Shamus Plays: WoW #15: The Final Quest

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We're in the town of Lakeshire in the Redridge mountains. Boss has skipped talking to the useless guards, lackeys, and officials around township and at rest straight for the top. We'Ra going to let the cat out of the bag to the magistrate and see what this townspeople really needs.

In that location are a good deal of populate in line, ready and waiting to see him and complain about the gnolls that are killing and pillage their farms. This is not to imply that there is a widowed farm anywhere in the Redridge mountains. But wherever these idiots and their imaginary farms come from, they are pissed sour and privation to talk to Magistrate Soloman. The wait would take hours.

Norman solves this by scarce cutting off eligible and demanding to know what needs done.

Judge Soloman peers at US through his eyeglass, "More of our citizens go missing every day. We think the gnolls are amenable, just we deliver no idea where they are taking them! If you are to help us defeat the gnolls and find our multitude, you must be properly equipped. Alas, we are entirely out of gnomecorders. Without a gnomecorder, there is nary path for US to communicate with you when you are in the field.

Norman shrugs, "A gnomecorder is some sieve of device for talking to people from far away, I pack it?"

Actually, a gnomecorder is a ii-path wireless video communications device. That never inevitably to be recharged. And can apparently survive being submerged by murlocs for extended periods of time. It besides dispenses coins when you complete quests.

It's AMAZING what they can do with steam power these days.

Jessye Norman tries to get a handgrip on this idea, "So you want me to hike prohibited and fight dozens of murlocs so that I can get some contraption for letting me talk to you remotely?"

"Yes! It's VERY advanced."

"Simply why would I need that, I'm right here? Just give me the bespeak."

"That's what I'm doing. Go get a gnomecorder!"

"But I don't need a gnomecorder to get a quest."

"Yes, you do. You penury one and then that I can talk to you in the field."

"Merely I'm non IN the field."

"You will be once you go unconscious to get the gnomecorder!"

"I genuinely lav't believe you're the mayor," Norman sighs. "Listen, I want you to center. After I get this thingy, you're going to give me another quest, right? You said something about gnolls? You wishing around dead, right?"

"Naturally!" he says. "Wouldn't personify much point in sending you later on a gnomecorder otherwise."

"Here is what I want you to do … I want you to devote me that quest before I go get the gnomecorder."

"Only …" the mayor looks fine-tune at the mum gnomecorder in his hand. "You North Korean won't be able to hear me."

"I think I see the problem, here. The trouble is that you pauperization to be kicked in the nuts."

"I don't undersOOFF!"

Geographic area and I withdraw from town at a sprint. He's sensible assaulted the mayor, which Crataegus laevigata or may not be illicit and we don't want to find prohibited the hard way.

"Well," Norman pants as we puzzle out to the edge of town. Nobody seems to comprise chasing the States. "I infer we won't be going indorse there anytime soon."

"So is that it? We're out of people to help now?" I deman hopefully.

"No, there's still nonpareil position left to endeavor."

We head back to Stormwind where Norman does a bit shopping. Not wanting to Be recognized every bit the guy cable World Health Organization assaulted the mayor of Redridge, he picks out a new outfit that will hopefully blot out his facial expressio.

"How do I look?" he asks me.

"Truly, you are the belle of the ball. So where are we headlike?"

"We'atomic number 75 headed to the last place left in the kingdom of Stormwind. The last bastion of human power in the Eastern Kingdoms. The last place anyone would go to look for someone suspected of assaulting the testicles of the mayor," Geographic region says hard. "We're going to Darkshire."

One of my favorite zones in the bet on, actually. It makes a nice dividing line to the more storybook parts of the game. Elwynn Woodland and Westfall are Theodor Seuss Geisel. Darkshire is Edgar Allen Edgar Allan Poe. (Spell on opium.)

The following request and NPC dialog is lifted opportune from the crippled. All I added was Norman's response.

Norman looks around townspeople for work. Most people don't seem interested in talk to him. Considering how things have foregone in the last, atomic number 2 avoids the City leaders and members of the watch.

We finally run a fellow named Tobias Mistmantle, World Health Organization needs help location his brother. He pleads with us, "I'm here because I received a letter from my brother Stalvan, who I haven't seen in days. On arriving here, I was told he was dead. The entire town refuses to proffer whatsoever further explanation. Any mention of his name is met with terror and suspicion. As if I didn't have enough of that myself! "

Indeed we head to the Darkshire Town Manse, which is easy to find. We just head into the town square and look for the fanciest, most well-kept dilapidated hut. Inside we incu Clerk Daltry, and Norman asks about the missing valet de chambre.

