Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Bloodsail Buccaneers
2.	Bloodsail Treachery
3.	The Baron Must Be Told
4.	Details of the Attack
5.	Getting In With the Bloodsail
6.	Seeing Where Your Loyalties Lie
7.	Your First Day as a Pirate
8.	Swabbing Duty
9.	Attracting Attention

Storyline
The Cape of Stranglethorn Dask "The Flask" Gobfizzle Dask "The Flask" Gobfizzle Too Big For His Britches Akiris by the Bundle Maywiki Backdoor Dealings Eliminate the Outcast Through the Troll Hole High Priestess Jeklik Plunging Into Zul'Gurub High Priest Venoxis Akiris by the Bundle It's You!! If They're Just Going to Leave Them Lying Around... There's Somebody Out There Who Wants It Chabal Backdoor Dealings Eliminate the Outcast Through the Troll Hole High Priestess Jeklik Plunging Into Zul'Gurub High Priest Venoxis Scaring Shaky Return to MacKinley Kill-Collect The Captain's Chest A Giant's Feast A Dish Best Served Huge Mok'rash the Cleaver Message in a Bottle Protecting Her Royal Highness Poobah Grubby Little Paws Mukla's Demise The Bloodsail Buccaneers Bloodsail Treachery The Baron Must Be Told Details of the Attack Up to Snuff Keep An Eye Out Getting In With the Bloodsail Seeing Where Your Loyalties Lie Your First Day as a Pirate Swabbing Duty The Bane of Many A Pirate Cannonball Swim Attracting Attention Ol' Blasty Our Mortal Enemies Drive-By Piracy The Damsel's Luck The Brashtide Crew Sinking From Within Making Mutiny Call of Booty Doublerum Return to Revilgaz Prepare for Takeoff Seeking Seahorn The Final Voyage of the Brashtide The Damsel's (Bad) Luck Turning the Brashtide Bloodsail's End

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Comments

Comment by dieselh

neither reputation gained nor lost

Comment by 783470

Quest wouldn't work for me at all. Even after abandoning and accepting it over and over

Comment by 541996

I was having the same problem. I tried it again after turning off all of my Addons and logging back into WoW and it work for me. don't know if this will help anyone out or not.

Comment by 784540

I just switched out of Shadowform and it allowed me to turn in the quest.

Comment by 438814

After reading whole quest line, i rofled so hard upon laying eyes on the quest item given. "Yer Papers" God I love pirates.

Comment by Popin

Got this quest as a discipline priest and could not hand in the quest. All the mobs were red, but they could neither attack me nor be attacked by me. Put in a ticket about the quest and figured it was some strange bug.

When talking to the GM they asked if I was a shadow priest, to which I said no I was not, but I do have shadow as my offspec. After a bit of talking I switched to shadow spec and went into and out of Shadowform. To my surprise, I was now able to talk to Captain Keelhaul and the mobs were all green!

So, basically, it seems Shadowform messes this quest up, if you're a priest and having problems, even if shadow is your offspec, try switching in and out of Shadowform.

Comment by dasbaum

looks like warriors can get same issue

if you can't interact with npc switch through all stances and relog

Comment by 799246

silly quest wouldnt work fer me!

Comment by 93142

As a Paladin I switched from Ret Aura to Devotion Aura. I then logged out as Devotion Aura and back in. I was then able to interact with the NPC's again. I could also freely switch between my Aura's without it bugging out.

Comment by 487694

As I rogue I found that when I arrived at the ships all the pirates were marked as unfriendly though it was impossible to interact with them. I logged out and in and they were still unfriendly but if I took a swipe at any of them the message read that they were a friendly target. I logged out and in again and they were greened and I could then move on to my least favourite quest of the game. I don't know why I bother.

Comment by 815613

Hey, I'm a level 85 DK, I'm going round for Loremaster achievement and I'm currently doing this quest, but I can't cos it saying the NPC's are enemies, I've tried logging out and in, but they ain't worked... Anyone know what to do?

Comment by Maiqua

I had the reputation bug but after I disabled my buff-addon it worked properly

Comment by 815613

Which buff add-on? Cos I don't use any...

Comment by Krater

I had this same problem. Got the quest and then headed over to the ship. My mini-map had the '?' on it but Capt. Keelhaul didn't. He was also red but not aggressive and I couldn't attack him or any of the other pirates. I logged out and then back in and then he had the '?' but was still red to me.

