#ff14 legacy

[keykidpilipili]

1.0 Echo grabbing onto npcs

We'll black out together :)

[quad-weave]

Legacy

[trustinsighters]

Alzadaal's Legacy - Aquatic Fauna

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

having shrimp emotions abt the end of shb again

[madoreenao]

Coloured doodles...

[storms-path]

FFXIV Write 2024: Day 11 - Surrogate

Under Ul’dah’s midday sun, Sanda was sweltering. Her own fault, really, dressed in her shinobi blacks. Even if it weren’t for her shining scales and tail, she’d stick out like a sore thumb among the various city-goers and merchants, all making their way to and fro what was surely very important business. Still, could be worse. She could be Fareena, practically melting in her newly repaired gunbreaker regalia, or Stalwart in her uncomfortable woolen robes. What an odd trio they made. What an odd trio had worked tirelessly to save the star, and all others, from certain doom.

It was blindingly obvious that they were missing a piece.

A fact which their would-be client had not failed to notice as she approached. Nanamo ul Namo (or rather, Lady Lilira) was quick enough to mask her confusion as she approached, but few things escaped Sanda’s gaze. Still, the sultana bounced back from the surprise before she reached the group. Papashan, her faithful shadow, lingered not far behind. Subtly, of course.

“Mistresses Washi, Mountain and Hagen! Thank you so much for your swift arrival!” She couldn’t quite hide the upper crust of her accent, but she made an admirable attempt. “I won’t keep you waiting. In fact, time may well be of the essence.” Intriguing. The request the three of them received hadn’t seemed all that urgent. What had changed between then and now? “If you’ll follow me. Fear not, Papashan will keep watch for Arashi. He will point her in the right direction upon her arrival.”

She was off before anyone could correct her. Arashi, at present, had been bundled into a ship bound for a barely-charted island in the Cieldalaes with her wife and one very determined Tataru Taru. She had personally promised Sanda that Arashi would get some relaxation far, far away from any world-ending scenarios. Sanda would hold her to that. But while Arashi rested, it fell to Fareena, Stalwart and Sanda to ensure nothing disturbed that rest. Whether Arashi liked it or not. What my sister doesn’t know can’t hurt her.

Fareena was quickest to follow along. She likely smelled a new adventure. Or just a chance to be a nuisance. Stalwart, already frowning, was not far behind. Someone had to keep the centennial viera from making a mess of things. Sanda made to follow the pair, but a polite tap at her knee stopped her. Papashan, frowning in concern, looked up at her. “A moment, mistress Washi.” Then he turned off into a nearby alleyway, gesturing for Sanda to follow. Curious, she did so.

Papashan’s face remained curled into a frown, his brows creased and his moustache downturned. “My apologies for the delay, but I must make sure of something. Certain… rumours have been circulating, and I had hoped there was no foundation to them, but with Arashi not present...” Sanda had the suspicion she knew what was coming. The damn thing had been following them around like a plague. But still, best to nip it in the bud here and now. Sanda opened her mouth to answer the question before it could be asked. “No, my sist-”

“Did Arashi give her life in defence of our star?”

Sanda’s mouth shut of its own accord. Memories welled up unbidden, memories of her sister lying deathly pale on the floor of the Ragnarok. Memories of everyone pouring all the aether they could spare into her wounds, while Sanda could only stand there and stare. The pain must have shown in her face, for Papashan’s face turned ashen in turn. “I see. I had feared as much. You have my deepest commiserations, my dear. Your sister was a shining soul, and she has surely found peace in the star’s embrace.”

Calm. Deep breaths. Seek the part of you that cannot flinch. Embrace it. The emotional turmoil dimmed, fell away. Sanda’s face returned to neutrality. “You misunderstand.” Her voice was strangely flat, a side-effect of her pushing away her emotions for a time. “My sister is alive and well. She’s simply recovering from her wounds.”

Relief washed over Papashan’s features like a tidal wave. He released a deep sigh and offered her a smile. “Thank goodness!” Sanda almost believed he meant it as more than just relief that Eorzea’s most reliable errand girl still lived. But she had seen too much in Arashi’s shadow to truly allow herself that trust. Someone had to keep themselves sharp around such people. And if those people got cut on the jagged edge, so be it. Her sister’s wellbeing was more important than theirs.

“That being said,” Papashan continued, a strange glint in his eye. “I must confess my curiosity as to what you were about to say.” A flash of what could only be described as grandfatherly glee lit up his eyes for a moment. A cold flush swept through Sanda. Did it bear repeating to one so blissfully unaware of the current round of rumours? Would he allow himself to be steered away from the topic. Sanda, whose knowledge of people and conversations was so woefully lacking compared to her sister, was frozen. And Papashan, judging by his smile, knew it.

