Guardians of the Rift

Guardians of the Rift plays as it does in OSRS, sized for our population: a game starts a

minute after the first player waits in the lobby, and the Great Guardian's charge scales with

the number of players.

The round

1. Lobby. Wait south of the barrier; it drops when the game starts. Bank chest and the Rewards Guardian are here.
2. Two minutes to prepare. Mine guardian remains around the hall (any pickaxe; the large remains in the east need 56 Agility over the rubble, the huge remains in the west open through a portal every couple of minutes), craft the fragments into guardian essence at the workbench, grab uncharged cells (up to 10) and a weak cell.
3. Portals. From 160 seconds, and every 140 seconds after, one elemental and one catalytic Guardian opens for 100 seconds. Enter one you have the Runecraft level for: every guardian essence becomes that rune and a guardian stone, one carried uncharged cell is charged to the altar's tier, and you get the altar's Runecraft XP per essence.
4. Power the Great Guardian with your stones (Power-up). Each stone adds energy of its type to your score and raises the Guardian's power; the rift closes at 100%.
5. Hold the line. Abyssal creatures pour from the rift after the two minutes. Use a charged cell on an inactive cell tile to raise a barrier (weak / medium / strong / overcharged); leeches slip through gaps and drain the Guardian, walkers batter barriers, guardians attack you. A broken tile costs 12 fragments to repair. At 60% power the temple rumbles, every barrier takes 50 damage and the mix turns nastier.

Dying inside is safe. Leaving through the barrier mid-game forfeits that game's energy.

Scoring

At the close you earn 1 elemental point per 100 elemental energy and **1 catalytic point

per 100 catalytic energy** (the remainder is a proportional chance of one more), and

Runecraft XP equal to your level × 45 if you reached 300 energy. Points persist. ::gotr

shows the state of play.

Rewards

Rewards Guardian — one elemental plus one catalytic point per search (Big-search does

five; 25 abyssal pearls buy a search too): abyssal pearls, essence pouches you don't own yet,

runes (air to blood), talismans, intricate pouches; rarely Atlax's diary (1/20, once), a

catalytic talisman (1/200), the abyssal needle (1/300, once), the abyssal lantern (1/700), a

dye (1/1,200 each) or the abyssal protector pet (1/4,000). Temple Supplies (Apprentice

Felix) sells the raiments of the eye (hat 400, top 350, bottoms 350, boots 250 pearls), the

lantern (1,500), the needle (750) and talismans. Pearls are untradeable.