15-Dec-2009 - Blood Runs Deep

Southrend · **Posted:** December 15th, 2009, 9:06 am

www.runescape.com wrote:

15-Dec-2009 - Blood Runs Deep

The mysterious Lunar Isle rarely gets many visitors, and especially not of the ‘washed up on the shore unconscious, battling hidden demons’ kind. Eminent lunatic Baba Yaga requires your help in answering just one question: who is this stranger?

Finding the answer to this question will prove to be just the beginning of a journey that will see you delving back into the dream world, rescuing old friends and rallying the Fremennik of all isles, leading them to war against their deadliest and toughest foe – a new breed of horror from the deep.

Dust off your armour, weapons and runes – and we do mean ALL of them – and ready yourself for battle, Farstrider. This day, death (and glory) is upon all who call themselves Fremennik. And to the victor, the spoils, for any adventurer brave enough to succeed will be rewarded with hundreds of thousands of XP, new equipment and much respect.

"I’m glad to be continuing the Fremennik quest series and carrying on the prophecy storyline set up in Glorious Memories. This quest has proven to be a different challenge from that quest, though, with a much heavier focus on combat, as befits the Fremennik people."

"I’m also happy to be furthering the Princess Astrid/Prince Brand thread from Throne of Miscellania. To get the most out of the storyline, your character must be as they were during that quest, so some players may wish to visit the Makeover Mage before starting this quest. I hope you enjoy it."

Mod Hew
RuneScape Content Developer

Summary:
Where to start Blood Runs Deep:
Speak to Baba Yaga in her walking house on Lunar Isle.

Requirements to complete Blood Runs Deep:
75 Attack
75 Strength
65 Slayer
High Magic and Ranged levels are also recommended
Dream Mentor
Glorious Memories
Horror from the Deep
Completed all easy, medium and hard tasks in the Fremennik Achievement Diary

In other news...

We've made some necessary changes to how shops in TzHaar work. For full details, please read this forum thread.

Kuradal's Dungeon Improvements

After some of your feedback about last week’s Slayer dungeon update:

* Kuradal can now assign dagannoths.
* Murky Matt can now combine ferocious ring charges.
* Hellhounds should now respawn at their normal rate.
* We've squeezed in a couple of extra creatures.
* You won't get any Random Events while in Kuradal’s Dungeon.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 15th, 2009, 9:06 am

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

First quest to require the full completion of a diary.. Interesting. I'm looking forward to see how the minor Kuradel tweaks go over as well.

Brimmk · **Posted:** December 15th, 2009, 4:33 pm

good update, nice to see more content like this. Good reward for the people with the requirements and good goal to work toward for people who don't.

Uhfolks · **Posted:** December 15th, 2009, 7:36 pm

Would be a great update, except that they took away the main supply of onyx. Not only that, they lied and said they added a new drop to tzhaars. They only slightly increased the amoutnt they drop of tokkul. That is in no way a "new" drop.

Reventon42 · **Posted:** December 15th, 2009, 8:32 pm

The quest was pretty good, and the reward was great, saves 7.5m if you use the xp reward on Prayer. Disappointing that you cannot use it on Summoning.

New dagannoth variations as well, each one giving 210 slayer experience. They should be pretty fast to kill with Balmung. I wish this came out before I got 99 Slayer

Brimmk · **Posted:** December 16th, 2009, 4:58 am

good quest, bad economic decision
this update with the tokkul sucks, thanks to this furies will skyrocket probably, fire runes will crash and they'll have stagnated the economy a little bit more.
I think that to balance what they just did they should make a currency exchange booth, to be able to trade gp for tokkul and vice-versa. Either that or majorly improve the drop tables of the tzhaar and other monsters to include onyx items.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 16th, 2009, 4:58 am

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

I think Jagex is trying to slowly match the Runescape economy with the U.S. Economy, personally. :roll:

Brimmk · **Posted:** December 18th, 2009, 1:47 pm

lol

, nice one duke.

Arb 67 · **Posted:** December 31st, 2009, 2:23 pm

Seems like a pretty awsome quest from the guides i have seen

-_+ totojimbob +_- · **Posted:** December 31st, 2009, 9:28 pm

Onyx are now extremely hard to get, which is annoying considering how cheap they were before this update. The whole 'fire rune for onyx' was a pretty big deal for the RS economy, and Jagex have efficiently screwed it up. As for the quest, it seems good even though I don't really do quests so I don't know for sure.

2/5

Tim · **Posted:** January 2nd, 2010, 11:41 pm

This was a very fun quest with, to date, THE BEST reward available so for that, along with bring the Freminnik story line farther, I am giving it a 5/5. Really fun quest and should be done by anyone.

Hells Sponge · **Posted:** January 10th, 2010, 11:21 am

High level stuff = good. I like this 5/5