Elemental Workshop - Energy

Table of Content
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1.1 Introduction
1.2 Table of Content
1.3 Summary
1.4 Supporter Count / Player ideas
1.5 Reserved
1.6 Reserved
1.7 Specifications
1.8 Walkthrough; Part One
1.9 Walkthrough; Part One
1.10 Walkthrough; Part Two; Diary; Page 1/2/3/4
2.1 Walkthrough; Part Two; Diary; Page 5
2.2 Walkthrough; Part Three; Crystals; Air and Water
2.3 Walkthrough; Part Three; Crystals; Earth
2.4 Walkthrough; Part Three; Crystals; Fire
2.5 Walkthrough; Part Four
2.6 Walkthrough; Part Four
2.7 Walkthrough; Part Four; Quest Complete!
2.8 Rewards
2.9 The Improved Workshop
2.10 The Enery Shield
3.1 The Energy Helmet
3.2 Reserved
3.3 Reserved
3.4 Reserved

(_.¤´¯) Summary (_.¤´¯)
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One day strolling around in Seer*s Village doing your usual adventure business, you stumble upon an old weathered gravestone. Curious as you are you read the gravestone of Septimus Arcanius who has been dead for many years. Upon closer examination you find a small print of a key and a map that looks familiar.

Using your crafting skills you create the key and you use the map to find a hidden door in the Elemental Workshop. Inside you find a room; its purpose has gone lost in the fogs of time. Slowly you will find out more about the strange room, and the apprentice who created it.

Being the adventure you are; you decide to complete the experiment started long time ago. You manage to create four crystals of the elements and leading their energy through pipes; you manage to create pure energy and bind it in a crystal.

Technology meant for something else becomes useful in creating a new set of elemental equipment; with some rather useful abilities. Also you might find that the Workshop has just become a much more reasonable place to train.

Have you got the right energy?

(¯`•._) Supporter Count (_.•´¯)
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Supporter Count: 21 (16 from original thread)
Non-Supporter Count: 3

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Player ideas
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(_/¯) Specifications (¯\_)
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The requirements are shown here, they won't be in game.

Members only: Yes
Start Point: Somewhere in Seer's Village
To Start: Find a clue to the past
Quest Length: Medium
Difficulty: Intermediate
Requirements:

Elemental Workshop Part 2
47 Crafting
38 Smithing
23 Runecrafting
33 Magic
25 Mining
39 Agility
35 Hitpoints
Some Combat

This quest might be a little different from what you have tried before. On these points you might find the quest different from other quests.

•No Non Player Characters that tells you what to do
•A Quest Journal that only tells you what you have done and very vague hints on what you should do next
•The QuestHelp will only allow you to unlock hints, no spoilers
•No reward mentioned on the RuneScape Homepage
•No requirements mentioned anywhere – except for Elemental Workshop part 2

That means that you have to find out what to do yourself, not just parry orders from someone. Now you will have to think like an adventure.
You won’t get stuck on the quest anywhere if you don’t have the requirements; you are free to leave the quest at any time.
Also if you encounter anything in the quest which you doesn’t have the required level for, you will get the message: “You aren’t skilled enough in "

(¯°•._) Part One; Secret of the workshop (¯°•._)
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Search the gravestone on the churchyard in front of the chapel in Seer*s Village. (The gravestone could possibly be added a week or two before the actual release of the quest)

You will find that the gravestone is too worn and weathered to be read. Use some charcoal and some papyrus with it, to get a “Copied Text” which reads:

“In memory of Septimus “Idiot” Arcanius, apprentice to Vitruvius, died in a work accident”

Search it again and you will notice a small print of a key carved in the rock. Use a piece of soft clay to create a *Soft Clay Print”. Burn it in a ceramic oven to harden it and make a “Key Print”. Use another piece of soft clay to create “Unfired Key Mould”. Burn it in a ceramic oven (47 Crafting), now you have your “Key Mould”. Doing anything here wrong will mess up your print.

Use the “Key Mould” with a furnace while having a bronze bar in your inventory (38 Smithing) to create a *Small Bronze Key”

Upon closer examination you will see the loop is actually a very small map. It is rather strangely shaped (Like the 2nd floor of the Elemental Workshop; but you doesn’t know) There is a small cross near the edge.

