system for the followers. The treks were started by talking to the NPC. A few new followers were added with the update.

The trails themselves functioned differently - the player would select the difficulty before the trail and would have to complete the whole trail at that difficulty. Two new events were added - the graveyard of skeletons and the nature grotto fires, which previously did not exist..

The rewards system was also slightly different before this update - previously, players could not choose rewards, they were received at random by turning in the reward token at Hiylik Myna at Paterdomus or Cornelius in Burgh de Rott. A number of new rewards were added with the update, such as the constructor's outfit, the shortcut to the Nature Spirit's grotto, the teleport to Burgh de Rott and the Ghast familiar.

Additionally, the events received a major graphical update, as did the monsters, such as Ghasts and Vyrewatch.

The previous followers available, now removed from the game, were:
 * Easy: Fyiona Fray, Dalcian Fang, Mage and Adventurer
 * Medium: Valantay Eppel, Ranger and Apprentice. Jayene Kliyn used to attack barehandedly.
 * Hard: Woman-At-Arms, and Forester. Rolayne Twickit used to be at Burgh de Rott and Smiddy Ryak used to be a child.

Initially, anyone who had tokens left over from before the update were unable to redeem them for the new rewards. This was fixed the next day with an update. 

Trivia

 * It is possible to let your companion do all the fighting without taking damage leading to fast level ups. This is easier for the mages and ranger, but can still be done with the warrior provided you have food to sustain him. These work best for the snail and ghast events but can still be done for others.