The people we met

[Ceridwenae]

Well, I'm guess that - since I've heard nothing further on the matter - then you are right, and they didn't send anything. Still, it wasn't a pleasant experience.

I realise you posted this a few weeks back, but am sorry to hear about that experience. If you fancy popping over to Zodiark at any point, feel free to visit me! I'm naff at this game of late, but am up for a nice natter if you want. My FC house has a message book in it (Mist, Plot 52, Ward 6), so if I'm not about leave a message!


Regarding the rest of the thread, the only people on my friend list are my husband and daughter. I've not really run content with people for a while, but I've had good, bad and odd experiences with other people that stick in the brain a bit. One was a guy who popped up when I was a really low-level marauder doing low-level marauder things outside of Limsa, and I recall him saying something like he liked to eat toasties. I wasn't really having that, though I don't remember what he or I said immediately after this inane announcement of his. A little later, back in Limsa, I get a message off him asking for 1 million gil, no idea why, nor do I care. Blacklisted.

Another one was regarding one of my alts, who has a Norwegian food-based name. Someone messaged me in Norwegian, saying they liked to eat <inset character name>. There is a lesson here, I really must learn it.

The absolute best I remember was an FC group in an old Prae run. I was on a now-defunct alt. There were lots of genuinely warm-hearted laughs and we took a screenshot together at the end of the dungeon. Unfortunately the shot was saved on an old hard drive that died so I have no way of locating these people again. I want to say there was a lady roe, a catboy or two, and, well, that's all I remember, but I think there was four or five of them from the FC in there. I really hope wherever they all are, they're still cracking wise and having a grand old time of it.

[Renalt]

Those are some award winning pick up lines...

Darwin Award winning.

[MagicPeanut]

Not sure if it’s good or bad but I have a weird story

At some point in Shirogane, a new neighbor moved in next to my house. I looked at their placard to see it was an FC. I didn’t think anything else of it. A while later, I noticed that I got my first entry in my message book. I wasn’t used to interaction in the housing ward/my home, so this was surprising! It was just a simple message saying the house looked good. I was grateful. However, when new entries were added several days later, my gratefulness turned into shock. A couple more players left messages that said they went in and…did stuff on my bed. One of them mentioned the name of the first message leaver, so I realized they had to be together.

At this point, I had yet to make the obvious connection of the new neighbors and the messages. It wasn’t until I looked one of them up on the Lodestone and saw the name of their FC that it all finally came together. I decided to play along with them and went over to their house to leave a message in their book asking them to stop because it’s difficult to get the stains out! Needless to say, they didn’t let it end there. They trolled a bit more by writing entries for a couple more weeks.

Eventually during Heavensturn this year, after getting the white tiger screen, I went to my house to display it before I’d inevitably shove it in the housing storage. After entering, I noticed I had yet another new entry. Right as I opened it, I heard footsteps on my Il Mheg flower carpet behind me. I turn to catch a glimpse of a woman in deep blue thanvnairian attire and the end of the petal animation disappear into a closed off area I made with partitions. I run up to the wall and explain that she jumpscared me! An Au’ra pops back out and we have a laugh about it. She then proceeds to faze through my furniture (It was just recently explained to me how people do that) before running downstairs to explain that they had a lala to “clean that” for me. She points at the bed. We talk for over an hour about the whole thing!

We ended up adding each other to our friends list and we talked several more times. She even gifted me one of their FC cannons and asked me to display it in my front yard since other FC mates were getting annoyed with the overabundance of them on their yard. (I display it to this day lol) We stopped talking after their FC moved to a Med in the Goblet. I went over to leave a message to say how I was gonna miss them. They came back to leave a couple more messages saying they would miss “cumming by.” :')

[Carin-Eri]

I realise you posted this a few weeks back, but am sorry to hear about that experience. If you fancy popping over to Zodiark at any point, feel free to visit me! I'm naff at this game of late, but am up for a nice natter if you want. My FC house has a message book in it (Mist, Plot 52, Ward 6), so if I'm not about leave a message!