Enter the Elemental Workshop and make your way to the 2nd floor. Climb up unto the metal walkway that runs around the edge and make your way to the North-Eastern part. Jump to the pipe and slide down (30 agility) then make your way around the small bend and use your “Small Bronze Key” to open the hatch on the large pipe and climb in.

Once through the pipe you are in a small tunnel. There is a “Diary Page 1/2/3/4/5” somewhere in the tunnel, location varies for everyone, pick it up as you need it later.

The tunnel ends at a large door. Search it to reveal a small 4x4 grid. Each square can be either be white or black, all of them starting at white. Upon clicking at a square it turns to the opposite colour and so does the adjacent. Your goal is to make all squares black. Once this is done, there is some whirring cogs and a clicking sound. The door is now open.

(_.¤´¯) Part Two; The Mysterious Pipe Room (_.¤´¯)
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Behind the door is a large octagonal room. The walls and the floor are covered in glass pipes. All the glass pipes seem to lead from the four pedestals near each wall to the large pedestal in the middle. Winding around it and leading into it. Opposite of where you entered is a control table raised to the same level as the middle pedestal.

Search any of the pedestals located near the wall, which ones don’t matter. To get there you need to jump over, crawl under or balance on glass pipes. Search it and you will get the message: “A pedestal, there are pipes attached to it” Search as many as you find necessary to figure out that there is one for each element.

Search the control table to receive a “Old Diary 0/6” also your character will notice that he/she has no idea what to use the control panel for at the moment.

There are five pages for the diary available at the moment. You will need them all to continue, the location of the pages varies, but some of the places are:

• The tunnel, sure to find page here
• Glass pipes
• Middle Pedestal
• Any Element Pedestal
• Crates

Add the pages to the diary, and read

1st Page

… That old fool, that drooling old man! I may have found the greatest discovery in the fifth age and he won’t admit it. I was to good an actor, now he doesn’t believe me. Well I’ll just have to continue on my own. Then he cannot take the honour for my hard work. Once he realises what I have found it will be too late. And no one will remember Vitruvius…

2nd Page

… Finally I have found the energy, after many hours of searching. I have finally the raw pure energy that is created by colliding all four elements. It was a rather expensive affair buying all those runestones, and they did*’t even create enough energy, but that crystal I found today may make up for that. I’ll keep it to myself for now; I have better use for it than he has…

3rd Page

… Success! Those crystals proved effective in containing elemental powers. I can now create large amounts of the energy; sadly there is no way to store it effectively. The Elemental Ore doesn’t obtain the energy and neither does the bar. Though maybe… No stupid, the drooling fool couldn’t have found the solution…


4th Page

* I cannot believe it! I simply cannot believe this! I thought I had it! Old Drooler actually created a bar with the properties I need, but that isn’t the worst! I finally managed to get my hands on such bar. I cannot get the energy into the bar! My calculations show that it would be a perfect battery for my energy. But it reflects the energy, every attempt has failed. Though the crystal can contain the energy it leaks and is far too inefficient to be used*

5th Page

* I surrender. The idea was great, but in practise it couldn’t be done. I am very sorry to shut down my lab and such a promising project, but I am out of ideas. At least Old Drooler did*’t get his hands on it. I’ll leave my stuff in the secret room at the back of the control panel. The code is if it matters. I suppose I better help him with his “Put Mind energy into a Primed bar project” Baah! Waste of time…

The diary must be read with all 5/6 pages in it before you can continue on the quest.

(_.•´¯) Part Three; Crystals (¯`•._)
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The crystals can be gathered in any order.


Air Crystal
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Search the crates in the Workshop. After some time you will find a “Blank Crystal” examine info is: “An empty crystal”

Keep hold of it and go kill Air Elementals. Each time they respawn they will be a little stronger. Keep killing them until they have roughly doubled their level. After some time they will drop an *Air Essence”. Also the Air elements won’t get stronger unless you carry the crystal in your inventory.

Use the “Air Essence” with the “Black Crystal” to create a “White Crystal”(3 Magic). You gain 2000 magic experience doing this. The examine info is: The crystal isn’t full”

Bring the “White Crystal” to the air altar and use it with the altar to create a “Glowing White Crystal”(15 Runecrafting). You gain 700 Runecrafting experience for doing this.


