Transcript:Osseous Rex (2024)

Talking to the 'Calm' Archaeologist in Anachronia base camp[edit | edit source]

Before having accepted the quest[edit | edit source]

• 'Calm' Archaeologist: ...the bones are their money, so are the worms...
• Player: What?
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: Hey, you! Lend a hand?
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: I'm onto a secret. The greatest secret of this entire island.
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: The great mystery...of Osseous!
• (If the Berserk Archaeologist has been killed inside The Zamorakian Undercity:)
  • Player: Wait...Didn't I kill you?
  • 'Calm' Archaeologist: No.
  • Player: I did! In the Zamorakian Undercity!
  • Player: You set Fred on me.
  • 'Calm' Archaeologist: And he's doing just fine, thanks for asking.
  • Player: Isn't he dead?
  • 'Calm' Archaeologist: For now.
  • 'Calm' Archaeologist: I can bring him back, if you want to say hi.
  • Player: That's not necessary.
  • (Continues below.)
• Player: So what's Osseous?
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: 'What's Osseous'? Only the single most important discovery of our age!
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: The bones are so beautiful...
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: When those old fools at the guild see it, they'll regret ever expelling me.
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: But first I need to get it up and walking again, and that's where I need you.
• Player: What do you need me for?
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: I've got plans.
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: Let's call it... Necromantic-supervision.
• Player: Right...
• (Quest Overview interface opens.)

  • Nnot Right Now

    • (The interface closes.)
    • 'Calm' Archaeologist: Skipping out on the greatest discovery of a generation? Your loss!

  • Accept Quest

    • (The interface closes.)
    • 'Calm' Archaeologist: Brilliant! The bones are going to be so happy...
    • 'Calm' Archaeologist: Meet me in the lair of the Rex Matriarchs. There, I'll show you more. I can offer you a teleport there if you like?
    • Teleport to Rex Matriarch lair?

      • Yes.

        • The player is teleported outside the Rex Matriarch lair.

      • No.

        • (Dialogue ends.)

After having accepted the quest[edit | edit source]

• (Same as above.)

Talking to the 'Calm' Archaeologist in Rex Matriarch lair[edit | edit source]

First time[edit | edit source]

• Player: So what do you need?
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: I have discovered something remarkable down here. Nobody else has found this. Nobody!
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: I'll be the name of my generation. The greatest archaeologist who ever lived. The magnificent-!
• Player: And what is it?
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: Bones.
• Player: Bones?
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: A big pile of them. All perfect and ready to walk.
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: But before I can work my incredible fossilmancy, I have to get them.
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: There's an inactive teleporter in the beast's lair below. If you can get it working, it'll take us directly to the beautiful bones.
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: It likely needs a dragonkin crystal to work again, and my research indicates you'll be able to find one somewhere in this lair.
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: I need to prepare for the fossilmancy ritual. You must continue my work.
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: Explore this lair and find the crystal. Once you've got it, give it to me, and I'll show you the greatest wonder of Anachronia.

Afterwards[edit | edit source]

• Player: What am I looking for again?
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: We're looking for a dragonkin crystal to restore a teleport in the beast's lair. It ought to be somewhere in this lair.

Investigating the inactive teleportation device[edit | edit source]

• Player: It's not working - seems to be missing its teleportation crystal.
• Player: The archaeologist said one might be found in the dragonkin maze...

Attempting to unlock a gate[edit | edit source]

• Player: It won't budge. I wonder if there is something around here that will help me unlock it.

Activating the first Ancient Artefact (Inactive)[edit | edit source]

• The camera pans to the locked gate at the opposite side of the hall. A purple light lights and the gate opens. The camera returns to normal.

Activating the second Ancient Artefact (Inactive)[edit | edit source]

• The camera pans to another locked gate which opens. The camera pans to a pile of soil behind the gate before returning to normal.

  See Also

  Runaway Catwalker (ML Comic) - Chapter 27 - pisoprano

Uncovering soil[edit | edit source]

• Crystallised rubble is revealed.

• Excavation: Crystalised rubble
• Level requirement: 30
• Materials: Orthenglass
• Damaged artefacts: Teleportation crystal
• (Repeated in a pop-up:)
  • Excavation: Crystalised rubble
    Level requirement: 30
    Materials: Orthenglass
    Damaged artefacts: Teleportation crystal

Surveying crystallised rubble[edit | edit source]

• Excavation: Crystalised rubble
• Level requirement: 30
• Materials: Orthenglass
• Damaged artefacts: Teleportation crystal
• (Repeated in a pop-up:)
  • Excavation: Crystalised rubble
    Level requirement: 30
    Materials: Orthenglass
    Damaged artefacts: Teleportation crystal

Excavating crystallised rubble[edit | edit source]

Without a teleportation crystal[edit | edit source]

Without free backpack space[edit | edit source]

• You don't have enough inventory space to do that.
• (Repeated in a pop-up:)
  • You don't have enough inventory space to do that.

With free backpack space[edit | edit source]

• The player starts exacavating.

• (When receiving orthenglass:)
  • Player receives orthenglass.
  • You find some Orthenglass.
• (When receiving artefact:)
  • Player receives teleportation crystal (damaged).

  • 

    You find Teleportation crystal (damaged)!

  • Player: It looks like I've found everything in this spot already.

With a teleportation crystal[edit | edit source]

• Player: It looks like I've found everything in this spot already.

Talking to the 'Calm' Archaeologist[edit | edit source]

With teleportation crystal (damaged)[edit | edit source]

• Player: Is this the crystal you're looking for?
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: Yes! That's the one.
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: My ritual is almost ready. You'll want to restore that crystal at an archeaology^[sic] workbench and return it to me, and then we can begin.

With teleportation crystal[edit | edit source]

• Player: I've restored the crystal.
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: Good work! Keep this up and I might allow you to become my apprentice.
• Player: ...Thanks?
• Player: So, what's next?
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: My fossilmancy ritual is ready. Prepare to witness greatness!

• The screen fades out and back in. The player and 'Calm' Archaeologist appear at the entrance area to the matriarchs.

• 'Calm' Archaeologist: That teleporter device there! Place the crystal and then let us lay our eyes on these bones!
• Player: If these bones even exist...

• The player and 'Calm' Archaeologist walk to the teleportation device. The player puts the crystal on it, causing the device to activate.

• 'Calm' Archaeologist: It worked! I'm going in.
• Player: Hold on. Don't you want...
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: FOR THE BONES!!!

• The 'Calm' Archaeologist teleports with the device.

• Player: ...to take the neccesary^[sic] safety precautions?
• Player: Suppose I'd better follow.

• The player teleports with the device. The player and the 'Calm' Archaeologist appear next to some bones.

• 'Calm' Archaeologist: It's real! The old bones - Osseous' bones - are really here!
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: It's time to eat, you old fossil!

• The 'Calm' Archaeologist performs the ritual.

• 'Calm' Archaeologist: Animate Fre- I mean, uh, Animate Osseous!

• Osseous animates.

• 'Calm' Archaeologist: Oh, sweet baby Zamorak. I DID NOT EXPECT THAT!
• Player: What did you think was going to happen?!
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: You were supposed to stop me?
• Player: What?!
• Player: We should get out of here!
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: It's looking right at me...
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: ...and it looks HUNGRY!
• Player: Get out of here!
• 'Calm' Archaeologist: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!

• The player teleports back to the teleportation device. The screen fades out and back in.

• Congratulations! Quest complete!

• Congratulations! You have completed: 'Osseous Rex' - Complete this quest.

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