When I first decided tht I wanted Krush, i had already grabbed Skoll and Gondria, each camp only lasting a couple of hours, so I figured finding Krush wouldn't be that bad. I went to the basin with a skip in my step, a gleam in my eye, and a whole bucketload of confidence. After a couple of hours of lazily flying around, i decided that I was bored, so i would take a quick break to do something else (certainly he would be back by the time i returned). I didn't want to look for Loque, seeing as there were three other hunters in the zone looking for him, so I went to find Arcturis. I check wowhead, find his spawn, and fly out to the singular spawn point. Before i even land, NPCScan goes off! I land, tame like a boss, and fly off, my confidence bolstered ten-fold. After this, how could getting Krush be an issue? This rare taming business is easier than I thought. Well, 4 days later my hopes had diminshed ever so slightly. I had been camping him, flying circles around constantly, every day for 12 hours a day, and all i had thus far to show for it was two false alarms caused by people bringing their Krush to the zone and a dead body that I /weep'ed over about 30 times. I suppose I had made a couple of friends. Edenjewel, a nice NE hunter, was in the zone looking for loque, and so we had the mutual agreement to watch out for each other's prefered pet, and we chatted to stave off the crushing boredom. Then there was Scuddles, the Draenei Paladin who at first was my mortal enemy. Our first shared words were "[1.General][Scuddles]: I'll give you 1k gold to let me kill Krush." I was flabergasted. Why would she want to kill Krush? It was blasphemy! Well, turns out she only needed Krush for her [Frostbitten] achieve, but thats beside the point. Turns out she was a really nice person, yet another friend found in mutual pursuit of a rare beast. Well, on the fourth night, on a whim, I decided to check out aotona's spawn, and on the very first one i check, I find her! She really is a beautiful bird, named her Paradiso.
Anyway, another two days pass, and still nothing on my end, nor any of my hunting buddies. Its about 2 in the morning, and I get up to go get a drink, putting myself on auto-fly to get to the next spawn point across the map. In the middle of pouring my water, NPCScan goes off, loud and proud. I run back, faster thn i thought possible, and check what set it off. It was Loque! I check my Flist, but sadly Edenjewel wasn't on at the time. Seeing as i didn't have loque myself, I tamed him, pissing off a bunch of wasps in the process, and named him Eden in honor of the owner he would never know.
The next day, after again seeing no sign of Krush, I get a frantic, poorly spelled whisper from Scuddles. "I GHOT HIMM!" She had found Krush, after two years of on and off searching, and finally gotten the kill, and the achievement (and apparently her hands were shaking to badly to type properly). Congratulations were passed around and she headed off, wishing me the best of luck, and periodically checking in to see if I had nabbed him yet. The next day marked day 8 of my hunt, over a week of non-stop searching, and I was sick and tired of it. I resolved to myself that I would not rest until I had gotten Krush. 20 hours later, at 5:05 in the morning, I set myself on auto-fly (again to get to the next spawn across the map), and I got up to turn off my gf's computer that she had left on when she went to sleep. Well, in the process of shutting it down, NPCScan goes off. I nearly do a front flip over the computer desk to get back to my computer and...IT WAS KRUSH, ALIVE AND WELL! I touch down, summon my core hound, completely forget to use ancient hysteria, and hit my bestial wrath/abandon pet macro and begin the tame. Even though i had tested this out and BW should have lasted the whole tame, something went wrong and I got feared with half a second left. No problem, i let the duration run out and begin the tame again, and this time it makes it all the way through! I nearly pass out from exhaustion, but i stayed up just a little bit longer to take a pic for everyone.
^Look at his smug face, laughing at me (and yet I still love him to death).
IvanTheGreen and I are now inseperable, and if I could choose to put myself through hell like that again, I wouldn't change a single thing.
