Rune Memories/Quick guide

This is the quick guide for Rune Memories. For a more in-depth version, click here.

Walkthrough

Start point	Talk to Ariane in the ruins beneath the Wizards' Tower.
Member requirement	Members only
Official difficulty	Novice
Official length	Long (~25 minutes)
Requirements	Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable. Quests: Rune Memories Rune Mysteries
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. 14 free inventory spaces.
Enemies to defeat	None

Getting started

• Talk to Ariane in the ruins beneath the Wizards' Tower. ( 2•2•✓•3•3)…

  2	What do you need help with?
  2	I'd be happy to help.
  ✓	[Accept Quest]
  3	How can I get you out?
  3	Okay, what do you want me to do?

• Use the prepared fire rune on a red vortex and the prepared air rune on a grey vortex.
• Talk to Ariane. ( 4)…

  4	OK, I'll do that now.

Memories

• Head through the eastern library door.
• Put the glowing fire rune on the red chair and the glowing air rune on the grey chair.
• Head west back through the door.
• Talk to Ariane. ( 1•2)…

  1	I saw them talking about the 'teleportation problem'.
  2	So, what now?

The meeting of the head wizards

• Use each prepared rune on a vortex corresponding to the colour of the background of the rune.
• Talk to Ariane. ( 3)…

  3	OK, I'll do that now.

• Head west and climb up the staircase to go back to the room with the rune guardian.
• Use the nature rune with the Guthix statue (north-east), the law rune with the Saradomin statue (south-east), the chaos rune with the Zamorak statue (south-west), and the cosmic rune on the other statue (north-west).
• Open the door and head back down the staircase by crossing the statue.
• Talk to Ariane. ( 1•3•3)…

  1	The Green master stole the Red apprentice's idea!
  3	Okay, so what do we do now?
  3	OK.

Memories of the Abyss

• Head through the northern studies door.
• Head into the north-eastern room.
• Use the glowing chaos rune on the large chair and the glowing fire rune on the chair opposite of the large one.
• Return to the main chamber.
• Talk to Ariane. ( 1•3•3)…

  1	The Red master summoned a demon!
  3	So what do we do now?
  3	OK.

The teleportation debate

• Head through the eastern library door.
• Use the glowing air rune on the grey chair, glowing fire rune on the red chair, glowing earth rune on the green chair, glowing water rune on the blue chair and the glowing chaos rune on the table.
• Return to the main chamber and talk to Ariane. ( 1•3•2)…

  1	The wizards were about to start the ritual.
  3	OK, what now?
  2	OK.

• Head through the eastern library door.
• Search the shelves for document fragment (1/5) and document fragment (3/5).
• Return to main chamber.
• Head through the northern studies door.
• Search the crates and chests in each room for document fragment (2/5), document fragment (4/5), document fragment (5/5), and a diary.
• Once you have found all of the document fragments (5 in total) head back to the main chamber.
• Talk to Ariane. ( 2•2•2)…

  2	I found some document fragments.
  2
  2	OK.

The beam

• Read all of the document fragments.
• Place the Runes in their corresponding positions on the floor surrounding the blue beam:
  • South: Chaos
  • Southwest: Water
  • West: Cosmic
  • Northwest: Earth
  • North: Law
  • Northeast: Fire
  • East: Nature
  • Southeast: Air
• Head West and climb-up the staircase to go back to the surface.
• Talk to Wizard Ellaron at the entrance to the Wizards' Tower. ( 2•3•3•3)…

  2	Ariane is hurt in the ruins of the old Tower!
  3	I didn't say she was in a coma.
  3	Why would you do all this?
  3	Enough talk! Prepare to fight, Red Wizard!

The burning tower

• Talk to Ariane.
• Use the following prepared runes on Ariane corresponding to the beam:
  • Cosmic rune - Thick (spinning) grey beam
  • Water rune - Simple blue beam
• Ascend the beam
  • Earth rune - Simple green beam
  • Fire rune - Simple red beam
• Ascend the beam
  • Law rune - Thick (spinning) blue beam
  • Nature rune - Thick (spinning) green beam
• Ascend the beam
  • Chaos rune - Thick (spinning) red beam
  • Air rune - Simple grey beam
• Talk to Ariane. ( 1•2•3•3)…

  1	Are you OK?
  2	So... what now?
  3	So, is there a reward?
  3	We did find out what happened to the old tower.

• Quest complete!

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• 300 experience
• 300 experience
• First tower robes (top and bottom)
• Access to Archmage Sedridor's personal rune chest
  • Contains $2.5 \times level \times (level+1)$ rune essence, where $level$ is your Runecrafting level
  • For each additional level gained in Runecrafting, more essence is placed into the chest for you equal to five times your new Runecrafting level.
  • There is no benefit or detriment whatsoever in waiting to increase your runecrafting level to use the chest.
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys and 2 Hearts of Ice
  

Additional rewards/activities

• Speak to the lesser demon on the 1st floor of the Wizards' Tower if you have at least 50 and 50 to receive 10,000 or Experience depending on if you choose to give him a drop of your blood or not, respectively.
• The Archmage [Name] (requires 99 Magic and 99 Runecrafting; speak to Archmage Sedridor to retrieve the title)
  

Music unlocked

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