Rick

This article is about the servant in a player-owned house. For the random event, see Rick Turpentine. For the NPC in the Wizards' Tower, see Rick (Wizards' Tower).

Rick
Released								31 May 2006 (Update)
Members								Yes
Race								Human
Location								Player-owned house or Servants' Guild
League region								Kandarin✓
Shop								None
Gender								Male
Options								Talk-to
Examine								He wears a hat to hide the fact that he's bald.
Map
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Advanced data
NPC ID								221,7327

Rick is a servant that players with at least level 20 Construction can hire to do various services in their player-owned house. Rick has the lowest wage at 500 coins. Players must pay him the wage every eight uses of his services. Rick has inventory space for 6 items and a trip time of 60 seconds.

If asked to serve dinner, he will provide shrimps for players seated at a table in a dining room.

Hiring

Players can hire Rick at the Servants' Guild, which is located north of the marketplace in East Ardougne. All five servants wander inside the building except for the servant the player has hired. Before hiring any servant, the player must meet three requirements:

• The player must have the required Construction level.
• The player's house must have at least two bedrooms with beds constructed in each one. If one of the beds is removed, then the servant will not become present again until the bed is rebuilt and the player exits and re-enters the house.
• The player must not have a servant already hired.

If the player wants to fire or switch servants, the player must fire their current servant by either talking to them in the player's house, or by talking to the Chief servant at the Servants' Guild.

Services

The services provided by servants can be cosmetic or vital resources for training Construction efficiently. All of the servants have the same basic services, but the main difference is that the higher-level servants have larger inventories and quicker response times. Rick can:

• Be summoned via the bell-pull in the dining room or the Call Butler button on the House Options interface
• Follow the player like a pet if there are still items to claim from them, even in building mode
• Greet visiting players as they enter the house
• Lead visiting players to the owner if the owner is in another room
• Lead visiting players outside
• Serve tea to the owner
• Serve shrimps to the owner and the visiting players provided the player has a dining room with a table and a kitchen with the necessary supplies
• Serve drinks from the barrel to the owner and the visiting players
• Fetch building materials from the bank:
  • Plank
  • Oak plank
  • Teak plank
  • Mahogany plank
  • Soft clay
  • Limestone brick
  • Steel bar
  • Bolt of cloth
  • Gold leaf
  • Marble block
  • Magic stone
• Take items to the bank
• Un-note noted items (excluding bones), taking the same amount of time as fetching from the bank

The cook, butler, and demon butler can also take logs to the sawmill for conversion into planks. Noted logs can be used, but the servant must first un-note them and upon returning to the player with the un-noted logs, they'll be automatically deposited to the player's inventory, the player has the option of having the servant take them to the sawmill if the player talks to the servant again.

At current prices, it will result in a net profit of −324 if all eight services are used to get shrimps.

Dialogue

This article on an NPC has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations with this NPC.

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:22 November 2018| |0}} {{#explode:22 November 2018| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:22 November 2018| |2}}]] (update)	Players may now fire their servants by talking to the chief servant in Ardougne.

Trivia

• While talking with Rick, the player can find out that he doesn't go to the sawmill because he doesn't know where it is. In addition Rick says he has had a job with a rat catcher (cooking rats) and there is a rumour going that he has worked for Bravek in West Ardougne, even though he just says he made a hangover cure for him.
• His scruffy appearance and examine text would seem to suggest that he is based on the character Baldrick from the BBC comedy series Blackadder.