Putrid Rat

“Swollen, diseased, wrong. Something festers inside it that has no business in any living thing. Scrub your hands well after.”

Fighting it

• It swings back once every 3 of your combat inputs, whether your attack hit or not.
• A kill is worth about 2,400 Melee or Ranged XP, or 3,300 Magic XP, plus about 801 Hitpoints XP. XP is paid per point of damage and shared out by your stance (a stance that sends half to Defence pays it at Defence's rate of 8). A finishing blow that overshoots adds a little more; poison and Vengeance damage pay nothing; XP bonuses from gear and food add on top.
• Its hits roll from 0 to 7 (half its Strength, plus one). The prayer Bladeguard blocks them completely.
• Thick hide: shrugs off Magic; Melee and Ranged hit normally.
• Putrid: each of its hits that does damage has a 30% chance to poison you. Plague-touched food (auto-eaten in combat) or an antipoison potion keeps it off, and putrid monsters can't be poisoned themselves.

Slayer

• Assigned as a task by Brann.
• On task, each kill gives 1,200 Slayer XP (4× its hitpoints).

Drops

Every row rolls on its own, so one kill can drop several things. Drops go straight to your bank (a pet goes straight onto you). Gear and potions that raise your rare find chance don't change these odds.

Item	Amount	Chance per kill
Gold	30–100	Always
Bones	4	Always
Fenreed	1	15%
Unidentified Herb	1	8%
Mind Talisman	1	5%
Plague Essence	1	5%

After a kill the next one appears 2.5 seconds later. Dying costs nothing but time: a 15-second wait before you can fight again. The Agility perks Hot Pursuit and Second Wind shorten both (see Combat).