Rocking Out

Getting on Rock Island Prison
After talking with Bill Teach, go to the Rimmington Customs Office at the south end of the town. Player needs to wear at least 3 pieces of pirate clothing to trick the Customs Sergeant.

Players will have a couple of conversation pieces to convince the customs officer to arrest them. Read the notice board next to the entrance door for information on the answers to the trick questions:
 * Heard about it? I was there!
 * Is this a trick? That ship was sunk!
 * That's one of your ships!
 * Not likely, I served on that fine pirate vessel!
 * She gave a good account against your Customs tub.

Please note this section may be different for everyone.

When answered correctly, player will be forced to deposit ALL of their items (including all clothing and jewellery) into the locker, the items go straight into your bank (i.e. the locker acts like bank deposit box). Dropping items will work as well.

Getting Young Ralph's attention

 * First you need to shout through the barred window.
 * Pick up a tin cup and use it in jail door 3 times until guard throws stew on your shirt.
 * Tap the pipe next to the jail window an receive a pipe.
 * Talk to guard and receive ink bottle and paper.
 * Search for accordion in the rubble just outside of the jail cell.
 * Use ink bottle on paper.
 * Use bottle on sharp rock.
 * Use smashed bottle on accordion.
 * Use pipe on accordion.
 * Use inky paper on accordion.
 * Lay out shirt with stew on the perch rock.
 * Use newly made vacuum pump on seagull.
 * Use the vacuum pump and gull on Ralph's barred window!
 * Using the play option - 'Hilarious as that would no doubt be, you'd have to get another seagull, so it's not worth the effort.'
 * Talk to Ralph by shouting through the barred window.
 * Then walk round to the pier on the east side of the island and dive into the water taking you to Karamja next to Captain Klemfoodle a glider pilot. You will leave behind everything you carry.

Marks of the Five Captains
Young Ralph will only tell you the story if you get the marks of the Five Captains, so you must visit each of them and convince them to give you the mark.

Captain Braindeath on Braindeath Island
Speak to Captain Braindeath on Braindeath Island. He is on the level right above the ground, in the 'rum' factory. He wants you to convince the barman of the Rusty Anchor in Port Sarim to stock his 'rum', and will give you a set of disguises to wear. Go to the Rusty Anchor in Port Sarim, bring a little cash along as you need to buy a few beers. Start by asking the barkeep about the rum. He will say they do not stock it and demand is too low to order any of it. You'll have to put on the disguises and pretend to be different people in order to make him think there is more demand for the rum. However, if you do it now he will recognize you. Talk to him and select the "I'll have a drink ... and you have one too" option to start getting him drunk. After you buy him a few drinks this way (you don't need to drink yours) he will be too drunk to recognize you in the disguises. Exit the pub and put on one of the 5 disguises, then talk to him again about the rum. Then exit the pub and change disguises again. Do this with all 5 and, on the 5th, he will say he wants to talk to you (without your disguise of course). Go outside and take off your disguise. Talk to him yet again and he will order some rum. Return to Captain Braindeath and give him the order to get his mark.

Captain Bill Teach
Speak to the Bill Teach, he will tell you to find 50 Ships Mufassah who is on the 2nd floor of the northern-most bar of Mos Le'Harmless. 50 Ships Mufassah will then tell you to find the idol of many heads which is off the shore of Dragontooth Island. Get your diving apparatus and fishbowl helmet, (these can be obtained from Murphy if you need replacements), also take 25 ecto tokens (10 with activated ring of charos), then go to Port Phasmatys and the ghost captain will take you. Remember there are 2 ghost captains - you want the one at the smaller rowboat at the south end of the docks not the one at the bigger ship with the broken mini-ectofuntus. Find the diving chain, which is in the North-east part of the island and go down. If you are carrying too much equipment you'll be told you are too heavy to go diving and need to bank so take care of it first to save yourself a trip (37 kilos was too much 27 was fine). Swim around until you find a Karamthulu, catch it (it's the only fish swimming around that appears on the minimap as a yellow dot) and you will get a key. Go on the ship and open the chest up the stairs, you will find a crowbar, then go down and use the crowbar on the pile of rubble, then click it again and you will find the idol. There are aggressive level 60 Giant lobsters on the ship they aren't paticularly tough but be prepared to be attacked. Return to Bill Teach.

Captain Brass Hand Harry on Mos le'Harmless
Talk to Captain Brass Hand Harry in the second floor, same room as 50 Ships Mufassah, you will need the introduction letter from Bill Teach, he will tell you that you need to make him a hand for him to make his mark. He gives you some hands and tells you you need a hammer and 2 bronze wires.

Take apart the hands he gave you by clicking on them, then with the wire and hammer in your inventory use one part of the hand with another.

You now get a screen with a puzzle that's very easy, move the hand pieces to where they match on the left side (some will need to be rotated), once it's complete it automatically closes.

Return to Brass Hand Harry and give him the hand, he will give you an ink pad and paper, use the hand on the ink pad, then on the paper. Talk to Harry again. You now have his mark.

