Stronghold of Player Safety

The Stronghold of Player Safety is a dungeon under the Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence. You can find it exactly north of the Barbarian Village and exactly south of Edgeville. It was launched on 11 March 2008. Previously, a player needed to enter the basement of the building and read all of the cell doors. Then the players needed to complete the Player Safety test miniquest (by successfully answering all the questions on the test paper) before they could gain access. You had to talk Professor Henry to begin. Currently, that only applies if you are under 13 years of age.





At ground level, there are two doors and a crevice. The crevice is a shortcut into the dungeon, use it well (Can only be used once you have climbed the rope from inside the dungeon). The main door to the Training Centre is locked before doing the player safety exam. The second door (at the back of the building) is the Jail Entrance, which allows the player to access the jail, go there to enter the dungeon itself.



This is how the area with the guard looks.



This is the dungeon where you go from the tunnel. The north-east room has stairs that go up to an another level.



On the north room there is a lever that, when pulled, opens a door in the dungeon. Also, in this room, there is a rope that leads to a crevice on the surface. Go back down to previous level and you will see a magical door to the east in the same room your in. Go through it and you find yourself in the east room in this level:



Go to a small side tunnel in the middle of the map and there you will find a chest. When you open it you will receive 10,000 coins, 2 experience lamps and the safety gloves. If you take the time to look you will see that the gloves match the fighting boots you can get at the end of the last level of the stronghold of security!



This is the fourth, bottom floor of the dungeon. Several Cockroach drones, workers and 2 soldiers habit this area. Cockroach Soldiers are located in the North-east room divided from the rest of the Cockroaches by 2 passages 1 tile wide, so they can't get through since they take a 2 x 3 area.



Chest Rewards

 * 10,000 coins
 * Safety gloves
 * Full access to Cockroaches.

And: (awarded on completion of the exam)


 * Safety first emote.
 * Two experience lamps awarding 500exp each.

History
The Stronghold was originally a massive prison that housed some of Misthalin's worst criminals, such as the gang members of Varrock or criminals operating over the Wilderness border. It was built some time in the late Fourth or early Fifth Age.

The massive prison soon fell into disuse, its guards wandering off and tunnelling creatures causing problems. For years it remained abandoned, a strain of massive cockroaches making their home in the moist tunnels.

Recently a smaller priso was built in the tunnels above the ruins, and an educational centre built above it. The old prison has been rediscovered and opened to adventurers that look to explore no one cares lololololol.

Trivia

 * The second cell on the left is a direct reference to the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption with Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins. The chess set chiselled from rocks with a rock hammer and the pin-up poster of Raquel Welch are both integral to the film's storyline. In the movie, "Andy Dufresne" used the tunnel he created behind his poster to access the prisons sewer outlet to escape, whereas the poster in this case is of a female gublinch.


 * Professor Henry looks remarkably similar to Dr. Henry Jones Sr, from the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".


 * There is a glitch on a part of the bottom level where it shows part of the top level.
 * It has been suggested that a great free to play boss would be the addition of a Cockroach Queen with a high level combat.