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Getting Ahead

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OSRS TCG Getting Ahead — Old School RuneScape quest card mapping

Start: talk to Gordon.

Gordon and Mary are two small-town farmers with a big problem – some heinous beastie keeps taking their livestock! Luckily they've hit upon a solution. They just need some brave adventurer to venture into the creature's lair and bring them back its head. We can't envisage any complications with such a routine matter, right?

Getting Ahead is a members Old School RuneScape quest rated Intermediate. The OSRS TCG Getting Ahead card list covers 6 of the items and monsters involved, including Headless Beast, Plank and Knife. 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.

Full quest guide on the OSRS Wiki →

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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.

Plank

Plank

Resource

A plank of wood!

1 gpCommon

Knife

Knife

Resource

A dangerous looking knife.

6 gpCommon

Red dye

Red dye

Resource

A little bottle of red dye.

5 gpCommon

Pot of flour

Pot of flour

Resource • Consumable

There is flour in this pot.

10 gpCommon

Thread

Thread

Resource

Used with a needle to make clothes.

1 gpCommon

Monsters you'll fight

Headless Beast

Headless Beast

Monster

Looks like it might have been a bear once.

Lvl 82Rare

Also required (not collectible cards): Nails.

Walkthrough overview

A brief summary of the quest, noting where each card is used. The OSRS Wiki has the full, authoritative walkthrough.

  1. 1

    Talk to Gordon at his farm south of the Farming Guild, then Mary in the house, who suggests coating the beast in flour to track it.

    • Pot of flour
  2. 2

    Follow the flour trail to the Kebos Lowlands mine; grab two planks and mine some clay before entering.

    • Plank
    • Soft clay or any pickaxe
  3. 3

    Fight and kill the Headless Beast in the cave, then search the nearby skeleton for Neilan's journal.

  4. 4

    Talk to Mary, then use a knife on soft clay to make a clay head; add fur (with a needle and thread) for a fur head, then red dye for a bloody head to convince Gordon.

    • Knife
    • Soft clay or any pickaxe
    • Bear fur, grey wolf fur or fur
    • Needle or Costume needle
    • Thread
    • Red dye
  5. 5

    Build the mount in Gordon's house using planks, nails, a hammer and a saw, then hang the head to complete the quest.

    • Plank
    • Hammer or Imcando hammer
    • Saw or Amy's saw

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OSRS TCG Getting Ahead — frequently asked

Which OSRS TCG cards are linked to Getting Ahead?
6 catalogue cards map to Getting Ahead: Plank, Knife, Red dye, Pot of flour, Thread and Headless Beast. 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 Getting Ahead members only?
Yes, Getting Ahead is a members quest. It is rated Intermediate.
What is the rarest card from Getting Ahead?
Headless Beast at Rare, which packs land on about 16% of the time. Rarity comes from the card's OSRS TCG score, not from the quest.
How do I get the OSRS TCG Getting Ahead 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 Getting Ahead?
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 Getting Ahead but that you don't actually need for it — NPCs mentioned in passing, scenery, or items suggested only for convenience.