Search and Rescue

Objective: Find Kurzel inside Drak’Tharon Keep. She’s trapped in a webbed cocoon in the spider room.

Quick Facts

• Level: 73
• Type: Dungeon (Drak’Tharon Keep)
• Prerequisite: Seared Scourge
• Unlocks: Head Games (from Kurzel, completed in the same dungeon run)

Do Alongside

Pick up before entering Drak’Tharon Keep:

• Cleansing Drak’Tharon (Drakuru chain finale, if available) — requires reaching the final boss platform.
• Head Games (from Kurzel after finding her) — use the quest item on Novos the Summoner‘s corpse. Do this immediately after killing Novos or his corpse will despawn.

Walkthrough

Step 1: Enter Drak’Tharon Keep

The instance entrance is at [17.7, 23.2] in northern Grizzly Hills, on the border with Zul’Drak. The meeting stone is at the top of the grand staircase outside.

Step 2: Find Kurzel in the Spider Room

Kurzel is located in the spider room (officially called the area between the Warlord’s Terrace and the Temple of the Forgotten), which you reach after passing through the first boss Trollgore’s area. The dungeon route goes: Trollgore → right passage → spider room.

• Kurzel is wrapped in one of the webbed cocoons hanging or scattered around the spider room.
• Right-click the webbed victims to free them. Most cocoons contain nothing or spawn hostile mobs (spiders or other creatures). Kurzel is in a specific cocoon, not random.
• When you free the correct cocoon, Kurzel appears as an orc female NPC with a turn-in marker.

Step 3: Turn In and Get Head Games

Talk to Kurzel to complete Search and Rescue. She immediately offers Head Games:

• Kurzel tears a strip from her blouse and gives it to you.
• You must use the Blouse Scrap on Novos the Summoner’s corpse (the second boss, a lich) to collect an Ichor-Stained Cloth.
• Critical timing: Novos’s corpse despawns. If you’ve already killed him, you need to do it on your current run before his body disappears. In WotLK Classic, the spider room comes AFTER Trollgore but BEFORE Novos in the dungeon layout, so the normal clear order works: kill Trollgore → find Kurzel in spider room → accept Head Games → kill Novos → use cloth on corpse → continue to King Dred and Tharon’ja.
• Turn Head Games in to Mack Fearsen back at Granite Springs (WotLK Classic version).

Lore Context

Mack’s quest text reveals the dynamic at Granite Springs. He’s a schemer: “Lure the fools in fer the dangerous work, then reap the rewards when it’s safe.” Kurzel, an orc woman who’s been with his crew for years, got tired of waiting and stormed Drak’Tharon Keep alone.

Mack grudgingly admits he’d “feel horrible” if they didn’t go after her, but he’s “in no shape to do it myself” (drunk, as always).

Kurzel’s response when freed is pure contempt for her companions: “Even my going missing wasn’t enough to get those spineless weasels to come in here after me. Well, they sent you. I suppose that’s something.” She gives the reward to you rather than letting “those dimwits back at camp” have it.

For Head Games, Kurzel’s plan is psychological warfare against Mack’s crew. She wants you to bring the ichor-stained cloth back to camp so “the boys have stewed in their guilt for a while.” Then she’ll show up alive to teach them a lesson about “letting a lady wander off alone.”

Kurzel is a cross-expansion character. She first appears as a quest NPC in Ghostlands (TBC). In Cataclysm, she joins the treasure-hunting caravan that travels from Tanaris to Uldum (the same caravan as Harkor and Harrison Jones). After being captured by pygmies and rescued by the player, she becomes the flight master for Ramkahen [56.3, 33.6] in Uldum.

From spider-wrapped captive in a Northrend dungeon to running a flight service in the desert. She also becomes a flight master in Ramkahen and Vision of the Twisting Sands in Battle for Azeroth.