Are you looking for a narrative-driven experience inside RS3? This quest will focus on a local family and the Needle, a powerful artifact created by the elder gods to aid them with the planetary construction. It’s your call to get involved in The Needle Skips in RS3 to unlock a glimpse of history trapped inside a bubble. If you went through Murder Mystery or One Piercing Note, you would have had a similar experience. This quest will show you many different perspectives as you traverse the storyline. So, let's take a look at what this adventure entails:
The Needle Skips Requirements RS3
For RS3 The Needle Skips, you must be a Member, though there are very few other requirements. You won't be required to complete any quests, have specific skill levels, or carry an abundance of items. However, there are still some recommendations that can assist you as you navigate the quest. Here's what you'll need:
- 4 empty Backpack spaces
- Phoenix Lair Teleport, access to the Fairy Ring (AKG) or Memory Strands to easily reach the quest arena.
The Needle Skips Quest RS3
To begin with The Needle Skips in RS3, you must search the Needle, located west of Piscatoris Fishing Colony. You must follow the southern path to the west, and when you reach a small bridge, head north. Once you’re about to arrive at a large house, turn to the east and then walk over the stone pathway.
The Needle
When you search the Needle, there will be a short dialogue that is followed by a cutscene. It will show the nearby buildings while you’re wondering what happened in this place. Once the cutscene ends, you will get a Shard of the Needle, and a Mysterious Body will appear on the ground beside the Needle.
If you get close and search the body, you will find that the body is frozen in time, with a blood-written message that says “Megan” near it. By communing with the shard you will be able to search for keywords within the story. Enter 'Megan' into the interface and this will unlock a fragment of a memory. You can then view this through the Shard.
You must continue searching in the quest area for more keywords and enter them into the Shard to unlock more fragments of memories; this will also add characters and objects to the quest area. You will see how everything constantly changes after using the keywords on the Shard. Once you complete a chapter, you will see a temporal portal appear next to the Needle, which is an essential part of progressing to the next chapter. It’s worth noting that you don’t need to complete all the fragments to progress.
You don’t need to enter the keywords and memory fragments in any specific order, so there’s no point in making it strict. Additionally, you're allowed some leniency, as entering '30' will work for a clue which is '30th'.
Chapter One in The Needle Skips RS3 - Megan’s Perspective
In this chapter, the story will be told from Megan’s perspective. If you want to follow up on the story, you must type the first word of each memory fragment and play it in order. Some words will repeat so, when you enter the keyword, it will play two fragments without a specific order. If you don’t want to continue with the story, skip most keywords and enter “fire” or “fireplace” in your Needle Shard and interact with the fireplace. This will open a portal you can use to move to the next chapter in RS3 The Needle Skips. Here’s the list with all the keywords to complete Megan’s section of the Needle Shard:
- 30th, abandoned, adventures, angry, apprentice, argument, attack, banquet
- Bed, birthday, bleeding, blood, blue, books, brand, calendar
- Cart, choir, cloth, cook, creatures, cry, death, disease
- Doctor, dying, fear, fireplace, flames, friends, fuel, gail
- Gods, hannibus, help, homeowner, house, husband, illness, imagination
- Joss, journey, killed, laziness, learn, letter, love, marriage
- Medicine, megan, misery, monsters, month, mother, murdered, needle
- Pack, poetry, potions, prayers, primrose, ramblings, saradomin, scar
- Sea trolls, secret, sing, sloop, song, spear, spells, stranger
- Study, temper, thinner, tower, toys, voice, wand, weak
- Wishes, wizards, yak, year, zamorak
If you want to unlock all the memories, you only need to use the following keywords:
- 30th, adventures, doctor, joss
- Letter, love, megan, monsters
- Sea trolls, sing, sloop, tower
Chapter Tow Of The Needle Skips RS3 - Primrose’s Perspective
For the second chapter in The Needle Skips in RS3, it will be shown from Primrose’s perspective. If you don’t want to go over the story, you can skip the memory fragments and enter the word “birthday”. Head to the portal and continue to the next chapter. Here’s the complete list of keywords:
- 30th, apprentice, baba, beautiful, bed, birthday, book, books
- Boredom, bottle, boyfriend, burn, cloak, clown, constellations, dad
- Daemonheim, danced, demon, diary, dome, doubt, dubbo, friends
