Updates & patch notes

Abyssal whip, Slayer fixes, and a wave of broken NPC models repaired

• The abyssal whip has arrived. It drops from abyssal demons on the top floor of the Slayer Tower at the authentic 1 in 512, rolled independently of the rest of their drop table so no existing drop got worse to make room for it. Requires 70 Attack, hits with +82 slash and +82 strength on a 4-tick swing, and carries the Energy Drain special attack at 50% — which heals you for a quarter of the damage you deal. It is tradeable. Both Duradel and Chaeldar hand out abyssal demon tasks.
• The Slayer Tower had no stairs. All three floors were built and stocked with 57 monsters, but the tower contained no staircase, ladder or trapdoor anywhere — floors 1 and 2 were sealed off entirely. That made the abyssal demons unreachable, the abyssal demon Slayer task impossible to finish, and the whip undroppable in practice. Spiral staircases now run the full height of the tower from just inside the entrance, deliberately placed by the door rather than beside the demons so you are not dropped into the middle of six level-124 monsters.
• Getting to the Slayer Tower. No travel post reached Morytania at all, so the tower has been added to the travel network — use any travel post, then page 5 → More destinations » Slayer Tower (500 gp). You arrive outside the gate, and a travel post there brings you home again.
• Kurasks were camped on top of the Jellies. Two Kurasks sat about two tiles from the Jelly cluster in the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon. A Kurask occupies a 3x3 block and its aggro comes off the whole footprint, so anyone on a Jelly task was inside its range and kept getting dragged into a level-106 fight. Both have moved to the Kurask chamber across the dungeon where the other pair already lived — now 26 tiles from the nearest Jelly.
• The whip lashes properly. Rather than borrowing the sword swing, the real lash animation was pulled from the game cache and rebuilt for this engine. It was matched to our skeleton by confirming its bone-label set is identical to the animation it replaces — bone count alone would not have proven it, and a mismatch would have made every whip user animate wrong.
• Hobgoblin Slayer tasks never counted. Kills are matched by name, and the check for "goblin" ran before the check for "hobgoblin" — and "hobgoblin" contains "goblin", so every hobgoblin you killed was filed as a goblin. Your task never ticked down and you got no Slayer XP. Loar shades had a related problem: shades were not in the matching list at all, so they counted for nothing. Both fixed.
• Cockatrice were far stronger than their level suggested. They carried 120 hitpoints and a level-75 attack — a combat-37 monster with triple the health it should have, which is why a task could eat a full inventory of food. They now have the 37 hitpoints their level implies.
• Bounty XP followed the wrong skill. Handing in a bounty while using a bow paid Strength, because the reward read your melee stance and ranged "rapid" shares a slot with an aggressive melee stance. It now checks the weapon in your hand, so ranged weapons pay Ranged.
• Thirteen NPCs had broken bodies. The Solanascape Guide, Web Guide, Bounty Clerk, Ansem, Chill Bill, ThreadGuy, FaZe Banks, Cupsey, CT Oracle, Niners.sol, Agnes Barkers, Brick Samson and the Flower Host were built from an imported model set whose skeleton did not match this game, leaving them visibly mangled. All rebuilt on the standard human body.
• Monkey Madness could strand you. Daero flew you out to Crash Island once and Waydar would fly you home, but nothing flew you back out — so returning to the Grand Tree mid-quest left it unfinishable. Daero now offers the return flight.
• Slayer monsters were losing drops. A rolling error let some drops come out with a quantity of zero, which threw the drop away entirely. Fixed across the whole Slayer drop table.
• The Fremennik Slayer Dungeon is reachable. Every monster in it can be reached and fought — a number were sealed inside solid rock, including the Cave crawlers that made that task impossible.
• Duradel was unreachable. He stood inside a hut with no door, so his Slayer tasks could not be taken at all. He has moved outside.