Water Crystal
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Search the crates in the Workshop. After some time you will find a “Blank Crystal” examine info is: “An empty crystal”

Go into the room with the Water Elementals. On the spinning water wheel is a small blue pearl. You can click grab on it, but you will fail and receive the message: “You cannot get proper hold of it”

Cast Telegrab on it and you will manage to get the “Water Essence”

Use “Water essence” with the “Blank Crystal” to get a “Blue Crystal” (15 Magic) and 2000 magic experience.

Now bring the “Blue Crystal” to the Water Altar to create a “Glowing Blue Crystal” (19 Runecrafting), you will also receive 1500 Runecrafting experience for this.

Earth Crystal
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Search the crates in the Workshop. After some time you will find an “Opaque Crystal” well you cannot use it for anything. However Yanni Salika in Shilo Village will buy it for an experience lamp granting 1,5k to a skill of your choice.

Go to the Earth area of the workshop and prospect the ores (25 Mining). Normally you would get the message “A suspicious looking elemental rock”, but one of them would give the message: “An even more suspicious looking elemental rock” Mine it.
This won’t happen unless you prospected the ore and got the different message.

A level 70 “Enraged Earth Elemental” will spawn. Even though this guy doesn’t seem like a challenge, you shouldn’t underestimate it. It attacks every 1,5 second with melee. If it hits it will stun you for 2 seconds. Better get some good armour. If you decide to use the faith of the gods to protect you from his attacks it will change to its ranged attack. Which hits every 0,5 second, stuns for 1 second no matter what. Better switch it off. Once it is dead it will drop an “Elemental ore” like always and a “New Blank Crystal”. Examining the Crystal will give you the message: “Draws energy from its surroundings”

Stay in the earth area for 10 minutes. NO LEAVING. After ten minutes spending there you will receive a “Brown Crystal” if you leave the area, you will get “Disturbed Crystal” which is only good for disposing and you have to obtain a new one.

Bring the “Brown Crystal” to the Earth Altar to create a “Glowing Brown Crystal” (23 Runecrafting) you also gain 1800 Runecrafting experience.

Fire Crystal
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Search the crates again to find the last “Blank Crystal”
You should now have found a total of three “Blank Crystal” and one “Opaque Crystal” Locations are random for everyone.

Put it in the furnace in the Fire Area. After some time your character will notice that nothing is happening. Maybe it isn’t hot enough? Get a bowl of stone and fill it with lava. Pour it into the furnace and put in the “Blank Crystal” still nothing happens.

Bring around 20 pieces of coal and put it in the furnace. Place the “Blank Crystal” in the furnace and wait a few minutes. Take out the Crystal; you will take 34 points of damage. And receive a “Red Crystal” and 2000 magic experience.

If you haven’t got 35 hitpoints, you will be damaged to 1 hitpoints and not receive the crystal.

Bring the “Red Crystal” to the Fire Altar to receive a “Glowing Red Crystal” (29 Runecrafting) and 2000 Runecrafting experience.

(¯\_) Part Four; Finishing what was started (_/¯)
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Return to the pipe room and place the “Glowing White Crystal” on the white pedestal, the “Glowing Blue Crystal” on the blue pedestal, the “Glowing Brown Crystal” on the brown pedestal and finally the “Glowing Red Crystal” on the red pedestal.

Search the control panel. There are four levers, brown, white, blue and red, four buttons, blue, brown, red and white, and finally a really large red button.

Pull any of the levers and go check the corresponding pedestal. If the claw has activated, then go back and pull another lever. If the claw hasn’t activated pull the lever again. It is rather important that all claws are activated before pushing any of the small buttons. Also if a claw is activated, you can no longer remove a crystal from the pedestal.

Pushing any of the small buttons while one of the claws isn’t activated will reset them all, therefore it is suggested that you check all claws before doing so.

Pushing any button will allow some of the energy to flow from on of the crystals to the middle pedestal. There are four pipes for each pedestal. Pushing a button would change the amount of energy reaching the middle pedestal, not only for its own crystal, but for all of them. I am sure that a system can be made so that the puzzle is challenging, but still solvable.

Once there is an equal amount of elemental energy running through the pipes and into the middle pedestal you can finally push the large red button. There will be a bright purple flash from the middle pedestal, but nothing more happens. Maybe you should try putting something on the middle pedestal?

Items that can be put on includes: Elemental Ore, Elemental Bar, Elemental Shield, Prime Bar, Mind Bar, Mind Helmet and Mind Shield, Blank Crystal, New Blank Crystal and Opaque Crystal. None of them will work though.