- Gail, ghost, giant, gilly, gossip, grave, hannibus, joss
- Key, letters, liar, lies, lizard, lizardman, look, lover
- Lying, magic, medicine, megan, metum, mum, overbearing, plagiarism
- Poison, possessed, potion, return, runt, scar, scary, shade
- Sheep, sickness, sloop, snake, strength, thing, thok, time, willikers
If you want to unlock all the memory fragments, you must use the following keywords:
- 30th, birthday, demon, diary
- Liar, look, medicine, metum
- Shade, sloop, strength, thok
Chapter Three Of The Needle Skips RS3 - Gail’s Perspective
During Chapter 3, the story is told from Gail’s perspective. If you don’t want to go through the whole story, you can continue to the next phase of the quest using the word “wenla”. Head to the Needle and investigate it to finish the chapter. Here are all the keywords you can find in this chapter:
- Anger, angry, bed, betrayed, book, buckthorn, burn, childhood
- Cost, cruel, dead, demon, disease, dying, ending, energy
- Evil, fainted, fainting, family, fate, father, fix, following
- Gail, happiness, happy, help, ill, illness, infected, knife
- Legs, loop, megan, metum, mistakes, monster, mother, necessary
- Necessary evil, needle, no, note, paper, parents, peeling, people
- Possessed, primrose, return, returning, scar, siblings, skin, stories
- Story, thing, traitor, wenla, worse
If you want to unlock all the memories, you must enter the following ones:
- Books, buckthorn, dead, demon
- Evil, fainting, happy, illness
- Knife, loop, metum, needle,
- Note, wenla
The Final Act
Once you complete all the chapters, you must go back to the Needle to enter the finale. During this section of RS3 The Needle Skips, you will be in the present, and you will need to find a cure for Gail, Primrose, and Megan. You can use the Leaves and Berries from the Buckthorn Bush to cure the illness, as Gail mentioned before. To help cure the illness, head down the path from the house and pick the Leaves and Berries from the Buckthorn Bush by the river.
Your next step is to grind the Leaves, crush the berries, and head back to the house. You must go inside and search in the bookcase northeast of Megan. Here, you must talk with Megan, who is now possessed by the demon, and the only way to free her is by saying the correct name of the demon, “Metum”. To find the correct name, you must search in the bookcase.
Once you have the name, head upstairs and use the Buckthorn Smelling Salts on Primrose, who is unconscious on the floor. Use the crushed Buckthorn Berries, which are now a Bottle of Crushed Berries, on the stove or a fireplace in the house to finally create a Buckthorn Salve. With this healing salve, you can save Gail, who is still on the hill next to the Needle. Once she has fully recovered, go back and talk to Megan about continuing with The Needle Skips in RS3. After a short dialogue, you must go to the Needle and pick a note. Read it, and then return to the house. You must talk to Megan again to finish the quest.
RS3 Rewards The Needle Skips
Congratulations! You have finished The Needle Skips, a narrative where you are the helping hand in an adventure filled with ghosts, demons, keywords and sickness. For all your hard work, you will receive the following rewards:
- 1 quest point
- 1 small XP lamp
- 2 Treasure Hunter keys (Ironman accounts will not receive these)
However, you can get additional rewards by doing some extras during the quest. Here’s what you can obtain:
- Discover all chapters to claim a Medium Lamp
- Replayable chapters of The Needle Skips, if you have a full completion of the quest by finding all the words in each chapter. You can get into it by searching The Needle.
- A Large XP Lamp (if you talk to Megan outside the quest replays)
The Needle Skips RS3 FAQ
This narrative-driven quest may take you by surprise; building your story and saving lives can leave anyone a little confused. So, if you have any lingering questions, take a look below to put those wonders to rest:
Is The Needle Skips in RS3 part of a quest series?
Although it may seem like a standalone quest, RS3 The Needle Skips is the second quest in The Elder God War series and part of the Sixth Age in the World Guardian timeline.
What are The Needle Skips RS3 Achievements you will unlock upon completion of the quest?
In this quest, you can unlock two achievements: The Needle Skips once you complete the quest and Pulling on the Threads when you discover all chapters in The Needle Skips (you must claim this reward from Megan).
RS3 The Needle Skips Conclusion
After this journey to cure a family and uncover the story behind the Needle, take a moment to relax before you embark on your next RS3 adventure. When you are ready, you can check more guides in our blog section that cover walkthroughs, news and more about RS3. Also, you can check our page if you want to buy RS3 gold at the best prices. That will be all for now. See you in our next blog!
