Quiet Before the Swarm 24-Jun-2010 & Free to play quest changes

[Toad]

Quiet Before the Swarm is the first in a new series of Void Knight content (three quests and one activity), which will come to a conclusion in the coming months. The series will involve all of the main orders of knights in RuneScape, but revolves around the mysterious Void Knights and their long-running struggle to prevent their greatest fear a full-on pest invasion of RuneScape.

 

For too long, the Void Knights have been diligently, yet quietly, fighting their battle against the pests in Pest Control. In this quest, you will travel to the Void Knights Outpost to inquire about the possibility of a pest slipping past their vigil and escaping onto the mainland. There, youll put your investigative and puzzle-solving skills to the test, wading through a torrent of small community squabbles to discover who could do such a thing.

 

The time has come to put names to the Void Knights faces and get inside their heads (literally, in some cases!) as you unscramble thoughts, guide broken memories into place and fight your way to the truth but the truth is never black and white; there are always shades of grey...

 

Mod Nancy

RuneScape Content Developer

 

Summary:

Where to start Quiet Before the Swarm:

 

Speak to Sir Tiffy in Falador Park.

 

Requirements to start Quiet Before the Swarm:

 

Imp Catcher

Wanted!

Level 42 Strength

Level 35 Attack

Completed at least one game of Pest Control

 

 

In other news...

 

Weve changed the animations for all of the Strike, Bolt, Blast, Wave and Surge spells (for all four elements). These spells now use some of the game engine's newer features such as particles, and have updated sound effects to accompany them.

 

Weve added a smithing anvil to the town of Lumbridge, which can be found next to the furnace that's a short distance north of Lumbridge Castle.

 

It is now much easier to obtain hunting supplies from the ruined boat in the penguin area.

 

We've added a counter for the friends and ignore interfaces in the lobby and in-game, so you can see how many entries are in each list and how many more spaces you have available.

 

You can now set a marker position or waypoint on the World Map. You'll then get a hint arrow to help you get there! Also, scrolling the mouse wheel over the World Map will now zoom in/out focused upon the location of your mouse cursor.

 

Its now faster and more efficient to churn cheese. When churning, you will now create wheels of cheese. While these wheels cannot be traded, they can be sliced into vast quantities of cheese which can be. Furthermore, youll get a little Cooking experience for each piece of cheese you slice. Each cheese wheel will give you a minimum of five pieces of cheese, but the higher your Cooking level, the more cheese youre likely to get. In addition, new milk-seller NPCs can be found wandering near the dairy cows and dairy churns.

 

Weve updated the climbing boots that you are able to buy after starting the Death Plateau quest. The price of existing boots will be increased to be more appropriate in relation to their usefulness (i.e. their combat stats). A new, second type of climbing boot will be provided to enable questers to complete the quest for the same low cost they used to be able to (the climbing boots for the quest will not have combat stats). You can buy either type of boots from Tenzing the Sherpa in his hut on the path to Death Plateau.

 

24-Jun-2010 - Free-to-play Quest Changes

 

The Swept Away and Myths of the White Lands quests have been made permanently free-to-play! These two quests were created, respectively, to go alongside the Halloween 2008 and Christmas 2008 holiday events, and were available to free-players during the two weeks of the event, before becoming members-only quests. Any free-players who missed out on the opportunity to play these quests before can now do so at their leisure.

 

These two quests have been made permanently free-to-play to replace Sheep Shearer and Witchs Potion, which are now no longer classified as quests for anyone, as we no longer feel theyre not up to the standard of other quests. Although Sheep Shearer and Witchs Potion no longer appear in the Quest List, adventurers can still undertake them for their experience and item rewards (by talking to Fred the farmer in Lumbridge or Hetty the witch in Rimmington).

 

Myths of the White Lands and Swept Away will each award either 1 or 2 Quest Points, depending on your progress through Sheep Shearer and Witchs potion before the update. No one will lose any Quest Points due to this change.

 

Mod Mark

RuneScape Lead Designer

 

Patch notes

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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

 

 

* You shouldn't float anymore while wearing a trimmed rune plateskirt.

* Fixed a nurse's skillcape in the Duel Arena hospital.

* Slightly tweaked the animation when fishing with a big net.

* Straw beds on the floor should now look a bit better.

* Fixed the ladder down into the gem mine.

* Adjusted the ground around Waterbirth Island.

* Removed some blocking from the dungeon under Karamjas volcano.

* Leaving Stealing Creation with headgear on shouldn't change your hairstyle anymore.

* Adjusted the animations when climbing up a rope.

