A Tail of Two Cats

This quest has a quick guide. It briefly summarises the steps needed to complete the quest.

A Tail of Two Cats is an intermediate quest about the life of Bob the cat. It is the first quest to feature Robert the Strong and introduces the dragonkin.

Start point	Talk to Unferth at his house in Burthorpe. Show on map
Official difficulty	Intermediate
Official length	Medium
Description	Missing: small black cat, answers to the name of Bob. Last seen on the 19th of Bennath. Please contact Unferth in Burthorpe.
Requirements	Completion of the following quests: Icthlarin's Little Helper Gertrude's Cat
Items required	Cat or kitten (hellcats work. Be sure to bring fish for your kitten if you're using one.) Catspeak amulet 5 death runes Chocolate cake (made with cake and chocolate bar or chocolate dust with 50 ) Logs Tinderbox Bucket of milk (or one use of the bottomless milk bucket) Shears 4 potato seeds Rake Seed dibber (or partial completion of the Farming portion of Barbarian Training) Vial of water Desert shirt (obtainable during quest) or druid's robe top (the desert outfit does not work) Desert robe (obtainable during quest) or druid's robe (the desert outfit does not work)
Recommended	Fast travel to Burthorpe (games necklace or Burthorpe Games Room minigame teleport) Fast travel to Varrock (Varrock teleport) Fast travel to Sophanem (magic carpets, Nardah teleport, or pharaoh's sceptre) or fairy ring AKP and run north (fairy ring requires partial completion of Beneath Cursed Sands and 62 .) Ring of Charos (a) for discounted magic carpet rides or hard Desert Diary completed Waterskin (one is enough) or a circlet of water Stamina potion or full graceful outfit
Enemies to defeat	None
League notes	Unlocking Fremennik✓ will auto-complete the quest Unlocking Kandarin✓ will auto-complete the quest

Head to Unferth's house in eastern Burthorpe, just north of the general store. You must have a cat or kitten with you throughout this quest, but you may choose to keep it in your inventory; it will jump out to participate in necessary dialogue.

Equip your catspeak amulet and talk to Unferth, who is distressed as they have not seen Bob the cat for a week. He asks the player to talk to Hild for help, who can be found in the house just north-east of Unferth. Hild will enchant your amulet into a catspeak amulet(e) for five death runes, giving it the ability to locate Bob.

Bob has one of the largest wander radius of all NPCs in the game, spawning outside Unferth's house every time there is a system update, after which he is allowed to roam up to 30,000 tiles in any direction. He is only found in Misthalin, Asgarnia, and the northern part of the Kharidian Desert. He cannot enter the Wilderness, nor pass through the Shantay Pass.

You may use the amulet to locate Bob, which works somewhat like a compass - when facing north, click the left or right whiskers to control the interface and point it in the right direction. However, he will often get stuck in a few common locations, and it may be faster to pick one of the following locations and World hop until you find him.

Note the following table is not an exhaustive list of locations, only common ones.

Talk to Bob, who explains he wanted to be alone, having fallen in love with Neite, whom would never get involved with another cat with no family or status. Bob has no memory of his parents; the earliest he remembers is Gertrude taking care of him as a kitten.

Talk to Gertrude in her house just south of the Cooking Guild west of Varrock about Bob's family. While she doesn't know anything of his origins, your cat will realise that Bob might have something to do with the legend of Robert the Strong. Gertrude will suggest speaking to Reldo who might know more about the legend.

In the Varrock Palace library, talk to Reldo, who will read an excerpt from a book on the history of Gielinor that covers the folk tales surrounding Robert the Strong and his personal crusade against the Dragonkin. Remarking that it's odd that nobody knows where Bob comes from, your cat will suggest that Bob is in fact Robert the Strong.

Return to Bob, using the catspeak amulet to locate him if he has changed locations. Bob will not remember any of the details mentioned in the tales, with your cat suggesting that the Sphinx may be able to help with accessing Bob's memories of Robert the Strong via hypnosis.

Head to Sophanem, using the pharaoh's sceptre to teleport there if you have one; otherwise a good option is to use a Nardah teleport, then take the magic carpet to Sophanem.

If you still need the desert outfit, you can buy it from Raetul and Co's Cloth Store., which can be found east of the Sphinx.

Talk to the Sphinx in Sophanem, south-east of the northern pyramid. Ask her for help, and after a bit, you'll have the option to view a five-minute cutscene or get a brief summary of what happens. If you choose the brief summary, you won't be offered the option of being teleported to Burthorpe.

During the cutscene, the Sphinx will teleport Bob to Sophanem and hypnotise him. Bob, thinking back on his earliest memories, recalls himself as Robert the Strong. He sees himself looking over at a tower beside Odysseus his panther companion, followed by a battle between them and a Dragonkin. The Dragonkin manages to slay the panther and weaken Robert, however Robert manages to kill the Dragonkin.

