Belated response is belated!
This is a transcript from Durana's personal journal, don't let her know I put it here.
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So, me long time aquatence signed me in fer this "Random Pet Challenge". Apparently, some lass looks at all the beasties out there in the mightly land of Azeroth, picks one, and sends ye off to go make friends with it. Almost sounds daft to me, what if ye're sent to tame some horrible spider who wants tae eat yer legs off? Or a sporebat? Dunno which'd be worse when I think about it.
Anyway, I'm drifting off topic as. My task was to try out a white turtle. Well, somehow this random pet lass must've known my weakness for turtles. A quick look in the old Petonomicon told me I could find 'em in Azshara. So, of I went. Upon landin', I went to go check out me old friend Azuregos. The Blue dragon was feeling a little faint, so I didn't stay long. I drifted off to the sea, where I saw wee turtle. Not the one I was looking for, but a plesant sight none the less.
It's always good to see ol' Scalebeard up and about. Hope these recent tremors aren't disturbing him too much. I left him to his hunting.
After swimmin' the last part o' the channel I went up to the beach, ran along, knocked the stuffing out o' some elemental who thought he was all high and mighty, then went to find me soon to be turtle buddy. Sure enough, I found him roamin' the beaches by himself. I froze him, then started to convince him we were mates.
He soon wandered to me side all friendly. And fer once, I knew what to call him. So, Boris the Turtle joined me for a brief stint across Azeroth. Before we left to see the world, we stayed behind on his beach fer a final sunset.
Now, once Boris joined me, I had to wonder what to do with the blighter. I then remembered those fruity elves and tauren over by Zangarmarsh were still offerin' rewards fer Coilfang weapons. I'd been thinkin' of grabbin' me one of their beautiful Hippogryphs, so I decided to take Boris over to the Steamworks to go thump us some Naga bastards. Boris was completely taken by the mushroom forest, so we had tae take a quick break for him to "sniff the fungi" as it were.
We eventually got out to the Steamworks, were we saw our quarry ahead. Boris surprised me in seeming rather eager to take the snakeheads down. Not that I think o' it, I souldn't be. Those Naga been holed up on Azshara fer a while now, maybe they killed some o' his kin?
We went in there and dished out a load o' hurt on them snakeheads. Boris was more than eager to get into 'em. But I noticed somethin' seemed off. Seems like the snakey bastards would peel off Boris to attack me. Didn't have this much trouble with my other Turtle. I thought back, only to remeber I never tought Boris how to thunderstomp! Daft me!
So, that essentially ended our Steamvault stint. We killed a few more of the buggers, but they eventually chased us out. We'll get 'em once I teach Boris how to shake the earth!
As for Boris himself, I can't say I don't like him. He's got a charm that only turtles have. So fer now, he's got a place in my stables. If he's ever got the urge to return back to his sunset drenched beach though, I'll let him leave without a fuss. 'Til then, it looks like Om has a new playmate.
~ Durana Sleetshot
In summary: I like him! Although I'll like him more when I go train him in thunderstomp. :\ He's got a place in my stables, although he'll be the first to go should I need the space for something else. (No offence to Boris, but Om is still the bestest turtle ever.) I think I'll hold off on more random pets until Cataclysm, where I'll abuse the hell out of this thread on my goblin.
