Tanaris and Feralas
We headed out southwest from Gadgetzan to find the Noxious Lair, where we were to splat some Centipaar bugs and collect the insect parts for the Water Co. representative. I don't know what I expected but the Lair is pretty scary looking - a bunch of craters edged with what look like insect legs sticking up in the air a hundred feet or more. And they twitch, like they're alive. Creepy.
The Centipaar bugs are nasty, too - wasps and ground crawlers with levels from 47 to 50. The first couple we whacked weren't too bad but we made the mistake of going deeper into the lair, and that made us very vulnerable because we'd be whacking away at one of the bugs and then another would get a bit too close and then we'd have two of them on us, and then we'd be surrounded by three or more. I know I got wiped at least four times and I'm not sure how many times Kate caught it.
So we moved back to the north side of the lair for the last couple and things went much easier. Not every bug dropped the parts we needed but enough did that it didn't take us too long, and with that out of the way we rode back to Gadgetzan to hand over the parts.
We have a couple of open quests for which we need to go back to the Pirate enclave where we'd taken down Andre Firebeard, but I wasn't in the mood to go back there just yet. Instead we took a flight over to Thalanaar in Feralas and rode west from there intending to find some Screechers - flying snake-like things - for a quest a Night Elf in Steamwheedle Port had given us.
From Thalanaar we went a little bit north to pick up the road then went west through the forest. Feralas is reminiscent of Ashenvale in that it's heavily forested, but to me it seemed nicer. Maybe it's just me but Ashenvale seems dark and oppressing somehow, where Feralas is lighter.
We made good progress on the road and it was looking as if we'd get all the way to the Vale where we'd find the screechers without incident. Then we found Camp Mojache, a Horde settlement; the road went right into the camp, and at the gate were two guards, at least level 57. Luckily we saw them first.
We got off the road and headed south and then west, bypassing the camp, and before we knew it we were in the right place to find the screechers. The problem here is that there are lots of gorillas and bears around, and the screechers tend to wander across quite a range, so we'd chase after one only to get too close to a bear or a gorilla (or a bear and a gorilla) and have to fight those off and by the time we'd done that the screecher was even further away.
Luckily we only needed three each, and for each one we had to wave a special wand to gather the spirits. When we'd done that we spent a few minutes knocking over Hippogryphs - there's a quest back in Gadgetzan that needs an egg, but neither of us found any and we didn't hang about doing that for long; maybe the eggs we need come from a different area. We went north to pick up the road but before we got there we ran into a camp of Yetis and had to fight our way through.
When we reached the road we had a choice - go east and have to bypass Camp Mojache again, or go west and hope for the best. We went west.
The road brought us to the coast and we found a jetty, and after a short wait a boat showed up and we hopped aboard. We had no idea where the boat was going; for all we knew we were about to be taken right into a major Horde city, so we were especially watchful when we got to the boat's destination. Kate was the one to spot Darnassus-faction Night Elves on shore and then the boat pulled in at Feathermoon Stronghold, a Night Elf outpost on the north shore of an island.
The stronghold doesn't have much, but it does have a flightmaster. We explored a bit, including riding all over the small island to fill in our maps, and then we returned to the flightmaster and took off back to Gadgetzan, where we packed it in for the night. Next trip we'll run out to Steamwheedle Port to close out the Screecher quest, then we'll decide where to head next.
The Centipaar bugs are nasty, too - wasps and ground crawlers with levels from 47 to 50. The first couple we whacked weren't too bad but we made the mistake of going deeper into the lair, and that made us very vulnerable because we'd be whacking away at one of the bugs and then another would get a bit too close and then we'd have two of them on us, and then we'd be surrounded by three or more. I know I got wiped at least four times and I'm not sure how many times Kate caught it.
So we moved back to the north side of the lair for the last couple and things went much easier. Not every bug dropped the parts we needed but enough did that it didn't take us too long, and with that out of the way we rode back to Gadgetzan to hand over the parts.
We have a couple of open quests for which we need to go back to the Pirate enclave where we'd taken down Andre Firebeard, but I wasn't in the mood to go back there just yet. Instead we took a flight over to Thalanaar in Feralas and rode west from there intending to find some Screechers - flying snake-like things - for a quest a Night Elf in Steamwheedle Port had given us.
From Thalanaar we went a little bit north to pick up the road then went west through the forest. Feralas is reminiscent of Ashenvale in that it's heavily forested, but to me it seemed nicer. Maybe it's just me but Ashenvale seems dark and oppressing somehow, where Feralas is lighter.
We made good progress on the road and it was looking as if we'd get all the way to the Vale where we'd find the screechers without incident. Then we found Camp Mojache, a Horde settlement; the road went right into the camp, and at the gate were two guards, at least level 57. Luckily we saw them first.
We got off the road and headed south and then west, bypassing the camp, and before we knew it we were in the right place to find the screechers. The problem here is that there are lots of gorillas and bears around, and the screechers tend to wander across quite a range, so we'd chase after one only to get too close to a bear or a gorilla (or a bear and a gorilla) and have to fight those off and by the time we'd done that the screecher was even further away.
Luckily we only needed three each, and for each one we had to wave a special wand to gather the spirits. When we'd done that we spent a few minutes knocking over Hippogryphs - there's a quest back in Gadgetzan that needs an egg, but neither of us found any and we didn't hang about doing that for long; maybe the eggs we need come from a different area. We went north to pick up the road but before we got there we ran into a camp of Yetis and had to fight our way through.
When we reached the road we had a choice - go east and have to bypass Camp Mojache again, or go west and hope for the best. We went west.
The road brought us to the coast and we found a jetty, and after a short wait a boat showed up and we hopped aboard. We had no idea where the boat was going; for all we knew we were about to be taken right into a major Horde city, so we were especially watchful when we got to the boat's destination. Kate was the one to spot Darnassus-faction Night Elves on shore and then the boat pulled in at Feathermoon Stronghold, a Night Elf outpost on the north shore of an island.
The stronghold doesn't have much, but it does have a flightmaster. We explored a bit, including riding all over the small island to fill in our maps, and then we returned to the flightmaster and took off back to Gadgetzan, where we packed it in for the night. Next trip we'll run out to Steamwheedle Port to close out the Screecher quest, then we'll decide where to head next.
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