The Ookin Rum Guards carry the keys. The keys do NOT stack - collect a key, open a cage, collect another key... The good news is that if you are stealthed, opening the cage does not break the stealth.
Quest
A Pirate's Life For Me
A World of Warcraft quest in Stormsong Valley. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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If you're a rogue, you can simply pick the locks without farming the keys, but you have to click the skill first, and then the cage
Quest facts
The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(51855))
Requirements
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Children Rescued x 6
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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #942 38.1 56.5
Coordinates
- Objective areaStormsong Valley 38.1, 56.5
/way #942 38.1 56.5
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 Stormsong Valley map
- I Want It All Now about 130 yards
- We're Not Friends about 200 yards
- The Proof of Piracy about 200 yards
- Cave Commotion about 200 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 230 yards
- From the Depths about 230 yards
- A Snake with Three Heads about 240 yards
- Clearing the Delta about 240 yards
- Earl-E Bot Gets the Worm about 270 yards
- Don't Turtle about 270 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Stormsong Valley, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Stormsong Valley:
- Deadwash, Stormsong Valley
- Stonetusk Watch, Stormsong Valley
- Fort Daelin, Stormsong Valley
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.
Community notes from Wowhead · 7 comments
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If there are other players doing the quest (almost guaranteed), you will have a real HARD time getting the keys!
Other quests on the Stormsong Valley map
Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Stormsong Valley map
- A House in Peril
- Secrets of Stormsong Valley
- Deadwash Line
- Defense of Fort Daelin
- Not the Bees!
- Milstone Hamlet
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.
Achievements
Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.
- Wide World of Quests: its criteria name 849 quests, this one included.