//Our FC house has had the same style for a while now, but thanks to two of our members, Lyallon Estaqur and L’ireiya Tia, we have a whole new look! A picture says a thousand words so here’s a lot of “words”!
Thank you L’ireiya and Lyallon for your time and skill, it all looks amazing!
We’ve also changed the exterior to the recently released “Country Mansion” skin in a bright ruby red colour:
We’re located in Shirogane, Ward 8, Plot 16 if you want to come and have a look! (on Omega/Chaos)
//Yesterday our Free Company had a glamour contest with various Halloween themes!
It was organised by two of our members, Niners Dawnheart and Zolukai Pestishyde, and two more of our members, L’ireiya Tia and Lyallon Estaqur, also donated their time and skill to create the venue area that it was hosted it in.
There were three categories and the winner of each category won 1.5 million Gil:
There were some really creative costumes and here’s some of the photos from the event:
There was even some dancing!
But all good things must come to an end…
Thank you to everyone who participated, it was a lot of fun!
//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!
//We’ve got too much money! No really.
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!
Good luck everyone!
//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!
Good luck to you all!
//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:
If anyone wondered, it’s Thick-rimmed Glasses (Soot Black), Falconer’s Shirt (Pumpkin Orange), Dinosaur Leather Gloves (Soot Black), Dragonskin Bottoms (undyable) and Expeditioner’s Thighboots (Pumpkin Orange).
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.
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!
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).
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!).
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…
Thank you all again, you’re all awesome!
//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:
| Date | Winner | Runner-ups |
|---|---|---|
| 25 December 2022 | Ninuh Khatka | Bearn Livinstone, Ellie Burrfoot, Lyallon Estaqur, Maralade Ferilla, U'anna Nitsah |
| 26 December 2022 | Bifi Bifi | Alex La'neral, Ashelia Nightfall, Kayoko Yumi, Octavia Rosethorn, Raanham Bloodmoon |
| 27 December 2022 | Bearn Livinstone | Ninuh Khatka |
| 28 December 2022 | Tas Burrfoot | Blithesome Carl, Lauraliviel La'neral, Scutts Fletcher |
| 29 December 2022 | L'ireiya Tia | |
| 30 December 2022 | Terazoic Willowstar | Elsa Moon, Finnel Tsuga, Geralt R'ivia, Hime Miyumi, Primatus Soprey |
| 31 December 2022 | Ashelia Nightfall | Bifi Bifi |
Congratulations again to everyone who won and I’m sure we’ll do another raffle again in the future!
//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!
Good luck to you all!
