Shadow sword

Shadow Sword is a reward from a miniquest discovered on February 12, 2007. The sword matches the ghostly robe set, and is a Two-Handed sword. This weapon is a bit slow and doesn't hit very high but it gives a magic bonus to both attack and defence, thus making it a good weapon for melee and magic. Look below for a walkthrough for the Shadow sword miniquest.



Walkthrough

 * Equip your Ghostly Robes, your Ring of visibility, and your amulet of ghostspeak.
 * Go to the ghost of General Khazard near Relekka's House Portal, he's east of the portal near the agility shortcut at the fox.
 * Talk to Ghost and then return to Seers. Talk to Sin Seer in the Spinning Wheel house in Seers Village. Bribe her with 40 coins and then return to the ghost again.
 * Go find the four scouts at the locations he mentions. Wear a ring of visibility to see them, a ghostspeak amulet to talk to them and Ghostly robes for them to recognize you as a messenger for General Khazard. The scouts are on the move constantly, so look around in the area given below.


 * The Jungle scout is near the Tai bwo wannai village. Go to the special tree patch with mahogany and teak trees, and search just a bit to the south-east of there. (The jungle south-east of the start of the Jungle Potion quest.)
 * The Gnome scout is circling around the apple orchard to the south-east of gnome stronghold. It could be right by the entrance, but he may be else where near the orchard.
 * The Knight scout is a little east of Falador, between the Falador east wall and the Draynor Manor west fence.
 * The Desert scout is a little south of the Shantay Pass. Go through the pass, and search the area around the rock formation just to the south of the pass.


 * Go talk to Khazard again to receive Severed Leg, needed to defeat Bouncer.
 * To get the Shadow Sword reward, go and defeat the level 160 ghost of Bouncer in the Goblin Cave, right by the Fishing Guild. The cave is known from the Dwarf Cannon and One Small Favour quests.(Note: During the fight you cannot use prayers of any sort, so make sure you have good food.)







Trivia

 * Shadow Sword was released without the usual Update announcement (also called "hidden updates"). It was mentioned in the Update:Behind the Scenes - February (2007); the 2 seers paragraphs between the Osman and second quest references.
 * The Shadow Sword is part of the Ghostly robes which was also released without announcement. Ghosts are invisible, so Jagex had planned it again to have no announcement and wait for the ghost item to be discovered.
 * To get another Shadow Sword, go back to the cave and talk to the ghost there.
 * The first player to discover the Shadow Sword miniquest was Melkior7, though his friend Zebs12 was the first to finish it.
 * At one point there was a glitch with the shadow sword, where if you attempt to hit a combat stone using the "defensive" attack option, it will say "You can only use melee attacks on the stone." This has since been fixed. The shadow sword also sounds completely different from all the other Two-Handed Swords.
 * the final ghost you inform gives you a message to give to khazard and adds on the part: "the messenger is Pavlov" probably refering to Pavlov's dogs and khazards dog Bouncer.
 * When throwing the severed leg in the final battle, you way "Away damn spot." Besides being a play on the famous dog name Spot, this is a reference to the classic line from Shakespeare's famous play "MacBeth" wherein Lady MacBeth utters "Out damn spot" in a moment of extreme guilt.  Note that the player feels guilty when entering the crevice.