Things to bring: 3 pots of dye, 3 animal pelts(doesnt matter as long as they are same)(important that they are not noted), money to travel by magic carpet if you wish, waterskins, and money for runes if you wish to crack open the chests, and 100gp to pay the urchin boy.
Speak to Ali Morrisen in Al-Kharid, and he will tell you he wishes to expand his trade market. He wants new clothes, blackjacks, and runes.
The Clothes
Speak to Siamon in Sophanem and you will tell him about Alis trade proposal. He wil ask you for either 3 pots of dye, or 3 animal pelts (Not noted). he will take one group of these right there if you have them.
The BlackJacks
In Pollivneach, speak to the blackjack seller at the stall about the trade proposal. He will say he is not convinced that he needs to upgrade his blackjacks, tell him he can hit you over the head and if he doesnt succeed in knocking you out, he will upgrade. He is not satisfied so he asks to do it twice, you can say yes, or "chicken out". I chose Yes and he agreed.
The Runes
Go speak with Aubury in Varrock and speak with him about the trade. He will agree. Now go back to Ali Morrisein.
When you go back to speak to Ali, he will say trading is very good, but sales have started to drop, he will again ask you to go see the Black Jack trader and Siamon.
The Clothes
Now go back to Siamon, you will tell him of the dropping sales, and he will ask you for either 3 pots of dyes or 3 animal pelts. (whatever you didnt give him before). Head back to Pollivneach
The BlackJacks
Speak to the blackjack stall trader again and this time he doesnt want to upgrade again, so you say youll have to find a sneeky way to trick him. He asks you waht you say and you play dumb...It will go to a cut scene of an urchin boy trying to get your attention. He makes you a deal when you speak to him that if you pay him 100 gp that he will steal from the stall forcing the trader to upgrade his weapons to fend them off.
Go back to Ali and you are finished. I think there are still glitches in this mini-quest because it let me do these tasks over and over again...reverting the clothes and weapons back to the way they were, so no use in starting again, because the stock doesnt get better.
Cracking Open the Rune Chests
Each row and column is to be filled with 9 different runes, and the runes cannot repeat in those columns and rows. There are also differently shaded boxes of 9 within the grid, and you must have 1 of reach rune in this as well as no repeats.
The small box was quite easy and only took a matter of seconds.
Bring about 1000gp if you plan to crack the small boz and purchase the runes.
As for the large box.. it took me several hours to find a puzzle I could solve but I finally did it.
and for the big box, i reccomend bringing at least 50k if you crack it open and plan to buy the runes.