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One Small Favour (#72)


Released		28 February 2005 (Update)
Also called		OSF
Members		Yes
Quest series		None
Lead developer(s)		Tytn H

One Small Favour is a humorous quest in which you are asked to complete a favour, although things turn out to be less simple than that.

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Start point	Speak to Yanni Salika in Shilo Village. Show on map
Official difficulty	Experienced
Official length	Long
Description	If you're new to Shilo Village after solving the mystery (or even if you did it some time ago), you may like to check out Yanni Salika's antiques shop. He's a busy chap, revamping antique items, checking out new stock from potential adventurers and maybe he'll have a small⁽¹⁾ favour to ask of you? Probably nothing particularly large, Yanni isn't a demanding⁽²⁾ person, should hardly take you any time⁽³⁾ at all really, something to do when you have a spare moment. That's assuming there aren't any complications. 1: - Perception of the word "small" may be open to interpretation. 2: - In a recent vote, Yanni Salika was only voted the second most demanding person in Shilo Village. 3: - As everyone knows, time is relative.
Requirements	Completion of the following quests: Rune Mysteries Shilo Village Jungle Potion Druidic Ritual 36 Agility ^[boostable] 25 Crafting ^[boostable] 18 Herblore ^[boostable] 30 Smithing ^[boostable]
Items required	4 steel bars Bronze bar Iron bar The ingredients required to make a Guthix rest: 2 Guam leaves Marrentill Harralander Cup of hot water (obtainable during the quest) Hammer (obtainable during the quest) or Imcando hammer 5 pigeon cages (obtainable during the quest) Note: The pigeons do not need to be let out of the cages. Pot (obtainable during the quest) Soft clay (obtained during the quest) Two of each of the following cut gems, or a chisel to cut the uncut gems received during the quest (high chance to crush them, up to 2 replacements available for 500 coins each during the quest) Opal Jade Red topaz Sapphire (cannot be crushed, so you may choose to bring a chisel instead to cut the uncut sapphires given during the quest)
Recommended	45 Combat level Weight-reducing clothing and stamina or energy potions. Fast travel to several locations Shilo Village (travel to Brimhaven and take the cart or use Fairy Rings to CKR) Port Sarim and Draynor Village (amulet of glory or Explorer's Ring 2) Varrock (Varrock teleport) Barbarian Village and Dwarven Mine (Skull Sceptre or combat bracelet to the Edgeville Monastery) Taverley (House teleports or Balloon transport system) White Wolf Mountain (gnome glider) Catherby and Seers' Village (Camelot teleport, or Catherby teleport and combat bracelet teleport to the Ranging Guild) Fishing Guild (skills necklace or Fishing guild teleport) East Ardougne (Ardougne teleport) Port Khazard (Ardougne cloak teleport to the Ardougne Monastery, Khazard teleport or Fishing Trawler Minigame Teleport) Feldip Hills (Feldip hills teleport or use Fairy Rings to AKS or the jungle Eagle transport system) A method of defeating Slagilith, which reduces damage by 67% when a pickaxe is not equipped: Any pickaxe - the highest level you can wield if not using Magic Runes to cast any combat spell - this will circumvent the damage reduction as long as any pickaxe is wielded A crush weapon if not using a pickaxe Armour and some food Lockpick to enter the H.A.M. Hideout if your Thieving level is low
Enemies to defeat	Slagilith (level 92) Dwarf gang members (level 44/48/49) (Multicombat area)
Ironman concerns	A method of acquiring Marrentill: 1/14.8 drop from chaos druids for the grimy herb. Picking the herbs in the Sorceress's Garden winter garden for marrentill (1/3.85). Requires completion of Prince Ali Rescue. A method of acquiring Harralander: 1/25.4 drop from chaos druids for the grimy herb. Requires 20 Herblore to clean. Picking the herbs in the Sorceress's Garden winter garden for harralander (1/4.09). Requires completion of Prince Ali Rescue. A method of acquiring Guam leaves: 1/11.1 drop from chaos druids for the grimy herb. Picking the herbs in the Sorceress's Garden winter garden for guam leaves (1/3.37). Requires completion of Prince Ali Rescue.
League notes	Unlocking Fremennik✓ will auto-complete the quest Unlocking Kandarin✓ will auto-complete the quest Unlocking Desert✓ will auto-complete the quest The quest is otherwise not completable.

