Nine Muses

I’ve been saving up for a while for my flying mount (ever since I transferred Sera to her current server).  For some reason, I had it stuck in my head that I needed 1000 gold.  Maybe it used to be that much.  I finally decided to cave and send Sera the money from Ceire.  (It helps that J offered me 500 gold too.  Even though I told him to hold onto it unless Ceire needed it later, it helped to know there was a cushion somewhere since I barely had 1100 gold between both Sera and Ceire.)

So, I read the letter from the flight training instructor to remind myself where to go – and I notice it only costs 600 gold!  Well, now it’s going to be easy, I think, and I’m feeling relieved.

I get to the trainer and talk to her and… it only costs 200 gold!  Now, instead of being relieved, I’m annoyed.  I could have bought this a month ago if I’d known it was this cheap!

So, now I have my flying mount.  I bought the Ebon Gryphon, as I think it’s the prettiest of the gryphons.  And because I could fly, I was able to finish up a few more achievements.  Specifically:

• Into the Wild Blue Yonder (Learning the flight skill.)
• Explore Hellfire Peninsula (I could fly over the Kil’jaeden area.)
• Explore Terokkar Forest (I could fly over Skettis.)

I also finished up Chef de Partie – I found a couple more vendor recipes in Allerian Stronghold – and Mysteries of the Marsh.

Purchasing the gryphon brought me up to 34 mounts, which is one step closer to Leading the Cavalry and my Albino Drake.  I know this one won’t happen anytime soon and will require rep grinding, but I’m still itching for it.

I also decided to fly out to the Stormspire in Netherstorm and buy the pets he has for sale.  This brings me up to a total of 44 pets (once the Jubling egg hatches).  If J gets me the remaining five Horde side pets this weekend, then that’ll mean just one more pet to the Shop Smart, Shop Pet … Smart achievement.  If I transfer my old bank alt/paladin to my current server, that’ll wrap it up as she has two or three unbound BoE pets that Sera doesn’t have yet.

Loremaster side note: Terror of Terokkar is proving much more difficult than expected.  It seems like all the quests I find are group quests, and I’m worried I’m going to have to go into the instances a little to finish things up, though I may just go on to other zones and hope some of them lead back to Terokkar.