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I wanted to share a little quest I was doing in Outlands earlier. It’s a series of quests actually, each time you rescue the same idiot from ogres that he keeps getting captured by. But I’ve kind of jumped into this without the proper introduction, so here it goes.

Currently, I’m level 67 (nearing 68 actually, hooray for flight form!) and questing in Nagrand (finishing up as the case may actually be) a zone in Outland. There’s a lot of ogres in Nagrand. One of the quests you run across in one of these ogre camps is a quest to free a Draenei named Corki from a cage where he was being held by the ogres (and yelling at them to just eat him so he could get away from their stench). Corki is a level 60 NPC, so I chock this capture up to a run of bad luck while walking around and figure setting him free is the right thing to do. I kill some ogres, grab a key, and Corki is off to the races and back, one would assume, to the village of Telaar a safe-haven.

I return to Telaar to tell Corki’s father of my feat and get my reward (Corki’s father, it appears, is also the “leader” of the town.) After talking with his father, I find out that Corki has once again been captured, not 5 minutes after I let him free. Now I’m a bit annoyed. I mean, what kind of bozo doesn’t have the basic brain functions to go back to a safe place rather than wander down the road in search of more ogres to aggravate with taunts and jeers and some well placed assumptions about their mothers’. But, okay, I’ll give it to him. I’m not happy about it, but I’ll rescue the twerp, against Darwin’s better judgement.

Now it’s off to another ogre camp to find Corki once again and free him from the clutches of the ogres (at this point I was almost hoping he would be boiling in a large pot when I got there, as Corki’s pops didn’t say anything about the condition he had to be in when I brought him back (and if it came right down to it, I’m pretty sure I could kick the crap out of Corki Sr. and take his 3 gold)).

So, off I go in search of the elusive Corki at another ogre camp. Once again I find him in a cage, ogres on all sides which I must first…take care of…to acquire the key. After some brief ogre genocide I found the bum with the key and head for the cage to let Corki go; a second time. I unlock, Corki runs, and all is once again right in the world. Now all that’s left is the running back to town to grab some gold from the distressingly lazy. I get back, and here’s what I see before me after telling the sperm donor that his son is safe:

Now, on some levels, I find this amusing (see underlined portion) but on others I find it just frustrating. Quite frankly, this oxygen waster can be swallowed alive and whole by an ogre because he has it coming. I’m now rooting for the filthy wretches rather than against them. If not for the blue items now being offered I would leave Corki to become the next meal (and if my assumption about ogre eating habits two sentences earlier is true, Corki will probably be coming out eventually anyway).

It occurs to me at this point that the ogres have the right idea, when he gets back to town throw him in a cage so he can’t run off again, that’ll teach him a lesson for sure!

Blizzard, World of warcraft, outland, burning crusade, nagrand, Corki, quests, quest chains, amusing pics