"See? See? I told you! If goatmen showed up in the story, that proved they had their own questline! I said back when we passed through Baphomet Canyon that there had to be a quest and a dungeon there.
See? I was right."
The expeditionary force marched swiftly through the night.
The players on the ground rode their mounts toward Baphomet Canyon, which they had just passed, led by Lady Bernice. The players with flying mounts took the initiative and volunteered to scout ahead.
The students riding their flashy Bone Nightstriders chattered about the quest, and A-Cha was especially pleased with himself.
He was one of those players Murphy had mentioned, the kind who cared a lot about the story. He never skipped a single line of text while playing, and whenever he made a discovery, he immediately posted it in the dedicated lore discussion thread on the forums.
His keen eye for details had earned A-Cha quite a reputation among the "story explorers." But after more than four months, most of the hidden storylines in Transia had already been uncovered, and he hadn't been able to come up with anything attention-grabbing to raise his profile.
But a new map opening up was the perfect opportunity for the lore fans to rise again.
Now that they'd triggered a rescue quest, A-Cha was still typing up a post on his flashy skeletal Pegasus as they headed to the quest location.
He was debating with a few buddies about whether the goatmen would lead to a major quest chain, while listing everything they knew about them for a new forum post.
But the players were encountering goatmen for the first time, and everything they knew about the strange creatures came from NPCs passing around rumors. They had little in the way of