Three's Company (saga)

For other uses, see Three's Company (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Two's Company.

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Three's Company (saga)
Release date	1 June 2011 (Update)
Members	No
Voice Over	No
Official series	Fremennik Sagas #1
Age	Fifth Age
Timeline	Champion
Start area	Daemonheim
Combat	NPC combat level 50–59
Advanced data
Quest ID	416
Quest create ID	248
Official difficulty	Intermediate
Recommended	Yes
Links	Quests
Infobox • Talk page

Three's Company (saga) is the first ever Fremennik Saga. It may be started after finding a bear pelt on the frozen floors of Daemonheim. During this saga, you play as three characters; Ariane, Ozan, and Sir Owen, on a hunt for the antagonist Carn.

Official description

“

Three's Company tells the tale of three adventurers - Sir Owen, Ariane and Ozan - who come to Daemonheim in search of a criminal who has escaped their clutches. The criminal is attempting to learn the secrets of summoning, and has arrived in the demon halls with a devious plan for domination...

”

Overview

Start point	Find a bear pelt while raiding the 1-11 frozen floors of Daemonheim, then ask Skaldrun south-west of the Daemonheim entrance to share their story. Show on map	2011#7
Member requirement	Free to play
Official length	Medium
Requirements	Quests: Three's Company (saga) Find and free Skaldrun from the frozen floors in Daemonheim 6 Dungeoneering
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. Ring of kinship to find the bear pelt
Recommended	To play the unabridged version: 30 Attack 30 Magic 30 Ranged
Enemies to defeat	Several wolves (level 35) Several bandit warriors (level 35) Several bandit rangers (level 35) Several mysterious shades (level 35) 2 Arctic bears (level 35) Carn (level 38)

Secondary objectives

You can still complete the abridged version without 30 Attack, Ranged, or Magic. The following must be completed before entering the boss room to reach 100% completion and receive the unabridged tome (none of these would appear in the saga if you don't meet the unabridged requirements):

• Investigate a large pile of rocks as Sir Owen to obtain ore.
• Pick up a gold charm and two heim crabs (there are only two heim crabs in the entire dungeon, therefore don't eat the heim crabs), then use them to summon a Gorajo at the summoning obelisk in the room with the bridge and two rangers. Talk to the familiar which teaches the trio about Smithing techniques.
• (After getting past the guard using Ozan's charm) Pick up the broken longsword. It crumbles, leaving nothing but some ore.
• (After getting past the guard using Ozan's charm) Pick up the fractite pickaxe as Sir Owen and mine the zephyrium rock located in the guard's room.

Unfreezing Skaldrun

Skip to the next section if this has already been done.

In order to begin, the player must first unfreeze Skaldrun. This is done by Dungeoneering on the Frozen floors (1-11) in Daemonheim, with Complexity 2 or higher activated. Skaldrun appears randomly in a room, frozen in ice. Kill all the monsters in the room so that the discussion with Skaldrun will not be interrupted. Light any type of fire adjacent to the ice or cast a fire spell on the ice. Talk to him. Choose each option. Once done, tell him to "Leave" and he will teleport to the surface.

Finding the memory fragment

Smelly and worn. Skaldrun might want to look at this.

The dungeon map for the Three's Company saga

The memory fragment required to start this saga is a bear pelt. It will appear randomly on one of the frozen floors, but many players find it in the same room where Skaldrun was frozen. The bear pelt will be white and shiny, and will most likely catch player's eyes upon entering the right room. The bear pelt does not appear as a red dot on the minimap. Touch the bear pelt and it will disappear. After touching the bear pelt the player will receive a message in the chatbox stating to start the memory the player must talk to Skaldrun.

Into the saga

The hero-switching interface

Bank all your items, including your Ring of kinship. No items can be taken into the saga. Find Skaldrun located west of Thok, Master of Dungeoneering, and talk to him about the bear pelt. If you quit the dungeon, you would appear next to Skaldrun. When you start the saga again, you could choose to start from the last checkpoint or from the beginning. The mechanism of checkpoints are not fully known, but it seems that the saga is saved when you unlock a door requiring a key to open. There will be no Smuggler to aid you.

