Witch's House

The Boy
The start point of Witch's House is located South of Taverley and directly West of Falador, near the building on the shore. Talk to the crying Boy. He tells you that he accidentally kicked his ball over into the garden and he asks you to retrieve it for him.

After accepting the quest, head west to the front door of the house just north of the boy, where Nora T. Hagg lives. Search the pot, north of the door, to find a key.

In the house
Items required: Gloves, Cheese (Preferably more than one, in case you get caught)

Use the key to open the door. There is a diary on the table, which shows you how to unlock the door that leads to the inner smaller room, and finally into the garden. It also mentions that there is a secret compartment in the fountain (which has the key to the shed). You must read the diary in order to obtain the key.

Go into the basement. If you do not have gloves, search the nearby boxes until you get one. Wear the gloves, and go through the gate.

Warning: If you are not wearing the leather gloves, safety gloves, void gloves, ghostly gloves or penance gloves, you will be hit for around 90 to 180 life points. "Armoured gloves" such as slayer gloves or gloves from Recipe for Disaster will hit you for 120 damage, ice gloves will hit you for 190 damage and lunar gloves will hit you for 150 damage.

In the room, search the cupboard for a magnet. Go back upstairs and into the small room.

Use the cheese with the Mouse Hole on the eastern wall and a mouse will appear. Use the magnet on the mouse and through a mechanism, it will unlock the door.

Getting Past Nora T. Hagg
Once you are in the garden you will see Nora T. Hagg walking up and down the middle.


 * The trick is to use the hedges so she will not see you. Simply hide behind the hedge walls, and only move when the witch's back is turned to you.
 * Note that if you stand at the corner of one of the hedges, the witch may see you, so it is best to stand in the middle of each hedge.
 * If the witch catches you, she will teleport you outside the house, and you will lose any items you collected while in the house. The door that requires cheese will lock again, requiring another magnet and a piece of cheese.

Make your way all the way around until you reach the fountain. Search around the sides of the fountain and you will find the key to the shed.

If you have been spotted by the Witch, with the key from the fountain in your inventory, you DO need to collect another one to open the shed.

Note: You cannot walk across the path that the witch passes, you must go all the way around.

Witch's experiment
Make your way to the shed and use the key on it. Attack the Witch's experiment. Do not take the ball yet. If you do, your combat stats will be decreased.

If you are using ranged or magic there is a safe spot in the south-west corner.
 * First you must trap the Witch's experiment at the bags then stand on the hay, then you can use range or magic and it cannot attack you.

Each time you kill the experiment, its next form will appear. You will have to kill the experiment a total of four times before it is defeated, the first stage being a Skavid (level 19), then a Spider (level 30), then a Bear (level 42) and finally a Wolf (level 53).

Once you have killed the experiment in all of its forms, take the ball and head out. As before, do not let the witch see you or she will teleport you outside and you will lose the ball.
 * You can, however, teleport yourself out once you have got the ball, without losing it.
 * Having a Falador teleport can be used with the movment of the quest start
 * If you are caught, you do not need to obtain a magnet or the key from the fountain again - both doors remain unlocked.

Finally, after escaping the house with the ball, give it back to the boy to complete the quest.

Reward

 * 4 Quest points
 * 6,325 Constitution experience

Quests unlocked

 * Grim Tales
 * Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Lumbridge Sage

Trivia

 * If you try to use Telekinetic Grab on the ball, the sentence "I can't reach that!" will appear in the text box.
 * The ball will respawn after being picked up, even when the player still has the ball in the inventory.
 * This was one of the first 5 quests to be released for RuneScape members.
 * Upon completing this quest, the Adventurer's Log will read: "When I lost a ball as a child, it would only involve chatting to the friendly neighbor. This quest involved a little more: some witch-dodging and even shapeshifter fighting!"
 * If you "Check" the fountain even if you didn't take the diary on the table inside the house, the message will still say: "You search for the secret compartment mentioned in the diary. Inside it you find a small key. You take the key."
 * The first form of the experiment keeps the same voice as an imp when attacked, even though it was changed to be a skavid later.