Summary: The Moogle King primal. The Ascian emissary. Minfilia’s mother. Scion HQ moves.
Note: this session is all back to the main story. Will aim to finish up the Hildibrand/Gilgamesh quest next session.
The Price of Principles
-Back in Scion HQ. A new primal has appeared. It’s probably Bahamut.
-But we’re tabling that for now. The Scions have resource issues, which is causing problems. We’re supposed to be neutral, but some Ul’dah businesses are offering to support us only if we help them take out their enemies. The support is crucial, but we don’t want to compromise our integrity.
-The Scions themselves mostly lean towards keeping independent, but it’s kind of hilarious how Y’shola is open to just selling our services. (“They were such good gifts. Like, abandon-your-principles good!”)
-Alphinaud’s solution: we leave Ul’dah. The Syndicate – the consortium of Ul’dah’s most powerful traders – will continue to pressure us to work for them if we stay.
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The Lost Singer
-Minfilia is reluctant to leave. Alphinaud thinks this stems from her mother, F’lhaminn. She was a popular singer who died in the Calamity, but rumors circulate that she yet lives. Maybe if we disprove these rumors, Minfilia will literally/figuratively move on.
-The first rumor is that “F’lhaminn” was giving singing lessons in Costa del Sol.
-People have seen this woman – but more, smelled her. She apparently has some ghastly perfume. Is she a zombie?
-I find her. She’s called “F’lhaminn” – is it really her?
OH SHIT IT REALLY IS HER! She’s been in hiding. And is working on a particular perfume. And is worried about being hunted by certain people. For reasons?
-We help her finish the perfume and return to Ul’dah.
AWWWW IT’S A SWEET REUNION BETWEEN MOTHER AND DAUGHTER! The perfume was a gift for her daughter.
-Minfilia was adopted. Her father was a member of the Ala Mhigan resistance. She worried the Empire would hunt her too.
-Now reunited, Minfilia is ready to move the Scions to the boondocks of Mor Dhona.
-The Scions will also no longer be semi-secret. Fully open now.
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Hail to the King
-A new primal has emerged in Gridania. Someone who was last sensed five years ago. Must be Bahamut.
-Wait. I think I’m wrong. They’re sending me to meet moogles who are in charge. No frigging way are moogles in charge of Bahamut.
-I meet a delegation, with Kuplo Kop the moogle.
“It would seem that Good King Moggle Mog XII has returned to Eorzea.” Soooo not Bahamut.
-Some Moogle mythology: they once served the gods in heaven. The gods became argumentative and unpleasant though, so the Good King led his moogles out of heaven and into the realm of man.
But heaven was super far from the realm of man. The Good King held a long rope from heaven to earth while the moogles climbed down. Alas, Good King Moggle Mog XII - “may his courageous sacrifice never be forgotten” – had to stay in heaven. Nobody to hold the rope for him.
Note: this session is all back to the main story. Will aim to finish up the Hildibrand/Gilgamesh quest next session.
The Price of Principles
-Back in Scion HQ. A new primal has appeared. It’s probably Bahamut.
-But we’re tabling that for now. The Scions have resource issues, which is causing problems. We’re supposed to be neutral, but some Ul’dah businesses are offering to support us only if we help them take out their enemies. The support is crucial, but we don’t want to compromise our integrity.
-The Scions themselves mostly lean towards keeping independent, but it’s kind of hilarious how Y’shola is open to just selling our services. (“They were such good gifts. Like, abandon-your-principles good!”)
-Alphinaud’s solution: we leave Ul’dah. The Syndicate – the consortium of Ul’dah’s most powerful traders – will continue to pressure us to work for them if we stay.
---
The Lost Singer
-Minfilia is reluctant to leave. Alphinaud thinks this stems from her mother, F’lhaminn. She was a popular singer who died in the Calamity, but rumors circulate that she yet lives. Maybe if we disprove these rumors, Minfilia will literally/figuratively move on.
-The first rumor is that “F’lhaminn” was giving singing lessons in Costa del Sol.
-People have seen this woman – but more, smelled her. She apparently has some ghastly perfume. Is she a zombie?
-I find her. She’s called “F’lhaminn” – is it really her?
OH SHIT IT REALLY IS HER! She’s been in hiding. And is working on a particular perfume. And is worried about being hunted by certain people. For reasons?
-We help her finish the perfume and return to Ul’dah.
AWWWW IT’S A SWEET REUNION BETWEEN MOTHER AND DAUGHTER! The perfume was a gift for her daughter.
-Minfilia was adopted. Her father was a member of the Ala Mhigan resistance. She worried the Empire would hunt her too.
-Now reunited, Minfilia is ready to move the Scions to the boondocks of Mor Dhona.
-The Scions will also no longer be semi-secret. Fully open now.
