Scrambled!

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Scrambled! (#173)
Released		23 July 2025 (Update)
Members		Yes
Quest series		None
Lead developer(s)		The Hutnuts (Mod Lenny, Mod Nin, Mod Ed) feat. Mod Hend

Scrambled! is a quest set around Tal Teklan in which the player looks after a local egg.

Start point	Talk to Alan at the temple of Tal Teok north of Tal Teklan. Show on map
Official difficulty	Intermediate
Official length	Short
Description	Egg.
Requirements	38 Construction [not boostable] [required to start] 36 Cooking [not boostable] [required to start] 35 Smithing [not boostable] [required to start] Completion of the following quests: Children of the Sun
Items required	All items obtainable during quest: Bowl of water (two spawn in town, fountain next to bank) 2 planks (south of the town near the water) 6 nails (more recommended as they can bend, 20 nails may be found on the workbench) Saw (spawn in range shop) or Amy's saw Hammer (spawn in furnace house) or Imcando hammer
Recommended	50 Combat level Combat equipment with dragonfire protection Transportation to Tal Teok, such as a Quetzal whistle Plank sack to carry the planks
Enemies to defeat	Large chicken (level 16) Black jaguar (level 88) - can be safespotted Red dragon (level 106) - can be safespotted
League notes	Varlamore✓ — location requirement

Head to the temple of Tal Teok, just north of Tal Teklan. You will find a tourist named Alan, alongside his egg-shaped friend Humpy Plumpy, who has chosen to occupy the temple as a squatter. He will ask that you stay as a guest and insists he prepare a feast, and requests you to look after Wumty Scrumpty while he gathers the food.

As soon as he leaves however, gravity claims the life of Hampty and results in a great fall. Inspect Gumty on the ground, which prompts you to head back to Tal Teklan to look for help. Talking to any citizen there will direct you to King, the local bartender for The King's Inn.

Speak to King located in the inn about your predicament. She will tell you that she has to stay and man the bar, but has capable men who are up to the task. She will direct you to three people.

Acatzin is also in the inn. He will help you as soon as he gets his axe back from the blacksmith. Head south-west to the furnace and speak to the blacksmith, who will tell you that his whetstone has broken and needs repairing.

Take the hammer nearby and repair the whetstone. He will then give you Acatzin's axe (not knowing that it is his) and ask you to repair it instead. Repair the axe on the whetstone then return to Acatzin and he will be on his merry way to Tal Teok.

Before leaving, take the empty bowl on the table.

Nezketi is found at the temple directly south of the inn. In order to help you, he will need to be on top of his game - he will need tea made from damiana leaves. Agree to get his tea, and he will give you an empty cup.

Damiana can be found directly outside of the south-eastern walls of Tal Teklan. While you are there, head a bit further south-west and pick up the two planks.

Acquire a bowl of water; if you didn't take a bowl earlier, pick it up on a table in The King's Inn. A fountain is right outside to fill the bowl. Use the damiana leaves on the bowl of water, then head into the Tal Teklan General Store just south of the bank, and use the bowl on the oven to boil the damiana water. Finally, use the bowl of tea on the empty cup to finally create damiana tea.

Head back to the temple and talk to Nezketi, who you will automatically give the tea to. Freshly energised, he will depart for the temple immediately after.

From the temple, head directly east to the eastern entrance of Tal Teklan, where you will find Kauayotl with a damaged cart. In order to help you, he will first need to sort out his racing cart. Offer to help repair it, and he will tell you what you'll need:

• Two planks - if you did not pick up two planks earlier, there are two spawns south of the city.
• Nails - search the blacksmith's workbench for 20 iron nails.
• Hammer - spawns on the table south-west of the workbench
• Saw - spawns on a table in Arcuani's Archery Supplies just south of the blacksmith.

Return to Kauayotl, repair the damaged cart, and speak to him again to have him on his way to the temple.

