The 8.2.5 patch of World of Warcraft contains a fun quest. However, there are signs that it is just a fake from Blizzard…
The next patch of World of Warcraft can be tested on the PTR for a few days now. The Update 8.2.5 is still in an early state, but data miners are already diligently searching the game files for news and secrets.
In the process, they have found a rather strange quest. It is a bit silly, and this raises doubts about its authenticity. So far, only the “broadcast texts” have been read out, i.e., what NPCs say.
What is the quest about? The quest takes place in the Emerald Dreamway and involves several druids (and their companions and followers) who want to uncover a “terrible mystery.” Thisalee, Arthur, and some other druids are currently playing a game called “Don’t wake Naralex.” Apparently, they must take turns annoying the sleeping druid Naralex without waking him up.
During the game, they then hear a loud scream and rush to the scene. The forest nymph Mylune has screamed in panic because someone has apparently cruelly killed some rabbits. After a brief inquiry, “Detective Arthur” (as he calls himself) teams up with Thisalee to follow the trail.
In the process, the druids ask various characters, such as the fairy dragon Sparkle. Arthur even talks to a squirrel to find out something. This dialogue consists only of the words: “Squeak, Squeak, Squeak” – and that for quite a while. After the other druids praise and admire that he can apparently speak the “squirrel language,” he only comments on it with the words:
“No, I can’t. That didn’t help at all.”
This silliness permeates all the texts of the quest series.
It reads more like an adventure of a small group of children rather than a story of adult druids. That it seems so suspicious has another reason.
The DNT is suspicious: It is particularly noticeable that before every sentence in the quest series the note “[DNT]” can be found. This stands for “Do Not Translate” and is a hint for the various localization teams. It can really only mean two things:
- The texts are not final, and some details are still being changed.
- The texts do not need to be translated because they are a “fake.” They are a placeholder to obscure a story that is supposed to take place here.
Therefore, the suspicion arises that Blizzard has inserted a silly quest as a distraction to test the mechanics of the quest while not revealing the real contents yet.
Whether Blizzard just wants to mislead the data miners here or actually introduces such a “silly” quest that may lead to a dark secret remains to be seen. In any case, the story writers seemed to have a lot of fun creating this quest.
What do you think of this quest series? Could it come into the game like this? What could Blizzard be hiding there?
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