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!
Here we all our on our FC roof!Suiting up
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!
For those of you who don’t know, we have 4 FC submarines that operate like massive multi-day ventures. These are constantly running to bring back items which either go in the giveaways or are just sold for Gil which goes into the company chest.
We use this Gil to fund the purchase of FC rooms whenever anyone wants one, but also to pay for our much bigger events like the birthday parties and the Xmas raffles.
Lately we’ve started to get more money than we really need, so we’re going to be starting a sweepstake where anyone who has played within the last 7 days is automatically entered into a draw for a chance to win 250k Gil! We’re also going to be running this twice a week! (Tuesday and Saturday).
Updated 14 April 2024: We’re now running this three times a week! (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday!)
For full details, please see our dedicated page about this!
The raffle has ended and we actually added an extra bonus day too! This means we had 8 main winners who each won 1.5 million Gil and 13 runner-ups who each won 250,000 Gil. We also had 5 people who didn’t win anything at all, so they each received a 100,000 Gil consolation prize!
This means the total prize money for this raffle was 15,750,000 Gil and here’s a table of the winners:
Date
Winner
Runner-ups
25 December 2023
Geralt R'ivia
Bearn Livinstone
26 December 2023
L'ireiya Tia
Maralade Ferilla
27 December 2023
Ashelia Nightfall
Bifi Bifi, Eon Qirin, Qorfrog Pensildic
28 December 2023
Blithesome Carl
Lynn Grey, Pome Kneenibbler
29 December 2023
Bearn Livinstone
Geralt R'ivia
30 December 2023
Thea Belles
Lyallon Estaqur, Ninuh Khatka, U'anna Nitsah
31 December 2023
Ninuh Khatka
Thea Belles
1st January 2024 (EXTRA!)
Zolukai Pestishyde
Sylvia Flutterstar
Congratulations again to everyone who won and I’m sure we’ll do another raffle again in the future!
It’s December once more so that mean it’s time for another FC raffle!
This is free for all FC members who were with us at the start of 17th December and has been active within the last 30 days This is also our 5th raffle and for this one we are going to be increasing the prize money!
We will be giving away 7 main prizes of 1.5 million Gil each (1 per day from 25th to 31st December inclusive) and runner ups on those days will get 250,000 Gil each. Anyone who doesn’t win anything during the event will still get a 100,000 Gil consolation prize at the end!
For more information, please see this years special page for the event!
Don’t miss out, enter without delay and pick your (hopefully) lucky number!
I know we don’t post often, but we’re still here! We also still have our members only Discord so anyone from the FC who is reading this, come join us! (you need to do this if you want to join in the giveaways!) However, this post is just to let everyone know about a few rank changes that are happening today.
Most of our members probably already know, but Mel Arky, one of our founding members, went into semi retirement a few months ago. They are still in the FC so I’m sure we’ll still see them from time to time, but after nearly 10 years of playing this game, they just wanted to try new things and I certainly can’t fault that! Thank you for being with us since the start and for all the assistance that you’ve provided over the years!
I think many people will agree that the game is in a bit of a content drought right now, but the new expansion is coming. Hopefully some of our inactive members will return for this and we’ll also be pushing for new recruits as well and this felt like a good time to shuffle things round and also gives me a chance to offload some work onto others!
I’ve created a new rank (Amethyst) and Ashelia Nightfall and Bearn Livinstone will be moving to this. It has the same permissions as Sapphire, but also allows them to change the ranks of players. The logic in this is that instead of requiring me to do all rank changes, they’ll be able to do this and it’ll hopefully minimise any delays from people getting the rank they should have! We’ve still got to work out some details (like right now I send the person a message when they have a rank change, but that requires friend list so won’t really be possible), but we’ll work it out!
I’ve also asked L’ireiya Tia, Lyallon Estaqur and Maralade Ferilla to become Sapphire so they can help out with a few extra things such as setting people up with their free FC rooms. They’ve all been with us a very long time and despite the current content drought, they continue to be active. I’d like to think we’re a relatively drama free FC and hopefully most of the time they shouldn’t need to do much more, but I also wanted a few more people who were active so that if something is needed in-game, there’s a higher chance someone might be online to help out with it. Thank you in advance for your assistance!
The end of 2023 is in site and I can confirm that we will be having our usual raffle! (link is for last years, we haven’t started this years yet!) So watch out for that!
I know we haven’t updated our website in a while, but we’re still here and today is actually the sixth anniversary of our Free Company! As per usual we got together and played some games and gave out some prizes and a lot of Gil. So much Gil…!
In previous years I’d made people wear an outfit with a cowl, partly because it makes us look like a cult, but partly because it’s just fun for everyone to be wearing matching outfits and running round a public area! However, this year I made a whole new outfit and here we are wearing it:
We usually start with a small climbing parkour puzzle, but this year we did two. First of all the small one that’s in Rhalgr’s Reach (which I think most people dont’ realise is there) and then we moved onto the Bokairo Inn, Kugane. There were Gil prizes for coming first, second or third.
