<\/div>World of Warcraft is now suffering from this.<\/p>\n
Pre-Cataclysm, these two idiots were standing here along with their horse and a loaded cart, giving out quests. Their story was that they had been driven from their homes by bandits and were fleeing Westfall. Their quests had you running around, gathering up stuff for them. One quest had you get feed for their horse by running around swiping sacks of oats from other farms.<\/p>\n
So now quests and locations are often references to how things used to be. This is not a bad thing, it’s just odd to see this phenomena appearing in a virtual world.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/div>We have arrived in Westfall to find a murder scene. One detective Horatio Laine is conducting an investigation. Since Norman is a rube, he stops to see if our help is needed.<\/p>\n
The detective turns to us, “Here’s the deal, kid …”<\/p>\n
“I’m twenty-five,” Norman says. “And my partner is like, a million years old or something.”<\/p>\n
“We’ve got a full-blown murder on our hands. Double homicide … Single horse … icide.”<\/p>\n
“Horse murder would be ‘equicide,'” Norman says.<\/p>\n
“Worse yet, we’re in Westfall. I could throw a rock behind me and hit a dozen hobos with enough motive to want to wipe these people (and horse) out.”<\/p>\n
“Motive? They were broke and homeless. The only thing they had of value was their horse, which was killed with them.”<\/p>\n
“Now I don’t know who did this and I sure don’t appreciate having to come to this dump to investigate the deaths of a couple of squatters…”<\/p>\n
“They weren’t squatting. They were passing through. You have no idea what words mean.”<\/p>\n
“…but I’ll be damned if I don’t find the perp. You want to help?”<\/p>\n
“Not particularly.”<\/p>\n
“Good. Go talk to some bums. The hobo … knows.”<\/p>\n
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