After smiting the many lupine foes that stood between me and a Cobalt node, my recently-resurrected Hunter dinged level 72 yesterday and thus I happily skipped across the pleasant landscape of Howling Fjord with a visit to my Orgrimmarian Hunter trainer in mind. The nearest route to Orcy goodness was via Vengeance Landing, so I duly hopped onto the back of my trusty white Talbuk and toddled off in that direction. After a brief near-death-experience on the high lift I was soon standing in the shadow of the Vengeange Landing zeppelin tower.
As I craned my green neck skyward, I wondered what moment of madness inspired the construction of this twisting edifice? Thrusting vertically, the zeppelin tower is built in that architectural style which is so beloved of those aromatic Undeads; funereal, menacing Gothicism. Menacing not because of the dark, looming nature of structure (although it would probably be enough to make a gnome uncomfortable, at least), no, the real peril here comes from a more tangible danger: the amount of staircases and sharp turns the bloody thing has!
My goodness! Even if you scroll in to first-person view the journey to the top is anything but fluid. Having fallen off, (and missed the first zeppelin) I made a note of the different turns the average adventurer would have to complete, just to reach the platform. I was sorely tempted to write an in-depth guide on ‘How to Climb the Bloomin’ VL Zep Tower’, I’m certain it would save at a million lives.
In the interest of filling copy with the repetition of three different words (left, right and up), I will put in writing the results below.
From the ground level: Climb the first, short ramp and make a right-hand turn, followed by a left turn, another left and climb the flight of stairs ahead of you. At the top, turn left once again, climb another flight of stairs, turn left again, up again until you see another left-hand route. Take this path, going up once again, right after that, right again, right again and right once more until you see the final flight of stairs. Climb this and you will be on the zeppelin platform just in time to /wave goodbye to the crew as they leave without you.
My fat Gorilla (sorry Kolya, but your ass does obscure the view sometimes,) didn’t help matters much on this Escheresque landscape, but I did manage to assail the seven flights of staircases on the second attempt and, eventually, reached a waiting transport which whisked my off on my brief trip to Azeroth. Thank Blizzard for the Hearthstone back.
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