Revelations from Fan Festival 2017 Frankfurt

[Dualblade]

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The biggest problem with this is that capturing us and us staying that way until 4.0 hits means we can't do anything with our character...and that the explanation for why it worked other times (leaving to gather allies when we were captured by Ifrit for example) would make much less sense in this case. Truth be told I have thought of other scenarios where the WoL should be indisposed in such a way that even the player can't use them. It would have the part of the story that ends with it being added closer to the time of the next patch/xpac so you aren't waiting long, as well as a big, multiple warnings that you will be locked out of your character for X amount of time (which once the relevent patch/xpac is released won't matter anymore).

On the other hand as well Galvus is supposed to be a pretty evil guy, even compared to other Garleans. Any attempt to try and "convert" us would probably fail under his command...though given we have yet to see him in action yet still gotta wait and see. I could see atleast one high-ranking subordinate seeing the value in trying though and doing as you said with sending us to Othard, both to help deal with a Primal and try and show us things would be better under their leadership. If handled well I'm certain he could be a well-liked Garlean.

That said personally I'm leaning towards "the Garleans are entrenched too well for us to take on. We have possible allies who could help AND who would be much easier to liberate, lets help them so they help us! Oh, and Primal killing is your expertise so please help with that!"

[SaitoHikari]

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Eh... I don't think THAT would be the expansion hook like the Ul'dah banquet was. It'd obviously happen a short time into the expansion itself, but would involve having to watch several cutscenes/do several instanced duties in a row.

That said, I now realize the scenario I'm thinking of has zero chance of happening, because one of the revealed dungeons for the expansions is visible on the world map - the ship graveyard to the south, which indicates the WoL is journeying to Doma by sea.

[Dualblade]

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My bad then, was mixing mine and your ideas in my head and it came to thinking you ment at the end of 3.56 and all that. That said your scenario could still work, just because Garleans love their airships doesn't mean they wouldn't have "normal" ships to use. Could be all kind of reason to go by water instead of by flight.

Its worth noting that Zenos has a very Samurai look to him. It could be that something about his character is tied to Doma and that is what leads us there. Digging into the FF12 theme, perhaps he has a power behind him that he found in Doma and we travel there trying to figure out the source of it.

I don't remember who said it but in one of the other recent threads someone had the idea that Garlemald sends conscripts to other countries instead of having them fight in their homeland, specifically that maybe those from the Doma area are sent to Ala Mhigo and vice-versa. Maybe Zolvus is the ultimate representative of this even if only in job type.

[SaitoHikari]

My bad then, was mixing mine and your ideas in my head and it came to thinking you ment at the end of 3.56 and all that. That said your scenario could still work, just because Garleans love their airships doesn't mean they wouldn't have "normal" ships to use. Could be all kind of reason to go by water instead of by flight.

'Capture and being transported to Othard' scenario is unfortunately a lot less plausible when an actual dungeon is thrown into the mix, unless the devs plan to prevent players from returning to do other things in Eorzea until the dungeon is cleared and they get rescued at Othard proper, which is... Not happening. A 1 hour cutscene/solo duty montage would fit this sort of scenario, but a dungeon being involved... Nope.

[PArcher]

'Capture and being transported to Othard' scenario is unfortunately a lot less plausible when an actual dungeon is thrown into the mix, unless the devs plan to prevent players from returning to do other things in Eorzea until the dungeon is cleared and they get rescued at Othard proper, which is... Not happening. A 1 hour cutscene/solo duty montage would fit this sort of scenario, but a dungeon being involved... Nope.

I mean, we do have all the quests on a tight time-table, story-wise, where we can go off and do the 101million moogle quests between opening the instance and actually finishing the quest...

Heck, you can even go completely off-track during certain parts of the 2.55 ending...