Walkthrough

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Players are advised to read through each section before starting, as there are many different teleportation options that will vary by player and will determine items required before banking again. Players are also encouraged to complete as many stages of this quest as possible without any combat gear equipped, in order to preserve energy for running (as there is a lot of ground to cover). The walkthrough will alert you if there are any impending encounters where any combat items may be necessary. Each section will list the items required, you should only withdraw the necessary items to reduce weight until the next bank stop.

Karamja

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The so-called "small path" traverses across Gielinor.

Items needed before first bank visit: NONE

Items recommended: A good pickaxe to mine gems (with 40 mining), chisel, and transportation to Port Sarim (amulet of glory, a Rimmington tablet/house teleport, Explorer's ring 2 or higher, or the Ratcatchers minigame teleport).

Travel to Shilo Village and talk to Yanni Salika in the antiques shop north of the river. Fairy ring code CKR brings you close to the wall of Shilo Village. He will ask for a small favour: he wants you to bring him some red mahogany logs from a forester south of the village.

Tip: If you still need the gems required for later in the quest, you may choose to mine for them now while in Shilo Village (two of each of the following: jade, opal, sapphire, and red topaz). Use a chisel to cut the gems as you mine since there is a high chance to crush the gems.

Leave the village through both south-eastern gates, climbing over the broken cart. Talk to a forester just south-west of the entrance, who will ask the player to take a blunt axe to Captain Shanks for sharpening. Captain Shanks would refer you to Port Sarim, so you may choose to skip talking to him.

Asgarnia and Misthalin

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The first convenient bank visit to withdraw all these items is Draynor village.

Items needed: Blunt axe given by the Jungle Forester, 3 steel bars, 1 harralander, 2 guams, 1 marrentill, a bowl of hot water, an empty cup (you may take a cup of tea during this part and drink it to get an empty cup)
Items recommended: Teleportation to Draynor (amulet of glory), Varrock, Barbarian Village (skull sceptre), Dwarven Mine (skills necklace or Falador teleport), Taverley, and Camelot. A lockpick is recommended for those with a low Thieving level.
Skills needed:

18 ^[boostable] to make a guthix rest

Speak to Brian in the axe shop in Port Sarim, who will ask you to speak to Aggie the witch, so she can act as a character witness in the trial of his friend. Agree to see Aggie and ensure he has taken the axe before continuing.

BANK VISIT 1, withdraw the needed items above.

Aggie is found in Draynor Village (teleport using Amulet of glory). Talk to her about becoming a witness: she will agree to help, but she wants you to first investigate the H.A.M. Hideout for any sign of her missing apprentice, Jimmy the Chisel.

The H.A.M. Hideout is found to the east of Draynor Village. Pick the lock on the trapdoor to enter, then speak to Johanhus Ulsbrecht in the south-eastern corner about Jimmy, who is being held hostage. Johanhus will agree to release him if the player agrees to supply a month's supply of chickens to their organisation, suggesting they talk to Fred the Farmer.

Fred can be found in his house to the north-east of the H.A.M Headquarters, indicated with a dairy churn icon. After speaking to him, he will suggest you talk to Seth Groats instead as he does not have enough chickens.

Talk to Seth on the eastern side of the river by the chicken coop, who will agree to help. He needs some cages to transport the chickens for the player, and suggests you visit Horvik in Varrock for help. He also wants you to deliver to Horvik three steel bars as another favour.

With the steel bars in your inventory, speak with Horvik in the armour shop north-east of Varrock Square, to discover he is feeling ill. He wants some medicine and pigeon cages to modify into chicken cages. You can bring him the medicine now and wait until later to retrieve the pigeon cages, as you will not yet need them.

