Pikkupstix

Pikkupstix is the central character surrounding the Summoning skill. The player may begin the Wolf Whistle quest by speaking to him. He also sells the Cape of Achievement for Summoning for 99,000 coins, if the player has 99 Summoning.

He will also tell players where to find his assistant Pikkenmix for the Familiarisation Distraction and Diversion.

He runs the shop Summoning Supplies alongside the Summoning skill tutor Magestix selling essential items such as spirit Shards and pouches.

He will also enchant helms to hold scrolls for free. You need to have the helm in inventory (not equipped) and if you want to sell it on the exchange you will have to ask him to unenchant it again.

He appears in the saga Three's Company. He is kidnapped by Carn during an attack on Taverley and is rescued by the Signature heroes Arianne, Ozan and Sir Owen.

List of Assistants
In one "busy week", Pikkupstix has lost the following assistants:


 * Stikklebrix - killed by white wolves
 * Scalectrix - she is fine
 * Bowloftrix - almost cooked by trolls
 * Lunatrix - went mad
 * Ashtrix - cut off hand
 * Spartrix - captured by Kinshra
 * Beezeltrix - incident with smoke devil
 * Felitrix - lost
 * Hastrix - unknown
 * Two twin druids - captured by trolls

Trivia

 * The name is a play on "Pick-up sticks".
 * The dead body is the corpse of Pikkupstix's assistant Stikklebrix, which is also a play on Stickle Bricks, a child's toy.
 * He is the character on the Summoning concept art background, although he looks as though he weighs more in game than he does on the concept art.
 * On the Update on the 31st March 2008, when Summoning 2 was released, he could enchant different headgear (by using the right click - enchant option). However, at the initial release there was a typo and the message appeared 'Pikkupstix chacks all the items you are holding' instead of checks. This has since been fixed.
 * The name and his assistants name may be a reference to the Asterix books, where the names of all the Gaulish characters (including all druids) ended in ix (e.g. Getafix, Asterix, and Obelix). Like most of the characters in the Asterix series, his name is also a pun.
 * On 2 September 2009, after the Personalised shop update, unlimited stocks were removed and, instead, each shop's stock was made unique to each player's account so that one player's activity did not affect what was available to another player. The update also removed the "buy X" feature, with the result that spirit shards could only be purchased in lots of 500 per purchase. Many players complained that this update impaired summoning training because it made buying supplies too time-consuming: with high-level familiars requiring more than 200 shards each, players training at higher levels - using tens of thousands of Spirit Shards in a single session - found the 500-per-click limit slow and frustrating. In response to these complaints, a 9 September 2009 update introduced the Spirit shards pack, a pack containing 5000 spirit shards; players needing large quantities could thereafter purchase up to 500 packs (for a total of 2.5 million shards) at one time. Shops currently carry 65000 spirit shards individually and 65000 spirit shards packs.
 * Pikkupstix is the only cape seller with no front tassels on his Summoning skillcape.
 * Pikkupstix originally sold the Summoning cape via his store Summoning Supplies, after the Troll Warzone update he no longer does so as the store and stock is shared with Magestix.

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