I was sort of AFKing in the Gridania Adventurers Guild around 9pm US CST tonight and when I came back to my screen the GM Reporter Kipih was standing there trying to get someone to talk to her. I was the only one to answer her and help give her any information about what was currently going on in Eorzea. I'm not into roleplaying much but I know some people on other servers have given these GM reporters a hard time so I decided to play along. I took some screenshots ^^
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Kipih Jakkya: Well met adventurers!
Kipih Jakkya waves.
Kipih Jakkya: I'm Kipih Jakkya, reporter for the Raven!
Kipih Jakkya bows.
Kipih Jakkya: I'm looking for any leads for my next article!
Kipih Jakkya: Have any of you seen anything interesting in your travels by any chance?
Kipih Jakkya: Don't be shy, speak up!
Kipih Jakkya: Hmmm....
Kipih Jakkya: If you're worried about your anonymity, I promise not to disclose your identity.
Kipih Jakkya: After all, keeping a source confidential is part of journalistic integrity!
Kipih Jakkya: So no one has seen anything at all?
You cheer Kipih Jakkya on!
Kipih Jakkya sees you and blushes with embarrassment.
Fayette Purrcy: hey Kipih ^^
Kipih Jakkya: Hello! Have you seen anything exciting in your travels Fayette?
Fayette Purrcy: I heard that some adventurers defeated the Primal ifrit
Kipih Jakkya: Oh my! That is quite impressive indeed!
Kipih Jakkya: Have you heard who? Or how?
Fayette Purrcy: I do not know them personally. I have not faced him yet myself.
Kipih Jakkya: I understand, that's quite all right. I don't think I'd ever have the nerves to go and witness Ifrit up close and personal.
Kipih Jakkya: That's why I depend on eye-witness accounts from you adventurers!
Kipih Jakkya laughs at you.
Kipih Jakkya: What else has been going on as of late? Have you seen anything unusual?
Fayette Purrcy: The Grand Companies have also started taking Adventurers into their ranks. The leaders are quite impressive.
Kipih Jakkya: Really? Have you joined one yourself?
Fayette Purrcy: Aye, I have! The Twin Adders caught my eye
You give Kipih Jakkya a Serpent salute.
Kipih Jakkya: Well congratulations! What are the Twin Adders like?
Kipih Jakkya cheers you on!
Fayette Purrcy: They seem to be on the frontlines with a beautiful leader guiding us on. They keep us quite busy with missions, supply runs, escorting chocobo caravans
Kipih Jakkya: Sounds quite exciting! Who is the leader? Maybe I can get an interview!
Kipih Jakkya waves to Harmony Kitty.
Harmony Kitty waves to Kipih Jakkya.
Fayette Purrcy: the leader is Kan-E-Senna
Kipih Jakkya: That's great! Hopefully Kan-E-Senna isn't too busy to have a quick chat with little-old me.
Fayette Purrcy: I am sure she would be happy to talk to you and get the word out about recruitments and call to arms ^^
Kipih Jakkya: Thanks! I'll send her your best if I see her.
Kipih Jakkya motions joyfully to you.
Kipih Jakkya: Well, I better hop to it if I'm going to schedule an interview and get this article done.
Fayette Purrcy: thank you very much ^^
You bow courteously to Kipih Jakkya.
Kipih Jakkya: Thank you very much for the help Fayette!
Kipih Jakkya bows courteously to you.
Fayette Purrcy: You have a wonderful night Kipih ^^
Fayette Purrcy: Safe Travels!
Kipih Jakkya: And Thank You everyone for your time!
Kya Purrcy: hi
Kipih Jakkya: May the Fury Guide you to Victory!
Kipih Jakkya lets out a cheer.
Kya Purrcy: bye
Kipih Jakkya: Farewell!
Kipih Jakkya bids farewell.
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Kipih Jakkya in Gridania
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10-16-2011, 01:05 PMFayetteKipih Jakkya in Gridania
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10-16-2011, 01:18 PMJynx
Suprising that the GM didn't choose a more populated area to make the appearance, considering they can probably view a area for potential players before appearing.
Then again I guess the content did revolve around Gridania. -
10-16-2011, 01:38 PMAnonymoose
It's really lame that some people don't want to play along and/or give them a hard time. I think the real-time GM events (Urianger, van Darnus, the journalists...) are some of the more fun things to ever come out of MMOs. Thanks for posting this!
