Forgettable Tale...
IntermediateMembersLongOSRS TCG Forgettable Tale... — Old School RuneScape quest card mapping
Start: talk to Veldaban.
Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf is part 2 in the Rise of the Red Axe series, focusing on the dwarves and their capital city of Keldagrim. After the events in The Giant Dwarf, the Red Axe mining company has departed the city and set up a new headquarters in a remote underground location. Veldaban, the Commander of the Dwarven Black Guard in Keldagrim, wants you to investigate the case and find out if the Red Axe is planning anything nefarious. The problem is, the only lead he's got is an extremely drunken and kebab obsessed dwarf. Use your farming and brewing abilities to your advantage, then prepare to be perplexed by puzzles as you follow the trail to the Red Axe...
Forgettable Tale... is a members Old School RuneScape quest rated Intermediate. The OSRS TCG Forgettable Tale... card list covers 8 of the items and monsters involved, including Coins, Barley malt and Seed dibber. This page pairs the quest with those cards and with the open player trades for them; the OSRS Wiki remains the authority on requirements and the walkthrough itself.
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Required items & monsters
Items you need to bring and the monsters you'll fight, paired with their OSRS TCG cards. See the wiki for the full requirement list.
Walkthrough overview
A brief summary of the quest, noting where each card is used. The OSRS Wiki has the full, authoritative walkthrough.
- 1
Travel to Keldagrim and talk to Veldaban in the Black Guard H.Q. to start the quest; he sends you to investigate the Red Axe by way of a drunken dwarf.
- 2
Track down the drunken dwarf's friends (Khorvak, Gauss and the rowdy dwarf) to gather four kelda seeds, using beers to loosen them up.
- Beer
- Beer glass
- 3
At the underground hops patch in West Keldagrim, ask Rind for permission, rake the weeds, plant the seeds with a dibber and wait 15-20 minutes for the kelda hops.
- Rake
- Seed dibber
- 4
Brew the kelda stout using barley malt, buckets of water and ale yeast (or a pot and 25 coins), and wait for it to ferment.
- Barley malt
- Ale yeast or a pot
- Coins
- 5
Have the drunken dwarf drink it, then follow the reopened minecart tunnel and solve the coloured-stone track puzzles across Rooms 1-6, eavesdropping on the Red Axe before Grunsh wipes your memory.
- 6
Report back to Veldaban, then go to the Laughing Miner pub in east Keldagrim, buy a kebab and beer, and consume them to trigger the final cutscene and finish the quest.
- Kebab
- Beer
- Coins
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OSRS TCG Forgettable Tale... — frequently asked
- Which OSRS TCG cards are linked to Forgettable Tale...?
- 8 catalogue cards map to Forgettable Tale...: Coins, Barley malt, Seed dibber, Rake, Pot, Kebab, Beer and Beer glass. They are the quest's items and the monsters you fight that exist as cards in the Old School RuneScape TCG. The mapping is maintained by OSRS Card Exchange; whether something is a card, and its rarity, come from the OSRS TCG catalogue.
- Is Forgettable Tale... members only?
- Yes, Forgettable Tale... is a members quest. It is rated Intermediate.
- What is the rarest card from Forgettable Tale...?
- Coins at Common, which packs land on about 37.34% of the time. Rarity comes from the card's OSRS TCG score, not from the quest.
- How do I get the OSRS TCG Forgettable Tale... cards?
- Pull them from packs in the OSRS TCG RuneLite plugin, or trade for them. Open exchanges for this quest's cards are listed further down this page, and the trade itself happens in the plugin's own Trade window in game.
- Does this page tell me how to complete Forgettable Tale...?
- It gives a brief walkthrough overview and maps the quest to its OSRS TCG cards — the items and monsters involved, and who is trading them. For the complete requirements, detailed steps and rewards, the OSRS Wiki link on this page is the authority.
Related cards
Cards that come up around Forgettable Tale... but that you don't actually need for it — NPCs mentioned in passing, scenery, or items suggested only for convenience.

Resource • Consumable
It's a bucket of water.
Two buckets of water are needed for brewing, but the card is the filled bucket used on-site, not a distinct requirement beyond the plain water buckets.

Resource
A marrentill seed - plant in a herb patch.
A naive match from the Brewing section; the quest uses kelda hops seeds, not marrentill.

Resource • Consumable
A pizza with anchovies.
One of the randomised 'bring any item from this list' options, not a fixed requirement.

Resource • Consumable
Yuck I don't like cabbage.
One of the randomised list options for the drunken-dwarf item, not something specifically required.

Resource • Consumable
This could be used to make a good stew.
Another randomised list option, not a fixed required card.