Jump my minions, jump!!!Huzzah, we made it!Relaxing in the bath!
Next we headed off to Gridania to play some hide and seek. I had six characters hidden there and it was as simple as the first three people to find them won Gil. I think I did quite well this year as a lot of them took people a while to find and with one of the characters one of them only one person found them, huzzah!
Go away nasty rain!We’re not a cult, honest!
It might have been raining, but that didn’t stop us having fun! Amusingly despite changing our outfit to look less like we’re in a cult someone still commented…
Awesome! Next we headed back to the FC house for a mini quiz, where the first correct answer is worth Gil. Most of the questions are themed on the FC (ranks, permissions, things in our house/garden, that sort of thing), partly to see if people are paying attention, but also to make sure people know about FC related things that maybe they didn’t hear about (like we give all our members a free FC room after they’ve been active for 10 different days).
Back at the FC houseParty time!
We also did the raffle at this time where we had 20 prizes where the winners could pick from a bigger pool of prizes (see below) as well as some straight up Gil prizes.
Next we moved back into the world to throw outselves off of tall buildings. Basically playing lawn darts with our characters. I put a marker on the floor and everyone has 3 tries to try and land as close as possible. 2 points for dead centre and 1 point for the edge. After 3 jumps the scores are tallied up and the top 3 winners get more Gil (you can never have too much Gil!).
You want us to land on that tiny red dot? Are you crazy?Geronimo!!!
Then we moved onto the final event, the mini PVP tournament! We did 5 battles with best of 3 for each and we tried to match up the jobs as best as we could and win or lose people still got some Gil for making the effort!
This took up a large part of the afternoon, but I had a really fun time and I hope everything else did too! This FC is great, but only because of the people in it, many whom have been here for many years now, thank you! Also thanks to Lyallon Estaqur and Ria Skybreaker for letting me use some of their images on this post.
Oh finally, the total prize money we gave out was a rather large 13.3 million Gil (that’s 1.5 million more than last year) and here is a list of who won how much:
Name
Gil won
Hime Miyumi
2,050,000
Zolukai Pestishyde
1,800,000
Driess Raronek
1,750,000
Ria Skybreaker
1,600,000
L'ireiya Tia
1,400,000
Prandine Archibald
1,150,000
Bifi Bifi
750,000
Maralade Ferilla
700,000
Rem Anastasov
650,000
Lyallon Estaqur
550,000
Nekomi Hounami
350,000
Sarah Sugarcube
300,000
Adrilith Nelhah
100,000
Octavia Rosethorn
100,000
Pome Kneeknibbler
50,000
And here is a list of all the prizes that were won in the raffle:
Name
Prize won
Adrilith Nelhah
Black Hayate
Bifi Bifi
Dedicated to Moonlight Orchestrion Roll
Driess Raronek
Wayward Daughter Orchestrion Roll
L'ireiya Tia
Forged in Crimson Orchestrion Roll
Lyallon Estaqur
Answers Orchestrion Roll
Lyallon Estaqur
Landslide Orchestrion Roll
Maralade Ferilla
Gates of Paradise - The Garden of Ru'Hmet Orchestrion Roll
Maralade Ferilla
Royal Lunatender
Nekomi Hounami
Glade Gazebo
Prandine Archibald
Adventurer's Hooded Vest
Prandine Archibald
Modern Aesthetics - Scanning for Style
Prandine Archibald
Seitei
Prandine Archibald
Wind-up Leviathan
Prandine Archibald
Zurvanite Barding
Rem Anastasov
Eastern Canopy Bed
Ria Skybreaker
Drawing of Character by Blithesome Carl
Ria Skybreaker
The Final Day Orchestrion Roll
Sarah Sugarcube
Sophic Barding
Zolukai Pestishyde
Bacon Bits
Zolukai Pestishyde
Dress-up Alisaie
Zolukai Pestishyde
Private Pachypodium
Zolukai Pestishyde
Royal Lunatender
And to end this post, here’s a picture that Ria took that I thought looked quite amusing and in a way I feel this sort of sums up our FC…
The raffle has ended and we had 7 main winners who each won 1 million Gil and 20 runner-ups who each won 100,000 Gil. We also had 7 people who didn’t win anything at all, so they each received a 50,000 Gil consolation prize anyway!
This means the total prize money for the raffle was 9,350,000 Gil and here’s a table of the winners:
It’s December again which means that, for the fourth year running, we are going to be holding an FC raffle! This is free for all FC members who were with us at the start of 17th December and have been active within the last 30 days.
Like last year we are going to be giving away 1 million Gil on each of 7 days and all runner ups will get 100,000 Gil. Anyone who doesn’t win anything at all will still get a 50,000 Gil consolation prize at the end!
