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Part II - Reaching Higher

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Wolffury was back to herself... Well, at least as much as a shapeshifting druid with the nickname "Moondance", gained from her fast and extensive shapeshifting can ever be. Still world didn't quite make sense yet. It was not about her memories, she once again recalled perfectly who she was and what she was doing. It was the present problem with the water. Specifically, the small sample of water from the Pools of Visions the Raven Council had managed to aquire at a great cost. As suspected, there was a faint smell of corruption there. Something definitely was wrong with the water, just as the Ancient and the Great Cat Spirit had both told her. The water also seemed to react to normal alchemical tests. It was just that the results didn't make much sense.

"Okay, narrow it down with comparing it to known elements" she told herself and started to mix a batch of water, adding a tiny drop of essence of undeath into it. And now the reacgent... Yes. Similar reaction, but not quite the same. Of all the essences the sample seemed to react most like the water she had mixed with essence of undeath, but still it was not the same. There were traces of reaction similar to all the basic elements of earth, water, fire and wind, too. She had never seen anything quite like it. "Damn, I guess one sample isn't enough" Wolffury said aloud, "I need more samples to compare this one with"

She was also very aware that it wasn't enough to analyze the sample itself. She had to be sure if the corruption came from Forsaken or if it was coming from somewhere else. Two new samples were needed. One watersample had to be taken somewhere near the very heart of the Forsaken territories so it would have a pure sample of their strain of corruption in it. And another sample... She wanted another sample that would prove or refute the possibility that the corruption was carried in the water itself in the clouds that rolled down south from far north above the Eastern Kingdoms and then sweeped across the ocean to Kalimdor to rain down when they had passed over barrens and met the mountain surrounding the Mulgore. She needed a sample from the winds high above the Eastern Kingdoms... There was only one place that high, higher than the mountains even. Unfortunately the way was long and dangerous. She needed friends again.

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Wolffen sat in her room in the Theramore Inn, looking at the schematics. Strange. She was quite sure her machine was wroking when she fired it up for the test in Moonglade, but now the crazy druid said the Great Cat Spirit had talked to her without the machine having any part in it... That can't be true, can it? This device, her beloved Plasmatronic Spiritual Communication Intensifier was her greatest invention to date, it was utterly impossible to think that she had spent seven weeks designing it and anothe five to wire up 500 golds worth of quality parts to produce something that did... Nothing. That couldn't be true. She needed another test. This time no little spirit would do... She needed to reach higher. Yes, a lot higher.

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Wolffury nodded absentmindedly... "Then... Well, then Zarhan gathered a group to help me in gathering two new water samples. One from Seradane and one from Undercity."

"I was in Scholomance, stealing some scourgefire from the undeads for my alchemy while the group went to Seradane for the first sample. There they met Wolffen, who had -according to her own words- doing some engineering tests there, but was stopped by dragons. Lead by Zarhan the group decided to go ahead and killed a few of the dragons that attacked them. Wolffen helped them and jumped with a parachute cloack to get a sample from one of the towers right below the Great Tree. After that, things went strange... Wolffen tested her invention but managed to only summon an infernal and right after that she suddenly started to turn uncontrollably into demon and back to herself again. Soon after she teleported out without any explanation."

"I met the group in Caer Darrow and we decided to sneak into Undercity Sewers to secure a sample from there. We got there unnoticed, but strangely enough I smelled very fresh tracks of Wolffen going into the sewers... Nothing happened untill I got the sample, but very soon after that Zarhan and Thrasir turned into zombies, attacking us and infecting everyone. The escape from tunnels was a chaos. I managed to escape with zombie-Zarhan into Moonglade and the druids healed him in nick of a time. We lost Thrasir, though. The last we saw of him was in tunnels."

"The tests with the samples clearly showed me that the corruption had originated from far north, most probably Northrend itself, and was not the work of the Forsaken undead of the Undercity. We decided to tell of these findings to anyone with power and authority to tackle the problem. Now there is only one thing left to find out... What happened to Wolffen and why exactly was she in the Undercity tunnels just before us?"