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 Road to Moonbrook

Gryan’s scouts identify a messenger traveling between Moonbrook, the Gold Coast Quarry and Jangolode Mine. Intercepting that courier is intended to expose the Brotherhood’s hidden base. The investigation then gains a guide willing to lead the militia’s allies there.

The Defias Traitor knows that his former companions want him dead. He agrees to reveal the hideout if the adventurers protect him on the journey. Following him turns intelligence gathered across three provinces into a route to the mines beneath Moonbrook.

Scout Riell adds another distinction: the fabric of a bandana indicates standing within the Brotherhood. She requests silk bandanas from senior members in VanCleef’s refuge. The descent is aimed at the organization’s leadership, after the earlier struggle against the forces spread across the farms.

Those Left in the Tunnels

Before the assault reaches its political target, the mines hold losses that matter to people far from Sentinel Hill. In Stormwind, Wilder Thistlenettle remembers a tunnel collapse beneath Moonbrook. He escaped; his brother and friends did not return. He asks for his brother’s Explorers’ League badge and union cards that could give other families answers.

The old workings are more than a passage into the Brotherhood’s stronghold. For Wilder, a badge or a union card can carry news back to a family still waiting in Stormwind. The expedition has a duty to the people left in the tunnels as well as to the people living above them.

Shoni the Shilent sees another opportunity underground. A functional goblin shredder has a power supply that could help gnomish excavation machines breach the approaches to trogg-held Gnomeregan. Recovering it connects this Westfall expedition to a different community’s attempt to reclaim its home.

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.

VanCleef and the Unsent Letter

With the hideout exposed, Gryan Stoutmantle orders Edwin VanCleef’s death. He frames the sentence as necessary for Westfall’s people, while acknowledging its gravity. The adventurers are asked to return with proof that the Defias leader has been killed.

A follow-up begins while searching VanCleef’s person. Among his possessions is a recently written, sealed letter addressed to Baros Alexston, Stormwind’s city architect. Carrying it back to the capital opens another lead rather than neatly explaining every connection behind the rebellion.