A Fairy Tale Part I - Growing Pains

[Dokken]

Difficulty level: Easy

Start location: Draynor Village market square

Required:

Quests: Lost City and Nature Spirit

Skills: Must be able to beat a level 111 monster.

Items: Spade, Dramen staff, Secateurs and a Ghostspeak Amulet

Suggested:

Items: Ectophial, Teleport Runes to Ardougne, Varrock, Camelot and Yanille. If you are afraid of the Ghasts attacking you, bring a filled druid pouch. The Ghasts can't really do any serious damage, though.

Skills: High farming level helps.

Monsters: Tanglefoot (Level 111)

NPC: Martin the Master Gardener, Elstan, Lyra, Dantaera, Kragen, Fairy Godfather, Fairy Nuff, Zandar Horfyre, Malignus Mortifer and Nature Spirit


1: Starting out
Talk to Martin the Master Gardener. He will tell you that his roses are not as good as they used to be and crops have been getting smaller. Promise to help him out. You will now need to go talk to various different farmers (any 5). It's not really important which farmers say what (may be random) - just keep visiting farmers until one mentions fairies. You can go northwest next to the nearest allotments and talk to Elstan there. Ask if he's a G.A.G. member and he will tell you about the lack of rain. Use your ectophial to teleport or walk to Port Phasmatys. Now go a little bit west to the allotment and talk to Lyra. However, if you don't have an ectophial, go to the Rimmington bush patch and talk to Taria instead. Ask if she is a member of G.A.G. too. She will tell you that the insects are the problem. Now go to Camelot by teleport or on foot and go to the Catherby allotment. Talk to Dantaera and ask her the same question. She says that the problem is from the various adventurers planting crops in her fields. Now walk to the fruit tree patch on the east end of Catherby beach and talk to Ellena there. Ask her about the problems with farming. She says the reason is the seasons.


2: Fairy problem
Now, go to Ardougne and walk to the allotment north of the city. Talk to Kragen looking after the allotments and ask if he is a member of G.A.G. He says the reason is the fairies. Now go back to Draynor Village and talk to Martin. He will tell you to go to the lost city, Zanaris, in Lumbridge. Remember to take your dramen staff with you! Wear it and go to the wooden house which you entered in the Lost City quest.

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Lost City of Zanaris Map

Walk south and talk to the Fairy Godfather. Ask him where the queen is and proceed west through Zanaris. Go to the room north of the bank of Zanaris and talk to Fairy Nuff.



3: Trying to heal the Queen
The queen is sick, Fairy Nuff will give you a list of her symptoms. Now go to Falador and walk west to Dark Wizards' Tower. Go to the highest floor and talk to Zandar Horfyre there. He will tell you to go talk to a necromancer called Malignus Mortifer. If you haven't bought or taken your secateurs from bank yet, now is the time to get them. He can be found a little northwest from Port Sarim, or by going southwest from Falador's south gate. Talk to Malignus, he will ask you to fetch a skull from a grave on the grounds of Draynor Manor. The grave is located north of the manor, near the gallows on the inner side of the fence surrounding the manor. Get a spade from the easternmost room of the manor and dig while standing on the grave to get a skull.



4: Blessing the secateurs
Now, go back to Malignus and talk about the quest once more. Now, he will tell you what you need to bless your secateurs. He will ask you to get three different items and secateurs (the requested items are different for each player - he will assign three). Here's a list of different items and how to get them.

Avantoe: Buy from other players, herbdroppers, grow them in a herb patch
Baby dragon bones: Kill a baby dragon in Taverly dungeon or Brimhaven dungeon
Blue Dragon Scale: Taverly dungeon
Bucket of Supercompost: Buy from other players, make by using 15 pineapples with an empty compost bin
Bunch of Grapes: Respawn in cooking guild
Cave Eel: Lumbridge swamp caves
Charcoal: At the Shilo Village or Tai Bwo Wannai general store
Crushed gemstone: From failing to cut opal/jade/red topaz (Shilo village gems)
Edible seaweed: From trawler fishing, drop from rock crabs, or rock lobster and Dagannoths on Waterbirth Island
Fat snail: Kill a not pointy, purple snail in Mort Myre swamp, the higher level the snail the better
Grapes: Chef's Guild or the Recipe For Disaster quest reward chest
Irit leaf: Buy from other players, herbdroppers, grow them in a herb patch
Jangerberries: Respawn at ogre island west of Yanille, grow them yourself in a bush patch
Jogre bones: Karamja jungle, Ardougne zoo (telegrab needed)
Kingworm: Northwest part of the Gnome Stronghold Grand Tree, south of the Taverly herb shop
Lime: Can be bought from the cocktail ingredient seller in Gnome Grand Tree
Mort Myre Mushroom/Fungi: Pray with your silver sickle (b) in Mort Myre swamps near a log
Mort Myre Pear: Pray with your silver sickle (b) in Mort Myre swamps near a bush
Mort Myre Stem: Pray with your silver sickle (b) in Mort Myre swamps near a branch
Nature talisman: Buy from other player, monster drop
Potato cactus: Second level of the Kalphite lair
Proboscis: From Tai Bwo Wannai minigame
Red spider's eggs: Respawn in Varrock sewers or Edgeville dungeon
Red vine worm: McGrubor's Wood west of Seers' Village
Slimey eel: Fish in Mort Myre swamp or Lumbridge cave
Snapdragon: Buy from other players, grow them in a herb patch, buy from the agility arena for 10 tickets, rare drop from tree spirit random event
Snape Grass: Respawn west of the crafting guild, also spawns on Waterbirth Island
Snape Grass: Player made (Farming Guide: Compost)
Uncut diamond: buy from other players, monster drop, mine (random) at the Shilo Village gem rocks
Uncut ruby: Buy from other players, monster drop, mine at the Shilo Village gem rocks
Unopened oyster: Big net fishing, killing rock crabs
Volencia moss: Mining site in Karamja jungle Northwest of the nature altar
White berries: Buy from other players, respawn in 45+ wilderness at red dragons, spawn in Tirannwn, grow them yourself in a bush patch, drop from men in Canifis


Get the items he asked you to get and go talk to the Nature Spirit in Mort Myre Swamp. If you have any food items that you need to take to him, you should bring a filled druid pouch with you. Remember to take your Ghostspeak Amulet with you! Talk to the Nature Spirit and ask him to bless your secateurs. Now, go back to Zanaris to the Cosmic Temple ruins. Go through the hole in the western wall. Proceed to the end of the tunnel, wear your magic secateurs and kill the level 111 Tanglefoot. Pick up the Queen's secateurs that the Tanglefoot drops. Now head back to the Fairy Godfather and speak to him. Quest Complete.



Reward:

The Magic Secateurs you get during the quest
3,500 Farming experience
2,000 Attack experience
1,000 Magic experience
Quest points gained on completion: 2

Tips, tricks & notes:

Secateurs can be bought from any farming shop.
Tanglefoot only attacks with melee, so use of protect from melee is advised.
The farmers listed in the guide are not the only correct ones, but they are all a short walk away from a teleport. Other farmers work too. Also, different farmers might speak of different reasons for the harvest to be smaller.
If you lose or drop your enchanted secateurs, then you have to pay Malignus Mortifer 40k to get another pair back.
The leprechauns at any farming patch will hold your magic secateurs in their secateur holding spot.
When Magic Secateurs are equipped they will increase the amount of vegetables, herbs or hops harvested by up to 10%.
Written By/Credits: Pirkka
Guide originally from http://www.tip.it/runescape