Well, I made my rounds of the eco-domes looking for
work. Some of the Consortium had some
odd jobs they were willing to hire me for – killing creatures, retrieving data
devices, setting data devices – that type of stuff. They really treated me like I didn’t have a
brain cell in my head. I really resent
being asked to retrieve some of these devices because I wouldn’t understand how
to read them. I looked at some of these
things when I picked them up and they were not that difficult to understand but
I did my tasks and took the gold offered.
While sitting at the bar at the inn, I overheard a pair of
travelers talking about the opportunities to be found in Northrend. I bought them some drinks and asked them
about this Northrend. They told me the
Alliance had a presence there and were working with the Argent Crusade to stop
the Lich King. They also told me that someone
good with a sword could make a nice bit of coin there. I was getting tired of the tasks I was
finding here in Outland so I decided a change of scenery was in order.
I made my way back to Stormwind and booked passage to
Valiance Keep. The ship was scheduled to
set out in a week’s time so I used that time to study with the paladins at the
Cathedral and get my axe and armor repaired.
It was an uneventful sea voyage for which I was grateful.
Upon arrival, I checked in with the local milita but since I
wasn’t willing to “join up” on an official basis, I was told to talk with those
in charge about doing free-lance work.
Fortunately, I found that one of the people in charge of operations out
of Valiance Keep was Harbinger Vurenn.
I had trained under him at one time and he knew my abilities and what I
was capable of. Vurenn seemed genuinely
glad to see me and he accepted my offer of aid and put me right to work
immediately by helping the soldiers in front of the keep clear out some of the
scourge that was attacking the keep.
After that he asked me follow a lead about possible twilight cult
activities. I managed to uncover some
cultist operatives in our own ranks!
That was a shock to those in charge and I was thanked profusely and
rewarded appropriately. Vurenn told me
that if I was looking for further work, there was a high amount need in almost
all areas of Northrend and he suggested I travel around some and offer my
services to those I met.
As I was about to set out, Vurenn asked if I could help them
out one more time by aiding a village, Farshire, which is just outside the Keep
as it was being overrun with Scourge. I
agreed to go there after I had a bite to eat.
While I was dining, I was approached by a woman named Leryssa who asked if
I would look for an old family friend, William Allerton, while I was
Farshire. William was supposed to have some news about
her brother who reportedly enlisted at the same time as he did but what was so
strange was that her brother had been dead for years. I found it an odd story and a bit of a
mystery so I agreed to look this William Allerton while I was helping out in
Farshire.
I found Farshire was indeed under siege by the scourge and
did everything I could to remove their presence. While I was clearing out the Farshire mine, I
came across William Allerton’s body.
Since I couldn’t talk to him, I searched his body and retrieved his
personal affects to give Leryssa in the hopes she could find some clue about
her brother. After many days of
fighting, we finally stemmed the flow of the scourge and secured the village
from further attack. I then took my
leave to return to Valiance Keep to give Leryssa the things I found on William
Allerton’s body.
Leryssa was disappointed that Allerton was dead but in his
belongings she found his enlistment card.
With that card, she cross-referenced the date in the enlistment ledger
and not too far down from Allerton’s name she found the name of her brother,
Thassarian. He was assigned to a Unit-S
which was odd in that all the other units were named after Alliance
cities. While she returned the ledger to
the place she “borrowed” it from, I asked the bartender if he knew anything
about this Unit-S or Thassarian. He had
no idea but directed me to an old drunk in the corner. I bought a bottle of wine and made my way over
to the old man.
When I plunked the bottle down on the table, he looked up at
me with bleary, blood-shot eyes and then his gaze dropped to the bottle. I opened it and poured me a glass and then,
with a look into his face, I poured him a glass. He took the glass, raised it to his lips,
paused for a moment, drank it down and asked me what I wanted. I explained I was looking for information
regarding Unit-S or Thassarian. He
seemed to think about it for a moment and then told me he had never heard of
either. He reached for the bottle of
wine which I moved away from his grasping fingers. He regarded me a moment and told me that
there was a deserter in the jail who might have some information on Unit-S and
I should go talk to him. I thanked the
old man and pushed the bottle towards him as I rose and left the bar to make my
way to the jail.
Once there, I made inquiries about this deserter and was led
to his cell. After a little bit of
posturing on his part, he told me that Unit-S was a group of men on what he
felt was a suicide mission – attacking a scourge ziggurat outside of a plagued
Nerubian city and that Thassarian was in charge of that mission. This deserter didn’t know anything else
except that they were to have arranged passage east with a tuskarr by the name
of Ataika in Kaskala and if I was looking for further information, I should
look there. I thanked him and went to
tell Leryssa what I had found. I told her
I would head in that direction and let her know what I found out while she
stayed at the Keep to see if she could find any further information and she
agreed to the arrangement. Tomorrow I
shall set out for Kaskala to find this Ataika and see what he may know.
Kahtraa((currently Level 73))
Fighting scourge in Farshire
Talking to the old man at the bar
Talking to the deserter in the jail
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