What to do
Kill Citizen Wilkes and Clerk Horrace Whitesteed.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Citizen Wilkes NPC #47791
- Kill or interact with Clerk Horrace Whitesteed NPC #47789
The quest's own structured objectives. How many of each you need is set by the game when you accept it, so it is not stored here – the sentence above is the quest's own wording.
The quest giver's words
We must destroy all of the evidence, <name>! Did I say evidence? I meant crazed undead! Anyway, discretion is key. We must not let the rampaging undead make it out of the Sludge Fields and no one outside of this institution must know about what happened here!
Directly southeast of here in what used to be the old mushroom farm you'll find a reanimated fiend known as Citizen Wilkes and his cohort, Clerk Horrace Whitesteed. They have been causing huge problems for my guards. Find them and kill them!
Progress
Kill the beasts! We can't have a rampaging geist and skeleton wandering the countryside!
Completion
Well done! Wilkes was hanged after we discovered that he was ingesting mass quantities of mushrooms and other highly toxic substances. After he died he awoke, reborn as an undead geist. Many of my guards fell to Wilkes before he ran off into hiding. Fearing something like this might happen again, we incinerated the Clerk until only bones were left!
Why would they willingly ingest toxic substances? I have no idea! This is a farm, sir, nothing more!
Category: Hillsbrad Foothills.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Crossbow of the Twice-Slain
item #65672 · Uncommon · item level 21 · sells for 25s 55c
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Citizen Wilke's Ring
item #65712 · Uncommon · item level 21 · sells for 5s 95c
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Clerk Whitesteed's Cloak
item #65694 · Uncommon · item level 21 · sells for 11s 7c
- Money
- none
- and 10s 20c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,650
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at level 26 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 19–26 1,650 100% 27 1,300 80% 28 1,000 60% 29 650 40% 30 330 20% 31–89 170 10% 90 none 10s 20c more money The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 1,650 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Undercity +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 21, requires level 19
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- No One Here Gets Out Alive #28192 · any one of these
After this
- A Lost Lad #28206
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Warden Stillwater npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.362, 0.611
- Hand in to
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- Warden Stillwater npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.362, 0.611
- pick up
- turn in
These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.
Relevant locations
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Hillsbrad Foothills
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Warden Stillwater
Starts the quest · 36.2, 61.1
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Warden Stillwater
Hand the quest in · 36.2, 61.1
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Clerk Horrace Whitesteed
Quest objective · 37.4, 63.2
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Citizen Wilkes
Quest objective · 39.0, 64.2
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The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as
/way takes them.
What players recorded
Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.
This guide rests on 1 completed run. That is enough to show where people went and not enough to trust the timings – treat them as one player's evening.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 1 run by 1 player – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.
- Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in available
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 1) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 1) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 1 from 1) not yet
Timings
Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 1 run; mean 7 min 1 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
3 tracked kills, typically 1,815 XP, done around level 22.
The route
An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.
Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Hillsbrad Foothills), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.360, 0.610 median of 1 recorded accept on Hillsbrad Foothills
- Turn in
- 0.360, 0.610 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Hillsbrad Foothills
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
Order published by the analyser from 1 run.
Objective 2 — needs 1
Players finish it about 1 min 26 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.380, 0.630 weight 1.00, 2 points
1 recorded position in Hillsbrad Foothills.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
Objective 1 — needs 1
Players finish it about 3 min 19 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.390, 0.650 weight 1.00, 2 points
1 recorded position in Hillsbrad Foothills.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
Tips
The analyser has not published tips for this quest yet. These are read straight off the raw runs on this page, with the evidence spelled out.
- Most players finish objective 2 first.Evidence: median time to reach it is the shortest, over 1 run
Recorded runs
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.