The Nexus

The Nexus is low-level members-only content, set near the Zanaris shed in Lumbridge Swamp, in which the player can help a druidess named Ysondria to ward off an emerging Grotesque. It is primarily designed for lower level members, but may be played by any level. It is intended to be a social Prayer training method.

The Nexus consists of a hole in the ground, from which a creature's arms are reaching out. Surrounding the Nexus is four pillars, each of which has four differently coloured bowls on.

The objective of the activity is to make the Grotesque appear, so that it may be banished. However, to do this players must first correctly channel the nearby streams.

Overview
To begin, players must first obtain a charmed sack from Ysondria. The charmed sack should be used to collect some of the corruption of the Grotesque from the centre of the Nexus. The sack will store up to a maximum of 15 charges of corruption at first, up to 25 over time.

The collected corruption should then be purified on one of the four different bowls located on the each of the four pillars of purification. Doing so will create a coloured stream flowing from the pillar into the Nexus. Each of the four bowls offer a different colour of stream. Each stream must be a different colour to the other existing streams.

If players can maintain all four differently coloured streams simultaneously for long enough, the streams will all turn orange and then disappear. After the streams have all turned orange, a small coloured ball will appear above each pillar (initially there will be none). The colour of the ball of light corresponds to one of the coloured streams - this will be the colour of the stream that was most recently at that pillar on the previous cycle. The ball of light signifies that a stream of that colour cannot be produced at that pillar. When you try to channel the bowl that corresponds to the colour of ball of light above the pillar you will find that you are unable to do so, and the message "This pillar is currently resistant to order/battle/chaos/fealty. You need to channel a different aspect." appears. This means the same bowl can't be used 2 cycles in a row at one pillar.

If players can successfully turn the streams orange 5 times, the Grotesque will rise from the centre. You can banish it using the Prayer skill - Click the Grotesque to banish it once it appears. Doing so will award the player with Grotesque bones, which give some Prayer experience when buried. The Grotesque only appears for up to 10-15 seconds, so be quick to banish it when it appears. The whole process may then be repeated.

Players can only gain an overall a total of 37,224 Prayer experience from the activity. After meeting the cap of experience, the arms of the Grotesque vanish and you can no longer gain any experience. The cap does not include the experience gained from burying the bones.

Tactic
A good tactic to get four different colour streams is to use the bowl on the same side on ever pillar. For example: Use the north bowl to purify on each pillar. When the north bowl is blocked on the next round, use the south bowl on all pillars. and in the third round go back to the north bowls.

Experience
Players will gain Prayer experience for various actions in the activity, the majority being gained by burying the Grotesque bones received. The amount of experience gained for each action depends on your Prayer level. Once a total of 37,224 Prayer experience (enough for level 1 Prayer to 40) has been gained from the activity, no more experience will be given.

A clan avatar, Pendant of Prayer or a Prized Pendant of Prayer may be used to increase the amount of experience. However, the Grotesque bones cannot be used on an altar in a player-owned house or with the Ectofuntus.