Bree got back into tracking distance and the Cow began following her again, alreadying knowing from the forms that the Merchant daily was simply broken and having to deal with the fact that the dev's had yet to add the ability to reroll dailies it was either the Cow or nothing.
She very slowly did her best to avoid getting too close to anything, something easier said than done, one fourth of the map was the giant sprawling city she was currently walking through, but the section she and the cow where currently in was the section that had been destroyed in the opening cutscene when the Lich Queen had revealed she had been resurrected and released the powers of the Twelve pillars onto the world.
This entire section of city was destroyed, now full of crumbling buildings and broken roads overrun by bandits.
The Cow walked into a pothole and clipped against the edge of it, after a moment it once again reset, Bree took a deep breath, "Legendary item, Legendary item," She had only four non-repeated Legendary items to her name, counting the repeats she had almost twenty, but all the repeats had been used to increase the power of her other instances of the Legendary Item, save for one she had already maxed out and just sold the unusable spare, not bothering to try and put it up for the in-game auction since it was the most common Legendary anyone could get.
Bree was hoping beyond hope she'd get her hands on something new, or at least a repeat she could put up for barter, two of her four were both shoes and since they belonged to the same item slot on her character she could only use one set at a time, one had been an Legendary cosmetic Item for her staff slot, resulting in her staff that looked like it had a little Saturn floating over it, and the fourth legendary item had been a kick ass sword, and being an item not matching her class requirements she couldn't use it but wasn't quite willing to sell it since no one was willing to offer her a fair trade for it at auction.
She desperately wanted a Legendary Mage's staff outside of cosmetics, but would be more than happy to get an item she could both equip and that wasn't a pair of shoes. Bree spent far more time than she wanted to admit on trying to move the cow, She had just gotten right next to the hostile mob divide when it got stuck on another pot hole.
"I could just buy a pull," She rationalized as she started walking back to the cow, "I've already gotten enough for one pull from the other three dailies, what's a few buck," Bree chuckled to herself but knew she was already pushing her budget dangerously close to the red considering she still have over a week to her next pay period and need to do some shopping on the way home from work the next day is she wanted to eat during that week.
Even if she did buy the cheapest option, if she convinced herself to do it now, she'd use it as an excuse to do it again later. "Please Cow," She pleaded with the AI Creature as it began walking after her, she avoided the pot holes, and one her six try she finally managed to get it to cross the passive town line, Old Greg was atop a small hill not to far away, so long as she kept the cow away from the side fences she would be golden.
She took two steps in, and then watched as Cowie the Cow died to a head shot. She just stared at it for a moment before hearing laughter, turning around she saw another player howling with joy as he put away his bow.
"Oh man, it was worth the wait," he looked to his left at a screen she couldn't see before speaking again, "Some one clip that," Her turned away without looking back, talking to his live chat as he did so, thanking them for pointing out that some poor sap way trying to do an escort mission off in the distance.
In the distance she could see the indicator that the cow had respawned and she took a deep breath "I hate people," She muttered angrily as she went back to the cow, trying again and again to get the cow back to old Greg, after so many attempts she'd lost count she managed to get it back to the safety line, and with no other player in sight she managed to get the Cow back to Greg, who thanked her.
"Thank ya kindly stranger," Greg said, Bree already walking away as she claimed the rewards and headed to the Wishing Star page, now with enough to make two wishes the guaranteed Legendary Item was her.
She made one wish, and immediately received the notification that she had gotten a Legendary Item. Bree stared at the item for a very long moment before letting out a low hiss as realization set in.
"I didn't need to do the fucking cow quest," She realized angrily, knowing the guaranteed legendary count down would reset if one got a legendary before hitting it. She took a moment to angrily process just how much time she had waisted before claiming the Item.
The Item she received had no rendered item image, and below its name was a small amount of text stating the item was a 'Exclusive Pre-Beta Account Reward' for the next patch.
"Fuck," Bree angrily opened her menu and inspected the Item, knowing exactly what it was for the second she saw it's name, Garden's Windmill, It was a Windmill to put on a players private estate, upon putting it down anywere it would decrease the price and increase the output of one's garden.
Bree angrily looked at the Windmill, having planned to skip out on buying one as it would require a lot of in-game currency, the kind one earned by playing over the kind one could buy.
"I don't…I can't…" Bree angrily dropped her controllers as she held her hands to her head, "Fuck," She picked up her controller and angrily selected one of the dozens of sidequests she had picked up but not yet started.
"Now I have to grind up for a house," She muttered angrily, as a Pre-Beta reward it was linked to her account, so she couldn't sell or destroy it, and she wasn't about to spend the rest of her days playing the game dealing with the Windmill in her inventory. "It'll probably cost like a Million Coin or something," Bree set off to begin the less than welcome journey to save up enough to buy a plot of land when they became available for purchase.
***
Winnie was lost in her book, reading an interesting tale of the time her Mistress had tried to help an easily spooked teleporting Cow get home. The Cows owner had been so grateful that he had apparently given her the blueprints for the very Windmill that had been the base for the tower Winnie now called home, having no place to build it Her Mistress had simply decided it was time for a home to call her own.
"Ah," Winnie muttered with Interest, "I'm must be getting close," Winnie wanted to continue reading so she could discover what could be causing her Mistress Distress towards Sheepy and Orion, but a call of her name indicated that Jaiden and Silver both required her assistance in some matter or another, "To much to do," She sighed as she set the book down and returned to her tasks for the day.