* Improved animation timings for a selection of teleport spells (mostly necklace ones).

* Fixed a problem with the Saradomin cape and a handful of holiday items being worn at the same time.

* Updated the run animations when wielding chinchompas.

* Roddeck's chathead will no longer stretch slightly.

* Fixed the models for the well in the Regicide quest.

* Sir Prysin's chathead shouldn't turn into a cat's head during Demon Slayer.

* Fixed an oddly shaped pond near Tai Bwo Wannai Village.

* Adjusted the curse deflect animations to be faster. This was an animation issue only; running/walking is still the same with or without curses active.

* Tweaked pirate hats for better photos!

* Updated a scimitar icon used in a random events.

* The ogre club model should now fit on its inventory icon.

* Fixed the animations when attempting to mine living rocks, if you've just been using the Dream spell.

* Prevent long beards from clipping in certain detail modes.

* Fixed a small hole in the ground in front of a cave entrance.

* Fixed a stretching issue with a circus top and the candy cane.

* Fixed a stretching issue with the abyssal whip and penance skirt.

* Fixed the water colour of the top of the God Wars Dungeons hot spring eruptions.

* Resolved some clipping with the tops of the God Wars Dungeon.

* Improved the fishing-with-a-lobster-cage animation to better suit all scenarios.

* Fire giant heads no longer shrink midway through their death animation.

* Fixed the look of the brown apron while resting.

* Corrected an issue wherein animated shadows stopped when you had your mouse over the location, for example.

* Fixed some of the bookcases sticking through ceilings.

* Fixed a problem with fine breeches when using the Home Teleport spell.

* Removed some random white triangles from the various islands where penguins can be found and around Mos LeHarmless.

* Fixed a label issue with the penguin-spotting animation and hunting capes.

* Stopped a rock pile flickering on the ground.

* Give you an auto-setup option if we couldn't load your previous graphics settings.

* The snowy pine tree stump colour now matches the tree.

* The Taverley pet shop sign should now be visible from all angles.

* Stopped trees rotating as you attempt to pass through them in Lletya.

* Corrected an issue with a Wilderness banker.

* Zanik now looks better in some of the detail modes that were previously causing issues.

* The enchanted version of the berserker ring from Mobilising Armies should now have a slightly different colour to it.

* A plaque in Catherby should now render in front of the wall it resides on.

* Lifted up some of the fence on Entrana.

* Magic tree roots are now rooted in the ground.

* Removed floor texturing where a trapdoor has been placed down.

* Fixed the Judge's wig in the Seers Village courtroom.

* Removed some flowers that were floating on water.

* Fixed a problem with haircuts and medium helmets.

* Resolved a long-standing issue when wearing party hats with a particular female haircut.

* Fixed the zombie protestors animations.

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

* Added goblin attack and defend sounds during the tutorial.

* Added missing combat sounds to the bow from the Blood Pact quest.

 

 

 

Quests and Achievement Diaries

 

 

* Clarified the Ranging Guild task for the Seers Village Achievement Diary.

* Adjusted a few bits and pieces at the start of the Blood Pact quest to meet new standards.

* Clarified the messages when paying Glough to help with the puzzle during Monkey Madness.

* Stopped the occasional spawning of two Dagannoth Mothers during Horror from the Deep.

* Adjusted the interface graphics for a puzzle in Monkey Madness.

* Removed outdated code from a selection of older quests.

* Prevented further duplicate Adventurer's Log entries for Fairy Tale Part III.

 

 

Activities and Distractions & Diversions

 

 

* Corrected an issue with player ranks in Burthorpe games room.

* Added some checks to the Mobilising Armies tutorial when clicking to continue.

* Prevented juggling of random items, not just circus objects.

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

 

* Fixed a few typos in Nomad's Requiem and Fairy Tale Parts II and III.

* Adjusted the balance beam option text to closer match your actions.

* Added a few extra checks to the staff of lights special attack.

* Fixed a problem with Sir Prysin taking about Silverlight.

* Bankers in Port Phasmatys now face their customers correctly.

* Prevented a bit of quest chat being cut off prematurely.

* Corrected an issue with the in-game Smithing skill guide.

* The Constitution status globe should now take advantage of any Dungeoneering anti-poison potions.

* Clarified the use of granite in the Summoning skill guide.

* Fixed a problem with a particular challenge room in Daemonheim involving (not) waking guards.

* Adjusted the phrasing of a few Quick Chat choices.

* Corrected the book interfaces so you're given mouse-over options to choose the next/previous pages.

* You can now recharge your camulet by using it with camel dung or vice versa. Previously, this only worked one way round.

