Welcome To Durandal! Event - hosted by Order of The Blue Garter

NOTICE: Due to the server problems that SE is having right now we may be forced to cancel the first part of the festivities. We're having a hard time getting players logged into Durandal and it's becoming incredibly unreliable. Multiple disconnects also does not bode well for running an SR5C in AV/CC. This is still up in the air but we may just start with The Wild Zozor Hunt followed by Dash at Natalan. :(

We've taken a crazy awesome idea from the lovely LARPers over at Besaid and twisted it upside down to bring all of the new citizens of Durandal...

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We hope to spark up server sociability right off the bat with a community-wide event that everyone can enjoy! Whether you be native Cornerlians or Rabanastreans...Rabanastrians?...Rab...WHATEVER, please come and join us in the festivities.

We've all seen server-wide Chocobo Racing and massive Botanist orgies with Guardians of the Grove and Lv.1 zombie death running to objectives - but its all been done before. Our events may not be the most original of ideas but - they will surely be competitive, be fun and have great rewards at the end ;)

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Time: 3PM-5PM EST
Our first event will test your puzzle solving skills in an old fashion scavenger hunt! You will be hunting the elusive yet beautiful Wild Zozor. To make the hunt more interesting we have stationed BG "NPCs" around the world that give clues or riddles to where you can locate the Wild Zozor.

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To speak to these "NPCs" you must use a firework on them which will prompt them to give you the clue in a /tell. Once you have your clue, continue on your quest! There will be 7 NPCs in total and their clues will be a real challenge to even learned adventurers! Upon reaching the final NPC you will be given a riddle. You only have ONE chance at getting the correct answer to spawn the Wild Zozor - so answer carefully! The first player to spawn the Wild Zozor wins the Grand Prize. :D

Grand Prize: 8,000,000gil and a romantic night alone with Zozor*!
*romantic night with Zozor subject to your definition of romance

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Time: 5PM-??PM EST
To close out our evening we will be hosting a competition of skill and endurance. Taking place in the remote stronghold of Natalan, single parties of eight players will fight their way through hordes of Ixali to represent their Linkshell. The team with the fastest clear time from the Entrance Gates to Lozol Totolaq the Decapitator (boss must be defeated) wins the Grand Prize. The team with the second fastest clear will win the Runner-up Prize.

Only one team will be running the gauntlet at a time and will be monitored by 2~4 BG members to ensure fair play is being promoted. We will also be live streaming the runs so that linkshells can cheer their selected team mates on in their struggle. Each linkshell will choose a representative to sign their 8 man group up. There is no limit to how many groups from a single linkshell may enter as some linkshells may be larger than others. PUGS also acceptable.

Grand Prize: 8,000,000gil
Runner-up Prize: 4,000,000gil

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We will keep this thread updated in the following days when SE gives us the exact time the servers will be online. We plan for the events to start an hour or so after the servers come back up. We hope that the Welcome To Durandal Event has a great turnout from the community. Let's start out on this new [/SIZE]server with bang :cool:

You'll never find me!

The only players with the drive and ingenuity to solve the riddles and find me are already BG members, surely...

Even if every single person on the server signed up they'd all FAIL MISERABLY.

I'm going to end up keeping the gil for myself, which is what will happen if no one can solve the riddle.
DO YOU WANT THAT!? DO YOU!?

I'm guessing Zozor is going to be on Dalamud. Good hiding spot btw.

Nah if that were the case I'd have no way of taunting the people who can't find me.

I suppose I should point out, though, that I will be logged out until the final riddle is solved by players talking to the BG 'npcs'.

This is so that the player search function will not be useful in tracking me down.

Post a picture from your phone, I swear I wont use EXIF to find out exactly where you are.

I wnat the gil !! :D

Haha this is such an amazing idea.
You guys are amazing to come up with such idea, and I believe its a good way to bring people together. :)

finally someone come up with user made events that don't suck. It would be a hard decision for me to have to pick between running for hours to different camps, stunning a tree to death, or making 8 mil gil. Lucky we aren't all on the same server cause im just not sure if i could decide.