Head back north to Tal Teok and speak to any of the three men. It quickly becomes apparent that all of King's men couldn't put Pumpty Lumpty together again, and that replacing him is the only option. However, the three argue over which type of egg is suitable: a large chicken's, a dragon's, or a... jaguar's. You will offer to get all three and have them pick a suitable one.

Head to the small chicken farm directly south of the Tal Teok temple in the north of Tal Teklan, and search the pile of eggs. A level-16 large chicken will attack; defeat it, then search the eggs again to obtain a large egg.

The entrance to the Dragon Nest is found to the south-east of Tal Teok temple, across the river. Once inside, make your way to the south-east and search the pile of eggs. A level-106 red dragon will attack. Players can safespot the dragon using the eggs; defeat it, then search the eggs again to obtain a dragon egg.

Head back outside, and run eastwards until you reach a campsite. Search the pile of eggs, and a level-88 black jaguar will attack; as it has routefinding capabilities, you will have to trick the jaguar by standing next to tropical tree and a fern to safespot it. After triumphing over the egglaying jaguar search the eggs again to obtain a jaguar egg.

Return to Tal Teok and speak to each of King's men, who will each paint the egg to resemble Rumpty Bumpty as best they can. Once all three eggs have been given, a cutscene will play in which the eggs are judged. The chicken egg is deemed too small to be Wumty Scrumpty, the dragon egg's innate heat is melting the paint, and the jaguar egg is deemed to be the best replacement for Mumpty Rumpty.

However, gravity is a cruel mistress and claims the lives of all the eggs, resulting in three additional great falls. With no options left, you and King's men must put Humphrey Dumphrey together again.

There are many pieces to reassemble, but players can hover over the puzzle piece icon to view the solution. When a piece is rotated in the correct orientation and placed in the correct location, it will stay in place indicating the correct placement.

Upon putting Scrumpty Lumpy back together again, a cutscene will play in which you thank King's men before they take their leave, and Alan returns none the wiser. As you head down to help him bring in the food, he reflects on his life, finally sure of himself and his place in the world. However, gravity is apparently out for blood, giving Alan a great fall.

Note: Players who wish to keep Alan's bones as a souvenir should ensure they do not have a bonecrusher or bonecrusher necklace on their person before fixing Bumpty Numpty, as the bonecrusher deems the player responsible for his death and will automatically crush his bones.

• The player and King's men judging their eggs.
• Gravity causes several great falls.
• Alan has a great fall.

Congratulations, quest complete!

• 1 Quest point
• 5,000 Construction experience
• 5,000 Cooking experience
• 5,000 Smithing experience
• An Egg can be obtained by talking to the egg on the wall, which can be placed in the pet house
• Alan's bones can be picked up from just south of the temple (if the player is wearing the Bonecrusher necklace the bones will automatically be buried and the player will receive 1.5 prayer xp).

• This quest is a reference to the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. The lyrics to the rhyme ("Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. / Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. / All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again.") mirror the plot of the quest.
  • When King quotes this rhyme, the player will reply "What's a horse?", to which King replies she has no idea.
• Scrambled! contains the most uses of profanity in any Old School quest, necessitating the use of asterisks and the profanity filter in this article and one of its screenshots. The full uncensored dialogue is available in the quest transcript.
  • The original draft for the quest would have had the player character drop a hard 'F' at its conclusion, but this was toned down to the currently used swearword prior to release.^[1]
• Alongside Contact! and Wanted!, this is one of three quests which uses an exclamation mark in its title.
• Alan's obsession with the egg and its features appears to be a reference to the 2000 film Cast Away, which has been referenced before in game scenery.
• The dialogue lines "But it's not possible!" and "No, it's necessary..." towards the end of the quest are a reference to the 2014 film Interstellar.
• King was originally intended to be a male NPC, in reference to the original nursery rhyme. A miscommunication between the developers resulted in King being made a female NPC instead, but this was kept in due to it fitting the humourous tone of the quest.^[2]
• The choreography for the quest was done by Mod Hend.
• If the player is wearing the Bonecrusher necklace, the Alan's bones will automatically be buried suggesting that the player is at fault for Alan's death.