I agree that the timing and notification was all screwy. I was telling folks I liked that stuff, just don't have the cash right now. If I could have planned even a week or two ahead of time, I might have done it.
There is a quest in Ebon Downs which makes this noise - think it is the one about praying over the bone piles. Maybe the frequency of the sound depends upon the number of people doing this quest at the moment. Just a guess.
Well, as you can see, by the time I took the screenshot, it had been active over 4 minutes. It stayed up there for a while as I talked to other people in the zone about it. No matter, as I said, it was just an oddity.
I have a serious issue with dog companions. I have both the regular dog and the orc dog companions, and they are the same in this case. Whenever I am mounted and going along, I will hear near-constant dog sounds!!! I'll have a short period of silence, then "grrrrrgrowlgrrrgrowlgrrrgrowl.." etc ad nauseum. It is so bad I…