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10-16-2011, 01:39 PMHartigan_Redsail
I came in on the tail end of one of these before. I think its really awesome they do this :)
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10-16-2011, 01:54 PMKaizlu
Huh.....another one in Wutai. A few weeks ago I over...read(?) heard(?) a conversation between some players and a GM-like character. Took me a while to understand that they were role-playing haha
Fayette Purrcy, there's not a day that I don't see you running around or just sitting somewhere. Funny. -
10-16-2011, 02:07 PMKowenWe had a kind fellow shouting Hitler jokes at the German GM today on Trabia...Quote:
Originally Posted by Anonymoose
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10-16-2011, 02:10 PMXmbeigreat.... -.- got to love the maturity of this generations gamers.... On a positive note at least we getting back to good threads... sick of seeing a wall of payment threads -.-Quote:
Originally Posted by Kowen
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10-16-2011, 03:44 PMFayette
LOL Kaizlu, I am everywhere ^^ Say hi in game next time you see me!
Kowen, so not cool of those players doing the Hitler jokes :( I am sure the GM's take muscle relaxants before they log in and deal with some of the players >.> -
10-16-2011, 03:56 PMquantumsaint
This is the first time I've seen one of these in English. Good stuff.
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10-16-2011, 05:45 PMb0ats
Neat! I've been seeing alot of GM activity recently. The same one was in Lindblum's Ul'dah the other day asking about imperial assaults. There was also another Lala gm a day later asking about Ifrit aswell.
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10-16-2011, 06:01 PMJinrya-Geki
She was in Ul'dah a few weeks ago asking the same thing :O
It's cool you got to see her Fayette :D
Why for you pick Gridania and not Limsa? I is a sad red wizard lalafel :C -
10-16-2011, 06:07 PMAnonymoose
We should probably stop telling the GMs about the dungeons and primals after a few weeks, though; even if just for the sake of the real person sitting behind the screen hearing it for the millionth time. Help them out! Tell them about the time your chocobo ate all your magic shriekshrooms and you got flagged down by the guards at Horizon for operating a chocobo that was clearly tripping balls.
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10-16-2011, 06:17 PMGreatLeviathan
I have seen 2 of them in uldah.
It is cool to see how people gather around them :D
All though i sometimes have to read things twice as they use really advanced and polite english.
I do like it though :D -
10-16-2011, 06:18 PMGreatLeviathanQuote:
Originally Posted by Anonymoose
Good one!!! I will have to keep this in mind :D
:D The chocobo ate my homework i swear!!!! haha -
10-16-2011, 07:27 PMAnswa
I'm supremely jealous of your experience! Seemed like a fun opportunity to let your imagination run wild. This is coming from someone who has never done RP.
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10-17-2011, 03:55 AMFayetteAwww I'm sorry Jinrya T_T I like Gridania, the leader, the Goddess and the storyline. Gridania was our (sis and I) original starter city in Open Beta but was too laggy so we had to change to Ul'dah. GC's gave us a chance to go back and support Gridania ^^ I stil <3 you even if you are with LL xD I want to see you in the LL Grand Company gear, I bet you look adorable!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jinrya-Geki
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10-17-2011, 08:36 AMMikitaOn Saronia I've seen Kipih twice in Ul'dah -- first she was speaking Japanese, then the next time English. And also saw the male Hyur reporter speaking English last week. Perhaps they do appear in other cities to try to balance things out and make it fair, but I spend most of my time in Ul'dah, so that's where I've seen them so far. ^^Quote:
Originally Posted by GreatLeviathan
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10-17-2011, 09:07 AMmiqokini
Wow. I've gotta hand it to the GMs who do this. They are going up against a shit storm with stuff like this.
It's very unfortunate that people can't at least ignore them if they haven't got anything nice to say. But it just goes to show how a virtual society reflects real society. Most humans suck. -
10-17-2011, 09:09 AMGath
the RP hurt my brain.
My 1 gil is worth more than your 1 gil. -
10-17-2011, 09:28 AMGriss
I have yet to run into one of these. Then again given the way every thing takes so long to load for me i might be running right by them all the time.