---
Hail to the King
-A new primal has emerged in Gridania. Someone who was last sensed five years ago. Must be Bahamut.
-Wait. I think I’m wrong. They’re sending me to meet moogles who are in charge. No frigging way are moogles in charge of Bahamut.
-I meet a delegation, with Kuplo Kop the moogle.
“It would seem that Good King Moggle Mog XII has returned to Eorzea.” Soooo not Bahamut.
-Some Moogle mythology: they once served the gods in heaven. The gods became argumentative and unpleasant though, so the Good King led his moogles out of heaven and into the realm of man.
But heaven was super far from the realm of man. The Good King held a long rope from heaven to earth while the moogles climbed down. Alas, Good King Moggle Mog XII - “may his courageous sacrifice never be forgotten” – had to stay in heaven. Nobody to hold the rope for him.
-So while this was once just myth, a bunch of moogles wished really hard
on some crystals, and Good King Moggle Mog XII is now manifest.
The Mogglesguard (BLESS THIS GAME THAT “THE MOGGLESGUARD” IS A FACTION) are summoning this protector to defend their land.
-These moogles are ride-or-die for Good King Moggle Mog XII. They want to purge the forest of his enemies, so it’s time for us to take out a king.
-I go into the fight with three friends. We first see the Mogglesguard flitting about. Each has a different job. Like, bard, white mage, etc. We take them out in small groups.
-They all then dance together and summon the Good King himself.
He’s a giant moogle with a crown and scepter. We have to take out all the Mogglesguard at once and then Good King Moggle Mog himself.
Up until now, the music has been interesting enough. But holy shit. This second phase, we get a fully-voiced song that’s basically “This is Halloween” with moogles. I can’t really make out anything beyond the chorus of “Good King Moggle Moggle, Good King Mog! Something somethingsomething something!”
[Later edit: the lyrics are better than I could have hoped for. It introduces all the Mooglesguard with a cute-yet-threatening stanza. For example, “Pukla Puki plays with fire/Poms a-burning on her pyre” (she’s the black mage), and “Puksi Piko likes her buddies big/To sing a little song and dance a little jig” (the bard).
The next section of it focuses on the dread judgment of the Good King himself.]
It’s SO GREAT.
-We defeat the Good King and his Mooglesguard and regroup in Gridania.
-So the Good King was a primal. Not worshipped the way the other primals were, but still given form by faith. He could come back.
-The Ascians taught the beast tribes about summoning primals. The Ascians are behind this too.
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Emissary Elidibus
-The final preparations for the Scions’ move are complete. New HQ soon.
-A bit later, we hear a scream from Minfilia. She’s been hurt.
-I get an Echo flashback to see what happened to her. An Ascian in white robes entered.
???: “I shall not judge you harshly. The fault lies with your forebears. It has been… millennia.”
-He calls himself an “Emissary.”
-Tataru enters the room, but she sees only Minfilia. The Emissary can only been seen by those who have ‘the gift and the knowledge.” Something about the unplumbed powers of the Echo.
We already know the Echo can see the past, and protects against tempering/Primal brainwashing. Apparently, there’s even more to the Echo for us to discover.
The Mogglesguard (BLESS THIS GAME THAT “THE MOGGLESGUARD” IS A FACTION) are summoning this protector to defend their land.
-These moogles are ride-or-die for Good King Moggle Mog XII. They want to purge the forest of his enemies, so it’s time for us to take out a king.
-I go into the fight with three friends. We first see the Mogglesguard flitting about. Each has a different job. Like, bard, white mage, etc. We take them out in small groups.
-They all then dance together and summon the Good King himself.
He’s a giant moogle with a crown and scepter. We have to take out all the Mogglesguard at once and then Good King Moggle Mog himself.
Up until now, the music has been interesting enough. But holy shit. This second phase, we get a fully-voiced song that’s basically “This is Halloween” with moogles. I can’t really make out anything beyond the chorus of “Good King Moggle Moggle, Good King Mog! Something somethingsomething something!”
[Later edit: the lyrics are better than I could have hoped for. It introduces all the Mooglesguard with a cute-yet-threatening stanza. For example, “Pukla Puki plays with fire/Poms a-burning on her pyre” (she’s the black mage), and “Puksi Piko likes her buddies big/To sing a little song and dance a little jig” (the bard).
The next section of it focuses on the dread judgment of the Good King himself.]
It’s SO GREAT.
-We defeat the Good King and his Mooglesguard and regroup in Gridania.
-So the Good King was a primal. Not worshipped the way the other primals were, but still given form by faith. He could come back.
-The Ascians taught the beast tribes about summoning primals. The Ascians are behind this too.
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Emissary Elidibus
-The final preparations for the Scions’ move are complete. New HQ soon.
-A bit later, we hear a scream from Minfilia. She’s been hurt.
