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Orcs Can Write?

Orcs Can Write? is a quest for level 1-20 in The Lost Isles. It is step 10 of 72 in The Lost Isles storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in The Lost Isles at 27.9, 75.5. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 350 experience.

Description

Looking through the dead orc's belongings, you find a field journal. Though it is heavily water damaged, the writing is still legible, if barely.

Flipping through the pages, an interesting story unfolds. Good thing you decided to study Orcish.

Like the Trade Prince's yacht, the orcs were fired upon by Alliance warships. You do remember an orc warship that you passed right before the Alliance opened fire. Maybe they were firing on the orcs instead of your ship?

Stupid orcs! They got you sunk!

Rewards

Experience350 XP
ReputationBilgewater Cartel +10
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP350
ReputationBilgewater Cartel+10

Reward details

Reputation: Bilgewater Cartel +10

Run by the ruthless Trade Prince Gallywix, the Bilgewater Cartel is the most powerful trading company on the Isle of Kezan. From their headquarters at Bilgewater Port, the cartel dominates trade all over the South Seas.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in The Lost Isles that reward Bilgewater Cartel reputation: Goblin Escape Pods (+250), Get Our Stuff Back! (+250), Monkey Business (+250), Miner Troubles (+250), Capturing the Unknown (+250), The Enemy of My Enemy (+10).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapThe Lost IslesTurn-in marker at 27.9, 75.5, 2 mapped points
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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.

The Lost Isles Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
The Lost Isles map showing where to go for Orcs Can Write?Turn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #174 27.9 75.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThe Lost Isles 27.9, 75.5/way #174 27.9 75.5
  • Objective areaThe Lost Isles 31.2, 74.1/way #174 31.2 74.1

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Getting there

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 160 yards east

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

The Lost Isles

Part 10 of 72.

Previous: Capturing the Unknown · Next: The Enemy of My Enemy

  1. 5Monkey Business
  2. 6It's Our Problem Now
  3. 7Help Wanted
  4. 8Miner Troubles
  5. 9Capturing the Unknown
  6. 10Orcs Can Write?
  7. 11The Enemy of My Enemy
  8. 12The Vicious Vale
  9. 13Weed Whacker
  10. 14Back to Aggra
  11. 15Forward Movement
  12. 16Infrared = Infradead

Showing steps 5 to 16 of 72.

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.

  • Capturing the UnknownThe Lost Isles · Level 1-20

    Heya, <name>, there are strange cave paintings and other artifacts all over the cavern. Do you think you could use your belt-mounted KTC Snapflash camera to capture images at the designated spots? Also, snap a pic of the altar in the back of the cavern. I'm sure that Sassy will want the intel.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Enemy of My EnemyThe Lost Isles · Level 1-20

    I hate to ask you to do this, but I guess it's why they pay you the big bucks. Can you deliver that dead orc's field journal to whoever is in charge up at their camp?

The storyline at a glance

The Lost Isles has 72 steps, from Don't Go Into the Light! to Message for Saurfang.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Lost Isles (71), Orgrimmar (1).

Other storylines on the Orgrimmar map

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.

Related
Orcish Groceries
Orcs and Humans
Orcs and Humans
Orcs are in Order
Order Among Chaos
Order from Chaos
Order of Incantations
Order of Magnitude
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