TheWoWDBIf you bug out during the cutscene, logging in and out fixed it for me. Reload did not help.
ETA: I was on a druid.
Quest
The Queen's Chains
A World of Warcraft quest in City of Threads. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Am I missing something? The quest, dialogue, and cinematic up to this point give no information that the first Ascended monster is in fact the Queen. Y'tekhi and Lillian just randomly know this information?
Also, it's goofy that the Blizzard Entertainment title card and War Within expansion splash show during the cinematic.
Yet another cutscene where the voices bug out and require a full relaunch to get back. Why the hell does this keep happening?
Quest facts
Quest ID79239
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(79239))
What to do
StorylineNews from Below, step 6 of 10
Rewards15g 49s, 5,900 XP
Description
Ansurek... that worm, that witless, gutless little-- <Y'tekhi growls under their breath, struggling to maintain their composure.> If this is what's become of Neferess, we must free her. She is still our queen. My mistress will know what to do. When the Weaver discovers what they've all done, there will not be a crevice deep enough to escape her wrath.
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.
Nearby on the City of Threads map
- Dropping Eaves: Saving the Past about 60 yards
- Wet Work: Step Into Their Parlor about 130 yards
- Spiders! about 180 yards
- Pulling Strings about 260 yards
- Information Control: The Right Side of History about 300 yards
- Testing Formulae: Gelatinous Unguent about 350 yards
- Wet Work: Death of a Salesman about 360 yards
- Espionage and Ventriloquism about 400 yards
- Marionette Mercy about 400 yards
- Social Clues about 420 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on City of Threads, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on City of Threads:
- The Burrows, Azj-Kahet
- Wildcamp Ul'ar, Azj-Kahet
- Mmarl, Azj-Kahet
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- 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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Money15 gold49 silver
Experience5,900 XP
Other quests on the City of Threads map
Storyline
News from Below
Part 6 of 10.
This is the 2nd chapter of the max level campaign, in Zone 5.
Previous: Making of a Monster · Next: Rogue Agent
- 1Gathering Intel
- 2A Spider's-Eye View
- 3Creeping Through Corridors
- 4Lab Access
- 5Making of a Monster
- 6The Queen's Chains
- 7Rogue Agent
- 8Go Loud
- 9Manufactured Mutiny
- 10News From Below
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.
- Making of a Monster
We've got a new objective: Figure out what Ansurek's plans are for this... thing. We'll find our answers inside the laboratory of the Grand Splicer. I'd bet my blades on it. I scouted a maintenance hatch on the roof that you can grapple up to.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Rogue Agent
We lost Y'tekhi. We can worry about the how of it later. Right now, we need to worry about taking them down before they make things worse. <Lilian snorts.> I guess we came down here to find out what Xal'atath had up her sleeve. ...I wish we'd minded our own business.
The storyline at a glance
News from Below has 10 steps, from Gathering Intel to News From Below.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): City of Threads (6), Azj-Kahet (3), Isle of Dorn (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the City of Threads map
- Pawns and Puppetry
- To Kill a Queen
- Plans within Plans
- Grieve & Weave
- Pillar-nest of Horrors
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.