Quick answers
- Pick up
- Suspicious Barrel, Loch Modan(56.1, 13.2)
- Hand in
- Chief Engineer Hinderweir VII, Loch Modan(46, 13.6)
- Level
- Level 18 quest, available from level 16
- Rewards
- 1,350 experience, +100 reputation with Ironforge
- Previous quest
- A Dark Threat Looms
- Next quest
- A Dark Threat Looms
Objectives
Return to Chief Engineer Hinderweir and show him the clue that you discovered.
Provided: 
Strange Smelling Powder
Description
You take a sample of the strange smelling powder.
Rewards
Experience: 1,350
- +100 reputation with Ironforge
When you come back
Did you happen to discover any clues, ‹name›?
On completion
This is an alarming discovery, to say the least!
Quest chain
7 quests, levels 18–20, 7,690 experience in total.
- 1
[18]A Dark Threat LoomsChief Engineer Hinderweir VII · Loch Modan675 XP
- 2
[18]A Dark Threat Looms This quest Suspicious Barrel · Loch Modan1,350 XP
- 3
[18]A Dark Threat LoomsChief Engineer Hinderweir VII · Loch Modan1,350 XP
- 4
[18]A Dark Threat LoomsAshlan Stonesmirk · Wetlands340 XP
- 5
[18]A Dark Threat LoomsChief Engineer Hinderweir VII · Loch Modan1,350 XP
- 6
[18]A Dark Threat LoomsChief Engineer Hinderweir VII · Loch Modan675 XP
- 7
[20]A Dark Threat LoomsExplosive Charge · Loch Modan1,950 XP