OSRS Plague City Quest Guide: Unlock Ardougne teleport

Plague City is the first quest in the Elf quest series. You’ll investigate a deadly plague that has affected West Ardougne and help Edmond’s family stop its spread.

General Questing Tips

• Enable RuneLite Quest Helper for guidance.
• Hold the spacebar to skip dialogue quickly.
• Use number keys to select chat options efficiently.

Difficulty: Easy
Length: Very short
 

Time to complete: ~5 minutes

Item Requirements

• Dwellberries – Pick from McGrubor’s Wood (northeast of Edmond’s farm) or buy from the Grand Exchange/vendor.
• Spade – Buy from any general store.
• Rope – Buy from any general store.
• Bucket of milk – Milk a cow in Lumbridge.
• Chocolate dust – Buy a chocolate bar from Ardougne baker’s stall and use a pestle & mortar on it.
• Snape grass – Found in Hosidius, northeast peninsula.

Recommendations

Walkthrough

I recommend you bring all required and recommended items when starting the quest so you don't have to visit a bank

Start the Quest

• Head over to Edmond’s house, just west of East Ardougne (check the image below). Fastest ways to get there: use a Skills necklace to teleport to the Fishing Guild and run south, or hop on Captain Barnaby’s ship from Rimmington or Brimhaven for 10 coins.
• Talk to Edmond Choose chat option 1 twice to offer help.

• Edmond will tell you to speak with his wife, Alrena, about protection from the plague.
  
  

Make a Gas Mask

Gather dwellberries and give them to Alrena. She’ll make you a plague mask. Extra masks are in the cupboard if you lose yours..

Pick up the portrait in the house while there. It’s location is shown in the image above.

Dig Under the Wall

• Return and talk to Edmond. Soften the soil by using four buckets of water on the mud patch behind the farm, shown in the image below

• Equip your gas mask and crawl through the pipe to enter West Ardougne.
   

Speak to Key NPCs

• Talk to Jethick east of where you emerge; choose option 1 to get a book
• Enter the building north of the square, speak to Martha or Ted Renison, then upstairs and talk to their daughter.

Prepare Bravery Potion

• Go south toward the plague house marked with a black “X.” try opening the door and reply 2 when a dialogue starts.

• Head to the large building just north of the manhole shown in the image below and talk to the Clerk (options 1 & 3), then Bravek in east room (options 1 & 3).

• Exit the building, climb down the manhole where you entered the city, then climb up the mud hole back to East Ardougne.
• Speak to Edmond to finish the quest.

Rewards from Plague City

• 1 Quest Point
• 2,425 mining XP
• An Ardougne Teleport scroll

Completion of Plague City is required to unlock the following:

• Biohazard

• Ardougne Diary

Plague City rewards player Ardougne teleport scroll, which unlocks the Ardougne teleport, making it easier to return through the ardougne teleport tablets or spellbook. The next quest to do in the Ardougne series is the biohazard quest.