Broken Home
Anyone can start it. Every step is below, ticked off as you go.
Speak to Maria, who can be found just south of the Silvarea limestone quarry, north-east of Varrock. You can use the invitation box to reach her quickly. Finish the dialogue.
Deposit all of your items (backpack and equipment) in the bank deposit box and enter the mansion.
1Enter.The Persistent Rage relic power cannot be active while entering.
Image notes
Purple shading is for the rooms with purple energy that will hurt you.
Cyan shading is for when Senecianus chases you in monster form.
General Notes
Before entering any door, check if there is smoke emitting from the bottom. If there is no smoke, enter the door normally. If there is smoke, right-click Peek through the door, then click the Enter Room button (the animation is irrelevant). Peeking through doors will negate ALL damage taken from the ghost.
Alternatively, you can click on the smoke doors to go through and quickly go back through them, taking 0 damage and getting rid of Ormod quicker.
You do not heal life points over time; only mystery meat heals you. Mystery meat restores all of your life points once eaten. The Eat Food ability does not consider mystery meat to be food, so you must click to eat it. Deaths are safe (safe for hardcore ironmen as well). The Persistent Rage relic power cannot be used to replenish adrenaline for Regenerate during the quest.
Safe rooms save your progress. Dying, exiting the house, or lobbying reverts you to your last saved state with the items and life points that you saved with but not the time.
Temporal chests cannot be opened on the first playthrough when completing the quest itself, so ignore them.
Timers (e.g. 30 minutes remaining) are general guides for the replay challenge. Challenges cannot be completed on the first playthrough, so these should also be ignored. The timer does not pause during dialogue, so players who are trying to do the time challenge should spacebar through the dialogue as quickly as possible. However, players can reset their progress by speaking to Maria outside the mansion. The correct dialogue options are given by the speech bubble icons in the steps below.
You need to have very low latency between your computer and your RuneScape server. Otherwise, the monster will kill you even before the screen shows up, making it impossible to pass this part of the quest.
Open WEST wall's SOUTH door to a safe room.
Open NORTH door.
Open WEST door.
Take the raven key and clock hands on the floor.
Open EAST door.
Open SOUTH door to a safe room.
After checkpoint 1
Use the clock hands on the grandfather clock to receive an eye gem.
Optional food: Search the chest to get mystery meat.
Open EAST door.
Open EAST door (raven key).
Open SOUTH door after the cutscene.
Open EAST door.
Sort the pile of books for two eye gem (the second and the third).
First pick any random order of books.
The order is from bottom to top.
Then use the hints given to swap out any books that are not in the correct place for books higher up on the stack.
Repeat the process for any incorrect books until the whole stack is correct.
Optional temporal chest: Open and search the temporal chest, requires level 10 in all skills.
Open WEST door.
Open NORTH door.
Open EAST door.
Open NORTH door.
Open SOUTH wall's MIDDLE door.
Push the WEST statue.
Walk two steps SOUTH. Push the EAST statue.
Walk one step SOUTH. Push the WEST statue.
Push the most SOUTH-WEST statue.
Walk one step NORTH-EAST. Push the EAST statue.
Push the SOUTH statue.
Push the WEST statue.
Take the fourth eye gem from the table.
Open NORTH door.
Optional temporal chest: Open and search the temporal chest by the staircase, requires level 20 in all skills.
Ascend the stairs to the WEST.
Open EAST door.
Open EAST door after the cutscene.
Open WEST wall's SOUTH door.
Search Ingram's research notes for the spider key and a scroll fragment.
Open EAST door.
Open WEST wall's NORTH door.
Open WEST door.
Open SOUTH door to the upstairs lobby (unbolt).
Open WEST door (spider key).
Open SOUTH door.
Search the dead servant for the fifth eye gem.
1Yes.Open WEST door.
Draw back the curtain.
1Yes.Talk to the faceless servant for the statue key.
1Yes.
30 minutes remaining
Open EAST door.
Open NORTH door.
Open NORTH door.
Open EAST door.
Open SOUTH wall's WEST door (statue key).
Take the eye gem on the floor.
Investigate the first statue twice.
Open WEST door.
Investigate the second statue twice.
Open SOUTH door.
Investigate the third statue twice.
Open EAST door.
Take the scythe key on the floor.
Open WEST door.
Open NORTH door.
Open EAST door.
Open NORTH door.
Open WEST door.
Open SOUTH door.
Open EAST door.
Open EAST door (scythe key).
Open SOUTH wall's EAST door to a safe room.
After checkpoint 2
Investigate the shrine for the grand piano key and skull key.
Optional food: Search the chest for mystery meat.
Open NORTH door.
Peek through the WEST door after the scream and then click "Go Back".
Open NORTH wall's EAST door (unbolt).
Open WEST wall's NORTH door.
Open WEST door.
Descend the stairs.
Warning: an energy field shatters the windows. The purple areas inflict periodic damage.
Open SOUTH wall's EAST door to purple area.
Open WEST door and enter it, go quickly through after the glass shatters.
Open WEST door to purple area.
Open WEST wall's SOUTH door to a safe area.
Open NORTH door.
Open NORTH door (skull key).
Open EAST wall's SOUTH door.
Search Ormod's scribblings for a scroll fragment.
Open WEST door.
Open NORTH door.
Open WEST door.
Play the grand piano.
Warning: The purple area's damage interrupts the search.
Open SOUTH hidden door to purple area.
Search the scorched skeleton in SOUTH-EAST corner for an eye gem.
Open NORTH hidden door.
