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. The first thing you do is enter the basement of the building and read all of the cell doors. Then the players need to complete the Player Safety test miniquest (by successfully answering all the questions on the test paper) before they can gain access. Talk to Professor Henry to begin.



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 if you have not yet completed the exam.



The jail is under the Training Centre, and has imprisoned gublinches in cells. Each cell door has a plaque written on it, detailing what the gublinch did to deserve incarceration, you must read each plaque before going upstairs. The second cell on the left allows the player to access the dungeon by entering a tunnel behind a poster, but only after passing the miniquest a.k.a. the EXAM.



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 magic doors in the dungeon. In this room, there is a rope that leads to a crevice on the surface. So go back down to previous level and you see a magical door in the east. 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 10k (10,000 gp or coins) 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!

There is a fourth level in this dungeon, but the map is still in progress.

The Process


The entrance to the Stronghold of Player Security is found at a drain at the west side of the Misthalin Training Center of Excellence, which is the small building.



Upon entering the drain, you will see a jail, with creatures locked inside the jail cells. You must speak to the guard and follow his instructions, which are reading the plaques on each of the cell doors, to learn why the creatures were arrested.



After that, you have to go up the stairs near the guard and take the exam from Professor Henry to gain access to the Stronghold of Player Security and two antique lamps that give you 500 XP each.



The entrance to the Stronghold of Security is in the tunnel hidden under the poster on the second jail block to the left (in perspective to the ladder going up to the west wall), which is mysteriously open and does not have a prisoner inside.



In the Stronghold, there are muggers, cockroach drones, cockroach workers (at the stairs below) and cockroach soldiers (also at the level below, and near the jail door on the east end of the main level).

Training

 * Muggers: Muggers are not aggressive which may be beneficial to players because of their higher combat level and the fact that they are in a Multi-combat area. They commonly drop coins, rope and occasionally runes. They also have a 100% drop of bones which may be used to level prayer.


 * Drones: The Cockroach drone is a good money maker for low level players, due to its decent drops like Gems, Coins and Runes. They are also a good source of crimson charm for players who can't attack Dagannoth. If you have a fair defense level, you don't have to bother with safe spots if you are maging or ranging them.


 * Workers: Can drop good runes (such as chaos) that can be used or sold at the Grand Exchange. Cockroach workers are good non-member monsters to train on. It is advised to be level 55 plus to kill them. They can hit 5s and 6s very often if rune armour is not worn. If ranging, there are a couple of safe spots in the bottom-most floor of the stronghold. Usual drops are coins; they can drop a good amount of runes.


 * Soldiers: The minimum combat level recommended to attempt to train on a Cockroach soldier is 75. Players below that level should bring a team. However, it is possible to easily kill a cockroach soldier at a level as low as 60. The soldier has relatively high defence, hits infrequently and has a maximum melee hit of 8. If attacked from a distance, however, it will use a ranged attack that can hit up to 11. The use of protection prayers is possible, but really not needed when standing next to the soldiers, as they only use melee up close. The cockroach soldier is relatively strong against all 3 sides of the combat triangle. Nonetheless, it seems more vulnerable to crush, range and magic attacks, although if ranged or maged against it is capable of firing back at the attacker. Alot of people also attack them for the rune scimitars and the rare dragon scimitar drop.


 * The Stronghold of Player Safety is also a multi-combat area.

Music
Music unlocked:
 * Exam Conditions - inside Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence
 * Incarceration - enter Jail entrance
 * Safety in Numbers

Rewards

 * Safety first emote
 * 2 Antique lamps that will give 500 experience each.
 * Full access to Cockroaches.

Chest Rewards

 * 10,000 coins
 * Safety gloves

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 tunneling creatures causing problems. For years it remained abandoned, a strain of massive cockroaches making their home in the moist tunnels.

Recently a smaller prison was built in the tunnels above the ruins, and an educational center built above it. The old prison has been rediscovered and opened to adventurers that look to explore its ancient ruins.

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 Rita Hayworth 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.

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