Speak to the Apothecary in south-west Varrock about Horvik's illness and he will give you a herbal tincture while accidentally dropping the breathing salts. He now needs a new airtight pot to store them in.

Note: You may drop the herbal tincture, as you can recover it later in the quest.

Note: If you don't have the ingredients for the Guthix rest yet, now is the time to obtain them. A cup of hot water may be obtained by taking the cup of tea spawn by the tea seller just south of the eastern entrance to Varrock and drinking it to obtain an empty cup. Fill the cup with water at the water source to the south, then heat it on the cooking range to the west. The harralander, 2 guam, and marrentil can be obtained from the Grand Exchange or by killing chaos druids in the Edgeville dungeon.

Go to the Barbarian Village (teleport using the Skull sceptre), and talk to Tassie Slipcast the potter. She is too worried to show you how to make an airtight pot because she is being pressured by a dwarf called Hammerspike Stoutbeard in the Dwarven Mines.

Go to the Dwarven Mines (teleport using the Skills necklace to Mining Guild, or take a minecart from Keldagrim). Head north-west to the westernmost cave past the anvils until you see Hammerspike Stoutbeard surrounded by dwarf gang members. Ask him, "Have you always been a gangster?", and he will tell you that he always wanted to be a druid. He wants you to convince the druid leader to let him join in return for leaving Tassie alone.

Go to Taverley, and talk with Sanfew, who is on the 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US] of the central house with the herb icon. Ask him if he's taking any new initiates and accepts dwarves, and tell him that a dwarf you know wants to become one. He will allow Hammerspike to become a druid apprentice, but he wants you to give a Guthix rest tea to Captain Bleemadge on top of White Wolf Mountain and organise a trip for Sanfew down to the Feldip Hills. Use the harralander on the cup of hot water with two guam leaves and a marrentill in your inventory to create the guthix rest ( 18 ).

Once you have the tea, travel to the top of White Wolf Mountain (gnome glider is one way). Speak to Captain Bleemadge, and give him the tea. He will want some T.R.A.S.H. (Triple Redundant Aero Super Hawsers) for the trip down to the Feldip Hills.

Note: If you have not completed The Grand Tree, you must right-click and select the "Talk to" option for Bleemadge. Otherwise, he will not discuss the quest or accept the Guthix Rest.

Note: Low levels should be aware of white wolves while travelling on the mountain. An aggressive level 73 Big Wolf spawns near Captain Bleemadge which may attack you, preventing you from finishing the dialogue. Position Captain Bleemadge between yourself and the wolf to carry out the dialogue.

Kandarin

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BANK VISIT 2, at catherby bank.

Items needed: 1 empty inventory space, coins, a Camelot teletab, an Ardougne teletab, a Skills necklace or Combat bracelet to teleport to the Fishing Guild, a ring of dueling, a chisel and a hammer.
Items recommended: 2 cut jades, opals and red topazes. (2 extra uncuts of each gems can be provided by the gnome for 500 coins each. You will obtain 2 sapphires which cannot be crushed while cutting so extras are not needed.

Travel to the general store south of Catherby bank, and speak to Arhein, who will ask for a weather report. Look on your map and go to the house with the water source north of the church in Seers' Village (teleport to Camelot and walk west). Speak with Phantuwti Fanstuwi Farsight, located in the building with the water symbol, who is looking for a missing person and cannot do the weather forecast until she is found.

Enter the cave east of the Fishing Guild entrance (teleport using a Skills necklace). Head north along the east wall until you come to a cave where Petra is trapped in a rock. Right-click and search the sculpture to find a message saying to speak to Wizard Cromperty. After finding the message, go to the north-east corner of Ardougne marketplace and speak to Wizard Cromperty about a girl stuck in some rock. He needs some iron oxide from a man in Port Khazard. If you don't have a hammer or chisel yet, you may acquire them in this building.

Note: If you have yet to get the five pigeon cages, go to the house directly south of the northern bank in East Ardougne. The cages are located outside the house along the east wall.