* Adjusted some of the game loading code for diagnostic purposes.

* Fixed an interface that wasn't possible to use in one of the detail modes.

* Egg-streme Management should no longer appear on the Adventurer's Log for those who've not started it.

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Edit: Quest guide:

 

 

 

1) Speak to Sir Tiffy in Falador park

 

2) Sir Tiffy has heard reports of a pest south of Falador and asks you to goto the Void Knight Outpost to see if any have escaped.

 

3) Speak to Commodore Matthias in the most north eastern building on the island, He'll tell you that there's no chance of a pest escaping but that if we insist we should speak to Captain Tyr.

 

4) Speak to Captain Tyr and he'll say it's unlikely that any escaped but ispossible and asks for you to speak to 9 people on the east side of the island. (See list a)

 

5) After Speaking to the 9 people go back to Captain Tyr and you'll summarise what you were told, you're then asked to think about what you heard and figure out how had access to the pests and a reason to do it.

 

6) Speak to Jessika and confront her about the crime, she'll deny it so go speak to Captain Tyr about your suspisians and he'll ask for you to talk to the Commodore

 

7) Speak to Commodore Matthias and you'll enter a cutscene, afterwards you'll have to enter Jessika's mind and see her memories to determine if she really did let the pest go.

 

8) You are presented with a 3x3 sliding puzzle, all the pieces of a border on them so their location should be fairly obvious. Upon completion you confirm that Jessika was the one responsible.

 

9) Following another cutscene you'll be asked to report back to Sir Tiffy with your findings. Yet another Cutscene will follow and you'll find a confused Korasi at Port Sarim docks who is then teleported to the Temple Knight Headquarters for safety. Despoist all your items and equipment and speak to Sir Tiffy to be teleported there yourself.

 

10) Speak to Korasi and ask her about what happened, she says she doesn't remember so once again you'll have to enter her mind to see her memories.

 

11) Once inside speak to the person in the toll both and ask what you have to do. You have to help the Void Knights cross the bridge. The bridge is only strong enough to carry two at a time. You have a sword and whoever crosses must have the sword to defend from the pests. Each knight has a different "weight" based on the memories Korasi has of them, the heavier of the knights is the "toll" paid to cross the bridge. Go over 15 and it collpases. (See b and c)

 

12) Upon completing this puzzle you'll be faced with another one. This time you have to listen to each persons facts and then assign them a place on the ship, what they were thinking about and what they saw. (See d)

 

13) After finishing this puzzle you'll find yourself in control of Korasi, kill the Pest in front of you then go up the ladder. You'll find the ship overrun with pests! Kill the shifter as the rest of the knights fight, upon killing the sifter everyone on the ship will die and another cutscene will take place. Matthias will be fighting a mysterious figure and as he's about to die he'll teleport you (Korasi) to the docks which is where you found her earlier.

 

14) You'll then be out of Korasi's memory and back at the Temple Knight Head quarters so speak to Korasi and she'll remember everything, Sir Tiffy says you need to speak to Tyr about what happened. Return to the Void Knight Outpost and speak to Tyr to finish the quest.

 

 

a) List of People you need to speak to

 

Knight Diana

Knight Bernard

Knight Ami

Jessika

Squire Sam

Mariah

Terry Gord

Mrs Gord

Knight Mikhal

 

B) Weight for bridge puzzle

 

You = 1

Berard = 2

Ami = 5

Diana = 8

 

c) Solution for bridge puzzle

 

Bernard + You

You

Ami + Diana

Bernard

Bernard + You

 

d) Solution for final puzzle

 

Matthias - Helm - Thinking about Jessika - Clouds

Korasi - Hold - Promotion - Pest

Diana - Deck - Fighting - Seagulls

Bernard - Crow's nest - Lunch - Seaweed

Ami - Rigging - Sister - Shark

 

Reward - 1 Quest Point - 4,000 Attack, 4,900 Strength, 1 Void Knight Seal

 

 

[meb]

It’s now faster and more efficient to churn cheese. When churning, you will now create wheels of cheese. While these wheels cannot be traded, they can be sliced into vast quantities of cheese which can be. Furthermore, you’ll get a little Cooking experience for each piece of cheese you slice. Each cheese wheel will give you a minimum of five pieces of cheese, but the higher your Cooking level, the more cheese you’re likely to get. In addition, new milk-seller NPCs can be found wandering near the dairy cows and dairy churns.

FINALLY

 

Also, first. :twss:

[Toad]

What is mark up to!

 

http://[Use Quick Find Code]/c=8cKT3tvD7Co/[Please Use QuickFind Code]?15,16,937,61185101

[Trollface]

Smithing anvil in lumbridge, finally a anvil next to a furnace.

