Quest

Terrapination

A World of Warcraft quest in Tanaris. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Sariko2010-12-15T19:16:55-06:00+19via Wowhead

I believe this quest title is a play on words. Terrapins are a type of turtle, and trepanation is the process of drilling a hole in the skull to alleviate pressure and supposedly alleviate insanity, which is relevant in this quest chain.

DocPooki2010-12-03T16:04:31-06:00+6via Wowhead

Easy quest. Only took about 5 kills to get the key.
If you're a Duke fan, it's probably best you fear the turtle.

faerogue2012-07-01T19:40:47-05:00+6via Wowhead

Kelsey has 2 quests before she offers you this one, killing Bilgewater survivors and finding the journal she's talking about in the quest text.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30

ZoneTanaris

Quest ID25063

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25063))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineTanaris, step 27 of 48

Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

We need to obtain the object described in this journal, for certain. Extracting it from a chest would be a feasible matter, but the object itself sounds compromised, and unstable. Attempting to forcefully open the chest could be disastrous. Fortunately, we know where the key is...statistically speaking, at least. There's plenty of sea turtles at the east end of this beach. One of them may hold the key.

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.

Coordinates

Turn-inTanaris 50.0, 82.9/way #71 50.0 82.9
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Tanaris 55.0, 87.3/way #71 55.0 87.3
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Tanaris 67.2, 59.1/way #71 67.2 59.1

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 Tanaris map

Violence Will Solve It about 880 yards
Butterfly Effects about 910 yards
The Fate We Make about 910 yards
Not Today, Fate about 920 yards
Tearing at the Seams about 1,290 yards
Short Circuit about 1,570 yards
Hero's Call: Uldum! about 1,640 yards
The Great Detective about 1,830 yards
Warn the Detective about 1,830 yards
Toy Trouble about 1,830 yards

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Tanaris, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Tanaris:

Gunstan's Dig, TanarisAlliance · about 760 yards west
Bootlegger Outpost, TanarisAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards north
Gadgetzan, TanarisAlliance · about 2,600 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 420 yards south-east
Objective areaabout 1,700 yards north-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.

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Money10 gold50 silver

Experience4,100 XP

Other quests on the Tanaris map

Storyline

Tanaris

Part 27 of 48.

Previous: What We Came For · Next: You Too, Brute?

Showing steps 22 to 33 of 48.

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.

What We Came ForTanaris · Level 15-30
Gnomeregan previously learned that the Bilgewater goblins of the Horde survived a crash on an uncharted island near Kalimdor before arriving in Durotar.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

You Too, Brute?Tanaris · Level 15-30
It's time to conclude this matter efficiently. From what we've determined, this mysterious object is in the possession of the "smart" brute described in the journal. We don't know exactly what's happened to this creature, obviously, so you should take caution. This...

The storyline at a glance

Tanaris has 48 steps, from Seaside Salvage to The Grand Tablet.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Tanaris (48).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Tanaris Quests Complete the Tanaris storylines listed below.

Other storylines on the Tanaris map

Suspicious Munitions7 steps, starts with Orders of Magnitude
Warbanding Together5 steps, starts with Warbands: Warbanding Together
Bronze Reconciliation7 steps, starts with No Limits
Cataclysm Chromie Time Breadcrumbs6 steps, starts with Cataclysm: Onward to Adventure in Kalimdor
Legion Engineering31 steps, starts with Aww Scrap!

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.