Final Fantasy XIV: Penniless Peril
or: Can you beat FFXIV without spending any Currency?
Part 3 - Putting my Name in the Goblet of Fire
Happy new year everyone and sorry for the delay. I am running this challenge as a side thing whenever I have time or I am not distracted by my main or other games. Nontheless here is our New Year Fortune for Ninisa this year:
“Small Fortune”
I count that as a good Omen
However we have a lot to do and a lot of it is honestly just straight up wwalking back and fourth a lot.
Leaving the Inn after a few weeks led me to this image
I accidentally stumbled upon an RP event. From what I could gather it was an Auction for... something. I didn’t stick around. Mostly because I couldn’t spend any money anyway but it’s fun to see that there are RP Events on Zodiark to begin with. Even if it is a rare thing.
After doing the quest the Shining Gentlemen to my left was asking me to do, we beat up some merchant trying to pin a crime on a refugee. We beat up his people and Thancred comes around, officially inviting us to be part of his gang.
You see the Tickets? Those are Vesper Bay Teleport Tickets and I will be using them quite often. Mostly to shorten Travel time because god forbid I run back and forth that much. It’s honestly kind of weird seeing the peeps like this, whith half of the later core group still missing.
Also this bloke was making himself even taller, trying to intimidate the only to Lalas in here.
Nontheless I am making my way to Vesper Bay, on foot, for the first and propably last time. When I arrive there I am greeted by the best Scion:
Everyone introduces themself and I am taken aback by the fact that Urianger had a different VA at the time. (I am playing with German voices and the VA here are a bit more consistent)
We also get to see all the other Scions chilling out in the meeting hall.
Here is a funfact: Most named NPCs here that are not part of the Core Group (excluding Brendt) all appeared in 1.X of FFXIV.
Also our quest is sending us to Camp Drybone where we are supposed to investigate missing people and also corpses. We also meet a familiar face:
Sure thing “Marquez”, we help you bury a body.
After that, the quests are literally just “Investigate this person by talking to them and go back to Vesper Bay.”
I also got to dress up as a homeless person.
After you arrived there, there is usually some more talk and you get send of again to Camp Drybone or you put Materia into Minphilias Dagger. However that step is actually free as well so thankfully I don’t have to do that myself.
If you only knew how useless you are to me.
Mind you a trip to Camp Drybone takes about 7 minutes on foot. I can’t teleport afterall, nor can I use Chocobo Porters.
Here is a video where I walk all the way over.
https://youtu.be/GEr9vILtquY
After we get our butt kicked by the Ifrit Gang, we get thrown into a small sub area which is honestly kind of funny. With the help of my boyfriends alt we can show that this area is located in Southern Thanalan, it just happens to be underground.
Ifrit was also pretty wild.
It’s cool that I get to run it with trusts.
After heading back to Vesper Bay we are promptly assaulted by the Grand Companies because I should join them. After going to all their speeches of course. The speeches are nothing really to impressive in my opinion. Drawn out a lot and Alphinaud is here who at this point in time is still green behind the ears and also a massive prick with a superiority complex.
Alisaie is also here and she is not saying a word because the both of them have some beef with each other.
After coming back I decided to join the Immortal Flames. Mostly because Raubahns speech is great and also my Job Questline is here. You know. Convenience. Before I can join tho disaster strikes and I gotta get Biggs and Wench out of trouble which is done fairly quickly.
After going back to the Flames to officially become a member I got a message I dis not wish to see:
This quest has to be finished in order to complete the Main Scenario Quest “A Realm Reborn”
The quest in question is the Chocobo Quest. In case you don’t know, in order to get a chocobo you need to buy a chocobo voucher. The voucher itself costs Company Seals and Company Seals are a currency. This does not bode well.
I will try to postpone this quest as much as possible. We will see if it holds true.
In the meanwhile our next quest leads us to the Shroud. Because I have reached level 30 tho, I decided to become a Blackmage first and a Blackmage I became. (Even tho I had to again walk to East Thanalan... twice!)
After all of this tho I do have to take a break. It doesn’t look like much but these few things do take up a few hours of real estate.
See you around next time!