Open EAST door.
Open SOUTH wall's EAST door.
Descend the stairs.
After checkpoint 3
20 minutes remaining
Open WEST wall's NORTH door.
Search the butler for the cleaver key.
Open EAST door.
Optional safe room and food:
Open NORTH wall's WEST door to a safe room.
Search the chest for mystery meat.
Open SOUTH door.
Open NORTH wall's EAST door (cleaver key).
Turn off running.
Walk over broken glass to avoid taking damage equal to 10% of your maximum life points. Walk to dodge the knives that are thrown from the haunted knife blocks at regular intervals.
Turn on running.
Open SOUTH wall's EAST door.
Open NORTH wall's MIDDLE door.
Search the chest of drawers for a large pipette.
Open SOUTH door.
Open NORTH wall's EAST door.
Use the large pipette on the pig to get large pipette of pig bile.
Open SOUTH door.
Open EAST door.
Search the furnace for human ashes.
Open WEST door.
Use the large pipette of pig bile and human ashes on the cauldron in the SOUTH-WEST corner of the room.
Use the large pipette on the cauldron to get alkaline concoction.
Use the alkaline concoction on the SOUTH door.
Open SOUTH door.
Open WEST door.
1Yes.Investigate the frozen servant for the doll key.
1Take the key?1Pull the key free?Open EAST door.
Optional temporal chest:
Open EAST wall's SOUTH door.
Open and search the temporal chest, requires level 40 in all skills.
Open WEST door.
Open EAST wall's NORTH door.
Take the snake key from the key hooks next to the ladder.
Climb the ladder to purple area (snake key).
1Yes.Use the stairs in the CENTRE of the grand hall to purple area.
Open WEST door.
Open WEST door (doll key).
Ascend the stairs.
Take the tusks key on the floor.
Descend the stairs.
Open EAST door.
Open NORTH door.
Open EAST door.
Open SOUTH wall's EAST door (tusks key).
Investigate the bust.
Enter the trap door to the SOUTH-WEST.
Search the thief for an eye gem.
Climb the ladder.
Open NORTH door.
Open SOUTH wall's WEST door.
Open WEST door.
Open SOUTH door.
Open EAST door.
Investigate the statue twice.
Open EAST secret door to a safe room.
After checkpoint 4
Take the mother's hairbrush from the shrine of the son.
Open WEST secret door.
Open WEST door.
Open NORTH door.
Open EAST door.
Open NORTH door to leave the statue room.
Open WEST door.
Open SOUTH door.
Open WEST door.
Ascend the stairs.
Talk to the emaciated spirit and finish the dialogue for the noose key.
10 minutes remaining
After entering the hidden basement, the monster and ghost cannot attack you until leaving the basement.
Follow the corridor.
Peek through peephole along north wall and then click "Go Back".
Open WEST door (unbolt).
Optional temporal chest:
Open EAST wall's SOUTH door.
Open and search the temporal chest, requires level 30 in all skills.
Open WEST door.
Open EAST wall's NORTH door.
Optional safe room:
Open NORTH wall's WEST door.
Search the chest for mystery meat if you have not yet done so.
Open SOUTH door.
Descend the stairs.
Open EAST door.
Descend the stairs.
Move all statues except the north statue.
Stand on the MIDDLE yellow pressure plate.
Descend the stairs behind the ancient door.
Optional temporal chest: Open and search the temporal chest, requires level 50 in all skills.
Descend the stairs to the north.
Descend the stairs to the south.
Climb down the mountaineering gear to a safe room.
1Yes.
After checkpoint 6
Optional temporal chest: Open and search the temporal chest in the south, requires level 60 in all skills.
Optional food: Search NORTH chest for mystery meat.
Open EAST door.
Search the reception desk for Nabor's notes on insanity and the chains key.
Open NORTH door.
Open EAST door.
Optional temporal chest: Open and search the temporal chest in the north-west, requires level 70 in all skills.
Open EAST door (chains key).
Open EAST door.
Open EAST door.
Head to the SOUTH-WEST cell to take the dagger key on the floor.
Optional temporal chest: Open and search the temporal chest in the north-east, requires level 80 in all skills.
Open WEST door.
Open WEST door.
Open WEST door.
Open WEST door.
Open SOUTH door.
Open WEST door to a safe room.
5 minutes remaining
Ascend the stairs.
Warning: The monster chases you after this room.
Open NORTH door.
Open SOUTH wall's WEST door.
Open SOUTH door.
Open SOUTH door to a safe room.
After checkpoint 8
Open EAST door to purple area.
Use the stairs in the CENTRE of the grand hall to purple area.
Move the servant next to the EAST door in purple area.
Warning: The monster chases you after this room.
Open EAST door.
Open SOUTH wall's WEST door (dagger key).
Search Ingram's rantings for the last scroll fragment.
Combine the fragments and Nabor's notes on insanity to make a Break Curse scroll.
Optional temporal chest:
Open EAST door.
Open and search the temporal chest, requires level 90 in all skills.
Open WEST door.
Open NORTH door and run east away from the monster.
USE the scroll ON the monster. You can use the scroll while the monster is spawning.
Talk to the monster and choose an ending for Ormod.
AnyOpen WEST door. You won't get hurt in this purple area.
Use the stairs in the CENTRE of the grand hall.
Talk to "Lenian" and finish the dialogue. At this point you get a notification saying what challenges you have completed.
Exit the house through the south door.
1Yes.Talk to Maria to claim your reward.
Congratulations, quest complete!
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