Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton

Quest Giver: Darkrider Arly – Blackwatch, Icecrown [35.4, 66.3]

Objective: Use Burning Skeletons summoned from Grasping Arms to destroy 3 Chained Abominations in the Fleshwerks.

Quick Facts

• Level: 80
• Location: Fleshwerks, Grasping Arms around [33, 67], Chained Abominations on the tier below around [30-31, 65-70]
• Chain Position: Requires By Fire Be Purged and A Visit to the Doctor. Leads to He’s Gone to Pieces and triggers a cutscene + phasing event. Also unlocks the escort quest Let’s Get Out of Here (Alliance)/Let’s Get Out of Here (Horde).

Walkthrough

Pick Up a Burning Skeleton

Green Grasping Arms sit in the bone piles all across the Fleshwerks, with a reliable cluster around [33, 67] in the upper area.

Lead It to a Chained Abomination

The Chained Abominations are stationary, chained along the edges of the platform on the tier below, around [30, 65] and [31, 70]. Guide your Burning Skeleton close to a Chained Abomination. When the skeleton gets within range, it detonates, destroying the abomination.

Use a ground mount for this. The skeleton follows you on foot, so riding it down to the abominations keeps the pathing intact where flying over the drop tends to break it. Repeat 3 times.

Turn In

Return to Darkrider Arly at Blackwatch. Turning in this quest triggers a cutscene: Crusader Olakin Sainrith spots a frostwyrm named Ghostwing diving toward Blackwatch.

Ghostwing announces itself with “Destroy our raw materials, will you? Well, the master has a special plan in mind for you…” then snatches Olakin off the ledge and takes off.

Arly shouts after him: “Damn it, Olakin, get your arse back here! There’s work to be done!”

This sets up the next quest chain.

Efficiency Tips

• Stay Mounted. You can pick up skeletons and ride to the abominations without dismounting. Slow down near the target so the skeleton catches up and detonates.
• Clear Nearby Mobs First. The Burning Skeleton can aggro nearby hostile mobs (especially Skeletal Constructors), which will attack it and potentially kill it before it reaches the abomination. Clear a path or stick to outer edges.
• Pet Classes: Warlocks and Hunters may need to dismiss their pets for the Burning Skeleton to follow correctly. The game treats the skeleton as a guardian/companion and can conflict with existing pets.
• Shamans: Do not use Totemic Recall while a skeleton is following you; it reportedly destroys the skeleton companion.
• Pathing Issues. If a skeleton won’t follow you after clicking a Grasping Arm, try a different one. Flying over cliffs or sharp elevation changes can break the skeleton’s pathfinding.

Lore & Secrets

Easter Egg: Apocalypse Now

Darkrider Arly’s completion text is a riff on one of cinema’s most famous lines. She says: “There’s nothing like the smell of roasted putrid flesh in the morning. That’s the smell of victory over the Scourge.”

This references Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore’s iconic speech from Apocalypse Now (1979): “I love the smell of napalm in the morning… Smelled like victory.”

The Olakin Cutscene

Turning in this quest triggers a scripted event that advances the Fleshwerks storyline significantly. Olakin spots a frostwyrm (Ghostwing) and warns the group, but Ghostwing swoops in and physically carries Olakin away.

Arly’s response is characteristically blunt. This event is why the follow-up quests (He’s Gone to Pieces, Putting Olakin Back Together Again) involve recovering Olakin’s scattered remains from across the Fleshwerks. This also triggers a phase change in the Fleshwerks: Corpulent Horrors and geists replace some of the previous mobs, and Ebon Blade cavalry begins attacking the area.

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