Go to Port Khazard (Ardougne cloak 1 or Fishing Trawler Minigame Teleport) and speak to Tindel Marchant, who will want his stodgy mattress stuffed with prime chompy bird feathers in return for the iron oxide.

Note: Lower level players should be aware of the level 53-63 ogres in the following area.

With your gems in your inventory, head to the Feldip Hills (fairy ring AKS, Feldip hills teleport, or charter ship to Corsair Cove for 600 coins) and talk to Rantz, who is located at the quest icon in eastern Feldip Hills. He is unable to give the player feathers as a "small man" is disturbing the chompy birds. Tell him that you'll see what you can do.

Go west until you see a landing strip and Gnome glider with a gnome named Gnormadium Avlafrim. Talk to him, and he will tell you he needs to repair the landing strip. Search each of the eight landing lights for a gem, cut it, and put it back in the landing lights. If you need a chisel, the gnome can you sell it. If you crush a gem, the gnome may also provide up to 2 spare gems of each type for 500 coins each, provided that you keep the crushed gems in your inventory.

Tip: Due to the high cost of red topaz (2,884 coins), if you crush one you may wish to utilise the drop trick with the replacement to buy an additional topaz at a discount.

Completing the favours

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BANK VISIT 3, at seer's village bank, mainly to deposit all unused gems and withdraw the bronze, iron, steel bars.

Items needed: A stodgy mattress, iron oxide, an animate rock scroll, the weather report, an airtight pot, breathing salts, the herbal tincture, chicken cages, a sharpened axe and red mahogany logs, a good pickaxe/weapon, armour and some food, a hammer, a bronze bar, an iron bar, a steel bar, 5 pigeon cages
Items recommended: Runes for teleports to Ardougne, Camelot, and Lumbridge, transportation to Taverley, skills necklace, skull sceptre, and coins for transportation or some means of teleportation to get back to Shilo Village. (Bring an extra piece of soft clay if you want to save some time during Swan Song later)

Talk with Gnormadium to tell him the runway lights are fixed, then go back to Rantz to get the comfy mattress. Give the comfy mattress to Tindel in Port Khazard to get the iron oxide. Take the iron oxide to Wizard Cromperty in Ardougne, and he will give you an animate rock scroll.

Goblin Cave & Slagilith

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Prepare to fight a level 92 Slagilith in the following section. The Slagilith attacks within melee range and can hit up to 13 damage, though inaccurately. Protect From Melee will nullify all damage, and it may also be safespotted or flinched using the two rock piles nearby.

When fighting Slagilith, your damage will be reduced by 67% if a pickaxe is not equipped. ^[1]. Combat spells will deal full damage as to Slagilith as long as a pickaxe is equipped, and Slagilith additionally has lower Magic defence. If using a pickaxe as your method of damage, set it to crush as the Slagilith is resistant to the other melee combat styles.

The Slagilith will disappear within 5 minutes after it is summoned.

Once prepared for the fight, return to the Goblin Cave near the Fishing Guild, and hug the eastern wall until you come to the same room as before. Stand in front of the sculpture and read the animate rock scroll to summon it.

Note: If you get a message saying, You don't feel that you should cast this with enemies around, you may need to first kill the bats around the entrance.

After defeating Slagilith, stand back in front of the sculpture and read the scroll once more to release Petra, then talk to her to send her back to Seers' Village.

Note: You may now drop the animate rock scroll.

Seers' Village

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Items needed: Hammer, bronze bar, iron bar, steel bar
Skills needed:

36 ^[boostable] to climb a ladder,

30 ^[boostable] to repair a weathervane

Talk to Phantuwti in Seers' Village with 3 empty inventory spaces. He is unable to give you a weather report because his weather vane is broken. You'll have to go through all the chat options, and then ask him, "Why can't you get a clear picture?" Then, ask, "Which special Seers tools do you need?" and "What do you mean, 'special combination of items'?" Finally, he'll tell you about his weather vane. Climb the ladder, head east, and climb another ladder to the roof of his house ( 36 ). Search the weather vane, use a hammer with the weather vane, and search it again to get three broken vane parts. Go to an anvil (closest is across the street) with a bronze, iron, and steel bar, and use the parts of the weather vane with the anvil ( 30 ). Go back to the roof of the house, and put the weathervane pillar, the directionals, and the ornament back on the Seers weathervane. Talk to Phantuwti again for a (comically useless) weather report.

