Ernest the Chicken/Speedrun guide

This guide is for Quest Speedrunning worlds.

For main game guides, please use the [[{{#replace:Ernest the Chicken/Speedrun guide|/Speedrun guide}}|in-depth guide]].

Details

Start point	Speak to Veronica, south of Draynor Manor by the gate.
Official difficulty	Novice
Official length	Very Short
Description	Veronica is very worried. Her fiancé went into the big spooky manor house to ask for directions. An hour later and he's still not out yet.
Requirements	These skills are given upon setting up the speedrun: 10 Agility
Items required	These items are provided upon setting up the speedrun: Energy potion(4) 2 Tuna
Enemies to defeat	None
League notes	Misthalin

Walkthrough

• Talk to Veronica. ( 1)…

  1	Aha, sounds like a quest. I'll help.

• Start moving towards the door and drop the two tuna in your inventory.
• Pick up the fish food on the 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US], in the room south of the stairs containing the ghost.
• Pick up poison from the room south of the kitchen, on the west side of the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US].
• Use the fish food on the poison to make poisoned fish food.
• Search the bookcase on the western ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US].
• Climb down the ladder and complete the lever puzzle.
  • Pull levers B then A down.
  • Pull lever D down.
  • Pull levers B, then A up.
  • Pull levers E, then F down.
  • Pull lever C down.
  • Pull lever E up.
  • Pick up the oil can.
    • Finish the Energy Potion at any point while completing the long runs to follow.
• Go up the ladder and pull the lever to exit the bookcases.
• Pick up the spade in the far eastern room on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US].
• Exit out the back door in the same room.
• Go north around the back of the manor to the west to the compost heap.
• Search the compost heap to get a key.
• Drop the spade to save run energy
• Go south and use the poisoned fish food on the fountain in the south-west corner of the grounds.
• Search the poisoned fountain to retrieve a pressure gauge. (There is dialogue here while searching so hold space bar).
• Return to the manor and pick up the rubber tube in the room north of the stairs on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] containing an aggressive skeleton.
• Climb up the stairs, then climb up the spiral staircase to the west.
• Talk to Professor Oddenstein. ( 1•2)…

  1	I'm looking for a guy called Ernest.
  2	Change him back this instant!

• Talk to him again to give him the items.
• Once Oddenstein has stopped talking, change your attack style to skip Ernest's dialogue and instantly complete the quest.

Speedrun complete!

Rewards

	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Time	5:45	5:00	4:30	4:15	3:45
Points	10	30	80	200	0