Trip to the unknown.
As there was a new morning on the stormwind this time our three adventurers didn’t wake up from each one from their own room but than all of them waken up from room of Nichard, Dinhu and Nikster sleeping on their own sleeping bags.
First wakes up Nikster
“Ah! Its a Morning! my favorite part of the day!” - Nikster.
Dinhu wakes up, stretches, stands up and calmly goes to watering the plants looking at his friend Nichard worried.
“I wonder how long time we have before hes gone in to full Mojo madness…” - He says.
“Enough.” Answers Nikster conforting his worried friend.
“Trolls Trolls Trolls” - Nichard.
“Do you know what day it is Nikster?” - Questions Dinhu after zipping his morning tea.
“No, Dinhu, i dont know!” - Nikster says.
“It’s the day, we must prepare to get to the Durotar and find Rushorn.” - Dinhu.
“Trolls Trolls Trolls” - Nichard repeats.
“Alright! Let me just tie Nichard up and order him some feeding and water!” - Nikster.
“You’re a great friend, always caring of.” - Dinhu
As our brave heroes farewells Nichard, Barmaid, Locals. They steps out from the Pig and Whistle Inn
At the gates of Stormwind Dinhu asks from the Nikster:“Are you sure, you want to lead us? not saying i doubt you but…”. “Yes, yes just follow me.” Answers the Nikster to Dinhu, and so them started moving towards the Goldshire.
Upon reacing the Goldshire, Where the brave heroes of the Alliance usually gather to drink and tell their stories of theirs, they buy their needs: some bread loafs, cheese and salad for Dinhu of course.
From there they moves to the Darkshire, The once beautiful city now plagued by the curse of the Worgens caused because one men, One men too greedy to steal something from the creatures of the dark.
“Its very dark here, and cold.” Says Nikster.
“Yes, this place is full of dangers, lets not light the torch” - Dinhu.
Creeping Howl is heard and suddently there are it.
A worgen walking across the road
“Do not wake up his curiousity Nikster” - Says Dinhu quietly.
“Pshh why i would wake his curiousity up!?” - Nikster says somewhat loudly.
The worgen looks straight at to them.
“Now you did it Nikster, Now you did it and now you run, i will catch you just run to the safe!” - Dinhu
And so did the Nikster run, looks back to Dinhu and sees Dinhu turning in to a Bear and jumping on the troath of Worgen, Worgen howling and scratching Dinhu with all of his power. Nikster runs to the brige that is between Zul’Gurub and Duskwood and hides behind a tree close by it and after a sometime Nikster feels a tap on his shoulder, its Dinhu clearly after a battle, some bruises and clothes teared apart. Dinhu looks at the Nikster and says: “Well, seems like you’ve picked the most dangerous way of course, and now it gets only more dangerous as we have to get trought the Zul’Gurub jungle to the Booty bay.”
“Eh… Ye!”- Agrees Nikster.
As they crossed the bridge and moved to the entrance of Zul’Gurub an arrow flew close by their heads, only hearing the air flowing on their ears.
“This arrow belongs to the Headhunters that has been made a oath to guard the Hordes in there Zul’Gurub with all their life so gaining Thralls Blessing to enter back again at Orgrimmar to make trades and so not being isolated from the horde.” - Dinhu.
“How do you know?” - Nikster questions.
“Because as you can see there are the a small carvings tied to it and if you look close at them you can see what it is about. each representing something, this time clearly who is the shooter and another one being a Tribe sigil of the headhunters.” - Dinhu
The Two carvings, One in shape of a small head of a troll tied of the body of arrow itself and second one is in a coin shape with a hole carved on to it and it is hung from the arrow with a knot and as small details inside of it are carved somewhat beetle like sigil and a dot
“Alright, thats obvious.” - Says Nikster
“This must has been a warning shot that if we move even further they are after us as it didnt hit, these headhunters are known of their aim… as you can see from the skeletons laying on the ground a little further up from here.” - Dinhu
Nikster looks little further and sees human, gnome, dwarf and night elf bones all over the road and the place looking like Kodo graveyard. Then Nikster looks at the feets of him and there are a skull next to him, He chooses to kick it because it irritates him and straight away there are new arrow flying straight to the head piercing it. Nikster takes step back and stumbles in to a skeleton bones, looks at the skeleton and notices it is a gnome and there are something wierd of it, there are no toe bones on it, Nikster turns blue and says shaking of fear
“… I-i’ve used t-this way thousand of times b-but always have used the short cut… and so havnt m-met any of these d-d-dangers…” - Nikster
“Now you saying… Dinhu sighs wheres the short cut at?” - Asks Dinhu.
