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1.	It Was Almost Alive
2.	The Tomb of Shadows
3.	Breaking the Emperor's Shield
4.	Stealing Their Thunder King
5.	Lessons from History
6.	Chasing the Storm
7.	Fisherman's Tale

Storyline
Kun-Lai Summit Call Out Their Leader All of the Arrows Hit Medicine Enraged Vengeance The Waterspeaker's Staff Free the Dissenters The Ritual Cleansing the Mere The Fall of Shai Hu Admiral Taylor has Awakened General Nazgrim has Awakened Westwind Rest Eastwind Rest Challenge Accepted Challenge Accepted Trouble on the Farmstead Trouble on the Farmstead Farmhand Freedom ... and the Pot, Too! Deanimate the Reanimated Deanimate the Reanimated Mogu?! Oh No-gu! Mogu?! Oh No-gu! Pandaren Prisoners Barrels of Fun In Tents Channeling The Ordo Warbringer Pandaren Prisoners Barrels of Fun In Tents Channeling The Ordo Warbringer The Missing Muskpaw At the Yak Wash Yakity Yak Back in Yak Path Less Traveled Instant Courage Resupplying One Keg They Stole My Luck! Comin' Round the Mountain One Traveler's Misfortune Seeker's Folly Seeker's Folly The Tongue of Ba-Shon It Was Almost Alive The Tomb of Shadows Breaking the Emperor's Shield Stealing Their Thunder King Lessons from History Chasing the Storm Fisherman's Tale A Celestial Experience A Celestial Experience It Takes A Village Handle With Care What's Yours Is Mine Make A Fighter Out of Me Enemies At Our Door Revelations The Burlap Trail: To Burlap Waystation The Rabbitsfoot The Broketooth Ravage A Monkey Idol No Pack Left Behind Bros Before Hozen Hozen Love Their Keys The Snackrifice Grummle! Grummle! Grummle! Unleash The Yeti! The Leader Hozen The Burlap Trail: To Kota Basecamp Kota Blend A Fair Trade The Burlap Grind The Defense of Shado-Pan Fallback Turnabout Unmasking the Yaungol To Winter's Blossom A Line Unbroken Honor, Even in Death To the Wall! Off the Wall! A Terrible Sacrifice Lao-Chin's Gambit Do a Barrel Roll! Finish This! Where are My Reinforcements? Unbelievable!

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Comment by jjuls

I accepted this quest but somehow I never got a page. Then I noticed it's one of those weird little hands that appears when you mouse over the book; I didn't see it at first.

Comment by 784347

If you cannot find Cho for quest turn in, use the Tongue of Ba-Shon to summon him.

Comment by Whiterock

Two Empires Quest Tree From Whiterock
Barrels of Fun {H}* Pandaren Prisoners {H}* The Ordo Warbringer{A2,H1,H2}*
\ | ┌─────────┘
S)Cho's Missive {H}
+)Path Less Traveled
/ | └─────┐
a)Resupplying One Keg a)Instant Courage a)They Stole My Luck!
\ | |
b)Comin' Round the Mountain
b)One Traveler's Misfortune
b)Seeker's Folly
/ \
d)It Was Almost Alive c)The Tongue of Ba-Shon
f)The Tomb of Shadows d)Staying Connected
g)Breaking the Emperor's Shield d)An End to Everything
h)Stealing Their Thunder King
h)Lessons from History
h)Chasing the Storm
i)Fisherman's Tale────────────┬─>j)Make A Fighter Out of Me
| | | | |
| | i)It Takes A Village j)Handle With Care |
| | \ | |
| j)What's Yours Is Mine──>k)Enemies At Our Door
| k)Revelations
S)Checking In l)Prophet Khar'zul
+)Emergency Care
| \ └───────────────┐
m)Justice m)The Scent of Life n)By the Falls, For the Fallen
| / ┌────────┘
o)Preparing the Remains
p)A Funeral

Legend:
S means Skippable
+ means Can start anytime, prequests not needed.
{H} means Quest Have Horde Variant, click {H} for it.
* means another Quest Tree.