-I get an Echo flashback to see what happened to her. An Ascian in white robes entered.
???: “I shall not judge you harshly. The fault lies with your forebears. It has been… millennia.”
-He calls himself an “Emissary.”
-Tataru enters the room, but she sees only Minfilia. The Emissary can only been seen by those who have ‘the gift and the knowledge.” Something about the unplumbed powers of the Echo.
We already know the Echo can see the past, and protects against tempering/Primal brainwashing. Apparently, there’s even more to the Echo for us to discover.
-Minfilia moves to stop the Emissary from leaving and he lashes out with
dark magic at her. We then hear a shadowy voice within the Emissary
speaking. One of the possessing Ascians I suppose.
“Was it also by Her hand that you survived the Ardor, I wonder?” Not sure what the Ardor is, but the “Her” in this case must be Hydaelyn.
-The Echo ends. Back to the present.
-I find the white-robed Ascian still in town. He wanted to meet me. Asks me to follow him outside of town, and even tells me that I’ll be attacked on the way following him as a test.
Something about how direct he is and (relatively) on-the-level reminds me of Rubicante from FFIV.
-Demonic and Ascian enemies attack me along the way as he said. At each encounter stop, I get the message: “You are being judged…”
-He still claims to be an Emissary, one who does not act directly. Asks not to be harmed. Lahabrea is a warrior, much different.
-He claims that Hydaelyn’s influence is fading.
“I am Elidibus, emissary – bearer of the word of the one true god. And we shall meet again.” Must be Zodiark’s emissary.
-I report into Minfilia. She reveals a bit more about her dad, Warburton. We knew he was a member of the Ala Mhigan resistance to the Empire, but not much more. Apparently, he was a double agent. The Empire thought he was their mole inside the resistance when he was really feeding the misinformation.
-When he died 15 years ago, he left behind his journal documenting the Primals for Minfilia, which has guided her. She asks me to give it to Urianger, a Scion who will be staying behind in this old HQ.
-I pass it on, and now we’re ready to finish the move.
-I head to the new HQ in Mor Dhona, a place called Rising Stones. That fresh HQ smell.
-Alas, new trouble arises. Our allies, the Students of Baldesion, are not responding to our contacts. Minfilia fears it’s Ascians.
MINFILIA: “Krile… where are you?” WAIT LOL KRILE??? ALL THE FFV FEELS RN
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Ascian HQ
-Scene change to the Ascians. Elidibus walks into Ascian HQ, and an Ascian named Nabriales is surprised. “Your intercession was not foretold.”
-Interesting. The Ascians have aren’t a monolith.
“The veil shall be lifted from their eyes, and at long last, they shall see.”
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Next time: Seeing what else the Ascians have in store. If time allows, finishing the Hildibrand questline.
“Was it also by Her hand that you survived the Ardor, I wonder?” Not sure what the Ardor is, but the “Her” in this case must be Hydaelyn.
-The Echo ends. Back to the present.
-I find the white-robed Ascian still in town. He wanted to meet me. Asks me to follow him outside of town, and even tells me that I’ll be attacked on the way following him as a test.
Something about how direct he is and (relatively) on-the-level reminds me of Rubicante from FFIV.
-Demonic and Ascian enemies attack me along the way as he said. At each encounter stop, I get the message: “You are being judged…”
-He still claims to be an Emissary, one who does not act directly. Asks not to be harmed. Lahabrea is a warrior, much different.
-He claims that Hydaelyn’s influence is fading.
“I am Elidibus, emissary – bearer of the word of the one true god. And we shall meet again.” Must be Zodiark’s emissary.
-I report into Minfilia. She reveals a bit more about her dad, Warburton. We knew he was a member of the Ala Mhigan resistance to the Empire, but not much more. Apparently, he was a double agent. The Empire thought he was their mole inside the resistance when he was really feeding the misinformation.
-When he died 15 years ago, he left behind his journal documenting the Primals for Minfilia, which has guided her. She asks me to give it to Urianger, a Scion who will be staying behind in this old HQ.
-I pass it on, and now we’re ready to finish the move.
-I head to the new HQ in Mor Dhona, a place called Rising Stones. That fresh HQ smell.
-Alas, new trouble arises. Our allies, the Students of Baldesion, are not responding to our contacts. Minfilia fears it’s Ascians.
MINFILIA: “Krile… where are you?” WAIT LOL KRILE??? ALL THE FFV FEELS RN
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Ascian HQ
-Scene change to the Ascians. Elidibus walks into Ascian HQ, and an Ascian named Nabriales is surprised. “Your intercession was not foretold.”
-Interesting. The Ascians have aren’t a monolith.
“The veil shall be lifted from their eyes, and at long last, they shall see.”
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Next time: Seeing what else the Ascians have in store. If time allows, finishing the Hildibrand questline.