WOOT!!! :D! sounds like fun~

Huzzah! Another server to step it up. :P

Good deal-these look like a lot of fun! I hope you have a really good turnout guys!

New schedule has been semi-updated to coincide with the server merger times. We decided to keep it relatively early in the day but not too early. Please come out and mingle with the community! ^^

I should point out that the contest is open to every player, with the exception of Quebec residents.

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Originally Posted by Chinook

I should point out that the contest is open to every player, with the exception of Quebec residents.

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rofl poor chinook

OH EM GEE im in TO :P

I'm definitely going to quit BG, attempt to find myself (and win 8,000,000 gil), and then reapply to BG.

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I should point out that the contest is open to every player, with the exception of Quebec residents.

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as god intended

Sounds like alot of fun. It's nice to see a LS like this and to a further extent, a fun community. I'd happily join if not for the fact my highest class is 34 and I know close to nothing about FFXIV >< Your LS sounds like one I'd be proud to be part of. I hope your event is a great success!

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Originally Posted by Forlorn

Sounds like alot of fun. It's nice to see a LS like this and to a further extent, a fun community. I'd happily join if not for the fact my highest class is 34 and I know close to nothing about FFXIV >< Your LS sounds like one I'd be proud to be part of. I hope your event is a great success!

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You can take part in the Zozor hunt! If your MGS/riddle skills are up to par you shouldn't need to be R50 in order to find him ;3

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Originally Posted by Xaimera

OH EM GEE im in TO :P

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T.DOT REPRESENT!

Quebec sucks anyway who cares

since the servers are still down i think we should invest this precious time to start looking for zozor
i couldnt find him :confused:... this a picture of me in despair :( Here.

can you find him? ;)

:D keep looking! he's sure to be hiding somewhere...

updated the OP with some important information on today's events.

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Due to the server problems that SE is having right now we may be forced to cancel the first part of the festivities. We're having a hard time getting players logged into Durandal and it's becoming incredibly unreliable. Multiple disconnects also does not bode well for running an SR5C in AV/CC. This is still up in the air but we may just start with The Wild Zozor Hunt followed by Dash at Natalan. :(

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Maybe postpone it to allow the servers to stabilize? Here's hoping it only takes a few hours and not a whole day like XI was prone to doing.

If the servers take too long the best we can do is postpone it for another day. We had a pretty tight schedule lined up for certain players to attend it and that is getting washed away >_<.

i hope you guys get your event done, i can tell you put a bit of thought into it.

Yeah I figure you guys would have something meticulous planned out for such a large undertaking, perhaps you could enlist some help from the Durandal community to fill some spots. I'm sure some people would be willing to sacrifice participating in the events to ensure they actually happen.

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Originally Posted by Filtiarne

Yeah I figure you guys would have something meticulous planned out for such a large undertaking, perhaps you could enlist some help from the Durandal community to fill some spots. I'm sure some people would be willing to sacrifice participating in the events to ensure they actually happen.

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for SR5C runs? You MUST be shrooming lol.

No no not the SR5C, Jesus the horror of trying that with randoms. I was more talking about people volunteering time to act as NPC's for the Zozor event or acting as judges/time keepers for the Natalan Rush event.

Event starts in 20 minutes!! Come join the fun.

1 hour in and still no Zozor found yet :D!!

Congrats to my boys Van Fanel and Oreth Ulain who found Zozor LOL!

Enjoy your "date" :)

lol awww i was so close XD

Congratulations to Oreth/Van of Knights of The Round 2!

