19th May 2009 - Missing my Mummy

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There are many secrets hidden in the depths of the desert. Forgotten tombs of forgotten rulers from a forgotten time, when the world was a very different place...or at least they were forgotten. The spread of human civilisation, however, means that many of the hidden corners of the world are being uncovered, often by treasure-hunters with little regard for preserving the sanctity of these ancient places.

 

 

 

Recently, one such tomb, near Uzer, was discovered by treasure-hunters. Leela of Al Kharid does care about the sanctity of this particular place, and she wants your help to recover information that is of great importance to her.

 

 

 

Mod Newmatic

 

RuneScape Content Developer

 

 

 

Warning Mild Spoilers

 

 

 

Please note that we havent forgotten about your request to not start too many new quest series until we have continued with, and finished, a few of the existing ones. While it might not seem like it initially, this quest is actually part of the same quest series as Tale of the Muspah; this one just approaches things from a very different direction, so its probably not entirely clear how things fit together yet.

 

 

 

Weve been calling this quest series Mysteries of the Mahjarrat here in the Jagex office. It is going to be tying together a few lose ends from various quests, and hopefully bringing more cohesion to parts of the Runescape mythology and storyline. While were starting the quest series with low-level requirements, later quests will have progressively higher requirements as we draw in the different existing storylines. Additionally, Missing My Mummy also ties into some of the ongoing desert storylines.

 

 

 

Paul

 

 

 

Summary:

 

 

 

Requirements to start Missing my Mummy:

 

35 Cooking

 

35 Construction

 

35 Crafting

 

35 Magic

 

35 Prayer

 

Must have completed Prince Ali Rescue

 

Must have completed The Golem

 

Must have completed Icthlarins Little Helper

 

 

 

 

 

Requirements for total completion:

 

25 Thieving

 

45 Crafting

 

45 Prayer

 

50 Magic

 

Must have completed Garden of Tranquillity

 

 

 

 

 

In other news...

 

 

 

We have improved Low and High Alchemy so that if you don't time your clicks correctly, it'll still return you to the spellbook after your inventory. Hopefully you'll find this useful when youre going about your daily alching! You can also queue up one to cast while the current spell is being performed.

 

 

 

We have added an activity bar to the Soul Wars minigame. If you've been taking part in the game the bar should remain green, but if you don't take part the bar will slowly turn orange, and eventually run out, at which point you'll be removed from the game.

 

 

 

You'll find that after killing someone in a Bounty or PvP world you'll have a bit of time to pick up drops before potentially being whisked away for a random event.

 

 

 

Patch notes:

 

The following small fixes and adjustments have now been made to the game. If you spot any further bugs in-game, please use the Bug Report feature ('Submit a Bug Report' under the 'Help' drop-down menu of the website).

 

 

 

Graphical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated a few chat interfaces so they look better.

 

 

 

Slightly adjusted the layout of the Stealing Creation tutorial interface.

 

 

 

Fixed an issue with the Around the World... emote and fishing.

 

 

 

Tweaked the text layout very slightly on the login screen.

 

 

 

Scarabs defend animation should no longer stretch.

 

 

 

The female and male version of the dragon med helm now more closely match.

 

 

 

The wine rack in the Games Room should no longer render through the wall.

 

 

 

Players should now properly hold the fixed device from Mournings Ends Part I.

 

 

 

Karamja Volcano should no longer be see-through from certain camera angles.

 

 

 

Wearing a scarf and wielding a crossbow shouldn't cause any stretching issues.

 

 

 

You can now turn off flickering effects in the graphics options without leaving and re-entering the area, like the killerwatt plane, for example.

 

 

 

A flower growing in an oak tree has been relocated.

 

 

 

Aprons should better fit male and female characters.

 

 

 

Fixed a graphical issue with the Dagon'hai robes and an item from Animal Magnetism.

 

 

 

Wearing a feather headdress and having a ponytail should look a bit better.

