Eorzean Tribute

FF14 Zone

I managed to log like nearly 900 hours in the game with all my characters just with the free trial before my stuff broke

What can you do in the free trial? Everything MSQ wise with minimal interaction due to the trust system outside of certain raids palace of the dead (my major timesink where you can essentially play a rogue like with other people or solo it) Just messing around without needing to worry about a subscription
What can’t you do? Any social stuff like trades, whispers, shouts No marketplace (you have to craft everything yourself) Limited inventory No retainers No PVP Later expansions but just before my PC stopped letting me play FF14 they added in version 4.0 stormblood

Tribute to Part timers

The eccentric part timers of Eorzea.
What are they up to? At some point Lily fantasia’d to an au ra. Not much else changed about her character though. (Never did figure out if it was a combo of being like majorly shy or just not having a need to speak that led to her being naturally quiet...) I didn't have the game downloaded or any way to take good screenshots so I had to try recreating them in the model viewer...

Pepper and Bon are now friends in spite of their clashing wizard backgrounds and ideologies of healing vs hurting! Bon revealed he was actually a clone from the Allagan Era (lily: holy shit, Sage: what’s a clone lmao) but since technology in Eorzea is all over the place and Bon doesn’t have an expiration date in sight they kind of glanced over it. It does explain his childlike wonder for the world surrounding him.

The reveal I never got to writing, Rin’s face! Everyone’s already seen it and he was terrible at having a second disguise life so he dropped it entirely. After a series of comedic events he would’ve been flat out broke if not for the reveal that not only is beet rich, but she actually knows what to do with money. He still does mining but when the time rises, the black knight returns!

Beet never did learn that the grumpy duskwight she used to train with got murdered but occasionally when traversing the palace of the dead she sees a glimpse of white hair and thinks to herself. She’s mostly either doing busywork hanging out with her friends or looking into getting more hobbies like learning music.

Rene’s gone full eccentric double crossing sort of mercenary type now that his parole in the grand company is over and he’s mostly been using it to terrorize wood wailers. When Rene’s not doing that, he’s working as a completely harmless mailman for the moogles but also continues to have that same menace energy. He never goes home and is completely unaware of family drama in regards to that time one of our members got promoted to the church and then the church turned out to be sitting on huge revelations that were revealed by the scions of the seventh dawn. In fact, outside of Lily who does research that coincides with MSQ for her thesis getting canned multiple times, no one has any relations to MSQ whatsoever. Sage works a life as both a manager for valentione’s day events and an adventurer. She’s hoping to get a boyfriend by the end of her adventuring stuff but things still aren’t going well. She wants no part of whatever is going on with the mage boys, but she’s taken up training to try becoming a Red mage since her arcanist journey didn’t pan out well (read: she got pummeled by a summoner during PVP).

Not Rene, but an example of his moogle crimes. (FF11 promo art is pretty much the vibe I wanted whenever I drew these guys.)

What’s M’ari up to? Fishing, what else? Lily’s been joining him too.

...Hey, I’m glad we were able to meet. Me too.