First thing I did was spam the heck out of the character emotes on my kitty boy while I waited for my friend (who I know offline) to come find me in Gridania. By the time she arrived, I had discovered the ear wiggling /joy emote and couldn't help but spam it at her because of how cute it was. Then a few minutes later, as we were standing at the main aetheryte crystal in New Gridania, all of the members of her FC that were online at the time showed up to meet and welcome me to the game. After that, they proceeded to dragged me from Gridania through various maps to sync with aetherytes and so I can get to know the land better XD That was well over a year ago and I'm still with the same group of friends in the same FC