Cairessa

If you name him. He will come.

All this week, up until yesterday I did nothing but search for the elusive Loque’nahak. The Spirit Beast. I have read ALL the stories, and thought the closest I’d get is a Pull Toy from BRK’s sticky post. I gave up. I decided that my normal pets were just as special as this oh so rare beauty. Even though as a Draenei with my own glowing blue eyes we’d make a striking pair.

As I slept last night, a name came to me. Denali. Great one in the Athabaskan tongue. The REAL name of Mt Mckinley.

I woke up, grabbed my coffee. Logged into Nessingwary’s camp where I’d dropped my search. My plan was to do some mining. I turned on track minerals and started my rounds. I came to The Bonefields, and saw a titanium node spawned. Also knowing Loque could occasionally spawnthere, a tapped my keybound macro.

/tar King Krush
/tar Aotona
/tar Loque
/tar Spirit Beast
/stopmacro [noexists]
/w Cairessa >%t<
/script PlaySoundFile(“Sound\\Creature\\Illidan\\BLACK_Illidan_04.wav”)

Suddenly Illidan’s voice filled the room…YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!! That’s precisely when BRK’s friend Brain invaded my thoughts, only he sounded more like George Carlin..

I was in Panic mode.

Me: OMG there he is!!

George: yes. Yes he is. What are you going to do?

ME: TAME HIM!!

ALL of BA chat: Jess, you don’t want him remember?

ME: SHHHH!!!

George: he’s elite, you should take precautions.

ME: AND??

George: T-R-A-P?

Me: Right…WHERE IS MY TRAP???

George: Told you 3 days ago, you should keybind that.

ME: …not helping me find the button!

George: You really should hurry, are there others nearby?

ME: Shit…/look around…no, I’m safe. aha there’s trap.

George: /facepalm real ladylike language there LADY Jess

ME: GO HOME GEORGE!!

/tame beast POP goes the trap, and he never laid a claw on me. I sent George straight back to BRK (thanks for the loan, hope it wasn’t too much trouble).

I’m in love. He’s gorgeous. He’s mine. He is the Great one. Denali. He’ll always show up when you quit searching, and if you name him…he will come.

What’s the first thing you do when you get one of these?

Well, you do this…

And then spend 4 days searching for a Spirit Beast, until you decide you really like your Black Lion named Seeaytee, and give up the hunt. Maybe to take it up again at another time, or maybe just to accept that it wasn’t meant to be. Cairessa is my first alt to get an epic bird by the way. Yay me!!