...Well, in for a gil, in for a coinpurse. “Someone has been spreading rumours that Arashi hasn’t been appearing of late is…” By the kami, she was going to strangle Fareena for spreading it in the first place, “That my sister is pregnant. Which isn’t at all true!” she hastily added, ruefully aware of the panic in her tone. “She doesn’t even like men! And she’s married to Mistress Hext! It’s-”

She was cut off by a chuckle emerging from the lalafell retainer. Growing into a laugh. Building into a guffaw. Soon the man was doubled over, gasping for breath between uncontrollable fits of laughter. It took several minutes before he was finally recovered… only for another round of laughter to rack him until he broke down coughing. “Well…” he managed between aftershocks of giggling. “That certainly explains your wish to quell it so quickly!” Then he was laughing again, filling the alleyway with his delight.

It took almost a quarter of a bell before Sanda and Papashan finally rejoined Lilira. Which gave Sanda plenty of time to plot her revenge against the interfering viera. Sanda didn’t miss her smirk when Sanda rounded the corner.

Laugh it up while you can, Hagen. I’ll have the last one in the end.

[mrslittletall]

So, apparently in FF14, even if your character started with A Realm Reborn and never played through Legacy, they are STILL the Legacy character?! That doesn't work with my backstory for my WoL at all, so I am simply going to ignore that. The original WoL sadly didn't make it. They got lost in time. Only their spirit managed to travel through time.

[fey-t-ff]

[evilpenguinrika]

Summary

After running around fighting mobs, Hope had expected to spend the rest of the day relaxing with her girlfriend, Josie. But it seemed like fate had other plans. Hope and Josie end up entangled in helping out a mysterious man from another world to figure out just how to get back to where he came from. Also, what do you mean this mysterious man is a Crown Prince!? Or, I really enjoyed the FFXIV/FFXV collab event that happened that I wanted to write a story about Hosie meeting and helping Noctis

My three-part mini-fic is done!! I didn't realize writing a mini-fic based/inspired by the FFXIV/FFXV collab event A Nocturne For Heroes would take so much outta me! But as promised (to myself), I finished this before March was over! Yay!

Read this fic from the beginning || My Hosie FFXIV AU Series || My Hosie FFXIV AU ramblings

[luc1d17y-ffxiv]

This was the only mostly clear angle in any frame of the DNC LB3 because it had to be the second-most-blinding after RDM.

[petrolstationflowers]

handy links

My AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/AayriSolassa/works Works on tumblr tagged with: sussiluna piao, idiot machinist lizard, aayrisolassa

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please come and talk to me, ask me questions, or be like "what the actual fuck was your thought process here," because I love people and rambling about my work

[yellowcrumpet]

I found the spin dungeon 

[brightwingedbat]

I see a post going around with worry over anet doing another expac next year and another the year after. But to me I fully expected this to happen with the studio updates they made before SotO.

As it is, yes, it does cost more than what players used to get, it is essentially half a living world. But honestly getting multiple years of absolutely free content on an MMO without a sub fee is extremely generous. Me being a late start to the game though I had to buy them all anyway, I never had free living world content for being there early, it's not something I've 'lost' with the new way anet is doing content.

To me right now, I do see SotO as yes, half of living world's worth of story. But am I fine buying that? Sure I am! I had to buy living world content anyway. I've been enjoying the story, I've gotten hundreds of hours worth out of SotO already even outside of story content and have enjoyed every moment of it. Just for £21.99.

I also see comments that anet is being greedy and money-hungry for selling expacs rather than making free living worlds. (Which feels more like legacy player privilege, not everyone got those for free.) So let's put this into perspective with another MMO. Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIV.

FF14 expac + 2 years of sub = £30 + (£92.28 x 2) = £214.56 2 gw2 expacs over 2 years = £43.98

Guild Wars 2 is almost 5 times cheaper over the same course of time than a competing MMO to play even with the new yearly expacs.

If this were equivalent of a sub fee, it would be £1.85 a month, except you permanently own that content forever past the year.

Edit: adding something about my opinion on this overall from earlier reblogs.

My argument is the generosity of Living Worlds came at a hit to profit which potentially impacted the devs in such a way that grind was required. Less profit = less money to spend on hiring devs to avoid grind.

My ideal thing is we get content like lws4 was, even if it costs more than getting 3 years of content for buying PoF at the time did. If that profit goes to making better working conditions for the employees working on the game.

Edit 2: shgfsghf I reamend that. PoF to lws4-6 was September 2017 to May 2019. We got 11 maps in less than 2 years, no wonder PoF-LWS4 stretched Anet so thin.

