Quick Facts

Series

1.	Distress Call
2.	The Mechagnomes
3.	Re-Cursive
4.	Lefty Loosey, Righty Tighty
5.	The Gearmaster

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Comments

Comment by Prospero

This quest line is a reference to the Cybermen, a race of evil cyborgs in the science fiction series Doctor Who. It's no coincidence that the ultrasonic screwdriver drops from the mobs in this area.

Comment by 230673

select 'Go on' through his dialog, Jinky Wingnut is outside the hut to the left as you leave

Comment by entropicdragon

Fizzcrank's Tale ( Spoiler alert! )

I've got my hands full here at the moment, mage.

What can I do for you?

Tell me what's going on out here, Fizzcrank.

Fine then, have a seat. This might take a while.

When we first came down to this frozen hell, General Arlos, down in Valiance Keep, gave my group of flying daredevils and I a special task: to establish a forward base for Alliance operations.

This airstrip is the result. Let me tell you, it wasn't easy, what with all the nasty beasts and the ground rock-hard from being frozen. But we managed, and we did it quickly too!

Go on.

Anyway, we needed to pump up lots of sand and oil for the machinery. The nearby pools proved to be perfect for that.

Some of the sand even proved to have magical properties... can you say possibilities! But that's a different tale.

So, we drained most of the water out and built the pumping station smack dab in the middle. Everything was going swimmingly until one day the main suction pipe got clogged.

Go on.

Mind you, this part I learned later because I wasn't out there at the time.

When they ratched up the suction on the pump, up came pieces of a robot that looked like a gnome! Of course the fools worked night and day to put it back together without telling us.

This is when we lost communication with the pumping station.

Go on.

After a couple days of silence, I sent a scouting party out to the platform. They never returned.

I sent another group the next day with the same results, and lost a couple of flying machines out on aerial recon.

At that point I sent someone south to find help, and we hunkered down to prepare for the worst. We turned all of our attention to making armor, weapons and robots so that we could head out there in full force.

When we did a few days ago, we couldn't believe our eyes!

Go on.

As I was saying, what we saw out there defied explanation.

my people were nowhere to be found, but in their place was a veritable army of robots and androids going about their business!

The droids all looked like gnomes and they said that they'd been expecting us. In fact, in their own strange way, they acted like they knew us. We were surrounded and quickly taken to the top of the pumping station.

That's where we saw their leader and what he was doing to the surviving gnomes!

Go on.

He called himself Gearmaster Mechazod. When we arrived he was busy transforming the survivors into mechanical beings!

He greeted us warmly and explained that he was one of the first gnomes ever to be created by something he called "The Grand Architect", a Titan keeper from within the halls of fabled Ulduar.

Apparently he was the blockage that my team had accidentally sucked up from where he'd malfunctioned thousands of years ago. It was just our luck that we'd built the pumping station right above him.

Go on.

The station's mechanics had put him back together, bringing him back to "life".

And now, by way of thanks, he was going to return the favor by curing all of us of what he called the "Curse of the Flesh".

According to Mechazod, it's a condition that eventually befalls all of the creations of the Titans! In other words, we all supposedly start out as robots of some kind, and, over thousands of years, slowly turn into fleshy beings!

Preposterous, I know.

Go on.

It didn't look like much of a "cure" to me, and I wasn't about to stand around listening to some crazy robot while he was butchering my people!

We did what any sane gnome would do... we ran! Well, actually, most of us parachuted off the side of the platform, but you get the picture.

Not many of us managed to make it back here, and we're still spread thin from having to deal with everything else too, like the magnataur to the north and the Scourge to the east. To make things worse, the Horde just set up shop to the northwest!

Go on.

And that's where we find ourselves now, <name>.

We can't possibly deal with all of this by ourselves, and quite frankly, I feel a little out of my depth. Jinky knows what needs to be done. You should go see her now.

I just hope you'll be able to get us out of this mess with our bodies intact.

Comment by pogostick

Talk to him again to hear the story. When he is done, go down, walk outside to the left.

Comment by 258782

The guy you talk to is the same guy you get the quest from.

Comment by 452635

When you have killed them you use the re-cursive Transmatter Injection on the body, so simple is that :)

Comment by 155128

He tells you to "have a seat" but there is no chairs in the room.

Comment by 549967

you read the story by talking to the quest giver

Comment by Allakhazam

Jinky Wingut: 57,19

Right outside the building where you get the quest to see her.

Links

The Mechagnomes

Listen to Fizzcrank Fullthrottle's tale and then find Jinky Wingnut at Fizzcrank Airstrip.

	Fizzcrank's tale listened to. (1)

Description

Now that you're here, it's time for me to tell you the full story of what's going on.

After you've heard my tale, go outside and find my second-in-command, Jinky Wingnut. She'll handle everything from here on out.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

10 reputation with Valiance Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11708))