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  Bob the Cat hypnotised by the Sphinx
• The Dragonkin on top of its castle.
• Odysseus fighting the Dragonkin, before being killed.
• Robert continues to fight the Dragonkin after Odysseus dies.
• Robert finally kills the Dragonkin

After the cutscene, the Sphinx summons Neite, explaining to her that unlocking Bob's memories has proved that he is in fact Robert the Strong. Neite will be impressed, with Bob asking the player to look after Unferth while the two go away for a few days. He will give the player a list of chores to help him with.

If you chose to hear the long version, you will be given the option to teleport back to Burthorpe; otherwise, you can make your way back there using the Minigame Teleport to Burthorpe Games Room (or games necklace if it is on cooldown).

Returning to Unferth's house in Burthorpe, perform the following chores from the list given to you:

After you've completed the chores, talk to Unferth again. He'll tell you that he doesn't feel so good and insists to see a doctor, with your cat suggesting the Apothecary, found in the south-western portion of Varrock.

The Apothecary will tell you that he has visited Unferth countless times, whom is a hypochondriac - he isn't ill but thinks he is. He suggests the player convinces Unferth that they are a doctor or nurse and gives them a vial of water as a placebo. Pick either a doctor's hat or nurse hat from the Apothecary, and wear some white robes (princess robes and graceful outfit don't work).

Return to Unferth wearing the disguise and with your weapon/shield slot unequipped. The player will convince him that the vial of water is in fact a 'miracle cure' for all known illnesses, and a few unknown ones. After drinking the water, he will declare that he is cured. Your cat will then suggest that Bob must be back by now.

Find Bob again and talk to him; you may need to logout and login again to get him to reappear.

You'll see a cutscene showing all the adventures the two have been on, including a magic carpet ride in Sophanem, a conversation between Bob and the King Black Dragon (a player spoof known as R4ng3rNo0b889 also tries to attack the dragon, but the dragon kills him instantly), and a journey on the Fishing Trawler ship.

After the cutscene, you will be teleported in front of Unferth's house. Talk to Unferth, who will be happy to have Bob back, exclaiming that he came back on his own. He also found a present left under the bed, addressed to the player.

Congratulations, quest complete!

	Bob's on Holiday
The music which plays during the adventures of Bob and Neite.

• Bob and Neite in Sophanem
• Bob talking to the King Black Dragon
• R4ng3rno0b889 is killed by the King Black Dragon.
• Bob and Neite sailing.

• 2 Quest points
• A Doctor's hat or Nurse hat (you can switch by destroying your hat and requesting a new one from the Apothecary)
• A present containing:
  • Two antique lamps worth 2,500 experience each in skills of your choice over 30
  • A Mouse toy (can be used to play with your cat, and functions as a fun weapon at the Emir's Arena)
• Completing this quest awards the player with 5 Kudos which can be claimed by talking to Historian Minas in the Varrock Museum.

Completion of A Tail of Two Cats is required for the following:

• Dragon Slayer II
• While Guthix Sleeps

• An unused model of Bob, wearing a bowtie at his wedding.
• An unused model of Neite, wearing a wedding veil at her wedding.
• An unused model of Beite, presumably Bob and Neite's son.
• An unused model of a gnome, intended to be used during an uncoded cutscene.
• An unused model of a gnome holding a Daguerreotype camera, intended to be used during an uncoded cutscene.
• An unused model of Odysseus as a ghost.

• The quest had a scrapped cutscene which included Bob and Neite's wedding (with Neite wearing a wedding veil and Bob wearing a white bow tie), as well as several other unused NPCs, such as their son Beite, two gnomes (with one wielding a Daguerreotype camera) and Odysseus' ghost. As the developer of the quest resigned before finishing it, the cutscene was never developed^[1], but the NPCs remained in the game code.
• If you have completed Dragon Slayer II, upon telling Juna a story about this quest, Juna will respond with dialogue related to the events of Dragon Slayer II. This is unique in that Dragon Slayer II is the only quest that Juna has two lines of dialogue for, and this is her only dialogue that pertains to two quests that are independent of each other.
• The name of the quest "A Tail of Two Cats" is a reference to the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities.
• When you first speak to Bob he says "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind". This line is spoken by Helena to Lysander in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• In the second cutscene, there is a spoof scene of the film Titanic; Bob is standing on the bow of the ship and says "I'm king of Gielinor!"
• Upon examining the potato plants in Unferth's house, it says "You say Potato, I say Poh-tar-to". This is a reference to a 1937 film Shall We Dance.
• When starting the quest and asking Unferth when they had last seen Bob, they respond with "Well he usually comes back to me once a week. Usually on a Wednesday a bit before lunchtime". This is a reference to game updates which usually happen on a Wednesday at this time as Bob spawns next to Unferth, explaining why Bob returns once a week when the servers are rebooted with a game update.
• Just before getting hypnotised, Bob responds to the claim he is Robert the Strong with "I'm just this cat you know". This is a reference to The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where Zaphod Beeblebrox (the self-declared most interesting being in the universe) is described by his psychiatrist as being "just zis guy, you know?".
• Like the standard version of King Black Dragon, the version seen in the ending cutscene of A Tail of Two Cats has a festive override wearing a Santa hat, purple partyhat, and green partyhat during Christmas events.