Salesclerk Daltry seems nervous, "You require to acknowledge about Stalvan? You're not the first, you hump. We gravel outsiders approaching through asking about him every now and then. E'er outsiders. Everyone who lives here knows finer. You're out of luck, anyway. I'm missing half the archives. Untamed worgen skint into the townsfolk hall not a few nights past and tore the place to shreds."

"Well, sorry about your archives. Just give me the clipped version, then. What happened to this guy's Brother?"

"The documents you'll want are probably strewn all crosswise Brightwood Grove by now, inexplicable in the woods to the west. Not Worth it if you call for me."

"Yeah. Likely not. But you said that 'everyone here knows fitter,' which suggests that everyone here knows what happened to him. So what's the story? Is he stagnant? Locked away? Run off and got marital status to a gnoll? I'm non Hera to judge. In point of fact, I don't even hand over a rat's ass. Just give me something to severalise his close-of-kin."

"I'm sorry I can't help you more."

"You don't understand," Jessye Norman says in a near whisper. "I'm trying to facilitate your town. All I take is a simple answer from you."

A simple answer is not forthcoming. "Fine!" says Norman, "We'll see most this!"

We go out to Brightwood Grove and Geographical area unleashes a fury connected everything that moves. We begin killing worgen pawl-men, and we don't stop until we bear a roaring bonfire of alight pelt. Eventually Norman finds a injured bundle of letters. He grabs them and drags them back to the Clerk.

"By the light … you actually went and got it? I'm shocked," the clerk says. "I suppose I owe you thanks for returning it to the archives."

"No, you don't owe me thanks. You owe me an answer to the round-eyed question I asked you before a dozen worgen gnawed on my new dress. Where. Is. That. Guy's. Brother. Interview. Mark."

"If you're that earnest about this, I'll help you," the human being says nervously.

Norman looks at him wild-right-eyed, "You have no idea how serious I am about this. Just I'll tell you. I've killed hundreds of creatures in the last few weeks, trying to help the hoi polloi of Stormwind. Only they induce thwarted ME at all turn. But non this clock time. I'm going to rule this guy, and I assume't care how much of a dazed unhelpful asshole you are, I'm releas to get the answers I need. When I go home after completely this, I want to be able to say that I managed to help at any rate one person."

"In that respect's sole a few places that those horrifying Nightbane beasts tuck when they'ray not prowling the timberland. One of them's the Rotting Orchard to the south. They use the buildings thither as their dens, so if they haven't just eaten the other documents, you might find nonpareil there … but you'll have to search their lairs thoroughly, I wager."

Norman doesn't call for why he's getting more than documents. He doesn't ask why this idiot knows on the nose where the wild animals make taken the City documents. He doesn't ask wherefore Oregon how worgen stole all these stacks of paperwork from the town hall. He just Marche dead the door and takes us straight to the Putrefaction Orchard.

"So … 'Rot Orchard'," I say. "Sounds like an odd thing to name your orchard. Did they name IT that when it was planted, or did they take the time to rhenium-public figure IT after?"

"Less talk, more setting things on fire," he snaps.

I am only too happy to oblige. We roast a few Thomas More man-mutts and Norman finds a torn daybook Page wrong of haystack at the back off of a filthy, disused barn.

We return the scraps to the Clerk in town, who is overcome with a profound lack of gratitude.

"This was every you found? That's bad news, I'm afraid …" helium tells us.

"Yes. I'm sure it's filled with terrible dark secrets or some. I don't care. Brother. Location. Now."

"You should Army of the Pure it go, friend."

"You should just reply the inquiry. Look, score something up. It's not like there's a shortage of ways to die out present in Darkshire. I could separate his brother helium was killed away worgen. Devoured past spiders. Taloned by wolves. Dead by ghosts. Just pick something."

"The exclusively aim left to look is Roland's Doom. That's the mine South of town, and the largest lair of worgen in Duskwood. Nobody in Darkshire has e'er ready-made information technology back from that place alive. As a matter of fact, some of the records I have here imply that's where the monsters early came from… who knows what evil's lurking in there?"

"I guess we'll get word," Norman says menacingly. He's breathing hard, and his eye seems to be twitching. Atomic number 2 keeps clenching and opening his hands. "I'm going to help someone. Nonpareil person. That's each I ask. I think I've attained IT. I'm going to help him, and you're going to help me, help him. The sooner you answer the question, the sooner I stop bothering you."

We attend Roland's Doom. We kill a bunch of overindulge. Past Norman goes right into the mine and butchers his way to the really conclusion. There, in the last chamber, he finds some muddy daybook pages.

"You actually went and got it?!", the clerk says in wonder. "I get into't know whether to call you brave or insane. But once again, my archives thank you."

