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- Minimum Required Stats: Lvl 10 Herblaw stat; Lvl 10 Agility stat; Lvl 25 Thieving stat
- Required Items: A chisel (
); a tinderbox
(
);
a vial (
) - Start this quest by talking to Examiner, who can be found
at the digsite to the SE of Varrock. Before you do this, talk to the
Archeological expert who will ask you to bring him anything you find.
The examiner will give you an unstamped certificate of recommendation (
) and
tell you to get it stamped. -
Certification: Go see the museum curator in Varrock to get the certificate stamped, thus making it a stamped letter of recommendation (
). Now return and give the examiner the
letter. She
will then ask you a series of questions. -
To the Digsite: Now leave the house and go W into a maze. Go through the maze to reach the digsite. Talk to the three students and you will discover that all of them have lost their rock samples. Returning the samples will net you the answers to the 1st lvl exam!
-
1st Sample (
):
Talk
to the student with the orange shirt and he will say that he lost his sample
while walking along a stream. Now go E along the river until you spot
the Guide (teaches how to pan). Go into the house to the S and grab
the bucket (
) and the panning tray (
). Use the tray on a panning spot
on the river and the guide will stop you. He will only let you pan if
you get him a cup of tea. Get the tea by going into Varrock and buying
a cup of tea (
) from the cup seller,
who can be found just S of the E entrance, for 10gp. Now go back and talk
with the Guide. Now just use the pan tray on the panning spot until
you get the rock sample. (The People eligible to use the digsite are the
ones who have passed the appropriate Earthsciences exam) -
2nd Sample (
):
Talk
to the female student and she will tell you that she lost her sample during
a walk. Leave the site and go to the SE. Search the bushes
until you find the rock sample. (The proper health & safety points are:
gloves and boots worn at all times, proper tools must be used) -
3rd Sample (
):
The
third student asks you to check people's pockets until you find the
sample. Pickpocket a workman until you get the rock sample. (Earthsciences
is the study of the Earth, its contents, and its history) -
Exams & Certificates: Now go back to the Examiner and answer all her questions correctly to get a Lvl 1 certificate (
) and a trowel
(
). Speak with her again to find
out that there is another exam. Go show the curator the
certificate. Now go to the Examiner's house and search the bookcase in the
house to get the Book of Experimental Chemistry (
). Read
it to learn about how to make an explosive. Go
talk to the male students at the site and they will give you some answers [(Correct
sample transportation: samples taken in rough form, kept only in sealed
containers) (Correct rockpick usage: always handle with care, strike the
rock cleanly on its cleaving point)]. The girl will ask for a cut opal
(
) for
an answer. Go to
the panning sites and pan until you get an uncut opal (
). Cut it with
the chisel and give it to the girl for more answers (Finds handling: Finds
must be carefully handled, and gloves worn). Now go to the
Examiner and correctly answer all her questions to get a Lvl 2 Certificate (). Show it to the
curator. Now talk to the guys again for more
answers [(proper technique for bone handling: handle bones very carefully,
& keep away from other samples) (specimen brush use: brush carefully and
slowly, using short strokes)], then give the girl another cut opal for the
final answer (Sample preparation: samples cleaned and carried only in
specimen jars).
Return to the Examiner, correctly answer all questions, and you'll have a
Lvl 3 Certificate (). Show it to the curator. -
Digging at the Site: This is for those of you that wish to detour from the quest and go digging. To dig at the site, you must at least have a lvl 1 certificate. Different areas of the site can be accessed once you obtain the proper lvl certificate. Lvl 1 areas only require digging with a trowel. Lvl 2 sites utilize a rock pick (
)
(found in Examiner's house). Lvl 3 sites require a specimen jar (
)
(found under some sacks at the digsite) to be able to dig there. Take
what you get back to the expert and he'll tell you its value. -
Explosives: Now go back to the digsite and use the trowel with the barrels until a liquid comes out. Use the vial with the barrel to get some of the unidentified liquid (
). Go
to an Archeological expert to get the liquid IDed as nitroglycerin. DO
NOT drop the vial because it will explode and cause a huge amount of
damage. Pickpocket a workman to get a rope (
). Now go to center
of the site and use the rope with a winch to go down. Go E and search the
brick wall to find out that you will need an explosive to open it.
Continue E until you find an Arcenia root (
), which you should
take. From now on, the experts
can be used to ID the stuff you dig up. You will now need to get a specimen
brush (
) by pickpocketing a workman.
You will also need gloves (
) and boots
(
) if you want to dig in the
site. Go to the NE section of the dig and find the skeleton. Dig here with the trowel until you get the
Talisman of Zamos (
). Go show it to an expert. He will give you a
letter ()
that will grant you access to a private mine shaft. Go down the
private mineshaft and talk (beg) with a workman there to get the chest key (
).
Go to the tent with a chest in it at the site. Open the
chest to get an unidentified power (
). An expert will ID it as
ammonium nitrate. Now make an explosive by adding the powder to make
mixed chemicals (
), then
add ground charcoal (
)
to make mixed chemicals (
), then
add the Arcenia root. This will create an explosive compound (
). -
Find the Temple: Now take the explosive compound and use it with the brick wall in the cave. Note that to go back down the winch, you must use a rope with it again. Now use the tinderbox with the brick to blow down the brick wall. Now go straight and grab the stone tablet (
). Now fight your way through the lvl
21 Skeletons (.gif)
) to get back to an expert. -
Get the Reward: Show an expert the tablet.
- Reward: 2 Quest Points; 19200 Mining exp;
4250 Herblaw exp; 2 Gold Bars (
)