The Royal Wedding! ^_^

Basic information

• Date: 6.7.2007
• Time: 2 pm PST (10 pm GMT)
  
• Place: Chateau d'Oraguille in San d'Oria
  
• Bride: Pasifika
• Groom: Phucrabiont
• Chaperone: Donthitme

Guests should make sure to be on time, but they need to wait near the NPC Halver in the Great Hall until called into the garden by the chaperone. He'll give the guests festive crackers and some instructions before leading them into the ceremony area. Everyone should walk instead of running.

Wedding etiquette

The wedding is a solemn event, and it should be observed with respect. Some simple wedding etiquette points to remember:

• Please don't move around needlessly during the ceremony.
• No unnecessary chatting during the ceremony, please.
• Also don't cast spells, synthesize, use unnecessary items or do anything else that disturbs the ceremony.
• Fighting or bringing monsters to the wedding site is forbidden, but that probably won't be a problem, because the wedding is in the city, in Chateau d'Oraguille.

Guests will probably recieve more detailed instructions on the wedding day, but the main guidelines should be something like this: After the guests are allowed in the garden, they should settle down on the lawn on either side of the path leading to the Queen's garden. The guests will sit still during the ceremony, but at the end they stand up to clap their hands and use the crackers provided to them to congratulate the newlyweds.

Attire
There is no specific dress code for the wedding, but please do wear something decent. It'd be great if the guests would think about their gear for a bit and wear something they think looks nice and/or otherwise suits the occasion. Helmets, masks, visors, faceguards and other unsightly hedgear should not be worn, but otherwise it's ok to have headgear. Female guests shouldn't wear the Opaline or Ceremonial dress, obviously.


Other points to consider

• The guests will recieve festive crackers to be used at the end of the ceremony, so having space in your inventory would be a good idea.
• The wedding should be a pleasant experience for all, but it is a *ceremony*, so everyone must be on their best behaviour. There will be a party later, and that's the right place for any speeches, jokes and such you might have been planning.
• The number of guests in the ceremony is very limited. Only those invited by the bride, groom or chaperone can attend, so your friend who's always wanted to see a Vana'diel wedding will have to keep waiting.
• Before the wedding day, you can ask questions related to the wedding from the bride, groom and chaperone. However, on the day of the wedding and especially during the last hour before the ceremony we might be busy, so if you have something to ask, please don't leave it to the last minute. If you have to ask something during the actual ceremony, ask the chaperone.
• We've been asked whether guests should bring gifts, so here we go: We'll certainly be delighted if you bring something, but that really isn't necessary. Note that there's no time during the ceremony when gifts could be reasonably traded (as far as I know), so it would have to be done after the ceremony, at the reception or at some other point.

The party
There will be a wedding reception party after the ceremony itself in the Kokba Hostel in Aht Urghan Whitegate. We will reserve it from 3 pm PST (11 pm GMT). The number of guests is not limited there, so anyone wishing to celebrate Pasifika's and Phucrabiont's wedding is welcome. Guests are free to spread the word about the reception, but it'd be nice to know who/about how many are expected to come, so please tell us, too. ^^ (No, you can't bring your random exp party or that LS we've never heard of... It's still restricted to people we know *somehow*, like - for example - those in Europa LS.) Entry into the Kokba Hostel requires a small fee and a password, the chaperone will be able to tell you the password when the reception is about to start.

What's all this about a royal wedding?
Phucrabiont has recently earned the title "San d'Orian Royal Heir", so as far as we're concerned, this is a royal wedding. ^_^ This aspect gives titles some special weight, so it might be nice if you gave your title some thought, too. As with the clothes, you certainly don't need to go out of your way if you don't feel like it - it's just a suggestion. While checking may be quite rude, the chaperone has been charged with the duty of checking guests to see what kind of people attend this royal wedding. ^_~ (But this will take place in the reception party, not at the ceremony.) Oh, if you'd prefer not to be checked, let him know.

Troublesome trio and some interludes

The Tavnazian troubles just kept taking new turns, and Pasifika tried to keep up with them. There's always time for relaxing ferry rides, though, and other interesting experiences totally unrelated to the urgent and important matters at hand...

