Smoking Kills Quest Guide

Smoking Kills

Description: Pollnivneach has a new inhabitant whose name is not Ali (or any variant of Ali, curiously enough). Who could this mysterious stranger be, and how did her sister end up trapped in a dungeon filled along with Slayer monsters?

Do you dare to venture into the depths beneath Pollnivneach, where unknown dangers await amid smoke and screaming? The perils will be great, but, when rescuing a damsel in distress, the act should be reward enough...

Difficulty: Intermediate

Length: Short

Requirements:
Levels:
25 Crafting
35 Slayer
85 Combat

Quests:
The Restless Ghost
Icthlarin's Little Helper

Items Needed: Cat speak amulet or Catspeak amulet(e), Range or Magic attack method (to kill 6 level 31 monsters), Armor (to protect from melee attacks by monsters up to level 140 and range/magic attacks by monsters up to level 56), Prayer potion, food, Pet cat or Pet kitten, Ghostspeak amulet, Earmuffs, Facemask, and a Rope. Note: The Rope is only needed if you did not set it during the Dealing along with Scabaras Quest.

Items recommended: Shantay pass, coins, or Pharaoh's sceptre to travel into the Kharidian desert.

Items Acquired During the Quest: Ranged path key, Magic path key, Steel pickaxe, and Banshee voice.

Quest Points Reward: 1

Reward: Access to a new slayer master and dungeon in Pollnivneach, new Slayer rewards available, Ability to construct combined slayer items, new slayer items available, and 5k Slayer XP.

Start Point: Northern area of Pollnivneach.

To Start: Talk to Sumona.

1. Get your Catspeak amulet and travel to Pollnivneach. Speak to Sumona in the house north of the General Store Stall. She will ask you for help finding her twin sister, who has fallen down a well.

Sumona

2. Go to the center of Pollnivneach to the Well. Equip your Catspeak amulet. Climb down the Well and Ali Cat will jump out and stop you. Talk to him to get information about the Banshees, who are at the bottom of the Well, and the Slayer master, Catolax, who will teach you how to defeat the Banshees.

Ali Cat

3. Gather your Pet cat or Pet kitten, Catspeak amulet, Ghostspeak amulet, Armor, Ranged/Magic attack method, Prayer potion, Waterskins(4), some food, and travel method to the Agility Pyramid. You will also need a rope for the shortcut from the Agility Pyramid to the tombs, if you have not set this before during the Dealing along with Scabaras Quest, and a Ring of dueling, which may make travel back to Pollnivneach faster. Using teleports or the carpet travel system (to Sophanem), make your way to the desert Agility Pyramid.

Desert map to tomb area

4. If you have set the rope at the shortcut southeast of the Agility Pyramid, climb down the wall into the agility course and go to the southwest corner. Climb the rope to the top of the plateau. Be prepared for Skeletons (lvl 125) at the top of the plateau that will attack. Go east and climb over the Low wall. You will come upon an Achaeologist and his assistant. You can refill your Waterskins at the spring next to their camp.

If you have not set the rope at the shortcut southeast of the Agility, you will have to walk south of the agility course and the plateau. Keep moving east until you come to a swampy area. Push through Bushes until you get to the stairs that lead to the plateau. At the top, you will encounter an Archaeologist and his assistant. You can refill your Waterskins at the Spring next to their camp. Go west and climb over the Low wall, but be prepared to be attacked by Skeletons (lvl 125). Keep going west to the edge, until you find the rock that is the top of the agility shortcut from the Agility Pyramid. Use your rope on the rock so that you can use this shortcut later. Return to the Archaeologist's camp.

Spring

5. Equip your armor (and Protect from Melee prayer, if needed), as the next area has several skeletons (from levels 97 - 140) that are aggressive and will attack you. It is also a multi-combat area. Go north to find the Sealed door on the west wall. This will lead you into a cavern along with tombs and two walls (east and west) along with a small hole a the bottom.

Catolex's Tomb Cavern Map

6. Take out your Pet cat or Pet kitten (make sure your Cat speak amulet is equipped) and 'Search the hole' on the Holey wall to ask it to go in the hole. You can start either on the east or west wall. The east area will have Skeletons (lvl 31) that attack along with magic. The west area will have Skeletons (lvl 31) that attack along with range. Once your cat or kitten opens the door to one side the other side will be opened as well. After you go finish your tasks on one side, you will do the same procedure on the other side. Take the Steel pickaxe to the west of the entrance of the cavern, before proceeding.

