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Warcraft: The Gurubashi Restoration

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Darkspear tribe, Bethekk-blessed, horribly messed up by Dust of Bwonsamdi which removes regeneration from trolls permanently where it gets them. Head of Intrigue, main/best assassin/rogue you've got. Runs a cadre of rogues known as Shadow Haunters.

EDIT: Turn post will be up tomorrow. Tried to finish it tonight but I'm exhausted.
 
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Oh man, this update was great and happy to see quest again.

Sadly Greyvine gone to power madmen to harm an Aspect itself, goes to show how dangerous they really are. At least we are allied with the green dragons by a common cause now.

Good to know we are attacking from a path our enemies don't expect, we should work more on that and make sure built up for war with new allies.
 
Damn, sucks for the Greyvines. Hey Torroar, was there ever a chance of rescuing them?

Also, it's great to see this story updating again.
 
I presume that we had a chance, but it was based on rolls that were happening 'in the background' for stuff relevant to Stranglethorn Vale but not taking place directly in STV. So, Atal'ai were probably being rolled-for, because they're story-relevant to the story of the Trolls. Duskwood -- though I think at this stage that area is actually called Brightwood right now? weird to think about -- might be getting rolls, because as our near north neighbors they might be relevant to us. There might be some random event rolls for "Do Goblins show up in STV or not?" to see if Booty Bay gets founded in a given decade or not. The Darkspear might or might not be getting rolls done.

So, the fate of the Greyvines depended partly on off-screen rolls, and also probably partly on our own recovery speed too. If we were fast enough and went looking for the Greyvines fast enough, and if their rolls were good enough and the Hakkar-worshippers bad enough, or the Green Dragonflight rolls good enough to make up for that, then it might have been possible or plausible to run into the Greyvines still alive at some point.
 
I wonder if after this when can get in good enough with the greenflight to reveal more of the Gurubashi lost history.
 
Mavs said:
I wonder if after this when can get in good enough with the greenflight to reveal more of the Gurubashi lost history.
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Could always offer to help heal their Aspect after this is all done too, if they are willing of course.

Honestly, I am surprised that the trolls in general don't treat the Aspects as physical Loa considering their control of their aspect of the world in general.
 
It's a subject of great confusion for them. Wisps, for example, are technically Loa in the eyes of the early troll druids following Gonk's instruction on the matter.

I personally just don't think they're in contact with her. Probably for the best: can you imagine if Deathwing had been in contact with the Nerubians, or Malygos with the Mogu? Total overkill.
 
now i'm imagining the Lich King facing off against the combined might of the Nerubians and the black dragonflight.

shut up and take my money.

(and now i'm reminded of Warcraft: Kingdoms. which stopped updating 7 years ago. and now I've made myself sad.)
 
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From the report though, it sounds like they should be weak to a siege, to block off the supply of blood. Or at least raids on their hunting parties...
 
daemonkeeper said:
From the report though, it sounds like they should be weak to a siege, to block off the supply of blood. Or at least raids on their hunting parties...
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Honestly a siege seems a bad idea since who knows if Hakkar can't feed off a prolonged conflict, and of course his cultist just using themselves as fuel against us.

Taking advantage of their gap in defenses to go for a quick decapitation strike sounds best, especially before Hakkar's followers can empower themselves.
 
Yea, getting a hammer hard enough to basically smack their altar, kill all the top priest, destroy Hakkar foundational power, before going for a mop up to the rest of the force is prob the best course of action.

This will mean that parts of them will escape and one we'll have to put a long guerilla war and pursuit for them. Granted, the alternative of grinding them down means we get to kill all of them thoroughly but Hakkar will be juiced up enough when we reach the temple.
 
Not to be rude, but is this quest still worth engaging with? It's been literal years between updates. I don't want to get all hyped about this being back only for it to go dark for another two years.
 
Jonnoda said:
Not to be rude, but is this quest still worth engaging with? It's been literal years between updates. I don't want to get all hyped about this being back only for it to go dark for another two years.
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Fair reaction to have but as a writer let me tell you, shit is tough, especially nowadays.

Life don't care if you've got the muse, the groove, and all the moves, if it has demands then you can't write, and that's if you've got the energy to do it in the first place.

