Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet was replaced by Gunnar's Ground. This article is kept for historical purposes.

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Romeo & Juliet (#4)
Release date								4 January 2001 (Update)
Removal date								21 September 2010 (Update)
Members								No
Voice Over								No
Official series								None
Age								Fifth Age
Combat								None
Advanced data
Quest ID								17
Quest create ID								? (edit)
Official difficulty								Novice
Links								Quests

Romeo & Juliet, a quest based on the Shakespearean play of the same title, was one of the six quests that were available on the initial launch of RuneScape. It has been removed from the game and replaced with Gunnar's Ground. Jagex has received a fair share of criticism from players who considered Romeo & Juliet to be an integral part of the game's history.

Official description

“

Romeo and Juliet are desperately in love, but Juliet's father doesn't approve. Help them to find a way to get married and live happily ever after.

”

Overview

Start point	Speak to Romeo in Varrock square	2001#4
Membership requirement	Free to play
Official length[?]	Short
Requirements	None
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. One bunch of cadava berries - can be picked from bushes near the southeast mining site.
Enemies to defeat	None

Starting out

Speaking with Juliet

Romeo's location

Romeo can be found in or near Varrock square. Speak with him to start the quest. He will ask you to go talk to Juliet.

Speaking to Juliet

Talk to Juliet, who is located in the first floor of the house (usually standing on the balcony or sometimes in her bedroom) directly out of Varrock west gate, just west of the bank. She will give you a letter for Romeo.

Father Lawrence

Romeo reads the letter and doesn't know what to do. Now go speak to Father Lawrence, located in the Varrock chapel just north of Varrock's east bank. After a bit of an argument, he mentions a cadava potion, and asks you to speak to the Apothecary. He is in a little house with the symbol of a purple potion just north-west of Varrock south gate, around the back of the Varrock Sword Shop.

The potion

Speak to the Apothecary and he will tell you he needs cadava berries. They can be found near the East Varrock Mine, you will need to pick one from the bushes containing the pink berries. The red berries are redberries, and cannot be used for the quest. Alternately, one could grow a cadava bush and pick berries off it, or just purchase them on the Grand Exchange. After getting them, return to the Apothecary and he will make the potion. Drinking this potion will result in temporarily knocking yourself out.

Note that it is possible to make multiple potions, but other than a funny little scene, it is almost impossible to use and the only way to use it is in the Apothecary's house.

Romeo seeing Juliet

The plan

Now, head back to Juliet and give her the potion. You will now see a cutscene of her "dying", though she really falls into a coma. Go back to Romeo and tell him that he must rescue Juliet from the crypt. Apparently, he needs someone to accompany him.

To the crypt

You will now see another cut scene of you entering with Romeo. When he sees Juliet's cousin, Phillipa, he forgets all about Juliet and falls in love with her. You have now completed the quest!

Reward

• 5 quest points

Credits

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Romeo & Juliet
Developers
Developer				Paul Gower, Rob Law
Conversion				Simon B
Audio
Audio				Mod Ian
Other
Quest help				Nishal K

Romeo & Juliet
Developers
Developer				Mod Tytn
Art and graphics
Graphics				Mod Neil
Quality assurance
Quality assurance				Andy C

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 25 February 2009 (Update):
  • The quest start icon for the Romeo & Juliet quest has been returned to the map.

• update 4 January 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Romeo falls in love with Juliet's cousin after he fails to make it to the crypt in the quest, but in the play, Romeo was in love with Juliet's cousin (named Rosaline) before falling for Juliet.
• Romeo & Juliet was the fourth quest ever released and was completed one month before the game's opening to the public.
• If you talked to Juliet after the quest, she would get angry saying how Romeo had left her and that she wants you to leave before she gets her father at you. How she managed to get out of the tomb is unknown.
• After the quest, if you talk to Romeo, he will mention how he met Juliet's cousin and how they get along without mentioning anything about Juliet.
• In the September 2010 Behind the Scenes it was revealed that this quest would be entirely removed from the game that month. It was replaced by a new free-to-play quest about star-crossed lovers, Gunnar's Ground. This made Romeo & Juliet the first quest ever to be taken completely out of the game; others, such as Sheep Shearer and Witch's Potion, lost their quest status but remained in-game as miniquests.
• Jagex also removed a letter to Romeo which originally appeared in the December 2006 Postbag from the Hedge.
• This was the only quest which only gave a quest point reward before its removal.
• Juliet's house is now home to Dororan and Gunnar after completion of Gunnar's Ground.
• Romeo returns as a pivotal character in 2016's Gower Quest, where he has been relegated to the Behind the Scenes pub.
• Cadava potions can still be made but have no use in the game. They can only be drunk at the Apothecary's house and will cause the screen to black out for a couple of seconds.