Crystal Crusaders

Another year has passed and we’re still here! So as with previous years we got together and played some games!

There was another new outfit for us all to wear and this year it was Southern Seas Shirt (Gunmetal Black and Snow White), Pagos Gaskins (Metallic Orange) and Guoc shoes (Soot Black x 2).

Following on from last year we used some of Nae’s FFXIV Jumping Puzzles, but this year we travelled to Ragnarok for their room 8, “Pillars, You Said Pillars?” and room 4, “Jump the vases”:

After we had some winners we moved onto Limsa Lominsa for a game of hide and seek. Before the event I had placed some of my other characters around the zone and everyone had to find them. The first three people who find them get a prize and a bigger prize for finding them faster. Because you can’t hide the name tag of your character it’s quite tricky to conceal them, but they generally weren’t found right away so I think it worked okay!

Next we headed back to our FC house for a quiz. Some of the questions are about the house and garden (how many of these things are there etc), but other questions are about the FC and double as a reminder to make sure people know about FC perks and what they could be doing etc.

Next we headed out to throw ourselves off high areas to try and land on a tiny marker! Each jump is scored for points and the total score over three jumps is used to allocate the prizes.

After this it was back to the FC house for the raffle. We had prizes for both items and Gil, see the tables below for the results!

Finally we headed off to the PVP area for a quick tournament!

The total prize money we gave out was a 18.66 million Gil and here is a list of who won how much:

Name	Gil won
L'ireiya Tia	3,550,000
Niners Dawnheart	2,650,000
Gwendolia Mangold	2,500,000
Driess Raronek	2,150,000
Nekomi Hounami	1,960,000
Lyallon Estaqur	1,750,000
Blithesome Carl	1,200,000
Ragner Defgar	1,050,000
Suki Hagane	1,000,000
Sarah Sugarcube	850,000

And here is a list of all the prizes that were won in the raffle:

Name	Prize won
Driess Raronek	Ballroom Etiquette - Personal Perfection
Driess Raronek	Where All Roads Lead Orchestrion Roll
L'ireiya Tia	Ballroom Etiquette - Personal Perfection
L'ireiya Tia	Celestial Screen
L'ireiya Tia	Punutiy Crossing Orchestrion Roll
L'ireiya Tia	Stargazers Orchestrion Roll
Nekomi Hounami	Axolotl Eft
Niners Dawnheart	Antelope Stag Horn
Niners Dawnheart	Barding Of Eternal Darkness
Niners Dawnheart	Hyperboreia Bench
Suki Hagane	[Awaiting choice]
Suki Hagane	[Awaiting choice]
Suki Hagane	[Awaiting choice]
Suki Hagane	[Awaiting choice]
Suki Hagane	[Awaiting choice]

Thank you everyone for a part of our FC and let’s look forward to our ninth anniversary!

As you probably guessed from the title, our Free Company has now been around for seven years! Wow! In usual tradition we celebrated it with lots of games and lots of prizes!

Also as usual we had a new outfit for everyone to wear. With the Dawntrail expansion releasing in under 2 weeks the outfit theme this time was an attempt at a crossover between a vacation outfit and the new Pictomancer job. At least that was the idea!

Specifically the outfit was White Beret (Pumpkin Orange), Extreme Survival Shirt (Undyed), Hose of Happiness (Pumpkin Orange) and Leather Sandals (Pumpkin Orange).

This time for our jump puzzles we went on location and I need to link and give credit to Nae’s FFXIV Jumping Puzzles. They have many different jumping puzzles on many different servers and while I’ve only seen a few of them, they are very impressive and really recommend taking a look! We used two of theirs (Chaos -> Omega -> FC house rooms 5 and 6) and gave our prizes for the first 5 people to finish.

After this we headed to Upper La Noscea to play hide and seek. How this works is that I place some characters around the area and everyone has to find them and you get a bigger prize for finding them faster. In previous years this has dragged on a bit, so this time I made it easier by picking a smaller zone where we can fly, but compensated by increasing the number of characters who were hiding. We had some problems with people finding them a bit too fast, but overall I think it worked well and next time I think we’ll just use a slightly bigger zone.

Then we headed back to the house for a mini quiz. The first person to answer correctly won Gil and the majority of questions were on things related to the Free Company (and also to make sure people are aware of some of the perks of being with us etc!)

Then we went back out into the world to throw ourselves off tall buildings to try and land on a tiny spot far below! Everyone had three chances and got points for how close they were to the marker and then the overall scores were added up to allocate the prizes.

We then moved back to the FC house to do the raffle. There were items prizes, but also some Gil prizes (see the lists below for who won what). Finally, we moved to the Gold Saucer to do a quick run of “Cliffhanger”. It’s not very hard and everyone who went made it, but it was just a fun little thing to end on!

The total prize money we gave out was a 23.55 million Gil (that’s 10.25 million more than last year) and here is a list of who won how much:

Name	Gil won
Kenda Covell	2,850,000
L'ireiya Tia	2,750,000
Bifi Bifi	2,500,000
Lyallon Estaqur	2,350,000
Zolukai Pestishyde	1,500,000
Key Ceallaigh	1,300,000
Rydia Nishiyama	1,300,000
Terazoic Willowstar	1,200,000
Blithesome Carl	1,100,000
Fist Lovefury	1,000,000
Leonceault Ferdillaix	750,000
Tiny Ice	750,000
Wilderis Sikk	750,000
Sylvia Flutterstar	600,000
Driess Raronek	550,000
Nekomi Hounami	500,000
U'anna Nitsah	500,000
Ashelia Nightfall	400,000
Noda Moonlight	350,000
Thea Belles	350,000
Sarah Sugarcube	100,000
Zack Wolf	100,000

And here is a list of all the prizes that were won in the raffle:

Name	Prize won
Driess Raronek	Kingdom of Baron (Endwalker) Orchestrion Roll
Fist Lovefury	Wind-up Golbez
Fist Lovefury	Wind-up Kangaroo
Key Ceallaigh	Statice's Wings
Lyallon Estaqur	Their Deadly Mission Orchestrion Roll
Nekomi Hounami	Assorted Candles
Nekomi Hounami	Assorted Candles
Nekomi Hounami	Minmisle Hat
Noda Moonlight	Flying Chair
Rydia Nishiyama	Indoor Pond
Rydia Nishiyama	Tier 4 Aquarium
Rydia Nishiyama	Tier 4 Metal Aquarium
Sarah Sugarcube	Statice's Wings
Sylvia Flutterstar	Archangel Wings
Thea Belles	Greener Gleaner
Tiny Ice	[To be decided]
Tiny Ice	[To be decided]
U'anna Nitsah	Black Hayate
Wilderis Sikk	Flying Chair
Zack Wolf	Byakko Cub
Zolukai Pestishyde	Zurvanite Barding

Finally I was quite chuffed to see that some of our members still had some of our older outfits (and this wasn’t even from the last year!)

Thank you everyone for a part of our FC and let’s look forward to our eighth anniversary!