War tortoise

The War tortoise is a Summoning familiar that a player is able to summon at 67 Summoning. The war tortoise can carry up to eighteen items for a player, making it the second best general-use Beast of Burden and a common choice to mid-high level summoners who can't access Pack Yak.

War tortoise pouch
A War tortoise pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 1 spirit shard, a Gold charm and a Tortoise shell in the player's inventory. Using the pouch to summon a War tortoise costs 7 summoning points. If players exchange their War Tortoise pouches at Bogrog, they will receive 1 spirit shard per pouch. Players must also have 67 Summoning to be able to exchange this pouch.

A Perfect shell may NOT be used in place of a regular Tortoise shell.

Testudo scroll
The Testudo scroll enables the use of the Testudo special ability for a War tortoise. Using a War tortoise pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates ten Testudo scrolls.

Testudo
Testudo is a special move of the War tortoise, activated by a Testudo scroll. When activated, it temporarily boosts Defence by 8 points. Each use of a Testudo scroll requires 20 special move points.

When used in conjunction with potions and more scrolls, this effect does NOT stack on top of what has already been boosted. Because of this, even players with a War Tortoise following them will typically prefer a Defence potion, Super defence potion, Saradomin brew, or the Excalibur/Enhanced Excalibur special attack for raising their defense.

Trivia

 * Testudo is the Latin word for "tortoise", and is a genus of tortoises found in North Africa, western Asia, and Europe


 * The examine text refers to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which started as a comic book and later developed into a cartoon show.


 * When the tortoise says "I don't believe it", this is probably a reference to the British television show One Foot in the Grave, which has a tortoise in the opening credits and in which the phrase "I don't believe it" is the catchphrase of the main character, Victor Meldrew.


 * The Testudo is an ancient Roman military formation in which legionaries form a tight box of shields, greatly increasing their protection against enemy arrows or other small projectiles.
 * Testudo in Portuguese means Big Forehead.
 * There is a glitch when having a tortoise out at the duel arena near the bank. The tortoise looks like it is on the side of the wall.


 * There is a glitch where you can cause a fruitbat to act like a War Tortoise and still create fruit at the same time.Tort glitch.jpg