Retainer Ad-Venture Contest (EU) - Entry Thread

[Katniss_]

To be a good retainer is hard.
I am a Lalafell.And so is my master.She called me Havane.
I just want to be a good retainer.So i always think about what she really needs.
I know she loves moogle so much.And then i brought her a weapon of moogle,Munificent Mogtome.Of course,she was happy.That’s what i really what to see.So i thought i was not afraid of the chase by those ‘cute’ moogles.But when i brought her back the moustache of king moogle.I was so excited to see that she didn’t stop laughing for 3 days.And i didn’t stop running for 3 days.That’s the reason why i don’t want to see the white fat pigs any more.
You know,it is hard to guess a Lalafell’s mind,even Lalafells themselves.Of course we cannot get the things we need up high.I mean i just really really want to help her.So i brought one thing that i thought would be so helpful to her,a Lalafellin Step Stool.

‘Master!Look!You don’t need to run around to talk to the gatekeeper of Halatali again.He will not ignore you any more.Hah hah!’,I said so excitedly to her.
But then,the only thing i saw was her long face,’Oh,really,and i am so happy that you can easily get our neighbourhood’s roof too.’
To be a good retainer is not easy.Each assignment,i just earn 2 Ventures.But can you imagine when i see my master complaining about how she can spend her so much Ventures all day?I am looking for a raise,cause TO BE A GOOD RETAINER IS HARD.

Characater name:Artemis Breeezewind
World name:Gaia- Bahamut
Prize choice:Bluebird earring

[Katniss_]

‘Master!Look!You don’t need to run around to talk to the gatekeeper of Halatali again.He will not ignore you any more.Hah hah!’,I said so excitedly to her.
But then,the only thing i saw was her long face,’Oh,really,and i am so happy that you can easily get our neighbourhood’s roof too.’
To be a good retainer is not easy.Each assignment,i just earn 2 Ventures.But can you imagine when i see my master complaining about how she can spend her so much Ventures all day?I am looking for a raise,cause TO BE A GOOD RETAINER IS HARD.

Characater name:Artemis Breeezewind
World name:Gaia- Bahamut
Prize choice:Bluebird earring

Sorry my mistake.

[Atchen]

I had one hell of venture behind me. And it didn’t end good so I got some time to rest. Master called me into the house of his good friend. I came in. He was standing there in the middle of the room talking to his friend who played the piano.

“I have something to tell you!”

“What would your wish be?”

“I don’t have wishes! I have commands, demands, assignations!” looks like I’m getting fired.

“You have demands? Or commands? Common, stop playing around! That’s not like you at all.”
His friend smiled at me and waved that I shouldn’t take him too seriously. I’m not so sure what to think about her. Most of the time she and her retainers are too easygoing. Never saw them take anything serious. Why is my master so often with her? She is slowing down his progress! He could be The master of black arts!

“I’m not playing around! My assignation for today is..”

“Bring him anything, but show him that you are one hell of a retainer he can be proud to have!” What she said surprised me, did I get a second chance?

“Show me what you made of.”

“Yes master! I won’t fail you again!”

“I trust, you won’t.” Before master went out he looked at me.
“Don’t kill yourself by trying too hard.”

She stood up too, took her sword and poked me.
“He worries too much, because you just like him. A too hotheaded blackmage. So don’t get so beaten up like last time.”

They left the house.
“But what should I get to proof myself?”
Once I heard master talking about the Moogles and a place called Thornmarch. He was saying something like it’s pure hell there! When I bring something from that hell it should be proof enough.

So I found myself a party that wanted to conquer that hellish place. After I went inside and saw those fluffy oversized things I could not understand why is this place such a hell. After 5 minutes I understood the reason, but there was no way back. They sang, they squeaked and that running around! Why can’t they stand still in one place and let get killed right away? Why that squeaking? Why? After many hours of that squeaking sound that started to ring in my ears we defeated the Mog King. I grabbed something and run away from there! Never again that squeaking! When I came back my master was already waiting. He was sitting on a big sofa and talking with her again.
“You don’t look so good. Where did you go?”
“Thornmarch”
Both started to laugh. I think I know why.