Regarding the rest of the thread, the only people on my friend list are my husband and daughter. I've not really run content with people for a while, but I've had good, bad and odd experiences with other people that stick in the brain a bit. One was a guy who popped up when I was a really low-level marauder doing low-level marauder things outside of Limsa, and I recall him saying something like he liked to eat toasties. I wasn't really having that, though I don't remember what he or I said immediately after this inane announcement of his. A little later, back in Limsa, I get a message off him asking for 1 million gil, no idea why, nor do I care. Blacklisted.

Another one was regarding one of my alts, who has a Norwegian food-based name. Someone messaged me in Norwegian, saying they liked to eat <inset character name>. There is a lesson here, I really must learn it.

The absolute best I remember was an FC group in an old Prae run. I was on a now-defunct alt. There were lots of genuinely warm-hearted laughs and we took a screenshot together at the end of the dungeon. Unfortunately the shot was saved on an old hard drive that died so I have no way of locating these people again. I want to say there was a lady roe, a catboy or two, and, well, that's all I remember, but I think there was four or five of them from the FC in there. I really hope wherever they all are, they're still cracking wise and having a grand old time of it.

Thank you so much for your reply - really thoughtful of you, and your kind offer is much appreciated!

However, despite my otherwise successful attempt at withdrawing from having social interaction, I had a chance encounter with a friendly Vierra at the Marketboard in Old Sharlayan about four weeks ago. Chatted to her, met her again the following day, and she invited me to meet her FC - an invitation I cautiously accepted.... and they turned out to the the polar opposites of the last one I was in. A genuinely friendly, helpful, group of people who welcomed me without hesitation and who also tolerate my hopeless performance in trials/raids etc!

As for that friendly Vierra I mentioned.... well, long story short, we've been in-game dating for a few weeks now

[Kacho_Nacho]

Those are some award winning pick up lines...

Darwin Award winning.

*snerk*

Now, that's funny!

[Bunnycake]

My little Hyperion group...we have known each other online since early 2000s. They're the reason why I started XIV. As for others uhh before world visit I server transferred to Excalibur and just like Hyperion was at the time it seemed dead so waited three days to try Levi before coming back to Hyperion. The friends I made in Levi were from hunts. Coming back to Hyperion I met others via Instagram.

[RobynDaBank]

I've had quite a few people I met through MMOs, and only one of them has stuck around for more than a year. He's a good friend I've known from WoW for 2-3 years now. Not sure if it's a super personal friendship, but we do share anything at all that comes to our heads whenever.

[Renalt]

I've had quite a few people I met through MMOs, and only one of them has stuck around for more than a year. He's a good friend I've known from WoW for 2-3 years now. Not sure if it's a super personal friendship, but we do share anything at all that comes to our heads whenever.

Must be nice. All the people I meet are kinda short lived. The friends I make we tend to hang out and talk all day or do roulettes and after they send the friend request and I accept...once they log I tend to not see them again. There was a few I would see once a week but even they have kinda dropped out of the game and it's been months. I feel like I keep meeting people who play as far as the story allows and then they just don't log in again till new content drops.

It's fine though cause Shout chat in Balmung definitely keeps me busy. Always something going on there. It's like the days of Wild West internet chat rooms.

[Carin-Eri]

Must be nice. All the people I meet are kinda short lived. The friends I make we tend to hang out and talk all day or do roulettes and after they send the friend request and I accept...once they log I tend to not see them again. There was a few I would see once a week but even they have kinda dropped out of the game and it's been months. I feel like I keep meeting people who play as far as the story allows and then they just don't log in again till new content drops.

It's fine though cause Shout chat in Balmung definitely keeps me busy. Always something going on there. It's like the days of Wild West internet chat rooms.

I had a lot of that too - in fact, I should go through my friend list really as there are a few players who friended me but ended up being a case of "see you again never".

[Destati]

I would have never met my girlfriend if it weren't for the fateful late-night Treasure Map party in PF I joined, the leader of which would go on to do more runs and eventually make a linkshell for it too. I would make many new friends in this linkshell too, one of whom I would bond with over music, memes, an obscure the King and I reference, and later on, RP. We first met in person about two years ago, and now I am making plans to move in with her.