After some information gathering and running around there was a fight with overgrown ivy, which was a breeze with the help of General Phucrabiont, a mighty paladin Cofi, and the brave Sir Donthitme. After the fight, all four took a very relaxing cruise. ^_^

The sights were beautiful and the company very agreeable, most of the time. x) Interestingly, also Tonberrys sailed on the ferry, but they were very peaceful and quiet. Hmm… Cofi seemed to be making some sort of deal with one of them, though, motioning towards Donthitme. What could it be...

The tarudin decided to take no chances and tried to hide away, but couldn't quite hide that bobbly head of his. All that was disrupting the sweet mood, so with his mighty magic Phurabiont made them both disappear, making the ferry a very romantic place for a moment... only Phu, Pasifika, and, um, Roi the Tonberry... ^^;

The two others didn't stay away for long, and Phucrabiont surprised Cofi by presenting a wedding invitation. Ahh... it will be so soon~ ^^

In the midst of all important missions and wedding preparations, Pasifika took a moment to witness a duel on Purgonorgo Isle. She had hoped to be able to remain a spectator, but after a while she was pushed into a duel with Donthitme the blue mage, with predictable results... ,-_-, In the free-for-all that concluded the event, Pasifika was defeated a couple of times more, once by the aforementioned paladin, who seemed to do a lot of damage to her with Vorpal blade even after she was defeated... o_o;

This was Pasifika's first experience about this kind of, um, games, although she has seen some Ballista matches before. It's pretty much as painful as it looks, but when done with friends, it seems like it can be a lot of fun, too. :D

In Windurst, three tarutaru children were looking for their father. The tarus called a couple of Windurstians their daddy, and the afflicted tarutarus in turn asked Pasifika to go on some exciting adventures to prove their innocence. Why not just take responsibility for your actions for once, instead of throwing an adventurer at every problem you face, huh!? Well... none of the accused tarutarus could be their father, for reasons pointed out in the wewwy scientific diagram on the right... XD

So, about the adventure... Pasifika, and incidentally also Donthitme, were told to repair a special mirror, and of course a fight with a fearsome monster was involved... Luckily the kind and powerful paladin familiar from the previous fight was also after the same monster, and a mithra ninja provided some help. :D

The fight was fierce, but that's the way fights are supposed to be...
The really interesting and unique part of the adventure was climbing up a mountainside walking on very narrow paths... Pasifika was *certain* she'd fall down at some point and would need to start over - if she survived the monsters waiting below - but all three made it to the top! :D

The mystical Cradle of Rebirth transformed the hard-earned gem into feathers, which were needed for repairing the mirror... It couldn't get much more complicated than that - but if it was easy, they'd do it themselves and wouldn't ask Pasifika to help. (Hmm.. or would they? The citizens in all nation seem to rely on adventurers for everything, from delivering messages to doing their shopping... )
With the hard part of the adventure finished, the adventurers slid down the mountainside. Whee! The way down wasn't half as long as the climb would have suggested, though...

No matter how cute tarutaru cubs might be, the three troublemakers certainly proved that taru children can be a considerable nuisance... x)

And the world shall be saved!

Even though the ducal guards had their suspicions about Pasifika, Star Sibyl had faith in her and gave her some very important missions to take care of. :D Hmm... on second thought, maybe no one else wanted to do them... ;>_>

But Pasifika was ready to serve her country, as always, and she trekked to the cold north with Donthitme (who had been given a similar mission - they wouldn't by any chance have doubts about Pasifika's ability to handle the situation..?) and others who had agreed to help, including general Phucrabiont, of course. After a long trip through the snow fields and the dark halls of FeiYin, the adventurers reached their destination and prepared for battle, which obviously was ahead... anyone living in a place like that can't be expected to be friendly or hospitable. x)

With two summoners, two white mages, a red mage and a tarudin the adventurers didn't have very strong attack power, but the avatars certainly made the party look very impressive... The evil lich and its undead minions fell after a short but intense fight, and Pasifika learned what had happened to the seal she'd been sent to check on. Pasifika and Donthitme raced back to Windurst to tell the disturbing news.

