“Simply speak...” – Request for more in-depth contents

[NefarioCall]

Again, some of you might notice the MAYBE 300 people logged onto your server right now.
Leap ahead 5 years with all the new players and player turnover.
These Goobbues will be one of the rarest sights in all of Eorzea. Just sayin.

[Ashthra]

"For all your time and patience sticking with us for this long, accept this humble gift from us, to you.

"Oh, but before you can receive the gift, you're going to have to bribe four to six other people to run to the middle of Podunk, Nowhere to summon a mob that you'll kill in fifteen seconds (because that's what pretty much all group battles in this game really amount to). Once you're done that, you can run back to town and mash through more text you'll never read to get your mount faster (because more reading means less DOING STUFF TIMEZ)...and then complain you weren't given enough to do. Sound fair?"

[Allistar]

For those of you who spammed through it all~

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Wandering Minstrel:
Ne'er till land consumes sun can sea bear moons,
Heavens spew crimson flame, hells seep black dooms.

I have walked the four corners of Hydaelyn, from the Gardens
of Xarakish, to the floating lakes of Voor Sian Siran, but never in my travels have I encountered such a fell prophecy. One need not to be an oracle to prevues the great ill which casts a shadow across this forsaken realm.

Yet… perhaps there is still hope for Eorzea.

When I arrived in this land, I was beset with peril day and night- forced to endure countless trials which tested my mind, my body, and my faith. And I am not ashamed to admit that I would have faltered, had it not been for the help of a handful of nameless adventures much like yourself. Honest men and women who proffered the hand of friendship to a weary soul and led him safe from the darkness.

I pondered long over how I could repay the kindness shown me…only to find the answer in the most unlikely of places- the final verse of the selfsame song that had so haunted me since my first days in Eorzea:

Souls from aether far, strangers from strange lands,
Yester with thine eyes, morrow by thine hands.

Had the gods led me to Eorzea for a reason? Might I serve a higher purpose, through which lives might be saved and order restored to the realm? I hoped that it might be so. For what better use may a man's life be put to than to serve as an agent of divine intervention? …But in what manner was I to play my part?

Seeking an answer, I prayed for twelve days and twelve nights until at last I collapsed of exhaustion. However, it was this moment that I was blessed with a vision- a single-horned beast leading a flock of chocobos from a burning forest. When I awoke from my revert, I knew what I must do.

Once, long ago, I was summoned to a wealthy satrapy far to the east to play in the royal court. When my performance was complete, the High Satrap was so moved that he offered me anything I desired in exchange for one more song. I humbly accepted, and for my reward requested knowledge of a secret that had been kept by the satrapy's military for generations- their method of taming gobbles.

Needles to say, the High Satrap was initially reluctant to grant me that which I had requested, but being an honest man, ever conscious of his obligation to set an example before his subjects, he soon relented and acquiesced to my terms. Since that time, I have kept his nation's secret, but now believe that as the sixth sun wanes and seventh moon waxes, it is mete that I should pass it on in hopes that the knowledge may be made to serve us all.

<<<You obtain a key item: a goobbue horn.>>>

With this horn, may you lead us from despair, and help usher in a new age. I put my trust in you, adventurer. Do not let me down.

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Personally I was much more interested in his mentions of the Gardens
of Xarakish and the floating lakes of Voor Sian Siran because it kinda reminds me of Sky/Sea from XI-
It seems a bit weird he's wanting to pass knowledge. Like he thinks he'll die in the next era or something and the fact he thinks that knowing how to summoning a goobbie will help us EL OH EL. (I'm all for it if my goobue can help me build my home faster in 2.0 /joke)

But who knows take what you will from it and Enjoy~ x3

So after reading this I'm think about the gardens and the floating lakes and also the satrapy part...which hints at ancient persia...look at how we ride the gobbue mounts...it may also indicate future references to things from the far east as in Indian, Persian or even Anciet World mythology...just my thought.

[Jericho]

great, what did he say, i dont remember.

Wandering Minstrel

[Alkoun]

A single-horned beast leading a flock of chocobos from a burning forest...

The shroud in flames?

[Mireille]

Personally I was much more interested in his mentions of the Gardens
of Xarakish and the floating lakes of Voor Sian Siran because it kinda reminds me of Sky/Sea from XI-

I really hope those are zones in 2.0 or an expansion.

It seems a bit weird he's wanting to pass knowledge. Like he thinks he'll die in the next era or something and the fact he thinks that knowing how to summoning a goobbie will help us EL OH EL. (I'm all for it if my goobue can help me build my home faster in 2.0 /joke)

The last line would seem to imply that we will play a role at least. Then again I guess we all probably knew that already XD

Oh and awesome pic in your sig

One thing that occurs to me having read this. It was much much easier to read that in this form than in the chat window in game. Long text like that should either pop up in its own window with a good background color to make reading it easier on the eyes, or be written to a journal that would let us read it in a friendlier format than the chat window. The text itself was worth reading but I found myself skipping past it in game because it was so hard on the eyes in the current chat format.

[Zezlar]

Floating lakes sound epic. Please put them in.

[Kraggy]

So why should I be limited to one bird as a mount?

XI only had chocobos and I don't recall anyone playing that game whining there was only one mount.

[SnowMoonsong]

Pop in to say Thanks for the mount, Great gift, thank you
Spent an hour yesterday running back and forth between Limsa and Skull Valley and enjoyed every minute of it, especially when someone on the chokobo started racing me. I love how we can just jump the fences but chokobos cant lol

[Venat]

What were forgetting here is this Mount that they added was for limited time only to obtain. If they added a Quest for getting it, it be a bigger waste of there time cus the quest wouldnt be around after Ver2.0.

What we should say to Yoshi and Dev team is no more limited time b/s please. We want as much content for PS3 release for everyone.

We are paying you so we are the first ones to access NEW Content, so no more limited time gifts please.