I dropped the quest and got it again, same result. Did that a couple times, still no change.

I came to this thread and saw the post from a rogue name Erum and he said he logged out and logged back in and the pirates were then friendly. Others talked about disabling addons and then trying it.

First, I disabled my addons and then logged in and out multiple times - and it worked. The pirates were then friendly to me. I wondered if it truly was my addons (I don't run anything exotic - bartender, recount, omen, dbm) so I logged out and enabled them again. On logging back in the pirates were red. I then logged in and out a couple times and got them to be friendly to me again, so it wasn't my addons.

So, in summary: if the pirates aren't friendly to you just spam logging out and back in until they are. Addons don't seem to be causing this. That's what worked for me.

Comment by 819878

I had the same issue but it worked after i logged out once had no addons on the entire time

Comment by 837186

I had same issue as those above. I'm a Hunter, I had to log out and log back in several times before it worked but I think as far as Hunters are concerned, do it with NO ASPECTS turned on. Easiest way is to go to cheetah aspect, mount on the deck of the ship, then you will have no aspects active. After that spam log out log in till they are green best frendzies with you.

Comment by jobillybob

I had the same issues described but no one seemed to find a real fix. I thought about it and it seems with the Aspects disabled and re-logging nothing worked until I realized I had a Darkspear Troll Tabard on. I took that off, re-logged and bam I was able to run the quest and he was Green. Basically, anything that would tip off a Rogue Pirate that you are not who you say you are is checked in this quest it would seem.

Hope this helps.

Comment by Immanio

I had the same problem as everyone else. I tried relogging, disabling addons, abandoning and retaking the quest, without luck. As a warlock, I couldn't change stance. However, as a last resort I queued for a dungeon to see if zoning helped. When I finished the dungeon, things were working as they should. I suspect just leaving the zone normally and returning might have worked as well.

Comment by 864375

i am a pally and i had it working but then i turned on an addon and it stopped so what do i do

Comment by Starkey

yeah just had the same situation all hostile but they didnt attack i couldnt pick up quests cause of the piracy buff so hearthed out lost the buff they back friendly with me

Comment by 823485

My Drainai hunter had the same problem. I just logged out 3 times and things were back to normal.

Comment by TheRealLink

Just fixed the glitch halfway through my end by actually waiting 20 seconds to log-out and logging back in. If you just exit game and log back in later, it doesn't seem to fix it. Reloading my UI in various ways didn't help either. Once the pirates were green again I just continued with the new quests - all's well.

Didn't have to change any stances or anything on my warrior. Simply did a full logout and logged back in immediately.

Comment by Gnowo

For those who still have the silly reputation bug: Simply grab a mount and fly to the nearest zone, causing you to loose the "Piracy" buff. I recommend the southern part of Stranglethorn Vale (The sea where you get fatigue) as that's nearest.

Comment by Rocknight

Same issue with Keelhaul appearing as hostile (although not attackable). Logged out and in several times - sometimes he had a Question Mark, sometimes not but always hostile.

Hearthed to Booty Bay, flew to Northern Stranglethorn, flew back. Mobs now all green and can hand in the quest. Hope that helps.

Comment by Takata

Yes, I've had the same problem, logging in one morning and they were red, but they didn't attack me. I logged out twice before they turned green again.

Comment by 1128793

can someone tell me how to even get the quest ?

Comment by 1440987

Your First Day as a Pirate http://youtu.be/qM1X5YQ-MNI

Comment by Boxofbeer

Your First Day as a Pirate

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=oE-J0eKDmW0&feature=youtu.be

Comment by heyconan

I had trouble finding him as well. In my case, he turned out to be underwater.

Comment by ikee1954

probably easier just to enter /reload ui than loggin out - i just sperienced the "?" problem and that is what i did to get the quest "?"s back

Links

Your First Day as a Pirate

Bring Yer Papers to Captain Keelhaul.

	Yer Papers (Provided) (1)

Description

Ye may be a slayer of Fleet Masters, but rules is rules and orders is orders. And MY orders say that all new pirates start out as swabbies. It's the rule.

You're to be working for Captain Keelhaul, the commander of the Riptide. It's the westernmost ship in the fleet, which is parked south of the tip o' the cape.

Find him in his captain's chambers, and bring yer papers.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26631))