“So?”
“I brought you this...” I took out what I grabbed... that’s not the Maleficent Mogstaff! I grabbed the wrong item! That‘s Malevolent Mogwand.
“Well I will accept this as an apology.”
Master was still laughing, but he looked happy. I think he isn’t angry anymore about that fish I brought last time.




Character name:Ryko Ryujin
World name: Ragnarok (EU Legacy)
Prize choice: Scarf of wondrous wit

[FreyaMon]

"Your boss must be pretty skilled then."
The retainer wearing a full Dreadwyrm set before Miala shook his head. "Nah, just rich- He paid for a carry."
"I see."
The pair were interrupted by the booming voice of a male highlander. Miala recalled that his nickname was XxCloudLeonhartxX.
"Everybody ready?"
At nods from the assembled team, the 8 retainers strode into Thornmarch with confidence to lay their eyes upon the great king.

---

A soft Roegadyn's voice carried through the silence. "That was the messiest kill of Thex I've ever seen."
A Lalafell voice snorted and shouted "You have no idea the things I've seen!"
XxCloudLeonhartxX couldn't help but contribute. "Right? Can't you lot move out of the triangles?"
Miala couldn't help but round on him, "You died to them like 5 times!"
The argument exploded, but the highlander pocketed his Kingly Whisker and shrugged. "Whatever, see you later guys."
Miala wasn't happy with this turn of events at all. To make matters worse, she'd rolled a 1 on the ribbon. She knew what she had to do, and pushed past the throng through the exit portal. When XxCloudLeonhartxX departed, she made sure to follow him to his private quarters in the Goblet to lay in wait in the bushes.

There he was, with that whisker- looking more smug than Miala thought possible. Well, he wasn't going to stay smug for long. After gaining access to his chambers, it took only a short time for her axe to cut down all of his wallpaper and for her to bundle it up nicely. The Lalafell smirked a little as she headed back to her own quaters.
"This should do fine."

Miala answered her summons wearing the same expression, and after seeing the wallpaper the grey Miqo'te infront of her gave a withering look.
"What did you do?"
Miala drew her head back a bit. "Just because I'm amused I have to have done something?"
Freya cocked her head a little and seemed amused herself. "Knowing how sassy you are, pretty much yeah."
"Fine." Miala recounted tale, and afterwards Freya was wearing a smirk aswell.
"Nice. So are you level 60 yet?"
"No."
"Fair enough. Fancy getting some more biast scales?"
"You know what the drop rate on those things is."
Freya handed over a token. "That's why I'm asking you to get them."
Miala sighed. "Fine... for now. But you're asking a bit much, considering what I'm paid."
"I also need 2 adamantite nuggets."



Character: Freya Mondtanz
World: Phoenix
Choice: Bluebird Earring

[YuiKitahara]

===Retainer's blog===


Yesterday I overheard Master Faye talking about my ventures with her friends, complaining that I brought her fish again.
Stubborn girl, miqo'te should eat more fish!
Sometimes I have to grill it (by Fire III) before going back in case she releases the fish directly. Ugh this is not a master, this is a daughter... a curious one.


One day I passed by Ifrit's house and went in to have a chit chat with him, then anyhow picked one drop for my master from the warehouse since they're in excess of demand. But when I came back:

"You killed Ifrit? "
"Have you get hurt? Seems no..."
"Where did you meet it?"
"How did you get him down?"
"Can you teach me?"
"Bring me along next tiiiimmmmeeee..."

I can't answer because of the code of conduct. But doesn't she know that primals are our retainers' friends?


There is one more thing which is not happening in my exploration but already affected my choice. It's about furniture.
Retainers all can pick furniture from their ventures, legal and nothing special.
However, master can't understand and thinks that I am doing dirty work.
She is worried, saying I must be careful in case being caught, being jailed at a secret place. She will be notified by a moogle, need to travel around, to find out clues for the place, to ask friends' help and form a raid party to get her naughty retainer back, maybe will need to pay a huge amount of ransom even meet the final boss, oh if so she will prefer giving up and let boss grill me as compensation...