“T-there are this small camp closeby, w-we have to go there and climb up the hills and then head t-to south, from there we will swim tr-trought the stream Nikster collects himself and continues… and then there are another camp, known of the collectors of raptors teeths and tiger hides, from there we will head south till i say.” - Answers Nikster.
“Im starting to get worried of your so called plan.” - Dinhu says.
So our adventures slept at the camp and at the next morning climbed to the hill, swam trought the stream filled with crocodiles, saw the camp of known tiger hide traders and raptor teeth collectors and headed in to the jungle.
Itself the jungle we’re beautiful, filled with old carvings and once was temples, now the arrow of time has hitted to them and they have been starting to slowly crush. All kind of wierd vines entagled everywhere, beautiful flowers blooming from them and as Nikster was looking the beatiful flower an fly flew on to it and GULP! the flower reveals its true form as an trap and swallows the fly instantly. “What a wonderfull world.”- Nikster says while watching the flies after one after one fell to the same trap of these flowers while all this accompanied with frogs croaking and the gulps from these flowers and in the Zul’Gurub jungle there are also spiders weaving their webs on the vines of the jungle making the trees that has been overcome by the vines look like they are having a coat made of vines and webs and the flowers are adding the details to the coat making it look that some may even call beautifull. There are also small apes playing and jumping from tree to tree seeking fruits to eat and wonderful birds flying on the sky.
“There it is.” - Nikster says to Dinhu points towards and Dinhu looks there and sees barricaded camp where thick smoke are rising to the air.
“That is a Horde camp! Do not say this includes in your plan somehow and do not say we aren’t goin to the Booty bay.” Says Dinhu.
“Ye it sure is and we aren’t goin to the Booty bay! but look, Look there!” - Nikster points to the Zeppelin arriving on there to the highest of the buildings.
“That is what we are goin to use!” - Nikster says excited!
“You are insane! How we are goin to get inside of it with out noticed? Even i could prowl there and inside the Zeppelin, it is highly dangerous and i cannot summon you there! as i am not a Warlock if you haven’t noticed!” - Dinhu says seriously.
“Listen up my friend. They are having a small balcony on the lowest floor at the back of the Zeppelin, you prowl there, and there are a robe bound in the railing by purpose, as you see, the Zeppelins are owned by goblins and they care a lot of the gold more than the fight between Horde and a Alliance, We are not the first and not the last stowaways that they are having.” - Nikster says proudly of his knowledge and secure of his plan succeeding.