Note: If you lose the broken vane parts, you can recover them from Phantuwti for 1,000 coins.

Take the report to Arhein in Catherby, who will send somebody to send T.R.A.S.H. to Captain Bleemadge. Talk to Captain Bleemadge on top of White Wolf Mountain. (low and mid-levels should beware of the level 73 Big Wolf near Captain Bleemadge)

Tip: Fly the glider to Feldip Hills to complete a medium Western Province Diary task.

Talk to Sanfew in Taverley, and he will agree to let the dwarf become an initiate.

Dwarven Mine & Gang Fight

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Skills needed:

25 ^[boostable] to make a pot lid

Talk to Hammerspike in the Dwarven Mine. Predictably, he has "changed his mind" about becoming a druid. Talk to him again and he'll have his gang members attack you; they must be fought to continue the quest. There are three gang members (levelled in the mid-to-high 40s) in the room who will attack you at once and altogether can deal a fair amount of damage if you have no armour equipped, so come prepared for this battle (bring a weapon to end the fight quickly). You can use Hammerspike as a safespot provided you have not walked through him. Once they're dealt with, speak to Hammerspike again, who will agree to stop harassing Tassie.

Go to Barbarian Village and talk to Tassie, who will give you some soft clay and teach you how to make pot lids. Use the soft clay on the wheel to make an unfired pot lid ( 25 ) and then use the unfired pot lid on the pottery oven. Pick up the pot in the Village helmet shop if you don't yet have one.

Tip: Another pot lid is required for Swan Song, so you may consider making a second one.

Go to the Apothecary in Varrock, and give him the pot and pot lid in return for the salts.

Go back to Horvik the Varrock blacksmith, and give him the breathing salts and herbal tincture, then talk to him again to replace the pigeon cages with chicken cages.

Go back to Seth Groats (his farm is on the east side of the River Lum) and give him the chicken cages.

Go to the H.A.M. headquarters, and tell Johanhus in the south-eastern-most room that you've managed to swing that chicken deal; he will agree to release Jimmy.

Go to Draynor Village, and talk with Aggie the witch, who will agree to help Brian.

Go to Port Sarim, and Brian will give you the sharpened axe (after pulling your leg a bit).

Finally back on Karamja

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Talk to any forester just south of the entrance to Shilo Village to receive some red mahogany logs in exchange for the sharpened axe.

Speak with Yanni in Shilo Village to complete the quest.

Congratulations, quest complete!

Note: You must use both rewarded lamps before the quest will be officially completed, allowing the player to start King's Ransom and Swan Song, and marking the quest as green in the quests list. Dropping the lamps will require the player to recover them from Yanni and use them before the sequel quests can be started. Whether this is by design or a bug is unclear.

Rewards

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2 Quest points
Two experience lamps giving 10,000 experience to any skill of your choice. Skill must be at least level 30
A steel key ring
The ability to make and drink Guthix rest tea
The ability to craft pot lids
Access to the gnome glider route to the Feldip Hills

Unlocks:

Slagilith accessible in the Nightmare Zone

Required for completing

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Completion of One Small Favour is required for the following:

King's Ransom
Swan Song
Medium Western Provinces Diary (Partial completion)

Transcript

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This article on a quest has an associated dialogue page.
Click here for a transcript of possible conversations encountered throughout the quest.

Changes

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Date	Changes
14 April 2016 (Update)	It is now possible to talk to Johanhus Ulsbrecht about One Small Favour if you are in the middle of Death to the Dorgeshuun.

