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I thought it was early afternoon.

Maybe mid-afternoon, at a push.

It’s gone six o’clock.

I’m still level twelve. I’m trying to get myself up to level one hundred in engineering so I can make myself some goggles.

I’m trying to avoid asking myself why.

I’m really hoping I get bored of it again soon.

All about pets.

I’ve discovered what the problem was. I thought making new pets happy would be a long term problem. But it’s not. It’s a lot simpler than that. What you have to do is stuff them full of food when you first tame them. Keep feeding them until they’re happy. And then when ‘happy’ dips down and becomes ‘content’ a little bit of food will perk them right back up.

So, that’s good. I understand the pet thing now. I understand loyalty (which increases when they’re happy) and levelling up and training and everything. So I like my hunter again now. No desire to jump ship and go druid.

I abandoned Bob the raptor on the road between Ogrimmar and Thunderbluff. I wanted some variety. (On a side note, I wish the ‘abandon’ option was called ‘set free’ or ‘send to live on a big, happy farm’ or something. ‘Abandon’ just sounds so cruel.) I got a plainstrider called Orville, who was all right, but a bit unexciting. I let him go because I wanted a lion, but it turned out all the lions were too high level for me to tame. So I ran down the road without a pet until, close to Thunderbluff, I happened across a wolf.

Me orc, you wolf.

Perfect.

So now I have a wolf called Garak, who is superb. He’s fast and tough and he bites anything I tell him to. Good stuff. And he barks and helps and even sometimes howls for no reason. I love him.

And why was I running between Ogrimmar and Thunderbluff? Because I hadn’t been there before, so I couldn’t get public transport. And I needed to go to Thunderbluff to get gun training. I made a rough boomstick, you see, using my engineering skills. And I wanted to use it. Which meant running half-way across the continent because it turns out hunters can’t use guns by default. I thought they could, but it seems not. And the only way to learn to use them is to be taught bysome cow in Thunderbluff. But I levelled up along the way, learned about pets and found my wolf, so it was all okay in the end.

And my boomstick does, indeed, go boom. Excellent.

That’s a picture of me and Bob, my pet raptor.

I didn’t want a pet raptor. I reached level ten this evening and I took my taming quests and I was excited because I knew I wanted a tiger and I knew where tigers were. So I got a tiger. I wanted to call him ‘Nipple’, but that’s an invalid name according to the rules, so I called him ‘Invalid’. And I was pleased. I trained him to growl and I fed him some meat and then, just as I was about to log off for the night, he ran away.

No idea why, no warning. He’s just gone.

I didn’t want to be petless, so I ran out of the inn I was in, grabbed the nearest raptor and brought him home. Before I log back in I’ll have to read up on pets. The in-game help is normally very, well, helpful, but there doesn’t seem to be much explaining of this pet stuff.

I’m definitely doing to have to do some research here.

It’s a good thing I’ve got the day off tomorrow.

I just started it again for a bit and… got lost in time. Suddenly it’s one in the morning.

I completed a couple of easy quests and died a lot trying to do a quest that I just don’t think I’m ready for yet. Not alone at any rate. And these newbie areas are amazingly empty on this server. I guess there aren’t that many new characters being created these days. I ran round a whole group of islands for ages and only saw one other person, who ame and went very quickly. In a way it’s quite nice, but it’s also nice to have a load of people around to take some of the heat.

I can’t defeat all those trolls alone!

I’d forgotten how beautiful the art design is while I was away. There’s a a group of shipwrecks near the orc starting area that’s just breathtaking. And running back into Ogrimmar at the end of the session was like coming home.

And even more like coming home when the auction house was empty of NPCs, which was followed by a disconnection message and an inability to get back into the game for five minutes. Ah, random outages, how I’ve missed you.

Gerplex, lovely undead level sixty man that he is, gave me some cash too get me started, so I’ve bid on some more bags in the auction house. The most annoying thing about WoW is the lack of inventory space.

Well, most annoying apart from corpse runs, possibly.

Oh, and I went trick or treating a couple of times and got a flimsy elf mask and some lollipops. Cool.