Dalaran is a beautiful place filled with magic and wonder, but our undercover reporter, Mascot discovered something else, something much worse.
When I first arrived in Dalaran the plan was to do a report on the different sections of this majestic city. As a rogue I hopped to gain access to area’s few have seen giving our fans a full tour of the city in the sky. What I found when I arrived at, A Hero’s Welcome Inn, was that every shinning city has a dark, dirty underbelly.
I started my reporting as I always do, by getting drunk in the pub. I woke up the next morning to the innkeeper pounding at my door. It appears the lady I was sharing drinks with relieved me of my goal and therefore I had no money to pay for my stay. However, the innkeeper gave me an option.
She told me I could work for Katherine Lee the caterer for the Alliance in Dalaran. Katherine Lee was known across Northrend for her delicious meals at low, low prices. I was told she would give me tasks to earn some gold and even help improve my cooking skills. I figured this would be a good side story and I needed the money.
I went to see her and everything seemed fine, her Sous-chef was odd, but besides that I felt this would be an interesting experience and I was right. Katherine Lee told me she studied under the great Bartha Huwart from Undercity which seemed really strange considering the meals Bartha was known for, that and the fact she was sent to the stockades for short selling on the auction house.
Katherine Lee told me the key to Northrend cooking was to follow the Taco Bell method. I did not know what Taco Bell was, but she explained it consists of using the same small amount of ingredients to make a variety of foods. In her case, she would go just a step beyond that by using any ingredients nearby for her culinary creations.
All this was fine and dandy until she told me to make my first dish, Infused Mushroom Meatloaf and sent me to the sewers of Dalaran. I couldn’t believe she wanted me to create a dish using filthy mushrooms from the sewer. Katherine explained that times were tough and she needed to get back into the black.
She confessed to me that she would use half empty glasses and mix them with free samples of day-old cheese to make platters for conventions. There was no length she would go to save a gold piece even if it 
could lead to a plague.
While down in the sewers I spoke to a rat who told me that not only is there waste and filth, but magical runoff that could cause strange mutations in all living things. I asked him, “like a talking rat” he told me talking or giant rats are normal, but fighting turtles were special.
I gathered the mushrooms from around the sewers and created the meatloaf. When I delivered it to Orton Bennet I asked him what he thought of Katharine’s cooking. “It is wonderful and so cheap”, he lamented. I wanted to tell him how I made the loaf, but I realized it would only keep me from continuing my investigations within Dalaran.
I made the delivery and Katherine paid me as promised. I felt bad inside, but a reporter must stay undercover until the job is done. I had money to stay at the inn and continue my binge drinking. Soon I would have a story that would make me famous. In the meantime I ate Panadaren takeout.
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