For more information, please see this years special page for the event!
Don’t miss out, enter without delay and pick your (hopefully) lucky number!
Another year has passed and I’m glad to say that our Free Company is still here, now at the ripe old age of 5 years old, wow! So like in previous years we all got together and played some games!
Last year I made everyone wear a “Altered Woolen Cowl” and admittedly not everyone likes it, but they still got into the spirit of things and wore it for the duration of the event, even if it does make us look a bit weird! Many thanks to Bifi Bifi who took the time to assemble them all!
We look like a cult don’t we?
Throughout the event we had multiple raffles, based on /random. Some of the prizes were fixed, such as specific amounts of Gil, but others could be picked from an available pool of prize, on a firstcome, first served basis.
For the event itself, in previous years we’ve started off with climbing the small lighthouse in Shirogane (where our FC house is), but this year I wanted a change and with the new Empyreum housing area that offered us the chance for another climbing puzzle. So I made them climb it, with the temptation of Gil prizes for the fastest three!
Jump, jump, jump!
Once three people got to the top we switched to playing Hide and Seek. I had 6 alts hidden around the world and the first three people to find each of them won Gil. We started off in Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks and immediately we caused quite a stir with people commenting on a cult arriving:
Invasion!
They found the two hidden characters in that zone quite fast, but because we can now fly in “A Realm Reborn” areas this time we also had two characters in Upper La Noscea and another two in Eastern La Noscea. Some of them were trickier to find than others, but the maps just aren’t that big and everyone was found before things got boring.
Then we moved back to the FC house for a short quiz and each correct answer was worth some Gil. Some of these were counting questions (like how many flowers are in the garden…. top tip… make sure you know the correct answer yourself first!) and other questions were related to the FC itself such as ranks and permissions etc.
Meeting up in the FC house
Then we moved onto another game… Lawn Darts aka Lemmings. We mark a target on the ground, everyone throws themselves off a cliff and tries to land as close as possible. Two points for centre, one for the edge and everyone gets three tries each.
We know how to queue!
Originally everyone was queueing up to jump in order, but it turned out to be workable for everyone to just jump at once and stay still until their score was checked off/they could move out the way. When everyone jumped at once all you heard was thud, thud, thud!
Then after this we finished off with a quick PVP match. Not everyone wanted to do this, but we had 5 pairs of people who each had a fight (paired up as evenly as possible, tank vs tank etc.) and everyone got some money, varying on if they won or lost.
This all took about three and a half hours so after that we called it a day! Thanks to everyone who came, I hope you had as much fun as me, but thank you most of all for making this FC what it is, it’s nothing without the members!
The total prize money given out was 11.8 million Gil and here is the list of who won what:
Name
Gil won
Sahmon Zhier
1,600,000
Geralt R'ivia
1,350,000
Zolukai Pestishyde
900,000
Gwynevere Cateye
850,000
Tiny Ice
850,000
Ashelia Nightfall
750,000
Hime Miyumi
600,000
Lyallon Estaqur
600,000
Sylvia Flutterstar
600,000
Malison Fey
500,000
Rydia Nishiyama
500,000
Sarah Sugarcube
500,000
Bifi Bifi
450,000
Driess Raronek
350,000
Nekomi Hounami
350,000
Asahimaru Onishi
250,000
Maralade Ferilla
250,000
Neroxx Bladestorm
250,000
Primatus Soprey
100,000
Scutts Fletcher
100,000
Shinichi Fukuda
100,000
And here is a list of all the prizes that were won in the raffle:
Name
Prize won
Asahimaru Onishi
Dress-up Yugiri
Ashelia Nightfall
Ballroom Etiquette - Decadent Decoration
Ashelia Nightfall
Calca
Bifi Bifi
Koala Joey
Bifi Bifi
Fat Cat Rug
Driess Raronek
Anemos Suspenders
Geralt R'ivia
Scarlet Peacock
Hime Miyumi
Wind-up Estinien
Lyallon Estaqur
Hippo Calf
Lyallon Estaqur
Calamari
Malison Fey
Tight-beaked Parrot
Malison Fey
Mandragora Queen
Maralade Ferilla
Abroader Otter
Neroxx Bladestorm
Flying Chair
Rydia Nishiyama
Drawing of Character by Blithesome Carl
Rydia Nishiyama
Ballroom Etiquette - Apples with Aplomb
Sahmon Zhier
Ballroom Etiquette - Decadent Decoration
Sarah Sugarcube
Levin Barding
Sarah Sugarcube
Ugly Duckling
Sarah Sugarcube
Anemos Jacket
Scutts Fletcher
Byakko Cub
Shinichi Fukuda
Abroader Otter
Zolukai Pestishyde
Magic Broom
Finally, here’s a picture that Sarah Sugarcube took with lots of us all sat on the same bench, in the same outfit, merged into some sort of mess!
