The first rule of Fight Club... (WoW, stray kitty)

[thistlechaser]

I love rare items. Usually I don't write about AH stuff, but conversation with felknight last night about the pricing of rare things in game made me think about all this.

I just sold an alchemy recipe for about 19,000. (I actually listed it at 11K, but she paid me 7K gold, 12 white kittens (she priced them at 300-500 each, but they're moving right now at 1K each), a fancy weapon, and a couple stacks of the Dream Vision potion itself. The gold and the kittens alone come to about 19K, the weapon and potions are just icing.

(Dream Vision potion lets you explore zones in your "dreams" -- your body, but you can't get aggro and you can jump really high/can't die from falling damage. Perfect for MoP coming!)

...ha ha. As usual, I forgot about the neutral AH cut (which the damned magical rooster should have made me never forget). I lost about 1K in AH fees. D: Oh well, still ahead.

Anyway! The only reason the recipe was that price was that I listed it as that. I actually bought it for 120 gold. I would have sold it for 7K straight (though 8K was really as low as I wanted to go, there was still wiggle room since I got it so cheaply). I really enjoy how the seller sets the value of the item. felknight has an old item to learn some first aid skill from, no longer needed or used in the game. But the item still has value! What value? HE decides that. And you need only one buyer to agree with you on the value to make the sale.

I love the AH. :)

Edit: Oww, my pocket. Bought a X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME and a X-51 Nether-Rocket to flip in MoP, 130K and 120K. D: Hopefully they should sell for a whole lot more later!

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Kitty news: I got the humane trap this afternoon and set it up, but Mr. Stray didn't come around until just now. :/ My vet closes in an hour, so I had to not catch him. Er, not TRY to catch him. He's a clever little thing and had little interest in walking into the trap.

The more I look at him, the more I see how beaten up he is. I had seen some kind of injury on his inner foreleg, but now I think he has a big scar on another leg. Something probably tried to chew him up, they look too big for cat fight wounds. :/

I'm going to try to get him tomorrow. I'm going to work from home so I can scurry him off to the vet as soon as I catch him. If I do. Hopefully I will.

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[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

So... involving Wow. and Mounts.

I have this wonderful little, slightly twee male orc hunter that currently strongly prefers his purple super-fast riding ostrich he got from the elves. He had to wear that danged tabbard forever, but, along with his slightly black-leather looking biker aesthetic, he looks wonderful on it, if modestly confused, as if he were going to either a Hell's Angels rally or the next meeting for a Pride parade. In character, in my head, he would fit in nicely in either place. BUT... but. Now, he's gone lvl 60, and he can fly.

Can you suggest any flying creature that I am likely to be able to locate and secure within the next 25 levels that will suit him as well as that purple turkey?

(I know, I know, I am riding horrible stereotypes as much as he is riding a purple turkey, but it just looked so awesomely RIGHT, and we have people watching us and whispering us in Org., and that doesn't happen often)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hmmm! My first suggestion would be a netherwing drake (http://www.aspmatrix.com/ballz_drake.jpg). Almost all of them are shades of purple (you can pick from 8 -- or buy them all!), plus they glow and are kind of nether-y (not solid).

The other suggestion would be a nether ray (http://www.wow-petopia.com/images/skin_pix/netherrayskinblack.jpg). People call them "Flying Vagina" or "Space Vagina" because of how they look, so him riding one would be ironic!

Both are gotten through BC rep, so you're the right level for them!

[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

that drake is PERFECT.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay! The rep isn't that hard to do anymore, and you can get XP while doing it!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Did you read about the WoW Black Market Auction House? I can see you watching it and grabbing ahold of a nice mount or 2 for personal use. Since you know, feel sorry for the person who gets in a bidding war with you.

Good luck with your cat wrangling efforts. Hopefully you can get him if for no other reason then getting him checked out.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes! I have Plans for it. ...though for those Plans to work, I need to stop spending money and making money!

There's really only one thing I want. Invincible. Everyone will want it, but the question will be if other people have 999,999 to bid (or if *I* will at the time!), and how long it will take to bid up that high.

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

Thing to remember about the trap is, you want to leave it around for at least a few days, with the door forced open, so they will be able to go inside it a few times (put some food in it so they expect to find it there). Then arm the trap with some nice stinky food inside. The cat is going to be hell of upset, feral or not, so you will need to handle carefully. You might need to keep him in it overnight (or more) so have some newspaper around and think about how you might get newspaper in under the trap door and/or get soiled newspaper back out. If it's more than an hour or two, also figure out how to get water into the cage.

Many cats freak out while in the cage but then calm down if you cover it with a towel. It doesn't have to be dark, just opaque so they are in a box rather than in a trap and exposed.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was a rule of taking the cage that I cover it with a towel. They said that keeps them nice and calm.

As of now, no luck! He has no interest in going into the cage, armed or not. (It's baited with a can of tuna.) I suspect this might not work, so many other neighbors are feeding him, he's probably not hungry enough.