Skull sceptre

The Skull sceptre is obtained through defeating monsters in the Stronghold of Security and picking up the pieces of the sceptre. The Skull sceptre has five charges to teleport to Gunnarsgrunn, or ten, if made when wearing Varrock armour 1 or above, which was members only until the Achievement Diary update in November 2010. The doubled charges remain on and can be used on a free world. It disappears after all charges are used and therefore it cannot be recharged. Like almost all teleport items, the skull sceptre does not work beyond level 20 Wilderness.

It is one of the relatively few free-to-play teleport items, the others being the tele-orb from Fist of Guthix (available only during the activity), the level 3 or 4 Explorer's ring collected as a reward for completing the medium or hard Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks, the Ring of Kinship, and the Runecrafting Teleport Tablets; the Broomstick, able to be attained by F2Ps, has the potential to teleport, but only on a member's world. Using the Skull sceptre's teleport is a requirement for the Varrock Tasks.

Players can only make and keep one skull sceptre at a time - a new Skull sceptre can only be made once the old Skull sceptre is either lost, destroyed, or has disappeared. There is no limit to how many Strange skulls or Runed sceptres a player can own. The Skull sceptre and all its parts cannot be traded or be withdrawn as noted items from the bank.

Note that the skull sceptre does not appear in gravestone in death.

Assembly
The pieces of the skull sceptre are Left skull half, Top of sceptre, Bottom of sceptre, and Right skull half. Ankous, Catablepons, Flesh crawlers, and Minotaurs drop the pieces respectively.


 * Using the skull pieces together forms a Strange skull.
 * Using the top and bottom Skull sceptre pieces form a Runed sceptre.
 * Join the Strange skull and the Runed sceptre together to form a Skull sceptre.

If a Skull sceptre has already been made, additional Strange skulls and Runed sceptres can be assembled individually, but cannot be made into another Skull sceptre. It is entirely possible to obtain multiple separate pieces of the Skull sceptre, even if you have never completed assembling a sceptre before, and even bank them together (for example, you can have two bottoms of sceptre in your bank).

It is worth noting that the chance of receiving a section of the Skull Sceptre as a drop is significantly lower when in Tolerance mode. Also, the level 75 Ankou in the north-easternmost room in the last level of the Stronghold of Security drop the Left skull half more often than any other mob of Ankou.

Where to find the pieces

 * Right skull half - Minotaurs ( level 12-27 ) on the first floor
 * Bottom of sceptre - Flesh crawlers ( level 28-41 ) on the second floor
 * Top of sceptre - Catablepons ( level 49-68 ) on the third floor
 * Left skull half - Ankous ( level 75-86 ) on the fourth floor

Right-click options

 * {|class="wikitable"

!Option !Result
 * Wield
 * The sceptre is wielded in the Weapon Slot. See Worn Equipment.
 * Invoke
 * Teleports the player to Gunnarsgrunn.
 * Divine
 * Shows the number of charges left.
 * }
 * Divine
 * Shows the number of charges left.
 * }

Trivia

 * The stats of the sceptre are equivalent to an ordinary Staff. Before the autocast update on 9 February 2009, it had no option to autocast spells.
 * The same update also replaced the Varrock Tasks's "smaller" reward regarding shop prices, with increasing the chance of obtaining Skull sceptre parts from creatures in the Stronghold of Security.


 * If the Skull Sceptre is put together using Varrock Armour, in a members world, the 10 charges remain when used in a non members world.
 * When killed near Gunnarsgrunn, a player with the sceptre can more conveniently recover their items.

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