The Curse of Zaros

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The Curse of Zaros is a short miniquest following the events of Desert Treasure, allowing the player to obtain a set of ghostly clothing.

Miniquest Details

Start point:	Talk to the Mysterious ghost (Valdez) near Glarial's Tomb.
Members only:	Yes
Official difficulty:
Description:	None
Length:	Medium-Long
Requirements:	Started Desert Treasure for the ring of visibility Started The Restless Ghost for the ghostspeak amulet 31 Prayer is required if Dhalak is at the Monastery.
Items required:	Ring of visibility Ghostspeak amulet 3-5 energy potions would help
Enemies to defeat:	None

Walkthrough

Warning: This miniquest will take people into dangerous parts of the Wilderness. Beware of player killers and that you can not teleport after level 20 wilderness

• All of the Mysterious ghosts appear at all three of their possible locations
  but only one of the three will give you their piece of the set.

Valdez the Explorer

Valdez.

• Make sure you are wearing your ring of visibility and your ghostspeak amulet.
• Go to Glarial's Tomb (note: not the cave) northwest of The Fishing Guild.
  The ghost will not appear as a dot on the minimap.
• When you speak to him he will introduce himself and relate his part of the story.
  He will then give you a Ghostly robe top.
• He requests you to find another ghost named Rennard.
• This ghost will give you one of three clues which determine your entire route, which we will label Sequence 1 , Sequence 2 and Sequence 3
• Sequence 1 - He mentions pirates and a shipwreck.
• Sequence 2 - He mentions the thief being NORTHEAST of there.
• Sequence 3 - He mentions the thief being SOUTHEAST of there.

Now there are three possible sequences of ghosts you need to visit:

Number	Ghost	Sequence 1	Sequence 2	Sequence 3
1	Rennard	Near the shipwrecked ship near the Pirates' Hideout	Bandit Camp (Wilderness)	Bandit Camp (Kharidian Desert)
2	Kharrim	Chaos Temple (hut) altar in Level 38 wilderness (west)	Graveyard of Shadows	End of the Lava maze inside the second fenced in area
3	Lennissa	Church on Entrana	Port Sarim docks	Gnomeball field
4	Dhalak	Wizards tower	First Floor of Edgeville Monastery by the altar	Upstairs on the first floor of the Falador Party room
5	Viggora	First floor of the Rogues' castle in level 52-54 wilderness	First floor of Slayer tower in Canifis	Edgeville dungeon near Earth Warriors

Rennard the Thief

Rennard.

• He will tell you where to find Rennard. The location of all the subsequent ghosts is randomised but is hinted by the previous ghost. Rennard will be in one of the following places. If you go to the wrong location, a ghost will be there but you will have a meaningless conversation with it.
  • Submerged ship up in level 56 Wilderness (between Wilderness Agility Course and Pirates' Hideout)
  • Bandit Camp (Wilderness), he can be found outside Fat Tony's pizza shop.
  • Bandit Camp (Kharidian Desert), he can be found in the Bar.

When you find him he will just be called 'Mysterious Ghost' again (as with the rest of the ghosts). He will give you a pair of Ghostly gloves.

It is recommended that you use the Drop Trick for extra gloves, because getting deep into the wilderness takes time.

• He wants you to find Kharrim now.

Kharrim.

Kharrim the Messenger

Kharrim will be in one of these locations:

• North of The Forgotten Cemetery inside Chaos Temple (hut) Altar in level 38 Wilderness (far west side of).
• Graveyard of Shadows (Wilderness, Carrallangar); if you get this location, the zombies and ghosts will be aggressive and will interrupt your conversation. It may take a while to get your conversation finished.
• End of the Lava Maze (Wilderness) you will need a knife or other sharp object to cut through web.

Special note: If you go to a different location than the one Rennard tells you, you will NOT get the boots and instead you will have a normal conversation and nothing to do with the story. Head to this location and talk to Kharrim. He will give you some Ghostly boots and ask you to find Lennissa.

Lennissa.

From him you learn that Zamorak was a mortal Mahjarrat, and that what he did with the Staff of Armadyl caused the "other gods" to banish him, although Saradomin must have had foreknowledge of the mysterious event.

