Skarr At Last

[Tahlian]

Well...I finally got Skarr. After camping, getting frustrated, camping some more, failing to tame him twice, getting frustrated and taking a couple days off and camping yet more, I decided that today, I'd check in every hour for Skarr to see if he was up, starting at 5 AM server time. No Skarr. I logged off and went back to bed for an hour. 6 AM...no Skarr. Back to bed for another hour. 7 AM...still no Skarr, and I consider logging off yet again. Then I remember, and say to myself, "Self, you know that this cat seems to have an absolute fetish for appearing 10-30 minutes after you log off. So hang around a bit." 8 AM comes...no Skarr 9 AM comes...and wait. What's that little red dot at the bottom of my minimap? I mouse over it to read "Skarr." I think, "oh, surely not..." So I take a quick check with Eagle Eye, and there he sits, on the floating rock at the other end of the island. I turn, pop Camouflage to get past the elementals, and run like hell. There was a night elf hunter that had been camping that end who had meandered up to see what I was doing. I think he figured it out about when I did, and the race to the cat was on!

Now I hate jumping games with a passion. I find a likely spot and leap, then leap again, all the while expecting to fall to my death or see myself miss the tame to the other hunter, by mere seconds. But no...I land safely and start the tame sequence, heart pounding the whole time: Tame Beast, Silencing Shot, Deterrence/haste pot/Tame Beast. And prayed. That was the longest several seconds of my life, catching a Fireball to the face, then seeing the world's slowest recast of Fieroclast Barrage start...and then Skarr becomes "Cat" and hops to my side. I couldn't believe it. I'd gotten him.

The other hunter congratulated me...and I do hope he gets him the next time around. I /cheered and /hugged that cat, then bugged out so my new pet wouldn't set off anyone's NPCScan to take some pictures and find the cat a name.



First, we stopped at the entrance to the Firelands raid. Now I know in this picture, it says his name is "Grim"...but he let me know pretty dang quick he did NOT like that name, and wanted the other one I'd been considering. A quick Certificate of Ownership later, and he was rechristened "Forge," which was much more to his liking.



We're kings of the world, Ma! Another stop at the Sanctuary of Malorne...and the stag god may never be quite the same again.

For everyone on Feathermoon - of both factions! - who encouraged me, offered to help, kept me company, whispered me spawn timers, and wouldn't let me give up on this cat - thank you so much. You guys seriously rock my socks.

[Novikova]

Awwww. That's awesome. Congratulations! Most of us blue-side were cheering since we'd seen you guys out there every so often. He's found a good home it looks like.

[Tufak]

Skarr and Tahlian are a great pair and someday soon we'll see if Karkin wants to go home with Daashi.