Captain Izzy No-Beard outside the Brimhaven agility arena
Izzy will ask you to return to the prison and get a brooch from her friend that died there, Wanda, he asks you to go back and search the mattress for some lockpicks to get into the other prison rooms, the storage room is where you need to go.

Go back to Rimmington and get arrested once more. You still have to store all your items in the locker (i.e. bank) before you go.

Search the bed and you will find a lockpick, use it on the jail door. Kill a guard and take his clothes and weapon. Go up the stairs in the middle of the jail, then up once more. Click on the door and tell them you're there to get some evidence.

Go into the storage room and search the cabinets until you find the file about Wanda the Fish and take it. Talk to the guard and he will give you the personal items of hers. Go back to Izzy No-Beard to get your mark. You can Home Teleport or dive into the water, either way you will lose the items EXCEPT the Brooch.

Readbeard Frank in Port Sarim
Go to Port Sarim and find Redbeard Frank located south of the bar on the docks. He will ask for a letter of the terrorized monks to prove that Rabid Jack really is back. Go back to Mos Le' Harmless and talk to Brother Tranquility located around the dock area.

Talk to him and he will give you a letter, return to Frank in Port Sarim. Give him the letter and he says he will need better proof. He wants proof from one of his captains.

Get your pirate outfit on.

Go to Pirate Pete north of Port Phasmatys and he will take you to Braindeath Island.

Exit the ship and go down the stairs on the south side and you will see Captain Donnie nearby. Talk to him, but you must be wearing pirate clothing. He will give you some plans, but you will need to find 50% Luke for the copy since they are water damaged.

Take a charcoal with you and use the plan on 50% Luke who is located northwest of Donnie(outside the fence by the bridge).

You can get charcoal from searching the crates behind 50% Luke if you go through the gate behind him.
 * Note*

Return to Port Sarim to Frank.

Once you have all 5 Marks
Head back to Rimmington and talk to the Customs Sergeant and use the marks with the file he gives you, after getting sent back to the prison search the bed in the cell to get another lockpick then open the door. You may get a message telling you that the lock is rusty and the lockpick does not work. (This appears to be related to having another player in the immediate area somehow.) It will work eventually, don't give up. After getting out, kill one of the customs officals and pick up their uniform and mithril scimitar, equip them, head upstairs to the top and ask for your file, then head back down to the cell and talk to young Ralph, you'll see a cutscene and then the quest will be complete.



Reward



 * 2 Quest Points
 * 25,000 Thieving experience
 * 25,000 Smithing experience
 * 25,000 Agility experience
 * 25,000 Crafting experience
 * Free access to Brimhaven Agility Arena
 * Ability to catch Pirate implings
 * Ability to steal from custom's lockers.
 * Ability to buy Braindeath 'rum' from The Rusty Anchor Inn.
 * Access to the Rock Island Prison and Dragontooth Shipwreck
 * Access to a Bank Deposit Box in Rimmington
 * Removes need for the Book o' piracy when speaking to pirates on Mos'Le Harmless.
 * Ability to raise Ex-ex-parrot by speaking to Bill Teach and 50 Ships Mufassah (requires 71 Summoning).

Music
Music tracks unlocked:
 * Jailbird
 * A Pirate's Life for Me
 * Something Fishy

Trivia

 * As of 21 May 2008, when players reached level 63 in Thieving, players received a Level-up message indicating: You now have the Thieving level to steal from the Customs evidence files of Rock Island Prison (after Rocking Out), even though the quest had not been released yet.
 * On the first day of release, the official quest spoiler shows 'There be pirates in this here locale... it not be safe to unveil rewards just yet.'
 * Currently holds the record for the quest that has the highest skill requirements of all the quests with 4 skills, Agility, Smithing, Thieving, and Crafting.
 * Teach is also the last name of the famous 17th and 18th century pirate named Blackbeard, whose real name was Edward Teach.
 * The Rock is also the nickname of Alcatraz, a small island located in the middle of San Franciso Bay. It was once a lighthouse, then a military fortification, and later a prison. It is currently a museum.
 * Wanda the fish could be a reference to A Fish Called Wanda, a 1988 British film OR the children's cartoon Fairly Odd Parents where the character Wanda is usually a goldfish.
 * Other Customs files jokes include T the Pitier (Mr. T), Larry the Stooge, Mo the Stooge and Curly the Stooge (the Three Stooges), and Sixty-Seven Assyrian Assassins (Monty Python).
 * The dead parrot, Ex-ex-parrot, received from 50 Ships Mufassah is a homage to Monty Python.
 * When searching the cabinets in the evidence room, one of the options for files are "Kings (clad in yellow only)". This is a reference to a collection of stories titled "The King in Yellow", which had influenced H.P. Lovecraft.
 * When holding the remains of the pipe, and looking at your quest log, which will say "I have a Pipe, When I see Prof. Plum, he's in for it." Is a reference to the board game, Clue.
 * The Rimmington Customs Office is missing from the World map in the day of the release of the quest. It is the dark building at the south end of the town near the water.