[trustinsighters]

Alzadaal's Legacy - 2nd Boss: Armored Chariot

Remember to heal, Urianger!

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

anyway also wrt the new alt is that one really funny thing is how QUICKLY the pc gets grabbed by The Plot. you kill an ascian at like level 14. the next day you're personal friends with the leader of your home nation i guess and already being assigned warrior of light and Hero Of The People and everything. i got here Yesterday let a guy get their footing a little bit first

[reassambled-dragoon]

FFXIVWrite 24 Masterpost

OKAY. YOU GUYS WIN. I'll add something resembling a header later...

As a heads-up, I'm not doing any kind of specific storyline. I'm letting the prompts speak to the 2x4 of Inspiration. If it concerns AU Storm, it will be tagged AU Storm/AU: on our fates alight. Otherwise, it's generally safe to assume this concerns mainline Warrior of Light.

Resident Blood Elf might make an appearance, if a prompt fits. Stasia Sunrunner is a sin'dorei now permanently living on Eitherys, so yes, she counts as a FF14 character.

The Cast (so far)

Day 1: Steer (Husband and wife alone-time! No, not THAT alone-time, come on)

Day 2: Horizon (A teenaged goldsmith apprentice makes a feathered friend)

Day 3: Tempest (FF16 AU hosted by @scrollsfromarebornrealm featuring a very, very pissed-off Dominant of Rhalgr)

Day 4: Reticent (Post-6.0 but no major spoilers. Lord Godbert noticed a colleague wasn't acting like herself, and decided to do something about it.)

Day 5: Stamp (Stasia Sunrunner, aka Resident Blood Elf, takes vicious delight in making a couple of Scions squirm.)

Day 6: Halcyon (Minor 6.0 spoiler mention. Storm revisits her childhood home, and is found by an old friend.)

Day 7: Morsel (Jorgan loves grooming time!)

Day 8 was a free day, so I took it off to rest.

Day 9: Lend an Ear (Storm's father receives an incredible nameday gift. Endwalker role quest spoiler.)

Day 10: Stable (Beginning of Dawntrail spoiler. Storm helps Wuk Lamat fight her seasickness.)

Day 11: Surrogate (Minor Endwalker spoilers. Storm and Ameliance have a heart to heart about their shared children.)

Day 12: Quarry (Resident Blood Elf plays Manhunt with Spyboy.)

Day 13: Butte (Dawntrail spoilers. Erenville, Stasia, and Storm are exploring the desert.)

Day 14: Telling (Endwalker spoilers. Those who Storm has loved and lost come to give her heart when she needs it most.)

Day 15: Free Day, choice: Family (Endwalker spoilers. A glimpse into the life of Storm's past self.)

Day 16: Third-rate (Bold Star sees their dingy, neglected flat and declares Challenge Accepted.)

Day 17: Sally (Dawntrail spoilers, but location is unspecified. Everyone draws Storm into a linguistics debate, and she ends up having fun.)

Day 18: Hackneyed (FF16 AU hosted by @scrollsfromarebornrealm. There is only so much false sympathy Storm can handle before she lashes out.)

Day 19: Taken (Estinien and Stephanivien force Star into talking to them about how she 'fell asleep'. Much furious cursing ensues.)

Day 20: Duel (An old friend sure knows how to prick Storm's pride.)

Day 21: Shade (Sin'dorei and Hellsguard compare their homes and takes on addressing the departed.)

Day 22: Free, choice: Hope (Set during Heavensward. Bold Star is determined to bring hope to those who have none.)

Day 23: On Cloud Nine (Dawntrail location spoiler. A Dragoon enjoys some reckless freefall.)

Day 24: Bar (Storm helps her friends take care of boring work. Laughter makes it go quicker.)

Day 25: Perpetuity (Endwalker spoilers. Resident Blood Elf ponders the rise and fall of nations while scavenging in ruined buildings.)

Day 26: Zip (Minor Endwalker spoilers, nothing major. Well, Bold Star certainly has an emphatic way to shut down an argument.)

Day 27: Memory (Endwalker spoilers and the fallout of hellish trauma. Hekaarn is a good friend, he really is.)

Day 28: Deleterious (Resident Blood Elf would be giving Thancred greys if his hair wasn't white already.)

Day 29: Free day, choice: Legacy (Dawntrail spoilers, end of MSQ! Storm and Hekaarn ponder the ramifications of her inheritance.)

Day 30: Two Heads Are Better Than One (THE FINALE!!! Dawntrail spoilers and a sequel to 29. Cid is more than up to the challenge of helping his wife solve the puzzle that she brought home.)