Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Big Chompy Bird Hunting

Official quest description: Rantz the Ogre needs to feed his demanding children, Fycie and Bugs, so he wants to go Big Chompy Bird hunting. Problem is, he's all fingers and thumbs when it comes to making ogre arrows.
Could someone please give him a hand?
Release date: 18 May 2004
Start: Speak to Rantz, in eastern Feldip Hills.
Difficulty: *****
Length: Short
Members only: Yes
Requirements:
Level 5 fletching
Level 30 cooking
Level 30 range
Ability to defend against level 64 wolves and level 70 ogres
Items needed:
Any axe
Feathers (100 or more to be safe)
Wolf bones (can also get during quest)
A knife+A chisel(can be bought from bugs before you make the arrows for 25 coins)
Armour and weapons (recommended if you're a low level as there are level 64 Wolves nearby.)
Monsters to kill: None
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
edit Walkthrough
Starting up
Talk to Rantz, located in the north-eastern Feldip Hills (look for the quest star icon). He is hungry and wants you to help him make arrows for his unusually large bow, so he can hunt Chompy birds.
Making the arrows
Like any arrow, Ogre arrows need feathers, a shaft, and a tip.
Shafts
The shafts need to be made out of Achey logs. Achey trees are found all around Rantz, mostly just a few steps to the south.
Chop down a few Achey trees for Achey logs (you'll need around 5 logs - Rantz himself wants 6 arrows and you will probably want a few of your own).
Use a knife on the logs to produce some Ogre arrow shafts.
Use feathers on the shafts to produce Flighted ogre arrows. You need 4 feathers per arrow.
Tips
The tips are carved out of wolf bones.
Kill a few Wolves (level 64) in the crater to the west of Rantz for wolf bones. (lower levelled players might want to prepare a few from various lower levelled wolves).
Use a chisel on the wolf bones to produce Wolfbone arrowtips (produces 2-6 arrowheads per bone).
Use the tips on the flighted shafts to produce Ogre arrows.
The cave
Return to Rantz and give him the arrows. He then tells you about the swamp toads that his sons like to play with.
Ask Rantz all of the questions that are listed, or else you won't be able to open the chest later.
Enter the cave entrance north of Rantz. It is not shown on the map.
Speak to Rantz' daughter and son (Fycie and Bugs, respectively) in the cave. They will inform you that Rantz locked their ogre bellows in the chest. The chest is closed and weighted shut with a large rock.
Attempt to unlock the locked ogre chest. Unsuccessful attempts will reduce your strength by 1.
Search the unlocked ogre chest to retrieve the Ogre bellows (make sure search it right away, or it may lock again).
The inflatable toads
Head back to where you found the wolves. A little west to the wolves you will find a swamp.
Use the ogre bellows on a swamp toad - it tells you that the air is too thin.
Use the ogre bellows on the swamp bubbles in the swamp, at the southern end of the swamp pond. You get three shots with the gas filled bellows before it needs to be filled again.
Use the ogre bellows on a toad again to get a bloated toad and you will catch it and put it in your inventory. You can only get 3 toads at once.
The chompy and the hunt
Return to Rantz and talk to him. He will show you where you need to place the toads to lure the chompy birds out.
DROP a bloated toad on the spot (a yellow flashing arrow will mark it). Tell Rantz you have placed the bait. After a while, a Chompy bird will appear. Rantz will take a shot at it, but he will miss. He will complain that the arrows don't fly straight.
Talk to Rantz and offer to help shoot for him. He will agree and give you his ogre bow.
Head back down to the clearing and place another toad (it doesn't have to be on the exact tile indicated at first).
Wield the ogre bow and ogre arrows and when the bird appears, range it. If the bird doesn't appear or it flies away before you can kill it, keep placing bloated toads to lure the Chompies back.
Once you kill a Chompy, pluck the carcass and take the raw chompy back to Rantz. He now wants you to cook it as well.
Cooking the chompy bird
Rantz will name a special ingredient that he wants the bird to be cooked with. He will also tell you to ask the children what they would like the bird seasoned with.
Travel to the cave and ask Fycie and Bugs what they want the Chompy seasoned with. In all, you will need three different ingredients, but only one bird.
It's different from player to player what the ogres want on the Chompy, but there's a quick list of where to get it all.
Onion: To the west of the swamp, planted near the tomato on a stool, there's a fire and some ogres, right around there. You need to pick them from the ground, so they don't appear on the minimap.
Doogle leaf: West of the swamp, in-between the fungii - respawn of 4.
Equa leaf: You can get this south-east of Rantz, south of the place you placed your toad for the bait. Caution, these are very hard to find. Steer to them with the mini-map. Once you're standing on them, click all over the map to pick one up.
Tomato: West of the swamp on a stool (red dot on minimap).
Cabbage: North of the swamp where there is a bear. Also by the Equa leaf.
Potato: You have to pick a potato from a potato plant south-east of Rantz, right beside the Equa leaf.
Use the bird on the ogre spit-roast north of Rantz and all three ingredients will automatically be applied on the bird. Present Rantz with his delicious seasoned cooked chompy bird.

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