Category: Events

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!

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!

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:

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.

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.

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!

This week was quite a big deal for our Free Company as we turned four years old! Huzzah! So naturally we celebrated with some party games and some Gil prizes!

I made everyone taking part wear an “Altered Woolen Cowl” dyed in the colours of our FC and it caused quite a few comments from other players wondering what was going on!

So as in previous years we warmed up by climbing the small tower that’s in Shirogane (where our FC house is). A few of our members were familiar with this so it didn’t take them too long to get to the top and the first three people won prizes.

After this we moved to Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks where I had 5 alt characters hidden. Everyone started off at the Aftcastle and then spread out to try and find the hidden characters. The first three people to find each character won a prize. This didn’t take too long, because it’s pretty hard to hide in the Upper Decks, but I think it still went well and everyone had fun!

We even managed to get a quick group photo of most of the people playing, although sorry that it has gotten dark by this point:

After this we all moved to Horizon to play Lawn Darts. This involves having a waymark on the floor and everyone throwing themselves off a cliff, like a lemming, with the intention of trying to land as close to the waymark as possible. People had three tries each and scored 1 point for landing on the edge of the waymark and 2 points for dead centre. Scores were tallied at the end and highest scores won!

We had 21 people play this game and I was a little worried that it’d be chaos with everyone jumping at once, however, as requested everyone lined up and jumped in an orderly fashion and we got through the game without too many problems!

After this we headed back to the FC house for a quiz. It was mostly about the FC itself and there were a few “go and count these objects” type games. These all had a prize for each correct answer. I always worry that it’s unfair to non-native English speakers as well as those who can’t type as fast, but everyone still seemed to have fun.

After the quiz we had a quick raffle for some bigger Gil prizes. To generate the raffle numbers we had everyone do a “/random” in chat and noted down their number. They had one chance to draw another /random and then the prizes were drawn (also using /random). The closest person to that number won.

One of our FC members, Blithesome Carl, is a talented artist and offered a raffle prize of a drawing of someones character as a raffle prize. L’ireiya Tia won this prize and I look forward to seeing the final drawing!

Oh and while we were getting the numbers… it involved more Raubahn Savage queuing:

After the raffle we moved to the PVP area and split up into groups for some PVP tournaments. We had one for melee DPS, tanks, ranged physical DPS, healers and magical DPS.

The DPS fights all went rather smoothly, but in the end we had to call a draw to the tank and healer fights. The tank fight was going on for about half an hour, long after we’d called it a draw. It was impressive to watch though!

After that we called it a day and I went to tally up the prizes and send everyone what they had won!

Thank you all for coming, I hope that you had as much fun as I did and thanks for all being a part of such a great Free Company! Here’s to another amazing year! Here’s the list of prizes and who won how much!

Name	Gil won
Meow Chow	1,300,000
Nekomi Hounami	1,300,000
Ceyri Noca	1,200,000
Lex Miahto	800,000
Lyallon Estaqur	800,000
Rydia Nishiyama	550,000
Sylvia Flutterstar	550,000
Wom Blorm	550,000
Blithesome Carl	500,000
Terazoic Willowstar	500,000
Elydith Nelhah	350,000
Geralt R'ivia	350,000
Roy Yunomi	300,000
Driess Raronek	250,000
Kamisato Ayato	250,000
L'ireiya Tia	250,000
Erza Keso	100,000
Lucy Evercraft	100,000
Primatus Soprey	100,000
Sirradez Halvic	100,000
Dacent Valeroyaniox	50,000
Gianix Giari	50,000

And just to finish up here’s a random picture of us all mounting up in our “party outfits”!