Chaos Tunnels: The Hunt for Surok

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Contents 1 Miniquest Details 2 Walk through 2.1 At the statue of Saradomin 2.2 Into the tunnels 2.3 The boss battle 3 Rewards 4 Trivia

[edit] Miniquest Details

Official quest description: Surok has escaped from the Varrock library! Can you track him down and stop him before he unleashes chaos throughout the world again?

Release date: 4 March 2008

Start: Speak to Surok by the statue of Saradomin, east of Varrock.

Difficulty: *****

Length: Short-Medium

Members only: Yes

Requirements: Completed the quest What Lies Below. A high combat level with 43 Prayer is recommended.

Items needed: Prayer potions (not required but recommended). Super sets (again, not required but recommended). Good food such as Sharks. An Anti-dragon shield or Anti-fire potion, super energy potions, and antipoisons are useful in the tunnels. A one-click teleport such as the ectophial is recommended. You can also bring Summoning Familiars, which can help during the fight if you are a low level. A Spirit Terrorbird is great to bring to hold extra food and for its special move Tireless Run, which helps because you will do a lot of running in the caves. If you have completed As a First Resort..., you can use the Oo'glog spa for infinite run energy, which is very handy. Note: The ring of recoil does not work against Bork.

Monsters to kill: Bork (level 267)

[edit] Walk through

[edit] At the statue of Saradomin

• Talk to Surok at the Saradomin statue north-east of Varrock.

Note: For Surok to be at the statue, you must have already excavated the tunnel under the Saradomin statue. For Surok to appear, open the hole, enter the opening, and then come back out. Surok should now be there. (See the Chaos Altar section of What Lies Below for more on opening the entrance to the tunnel.)

You attempt to arrest him, but he distracts you while he goes into the Tunnel of Chaos.

• Follow him through the opening under the statue of Saradomin into the Tunnel of Chaos.

• Head north, go into the first room to the west where Dakh'thoulan Aegis is walking around, and enter the portal that leads to the Chaos Tunnels.

Notes:

• Footprints lead up to some portals. When traversing the Chaos Tunnels, make sure to enter any portals with the same footprints. Not all rooms, however, have portals with footprints. Every second portal with footprints leads to a cutscene.
• Be careful in the Chaos Tunnels, as the whole zone is multicombat. You may find it useful to turn off auto-retaliate in the tunnels.

• Due to the occasional random nature of the chaos teleports, equipping an anti-dragon shield until you get to Bork is a safe decision. Bronze dragons are in two caverns, and you must go through one of the caverns.
• Do not underestimate the Dagannoths, as many high-level players have been caught by surprise by the rapid 5s that they hit.
• Get past the Shadow spiders as quick as possible to conserve prayer.
• Do not attack the dust devils: They are nonaggressive but deadly.
• Some caverns may be safe to you. For example, Moss Giants are not aggressive to higher levels. Use these safe caverns to recuperate run energy and hit points, feed, pot up, and equip.
• It may be possible to make the next cavern nonaggressive by standing close enough to it for a while.
• You may experience random portal failure.

[edit] Into the tunnels

• Use the map above to make your way through the tunnels and follow Surok.

Note: You find many enemies in the tunnels. Most attack with Melee, so Protect from Melee will prevent your taking a lot of damage. However, the Chaos Tunnels are long and if your combat level is below 105, shadow spiders may drain your Prayer. If you intend to use Protect from Melee, you may want to bring a prayer potion or two. If you have completed The Temple at Senntisten and you have 71 Prayer, the Deflect Melee prayer in the Ancient Curses prayer book is helpful, since it lasts longer than Protect from Melee and can deflect some of the damage monsters do back on them.

• You encounter Surok three times in short cutscenes in the tunnels, based on the route you take:

• In the first encounter, in the deadly red spider room, you see him kill two fire giants in one hit (111 damage each).

• In the second encounter, in the skeleton's room, you attempt to stop Surok, but he summons two big wolves—not to mention the undead already in the dungeon—to attack you. Do as you wish with them, but you can simply run past them to the next portal.

• The last encounter is near the Dagannoth room (which is in the most north-west region of the Chaos Tunnels). In the Dagannoth chamber, look to the west for a portal with the familiar footsteps. Enter it, and you find Surok for the final combat.

Note: From here on, after you have reached Bork, you may use the map to the right to reach Bork from Edgeville. You can restock everything you need for the battle and take the route from Edgeville. Only use this route after you have reached Bork. Otherwise, it will not work.

[edit] The boss battle

• Enter the last portal in the Dagannoth chamber.

You see a cutscene, where Surok summons Bork (level 267), who has fairly high defence, is immune to poison, and only uses melee attacks.

• Turn on Protect from Melee, and attack him. If you are using range or mage, you can run from the west wall to the north wall, which will get him caught in a safe spot until he summons his minions.

If you have level 71 prayer, it is better to use the Deflect Melee prayer, which lasts longer than Protect from Melee and can deal damage to Bork. When Bork is at 3/4 health, he will summon two to four Ork legions (level 70) to attack you. If you stand near them, they will melee you. Otherwise, they will range you. However, they will stop attacking you if you run across the cave. It is recommended to stand near them, if you are using the Protect from Melee prayer.

You can start the battle, leave, and restart it at a later time. This may be helpful if your resources have dwindled while travelling throughout the caves. It may be wise to begin the battle, teleport out, and reenter when you are fully stocked using the shortest route to the final battle.

Warning: Surok attacks you every 15 or so seconds during the battle. His magical attacks can hit up to 30. You can't attack Surok, however.

When you defeat Bork, he falls to the ground. Surok, realising that he is defeated again, then calls Zamorak for help and teleports out of the cave.

• Quickly, grab the monster's drops and get out, for the cave will be collapsing. You will lose some hit points if you stay in the cave too long. (You will be damaged twice before being forced out of the area with your character saying "I'm getting out of here!")

Congratulations! Miniquest complete.

[edit] Rewards

• Fight Bork in the Chaos Tunnels daily (every 24 hours). If you leave this fight before finishing Bork, you will not be able to come back until the next day. Be advised to prepare properly.
• 5,000 Slayer experience for the first kill and 250 experience for subsequent kills, and a 100 percent drop rate for Summoning charms (7 crimson, 2 green, 5 blue) for those who defeat him.
• Bork will also always drop big bones; 2,000 to 10,000 coins; and an uncut Sapphire, Emerald, and Ruby.
• Bork has a chance of dropping a Level 3 Clue scroll.
• Ability to wear Dagon'hai robes.

[edit] Trivia

• Borked is Internet-technical slang for something that is broken, as in "that update borked" or "you totally borked the time rotor." In this case, the portals in the Chaos Tunnels are borked.

• Bork is reference to the Borg, a race in the Star Trek universe who seek to forcefully add other species into their collective. The Ork Legions that Bork summons may shout phrases such as "We are the collective!" and "Resistance is futile!" which are references to the Borg in Star Trek.

• Bork is also a portmanteau of the two words Big and Ork. This is played on in his examine text, which says "That's one Big ork."

• "The Hunt for Surok" is a pun on the Star Trek movie The Search for Spock. Surok is also the name of the Vulcan who instituted the philosophy of logic over emotion, which caused the split of the Romulans from Vulcan.

• Interestingly, Members who have completed What Lies Below can start the miniquest on free-to-play servers. They can encounter Surok near the entrance, and see the cutscene where he enters the tunnels. However, they cannot enter the tunnel itself, thereby preventing the miniquest from progressing further.

• The RuneScape news article about this miniquest contained the line "for there are worse things than simple orks in the dark places of this world." This is from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, when the characters go into the Mines of Moria.