So I'm on Lazona, flying around on her sparkly new mount, and I enter Zul'Drak looking for cobalt nodes and Terror Spinner pops. Figuring I'm a bit late on the uptake, I make straight for its more-preferred spawning point, in amongst the raptors and bats. Lo and behold, it's there. Spam for a hunter out to tame the eight-legged beauty...and nobody answers. I fly about for a little bit before deciding I'm better off euthanising the spider myself rather than the DK farmer that's always out there at this time of night. 25g, 20 frostweave and a rather nice pair of mail shoulders suitable for shamans.
I do an abrupt 180 turn and fly into Grizzly Hills. I'm on my approach to the lodge to mail off Terror Spinner's drops when...Arcturis pops...right underneath me. I've never seen this spirit bear up close and personal, so I land and path my Celestial Steed around him for a while, getting some screenshots. Upon closer observation, he really is quite cute, but both Laz and Kas are maxed out with stables. So I do the humane thing, I start searching for available hunters in the nearest areas - Zul'Drak, Dragonblight and the Hills themselves.
I nail every single MM Hunter in all three zones. Hey, that's my luck at work! Just as I'm considering logging my horde and repeating the search, a level 74 flagged Nelf Hunter stumbles upon the two of us - Arc merrily pathing around and me atop my Celestial Steed. There's a scattering of "OMFG!!" in /say and I think, yep, found one XD
I tell him my stables are maxed out and Arc's all his if he's BM. Turns out he's been looking for Arcturis since the spirit bear went live and has never seen him *waves flag* So, with me standing guard, Guthan races back to the Stable Master, stables his wolfie and makes a beeline for the glowy one. He drops a freezing trap, and I do the same to make things just a bit easier for him. Tame goes off without a hitch and he's the proud owner of a sweet little spirit bear. He tries to offer me gold for finding him, but I refuse to take it; he popped right under me, I had no room, and no way am I taking gold for something that was blind luck. We exchange a little chat about our pets (very taken by Nightshade, but then, she turns heads even now...mah scaly baby <3) and then I head off for more cobalt farming.
I might not have the room but Arc's now grown on me after seeing him wild and untouched.
...Damnit, I'm hopeless XD!
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