#char liveblogs ffxiv

[charlottedabookworm]

they give you a buff after you eat the curry agksdfhjlws;oi-

[zenkovva]

quick Zenos sketch.

[dengo-gaming]

Just look at this happy and sunny boy! Love him so much 🤗

[faye-astera]

Who is Faye? Let’s talk about the past

Faye is a diner owner and alchemist as a hobby. He used to be a rebel and fought for the Ala Mhigan Resistance, but he retired. Faye had a rough childhood his parents were killed and he was almost beaten to death. His birth name is F’lohi Tia.

Childhood:

Faye’s dad was a miqote called D’lohi Tia, he was from one of the many seeker of the sun clans that live in the Gyr Abania region. His mother was a highlander called Aífe Astera, she was from a village that used to be located near the main city. They met in a peculiar way, D’lohi decided to make a life of his own and abandoned his clan because he didn’t want to become a Nunh. D’lohi was beaten and penniless when he got to the village, luckily he ran into Aífe whose kindness didn’t know limits. Aífe helped D’lohi, she feed him and nursed him back to health and to repay her kindness D’lohi decided to stay and work for her. Aífe own diner so having D’lohi to help around was great. As the years passed they got to know each other and fell in love, from their love a beautiful child was born. Years later when F’lohi was 11 years old, the Garlean Empire invaded the region and killed anyone who refused to joined them or anyone who wouldn’t be of used to them. Miqotes are considered fun to kill as they don’t have use for them. Faye’s father was killed on sight and his mother died protecting Faye after refusing to join the empire. Faye was beaten and left for dead in a pile of bodies along with his parents. A member of D’lohi’s former clan saved him. Hunting parties heard the commotion and hid or ran away, but the current Nunh decided to help Faye and for a while he gave him a home. When Faye turned 20 he was to challenge R’atoh Nunh, his adoptive parent to which he was against so he decided to leave the clan just how his father did. F’lohi made a life of his own and changed his name to Faye which was the one his father chose for him.

20’s:

Faye became an adventurer and lived in the streets for a while. At the young age of 22 he became an elite adventurer in the guild and through some connections he discovered the Ala Mhigan Resistance. From there Faye decided to fight for his home, for his parents no matter the cost.

30’s:

Faye achieved his dream and became a diner owner like his mother. He gathered a lot of recipes from all around Eorzea and traded recipes with other travelers. Studied a lot of different things from battle tactics, alchemy, to cooking techniques everything was useful and everything had a purpose. After years of hiding his pain his mask began to crack that which he sealed away began to knock at sanity’s door. He met two young boys that in a way reminded him of his younger days, reckless, curious, and full of energy. The three of them got in trouble one day which resulted in Faye recklessly using a technique he never mastered. This ended messing with Faye’s aether making him a prisoner of his own mind. With the help of one of the boys Faye was able to wake up, but he had a lot to deal with as his past traumas played a role in this situation. The situation compromised some things and he had to move. He decided to move to Thanalan where he met the love of his life.

[noodlyfun-blog]

Omens: First Night, Last Moon

Content Warnings: Gore, dismemberment, spooky?

The Viera sat in her chair, her long legs lined in fishnets, amidst the sea of grievers. Rows upon rows of grievers sat in front and behind her and lines upon lines of grievers sat at her sides; each griever’s chair pointed to her own. Alaria had no eyes for them though; not for their long purple robes and shiny porcelain masks, each painted in the face of The Mistress, and their curled blonde wigs. They had eyes for her but the Viera faced forward to the front and gazed at the open casket, with purple flowers like octopus tentacles flowing out of it, with Her laying there peacefully. The Mistress laid there dead but full of all the color she had in her life unlike the pale masks with painted eyes that leered at Alaria.

Alaria rose to her feet and strode down the rows, chairs screeching as they turned to follow the Viera on her way forward but the grievers were still. Though the rows of chairs seemed infinite, she quickly found herself standing atop the platform and in front of the casket. The Mistress’ eyes lifelessly glared, a face she had often made when she was living, at the Viera. Alaria couldn’t believe the audacity this bitch had at being dead.

