RuneWeb - Rat Catchers Quest

Rat Catchers Quest

by Lucky Me Two, revised by FireballX301

Skills Needed: Completed Gertrude's Cat, Itchlarin's Little Helper.
Items Needed: Weeds, Pot, Tinderbox, Any Cat, Shantay Pass, Waterskins, some Salmon or Trout (cooked/uncooked), Rat Poison (OR Kwuarm, Red Spider's Eggs and Empty Vial), Amulet Of Catspeak, 4 pieces of Cheese, 1000 Coins (50 Coins if you have a Ring of Charos (u)), Bucket of Milk, Marrentill and Ground Unicorn Horn

Catspeak Amulet: The monk gives it to you after Itchalrin's Little Helper.
Kitten: Buyable from Gertrude west of Varrock at 100gp each.
Rat Poison: Go down the ladder in the clock tower in Ardougne and go through the upper left door. When the path splits go foward and garb the Rat Poison.
Cheese: Buy at Port Sarim or Grand Tree food shops.

This quest begins at Gertrude, west of Varrock.

Gertrude will inexplicably tell you to meet two people in the Varrock Sewers. Purchase a cat from her if you don't already have one.

Now is the best time to start wearing your Catspeak Amulet and Ring of Charos (u) (if you have one). Head east of Varrock Palace and enter the sewer.

Speak to either Phingspet or Grimesquit.

They will tell you to catch 8 Rats with your cat. Do so.

Talk to the sisters again and they will give you a Rat Pole and say that if you want to know more about rat pits you should go to Jimmy Dazzler in Ardougne.

Get to Ardougne and head near the gate to West Ardougne. You will find Jimmy Dazzler. Talk to him and he will tell you do complete a 'small' job for him. He will hand you some directions. Read them and 'follow the directions' to the house.

The Manor: Courtyard

If you are seen by guards you will get teleported to the gates. So now, focus on the east small pond. When the guards are looking at the entrance to the pond, run to the right of the pond and then hide from the next guards by getting behind the hedges on either side of the building.

Circle the house by staying behind the hedges around the border. Ascend into the house at the trellis here.

The Manor: Floor 2

NOTE: Adding rats to your Rat Pole is voluntary.

Ok now, wait for the guards to be next to the stairs and run to the west bedroom. Kill the Rat there with your cat.

Now wait till the guards arent watching and run to the walkway next to the west stair (that leads to a room with some rolled rugs and a broken table) and enter the room.

Kill the 2 Rats here. Now, go down that ladder and kill the 3 Rats down there!

After all six rats are eliminated, you have to sneak back out the way you came. Or you can just teleport. Either way get out.

Get back and talk to Jimmy and he will give you access to the Ardougne Rat pits (only for kittens). He will say that if you want to know more about overgrown cats you will have to talk to Hooknosed Jack in Varrock.

He's in the gated portion in the southeast of Varrock.

Hooknosed Jack's Mission:

He will tell you to go and exterminate the Rats in a Warehouse behind the Dancing Donkey inn, the bar in the same area.

Get your Rat Poison/ Kwuarm and Red spiders out of the bank. If you give the Kwuarm, Red Spider's Eggs and Empty Vial to him he will mix up Rat Poison, but you can simply retrieve rat poison from the Ardougne Clock Tower.

Now use the Rat Poison with ALL the Cheese, making 4 poisoned cheese. Get Trouts or Salmon (cooked/uncooked) out of the bank. Go to the warehouse behind the bar and go up the ladder. Use the 4 Poisoned Cheese with the 4 Rat Holes.

Report back to Hooknosed Jack. He'll tell you that Pox has eaten too many Poisoned Rats, and to run to the Apothecary nearby. He's just close to the West Anvils. Talk to him and ask about cats. Tell him about the poison and he will say he will make a cure if you bring if a Marrentil Herb, a Bucket of Milk and a Ground Unicorn Horn.

Hand over the items to him to get Cat Cure. Go talk to Jack and give it to him. Uh oh, the meanest, biggest of all rast survived.

Go to the warehouse and have some trout or salmon on (about 6 should do). Use your cat with the hole in the wall. I suggest you tell him 'Be Carfeul in there cat' as that will make him run when 3 hp is took off. Now click on Use trout/salmon, then put it on the hole to it stays like 'Use Salmon/trout with Hole in Wall.'

Your cat will now fight with the King Rat. This will be tough. When your cat is at half health use a salmon or trout with the hole to heal him. When you take care of the King Rat, report back to Jack. He will give you access to Varrock Rat Pits (Cats only) and says that if you want to know more about grown cats, you should go see Smokin' Joe in Keldagrim.

Smokin' Joe's Troubles:

Go to Keldagrim. Behind the Pickaxe shop there is Smokin' Joe. Talk to him.

Now ask him how to make a smouldering pot. He will say to get some Weeds, use it with the Pot, and light it with a tinderbox. If you don't have Weeds yet, you can rake the Kelda Hops Patch for some. Now, drop your kitten and use the Smouldering Pot with the Rat Hole 3 times (failing on all of them), then try to do it a fourth time. Your cat will say that he cant stand you doing it wrong, and then you ask how your gonna do it, and he says that he'll ambush the rats when you put the pot on the Rat Hole. You will do so, and your cat will kill them.

Now talk to Joe and he'll grant you acess to Keldagrim Rat Pits (Overgrown Cats only) and he will say that if you really want to know about grown cats, you should talk to The Face at Port Sarim.

The Bard's Secrets:

Go to Port Sarim, and behind the Fishing Shop, talk to The Face.

She will tell you to talk to Felkrash the bard. Enter the rat pits and speak to her. She will tell you how to get the most powerful form of cats, if you get all the rats of Port Sarim killed in 1 maneuver.

Speak to The Face about it. Compliment her and she will tell how the Bard got all the mouses in 1 manuever. Snake charming!

Get to Pollnivneach (magic carpet is an easy transport) and find the snake charmer. and use coins with the money pot next to him. Talk to him about animal charming and then tell him you will give him money if he gives you the Snake Charm and the Note scroll. He will say 1000 coins for that. Pay him, if you have a Ring of Charos it's only 50 gp. Now go to Port Sarim. Watch the Scroll.

Each 'page' in the flute is that note - for example, the first page is the first note you play. Fill out each page according to the scroll, remembering to 'raise an octave' if a note on the scroll requires it (the symbol is the odd greater than sign).

Once you do all that, click on 'PLAY'. You will drown the rats of Port Sarim. Report to the bard. She will give you acess to Port Sarim Rat Pits (Wiley Cats only), the oppurtunity to name your cat if he is a Lazy or Wiley cat, and that Overgrown Cats are grown to Wiley Cats ONLY by her!

Quest complete.

Reward: 4500 Theiving xp, Train Overgrown Cats into Wiley Cats, name your Cat if he is Wiley or Lazy, Access to ALL Rat Pits and 2 Quest Points.