[sees_all1]

System update in 2:00...

I think I'll wait to log in. :smile:

[Danqazmlp]

Weve changed the animations for all of the Strike, Bolt, Blast, Wave and Surge spells (for all four elements). These spells now use some of the game engine's newer features such as particles, and have updated sound effects to accompany them.

 

 

Pics please!

[Sevestia]

Awesome. Off to do this now with a few friends. <3:

[sees_all1]

Click here for a free trial membership...

 

 

picture coming soon.

 

edit:

[hide=membership offer]

[/hide]

[Kill_Life]

"Try membership free" is now on top of the screen instead of "update now" or whatever is was.

[Mil]

Patch notes http://[Use Quick Find Code]/[Please Use QuickFind Code]?15,16,677,61185137

 

[hide]

Graphical

 

 

You shouldn't float anymore while wearing a trimmed rune plateskirt.

Fixed a nurse's skillcape in the Duel Arena hospital.

Slightly tweaked the animation when fishing with a big net.

Straw beds on the floor should now look a bit better.

Fixed the ladder down into the gem mine.

Adjusted the ground around Waterbirth Island.

Removed some blocking from the dungeon under Karamja’s volcano.

Leaving Stealing Creation with headgear on shouldn't change your hairstyle anymore.

Adjusted the animations when climbing up a rope.

Improved animation timings for a selection of teleport spells (mostly necklace ones).

Fixed a problem with the Saradomin cape and a handful of holiday items being worn at the same time.

Updated the run animations when wielding chinchompas.

Roddeck's chathead will no longer stretch slightly.

Fixed the models for the well in the Regicide quest.

Sir Prysin's chathead shouldn't turn into a cat's head during Demon Slayer.

Fixed an oddly shaped pond near Tai Bwo Wannai Village.

Adjusted the curse deflect animations to be faster. This was an animation issue only; running/walking is still the same with or without curses active.

Tweaked pirate hats for better photos!

Updated a scimitar icon used in a random events.

The ogre club model should now fit on its inventory icon.

Fixed the animations when attempting to mine living rocks, if you've just been using the Dream spell.

Prevent long beards from clipping in certain detail modes.

Fixed a small hole in the ground in front of a cave entrance.

Fixed a stretching issue with a circus top and the candy cane.

Fixed a stretching issue with the abyssal whip and penance skirt.

Fixed the water colour of the top of the God Wars Dungeon’s hot spring eruptions.

Resolved some clipping with the tops of the God Wars Dungeon.

Improved the fishing-with-a-lobster-cage animation to better suit all scenarios.

Fire giant heads no longer shrink midway through their death animation.

Fixed the look of the brown apron while resting.

Corrected an issue wherein animated shadows stopped when you had your mouse over the location, for example.

Fixed some of the bookcases sticking through ceilings.

Fixed a problem with fine breeches when using the Home Teleport spell.

Removed some random white triangles from the various islands where penguins can be found and around Mos Le’Harmless.

Fixed a label issue with the penguin-spotting animation and hunting capes.

Stopped a rock pile flickering on the ground.

Give you an auto-setup option if we couldn't load your previous graphics settings.

The snowy pine tree stump colour now matches the tree.

The Taverley pet shop sign should now be visible from all angles.

Stopped trees rotating as you attempt to pass through them in Lletya.

Corrected an issue with a Wilderness banker.

Zanik now looks better in some of the detail modes that were previously causing issues.

The enchanted version of the berserker ring from Mobilising Armies should now have a slightly different colour to it.

A plaque in Catherby should now render in front of the wall it resides on.

Lifted up some of the fence on Entrana.

Magic tree roots are now rooted in the ground.

Removed floor texturing where a trapdoor has been placed down.

Fixed the Judge's wig in the Seers’ Village courtroom.

Removed some flowers that were floating on water.

Fixed a problem with haircuts and medium helmets.

Resolved a long-standing issue when wearing party hats with a particular female haircut.

Fixed the zombie protestors’ animations.

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

Added goblin attack and defend sounds during the tutorial.

Added missing combat sounds to the bow from the Blood Pact quest.

 

 

 

Quests and Achievement Diaries

 

 

Clarified the Ranging Guild task for the Seers’ Village Achievement Diary.

Adjusted a few bits and pieces at the start of the Blood Pact quest to meet new standards.

Clarified the messages when paying Glough to help with the puzzle during Monkey Madness.

Stopped the occasional spawning of two Dagannoth Mothers during Horror from the Deep.

