The Absent Minded Prospector

Sulfuras · quest entry 942

Darkshore — zone entry 148, named from this realm's area table.

Quest level

20

Required level

15

Base experience value

1,550

Money at the level cap

0g 9s 60c

How it is completed

stored id 2

This realm keeps one row per patch for some quests, and this is the patch 0 row — the newest it carries. This realm's own quest table holds 4,727 rows for 4,433 quests, counted from this realm — the difference is the patch rows.

Who starts it

One start, from this realm's own creature table.

In the realm's own chain

The chain is the realm's own: these are the previous and next entries this quest row stores.

Items this row names

Role	Item	Count
Asked for	Mysterious Fossil	1

Every item here is named by this realm's own item table, and each name is a link to that item's page.

The gossip a player reads first

This fossil bears a striking resemblance to one I once saw in Ironforge. An archaeologist by the name of Flagongut brought it to our annual Explorers' League conference. He believed the fossil had a power which could be unlocked somehow.$b$bLast I heard Flagongut had holed up in the Deepwater Tavern in Menethil Harbor, awaiting escort to the Whelgar Excavation Site. Seek him out and show him Remtravel's fossil. Perhaps he can reveal the secrets of the past.$b$bThe ship to Menethil departs from Auberdine.

Objectives

Take the mysterious fossil to Archaeologist Flagongut in Menethil Harbor.

When the items are handed over

What ya got there, friend?

What the quest-giver says at the end

Oh my! You say this came from the distant lands of Kalimdor?$b$bAmazing! Simply amazing!

This is the text the realm stores, written as stored. A vanilla quest writes a line break as “$B” and refers to its item counts as “%d”; the rules that turn those into a sentence belong to the game client, so the page keeps the codes rather than guessing at the prose.

Every row above is this realm's own quest row, read from its quest_template table. A value the realm did not record is left out or written as none rather than filled in with a plausible number. The figures labelled “stored id” — how the quest is completed, its type, and a reward spell — are keys into game data this realm was never sent, so they are printed as stored and carry no invented meaning. The experience figure is the base value the row holds: the amount a player is actually given depends on the character's level, and that rule belongs to the game client.