Poison Beneath the Farmland

Alba Fairmoon investigates another danger to Westfall’s future: contamination of the land. She begins with water from the wells at Jansen Stead and Molsen Farm. The next stage identifies toxic metals in those samples. Alba warns that leaving the pollution unchecked could prevent farming for decades.

She also asks for coastal murloc gills, using their sensitivity to contaminants to examine a feared spread into the sea. That possibility would threaten another food source. The initial mining investigation targets kobolds at Jangolode and Riverpaw laborers at the Gold Coast Quarry, where Alba describes the Defias stripping the country’s resources.

Those sites do not explain the poison’s origin. Alba turns to the supposedly abandoned Deadmines beneath Moonbrook and requests evidence of renewed industrial activity. The inquiry now reaches beyond roadside thieves toward an operation large enough to damage the land that supports the kingdom.

A Bomb for the Deadmines

The supplies recovered in Moonbrook convince Alba that a major industrial operation inside the Deadmines is responsible for the toxins. Stopping it will require more than driving miners from a tunnel. She sends the adventurer to find an engineer in Stormwind’s Dwarven District.

Sprite Jumpsprocket accepts the sabotage problem and begins with dynamite. A controlled blast also needs a way to trigger it from safety, so she sends the adventurer to Stormwind Intelligence. SI:7 already knows about the activity in Moonbrook. It provides a prototype remote detonator and asks that its involvement not be mentioned to Alba.

The completed explosives return to Westfall. This is a separate approach to the Defias stronghold: Gryan wants its leader found, while Alba wants the suspected source of contamination stopped. Both investigations now lead under the same town.

The Forge and the Detonator

Alba’s instructions identify a large metallurgical forge as the likely source of the contamination. The adventurer must carry the prepared explosives into the Deadmines, locate the forge and plant the charges nearby. Alba waits outside, in the hills behind Moonbrook, so the blast can be triggered from safety.

The final request is brief: use the detonator. The objective completes the sabotage plan that began with samples from farm wells. Alba hopes removing the forge will allow the land to heal. The inspected text does not show the following seasons or prove that the soil and sea recover immediately.