Adjusted the interface graphics for a puzzle in Monkey Madness.

Removed outdated code from a selection of older quests.

Prevented further duplicate Adventurer's Log entries for Fairy Tale Part III.

 

 

Activities and Distractions & Diversions

 

 

Corrected an issue with player ranks in Burthorpe games room.

Added some checks to the Mobilising Armies tutorial when clicking to continue.

Prevented juggling of random items, not just circus objects.

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

 

Fixed a few typos in Nomad's Requiem and Fairy Tale Parts II and III.

Adjusted the balance beam option text to closer match your actions.

Added a few extra checks to the staff of light’s special attack.

Fixed a problem with Sir Prysin taking about Silverlight.

Bankers in Port Phasmatys now face their customers correctly.

Prevented a bit of quest chat being cut off prematurely.

Corrected an issue with the in-game Smithing skill guide.

The Constitution status globe should now take advantage of any Dungeoneering anti-poison potions.

Clarified the use of granite in the Summoning skill guide.

Fixed a problem with a particular challenge room in Daemonheim involving (not) waking guards.

Adjusted the phrasing of a few Quick Chat choices.

Corrected the book interfaces so you're given mouse-over options to choose the next/previous pages.

You can now recharge your camulet by using it with camel dung or vice versa. Previously, this only worked one way round.

Adjusted some of the game loading code for diagnostic purposes.

Fixed an interface that wasn't possible to use in one of the detail modes.

Egg-streme Management should no longer appear on the Adventurer's Log for those who've not started it.

[/hide]

[Guthorm]

Adjusted the curse deflect animations to be faster. This was an animation issue only; running/walking is still the same with or without curses active.

 

WHERE IS THE BLOODY BISON YES YES VIDEO WHEN YOU NEED IT?@@@@@@

[Will H]

Sweet, new quests are never a bad thing, and the Void Knights are a source of a lot of potential lore to add to the game.

[Toad]

Spells look impressive, using them for pest control game

[Monk]

Wind Wave:

 

[xpx]

So, +15 prayer rune plate/legs anyone? or will this be released further down the road.

 

wow, my 143 climbing boots turned into 10m worth of rock climbing boots.

[Carl]

Where-oh-where is the Clan Chat update? :(

[Mil]

Bug with Infinity Hat,

:(

[schmuall]

Adjusted the curse deflect animations to be faster. This was an animation issue only; running/walking is still the same with or without curses active.

 

WHERE IS THE BLOODY BISON YES YES VIDEO WHEN YOU NEED IT?@@@@@@

 

Happy to be of service

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iFLDlO8hX8&feature=related

[timmmmm83]

I love new quests! :thumbsup:

 

Apparently several people profited and made millions when their climbing boots changed into rock climbing boots. <_<

(reports from people on rsof who had 10k climbers in bank X 75k each)

Don't they think before pressing the 'update' button? Thought they had a whole team for QA...

[Omali]

Ninja'd.

 

Can't wait to try this quest, although I wish Jagex would finish up some of their other series as fast as they start/stop these.

[SanNo1]

We’ve added a smithing anvil to the town of Lumbridge, which can be found next to the furnace that's a short distance north of Lumbridge Castle.

 

:thumbsup:

 

What a great update. The quest should be a nice start to a series and the ION blew me away.

 

EDIT: wow some nice DBZ style surge spells :shock:

[mememe513]

For F2P players, after you log in, you'll be presented with the "Midsummer Special"

 

USD 5.95 will be held on your card as a security deposit. If you cancel before the end of your free trial, we will release this back onto your card - otherwise it will be used for your first monthly payment. Cancel at any time during your free trial and your card will not be charged.

Your free trial credit will be applied to the account mememe513. Only one free trial per Jagex account and per credit card.

[xSxqPowerx]

Nooooooooooooooo sheep shearer!!!!!

And why are climbing boots 75k. That's just silly. What about those pures that have thousands stocked up...

[timmmmm83]

For F2P players, after you log in, you'll be presented with the "Midsummer Special"

 

USD 5.95 will be held on your card as a security deposit. If you cancel before the end of your free trial, we will release this back onto your card - otherwise it will be used for your first monthly payment. Cancel at any time during your free trial and your card will not be charged.

Your free trial credit will be applied to the account mememe513. Only one free trial per Jagex account and per credit card.

Yup, there was a thread in this forum explaining this a few days ago.

A heads up for player-mods telling them to explain this update to players and reassure them this is not a scam.

 

Actually... Where is that thread? :huh:

[LatinII]

Wind surge:

 

Water surge:

 

Earth surge:

 

Fire surge: