The Great Hero

WoW = World of Warcraft, an online game I play with , apparently, 8 million other people in the world.

Get back to town after finishing a few quests, and I look around for more quest givers. Questing is an art form. Some people want to do quests as efficiently as possible , wtih as little running around as possible. I've always considered that to be a mistake. The more running around you do , the more copper veins you run into to mine. Also the more random monsters you wind up killing and thus getting more experiance. Oh I don't take it to extremes, if ther'es three quests all in the same cave I'm not running back and forth three times, but I been known to decide I'm only carrying two or three quests at a time and ignore quest givers until I'm done.

Quest giver wants me to go all the way back to Silvermyste island to visit the fisherman there. I was just there and escorted his daughter to him. Didn't feel like going again . Skip that quest.

Some Draenie wants me to learn the language of the Stillpines, hairy owl headed humanoids who inhabit this area. What the hey. Why not. Read the book , click on the totem... some ancient Stillpine spirt apears and gestures for me to follow him. Oops...off and running , not quite quite what I expected. Up the hill... to another totem planted in the ground. click on this totem , and another Still pine ancestor apears, slaps some kind of ghostly wings on my shoulder , and jumps off a cliff. Well..wings, maybe I can fly..Jump off and gently float to the ground ..careful to go in exactly the directino he went in ..and across the river to another totem. This ancestor grants me water breathing and tells me to head down river, and I do , finding yet another totem , this one buried under the water at the mouth of the river.

The last totem was the coolest , since that ancestor transforms you into a big panther, and you get to run across the island at speed, with all your vision blurred as if your in the spirit world. Actually I think you were because there were no monsters or cats or whatnot to ambush you the way they usually were. All the way west... to the bristlepine owlkin. Who, it is now explained to me, are actually evil. They're capturing the weak little stillpine children and putting them in cages and committing horrible acts against them. Go forth and slay !

Well, not that bad a quest. Kill the evil ones, they drop keys, keys open the locked cages of prisoners, you got a quota of eight prisoners. It was a little disturbing when I got to the end to see the first cages respawning fresh prisoners...it was quickly obvious I would never free them all no matter how long I stayed, but hey , This is a multi player server with like 2000 players.. quests like this have to respawn rapidly. I'll just put in my required eight rescues and pretend I rescued the lot of them. it's called Role Play. Heh heh heh ...

I wonder if they're ticked at me for stopping to mine copper half way through the quest ?

Get my bag limit , and race home , from whence this quest had begun to the quest giver, a still pine owlkin in town. He directs me north along the road to the Still pine hold (seen it before and ignored it) , and so I trudge down there.

Copper vein just off the road. Go mine it , a cat attacks me. Kill the cat, and some blood elf assassin sneaks up in stealth and tries to kill me. Beat him off , and ANOTHER cat tries to have me for lunch. Just as I'm beating it to death with my club... a guard on patrol along the road steps in and kills the almost dead cat, basically robbing me of my victory rather than actually rescuing me.

I hate guards.

But now I think I know why the price of copper is so high . :)

down the road to the Stillpine Hold and talk to old cheify. Yes, you are the prophisized hero ! Now don't bother me just look around town for people to help. *Sigh*
Some skinner believes that THE BEASTS OF THE APOCOLYPSE have arrived and if I really am the hero I should easily be able to go kill them. Off to the east to their nest, which turns out to be a piece of crashed ship with cages everywhere and these crab like really vicious aliens that look like someone swiped their general design from the aliens movies. Start in on killing them. How many do I have to kill ?

oops... I need 10 hides... and they don't drop a hide every time...its random.
Almost 12th level , 20 of these guys will definately put me over the mark and I'll run back to town for new spells and a run at jewelcrafting and stuff.

I think this one quest a night biz when I get home from work is working out ok.