Trivia

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Hammerspike Stoutbeard's desire to be a druid may stem from Pikel Bouldershoulder, a dwarf druid from several of R.A. Salvatore's books.
Wizard Cromperty comments on the frequency with which people teleport into rock walls, saying that it can happen with just the smallest miscalculation. This may be a reference to the classic RPG Wizardry, which featured a teleport spell that, if cast with the wrong coordinates, could teleport you into a rock instead of the dungeon. This "feature" was notorious amongst Wizardry players, as it immediately killed your entire party.
Petra Fiyed is a wordplay on the word "petrified," appropriately meaning "turned to stone".
When mentioning that the jungle foresters are looking for ways into the Kharazi Jungle, Yanni mentions some old timer from the Legends' Guild constantly sending new recruits there for no apparent reason, referencing the Legends' Quest.
Due to the quest's length and tedium in completing it, One Small Favour has been referenced in multiple quests and events, much to the player's annoyance. The following quests and events have referenced One Small Favour:

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^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 21 January 2019. Archived from the original on 28 May 2020. Mod Ash: "[The Slagilith] just reduces the damage to 33% if the attacker isn't wielding a pickaxe."
^ Player in Recruitment Drive. Old School RuneScape. "So you want me to go and fetch you some kind of common item, and then take it for delivery somewhere on the other side of the country? Because I really hate doing that!"
^ Monk (Devious Minds) in Devious Minds. Old School RuneScape. "Ah excellent, this won't be forgotten. You've been a great help, though I wonder if you could do me one final favour.
Player: Wait... this sounds familiar..."
^ Player in 2018 Birthday event. Old School RuneScape. "NO! It's never just one small favour!"
^ Player in Making Friends with My Arm. Old School RuneScape. "You need... one small favour...? I've heard that said before."
^ Wizard Persten in Temple of the Eye. Old School RuneScape. "Well in that case, I think you might be the perfect person to aid me in a little task.
Player: A little task? This sounds like the time someone asked me for one small favour. I'm not sure if I'm ready for that again."
^ Easter Bunny in 2023 Easter event. Old School RuneScape. "Could you help me with just one more small favour?
Player: One small favour? I feel I know that saying from somewhere... what do you need?"
^ Jack Frost in 2023 Christmas event. Old School RuneScape. "Now he's finally gone, I would like you to do me one last small favour.
Player: Oh no."
^ Eyatlalli in Perilous Moons. Old School RuneScape. "The ritual is in motion, but the wound to the seal will not close with the Moons still raging against it. I must ask you for one more small favour.
Player: Please, no..."
^ Player in 2024 Easter event. Old School RuneScape. "No, thats the relief. I thought you were going to ask for just one more small favour."
^ Trader Crewmember in Ethically Acquired Antiquities. Old School RuneScape. "Although, we could use a hand... Think you could do us a small favour?
Player: As long as it is just the one favour..."
^ Horvik in 25th Anniversary event. Old School RuneScape. "Is this another small favour you're asking? I might have a request of my own, if so...
Player: NO! It is definitely not about a favour!"

One Small Favour

NPCs

	Yanni Salika Jungle forester Captain Shanks Brian Aggie Jimmy the Chisel Johanhus Ulsbrecht Fred the Farmer Seth Groats Horvik Apothecary Tassie Slipcast Hammerspike Stoutbeard Sanfew Captain Bleemadge Arhein Phantuwti Fanstuwi Farsight Wizard Cromperty Tindel Marchant Rantz Gnormadium Avlafrim Petra Fiyed
Monsters	Dwarf gang member Slagilith

Items

	Blunt axe Herbal tincture Stodgy mattress Comfy mattress Iron oxide Animate rock scroll Weather report Unfired pot lid Pot lid Airtight pot Breathing salts Pigeon cage Chicken cage Sharpened axe Red mahogany log
Vane parts	Broken vane part Directionals Ornament Weathervane pillar
Guthix rest	Bowl of hot water Cup of water Cup of hot water Ruined herb tea Herb tea mix Guthix rest

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