The signature heroes

Switching to Sir Owen

In this saga, the player controls Ariane, Ozan and Sir Owen, who are all needed to complete various puzzles. They are hunting the criminal Carn, who has great control over animals. The main objective is to complete the dungeon without any of the three heroes dying. Achieving only this results in the "abridged" reward. The saga also has an "unabridged" reward which can be earned by additionally completing four side-objectives.

During this saga, the player keeps their combat, Prayer and Summoning levels, but no prayers may be used and the damage output does not seem to reflect the player's combat level. Each of the heroes has 320 life points. Run energy is shared among the three heroes.

Click a hero's chathead on the left of the screen to switch to that hero. When a hero not under the player's control is at low life points and has food, the hero will eat automatically. If you switch away from a hero with low life points and food, they will eat automatically when they leave your control. Switching heroes causes the hero switched away from to regain 1 life point. This is not a very effective way to heal the heroes, but it does not require food. This also fully replenish your prayer points. While you cannot access the prayer interface during the saga, you can turn on prayers before entering and they would remain active.

Ozan and Sir Owen start with no inventory items while Ariane starts with 1000 air, water, earth, fire, body, mind, and chaos runes. These runes replenish over time.

Currently, there seems to be a bug that causes a hero to die when they reach very low life points (below 30 but not 0). Do not bring the heroes to such low life points if you can help it.

Starting room

Four dusk eels will appear on the starting room's tables. Pick up some of them with each of the three characters. Using food on each other will cause the food to be eaten if the receiving character is low on health. Otherwise, it will be traded.

Just like regular Daemonheim dungeons, any items on the ground/tables will not disappear for the duration of the dungeon.

Guardian room #1

Sir Owen poking around the rubble

1. Switch to Ariane, as her damage per second is highest (she can hit 800+ on Carn).
2. Select Earth Bolt to autocast in your spellbook. This must be done again every time you switch away and back to her.
3. The next room is guarded by one level 35 wolf, one level 35 bandit ranger and two level 35 bandit warriors. Ariane has low defence against melee and ranged attacks, so watch her life points and eat when necessary.
4. Right-click 'Mark' the opponent you're targeting to kill them more quickly. Try to mark a melee bandit and then let the second melee bandit to fall behind the first melee bandit, and the bandit loses the ability to hit you. Once melee bandit #1 is dead, mark and kill the second melee bandit. then the ranged bandit.
5. The wolf is not an immediate threat as all animals targets your companions first, so kill it last. This is a way to share the damage and prevent death. Humanoid enemies always target the character we control.
6. Control Sir Owen to investigate the large pile of rocks to obtain a novite ore. You cannot use the other two heroes as they are not physically strong enough. Pick up the gold charm and two heim crabs. Don't eat these Heim crabs! They are used to create a summoning pouch which is required for 100% completion.
7. If you already ate them, accidentally ate them, or need(ed) to eat them, you can get two additional heim crabs later in the dungeon.

Ice puzzle room

Control Ozan in order to press all of the pressure pads. If you attempt to use Ariane or Sir Owen, they will slip and fall while Ozan laughs at their lack of gracefulness. Players can utilise the Dungeon Home Teleport to get out the room easily. The puzzle is different for everyone and every time. Remember that you can slide diagonally. Try sliding from all points at all directions, and you will solve this fairly quickly.

Once Ozan exits to the next room the other heroes will teleport to him automatically.

Bridge room

The wolf and the two bandit rangers must be killed because the exit door is a guardian door. The bandits must be killed by ranged or magic as they stand on two separate platforms. It is still recommended that you control Ariane for this battle, as she can kill everyone quickly before anyone is hurt. Control Ariane and summon a cub skinweaver by using the gold charm on the summoning obelisk (this consumes the two heim crabs), and then switch to Ariane to talk to it.

Tile flip room

Use Ariane to flip the tiles until all of them are yellow or all green. She can even force the tiles without being damaged too much. A guide can be found here. Enter the next room. It is possible to complete without forcing, but neither Ariane nor Ozan says much about it afterwards, and it does not affect the story at all.