"You have the worst filing scheme in the world," Greg Norman says equally he pulls some worgen fur out of the new tears in his robe.

"You've healed everything. Everything except the last paginate…"

"GAH!" Geographical area screams.

"… which I've got right here," the clerk adds quickly. "Don't take me like that. You'll understand when you read it. Much even read it's cursed, you know. In fact, I was relieved when the worgen stony-broke in and made cancelled with these! Take information technology. Take over every of it, in fact. I thank you for recovering my archives, but I don't want anything to make with this of all time again. Please, just leave me be." Atomic number 2 hands Frenchman a book containing the story of Stalvan.

You can read the whole affair here. It's a little long. The short interlingual rendition is: Stalvan was an old bozo. Got a calf love on a young adult female. Got jilted. Killed some people. Died.

"This?" Norman says, leafing through the book, "THIS bullshit is the big secret you couldn't tell Maine? An old hit case? You sent Maine to fight an army of ferine brute-men to get you a bunch of records you didn't want, to avoid persuasive me something slightly acid? You intend Stalvan was bad? I've killed more multitude than him just today. I killed a dozen or indeed hobos in Westfall equitable this afternoon." Norman stops for a moment. He's panting, red-pug-faced, and spitting as he rages on, "How did you opine this was passing to end? Did you think back I'd good turn in the last Sri Frederick Handley Page of your archives, learn you screwed me, and then wander off?"

The clerk looks frightened straightaway, only at least he's stopped asking the States to look for written document.

Norman continues, "Think some this: You were and then afraid of the worgen. You thought they were so badass. Healed I killed them. Alone. I'm more dangerous than all of them combined, and I'm pissed off. At you. At your filing scheme. At the people you work for. At your unit stupid town. And now think over about this: I'm loss to get my revenge connected …"

Suddenly He stops. He suddenly realizes what he's saying and doing. Norman looks down at me in repulsion. Then he runs out of the room, crying.

"Easy there, brag," I tell him. It's a half hour afterwards and we're session in the graveyard sporty outside of town. "Getting rid of of that last-place half-size shred of Hope is always the hardest part. You're better off now."

"But that's it. Thither's nobody left to help oneself. Nobody that ISN't going to countermine my efforts to helper them. Nobody that deserves help. I'm a failure. Just like mother aforementioned," he trails off and starts blubbering once more.

"But she was wrong. You'ray in effect at one affair. You'Ra angelic at killing."

"That doesn't assistance. WHO cares if I'm good at killing?"

"IT's a discriminating skill to have if you resolve to turn injurious."

"It's no good," he blubbers. "I don't know how to be mephistophelean."

"Geographic area, you Don't understand. The superpowe to be evil has been inside of you all on."

Atomic number 2 wipes his nose along the rearmost of his arm, "Really?"

"You posterior bed! You just have to believe in yourself."

"I don't know," he sniffs. "Where would I start?"

"Reckon inside your heart. You know where to get down."

His face clears. A sense of perceptive overcomes him, and helium looks come out towards the town as if seeing clearly first, "Yes. I see now! I should kill complete of these dull assholes that have gotten in my way!"

"You're doing it! I knew you had it in you!" I cheer.

He looks wide-eyed at the township and the surrounding countryside, "It's not even my fault, really. They brought this on themselves. Totally of them. They deserve to burn." He pauses for a few moments, "OH, only what about mother? When she finds out …"

"Unfluctuating, boss. Yes, she's gonna be excited. She volition certainly essay to stop you. Might even try to kill you. But for erst, she's going to give birth to deference you."

Norman looks down at me, "I guess this is it, then? Like a sho that I've turned grievous you'll be leaving?"

"Don't cost ridiculous. I wouldn't miss this for love or money. Look, a deal is a deal. I'm all yours, for the rest of your life."

"Great."

"Of course, after that, you'ray totally mine. A deal's a deal, remember?"

"Yea," he says nervously. "Advisable, I think we'd better name this count."

"Sure. And it North Korean won't be so defective. When we get to the infernal realms I'll take you to a nice patch where I suchlike to go skiing."

"Let's do this!" Norman says.

Norman Lightbringer changed his name to "Blightbringer" and founded the cult called "Avenging Legion of Vengeance Cult". They built a den and ran attacks against the regions circumferent Stormwind. Their long goal is to get sufficiency of a menace that their hideaway will become a 5-man foray.

Noblewoman Lightbringer detected about her son's treachery and is currently seeking random adventurers to hunt him down.

Gobstab the demon was awarded Employee of the Month for Norman's quick and fateful turn to evil, and was eventually promoted to regional manager for Demonic Outreach in Azeroth. Atomic number 2's now functioning a series of seminars, "How to make satanic deal itself."

The End

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