The Restless Ghost

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This article is about the quest. For the ghost, see Restless ghost.

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The Restless Ghost (#3)

Release date	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Voice Over	No
Official difficulty	Novice
Quest series	None
Age	Fifth Age
Developers Main developer(s) Paul Gower Graphics Concept Unknown edit Quality Assurance Core Unknown edit Audio Composition Unknown edit

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The Restless Ghost is one of the first quests introduced into the game, available since the launch of RuneScape, where the player lays a ghost to rest.

Official description

A ghost is haunting Lumbridge graveyard.

The priest of the Lumbridge Church of Saradomin wants you to find out how to get rid of it.

Walkthrough

Start point	Speak to Father Aereck in the Lumbridge church, east of Lumbridge Castle.
Member requirement	Free to play
Official difficulty	Novice
Official length	Short
Requirements	Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable. None
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. None
Enemies to defeat	Optional: Skeleton warlock (level 7)

Restlessness

To start the quest, speak to Father Aereck, who will tell you that a ghost has been haunting the graveyard behind the Lumbridge church and that he needs help in laying it to peace. He requests that you speak to Father Urhney, who is located in the swamps behind Lumbridge Castle, and is an expert ghost hunter himself.

Exit the graveyard through the southern exit and head through the swamps south of the Lumbridge Castle. Follow the shoreline to a mining area, then head west towards a small hut.

Father Urhney

Father Urhney is meditating inside his hut. At first, he will be uncooperative and unwilling to part with his services, but he will eventually hand you a ghostspeak amulet. The amulet allows players to communicate with ghosts, a feat otherwise impossible.

Leave the swampy area and head back towards the graveyard in Lumbridge. Open the coffin located within the gated region adjacent to the Catacombs in the Lumbridge graveyard. Equip the ghostspeak amulet and speak with the restless ghost. He will reveal that he isn't certain why he hasn't departed, but he thinks it might have to do with his missing skull. He tells you that he was attacked by a warlock while he was mining to the south-west, and that is where his head probably lays. He requests you to retrieve it for him.

Muddy skull

The ghost's skull is located in the Lumbridge swamp, near the south-east mining site. Search the rocks a bit to the east, and the skull will appear in your inventory. Along with the skull, a skeleton warlock (level 7) will also spawn; you can either kill it or simply leave with the skull. Whatever you choose, return to the cemetery where the ghost resides.

Use the muddy skull on the open coffin, and a cutscene will ensue, where the ghost will thank you and then fly off into the River Lum.

Congratulations, quest complete!

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• 125 experience lamp
• 5 Ancient bones giving 200 experience each
• Ghostspeak amulet
• Access to gravestone upgrades by talking to Father Aereck
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys and 2 Hearts of Ice

Achievement

• Aereck's Old Bones ( 5) - Claim ancient bones from Father Aereck after 'The Restless Ghost' quest.

Required for completing

Completion of The Restless Ghost is required for the following:

• Animal Magnetism
• Cabin Fever
• Creature of Fenkenstrain
• The Curse of Zaros
• Ghosts Ahoy
• Hopespear's Will
• Icthlarin's Little Helper
• Making History
• Nature Spirit
• Spirit of Summer
• Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks:
  • Beginner: "A Grave Consideration"
  • Easy: "I Can't Hear Dead People"
• Desert Tasks:
  • Elite: "A, B, Cithara"

Transcript

This article on a quest has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations encountered throughout the quest.

Cultural references

• During the end scene, the ghost flies towards a tree on the riverbank, and then into the river. This may be a reference to the Pagan belief in the Summerland. In Pagan mythology, willow trees that grow on the water's edge are seen as the gateway through which spirits can travel through the water and return to the Summerland to await reincarnation. For this reason, willows are considered sacred in many Pagan faiths.

Trivia

The altar the skull used to lie on

• The Restless Ghost was one of the 6 quests available during RuneScape's launch. While the primary reward was Prayer experience, the ability to use prayers was not added until months later, during this update.
• This quest used to give 1,125 experience, enough to get a new player's Prayer to rise from level 1 to 9. It was changed on 15 December 2009, along with several other beginner quests, to their current rewards. Mod Rowley stated on the forums that the idea was to get new players into the habit of burying bones for Prayer experience.
• In earlier versions of the quest, the skull was located in the basement of the Wizards' Tower. Also, the ghost would be already roaming in the cemetery and did not require the player to open the coffin.