What?! I'm just a cute nice and sweet lalafell. @-@

It's too stressed to listen to my master. I'm going to pick... umm to fish a fish, yes a fish.


Character name: R'faye Morielli
World name: Tonberry
Prize: Bluebird Earring

[Devils_Lawyer]

Character name: Devils Lawyer
World: Cactuar
Prize: Scarf of Wondrous Wit


WHAM!
The door slammed shut so hard one might think the hinges would fall off.

I guess it’s never been easy to please Devils Lawyer, those venture coins can’t be cheap and even if you try your hardest it sometimes isn’t enough.

Take yesterday’s venture for example, from the Mist housing area with the sun in my back and the coins in my pockets I ventured out to make my boss proud, amazing delicious loot is on the shopping list and if anyone is going to get it it’s going to be me and boy did things go smooth, primal’s fell left and right, garleans ran in fear and I even manage to snag someone’s rooftop in the process.

As I was walking past Aleport, struggling to carry all the loot I spotted a gentleman and his company, I guess he must have been wealthy cause his left leg was replaced with a wooden pole made of nothing but the finest cedar lumber and if I wasn’t mistaken that eye patch covering his right eye was made out of pure dragon leather.

-Greetings beautiful, may I ask what one such as yourself would be heading with all that heavy stuff.

The man smiled at me with his mouth full of gold teeth.

-I’m heading with this stuff to my boss over at the Mist.

-Well now you shouldn’t have to carry this clutter all the way like this, I and my boys are heading out on a….fishing trip and we could just as easily drop you off at the beach.

I hesitated for a bit, boss did tell me not to talk to strangers but then again he was not here and my back was aching,

-Sure, I said and as I put down the items on the ground the man and his group got a shimmer in their eyes the likes which I’ve never seen, clearly the very thought of being able to help a poor retainer must be like gil in their pockets.
They quickly grabbed everything and started heading towards Aleport docks and before I could say by the twelve we were heading out into the sea on their mighty ship.

As I was standing on deck looking out unto the horizon I could hear footsteps from behind, the man and his sailors walked up to me.

-I’m not sure if you have figured it out yet but were not fishermen, we are pirates and we are now going to take your loot then have you scrub the entire deck har har har.

The men laughed out loud.

-But you are going to drop me off at the Mist right?

The men laughed even harder.

By nightfall they had me tied up with ropes in the deck below along with my items and other things they had stolen.
Luckily you learn a thing or two as a retainer so getting out of the ropes was easy, I carefully dragged my stuff up on the deck and heaved them into a rowboat hanging on the side of the boat, there was an open crate of honey lemons in it.
Suddenly I was spotted by a drunken sailor.

-Hey yu….yu are schteelin our schtuff yu…yu…..

The man fell asleep on the deck again and I used one of the swords I had acquired from my venture to cut the ropes allowing the rowboat to fall down into the water.
Unfortuenly my luck quickly turned as a huge storm approached, I was thrown all kinds away in the rainy night and suddenly my rowboat flipped itself and all the stuff sank to the bottom of the ocean and i managed to grab onto the bottom of the boat and held on for dear life.

I must have passed out, I woke up in no other place then the Mist beach itself.
As I was walking across the beach, wet and sandy with ripped clothes I stumbled upon one of the lemons that were in the crate in the rowboat.
I smiled with joy, my venture was a complete success and I ran as quickly as I could to my boss’s door and knocked as hard as I could.

The door opened and on the other side was my boss and I handed the lemon to him with a smile so big you could have thought I won a million MGP.

He looked at me, said nothing and then slammed the door shut on me…

[Werhusky]

Character: Aelia Sokoto
World: Cerberus
Item: Scarf of Woundrous Wit


Zorgan weighted the ventures in his purse. The payment was definitely worth all the travelling and he got to see a lot of all of Eorzea. The taste in his mouth told him today was a good day to get something worthy for his mistress.
She was another reason he did this job; it was just too fun seeing her roll eyes, her suppressed anger and her occasional joy about things he found for her. A smile stole on his lips. In another life they could’ve been friends but in this life he was her rebellious retainer.
Some deep breaths and he had decided where to go to: It was a somewhat risky decision to go to Cape Westwind but time was running and his Miqo’te genes made it easy for him to hide from the Garleans and there he had found already some sweet things before, lost by some poor souls.
Under the clear sky only those fishers trying to catch a titanic sawfish – for a moment he considered to try his own luck – distracted him a bit from searching between rocks, in caves and down the canyon. And there it was! A minute mindflayer was lying close to the water. But how to get it before the next wave carried it to the deeps of the ocean?
He almost laughed at the easy solution. Good thing he knew how to convince people of his trustworthiness and got borrowed a Halcyon Rod. With a handful of skilled casts he managed to hook it. He handed back the rod to the baffled fisher and couldn’t prevent himself from cuddling the minion for a moment. Really a good day!
He set foot to head back to Limsa Lominsa, where she’d expect him soon. That he let fall all cautiousness he only noticed when the Vanguard almost hit him. Holding the minion tight he ran as fast as he could and only stopped when the attacker was left far behind.
Zorgan leaned towards some rocks catching his breath. How stupid of him there! Well, it happened but now he should go. Pushing himself from the rocks to leave he heard a clinging sound. “Sigh!” His purse broke. Angrily he started collecting the ventures that had rolled everywhere.
Now it really was about time! Without looking he reached for the mindflayer – and only got some slime on his hand. Suspiciously he turned and his fears got proven: He looked at some stupid grinning toads. In his rage all that escaped was a long “Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!” The toads backed off but the minion was lost. Angry about his faults he made his was to be ready…

The bell rang and he greeted her the usual easy way. “What did you get for me?” He handed her what he could organize in the rush. “A Lominsan Anchovy!?” A grin stole on his face: “It’s high quality.” “Yeah….” Without asking more she handed him new ventures and dismissed him. What a great day!

[AngelHorn]

Stay a while and listen. This is a story, a short story, about three glorious adventurers. Well, maybe not so glorious... they are retainers. But they dine in the luxury of the Drowning Wench like real adventurers. Well... actually they have to take a table in the cellar... since they cannot afford more.

It is a story about the proud Elezen Elviane, the kittenish Miqo'te A'zumyn and the Lalafell Yobiwan, who is a little late to their appointment.

"*Sigh* I wish we could be real adventurers like the people upstairs. Y'know, sharing tales of heroic adventures and most of all: having real meals instead this crap they call 'Retainer Special'. Don't you agree, Elvi?"
"I agree. But sadly the prices here have been driven sky-high due all the wealthy adventurers, so there is not much choice for our kind.", Elviane replied.
"Nyan! It sounded so cool back then on the billboard when it said 'The Adventurer Guild wants YOU! Hiring helpers - apply now and get one free set of Patrician's clothes.' But being a retainer sucks. I want adventures. I want glory! I want food! Now, where is Yobi? It's already ten minutes past noon and I am very hungry!"
"Look, Ms. Tyaka.", Elviane points at a cute looking Lalafell in a bunny costume from Gold Saucer who is heading for their table. "Maybe that little Ms. is a friend of Yobiwan?"
To their surprise the Lalafell took a seat at their table and started to burst out in tears.
Unsure about what to do A'zumyn asked the Lalafell "Uhm... can we help you somehow, sweety?"
The Lalafell glanced at her. Then towards Elviane. After a few seconds he finally replied "It's me. Yobi."
A'zumyn and Elviane looked at each other, then back to Yobiwan before bursting out in laughter.
"IT'S NOT FUNNY! GODDAMMIT!", Yobiwan cried. Which made the two girls laugh even harder at him.
"My mistress wanted me to wear this glamour while being on venture. She thought it would look cute on me. Despite me being a guy..."
"I heard a lot about retainer masters who makes their retainers wear lewd stuff, but this... is so... cute! Nyan."
"Now," Elviane calmed herself enough to say something "we have about 30 minutes left for our quick exploration. What gifts do we want to bring our masters today?"
"I don't care, nyan! I want food! Onaka suita!"
"I am not in any mood for exploration with this outfit..."
"Ladies", Baderon Tenfinger interrupted the three to serve the lunch. "Today our special is eel pie with roasted sea cucumber and cooked crayfish. Enjoy your meal!"
"I AM NOT A GIRL!", Yobiwan tried to complain but Baderon turned away already.
It sounded terrible. It looked terrible. A'zumyn was the first to ask "Is this even edible? Nyan..."
"Unlikely. But this is what you get for two ventures..."
The three of them exchanged glances and started to grin together.
"Ladies, we have our gifts!", Yobiwan explained.

