Stronghold of Player Safety

The Stronghold of Player Safety is a dungeon under the Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence. It launched on 11 March, 2008. 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. 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 gong 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.

To get Safety gloves go to the highest level. Find "An old lever" guarded by 3 Cockroach soldiers and pull it. Go downstairs and go through one of the previously locked gates. There is a treasure chest in that room, it is roughly in the middle of that room and when you open it you will recieve 10k (10,000 gp or coins) and the safety gloves. If yu 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!

Training
An important thing to remember about roaches, they have EXTREMELY high defence, this means even the weakest drones can be a challenge for people not above twenty combat. My friend can take out a guy with full rune faster than one of the cockroach workers! But by far, the fastest way to take them out seems to be range. So this dungeon can be a good place to train range.

Here is a brief overview :


 * Drones : Recommended range level 20. If you have a fair defence level, you don't have to bother with safe spots


 * Workers : Recommended range level 50+. Here, you DO need to bother with safe spots if you're wearing nothing but dragonhide, since they hit fairly low. There are a couple of safe spots in the bottom-most floor of the stronghold


 * Soldiers : The strongest monster in the dungeon, a really high range level is recommended if ranging them, but, you don't have to bother with safe spots, as they also have a ranged attack that can hit 10 damage! However, their melee attacks seem to do less damage, so it can be recommended to melee them. If you are ranging them make sure you are a fair distance away to avoid their melee attack.

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

Rewards

 * 10,000GP
 * Safety gloves
 * Safety first Emote


 * 2 Antique lamps that will give 500 xp each.

Miscellaneous

 * The minimum combat level recommended to attempt to kill 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 Cockroach soldier has relatively high defence, hits infrequently and has a maximum melee hit of 11. The use of protect from melee (Level 43 prayer) is possible, but really not needed.
 * The cockroach soldier is relatively strong against all 3 sides of the combat triangle. Nonetheless, it seems more vulnerable to range attacks.
 * 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 dagganoth.
 * The Stronghold of Player Safety is also a multi-combat area.

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 and the pin-up poster of Rita Hayworth are both integral to the film's storyline. In the movie, "Andy Dufraine/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.