Another scored a nice hunter Ghostcrawler. I had a dream a week or two ago about Spiteflayer, and now I badly want her on my baby goblin. But the mother of dreams! I've had so many about the TLPD, and haven't followed up on them. Mostly because they were before Cata came out, and my server is fairly populated. There were almost always ten other people clearly camping it, and that's from my faction alone.Last night I had a dream again, where I was flying over the waterfall and heart attack! I see the drake. It's untagged, all alone, and I grab it and kill it and the monut is MINE! And then I woke up, six in the morning, feeling so awful and sick. Uuugh...
Unable to fall back asleep, I decided to follow my dreams and go up to Storm Peaks. Not seconds there and NPCScan BLARES at me... it's Vyra. Sighing, I kill her. Still somewhat happy, because now she's knocked off my achievement list, and I thought she'd be the hardest to get. Knowing now the TLPD wont spawn for a while, I go to the famous resource site and look at the exact timer. Someone mentions the spawn timer was lowered after the shattering. There have been a few sightings of an hour and a half after Vyra.... quickly, I head around Zul'drak, Grizzly Hills, the Fjord, and Dragonblight to check for other rares. I ended up getting the sentinel, but nothing else. No tameable rares either, but I don't see the use. I wouldn't want them, and there was seriously -no one else- around. Finally, it hits the hour-thirty mark and I head back, completely losing any hope of sleep, knowing I'll be up until eleven tonight working...
I park myself at the lake point, and pray. I know I'll probably be unlucky. I know I won't get it at the earliest point, for SURE. I know it'll probably spawn at another point, or spawn Vyra instead. Still, I sit. Three hours into the camp, I decide to do a swing around storm Peaks and meet up with a very nice hunter looking for Skoll. We chat, I say I'll keep an eye our for the spirit beast, she says she'll keep an eye out for either dragon. We end up grouping up and chatting. For a while we talk about rare spawns, then raids, then PVP, then our alts and collecting minipets and mounts. Then we talk about school, art, work, our pets, and finally we run out of things to talk about. Quiet for a while. At about 4 hours I jokingly say I probably missed it, or the rare cap is hit and no one is taking them down. We laugh a bit, she tells me not to jynx it, and we continue the long camp.
At five hours I do another fly around, and Dirkee is up by the engine! She also happens to be flying over, so we team up and take him down for achievement purposes. Happily I say that aside from the TLPD I have no reason to come back to Storm Peaks. I can take the zone out of my acheivement rare sweep.
At six hours, a human hunter parks himself down in Bor's Breath. My friend is afraid he's looking for Skoll. I worry he's looking for the Time Lost, and that if it spawns from Ulduar, he'll catch it before me ( I have the lake spawn point covered, and if the waterfall flies this way, I'm sure to grab it before him, granted no noe else is there ).
At seven hours, I see a cool video showing me how to use eagle eye to check the waterfall/Brunhildar spawn points. Every fiteen minutes or so, I check, but still nothing.
Eight hours... eight, LONG hours. I swore to myself I'd never heavily camp again. I sigh, about to swoop down and check on Skoll's nearest point for my buddy, then maybe swing over to the waterfall point really fast.
I mount up. I hit spacebar. I angle myself down and start flying.
Not one second later, NPCScan blares at me.
It's not Vyra.
It's the Time-Lost.
Quickly, I whip myself around and there he is in all his golden glory, rigth at the point I was just at. I fly up to him, land.... thank God for 310% speed...
ARCANE SHOT ARCANE SHOT ARCANE SHOT YES HE's TAGGED AND WHY ISN'T MY PET ATTACKING? Oh right, he's on passive. C'mon, Ahurewa, fight it! My chimera scores the killing blow and does a happy little flap dance. I'm screaming over vent, in party, in guild, in RealID...
I end up posting the time and location in genereal, in order to help other people camping him. I was shaking like a leaf and it was probably the most coherent, typo-less sentence I've ever typed. I have no idea how I managed that, and probably never will...