 

 

 

Improved female animations when wearing the crab claw and hook.

 

 

 

Fixed the graphic for the noted version of the studded body.

 

 

 

Fixed an issue with the [bleep]ed helmet when worn.

 

 

 

Resolved a problem with a wall and a bookcase near the Exam Centre.

 

 

 

Azzanadra's chathead was broken, this has been sorted.

 

 

 

Yet more flames going through the roof or floor above have been updated in the Slayer Tower.

 

 

 

Improved the look of the grapple rock on a hilltop.

 

 

 

Flaygian Screwte was missing a few animations and Kael Forshaw had his mysteriously shaven chathead restored to beardy magnificence.

 

 

 

Improved the looks of the log balance in the Gnome Agility Course.

 

 

 

Smoothed out some height mapping to the west of Edgeville.

 

 

 

Removed an invisible character who didn't do anything.

 

 

 

Improved the lighting effects around Silverlight in its case during Demon Slayer.

 

 

 

Removed an odd polygon from the beach on Crandor Isle.

 

 

 

Added a few doors to buildings on Tutorial Island.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Improved the sound effects for dropping the Ring of Charos down the well and later retrieving it.

 

 

 

Added sounds to the higher areas in Ape Atoll.

 

 

 

Added sound effects to scenery near Varrock church.

 

 

 

Added sounds for the Ice Queen when defending herself.

 

 

 

Added various sound effects to the Meeting History quest.

 

 

 

Added sounds to the Entrana firebird when burning and flapping.

 

 

 

Updated the Stronghold of Security music tracks to fit into the theme system and are now classed as dungeon tracks.

 

 

 

Flooding sounds in the Cabin Fever quest are now a bit more audible.

 

 

 

The song Deep Down has changed category from Dungeon to Morytania.

 

 

 

Various improvements to the audio in the Underground Pass quest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quests

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can no longer take weapons into the tomb in the Waterfall quest.

 

 

 

Improved consistency in the examine message for items in Horror from the Deep.

 

 

 

Improved part of the Garden of Tranquillity so that the Fishing animation continues to play while you whistle along until you catch the Ring of Charos.

 

 

 

Improved a Rat Catcher interface that was leading to some confusion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minigames

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You should now be returned to your last position near Pyramid Plunder after a Random Event.

 

 

 

Clarified the log-in message for Bounty Worlds.

 

 

 

The necklace of minigames now matches the changes made to the 'Wilderness Volcano'.

 

 

 

Corrected the message given in the Fist of Guthix when wearing an afro.

 

 

 

Run energy should now be restored when dying in the Tzhaar Fight Cave.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed a tooltip on the player creation interface.

 

 

 

Removed Bounty Locate from the magic skill guide.

 

 

 

Fixed a few typos and issues with the report abuse interface.

 

 

 

Zaff should no longer hang around for a while if you've wandered off or teleported away.

 

 

 

Stealing Creation pickaxes have been clarified as members-only in the skill guide.

 

 

 

Corrected a typo with the level requirements for red dragonhide items.

 

 

 

The website links in skill guides have been updated to be more future-proof.

 

 

 

Veracs body references have been changed to Veracs brassards.

 

 

 

A few minor Herblore items have been removed from the Assist System as they were specialised items and not particularly suitable candidates in the overall scheme of things.

 

 

 

Improved some grammar in some fishing text.

 

 

 

The rock shell armour set now matches the naming convention of components.

 

 

 

Sped up the picking of calquat fruit.

 

 

 

Keyboard support has been added to the account create menus to speed up the whole process.

 

 

 

Fixed a few issues with banking items when full or nearly full depending on how and which items you were trying to bank.

 

 

 

Fixed some chat that was failing if it couldn't find the character you were talking to.

 

 

 

Woodcutting and Mining now try to use the hatchet/pickaxe you're currently wielding. If you don't have one in your hands, it'll try to select the best one in your inventory.

