Siren's Song

'First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them. If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song. There is a great heap of dead men's bones lying all around, with the flesh still rotting off them. Therefore pass these Sirens by, and stop your men's ears with wax that none of them may hear; but if you like you can listen yourself, for you may get the men to bind you as you stand upright on a cross-piece half way up the mast, and they must lash the rope's ends to the mast itself, that you may have the pleasure of listening. If you beg and pray the men to unloose you, then they must bind you faster.'

- Odyssey

This is indeed a reference to The Odyssey. There are some obvious big differences between the real story and this quest, but anybody who's read the story can see the base similarities. In the story, Odysseus put wax from bees into the ears of the crew so they couldn't hear the Sirens' Song. Without getting into too much detail, Odysseus went into Hades (the Underworld) and spoke with Tiresias who had warned him of many dangers, one of which being the Sirens. However, due to curiosity and navigational purposes, Odysseus ordered the crew to tie him up (similar to the way you are tied up in the

Cool little quest. Anybody know the /script for the song she sings? I actually dropped the quest and redid it just to hear it once more. It really was quite captivating @_@