Ah, maybe it's started doing that to Alliance, too. She was definitely killing things on her way to Mudsprocket...and there was one weird point where she passed over a bridge and some weird disembodied voice started laughing about how it was going to rip her arms off or something, but nothing ever attacked. I'll have to go back (on a toon that won't get one-shotted) and see if I can get it to happen again.