 

 

 

Fixed an issue with the Home Teleport and the Varrock Achievement Diary.

 

 

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In other news:

 

SMS payment in the UK is now £6.00

 

(I think this is new? They normally mention this kind of stuff. Used to be £5)

 

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[Behind_you0]

Blech, should'nt have had my hopes up.

[darkjab]

Intermediate quest, not going to be overly difficult but should offer some interesting little tidbits if this pyramid is pre-Godwars.

[Me_Hate_Libs]

Soon as I saw this topic, I flipped over to RS and the update counter started, lol

[Eaubbster]

It's part of the same quest series as Tale of the Muspah. :o

 

 

 

Says on the RSOF.

[Leik]

We have added an activity bar to the Soul Wars minigame. If you've been taking part in the game the bar should remain green, but if you don't take part the bar will slowly turn orange, and eventually run out, at which point you'll be removed from the game.

 

 

 

Finally. -.- No more leachers or how ever you write it in Soul Wars. :D Not that I play it anymore.

[sarg1010]

Woohoo no more [bleep]ing freeloaders at SW!

 

 

 

Medium quest, meh... more free xp.

 

 

 

Can't wait to see how many freeloaders go to SW today and get kicked out mid-way :twisted: :lol:

[TheValeyard]

Alching update looks good.

 

 

 

We have improved Low and High Alchemy so that if you don't time your clicks correctly, it'll still return you to the spellbook after your inventory. Hopefully you'll find this useful when youre going about your daily alching! You can also queue up one to cast while the current spell is being performed.

 

 

 

 

And no more worthless freeloader noobs.

[Racheya]

Sweet. No more freeloaders and that alching thing looks pretty useful, that's always something that pisses me off :thumbup:

[darkjab]

It's part of the same quest series as Tale of the Muspah. :o

 

 

 

Says on the RSOF.

 

 

 

So it is :o

 

 

 

I guess this means Jagex are starting to focus on one whole storyline albeit from different directions so that they all tie up together near the end, much like how quests lead up to Whilst Guthix Sleeps. Wonder if we could see the bigger parts of the plot near the end of this year :ohnoes:

[Den]

The 2nd quest of the Mystery of the Mahjarrat series. :thumbsup:

 

 

 

Cant wait to go do it.

[Resonae]

Hopefully the alchemy update applies to superheat and enchant etc. as well, having to go back to the spellbook while superheating really grinds my gears.

[@Dan3HitU]

Jagex hinted at a Mummy update on Twitter about 6 hours ago.

[Krenar]

Loving the high alchemy update! :thumbsup:

[Mercifull]

Jagex hinted at a Mummy update on Twitter about 6 hours ago.

 

Well done

[Sephy_]

Finally we might get rid of freeloaders. But are they still going to decrease the xp reward?

[Gandorf61]

Should be a fun quest. :

 

 

 

I don't play soul Wars but still a great update. And Alching Ftw!

[Bini]

Loving the high alchemy update! :thumbsup:

 

I love it more.

 

 

 

I also love your sig/avatar that I made for you noob.

[@Dan3HitU]

Jagex hinted at a Mummy update on Twitter about 6 hours ago.

 

Well done

 

Thanks.

[Suiku]

Someone finish this... it had been 10 minutes, you guys are slow! (joke)

[Behind_you0]

There I am, stuck at the golem you cannot kill. Or I can't kill.

[miracleman58]

Hopefully the alchemy update applies to superheat and enchant etc. as well, having to go back to the spellbook while superheating really grinds my gears.

 

 

 

It does :

[Returned3]

Awesome new quest, gonna do it now. Hopefully I can finish it within an hour.

[Kolgan]

havnt you finished the quest yet, or have i just logged on after the update?

[Amundogus2]

havnt you finished the quest yet, or have i just logged on after the update?

 

Released 15 or so minutes ago ;)