Creature of Fenkenstrain

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

Creature of Fenkenstrain is a quest where you become the assistant of Dr Fenkenstrain and slowly uncover the history of his castle: the Lordship of the North Coast.

Start point	Read the signpost in the middle of Canifis. Show on map
Official difficulty	Intermediate
Official length	Medium
Description	Dr Fenkenstrain, master and sole occupant of the castle to the north-east of Canifis, needs a new servant to go on a dark errand for him. Do you have the stomach to help Fenkenstrain complete his twisted purpose?
Requirements	Completion of Priest in Peril Partial completion of The Restless Ghost 20 Crafting [boostable] [not required to start] 25 Thieving [boostable] [not required to start] Able to defeat a level 51 monster and run past level 72 monsters
Items required	Ghostspeak amulet Silver bar 3 bronze wire (unnoted) Needle (costume needle does not work) 5 thread Spade 50 coins OR 1 law & 1 air rune for Telekinetic Grab (requires 33 Magic)
Recommended	30 Combat level Combat equipment to defeat a level 51 Experiment Food and Holy symbol (protection against Feral Vampyres) for low combat levels Weight-reducing clothing and stamina or energy potions Fast travel to several locations Canifis to start the quest - Salve Graveyard Teleport or Kharyrll Teleport or fairy ring CKS Fenkenstrain's Castle (2 trips) - Fenkenstrain's Castle Teleport Quick access to a furnace: Ectophial or 2 ecto-tokens for access to the Port Phasmatys furnace Amulet of glory to Edgeville
Enemies to defeat	Experiment (level 51) - can be safespotted or flinched
Ironman concerns	4 Smithing [boostable] (to make a bronze wire)
League notes	Unlocking Desert✓ will auto-complete the quest Unlocking Fremennik✓ will auto-complete the quest Unlocking Kandarin✓ will auto-complete the quest Unlocking Morytania✓ will auto-complete the quest

Note: If you are only interested in unlocking access to the Experiment Cave, you do not need any of the required items - follow the Gravedigging section to obtain the star amulet, then skip digging at the grave and go straight to the memorial to enter the cave.

To start the quest, read the signpost located in Canifis - it is advertising a job vacancy for a 'Braindead Butler'. If the signpost says you do not meet the requirements, speak to Dr Fenkenstrain directly and he will still offer you the job, allowing you to start the quest.

Pick up the pickled brain from the table in the pub to the south, and Roavar the innkeeper will offer to sell it to you for 50 coins. Alternatively, use Telekinetic Grab to avoid paying.

Follow the path to the north east to Fenkenstrain's Castle, and talk to Dr Fenkenstrain located just inside. As part of the job interview, he will ask you to describe yourself in one word; answer "braindead", then tell him that your best skill is "grave-digging". He will ask you to find some "dead stuff" - he is planning to stitch together a body and bring it to life.

The body parts you need to find are the pickled brain you already picked up, a decapitated head, torso, arms and legs; you can retrieve these in any order.

Upstairs in Fenkenstrain's Castle, there are bookcases in both the west and the east rooms. Search the west bookcase for "The Joy of Grave Digging" and you will find a marble amulet. Search the east bookcase for "Handy Maggot Avoidance Techniques" and you will find an obsidian amulet. Use them on each other to get a star amulet.

Head to the grave located slightly south-east of fairy ring ALQ (see map). Using "Read" on the grave will confirm the grave as Ed Lestwit's. Right click to dig the grave, and you will receive a decapitated head. Use the pickled brain on it.

Just east of Fenkenstrain's Castle and west of the Farming patches, there are some tombstones. Use the star amulet on the furthest memorial to the east with the indent on it and push it to enter a dungeon that contains unaggressive level 25 and 51 Experiments.

Kill a level 51 wolf-woman Experiment to get a cavern key. An experiment in a crevice to the south west may be safespotted with ranged or magic, or flinched with melee by attacking from the crevice entrance.

Note: If you have started Rag and Bone Man II, you may wish to kill the level 25 experiments here until you receive an Experiment bone.

Once you have the cavern key go through the north-west passage until you reach a gate. Go up the ladder, then dig at the three graves to the north and you get legs, arms, and a torso.

