Fairy Tale I - Growing Pains

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Fairy Tale I - Growing Pains (#96)
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Release date 27 February 2006 (Update)
Members only? Yes
Quest series Fairy Tale (#2)
Official difficulty Experienced
Official length Long
Developer Greg V
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Official description

“ Why are all the crops failing?

Can you help the Group of Advanced Gardeners to save their precious Farming patches? Does having green fingers help when faced with a 6-foot tall gorse bush with a nasty temper?

Do you suffer from growing pains?

”

Walkthrough

Start point: Martin the Master Gardener in Draynor Village. Martin the Master Gardener in Draynor Village.
Members only: Yes
Official difficulty: Experienced Experienced
Description: None
Length: Medium
Requirements:
Items required:

Recommended:

Enemies to defeat: Tanglefoot (level 111)

Growing Pains

To start the quest you must first talk to Martin the Master Gardener in the Draynor village square. He tells you about the rampant drop in crop yield all over RuneScape and wants your help to locate the source of this problem. You need to talk to five members of the Group of Advanced Gardeners (G. A. G.), besides Martin. (If you are not sure how many gardeners you have talked to, open up the quest guide and it will tell you if you have spoken to enough farmers) You can choose any of the gardeners near the farming patches (allotments, bushes, hops, trees, etc.) around RuneScape.

G. A. G.

If you have a tree planted, you will need to clear it before the topic related to the quest will show up.

The easiest gardeners to reach are:

All of them say the same thing: they've been having trouble with poor crops. They all have different explanations of what they think is wrong, including lack of rain, insects, pesky adventurers and erratic seasons. However, the fifth one you ask will suggest the fairies are the common root of such reasons. If you ask more than five members, the additional ones will be unresponsive to the issue of crop failure.

Go back to Draynor and talk to Martin again. After telling him about the different ideas, go back to the Lumbridge Swamps and walk into the cottage that was used during Lost City with your Dramen staff (or Lunar staff) to go to Zanaris.

Trouble in Zanaris

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The Fairy Godfather's location

Head to the Fairy Queen's chamber. It's just south of where you enter the city, in the room with the Slayer master. However, something's wrong. The queen herself is missing, and someone by the name of Fairy Godfather is there instead. When you speak to him, he will tell you that the queen protects the fairies from creatures known as Tanglefoot, who attack the city every once in a while from the shady grove near the cosmic altar.

The sick Fairy Queen.

Unfortunately, in her last encounter with a Tanglefoot, the queen has fallen to some sort of illness and is under the care of Fairy Nuff.

To find the queen, head west to the bank and then north to go to her house. Talk to Fairy Nuff, and she will tell you the details of the queen's illness and give you a symptoms list to take to a wizard named Zandar Horfyre, who used to work on Otherworldly beings in Zanaris.

A Fairy's Lifeforce

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Malignius Mortifer's location
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Where the grave is located

Walk or teleport to Falador, and from there head west and enter the Dark Wizards' Tower. The Dark Wizards are aggressive, so players under level 47 should come prepared with food or turn on Protect from Magic. Head up to the top floor, and talk to Zandar.

Zandar explains to you that the life essence or the soul of fairies is purely magic. He tells you that a large part of the queen's life essence has been drained, which can only be done by a Tanglefoot or be done voluntarily. He'll take the symptom list and then suggest you talk to Malignius Mortifer, the only other known killer of a Tanglefoot.

Digging up the Draynor skull.

Malignius can be found directly south of the Clan Camp, along with four elemental wizards. Talk to him, and he'll tell you he could help but he wants something from you first - a skull from Draynor Manor. No other skull will work, as Malignius will not be fooled.

Go to the Manor and around to the back. Dig up the grave there. Once you have the skull, go back to Malignius and give it to him.