The Viera didn’t know when it had happened but she straddled the corpse, hands tightly strangling its cold neck. She was screaming words but didn’t recognize them. Her eyes were fire and her arms began ripping. First it was the purple robe. Alaria ripped and tore at it, letting its fabric fly away. Then it was the dead skin, stripped from the torso like pale ribbons. Then the Viera just plunged her hand right through the corpse’s chest, reaching for a heart or something she could rip out  but Alaria found neither heart nor satisfaction in this; it wasn’t satisfying if she couldn’t do this to Her when She was alive. 

There was no point in this. The Viera pushed herself off the body and back onto the platform. She gazed out into the Grievers, all of them faced forward to her but they sat there emotionless with their porcelain masks. She turned back to the body. The hair had turned green. The ears had grown. She only saw herself, stripped and ripped, laying dead in a coffin. 

The empty hole in the chest squirmed. Alaria leaned in to see if organs had magically grown inside. Fingers reached out of it, pale white with no nail, probing their way out. The hand followed, impossibly smooth and white.Alaria took a step back as now an arm burst from the hole, reaching infinitely into the sky. She turned tail and ran into the endless sea of chairs as hundreds of arms ripped their way out of the corpse and into the sky.

The grievers flopped out of their chairs in front of the Viera forcing her to climb and run atop them. The endlessly long arms, like twisting and turning tendrils, spiraled toward her. There was nowhere for her to run; there were always more chairs, always more grievers to fall in front of her. But she couldn’t look back and pressed on and on and on. 

More arms came now from in front of her. She tried to dodge one but two more had grabbed her own arms. They lifted her into the air and one from behind slammed its way through her chest. That hand was not empty. She saw her own heart resting inside its grip and the grip tightened, squeezing it into juice. All the tendril arms grabbed a limb and pulled the Viera apart as she screamed.

Alaria shot up from her bunk coughing into her hand. She gazed down at her chest, it was still intact. Her hand was wet though. Alaria saw blood. Damn. She pushed herself out of the bed, shaky on her feet, and made her way to the deck. The moon was a pure black void in its newness. Captain Gugo, his green hair completely a mess but his eyes awake, was already there looking up to the cloudless sky.

“Can’t sleep Alaria?” The Captain asked casually. He hadn’t really turned toward her; it had come quite common for the two to find each other on the deck late at night. When she didn’t answer he tilted his head toward her and his eyes went wide at the sight of blood on her hands. “The fuck?! Did you get stabbed?”

“No..” Long pale hands twisted their way out of the void from the black moon. Alaria closed her eyes and shook her head. She opened them to the normal new moon looming overhead. “I think it might be time for me to go back though.”

“Well, we can have you back home in a moon’s time. It’ll be sad to see you go though.” The two gazed at the sky. A porcelain face peered down at the Viera.

[charlottedabookworm]

on one hand, i appreciate that they've sorted out the ilvl cheesing so you actually have a chance of getting something other than crystal tower on alliance roulettes

on the other hand, the sheer horror i felt when the instance loaded in around me and i'm staring at Tower at Paradigm's Breach, a raid i have done all of once and didn't enjoy then, is indescribable

[charlottedabookworm]

catching up on sleep, definitely

[charlottedabookworm]

so glad i decided to main a m!au ra, ngl

as my main set looks basically exactly the same just with better horn definition and kai actually looks prettier

[charlottedabookworm]

Dawntrail Day 1

spoilers up to: first lvl91 quest, after the msq split paths merge back together

original draft date: 28/6/24

scheduled release for: 26/7/24

early access time! planning on unlocking picto and then i'm leaping headfirst into the msq

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okay the quest accept music

interesting

i like it

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“You had me at ‘magicked painting’” lolllllll

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….excuse me i didn’t agree to a job interview

i hate job interviews get back here you bloody moogle i-

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“I’m uh- between jobs at the moment”

“My stick figure drawings are second to none…?”

pffft best job interview i’ve ever been on

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furry little shites

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okay i really do like the quest music

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picto hotbars step up but subject to change

now msq time

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Ali, love, that’s called jinxing it

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shades triangle! we’ve heard about that before :)))

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lolll poor wuk lamat gets seasick

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oooo erenville lore

shetona from xak tural, doesn’t know his father and hey-

stupid crash i want to hear the erenville lore!