Items needed: Ghostspeak amulet, decapitated head, pickled brain, arms, legs, torso, needle, 5 thread, 3 bronze wire, and a silver bar.
Skills needed: 20 ^[boostable] to create an extended brush

Push the memorial you came out of, and retrace your steps through the cavern. Exit the cavern and follow the path west until you reach Fenkenstrain's Castle.

If you haven't already, use the pickled brain on the decapitated head, and give the body parts to Fenkenstrain. He will ask you for a needle and five spools of thread to sew the body together. Give them to him, and he will ask you to repair the lightning conductor, so that he may harness the power of lightning to bring the creature to life.

Wearing your ghostspeak amulet, ask the Gardener Ghost in the back of the castle for the shed key, then go inside the shed next to him and search the cupboard for the garden brush.

Take three of the garden canes just east of the shed and use them on the brush with the bronze wire in your inventory ( 20 ). This will create an extended brush, making it suitable for chimney sweeping. Go back inside, take the staircase to the 1^st floor and use it on the fireplace in the west room to get a conductor mould. Make sure you use it on the centre of the fireplace and not the fireplace surround.

Once you have the mould, you need to go to any furnace with a silver bar in your inventory to make a conductor (via the 'make lightning rod' option). The nearest furnace is in Port Phasmatys (2 ecto-tokens needed to enter, free if Ghosts Ahoy has been completed). Alternatively, use a teleport to a furnace (such as Amulet of glory teleport to Edgeville) if you have a method to easily return to the castle (such as fairy ring ALQ).

Note: On some occasions, you cannot make the conductor. Re-logging may fix this issue; in some cases, you have to talk to the gardener to get the option to make the conductor in the furnace.

Go back to Fenkenstrain's Castle; take the stairs on either the eastern or western side of the castle up to the 1^st floor, walk to the room furthest south, and climb the ladder to the roof. Click on the lightning conductor to fix it. Lightning will instantly strike, and the monster comes to life!

Skills needed: 25 ^[boostable] to pickpocket Dr Fenkenstrain

Talk to Dr Fenkenstrain again. He will tell you that the monster tried to kill him, so he locked it in the tower. He will give you the tower key and tell you to kill the monster. Go upstairs again, and enter the central room of the upstairs section, climb the ladder, and talk to Fenkenstrain's monster.

The monster will introduce himself as Lord Rologarth. He will tell you the true story of how Fenkenstrain tricked him into selling all of his subjects and himself to the vampyres, and ask you to stop him from carrying out any more experiments.

You need to steal from Fenkenstrain a powerful ring which is allowing him to raise the dead. Go back downstairs and pickpocket him to obtain the ring of charos ( 25 ).

Congratulations, quest complete!

• 2 Quest points
• 1,000 Thieving experience
• The Ring of charos, which allows access to the Werewolf Agility Course, and, when activated during Garden of Tranquillity, reduced cost to many transport links.

Completion of Creature of Fenkenstrain is required for the following:

• Garden of Tranquillity
• The Great Brain Robbery
• Rag and Bone Man II (Only partial completion of Creature of Fenkenstrain required)

• Although not necessary for the completion of this quest, you can find a letter when winding the clock upstairs in Fenkenstrain's Castle. This letter, written by Lord Rologarth (the true owner of the castle), reveals the dark story of Dr Fenkenstrain's past.
• The grave examine reveals a bit of funny wordplay regarding the unlucky gardener's name, "Here lies Ed Lestwit". Roughly pronounced Headless Twit.
• The quest is based heavily on the concept of the story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
• Dr Fenkenstrain's examine text Dr Fenkenstrain, I presume is likely a reference to the famous quote Dr Livingstone I presume.
• After the quest Dr Fenkenstrain's note on the signpost in Canifis is replaced by a new note just saying "AAARRGGGHHHHH!!!!!"
• Based on the body parts that were exhumed, you can calculate the average weight of an NPC to be around 35kg.
• The book "The Joy of Grave Digging" is a reference to Irma S. Rombauer's famous cooking book "The Joy of Cooking".