Airship Components: R&D Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

[Warr_of_Lint]

Character: Meer’a Mihksa
World: Balmung
Item: Bluebird Earrings
Component: Airship Reverse-Siren Sonar (ARSS)

The song of the siren has lured many unsuspecting sailors to their doom; however, if I were to reverse its polarity, the song should guide a ship to safety instead. When I heard about the dangers of airship travel, I knew it was time to introduce my ARSS to Eorzea.

An old friend allowed me to peruse her notes for a means of containing the siren’s voice. Her assistants were invaluable in helping me find the information I needed. My friends could barely suppress a giggle when they asked where I pulled the idea of my ARSS from; I knew they felt as giddy as I did about this project.

I wish I could show you my old friend, but she graciously asked to remain anonymous. Despite her indispensable aid, she adamantly refused to accept any credit, or as she put it, “liability.”

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While traveling to Pharos Sirius to slay the siren—blamm!—a detective of unquestionable wit literally fell out of the sky. I immediately sensed something great about him, but I must confess, it was not his intelligence that caught my attention.

It was his senseless, yet selfless, determination that truly impressed me. I informed him of my plans and he agreed to help, but I found myself tangled in his misadventures: a string of seemingly unrelated thefts, gang warfare between moogle crimelords, a bad cactuar mount idea, abductions by little green lalafell from the moon, and a murderous plot involving foot odor. After an older man in sunglasses (the only thing he wore aside from underpants) suplexed a train, things started getting weird. I’ll spare you the details, but we ended up saving Eorzea!

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Almost forgot where this was going—we also captured the siren’s voice along the way.

Many horrendous fatalities occurred in the design phase, but everyone preemptively refused to let me dedicate my ARSS to their honor. I often cried because of their selfless dedication—that, and the fact that they met indescribably horrible ends. Eventually we came up with a stable ARSS design THAT DIDN’T DRIVE INSANE ANYONE WHO HEARD THAT BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL VOICE!

I stood in awe of the final prototype. The beautiful appearance of my ARSS complimented the melodious tone it emitted. My old friend said she expects this to go about as well as her colleague’s attempt to summon a succubus. That sounds like an endorsement to me!

[Percimont]

I'm disappointed to learn that despite the 500 word limit for the contest, there is still a 1000 character limit on the posts. Posts can't be edited to get around this like they can be in other threads.

As such, my first post was horribly flubbed, and I hope that my second will be accepted, though it is a horribly mangled massacre of the almost-500-word tale I had originally hoped to tell.

[Percimont]

If anyone happens to be curious, I posted the full version of my entry to my Lodestone blog.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest.../blog/2603856/