“Alright, as you wish, lets wait to the night and lets fulfill our plan…” - Dinhu says insecure
So has the night arrived and Dinhu uses his druidic skills to turn in to panther and prowls in to the shadows and starts sneaking in the camp, There are huge bonfire at the middle of it as the light of the fire is huge danger to Dinhu he tries to avoid the light as it would reveal him to the Hordes, especially those that looks like headhunters from the Zul’Gurub and are gathered close by the bonfire and are deadly dangerous to any alliance. They are known to seek alliances down in the jungle with a fury and without a mercy killing them no matter of the race stealing all they can from the corpses and as Dinhu looks some of them they are comparing their catch from the hunt, some has only couple ten toes from the gnomes and some gold coins some having huge pile of toes and some high quality armors and gold, Understandably they are happy of the armors and gold but weird enough they seems to be most happy of having those toes and they are celebrating all this via singing and drinking also there are one of them that is sitting quietly carving something from the wood looking very focused and same time warming his feets on the bonfires warm glow, then out of nowhere one horde gets the attention of everyone’s as he enters to the camp and all in there goes quiet. He is carrying a huge sag in his pack and other hand flipping a golden coin and also he is wearing a golden crown, a cloak braided of a silver thread, close to ten necklaces on his neck, gold and silver rings on his fingers and top of that his deep blue skin is cowered with a tattooed totemic sigils… “This must be a Shaman” - Dinhu thoughts. Shaman slowly walks closer of the headhunters while everyone is looking carefully his every step, Then the shaman yells something that alliance cannot understand and cheers to the headhunters and all the headhunters joins the cheer, when the Shaman has reached the gathering of the headhunters he empties his sag on the ground, Hundreds of toes spreading to the ground, He takes off the cape, necklaces and rings, but keeps the crown on his head that he seems to be attached to, and toss them on the same pile, Then he sits with the company accompanied with admiration and cheering of others, He takes a bottle of booze from the hand of the smallest of the headhunters and takes a long gulp from the bottle then spitting the booze in to the bonfire making him look like breathing fire and everyone starts clapping and admiring him loudly. Dinhu notices that they seem to be little nervous under all of their cheering and drinking and gets a feeling that they are waiting someone, but as it isn’t important to him, he continues to prowl closer of the Zeppelin tower.
Dinhu checks has the Zeppelin yet arrived and the Hordes waiting it, its not. There are all sort from the ranks of the Horde, Beginner mages carrying their spell books, Young hunters and Warrior’s talking all the dangers they encountered in the Jungle, Druids happily sitting on the dock watching the calm sea, Old scarred veterans of the Horde standing quietly and militarily and one goblin taking the price from them for the upcoming fly to the Durotar.
Dinhu notices the Zeppelin that rides through the skies and arrives to the docks
Goblin yells: “Welcome to Zeppelin to the Durotar! Please all pay up!” and checks some rogues from the pack of the crowd and the rogues seems disappointed and talking each other that sounds like some kind of cursing, All the people enters in to the zeppelin and last but not least our Dinhu prowls inside of it throught the Goblin that winks suddenly “Damn, something flew to my eye, damn these flies and the bugs of the Zul’Gurub!” he yells and so Dinhu is off the hook and keeps prowling in to the lower floor and sees a sign hang in the entrance of the floor written with two text: one contains some nonsense he does not understand: “This must be how horde writes, its so messy and what are those small orc heads” Dinhu laughs inside of his head because of how stupid the heads looks in the text Below are a another text that is more understandable: “Lower roof. Anything you see or anyone you meet there, never have been there.” And a there are a warning sign below of everything.
Dinhu starts to prowl behind to the balcony and sees the rope bound on the rail and are filled with joy that Nikster was right but suddenly someone grabs his fur and says: “Payment please, 1 gold each person.” it is one of the Goblins wearing a hood and a scarf pulled on his face cowering almost completely it…
Dinhu turns in to Night elf form and pays the ride for 1g
“Eh, You partner too. Do you think we didn’t notice the Gnome hiding outside of the Barracks of Grom’gol base camp?”.
“So that is the name of the camp” Dinhu thinks and hands the payment.
“Alright, now you’re free to go!” Says the Goblin and walks to the front of the lower roof walking from the small door that is clearly made only for the size of a goblins… and gnomes of course.
Dinhu walks to the balcony and sees Nikster and waves to him as sign to everything is okay and Nikster thumbs up to Dinhu and Dinhu throws the robe over the railing.
Zeppelin starts its engines and starts moving and Nikster grabs the rope and starts climbing it, Dinhu looks back to the Grom’gol base camp and sees the Headhunters of the Horde now with company, Couple of wealthy looking Warlocks buying the toes, Couple of rogues buying the jewelry from the headhunters that they have gathered during the hunt. The most interesting is the auctioneering of the toes everyone giving a bid for the catch depending of the quality of the toes, how used they are and how fresh, Old toes goin much cheaper than young ones, Warlocks carefully measuring and weighs the toes. Its rare to see that amount of gold swapping owners in such a short time.
Nikster gets to the balcony and looks with Dinhu at the Grom’gol base camp slowly disappearing from sight.
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