I entered the QA, as Othur, and was amazed to discover I received 999xp for "finding" it. I contacted DM Helkesst, and he closed the area.

It's not a bug. It's a temporary fix until we can get our "once only" script working. For now, just do me a favor and avoid repeating this quest endlessly until we can fix it. The exploration XP is intended to push people over the limit, as a very poor kludge fix.

Ah - makes sense. Thanks Howland.

This has been resolved, but I'm also going to note that we should have a better system for limiting the number of times characters take certain quests in place now.