Remember the diary which you hopefully read? Search the control table from behind and you will discover a small hatch with four wheels and a small button. Insert the first sequence and press the button. The wheels will reset, if you hear a click you did it correct and you can continue to the next sequence. Once you have put the three sequences the hatch will open.

Inside you will find a “Fixed Crystal” and a “Diary Page 6” Put the “Diary Page 6* in the diary and read it.

… Long time since I have written in you and visited my old laboratory. Old Drooler has found the solution, putting the Mind Energy into the Primed Bar changes its properties, I did*’t see that in my calculations. His machine is perfect for charging the elemental bar with energy. It just needs a little altering and it is perfect. If I could just get a chance to switch the poles I could do some experimenting. Right now I’ll have to do with this Crystal I managed to infuse with Mind while he was gone. I will continue as soon as I get the chance too… (We know he did*’t because he died in an accident)

Put the “Fixed Crystal” on the middle pedestal and press the large red button from the last time. Another flash of purple light and you can receive your “Brightly Shining Crystal”

Go down to the machine used in Elemental Workshop II. Go to the side of it and remove the small hatch. Turn around the poles (Possibility for a small puzzle here). Then place the “Brightly Shining Crystal” in the Extractor Gun. Now equip a Mind Shield or a Mind Helmet and nothing else. Then sit in the Extractor Chair.

QUEST COMPLETE!

(¯°•._) Rewards (¯°•._)
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7.000 Crafting Experience
7.000 Smithing Experience
7.000 Agility Experience
7.000 Hitpoints Experience
7.000 Mining Experience
6.000 Magic Experience (Obtained during quest)
6.000 Runecrafting Experience (Obtained During Quest)
1.500 Experience Lamp (If you bring the Opaque Crystal to Yanni Salika)
Ability to make and wield Energy Shield
Ability to make and wield Energy Helmet
Access to an improved Elemental Workshop

The Workshop
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After the completion of the quest you might find that the Elemental Workshop has become a much better place to train. The changes are as follows:

The water elementals are now found in an improved version. There drops and combat levels has been increased. Though normal ones still roam. Also all elementals now drop unfinished potions.

The furnace in the fire area will now smelt bars at a cost of 1 less coal. That means: Runite requires 7 coal ores, Adamantite requires 5 coal ores, Mithril requires 3 coal ores, and Steel requires only 1 coal ore. And Iron now has a 65% of success. Although you might need to fill in a bowl of lava or two to keep the heat.

Stronger air elementals are now available. Also you can still find the normal ones. All of them are now capable of dropping Clue Scrolls 1/2/3, though the chance of getting a level 3 from a normal one is rather unlikely.

Earth Area has been shaken up drastically. First of all; Elemental Ores has had their experience increased making them viable to train on, if you wish to level mining and combat at the same time.
Chances of receiving gems had been increased.
Earth Elementals now drop small amounts of coal when killed.
Also you might find yourself with a “New Blank Crystal” which is useful even after the quest. Of course you will have to defeat our Enraged Friend to obtain one.

The Energy Shield
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Apart from being better than a Mind Shield, the Energy Shield Also comes with a very special something to those to who are a little more experienced. Also it weighs 0,5 kg.

The shield will halve the damage dealt by the first strike of an opponement. This might not seem very effective, but if you think a little, it might not be that bad.

The Energy Helmet
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Not only is the Energy Helmet an improvement to the Mind Helmet it also has some very special abilities once combined with New Blank Crystals.

Upon adding “New Blank Crystals” to the helmet you can increase its power. Every time you add a Crystal to the Helmet you increase its ability to recoil some of the damage done to you. Unfortunately it also makes you more vulnerable, it’s about finding the right balance.

1 Crystal = 10% Damage Taken – 10% Damage Recoiled - 5 Crafting
2 Crystals = 20% Damage Taken – 15% Damage Recoiled - 20 Crafting
3 Crystals = 30% Damage Taken – 20% Damage Recoiled - 40 Crafting
4 Crystals = 40% Damage Taken – 25% Damage Recoiled - 60 Crafting (DANGEROUS TAKE CAUTION!)
5 Crystals = 50% Damage Taken! – 30% Damage Recoiled - 80 Crafting (EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TAKE CAUTION!)