Ernest the Chicken

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For the achievement, see Ernest the Chicken (achievement).

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Ernest the Chicken (#7)
Release date	21 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Voice Over	No
Recommended	No
Official series	None
Age	Fifth Age
Timeline	Pathfinder
Start area	Draynor Outskirts
Combat	None
Entity icon
Advanced data
Quest ID	15
Quest create ID	5
Quest timeline override sequence	12
Official difficulty	Novice
Links	Quests
Infobox • Talk page

Ernest the Chicken is a quest available to all players. It was one of the first quests developed. Players must discover what has happened to the missing Ernest, who went into Draynor Manor to ask for directions and never returned.

Official description

“

Veronica is very worried. Her fiance went into the big spooky manor house to ask for directions. An hour later and he's still not out yet.

”

Overview

Start point	Talk to Veronica, south of Draynor Manor gates. Show on map	2001#7
Member requirement	Free to play
Official length	Medium
Requirements	Quests: Ernest the Chicken None, but watch out for those trees in the manor grounds.
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. None
Enemies to defeat	Skeleton (level 11, optional)

Pouletmorph-ism

Talk to Veronica standing just outside the courtyard of the Draynor Manor. She wants you to find her fiancé, Ernest, who had gone to the manor an hour ago for help and has not come back yet.

Enter the manor and climb up the staircase and then climb the ladder to the west of the stairs to reach the top floor. Talk to Professor Oddenstein, who will explain that Ernest was turned into a chicken, when he was helping on an experiment with his 'pouletmorph' machine. However, to change him back, the professor needs parts that were stolen and hidden by the poltergeists in the manor.

You need to help him find a pressure gauge, a rubber tube, and an oil can, in any order you wish.

Pressure Gauge

To get the pressure gauge, you will need some fish food and poison. The fish food is in a blue box, found on the 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US], in the room across the staircase to the south. To get the poison, you need to go to the small north-western room on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US].

Once you have obtained both items, use the poison with the fish food to create some poisoned fish food. Go outside the manor through the east door and look for the fountain on the south-west corner of the garden. Use the poisoned fish food with the fountain to kill the piranhas and search the fountain to get the gauge.

Rubber tube

From the fountain, head north and look for a compost heap. Search it with a spade to obtain a grimy key. Return to inside the manor and go to the room behind the staircase.

Unlock the door to the room and take the rubber tube. When you do so, a level 11 skeleton will attack you. You can choose to kill the skeleton or simply leave the room.

Doors

Pulling the candle sconce

Go to the western-most room on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US]. Search the candle sconce on the right to gain access to a secret room. Look for a ladder that leads downwards, and climb down into the basement. There will be doors and levers around you. Follow the steps given below to obtain the oil can.

• It is not possible to use Telekinetic Grab to pick up the oil can.
• Players can reset the puzzle by leaving the basement and going back, using the Home Teleport if necessary.

Cheatsheet

All levers start in the "down" position.

The oil can puzzle

• Pull levers A and B up.
• Enter door 1 to reach the north-east room and pull lever D up.
• Enter doors 2 and 3 to reach the main room and pull levers A and B down.
• Enter doors 3, 4, and 5 to reach the north-west room and pull levers E and F up.
• Enter doors 6 and 7 to reach the north-east room and pull lever C up.
• Enter doors 7 and 6 to reach the north-west room and pull lever E down.
• Enter doors 6, 8, and 3 to reach the main room.
• Enter door 9 and grab the oil can.

Climb back up the ladder to the bedroom, then pull the lever next to the empty bookcase to pass back through the wall.

Ernestly

Go all the way up to the top floor and talk to Professor Oddenstein. Give him the items and he will fix his machine, which will turn Ernest back into a human.

Quest complete!

Rewards

• 4 quest points
• 3,000 coins
• 10 eggs
• 300 feathers
• Access to the killerwatt plane (members-only)
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys (Ironman accounts will not receive these)
  

Music unlocked

• Tiptoe

Achievements

• Ernest the Chicken ( 0) – Complete this quest.
• Any Odd Chicken ( 5) – Claim Professor Oddenstein's extra rewards after 'Ernest the Chicken'.

Required for completing

Ernest the Chicken is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

• Animal Magnetism
• Back to the Freezer

It is therefore an indirect requirement for the following quests and miniquests:

• 'Phite Club
• Do No Evil
• Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Finale
• Full comprehension of Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Flashback
• Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Fortunes
• Our Man in the North

Transcript

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Credits

Ernest the Chicken
Developers
Developer	Paul Gower
Conversion	Mod James (conversion to RuneScape 2)
Audio
Audio	Mod Ian
Other
Quest Help	Nishal K
Databox • Talk page

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• patch 4 June 2013 (Update):
  • Players yet to complete Ernest the Chicken will find that he has been regrown to normal size.

• patch 15 December 2009 (Update):
  • The following quests have received a number of minor changes and improvements: Cook's Assistant, Ernest the Chicken, The Restless Ghost, Rune Mysteries, Sheep Shearer. If you have already completed these quests, it may be worth your time talking to the Lumbridge cook, Fred the Farmer and Professor Oddenstein (outside Draynor Manor).

• update 21 January 2001 (Update):
  • Vampires, gremlins and... A chicken? Find the missing pieces of a strange machine to turn the chicken back in the newest quest, Ernest the Chicken!