A Holey Wall

7. When you go through the doors in the holy wall, kill the Skeletons along with a ranged or magic attack method, and then use your pickaxe to destroy the north door of that room. You will need to disarm traps before you proceed down the corridor.

Skeletons along with range attack

8. Find the 'Search wall' option to disarm the traps. This will only disarm them temporarily, so run quickly down the corridor to the next door. Before you enter this next room, equip armor and weapons to defeat 4 monsters, two skeletons and two zombies ranging from level 31 to level 56. The skeletons and zombies may respawn. You must defeat all of them before the Mummy warrior (lvl 54) will come out of the tomb. Kill him to get either the Ranged path key (west side) or the Magic path key (east side). Use the key on the door east/west of the Mummy warrior's sarcophagus. Pull the lever inside to disarm the traps. You need to pull the lever from both sides before all the traps are disarmed.

9. You should now be able to enter the center corridor in the first area of the tomb cavern. All the traps will be disarmed. Equip your Ghostspeak amulet and talk to Catolax to find out how to combine a Facemask and Earmuffs. After your first conversation ends, talk to him again to get more information on the area under the well in Pollnivneach.

Catolax

10. Now you need to prepare for the final battle. Use an Earmuff along with a Facemask to make a new slayer item, the Masked Earmuffs. Along along with this, make sure to equip armor, weapons, food, and Prayer pots to defeat a Mighty banshee (lvl 90) and the final battle along with the Banshee Mistress (lvl 111). The Banshee mistress will call for help in the middle of the battle from the Insectoid assasins (lvl 141), but you do not need to defeat them to complete the quest. When you are ready, go down the Well in the center of Pollnivneach. Note that this area is multi-combat.

Underground Well Area Map

11. Go north after you go down the well to a large cavern filled along with Mighty banshees (lvl 90), who attack along with melee. Kill one to get the Banshee voice. This will allow you to pass the barrier at the northern end of this cavern.

Mighty banshee

12. Once you pass the barrier at the north, you will see a cutscene along with Jesmona, Sumona's sister. Afterwards, the Banshee mistress will attack along with magic. Use your Protect from Magic Prayer while fighting the Banshee mistress. About halfway into the battle, she will call for help from the Insectoid assasins, who use a ranged attack method. Switch your prayer to Protect from Ranged but keep attacking the Banshee mistress until she is defeated. The Insectoid assasins will be killed by Jesmona once the Banshee mistress is dead.

Banshee mistress

13. There is another cutscene after the battle. Catolax will communicate along with you as well. Return to Sumona to get your rewards. Quest Complete!

Quest Complete

Updated Slayer Skill

After you complete the quest, Sumona is now a new Slayer master. Talk to her to get more information about the new point system. The Underground well area is also a new Slayer area. After the quest, you can go down the well and find Catolax. She will tell you about the underground area. You will also keep the knowledge of creating new slayer items by combining current items together.

* Sumona:
o 50 Slayer required to use her as a slayer master.
o 100 Combat required to use her as a slayer master.
o Assigns: Aberrant spectres, Abyssal demons, Banshees, Basilisks, Black demons, Blue dragons, Bloodvelds, Cave crawlers, Cave horrors, Dagannoths, Dust devils, Elves, Fire giants, Gargoyles, Greater demons, Hellhounds, Iron dragons, Kalphites, Kurask, Nechryael, Red dragons, Scabarite minions, Spiritual mages, Spiritual warriors, Terror dogs, Trolls, Turoth, Warped tortoises

* Desert Slayer Dungeon: This dungeon has the following slayer creatures.
o Mighty Banshees
o Kurasks
o Cave crawlers
o Aberrant spectres
o Turoth
o Basilisks

* Slayer point system:
o Each assignment you complete for Mazchna, Vannaka, Chaeldar, Sumona or Duradel will give you Slayer points.
o If you have Turael change your task, you will NOT receive points.
o Starting on after your fourth task, you will receive points for completed assignments. If you have Turael change your task, this count goes to zero and you will have to do four more tasks before you start accumulating points.
o Each slayer master gives a different number of points: Mazchna - 1, Vannaka - 4, Chaeldar - 10, Sumona - 12, and Duradel - 15.
o You also accumulate points for every 10 and 50 tasks completed.
o Points can be traded for equipment, Slayer experience, or training information.