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kay that shit is pretty af

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i love erenville and wuk lamat you really feel the childhood friends who fuck with each other energy every time they interact its fucking great

“she’s technically royalty”

“just ‘technically’ ignoring me, then…”

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Tuliyollal is huge and it feels so much fuller than previous cities

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pffft

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aight so Bakool ja ja is a twat and i don’t even care who wins as long as it isn’t him

his brother seems alright tho. less of a twat or maybe just a quieter twat

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nevermind the mystic is just as much of a twat as the mighty is

the mighty is just louder about it

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even all these expansions later it still sends a thrill of fear through me

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ESTI!

ESTI IS DOING THE SPARRING SCENE WITH GULOOL JA HA FROM THE TRAILER

yessssss

love how we’re just smiling in the background

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Esti is bigging us up!

love you esti!

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elene’sh

erenviles name is elene’sh?!?! ir it is it a term of endearment like what gulool ja ja calls wuk lamat

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erenville: this is the last chance for me to help you back out

us: flashback to raha

fucking hell i love that set would 100% be thinking of his husband in a time like this

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genuinely appreciate that they gave krile the echo vision instead of us for once

sorry krile but i’m a little bored of it always being us that sees shit

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holy shit the inn room

fuck it i’m moving to tuliyollal i live in this cabin now it’s mine sorry raha you’ll have to move out here

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reached the quest split

experience tells me that one of these will be extremely traumatic and the other will be less so but maybe it’ll be a little less here? maybe? hopefully

please pelupelu don’t fuck me over this is my summer holiday adventure

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so esti is gonna get utterly fleeced by the pelupelu huh

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love that our first challenge is to approach a terrified alpaca

love rhat for us

poor wuk lamat

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camping! Chilling out at the fire with all of erenvilles tent and stuff while waiting for wuk lamat!

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i’m cackling-

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oh fuck off and get some character development

This guy isn’t at fandanny or zenos level of ‘i hate you on sight’ but i really don’t like him

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“There’s much less debate when I’m traveling alone” erenville i love you

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“He lives and works in the House of Waters High, at the top of that large tree nearby”

turns camera

ah yes that tree the tree i climbed five minutes ago in search of a sightseeing spot found nothing and then leapt off to go back and do msq instead

that tree

Cool

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“We have a two headed problem. Yes please hurry”

Erenville you are legit one of my fav characters i love you dude

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i’m starting to really really hate bakool ja ja

like he was annoying before but the hatred is growing

i would seriously rather the warmonger first promise take the throne i am legit not lying rn

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you fucking tell him (? Them? They use borh plural and singular when talking about the two headed mamool ja) ali

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look i’m not a particularly enthusiastic person but we really should be doing something instead of just walking there

like dance a little alright? bop to the beat? something other than just strolling seriously along while all the hanu dance around us

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annnd i'mma call it there for today got picto unlocked and to 81, msq is starting the 91 quests, and i've unlocked all the aether currents i can reach in the zones so far

[charlottedabookworm]

played drk for the first time in nearly a year today in the new variant dungeon and lemme tell you, there’s nothing like the sheer thrill in your veins as the tank buster casts and you realise that the button you just hit is not in fact mit

anyway i need to relearn drk

[charlottedabookworm]

stuck in a queue cos the launcher crashed at fucking 10 exactly but dawntrail

[charlottedabookworm]

just lost on a piece of loot (just normal raid stuff) despite rolling a 98 and i am livid

how dare you roll a 99 when i’ve already rolled a 98 and gone ‘ah yes at least i’m winning something’

[charlottedabookworm]

me: i’ll just buy a story/level skip for nadir the next time they’re on sale

also me: …or i could just start playing through ARR again for the- idk 12th time?

[charlottedabookworm]

the leveling grind creeps ever onwards

[charlottedabookworm]

just spent so much gil but i've bought enough crafted gear to finally get rid of all that extra skill speed that i don't want on my dragoon and levelled my armourer to 100 so i can pentameld the crafted pieces with last expansions materia cos nope i aint that rich

[charlottedabookworm]

Dawntrail Day 7+8 (part 1/2)

spoilers up to: lvl100 msq quest Dawntrail

original draft date: 4-5/7/24

scheduled release for: 31/7/2024

working on day 7 so i’m merging these. since i’ve only got a couple hours i'mma do my tribals on picto and then do the instance i stopped at yesterday, hopefully get close to a dungeon/trial unlock but really not got much time. day 8 i'm finishing up msq 100% no matter how long it takes me and then hopefully doing the two optional dungeons!

