Magpie
- This article is about the Summoning familiar. For the impling in Impetuous Impulses, see Magpie impling.
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 Level
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47 |
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| Duration (min) | 34 |
| Points cost | 5 |
| Abilities | Forager - Jewellery |
| Special moves | Thieving fingers |
| Race | Bird |
| Combat level | Non-combatant |
| Life Points | Non-combatant |
| Immune to poison? | Non-combatant |
| Attack Style | Non-combatant |
| Maximum hit | Non-combatant |
| Examine text | Check your pockets! |
The Magpie is a Summoning familiar. Summoning a Magpie requires level 47 Summoning and a Magpie pouch, granting 0.9 Summoning experience.
Magpie Pouch
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Shards | Shard cost | Charm | Tertiary | ||
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| 88 | 2,200 coins | Green | Gold ring | |||
| Create XP | Use XP | Low Alch | Hi Alch | GE Price | ||
| 83.2 | 0.9 | 1,049 coins | 1,574 coins | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". coins (info) | ||
| GE Database | Cost to make | Bogrog shard return | Shard return level | |||
| Look up price | 2,387 coins | 62 ( 1,550)
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54 | |||
| Examine text | ||||||
| I can summon a magpie familiar with this. | ||||||
A Magpie Pouch is created by using a pouch on a summoning obelisk, with a Green charm, 88 spirit shards, and 1 Gold ring in the inventory, gaining 83.2 Summoning experience. If you exchange these pouches with Bogrog you will get 62 spirit shards.
Thieving fingers scroll
| Thieving Fingers scroll | Create XP | Use XP | Special move points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.7 | 5.7 | 3 | |
| Low Alch | High Alch | GE Price | |
| 104 coins | 157 coins | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". coins (info) | |
| GE Database | Bogrog shard return | Shard return level | |
| Look up price | 4 ( 100)
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54 | |
| Examine text | |||
| A scroll for a magpie familiar. | |||
The Thieving Fingers Scroll temporarily increases your level in Thieving by 2, and is activated by using a Thieving Fingers scroll.
Foraging
Magpies are foragers attracted to shiny and precious objects and will gather any they see.
The items it forages can range from sapphire to diamond gems (uncut) and rings (both enchanted and unenchanted). Magpies can find and store up to 30 pieces of jewellery before emptying is needed.
Magpies are excellent familiars for use where no familiar is otherwise neccessary. The items collected make nice profit. Magpies are excellent to use while gathering materials (flax, white berries) instead of a beast of burden familiar, especially when the trip to a bank is a fairly short one. Your average profit per hour could easily increase by 20k (minus the cost of pouches).
It is possible that all uncut gems have a similar chance of being foraged, despite the difference in rarities. This is in contrast to monster drops, which are very commonly sapphires/emeralds and rarely rubies or diamonds. Uncut diamonds are the only exception, seeming to be half as common in some occasions, but still significantly more likely than monster drops. However it is still not impossible to end up with more uncut diamonds than other gems and rings.
Magpies seem to forage more items when the player that has summoned them is actively moving (such as smelting ore) rather than standing still for long periods of time (such as casting High Level Alchemy).
Translations
- There's nowt gannin on here... (There's nothing going on here..)
- Howway, let's gaan see what's happenin' in toon. (Hurry, let's go and see what's happening in town.)
- Are we gaan oot soon? I'm up fer a good walk me. (Are we going out soon? I'm up for a good walk.)
- Ye' been plowdin' i' the claarts aall day. (You've been plodding in the mud all day.)
Dialogue
Trivia
- The Magpie's dialogue is a reference to the Geordie dialect (a dialect that is most commonly used in the North East of England; Newcastle), which can be difficult for some people to understand.
- The pertinence of the Geordie Dialect is derived from the football team Newcastle United's nickname; 'The Magpies'.
- The player character's response "that was just noise" references the BBC comedy series I'm Alan Partridge. In a conversation with his hotel's (Geordie) handyman Michael, Alan responds "I'm sorry, that was just a noise. All I got there was broken homes. And a broken home is not an excuse for evil."