The carpet normally costs 200gp per ride, with the Feud quest done or a Ring of Charos (a) it’s only 100gp and with both it’s 75 gp. You cannot hold anything in your weapons slot if you take the carpet. To get around this go into the desert and your Shantay Pass will disappear, just unequip your weapon and take the carpet.
You will not have to take the carpet at all if you have completed the Enakhra’s Lament quest and have your Camulet ready. It has 4 charges and can be recharged by using Ugthanki Dung (camel dung) on it.
You can also use the Fairy Ring teleportation system if you have started Fairy Tale Part 2: Cure a Queen and reached the point where you learn about the Fairy Rings. The fairy ring combination is “BIQ,” and it will bring you to outside of the Kalphite Lair.
There is also the Pharaoh’s Sceptre found in the Pyramid Plunder minigame that can be used to teleport to the Desert Treasure Pyramid (Jaldraocht).
And finally the house teleport if you have a house in Pollnivneach.
The Archaeologist
As rumors abound you must have heard them and being interested in adventures like any good adventurer you will want to go off and find this treasure.
To start this adventure you must talk to the Archaeologist at the Bedabin Camp right beside the Magic Carpet. If you have not completed all of the quests that are required for this quest than he will just be ‘lost in his thoughts’. If you have completed all the quests required than he will tell you that he thinks there is a treasure in the desert and he wants you to take some notes to the Terry Balando, the Archaeological Expert at the Exam Center.
Talk to Balando with the notes and he looks at them. Talk to him again and he will give you the translated notes. Bank and get 650 coins (plus some for the magic carpet if needed), 12 Magic Logs, 6 Steel Bars, 6 Molten Glass, 1 Blood Rune, some Ashes, some Normal Bones, and Charcoal, note all of the items. Return the translated notes to the Archaeologist and he says it confirms what he thought and that if you help him he’ll chip you in for part of the reward. Agree and he tells you to go search around the Bandit Camp to the south.
Eblis and the Scrying Glass
Note: Before going to the Bandit Camp make sure you aren’t wearing anything related to Saradomin or Zamorak like Holy/Unholy symbols, their God Capes/Staffs, etc. If you do the Bandit’s will attack you (this is multi combat area so you may get attacked by a lot of Bandits). They are only level 57 but if they swarm you they can be very annoying and dangerous if you have low Defense. And you can’t talk to anyone while being attacked anyways. Guthix items don’t effect them (I’m wearing a Guthix’s cape in the picture below).
Go to the camp and buy a beer (Bandit’s Brew) from the bartender for 650 coins. Then talk to him about the 4 gems (the lowest talk option, and he will say Crystals not Gems) and he will tell you to talk to Eblis (eastern side of the camp, just south of the general store near the south side of a building there). Go talk to him and he will tell you about the god wars and eventually ask you if you want to help and then he will ask you for some material to make a Scrying Glass.
Use all the other items that he needs (you should have them all noted and ready), Magic Logs, Molten Glass, Steel Bars, Ashes, Blood Rune, Charcoal, and regular Bones. Use them on him, he won’t take them from you if you just talk to him. He will go set up the Scrying Glass and tell you to come meet him when you’re ready. Go to the top of a little hill with 6 mirrors on it that he wanders around and talk to him. Then look into each of the mirrors, which will show you a little cut scene of each place you will need to visit.
Note: You will want to bank the gems as fast as possible once you have them because while you carry them around there is a chance that a Level 95 Stranger will appear with a Ddp++ and attack you (usually near a bank), possibly using the special, so you do not want to carry around the Diamonds any more than you have to.
If you lose any of the Diamonds, you can find them in the area where you got them:
Shadow - in Damis’ Lair
Smoke - in the Smoky Well
Ice - from the Ice Troll Child
Blood- in front of Dessous’ tomb.
Additional Note: The item and equipment lists are only suggestions, change them as you wish to fit your preferences.