Scabarites Notes

Walkthrough

 * Sometime during the Dealing with Scabaras quest, the player will have to speak to Lead archaeologist Abigail in her camp on the Ullek plateau. She will give the player the Scabaras research book. She will also ask the player to collect 4 Scabarite notes and copy them into the book. At this point, the mini-quest starts.


 * The player will now have to go and kill nearby monsters for the notes, which they may drop. They can stop after they obtain 4 notes to progress in the quest, but to complete the mini-quest, all notes have to be found. Note that the chapters cannot be obtained as drops before speaking with Abigail. The notes can be found as drops from:


 * Skeletons and Dried zombies, found north of the camp.
 * Scabarites, found in the Scabarite Hive dungeon and swamp near the camp. More specifically, the Locust lancers, Locust rangers, Scabaras lancers and Scabaras rangers drop notes.
 * Mummies, found to the west of the camp, near the Agility shortcut.


 * The book has a total of 19 chapters. Four random chapters between 1 and 17 will already have been added during the quest. To finish the miniquest, the player will have to keep killing monsters until they have collected all of the chapters; in total, the chapters from 1 to 17 will be dropped by monsters.


 * Two more chapters (18 and 19) can be found in two chests in the dungeon below the plateau. One chest is just to the east of the High Priest of Scabaras's room, while the other chest is further south, surrounded by monsters. The player may choose to take the two chapters from the chests during Dealing with Scabaras; doing so will save them from having to return later.
 * When completed the book will contain 23 pages total.


 * When a monster drops a chapter, it should be copied into the book immediately to prevent duplicate drops.


 * To get all the notes, the player will have to kill all types of monster listed above. They can't keep killing the same monsters again and again: different notes are dropped by different monsters. The player should kill one type of monster until they don't receive any new notes any more. Then they should move on to the next monster and repeat the process. Note that each of the 4 types of Scabarite listed above has different notes to drop; they all have to be killed. Scarab larvae in the dungeon do not drop notes.

The different notes have different examine texts as follows, and the player must place one of each into the research book.

Reward

 * 10,000 coins
 * Completed Scabaras research book
 * Having completed the research book is one of the requirements for getting a trimmed Completionist cape.

Trivia

 * When copying a note that's already in the book a message appears "You already have this information in your logbook." Also, the note is destroyed. This happens even when the logbook isn't in the player's inventory.
 * When finishing the mini-quest, the archaeologist only makes a copy of the logbook, and any other extra notes in the player's inventory/bank are kept.
 * If you talk to Abigail before completing the quest and after gathering all of the notes without the notebook she will say "You do not yet have all of the notes required by our contact," even though you have gathered all of the notes.
 * Due to new book interface updated 10th March 2014 the full log is completed upon reaching 23 pages instead of 34.