Lennissa the Spy

Lennissa may be in:

• Entrana church
• Port Sarim at the Lady Lumbridge (Hard to see against the dock)
• Gnomeball field, near the southern viewing platform.

Once at one of these places, look for Lennissa and speak to her. She will give you the Ghostly robe bottom and ask you to find Dhalak.

Dhalak.

Dhalak the Magician

Dhalak may be in:

• Wizard's Tower ground floor, the room with bookcases
• First floor of the Monastery (Level 31 Prayer required)
• Falador Party Room, first floor

Once found, talk to Dhalak. He should give you the Ghostly hood and tell you to find the last ghost, Viggora.

Viggora.

Viggora the Warrior

Viggora will be found at one of these locations:

• Rogue's Castle in the Wilderness, second floor in the small easternmost room with a bronze square shield spawn (beware of the Chaos Elemental and pkers).
• Canifis Slayer Tower (In the hallway approaching the Infernal mages, before the opening.)
• Paddewwa - Edgeville dungeon (near Earth warriors)
  • The earth warriors can be rather annoying, seeing as there aren't many places to trap them, but with some luck, you CAN trap the Earth warriors behind the ghost, with you on the other side, you must talk to Viggora as soon as this happens and click through the first dialogue window to make this effect permanent for the whole chat.

Listen to what he has to say and then he will give you the final robe piece, the Ghostly cloak.

Note: If Dhalak has given you a clue involving a castle in the "dark lands," the correct location is the Canifis Slayer Tower.

Reward

• Ghostly hood
• Ghostly robe top
• Ghostly robe bottom
• Ghostly gloves
• Ghostly boots
• Ghostly cloak

Upon completion, you can talk to Historian Minas on the 1st floor of the Varrock Museum and receive 10 kudos and a lamp which gives 10,000 experience in any skill above 50.

File:Ghostly robes equipped.png

A male player wearing the ghostly robes.

Dialogue

This article on a quest has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations encountered throughout the quest.

Trivia

• File:Somebody set us up the bomb!.png

  A player references Zero Wing

  If you speak to any of the ghosts without a Ghostspeak amulet, your character may say "all your base are belong to us", as well as some other quotes. These are references to famous translation errors in the game Zero Wing.
• According to Dhalak, the Canifis Slayer Tower was once Viggora's own castle. Viggora himself also confirms that he (among Zamorak's other major followers) were given a large amount of land as a reward, and the Slayer Tower is most likely evidence of that (as Castle Drakan belongs to Lord Drakan).
• If you lose any part of your ghostly robe set, you will have to go back to the ghost that you got it from.
• It is possible to have more than one set of ghostly robes by dropping the part that is wanted and talking to the ghost again. (NOTE: You must not have any of the robes that you want in your bank).
• When speaking to Rennard, your player says "I ain't scared of no ghost," a possible spin-off of "I ain't afraid of no ghost" from the Ghostbusters theme song.
• If you have 99 magic, when talking to Dhalak he will ask you "Be you some mighty sorcerer to bind me or so?" and you will reply "Well, I don't mean to brag, but I guess I am with my 99 magic..."
• If you wear the Ghostly Robes with Ava's Attractor/Accumulator and you look straight through your chest, you will not see it, despite the fact that you can see other things through the robes. The same goes for wearing a necklace or amulet and looking through your back. (This bug has now been patched.)
• If you equip a ring of visibility that is in your inventory while you have one already equipped, you will not be able to see the ghosts. You have to un-equip the ring that you are currently wearing, and re-equip it in order to see the ghosts again.
• If you wear your Ring of visibility and Ghostspeak amulet and speak to the Scout just south of Shantay's Pass, he will say, "You can see into the shadow world, but you are not of it. I do not trust you." or "A mere mortal can see into the Shadow Realm? The General will want to know of this." or "Spy! I shall kill you!" or "Begone, you filthy human! I spare no words for you." The chat box will also say, "They object to your opaque clothes." If you wear the ghostly robe set and talk to him, he will say, "A skinbag in the shadow realm? Khazard will want to know of this." This is referring to the Shadow Sword miniquest.
• There was a glitch that if you lost your Ghostly Robes, you were not able to retrieve your Ghostly Boots. This glitch has been fixed.