TheWoWDBBefore you stand around like an idiot like I did, confused as to why quests suddenly stopped coming, it's worth mentioning that you must not only complete Discretion is Key but also accept and turn in the quest The Battle for Hillsbrad which is given by the [item=63250] (that you looted from [npc=47789]) before [npc=47781] will give you this quest and life (or un-life) will go on.
Quest
A Lost Lad
A World of Warcraft quest in Hillsbrad Foothills. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Poor Lydon also offers these gems:
Sombody shut this little girl up!
KILL ME OR KILL THE GIRL!
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR STILLWATER! KILL ME! DO IT NOW!
How much longer are you going to cry?And,
Is this Stillwater's plan? To torture me before he kills me?
My Blood Elf died a little more inside when he saw this quest. I, on the other hand, laughed my ass off.
Dumass is still my favorite though.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 7-30
Quest ID28206
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28206))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Requires all ofDiscretion is Key, For Science!, The Battle for Hillsbrad
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineHillsbrad Foothills, step 10 of 39
Rewards2,050 XP
Description
It was only yesterday that I sent him out to investigate the farm directly east of here, but it feels like an eternity has passed! True perfection. The way his blond locks framed his perfect blood elf face... Such strength. I didn't want to send him away, but he insisted! How could I refuse him? Alas, poor Johnny Awesome has not returned! I fear the worst, {name}. Find him!
Where to go
Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.
Turn-inObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #25 40.3 59.4
Coordinates
- Turn-inHillsbrad Foothills 40.3, 59.4
/way #25 40.3 59.4 - Objective areaHillsbrad Foothills 36.2, 61.1
/way #25 36.2 61.1
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Nearby on the Hillsbrad Foothills map
- Honor the Flame about 760 yards
- An Unexpected Message about 910 yards
- The Path of Atonement about 910 yards
- Clearing the Highlands about 1,560 yards
- Alina's Reward about 1,570 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Hillsbrad Foothills, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Hillsbrad Foothills:
- 12.1 Ulatek - Faction Feature - Temple - Traversal - Flight Master - Eastern Entrance (HCR)
- Amani Foothold
- Eastern Entrance
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.
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Experience2,050 XP
ReputationUndercity +75
Other quests on the Hillsbrad Foothills map
Reward details
Reputation: Undercity +75
Led by Sylvanas Windrunner, the Forsaken have joined a tenuous alliance with the Horde and established this capital in the vast depths under the Ruins of Lordaeron.
Reputation group: Horde.
Other quests in Hillsbrad Foothills that reward Undercity reputation: Empire of Dirt (+250), Warchief's Command: Hillsbrad Foothills! (+250), Welcome to the Machine (+250), Trouble at Azurelode (+10), Glorious Harvest (+250), Past Their Prime (+350).
Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.
Storyline
Hillsbrad Foothills
Part 10 of 39.
Previous: The Battle for Hillsbrad · Next: Freedom for Lydon
- 5Deep Mine Rescue
- 6No One Here Gets Out Alive
- 7Discretion is Key
- 8For Science!
- 9The Battle for Hillsbrad
- 10A Lost Lad
- 11Freedom for Lydon
- 12Protocol
- 13Do it for Twinkles
- 14Burnside Must Fall
- 15A Blight Upon the Land
- 16*Gurgle* HELP! *Gurgle*
Showing steps 5 to 16 of 39.
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
Before this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Battle for Hillsbrad
The journal documents the last 62 days of Clerk Horrace Whitesteed's life. In it is written damning allegations against Warden Stillwater and his activities at the Sludge Fields. You should show this to the warden. He will undoubtedly have an explanation for what is written in this journal.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Freedom for Lydon
This place is no farm! Stillwater has been experimenting on the humans of Hillsbrad. The monstrosities here are all his creations. That's not the worst of it, <class>. The aberrations that have the key to my cage are former Forsaken.
The storyline at a glance
Hillsbrad Foothills has 39 steps, from Welcome to the Machine to Extinction.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Hillsbrad Foothills (39).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Hillsbrad Foothills map
- Arathi Highlands
- Felo'melorn
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.