Karamthulhu

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This article is about a type of squid. For the summoning familiar, see Karamthulhu overlord.

Karamthulhu
Detailed
Release	31 October 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Members	Yes
Quest item	Rum Deal
Quest item	Rum Deal
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Value	1 coin
Value	1 coin
High Alchemy	0 coins
High Alchemy	0 coins
Low Alchemy	0 coins
Low Alchemy	0 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	0.001 kg
Examine	A sinister looking squid.

Karamthulhu are a squid-like species that are sometimes obtained while fishing for slugs during the Rum Deal quest. They are also dropped by Zombie pirates and Zombie swabs.

Karamthulus can be used in addition to Sluglings to make Unsanitary swill. After the quest, any Karamthulhus remaining in inventory will disappear, and an attempt to fish for them triggers the response, "You have no need to do that any more."

Previously, if you tried to use an alchemy spell on it you would get the message, "You cannot cast alchemy on your follower!"

Rocking Out

Main article: Karamthulhu (Rocking Out)

A Karamthulhu NPC is encountered during Rocking Out, and can be caught to obtain a key.

Drop sources

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Zombie pirate	49; 50	1	Uncommon
Zombie swab	47	1	Uncommon

Disassembly

Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0% 2 49 96.0% 3 64 94.0% 4 69 92.0% 5 78 90.0% 6 83 87.1% 7 91 85.1% 8 95 82.1% 9 105 79.2%
Possible materials
Often
Simple parts	99%
Rarely
Variable components	1%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 98.9 Junk chance: 98.9

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Trivia

• Karamthulhu is a portmanteau of Karambwan and Cthulhu, a fictional squid god and character in many of H. P. Lovecraft's stories.
• A glitch was discovered involving Summoning a Karamthulhu on 12 January 2008, before Summoning's release. When you died with a Karamthulhu, it would briefly appear as an NPC. The glitch was fixed the same day. The glitch had apparently been around since the Rum Deal quest was released. This had been mentioned on a Summoning Development Diary that they knew this glitch was in the game, but not many players had found it, or paid any attention to it.