The Last Word – Storm over Gridania

[SirWethamster]

What zone did you get these in? Any specific grades of gathering points or monsters? I've yet to see any either but I'd love to get my hands on one.

Should be anything that has a chance as giving crystals/shards from combat and gathering, but as for what I was doing? I was fishing in cedarwoods fishing nodes to get red and blue coral.

[Eldaena]

On my search through Gridania I'm also finding these odd things along the way. There are NPCs marked on the map in a few areas that are not characters but inanimate objects.

(29, 31) It's a darkened fireplace. You can target it and it reads this "The hearth's flame has died out."
(31, 30) It's a lit stone lantern that is common in the Black Shroud. You can target it and it reads this: "The Watcher carries out its silent vigil."
(34, 32) Another stone lantern that you can target and reads the same thing.


Still looking for more of these to add because I've never noticed them before.

[Eldaena]

lol I found a frog on one of the stone lanterns!

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...dae/froggy.png

[Kimsui]

Hi guys ^^
Just wanted to say that I think the shady figure is a GM who has been visiting the camps. I arrived in Camp Horizon tonight and found a GM there preaching about the 7th era and impending dark abyss or whatnot. I had to put it into google translate though since the GM was talking in japanese and I am not sure of the accuracy of the translation (since it was very disjointed.) I copied, pasted and saved the chat log though, and will make sure to post here what he said if anyone would like to translate it properly (and if I have not been beaten to it!). I would do it now but I have just shut down my computer ^^; Sorry!

But yes the GM appeared and spoke to everyone, did a few crazy abilities and buffed everyone with a 15 minute quickness and vanished! It was all very mysterious.

Good luck to everyone else trying to figure out these ominous happenings!
And apologies in advance if this post appears a bit whacked, I'm typing this from my phone.

[Benji]

Hi guys ^^
Just wanted to say that I think the shady figure is a GM who has been visiting the camps. I arrived in Camp Horizon tonight and found a GM there preaching about the 7th era and impending dark abyss or whatnot. I had to put it into google translate though since the GM was talking in japanese and I am not sure of the accuracy of the translation (since it was very disjointed.) I copied, pasted and saved the chat log though, and will make sure to post here what he said if anyone would like to translate it properly (and if I have not been beaten to it!). I would do it now but I have just shut down my computer ^^; Sorry!

But yes the GM appeared and spoke to everyone, did a few crazy abilities and buffed everyone with a 15 minute quickness and vanished! It was all very mysterious.

Good luck to everyone else trying to figure out these ominous happenings!
And apologies in advance if this post appears a bit whacked, I'm typing this from my phone.

I really doubt what you're talking about is part of the event. Probably just some random GM popped up and you got lucky enough to be there at that moment.

[Eldaena]

I don't know which of those statements seem more unlikely lol

[Betelgeuzah]

Well, if he talked about the umbral era and dark abyss I doubt he was there randomly.

[SirWethamster]

On my search through Gridania I'm also finding these odd things along the way. There are NPCs marked on the map in a few areas that are not characters but inanimate objects.

(29, 31) It's a darkened fireplace. You can target it and it reads this "The hearth's flame has died out."
(31, 30) It's a lit stone lantern that is common in the Black Shroud. You can target it and it reads this: "The Watcher carries out its silent vigil."
(34, 32) Another stone lantern that you can target and reads the same thing.


Still looking for more of these to add because I've never noticed them before.

Those spots are actually part of sidequests. :P So nothing special there.

[Eldaena]

Those spots are actually part of sidequests. :P So nothing special there.

Really? Now I want to do those sidequests. =p

[SirWethamster]

Really? Now I want to do those sidequests. =p

Can't remember where they are gotten in gridania, I think one was in the conjurers guild, basically the missions just had you click at the points, relighting the hearths or adding fuel to the lanterns to keep people safe at night, that sorta stuff. it was interesting to learn a little about em, but aside from that, unless you are interested in tibits of lore like me, not too interesting.