If you do complete it, here is the dialogue:

Ariane cheerfully says: "Ha! Ye of little faith!"

Ozan, also joyful, answers:"Okay, fine, well done."

Later, when entering the statue room, Ozan will say: "Oh, Ariane, I completely forgot: here's the 100 gold I owe you from earlier."

Ariane: "How did you smuggle money into this place?"

Ozan: "Smuggle money in? Yes...that's exactly what I did."

100 Coins will then appear in Ariane's inventory.

Mysterious shade room

The room contains three mysterious shades. Killing them is not required, but they could drop dusk eels so it might be worth it. Grab the Green rectangle key. Return to the starting room and unlock the green rectangle door.

Magical imbue room

First, have Owen and Ozan "wait" on the two pressure pads. Use Ariane to go through the door, while the other two will be trapped in place. You cannot switch to another hero. Trying to do so would result in a message that you have to solve this alone.

Strange crystal room

Right-click "Get-premonition" on any strange crystal. You will see six crystals releasing puffs of smoke in a sequence (south red, west blue, west blue, north green, west green, south yellow). As getting the premonition from the crystals multiple times does not incur any penalty, players can watch the sequence for several times and write it down (It is possible to get the same crystal twice in a row). It might be a good idea to turn on re-sizable mode or full screen mode with low detail in the graphics options. The former two options allow full view of the room, while the area would be brighter in low detail, making it easier to spot a puff of smoke emitted by a strange crystal.

Once you have the sequence, touch the crystals in the same sequence. Owen and Ozan will be able to move again. If you touch the wrong crystal, it will shock you with a small bolt of energy dealing some minor damage.

You cannot switch heroes while solving the puzzle and you cannot teleport out of the crystal room. The only ways to heal is natural restoration or eating food brought (unless you use the rest option which can still take a while too). If you try to touch any of the crystals without getting the premonition, you will always be shocked. Grab the Crimson triangle key. Head back to the starting room and unlock the crimson triangle door.

Guardian room #2

Here, simply kill the two bandit rangers and the wolf. Again, it is advised to play as Ariane here because she can kill them much more easily.

Door guard room

The guard happily harvesting his potatoes.

Use Ozan to talk to the guard. Choose the following options when presented with a choice at different points in the conversation:

• "[Charm] What are you guarding?"
• "Isn't guarding a door in these dungeons a little...redundant?"
• "Who put you up to guarding the door?"
• "Why are you bothering to guard it?"

The guard will then walk off to the nearby farming patch to grow some potatoes, leaving the door unguarded. If you watch the guard long enough after talking to him, a number of things may happen to his potatoes, including: exploding, turning into a giant rat, making him sick when he eats it, and there also being only one potato when he harvests them.

Statue puzzle room

Use Sir Owen to move the statues so that they match the immovable statues. When the first statue is moved, Sir Owen says the statues are lightweight and taunts the other two. Ozan attempts to move a statue, and Ariane wisely decides not to when Ozan got himself hurt trying to do so. It might be worth telling the other two characters to "wait" out of the way. Otherwise they can get in the way of the moving statue. Once the puzzle is solved, three doors are unlocked, leading to three more rooms. There is an agility puzzle room to the North, the pickaxe room to the east and Guardian Room #3 to the south.

Pickaxe room

Enter the eastern room where there will be three mysterious shades. Grab the pickaxe. Go back to the Guard Room and mine some ore with the pickaxe. Go back to the statue room.

Agility puzzle room

Enter the northern room. Use Ozan to move through the obstacles. Pick up the broken longsword lying on the ground. It crumbles to rust at your touch, leaving nothing but some ore. Then go back to the statue room.

Guardian room #3

Enter the southern room, and kill the two rangers and the warrior with Ariane. Go East.

Pikkupstix room

Talk to Pikkupstix. If the rooms back to the starting room are cleared, tell him to leave. Pick up the gold crescent key. Home teleport, and go north to the gold crescent door.