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…completely forgot that zoraal ja gave the order to kill all the civilians in solution nine

nice way to start the morning

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“I have no more use of you, begone”

hmmmm thats an odd thing to say considering you were claiming he wasn’t your son before

fingers crossed nothings up with gulool ja

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annnnd fade to black with the echoing sound of an execution shot lovely haven’t heard that since shadow ringers

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pfft that last one!

except i really don't care what sphene thinks ngl

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otis is back!

yes!

really didn’t want to kill him

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damn

he was a good guy

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okay but-

where is erenville?

they wouldn’t kill him off offscreen i know that much but we’d better not find him dying i swear to fucking everything I will-

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*stares at crying child*

fuuuuck i really hope you're not a trap

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oh thank fuck he's alive

also sorry your mums dead and has been a probably a long time mate

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huh

he didn't mention it

why didn't you mention it erenville, what are you thinking rn?

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no, please

this actually is important information to have

considering your mum is possibly the same sort of endless otis is and she had to end up that way somehow

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love looking at this ngl

so much easier and nicer doing it as you progress through the zones

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i made it to the fifth dungeon unlock but since there's almost certainly a trial afterwards and i have barely enough time to do the dungeon if i zoom through it, i'mma wait and do it in the morning

soooo wondrous tails time for picto ig

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oh

thats just rude we didn't need that

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ayyy alphi esti and shtola!

only reason theyve shown up just before i should be unlocking a trial is cos it can be done in trust? maybe? pls?

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fuuuck that looks like a voidgate to me

zoraal ja wtf have you been doing

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oh?

could it maybe lead to whichever reflection the alexandrian's are from

final zone in another shard? maybe?

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so ig it’ll be like ‘we beat him he flees we chase’

boom final zone and trial and dungeon?

either that or sphene will actually be the final boss which still wouldn’t surprise me

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the framing reminds me of hades ngl

like it tho

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i know you're having a crisis but has it occured to you that you were born because your dad liked kids? like i know your entire existence is like. a miracle and gulool ja ja didn't know he could have bio kids til you were born but that man obviously lived for being a dad

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this music-

just gonna sit here and listen to this for a bit before i enter the trial lol

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genuinely forgot that y'shtola used to run around as a conjurer

it feels like so long ago now lol and i half expected them to have rdm healer ali again

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okay his second phase actually looks cool

and isn't a massive floating head sitting at the edge of the arena which gives many bonus points

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zoraal ja looks pretty dead to me and we still have a dungeon and trial to go so-

sphene, cachuia, or some third unknown threat? taking bets now

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yeah it’s sphene 100% isn’t it

‘deliver my people’ huh

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yeahhhh there we go

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once again, i agree with ali

how many will you slaughter, sphene, so that your endless (yourself included) will live another day

how many children will you sacrifice so that your may live your hundredth lifetime

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but they aren't remembered

i'm gonna scream how dare you say that when your system removes the memories of a deceased person from everyone who knew them

how dare you-

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how dare you bring his mother into this

his mother, who everyone from his village has forgotten because of your system-

i-

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don't worry koana, it's not the first time

this is basically a tuesday for me i'll keep your sister safe

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i love him he's so sweet

i'm so glad gulool ja didn't turn out to be a trap

that probably would have broken my heart

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that graphics update really looking peak on the af gear

wow

look at that metal

(now to time glam back over it)

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so thw question is

another dungeon immediately?

huh nope

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ooooooo it so pretty

it has canals

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cachuia i'm guessing

i see where erenville gets the pretty from

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oh

oh erenville love you're not going to take this well

your mother is dead and alive (did she get a choice? did they just pluck up her memories adn make her endless?) and she wants them all to die again

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i love this

but also raha breaking my heart every expansion he's in

love him for that

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oh so we're continuing to traumatise both erenville and wuk lamat i see

great

wonderful

thank you very much for that square

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screaming crying throwing up why are you doing this to me

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"I'm put in mind of Lyhe Mheg"

a tribe quest reference? in my final fantasy 14 msq?

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this cutscene is legit one of my favourite parts of the expansion

sure we gotta shut down the memories of all these kids but we'll give them something nice before that

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ayo wtf

those are kriles bio parents

so i see we’re spreading the trauma to krile to join with erenville and wuk lamat

glad she can maybe get some closure tho

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love raha running up to krile and her parents and just chomping down on ice cream to break the ice between her parents

he’s such a good friend

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....oh i hit the image cap.

alright part 2 incoming