Phasma Phasmatis Natura

Malignius tells you that he had indeed killed a Tanglefoot a long time back using a pair of magic secateurs. To obtain them for yourselves, Malignius will tell you to go ask the Nature Spirit to perform the spell 'Phasma Phasmatis Natura' on an ordinary secateurs, along with three or four specific items. These are different for everyone, so you must get the items assigned to you, and do not forget your ghostspeak amulet when you're going to speak with the spirit.

The requested items may include items from the list below.

Warning: Ghasts in Mort Myre swamp may rot any food you carry. If one of your required items is Edible seaweed, Jangerberries, King worms or Lime, there is a chance that you may lose it. Pack Druid pouches or multiple food items to be safe.

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Enchanting the secateurs.

If you do not have the required Herblore level to clean your herb, you can speak to Zahur in Nardah, who charges 200 coins for cleaning one herb. An alternative to this is to buy its clean version on the Grand Exchange - but keep in mind that they don't sell quickly.

When you are finally ready, grab the required items, your Amulet of Ghostspeak and secateurs, and go to the Mort Myre Swamp. Make sure to have the secateurs in your inventory and not in your toolbelt. Walk south until you find the Grotto Tree and talk to the Nature Spirit. He will bless your secateurs, at which point they will start to glow green. It is a great idea to pray at the nature altar, as it boosts your prayer by 20 points.

Tanglefoot

The Tanglefoot!

The Tanglefoot is unaffected by poison and cannon attacks, and can only be harmed with the Magic Secateurs. The higher your Farming level, the greater you will hit.

Head back to the Lumbridge Swamp. Go into the shed with your Dramen Staff equipped. Bring your armour and food. The Magic Secateurs are one-handed, so a shield can be used. Head through the corridor south from the field of wheat to the mysterious ruins of the Cosmic altar. (You can take a shortcut if your Agility is 46, and another one if it's 66) To the west of the altar is an opening that you can climb through. The Gatekeeper will tell you that he has been given orders to let you through and that you may pass.

Inside will be a bunch of Baby tanglefoots, and at the end of the tunnel will be a large, level 111 Tanglefoot. Wield your magic secateurs and approach it.

A hit and run strategy works well for lower levelled players, or if you don't have good armour, a good strategy is to run in circles around him and hit him. He is slow and has a small movement range, so it is easy to kill him without taking a single blow. Also if you have 43 prayer you could use protect from melee prayer. He can hit upwards of 100 lifepoints in one hit, so be careful. Tanglefoot has a weakness to slash attacks from the secateurs.

After you have defeated the Tanglefoot, grab the Queen's secateurs that it drops. If you have a full inventory when you kill it or if you forget to pick up the secateurs and you leave, you can go back to the tunnel and receive them at the start of the tunnel.

Head back to the Fairy Godfather, and give them to him to finish the quest.

Congratulations, Quest complete!

Rewards

Required for completing

Completion of Fairy Tale I - Growing Pains is required for the following:

Cultural References

  • The Fairy Godfather speaks and resembles like Marlon Brando's character from the movie The Godfather.
  • A couple of references from the movie Goodfellas include:
    • Examining Fat Rocco gives the text "How am I funny - Like a clown?", a reference to the line spoken by Joe Pesci's character, Tommy Devito.
    • Examining Slim Louie gives the text "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster", referencing Ray Liotta's character, Henry Hill.

Trivia

  • This quest is referred to with three different names:
    • 'Fairytale I - Growing Pains' in the Quest Journal control panel.
    • 'Fairy Tale I - Growing Pains' in the game window, when you click on the Quest Journal entry.
    • 'A Fairy Tale Part I - Growing Pains' in the Knowledge Base.
  • Upon the completion of this quest, one's Adventurer's Log will read: "My travels in Zanaris led me to a fight with a tanglefoot! I finished it off with ease and returned to the Fairy Godfather for my reward."
  • If you talk to Juna after completing the quest, your character will say, "...So I defeated the tanglefoot and returned the Fairy Queen's Enchanted Secateurs to the Fairy Godfather." to which she replies, "These fairies seem to be well versed in the powers of nature."
  • Fairy Nuff's name seems to be a play on the words "fair enough."

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