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Hunt For Zozor Clues

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Clue: Go to where the learned toil endlessly, the philosopher's stone their magnum opus.
Solution: The alchemist's guild in Ul'dah

Clue: The peyote-making sprinter dances there all day.
Solution: the location where Cactuar Jack spawns

Clue: Where Frodo's shirt of rings lay in a mass grave of the black death.
Solution: The mythril pit

Clue: This is the language of a dog in a redwood tree.
Solution: Crimson Bark

Clue: You must be within sight of the Centaur.
Solution: The Centaur's Eye in Gridania

Clue: In a time denoting a level of significance Pharos lit the way; the hourglass ever-looming overhead.
Solution: the lighthouse south of widow's peak in la noscea

Riddle: Without me you're never there. I bend backward when out of space and the more I change the more I stay the same. What am I?
Answer: Time

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Explanations of clues and the riddle for those curious:

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Clue 1: Alchemy was the most learned science available for centuries. The end goal of which was almost always immortality (so the learned toil endlessly). The magnum opus (a term coined to describe a masterpiece of alchemy) was the philosopher’s stone, which was supposed to be a tool used to empower alchemists to achieve their goals (namely immortality and turning lead into gold). This riddle is made easy by the fact that the philosopher’s stone is famously known by anime fans in Full Metal Alchemist.

Clue 2: Peyote comes from cacti as we all know. If you don’t know this you didn’t go to high school anywhere. If you didn’t know that you may know a sprinter in reference to Final Fantasy (Cactrot Rapido), a cactuar NM. This should lead you to what is (as far as I know) FFXIV’s only cactuar NM.

Clue 3: Sorry to whoever has to feign knowledge of LOTR while relaying this clue. Frodo’s shirt is made of mythril. A typical term for a mass grave is a plague pit, due to the mass graves used during the black death. This should be more difficult as I’m sure some people are going to derp right for a mine.

Clue 5: Dogs bark and crimson is a shade of red and redwoods are trees.

Clue 6: You know your Greek mythology, right? Nessus is the centaur that was killed by Heracles. The blood of Nessus subsequently resulted in the death of Heracles, if you’re curious.

Clue 7: The symbol used to denote a level of significance in statistical analysis is Alpha. So, the time of Alpha… During FFXIV’s alpha phase only La Noscea was available. Pharos is the island upon which was built the lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the wonders of the ancient world. The markings on a black widow spider show an hourglass.

Riddle: Without me you’re never there – as in you’ll be late or not show up if you can’t tell time. I bend backward when out of space – noting the non-linear relationship between three-dimensional space and time in classical mechanics. The more I change the more I stay the same – time changes between different observers but remains the same from the perspective of a single observer according to relativity.

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I have to give credit here where it is Due. Van Fanel is the real winner with some great help from many members of KOTR throwing ideas together to help beat the riddles. I was just lucky to get out to the Lighthouse first. Thanks for putting on a great event and creating some buzz around the game and server merge.

Now off to hopefully beat Natalan Boss...

Glad you guys enjoyed it and we'll see you out at Natalan!

Oh yeah! Natalan in 7:35 KOTR

Thanks for the events good fun, haven't had a good run like that nat speed clear in awhile :)

Congrats to KOTR on the Grand Prize in Natalan and Jehovas Witnesses for the Runner-up Prize!

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Thank you to all the individuals and linkshells who came out today and participated in Durandal's First Annual Event. We had a great time and hope you all did as well! There was a great turnout for Hunt the Wild Zozor and we hope to continue the tradition next year.

The few members that were on watched the livestream and thought about attending Natalan Dash with just 4 lol, but yea. The time was kind of a hindrance at least for a weekday.

Just a suggestion for the future besides a more reasonable time, don't live stream stuff like the Natalan Dash. It gives away any "strats" that previous groups use for those that haven't gone yet. Not that it really mattered here...skill still needs to be applied. /shrug Just a thought.

Grats Crio ;p Lucky you run Sorc. Tights with us, already knowing how to get there fast and burn the boss in <1min.

Cheers again BG. Good day of fun, shame there wasnt more attendance on the last event.