I have returned to the Barrens to do some exploring, for the most part. The biggest downside is that the Barrens is huge. Since I don’t have a mount of any sort quite yet (they are very expensive), I have to walk everywhere in the area–I’ve been spending most of my time here walking between places.
At the Crossroads I ran into an orc who said he had lost his wife in the South Barrens to some sort of boar-like creature. Since I don’t normally help people out of the good of my heart, the orc was offering a few silvers to find her and beat up on the boar-creatures. The creatures were pathetically easy to kill, despite the occasional poisoned spear thrown in my general direction by them. I did find the orc’s wife, albeit in a very not-alive sort of way. He took the news like any member of the Horde would–stoically vowing revenge on the creatures to the end of his days. Upon my return to the Crossroads, a Tauren asked me to find and collect the eggs of some kind of scorpion–I don’t remember which particular kind. Finding the eggs was easy; the hard part was actually harvesting them from the pods they were stored in. It seems that approaching the pods causes the rest of the hive to attack you, which is quite painful. Nothing a few well-placed Shadow Bolts can’t handle, though. I killed my fair share of the scorpions and collected the requisite number of eggs. The Tauren was honourable enough to give me a fire-resistant cloak in addition to nearly twenty silvers, which I of course immediately swapped in for my old cloak.
Once I get back into a major town, or find someone in a helpful mood, I should be able to post a more recent picture of myself for you to see.
