2006 Starlight Celebration

2006 Starlight Celebration




Ah yes, it's that time of the year again where children, and children at heart, whisper their dreams and wishes to the stars--it's time for the Starlight Celebration! The people of Vana'diel are busy trimming up their towns with festive decorations, all to ring in this exciting event.

What's this? Something is going on in the courtyard! Let's see if the Moogles can fill us in...

*The Starlight Celebration will be held from Monday, December 18 to Sunday, December 31.

Master, Master!
The Starlight Celebration is here again, kupo!



The lights! The sweets! The presents!
Just thinking about the fun keeps me awake all night, kupo!

............Ummm...
......Hrmmm............
Alright, you got me! I just can't keep a secret away from my favorite adventurer...

As you already know, the Starlight Celebration will begin in a few days. But what you don't know is that we Moogles are in a pickle, kupo. The trees that we had made for this year's festivities have vanished from Windurst! And what's worse, a terrifying treant has suddenly shown up at the Dhalmel Farm and is wreaking havoc on the locals, kupo!

Come to think of it, I haven't heard from my brothers and sisters working in Bastok and San d'Oria. What if there are crazy trees running amok in their towns as well...?



Wait a minute... Treants in the towns...?

Didn't something like this happen a few years ago? There was some kind of freak accident at the Rhinostery in Windurst, right? If this is the same thing, we're in biiig trouble!

Anyway, as long as these freaks of nature are trouncing about our towns, everybody will be too scared to come out and take part in the Starlight Celebration's festivities, kupo! Even the smilebringers have said that they won't pass out their presents until they're sure the children will be safe.



Ah, what to do? What to do!?
The treant won't go away, kupo!

Well, I guess it has come down to this...
My colleagues and I must take up arms to protect the city from fear!
Oh, don't worry. We'll do all the work. But, we sure could use a cheer or two from our humble masters, kupo!

Event Period
After the 12/19/2006 (Tuesday) maintenance, until 12/31/06 (Sunday) 24:00.

Event Locations
During the event, in the below areas, a moogle will be ferociously fighting a treant wandering in the city.

Northern San d'Oria / Bastok Market / Windurst Woods

Event Stores
The below areas will have some Starlight Festival-related items for sale temporarily during the event.
- Northern San d'Oria D-8
- Port Bastok L-8
- Windurst Waters G-10


2006 Starlight Celebration: How To

First and foremost, TURN ON EMOTE FILTER. Trust me on this, or suffer from the spam of your chatlog passing by your eyes faster than the speed of sound. Also go to a moogle and buy a hat for 10k if you don't already have one.

Start out talking to any of the Dream Gear-wearing NPCs of any of the three regions for the event.

North San d'Oria: Charmealaut, F-7
Windurt Woods: Atagei-Portagei, H-8
Bastok Markets: Christina, D-11

They will give you a present for the kiddies, trade it to any child npc you can find; you'll know if it is an ok NPC by getting a message similar to:

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
You've brought barrelfulls of joy to the children of Vana'diel!

After that go find the tree! (You'll know the tree has spawned because the NPC with Dream Gear will disappear)
Once you find the tree spam "/cheer" it to death like everyone else around you, until he vanishes.
Go talk to the NPC and he will tell you to find the fake smile bringer.
So..... find the Fake Smile Bringer; they change each time. He'll be wearing a Dream Hat and when you click on him, a moogle will spawn.
Go talk to the orginal NPC and he'll give you a reward.

Sandy: Dream Platter
Windy: Dream Stocking
Bastok: Dream Coffer
Dream robe
Dream robe +1
Various fireworks


Dream Coffer and Dream Platter


Dream Stocking


My MH ^.~

If you recieve fireworks as a reward, that means you have't recieved enough love from the kiddies. Just keep trading them presents (either the rare/ex one the NPC gives you, or the fireworks) If you trade them all, the kids will love you. You can check your love-fame by talking to the NPC. If you recieve enough love, the NPC will offer to send you to another nation, so you can continue the event.

Basically, you want to get all three furnishing items, and then try for the dream robes.