Confronting Carn

The heroes fighting Carn

After unlocking the door, attempt to enter. The player will have to choose three times which character speaks with Carn. The choices only affect the dialogue, not the outcome. Enter the room, and attack the two arctic bears. You will need to kill the two animals first before being able to damage Carn. The hypnotised behemoth will begin dropping rocks from the ceiling. This can be avoided by standing the characters in the safe spots indicated by the pillars and rugs on the floor.

Ending the saga

Once Carn is defeated, choose any of the characters to end the saga. Skaldrun gives the player their reward, the Three's Company book, or books. Upon reading the books, they disappear and the player gains some experience.

Rewards

Abridged: An abridged book, which when read gives:

• 750 Dungeoneering experience
• 75 Dungeoneering tokens

Unabridged: For 100% score (all of the secondary objectives), as well as the abridged book reward, an unabridged book, which when read gives:

• 3,750 experience in Attack, Ranged or Magic.

Achievements

• Three's Company (saga) ( 0) – Complete this saga.
• 300 ( 10) – Complete Three's Company with 100%.
• Bridge over Fremmy Waters ( 15) – Complete all the unabridged Fremennik Sagas.
• Epic Epic ( 15) – Complete all Sagas with 100%.

Replayability

The saga is always re-playable regardless of the completion percentage, with a maximum reward of 224 dungeoneering tokens (reduced for every time it is completed, not completion percentage; resets daily). However, the player will only receive the Abridged/Unabridged rewards the first time that 100% of the objectives are completed.

Required for completing

Three's Company (saga) is not currently required for any quests or miniquests.

Transcript

This article on a Fremennik Saga has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations and other messaging encountered throughout the saga.

Credits

Three's Company (saga)
Developers
Developer	Mod Raven
Design	Mod Osborne
Art & Graphics
Environments	Mod Alex
Quality Assurance
Quality assurance	Vicki M, Ian H, Mod Cuppa, Mod Stacey, Liam H
Audio
Audio	Mod Bond
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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 24 January 2022 (Update):
  • The Fremennik Saga 'Three's Company' has been rebalanced to make it a more enjoyable experience:
    • Owen, Ozan and Ariane's health has been increased from 320 to 3,200.
    • The health overlay has been tweaked to fit this increase.
    • Damage has been increased to around level 30 for all characters.
    • All enemies’ health and damage have been rebalanced to match these new numbers.
    • Clicking doors will select the locks in front of them, similar to live Dungeoneering.
    • Heim Crab healing has been increased from 20 to 200.
    • Dusk Eel healing has been increased from 70 to 500.
    • Multiple messages have been changed to info boxes to be more visible, including when Carn is immune at the start of the boss fight, when Behemoth is going to use special attack, and when interacting with rubble and the Summoning Obelisk.
    • Some messages have been highlighted green to make them more visible, including your progress in the ice sliding room.
    • Keys are highlighted with a lootbeam when you enter a room.
    • Added a left-click option to the room where Owen and Ozan need to stand on platforms so you can select who you want to stand there. Previously this was hidden behind right-clicks.

• patch 17 May 2021 (Update):
  • A particular Mining rock in the Three's Company Saga no longer clips into the scenery.

• patch 10 February 2020 (Update):
  • The Purple Cat miniquest and Fremennik sagas no longer appear as "not started" in the Runemetrics quest log when you have completed them.

• patch 27 April 2015 (Update):
  • Pikkupstix now wears the Summoning Cape instead of a Slayer Cape in the Three's Company Fremennik Saga.

• patch 3 March 2014 (Update):
  • Casting and cancelling a Home Teleport in the ice room of the Three's Company Fremennik Saga will no longer prevent players from switching characters.

• patch 13 May 2013 (Update):
  • Using the Home Teleport spell whilst controlling Ariane during the Three's Company saga now works correctly.

• patch 9 April 2013 (Update):
  • An issue with Ariane not being able to cast offensive spells in the Three's Company Fremennik Saga has been fixed.
  • An issue with the action bar in Fremennik Sagas bypassing Prayer checks has been fixed.

• patch 4 March 2013 (Update):
  • The Arctic bears in the Three's Company Fremennik saga have been reminded how to walk.