We're all living in interesting times my man, and the fact we even saw the sunrise is probably more of a blessing than it's comfortable thinking about.

Sometimes quests update quick, sometimes they update slow, just the nature of the beast my dude. In my opinion though, the quality is always worth the wait with Torroar quests.

The man is a craftsman when it comes to engaging storytelling.
 
Jonnoda said:
Not to be rude, but is this quest still worth engaging with? It's been literal years between updates. I don't want to get all hyped about this being back only for it to go dark for another two years.
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As someone who loves writing and tries to put out good omakes here and there, and even tried to do a quest one time, all to the best of my abilities, let me say that writing is hard.

Also, I know you said that you don't want to come off as rude, but saying 'is this quest still worth engaging with' and 'I don't want to get all hyped about this being back only for it to go dark for another two years' is very disheartening for any GM to hear.

BTW, Thank you for the update @torroar, you did a great job with Jojo's and Itharius's interactions, I hope we can be friends with the Green Dragonflight someday.

R.I.P Greyvine Tribe, you guys deserved better. The Hakkari will know our vengance.
 
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Deamen1989 said:
Troll druids already exist in Zandalar. They serve Gonk, the Loa of the hunt.
Some other Loa's are supposed to give the Druid class to their priests but the lore is more vague.
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Yea he is the Loa of the Zandalari trolls, not of the Jungle trolls, we could get our own with Ysera

yes we acknowledged Gonk, but he is not our own
 
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Thule said:
Yea he is the Loa of the Zandalari trolls, not of the Jungle trolls, we could get our own with Ysera

yes we acknowledged Gonk, but he is not our own
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Lot's of Loa are worshipped by more than one tribe. I think it will be a lot easier to get Gonk's blessing to worship him to than Ysera's.
I also doubt that Ysera would be willing to sponsor Trolls. Troll savagery aside her greatest mortal allies are the Night Elves, who don't like Trolls.

Plus getting more Loa support is a good thing. Loa only demand exclusive worship from their priests, so getting more of them shouldnt piss them off (so long it isn't Hakkar). Jo Jo has already got Korga's attention and has build a port, so building a temple of Gral, Loa of the Sea and getting his blessing would be a massive boon.

Btw, i already posted about this a few years ago. Jo Jo stats on his character page are to low considering his Traits and blessings.
Am i missing something or has it been a while since it was updated.
 
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Deamen1989 said:
Lot's of Loa are worshipped by more than one tribe. I think it will be a lot easier to get Gonk's blessing to worship him to than Ysera's.
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Sure it might be easier to get Gonk's blessing, but i think its more worth it to get Ysera's as she has other benefits that would be great for our empire
Deamen1989 said:
I also doubt that Ysera would be willing to sponsor Trolls. Troll savagery aside her greatest mortal allies are the Night Elves, who don't like Trolls.
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Night Elves are more neutral with the trolls, sure they have fought wars with them before, but that was long time ago, and they are friends with the dark trolls, and the Jungle trolls lands are far from the NE lands, even in the past, so i would not think they would have fought with the Jungle trolls even then
 
Travler66 said:
As someone who loves writing and tries to put out good omakes here and there, and even tried to do a quest one time, all to the best of my abilities, let me say that writing is hard.

Also, I know you said that you don't want to come off as rude, but saying 'is this quest still worth engaging with' and 'I don't want to get all hyped about this being back only for it to go dark for another two years' is very disheartening for any GM to hear.
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I don't get your point? Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism has been updated regularly for the past five years with no major breaks whereas this one languishes for years without any input before suddenly updating for a bit. Until today the last update was August 28, 2020. In that time Dynamic Alcoholism has had, to my rough count, 69 updates. Torroar is one of my favorite authors, to this day Rise of the Mag'har is one of my favorite quests, but that's not received updates in years either.

If he finds my question disheartening or insulting he can tell me myself and he doesn't need others to defend him. He's one of the most prolific writers on this site, but facts are facts. This quest like many others are basically abandoned for years before getting one or more updates and then being left behind, again.

I've got no desire to get all hyped up and engage with this, only for it to wither on the vine, again, like it did two years ago.
 
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