Letter to Stormpike

Sulfuras · quest entry 514

Alterac Mountains — zone entry 36, named from this realm's area table.

Quest level

34

Required level

30

Base experience value

1,350

Money at the level cap

0g 8s 40c

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	Cleverly Encrypted Letter	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

I have a colleague in Ironforge who may be able to help decrypt this letter. Go to the Library in the Hall of Explorers in Ironforge and speak with Prospector Stormpike. Tell him I sent you and show him the letter. If there's anyone north of Blackrock Spire who can read this, it is he.

Objectives

Take the Cleverly Encrypted Letter to Prospector Stormpike in Ironforge.

When the items are handed over

Dibbs from Southshore sent you, did he? How is the old bookworm doing?

What the quest-giver says at the end

Ah, encryption! A specialty of mine. Let me see here...

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.