Lost on a tangent

I've neglected my Troll DK for a very long time now, but I finally started playing him again, and brought him to 85 in less than two weeks. And from 85 to "can enter heroics" in half a day. It's really funny, but I'm more motivated to play toons in PvE when I like roleplaying them at the same time. And he's really starting to grow on me as a character.

He has a rather complex background, a home he can't really return to, and a family that may or may not be dead. He doesn't know, and he was hesistant to find out - until now.

It will be hard for him. Things won't resolve easily. Most won't resolve at all, or at least not in a positive way. But there will be some rays of hope, and I want him to find at least one of his children. (Who an IC/RL friend spontaneously offered to play. Now, that will be fascinating! He hasn't seen his family for about three years now, so the player will have a lot of creative freedom, and I'm open to surprises.)

I'll need a lot of preparation, and I guess it will be a month or more until we can finally start the plot. It'll involve archaeology, guilt, reasoning, and a partial solution. I'm already looking forward to it - it's been a while since my last real "character development" plot, and everything is rather static at the moment, so it'll be a nice change.

Tomorrow my guild will have their first plotted event, which doubles as a trial for our newcomers and the ones who are due to be promoted.

It will be rather simple: I'll send them to a certain place to talk to someone and find hints where a missing person had been seen for the last time. If everything goes well, they'll follow his route and talk to some different characters I provide, to finally find and rescue the missing person. And then there will be cookies and promotions and much rejoicing... I hope. I'm still afraid I will mess up as a "game master" or people will get bored or the plot is too stupid or... well, let's see, right?