• patch 14 January 2013 (Update):
  • Players hairstyles are no longer altered when entering and leaving a Fremennik Saga.
  • Your allies will no longer continue fighting during the end cutscene of the Three's Company saga.

• patch 3 January 2013 (Update):
  • Removed the ability to give the signature heroes the wrong abilities in the Three's Company saga.

• patch 17 October 2011 (Update):
  • Some malfunctioning dialogue code in the Fremennik Sagas has been fixed.

• patch 14 September 2011 (Update):
  • Dying in Three’s Company during the tile puzzle no longer causes a ‘Connection lost’ message.

• patch 23 August 2011 (Update):
  • Sir Owen no longer runs on ice during Three’s a Crowd.

• patch 5 July 2011 (Update):
  • Ozan and Owen no longer hold their weapons when home teleporting during the Fremennik Sagas.

• patch 14 June 2011 (Update):
  • The Fremennik Saga bear pelt no longer clips with the floor.
  • It is no longer possible to see through the back of the wall in the Signature Heroes saga starting room.
  • The Signature Heroes will now follow you more consistently during the Three's Company saga.
  • The spellbook in the Signature Heroes saga will no longer revert to the normal spellbook.
  • A typo in Ozan's chat in the Signature Heroes saga has been fixed.
  • Ending the Signature Heroes saga will no longer leave any weapons equipped.

• patch 7 June 2011 (Update):
  • Ozan's quiver no longer floats whilst sliding in the 'Three's Company' Fremennik saga.

• update 1 June 2011 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• In the first few days of release, a very serious bug was found which gave the player over 3 billion coins in smuggled runes per hour, this was fixed at an unknown date.
• The door guard is a reference to the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• After passing the door, the guard is growing potatoes and will occasionally be knocked down by an explosion. He will then exclaim "How can potatoes even explode?"
• The name Three's Company is likely based on the saying: "Two is company, three is a crowd."
  • The title may also be a reference to a late 70s television show of the same name, although the show's name was probably a reference to the above saying.
  • The title also bears similarities to a chapter in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" called "Three is Company." The name was again likely a reference to the above saying.
• Inter-character dialogue, between Ozan and Ariane, makes reference to several titles including the Star Trek movie 'The Wrath of Khan'.
• The examine option of the Arctic bears are 'Crikey! Look at the size of those teeth!' which may be a reference to Steve Irwin, who made the term famous.
• No experience is gained at all during the saga, including attacking monsters and NPCs, making it safe for pures of any kind to do (there are a few glitches that may cause experience gain). However, as Ariane, casting Confuse, Weaken, or Curse will grant Magic xp. Since the runes are automatically replenished, this can be used by low-level players to train Magic for free.
• It is possible to fail this saga and complete it at once. if you kill Carn but leave at least one bear alive, while one character deals with the behemoth the other two will still be fighting the bear. If one dies fighting it then you will get a chatbox message saying you failed but you will still complete the saga successfully.
• When clicking the home teleport in your spellbook, once you have teleported, you seem to have the animation of walking off a lodestone.
• When any of the characters is at low health, their chat head appears to be saying, "I don't want to die!"
• Due to an update, characters could no longer use abilities without using the appropriate weapon (i.e., Magic abilities require a staff/wand). For Magic, the same applied to all spells. This made Ariane unplayable as she wields no weapon - however, she would still cast spells when not controlled. This was later fixed and she could use spells and abilities barehanded.
• While in the statue room, if one of your allies is standing in the way, the message "One of you allies is stood in the way" will appear in your chatbox. A simple workaround is to place them off the movable statues platforms and have them wait by right-clicking that option until you are finished.
• The three signature heroes have access to a few abilities, but for unknown reasons, Owen's abilities never seem to hit.
• This saga still uses the old gatestone system
• While prayers cannot be activated during the saga, they can be activated prior to talking to Skaldrun and will remain active. Additionally, switching characters will fully replenish prayer points.
• The heroes have 320 life points, but is displayed with a maximum of 800 at your normal life point bar. You cannot heal up over 320 regardless.
• Pikkupstix is found in a sitting position, but switches to a standing position when talked to.