Introduction: Welcome. By reading the title, you can clearly tell that this guide is for the minigame: Shades of Mort'ton. This game has gone ignored for a while, and I couldn't find a guide for it anywhere, so I guess I'll make a guide instead. Requirements: It honestly doesn't take much to do the Shades of Mort'ton minigame. There are a few item requirements: A hatchet A tinderbox About 1k to start you off And a hammer There are some other requirements too: Ability to kill several level 40 creatures Level 6 Firemaking Finished the Priest in Peril quest Oh, and you need fifteen herblore and twenty crafting to actually complete the Shades of Mort'ton quest. Though not necessary, here are some helpful things: 13k for the Flamateur Hammer The Ectophial Good weapons and armor A decent crafting level Level 12 Cooking How to actually play the game: Playing Shades of Mort'ton is easy. The first step is to log onto a populated world, one that will have at least fifteen people playing the game. Next is a step by step guide on how to play the minigame. Step one: Log on. This may sound stupid, but I bet there's someone out there who hasn't figured it out yet... Step two: Go to Mort'ton. For those of you who don't know, it is south of Canafis, in the Mort Myre Swamp. Step three: Complete the Shades of Mort'ton quest if you haven't already. Step four: Buy limestore bricks, timber beams, and swamp paste at a 1:1:5 ratio. Also buy olive oil in groups of four vials. Step five: Prepare for the temple. Equip all your armor, turn your four olive oil(3)s into three olive oil(4) to save on sanctity. Make sure you have at least thirty health, and the beforementioned items. Step six: Go to the temple. Either start killing Loar shades or start working on reinforcing or repairing the temple. When you first kill a shade, or when you begin working, a bit of text will pop up in the top right corner. Sanctity starts at zero, and will increase as you kill or work. 10% sanctity is required to sanctify olive oil, and sanctity will go down by 4% every time you purify a vial of it. To purify olive oil, merely use it on the fire in the center of the temple if it is lit. Step Six A: If you kill Loar shades your sanctity will increase by 2% per kill. Killing shades is important as they will try to tear down the temple walls, which will make it impossible to purify olive oil. Step Six B: If you try working on the temple, your sanctity will increase by 1% every few seconds. (An exact time would be nice.) having the flamateur hammer makes working faster and thus your sanctity climbs faster. You must have resources to work on the temple. Resources will be consumed by the temple in the same ratios as listed in step four, and this will increase the resoure percentage (Also listed in the top right.) by 5% you will gain several points of sanctity per point of resource. Final note: Repairing the temple is crucial as if the repair level falls below 100%, the flame altar will cease to work. Step Seven: Sanctify all of your olive oil, then grab some Loar remains equal to the amount of twice as many of your sanctified olive oil vials. Cut down some trees and run over to some of those stone funeral pyres. Step Eight: Use your olive oil on the logs. They will become pyre logs. Use the pyre logs on the pyre, then you remains on it, and light it. The remains will burn and an item will appear on a pedastal on the end of the pyre. It will either be gold or a key. Repeat untill you have several keys. (I usually wait untill I have about twelve.) Burning shades yields prayer XP. Step Nine: Travel to the pseudo-dungeon north of the general store. Inside you will immediately by attacked by black shades unless you are at a very high combat level. Luckily, this area is non multi-combat. Directly to your left you will see a bronze door. Walk inside. Start clicking on treasure chests that have the same color trim on their front as your keys have on the loop end. You will begin getting treasure. Typical treasure is poisoned daggers, hatchets, amulets of defence, chaos runes, and money. You will almost always get swamp paste as well. When you've used all of your keys, exit, sell any unwanted loot, and repeat. Optional Step Ten: If you run low on health, chop down a tree and run to the path to Mort'ton towards where the snails are. Start killing snails untill you have about five of them, then light a fire, cook, and eat. Assuming you burn about 20% of the time, you will easily recover your health after a bit. Optional Step Eleven: If you are literally one hit away from death, quickly use your ectophial. You will escape to Port Phasmatys, where there is a bank for you to grab food out of and heal yourself with, and is the fastest way to escape that makes you do the least amount of running. If you are truly desperate, you can kill the undead cows and chicken outside of town, cook them, and eat them for one health of recovery each. Optional Step Twelve: If you have rebuilt the bank in the In Aid of the Myreque quest, you can bank there quickly to stash loot and get food. This is also recommended for... Optional Step Thirteen: If you are seeking more money, and are a higher level, feel free to kill the stronger shades found inside of the psuedo-dungon north of the general store. The catch, however, is that burning these shades requires a higher leveled firemaking level, and better logs, and is not recommended unless you qualify for Optional Step Twelve. In closing: Though it isn't extremely profitable unless you start killing Level 120 shades, the Shades of Mort'ton minigame offers XP in combat, cooking, firemaking, crafting, and prayer. It supplies you with money, and is pretty much completely free to play. A high level is not required either. I'm level 51 combat and I manage just fine. Final Note: I'm gonna add pictures to this soon, and format it to make it look all pretty and stuff. ^_^