To be continued...?

Character Name: Angel Horn
World Name: Cerberus
Prize Choice: Scarf of Wondrous Wit

Sorry for my bad English, it is not my native language.

[okejakej6]

Today was no ordinary day for the little Lalafell Gekota! it was his grand finale before retirement! so he really wanted to bring back the finest of all treasures in Eorzea to his Mistress.
And that! he thought to himself would be the legendary sea monster called Goldfish resided in the deep lake of Mor Dhona.

He had bet everything on luck this day! but on his way to Mor Dhona he overheard some Fishers talking about some brand new fishing bait called "Gulp, lalafell flavour" working wonders in the lakes!
After hearing that he ran at max speed all the way left to Mor Dhona and went to the closest fishing shop..there he asked the shopkeeper for the Gulp bait, unfortunately it was priced in gil only, which Gekota didn't own.
Saddened Gekota left the shop, went to the lake with his fishing rod and jar of worms. after 35 minutes of fishing he had only caught a potato.
he was starting to loose hope. but then he got struck by the brightest idea! What if he used himself as the bait! he went to the closest fisherman he saw begging him for help!
The kind fisherman agreed and Gekota was stripped down into his underpants within the blink of an eye! went onto the hook and threw himself into the water. It was dark down there, full of seagrass and scary fishes. but that coudn't beat Gekota's Decision!
After a few minutes down there he noticed something shiny! coming towards him with rapid speed! it must've catch the scent of me he thought! And at this moment he started to regret his decision.. he started panicking. swimming all he could up towards the surface. but it was to late! AUCH he cried. the Goldfish had it's teeth stuck in his left buttock. The fisherman up on land felt something heavy and pulled upp the half beaten Lalafell and his new Throphy. The mission was a succes! Gekota thanked the fisherman with an enormous gratitude. and went happily home to his Mistress in the Lavaneder beds!

The end!



In game name: Gekko Moriah
Server: Phoenix
Price: Scarf of Wondrous Wit

[SilverDjinn]

Name: Commander Makara
World: Admantoise
Prize: Ahrman choker

"I sent Grand'Nagus (Retainer) out for a woodland Exploration XIV and asked for him to bring me back something special means the last few attempted ventures he seemed to have just randomly been slacking up to the last 10mins of the duty and going around my neighbours stealing their furniture because he couldnt be bothered. I only found out this when a mob of my angry neighbours turned up at my door and demanded there stuff back. Grand'nagus came back after the venture with Fantasia and I had to sit down to have a talk about his behaviour and attitude. We discussed it and ofcourse being a lalafel he denied it and tried to use cute to distract me ofcourse it DID NOT work as i know lalafel are sneaky and underhanded, I warned him he needed to stop or I would have to terminate his employement, Grand'nagus grumbles and muttered and then finally apologised but by the time he had its was well after midnight and I turned in to go to bed due to having a very busy ahead of hidden node mining. During the night Gran'nagus snuck into my room and used the Fantasia on me.. The next morning I awoke to find everytrhing in my house seemed different and I couldnt figure out why everything was soooo big and high... I walked around my house looking for a stool to go check my mirror and to my shock and horror after peering into the mirror there was a lalafel staring back at me.. I ofcourse was like omg wth I jumped off my stool panicking and thats when i saw a note pinned to my front door reading "KEEP YOUR JOB AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR DAYS AS SNEAKY LALAFEL P.S. I STOLE YOUR MOOGLE MAILBOX"..... Needless to say I have learned my lesson never ever piss off a lalafel