Comment by Whiterock

Comment by Maurek

If you can't find the NPC to turn in this quest to, go to 55,47 area and click from your bags and then he will appear for the turn in.

Comment by 515518

When you accept the quest make sure to right click on the book again to get the Torn Page. The quest starts at 57.1, 47.9

Comment by 1038107

Dont Ever Abandon This quest because it will make your life a Living HE LL! DONT DO IT!

Comment by Tigerflame

I have a habit of switching between my specs, to see which of my sets would benefit from the item the most. But, when I was talking to the Lorewalker, and I had the quest turn-in page open while I switched specs, it seems to have completed the quest - giving me the gold and exp - but didn't give me the item reward - for either spec. Any ideas why?

Comment by Kemoosify

Anybody know if this is bugged? I clicked on the book to tear the page out and my toon stays in his collect stance and I get no page. Tried logging out and back in, still nothing.

Comment by naserhejazi

i cant loot it too.there is nothing in loot page

Comment by llangevi

There is a bug in this quest that may require some patience, since this is a breadcrumb quest that will lead to a chain.

IF you get to the book, and your right click on it and you get nothing, then it means that someone from another faction (in my experience with this more than once in multiple toons) interacted badly with the guy who guards the book. I have not gotten clear from Bliz what "interacted badly" would entail, but the work-arounds that overcome this are as follows:

1) Support told me to invite someone from another realm, and this seems to reset that problem. But it means you need to get someone else to help you out (you would think that a blizz employee would be able to do this, but no....).
2) I would go questing for 24 hours, and then fly back to "One Keg" and ride back up to where the book is (not too far. Go past the cave where the sprites are hanging out, curve up left and over the top of the cave, and keep right and you will get there in less than a minute.) There was no server reset (although I would suspect that would fix it), but what might have happened (I cannot confirm this) is that somebody did #1 (cross-server invite) and it cleared up the problem for everyone else.

In any case, Blizz seems to know that something will make this get buggy, and they cannot reset it (other than a server reset, probably), and will just recommend that you do #1. Just check back every day if you can't do #1 your self, or get there after a reset.

I have dropped and reaccepted the quest without any affect or loss. I have used the spell to have the panda appear first or after without any affect. And I have done genocide on every living thing in that area without any change.

So either invite or be patient.

Comment by skitch

This was bugged for me - I could not loot the Torn Page from the book, like the other commenters here.

I didn't have a friend to invite cross-realm, so I was resigned to waiting, but through the course of killing the Tormented Spirits, the Imperial Antiquator guarding the book respawned. Killing him allowed me too loot the book.

Comment by 1105392

Press on the book to thear a page and then talk with Cho.
Video:
http://www.oapplications.com/tutorials/games/wow/q_pandaria/kun-lai/it_was_almost_alive.php

Comment by 962823

For those of you without coordinates (seriously, stop posting just coord "answers", they're usless to those of us who don't use them) the Valley of the Emperors is found by taking the path north of One Keg. It has a lot of switchbacks so be sure to follow them, up up to the top of the mountain.

Comment by Endek

We picked up the quest from the table in front of the Imperial Antiquator in the middle whilst completing An End to Everything.

Also, make sure you pick up the Torn Page whilst at the table and if your in a group, the Torn Page seems to have a cool down, so you may have to wait a few seconds for the page to reset :)

Comment by Ikshuki1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAVzLQVWYTI

Comment by GamingTV

Complete Playthrough in 1080p HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAVzLQVWYTI

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcqBnYFlVvc&feature=youtu.be

Comment by allOf

It Was Almost Alive https://youtu.be/hqbUC-HZsFI

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It Was Almost Alive

Tear a page from the open book to give to Lorewalker Cho.

	Torn Page

Provided item:

	The Tongue of Ba-Shon

Description

A ritual took place here, and from the looks of it wasn't successful.

Among the abandoned items a book lies open. The text on the pages is foreign to you.

Carrying the whole book may be difficult, but a single page might be enough. If you can get the page to Lorewalker Cho he may be able to tell you what it says.

It Was Almost Alive

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