Cleric's Duckbills {All right!} Drama {No thanks}

I am now the proud owner of Cleric's Duckbills.

Rare Exclusive
Type: Artifact
Slot: Feet
Def: 15
MP: 18
MND: 5
Enhancing Magic Skill: 10
Enmity: -1
Jobs: White Mage
Races: ALL
Level to Use: 71

We did Dynamis-Windurst on Tuesday. We were almost at the end, and nothing had dropped yet when a Warrior's Mask dropped. Altemus won the lot, and we had maybe 20 minutes left. Then out of nowhere, Cleric's Duckbills drop. I nearly shit myself!!! Kieris, Shatow, and Khiinroye all lotted.....and then I did.. and my lot was a whopping 961!!!!! I was literally jumping in my chair!!!


But all that glory was totally nullified by my noobishness. We had like 10 minutes left, and it was time to walk by the House-of-Death. I had just finished complaining to Vaul about how laggy it was for me (my sound was skipping, and I saw a constant loop of characters walking-then-blinking, over and over) yet I still tried to walk down the path....my screen stops moving, music stops, 3 seconds later, I find myself auto-ran into the side of the house and being pwned to death by an angry mob of yags.....to then see everyone else around me die. No time to revive and get flag. -.- Let me tell you how horrible I felt. Talk about rain on my parade of just getting that wonderful AF drop. I know people were depending on getting that flag, so that added to my feeling of lousiness. I apologized to everyone in linkshell, and I think they are ok with it. I just felt soo soo bad!

Now for the drama.

Vaul apparently is bored with FFXI....He bought WoW about a month ago and started playing it and just likes the idea of getting away from FFXI every-so-often. He feels that FFXI is more of a time-sink and WoW isn't, plus WoW is easier to solo. Whatever... I'm not really into WoW, nor paying another online subscription. Lately he has become more iritable with FFXI and last night took the cake. We did a few times exploring Appagago Reef, so I suggested us doing an Assault Mission. Long story short, let's just say it didn't go well and Vaul and I got in a fight, to then where he exclaimed in LS that he wouldn't be on for 2 weeks. He is taking a break.

Fine. So be it. I was very mad at him yesterday, mainly for how he talked to me, and for the fact that there are a lot of LS events scheduled this weekend which now he won't be participating in. We were supposed to continue with CoP on friday. The LS is doing their first Dynamis-Valkurm on Saturday, and I was really excited to participate! Afterwards, we're supposed to do a KSNM99: Horns of War. And now Vaul won't be there. It puts me in a situation, because I look forward to playing. I don't have a lot of money, so this is what I do for entertainment. I don't want to jeprodize our relationhsip over a stupid game though. /sigh I basically have to choose this weekened what I plan to do: Play game or not play game. Meh. I don't want to worry about it right now.

Long time no update

Nothing much to report.... had a little bit of drama in the Linkshell (when isn't there drama anywhere). Quik had been feeling some pressure and decided to let it be known. Long story short, Quik is no longer a part of rockage and he is greatly missed. Me and Vaul still hang out with him, but it's still not the same.
We have been progressing with Promy missions every friday. It won't be long until we have sea access!

Friday, 12/1/06: Promies: Chapter 5-3: Three Forks
Mine Shaft #2716: 5 Moblins
Boneyard Gully: 3 Mithra

Saturday, 12/2/06: Took a break from game and didn't log on once.

Sunday, 12/3/06: Sky
Brigandish Blade: pwned 3 times
Faust: pwned
Mother Globe: pwned
Steam Cleaner: pwned
Ullikummi: pwned!!!!!
Zipacna: pwned
Seiryu: pwned twice
Suzaku: pwned

During all this sky pwnage, I managed to find 2 coffers, so I acquired my Ru'Ann Gardnes map and my Ve'Lugannon Palace map. We also got Xolotl sunday evening. All in all, it was a very busy weekend!!!! =) Not much more to update on. We're going to try Dynams-Valkurm on saturday, and we finally get to hang out with our ole buddy Kirin on Sunday. Woot woot!