Remember that this is a members only quest, and it can only be done on a members server. Thanks and enjoy.
Description: Feeling uneducated? Desperate for buried treasure? ..."There's gold in them there hills" (well stream actually) as well as many other items that can be found at the digsite. Join the students in their attempt to be a qualified archaeologist, and become experienced in making the earth move! Have you got what it takes to unearth the hidden altar to one of Runescape's lesser-known Gods...?
Difficulty Level: Easy (but long)
Items/Skills Needed To Start: Level 25 Thieving, Level 10 Agility, Level 10 Herblaw, 2 cut opals (or chisel, you can pan for opals, but it takes a while), Cup of Tea (or 10 gp to buy a cup of tea at the new tea shop in Varrock), Pestle and Mortar, 3 Ropes (can pickpocket workmen to get ropes), A Vial, Tinderbox, Gloves, Boots, and Brown Apron (Wear gloves, boots and apron at all times!)
Starting Location: All the way southeast of Varrock, (just north of Scorpion Pit mine) Go through gate, head east into building with red floor and talk to Examiners.
Reward: 2 Quest Points, 2 Gold Bars, Herblaw Experience, and of course the
ability to Pan and Dig at the Dig Site.
Extra: Show the Curator all Digging Certificates and you can choose between
a free Snack (Chocolate Cake) or a Drink (Fruit Blast Cocktail)
Instructions:
Talk to the Archeological expert. He tells you to bring anything you find to him. Inquire about exams to Examiner. She gives you a unstamped certificate of recommendation.
Go Varrock Museum. Use unstamped certificate of recommendation on the Curator. He will stamp the certificate so you can begin the certification exams. Go to clothes shop next to the general store and buy boots, gloves and brown apron if you don't already have them, put them on! Also if you don't already have a cup of tea, on your way out of Varrock, buy a cup of tea from the new tea salesman next to the East gate.
Go back to the Examiner and give her the stamped certificate of recommendation. Now follow the road leading north as your leaving the Examiner. Just as the road starts heading back south, continue north to the two big urns. Search the bushes between the urns to find a rock sample.
Go southeast along the bricks and follow them along the stream and then head back north to get to the dig site area. You will come to a large tent, go inside and pick up a panning tray.
Go southeast from the tent to the stream and use the panning tray on the panning points. A guide will ask you what you are doing and then tell you that you cannot pan the stream unless your invited. Ask him how to get invited, he tells you if you do him a favor and get him some tea he will look the other way. Use the cup of tea on the guide to be allowed to pan. Once you pan the stream you must search the panning tray to see what you found. Pan until you get a rock sample and 2 opals if you didn't bring cut opals with you (you may need more than two opals if cutting them fails).
Go Northwest of the panning points to the dig area and pickpocket the workman until you get a rock sample and 3 ropes (unless you brought the ropes with you already) and a specimen brush.
Now look for the 3 students (2 guys, one in a green shirt and one in an orange shirt and a girl in a purple blouse) and talk to them, they will each ask you to find their lost rock samples. Talk to them again and they will take the lost rock sample and give you the answer to one of the exam test questions. (If you try to take the exam prior to speaking to the students, you will fail because the correct answer for the question is not a selection on the exam, also you may have to use the rock on the student if talking to them a second time doesn't work.)
Go back to the Examiner and take the exam. She will give you a level one certificate and a trowel for completing the first of 3 exams. Do not lose the trowel, because at this time, once you complete all 3 exams, you cannot get another one from her. You may want to speak to her and tell her you lost your trowel so you can get a spare to put in the bank just in case. You can take the certificate to the Curator at the museum for safekeeping or you can hold onto it until you get all three and then take them to him.
Go speak to the students again to get the answers to the second exam. The girl may ask you for a cut opal to help you out. If you panned for the opals, make sure you use the chisel on them to get cut opals. If she doesn't ask for an opal, take her answer and the guys answer and go take the test. Note: If she doesn't ask for the opal the first time, she may give you the answer, but you may not be able use it on the test for some reason (happened to me first time I tried it), if so, talk to her again and she asks for the opal. Take her answer and the guys answers and go to the Examiner and take the second exam again and you should be able to pass it this time. You will get a certificate for completing the 2nd exam. You can take the certificate to the curator at the museum for safekeeping or you can hold onto it until you get all three and then take them to him.
Go speak to the students again to get the answers to the third exam. The girl will ask you for a cut opal again. Talk to her again and she will take the cut opal and give you the answer to one exam question. Take her answer and the guys answers and go to the Examiner and take the third exam. You will get a certificate for completing the 3rd exam. You now have graduated and can dig anywhere in the dig site. Take your certificate to the curator in the Varrock museum and you either get a Chocolate Cake or Fruit Blast as a reward for graduating.
Go back to the Dig site go to the north east corner of the dig site (past a winch that you will use later) to the level 3 area with the buried skeleton. Search the sacks and find the specimen jar.
Go to the north east corner to the level 3 area with the buried skeleton and use the trowel on the soil until you find a Zamos Talisman.
Go to the north west corner of the dig site and find the winch, Operate the winch to find out you can got down the hole. Use the rope on the winch and then operate the winch to go down into the cavern. To the east you will see the bricks that you have to use the bomb on to get past. Go all the way east till you reach some sacks and barrels. Take an Arcenia root and go back up to the surface.
Go back to the tents. Search dirt pile until you get charcoal. Use pestle and mortar on charcoal to get another ingredient for bomb.
Go west of the tent where you got the panning tray you will find 3 barrels with a red X on them, use the trowel on them until one of them is opened. Use the vial on the open barrel to get an orange unidentified liquid. Do not, I repeat, do not drop the vial! You will take from 20 to 36 damage!
Take vial and use it on Archeological expert (by Examiner) to get it identified as Nitroglycerin. Next use the Talisman on the Archeological expert, he will reward you for your keen eye with a scroll saying you can use his personal mine shaft (which is the winch next to the area you got the Talisman from)
Search the bookshelves in the Examiners room and find the Book of Experimental Chemistry. Read this book. It has the ingredients to make a bomb you will need later on. Search the cupboard to find the Rock pick (Rock pick is not needed to complete the quest).
Go back to the dig site to the north winch, and guy tells you that it's a private winch. Use the scroll on him to be able to go down. Operate the winch. Use rope on winch, then operate it again to go down. Talk to the Workmen and say the following things: I have been invited to work here, then, do you know where I can find a chest key then from then on use the first option in every sentence to beg yourself a new key.
Go to the tent where you got the panning tray. Use key on chest. Quickly search the chest and take unidentified powder before the chest closes. Take the unidentified powder to the to the Archeological expert to get it identified as ammonium nitrate.
Go back to the dig site and go back down the north west winch (you may need to use another rope on the winch to go down). Prepare yourself an explosive compound:
Use the ammonium nitrate on nitroglycerin,
Use ground charcoal on the mixture,
Finally use the Arcenia root on the mixture.
You now have an explosive compound.
Use explosive compound on the bricks and then light it with the tinderbox. Once the path has been cleared, go straight ahead and get the stone tablet in the middle of the room.
Take the stone tablet back to the Archeological expert to complete the quest and get your reward.