Thursday, November 27, 2008

spoilers and moral dilemma

There are very few poison quests Kuanchichi has done. He doesn't trust the apothecaries of the Forsaken, and agrees with the Druid standing at the entrance of Stonetalon mountains that the Shaman and Druid both have a relationship with Nature, and should act against those who poison it.

Kuan hasn't done the poison quests Lydon hands out in Hillsbrad, and still refuses them. One quest he did, at the direction of Master Gadrin, to down Shadra. That turned into a poison quest for Lydon and he was very upset.

In Dragonblight, in Agmar's Hammer, the Apothecaries asked him to take a package, and he did. But the Earthwarden there said they were up to no good, and when the "Plaguebringer" in Venomspite asked him to get ingredients for "Blight," he refused, thinking that sounds too much like poison.

All well and good right? It's a role playing game and that is how he is.

Until, I hear from Amy the barista about a quest chain that teaches us about Sylvanas. and from Patrick about the quest line that gives him "chills". From guildies about how "Wrathgate is awesome." From everyone else about cut scenes. "Do the blight quest, it's worth it."

It's hard to make good RP decisions when the player knows a little but not everything more than the character. Sigh, I did go and look up the blight chain. I guess it's not poison, per se, since it appears to be mustard gas to use on the Scourge.

So I did do the quest. The cut scene is pretty damned awesome. And the end result, Kuanchichi has a permamently changed game environment that makes him actually pretty satisfied... and more than that is a spoiler I won't post here.

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