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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 1h

I'm actually astonished how accommodating Pilgrim's Traverse is to soloing on black mage. I mean it's understandable since you actually have your kit and a decent repertoire of hard-hitting fast casts at levels 91-100 (unlike in PotD) but MAN. Feels great to be good at something!

alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 12h

I think I've largely decided that Summer's Echo manifests as unusually vivid dreams, and so she's always got that sliver of plausible deniability when it comes to "knowing things she shouldn't". Is she an extraordinarily good guesser / cold reader or was it an Echo vision? Who can say?

chesca playing Final Fantasy @bloodwhet.etheirys.social · 16h

#wolqotd (now spelled correctly)

I don't know if this has been asked recently, but has your wol/non-wol echo-haver seen any visions with the echo outside of those we see in canon? If so, how do they respond to knowing things that they shouldn't about the people around them?

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 23h

also idk who did the translation for the Pilgrim's Traverse unlock quests but am i the only one out here squinting at the race-unique wording for miqo like

"break their fast on [...] your buttocks"???

did this character mean to say "kick your ass" but then said "eat your ass" instead. incredible.

alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 1d

Completely randomly winding up on the same Frontlines team with one of your homies be like

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 2d

they check the records later and discover that he was the one who marked himself absent while the examiner wasn't looking

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 2d

twice a week a call comes in to the forum like "SIRS EMERGENCY A STUDENT HAS BEEN SIGHTED TWENTY YALMS UP THE SIDE OF NOUMENON THIS IS A CRISIS SITUATION A YOUTH IS IN DANGER" and the receptionist is just like

does he have white hair

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 2d

so like. what if thancred waters invented parkour at age 14. what if his massive contribution to the field of espionage was that one day thancred was getting razzled by the forum about his behavior so he just straight up climbed a building to evade it. and louisoix was like "what. it's his thesis."

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 5d

i have prepared a helpful diagram for chat's edification

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 5d

when i first read this i wasn't sure if you meant "snaps" as in reaches his mental breaking point or "snaps" as in

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 6d

Normally I just kind of laugh off Yoshi-P's "it's fine to take a break and go play other games" messaging but I have to admit, with Hades 2 having just released, for the first time I'm genuinely thinking about it.

My question is, exactly what does he think FFXIV will offer to draw people BACK?

alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 6d

I literally leveled GNB to 90 because I was expecting to have to PVP Thancred and I wanted it to be cool as hell tank duel. I staked leveling an entire class on this dream only to have Dawntrail let me down yet again.

Juksie Emdi, Rock Licker @juksieemdi.etheirys.social · 7d

It's a shame we never actually came to blows with Team Koana in 7.0, I remember the Thancred fuckers being so excited to beat the shit out of their man

alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 8d

#FFXIVWrite2025 final word count total: 61,845 WORDS
= 2061.5 words on average

Just about point for point with my word count from 2024, where I hit 62,225 WORDS throughout the month
= 2074.2 words on average

It's really cool to know I'm consistent without intentionally trying! ✨

alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 9d

as an author who loves Watsonian explanations i'm living because i can 100% see Emet-Selch being like "oh we can't let anyone in society know you're the Garlean emperor's ward. Let's have you sponsored by a house in a way that socially implies you're a long-lost Allagan princess. Perfect solution."

alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 9d

also in setting up an in-universe misdirection about Summer's identity I may have just created an "everyone is now convinced she's the lost heir to an ancient royal line because she's 'being sponsored' by the Garlean family that currently occupies the old kingdom's territory" subplot, which like.

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 9d

update: i left Thancred and G'raha alone in a scene for five minutes and it's now been de facto established that apparently they were long-term fuckbuddies years ago at boarding school

alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 11d

I feel like the Crystarium subplot is that everybody thinks that they're coming to find a match for Lyna except the person who's actually on the market is the Exarch himself. Krile and Lyna are on a mission to get him laid so he'll have to sleep by extension once in a while.

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 10d

The Night Sky Returns To Lakeland

OR

What Happens When You've Been Keeping Yourself Company With An Allagan Clone Of Your Would-Be Girlfriend's Third Astral Era Preincarnation But Then You Go And Summon Your Actual Would-Be Girlfriend Across The Rift And Now It's Complicated

(by Fall Out Boy)

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 11d

i really cannot overstate how much Emet-Selch is just here to have catty opinions about literally everyone all the time. he finds out Kallisti died and is like "god that is JUST LIKE HER to go and fucking die a season too late for me to marry my son to her daughter, like what about MY feelings here"

alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 11d

Lucius is mostly just here to be a massive wifeguy. Solus will be like "my perfect son it's lovely to see you ☺️ how is hypatia ☺️ so delighted about your love match ☺️" and then Lucius walks away and he's like "god I can't believe I signed off on letting him marry that miserable girl. insane of me."

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 11d

My only notes on Ishgard so far are that Aymeric really, REALLY does not want to be married which works out because Lucia also really does not want him to be married. Hilda mostly just wants to shoot somebody. Steve wants to visit Cid's manufactory in Garlemald and talk shop.

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 11d

I feel like the Crystarium subplot is that everybody thinks that they're coming to find a match for Lyna except the person who's actually on the market is the Exarch himself. Krile and Lyna are on a mission to get him laid so he'll have to sleep by extension once in a while.

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 11d

(note for fellow Bridgerton enjoyers i am in no way implying that Penelope cannot also get it objectively, i'm just talking about in an in-universe sense. Tataru is not finding the opportunity to be Lady Wakingsands because she's a wallflower. Quite the opposite. She just has a grindset mentality.)

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 11d

Tataru is also here to be the Penelope Featherington expy and write scathing social commentary as Lady Wakingsands except the difference between her and Penelope is that Tataru can get it. Tataru has hoes in every area code and they're all converging on this singular Season.

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 11d

Thancred is ostensibly here to make sure nobody kidnaps or tries to ransom the twins but he's also there as Louisoix's proxy and the twins' de facto "uncle" mostly so that if Fourchenault tries to do some nonsense with Alisaie's marriage he can intervene and let Louisoix sort it out after the fact

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alex playing FFXIV @voidgates.bsky.social · 11d

Urianger is "Alphinaud's tutor" and Y'shtola is "Alisaie's governess" and they are 100% using this as a means to help cover when they swap because anybody who sees Urianger standing next to An Twin is going to assume that twin is Alphinaud regardless of actual identity

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