(Pasifika won! That's why Donthitme had trouble getting the next mission at first, Pasifika was simply better suited to the job, right..? :o Or perhaps his less-than-respectful behaviour towards her holiness the Star Sibyl had something to do with it... x)

The others went each their own way to tend to some no doubt important matters, but Phucrabiont offered to accompany Pasifika and Donthitme back to the north. Hmm... couldn't they just have sent the orders via some magic devise rather than have the adventurers run back and forth..? Oh well, that's why teleports were invented, I suppose.

This time the three brave adventurers entered the forbidding castle Zvahl... The creepy place had more than the allowed amount of dark corridors, scary monsters and finicky teleporting devices, but Phucrabiont led the party safely to the most sinister of the gates.

Oh, except for that time when some goblins spotted Pasifika casting her invisible and killed her on the spot. -_-; What had the Star Sibyl been thinking, sending lil' Pasifika to a place like that! o_O; Luckily Phucrabiont had no trouble defeating the goblins, although quite a few of them joined the fray before the adventurers could finally continue their journey.

The closer the adventurers came to the final gate, the more exited Pasifika became - and a bit nervous, too, to tell the truth. Finally the three reached it and entered, and found the notorious Shadow Lord waiting for them inside! He towered above the adventurers, but came crashing down in the end and some more shocking truths were revealed to the wide-eyed adventurers. And so, through Pasifika's courage and selfless sacrifice, peace returned to the land... ^_^

Um, yeah, right... Pasifika did her best and the all-too-brave little tarudin actually seemed useful in the battle, but it was General Phucrabiont who saved the world today! D: Let's keep that a secret, though... Star Sibyl will smile so~ nicely at Pasifika when she tells her holiness she's taken care of the problem - and surely the Star Sibyl has enough worries without Pasifika telling her she had a San d'Orian help her with this very secret mission of great national importance... ^^;

Free Bahamut!

Pasifika has gotten involved in the matters of the far-away Tavnazia, and already had some interesting adventures there. Now she wanted to investigate some very mysterious events there, but first an old knight asked her to join his knighthood - well, why not... He told her to go check a lookout tower in Lufaise Meadows, and that seemed reasonable enough. All seemed clear, until Pasifika sensed a sinister presence... yes, there was no doubt about it, an orc was shooting her in the back with arrows! D:

Pasifika defeated the evil Splinterspine Grukjuk (as well as some other monsters while she was there) with a little help from her tarudin friend, and the old knight was very pleased - he even made Pasifika a squire. :D

After that little excercise - and a good deal of waiting for people to arrive - Pasifika took on a more serious task. Fortunately Phucrabiont came to help her, and when the others finally arrived, they all chased Prishe and the troublemaker-tarus to a place where reality seemed to be, um, feeling not so well. Shiny dimensional displacements and floating little islands looked quite nice, actually, but the monsters lurking around were less than friendly. -_-; Vultures didn't attack the party, but some came around to eye the fallen adventurers hungrily. Well, the adventurers didn't stay down for long, but there was a rather tough fight ahead...

Some evil guys were trying to catch Bahamut, and Pasifika rushed to the rescue with her friends. Ok, it would make a very impressive pet, but... x)

The first battle was just to test the strength of the enemy and fine tune the strategy, so it was naturally lost, but Pasifika was the last one standing! It wasn't entirely because of her own skills, though, but rather because the ninja she'd been paired up with was very good and Pasifika's mp lasted the longest...

After three out of six adventurers were defeated, two of the enemies were after Phucrabiont, and he kited them around for a while even though he was a white mage - fun and excitement! x)

Round two lasted for a while, but the fight wasn't particularily difficult, and so the plan to capture Bahamut was foiled - fly, you're free! :D

Thanks are in order for all that participated! /bow ^^
The plot thickened, and the adventurers found themselves in Bastok trying to solve the puzzle of airships and hooded figures... all leads pointed to Jeuno, so Pasifika headed there, but she was in for a surprise... o_O;

Somehow there had been a misunderstanding of some sort - what else could it be? - because upon arriving in Jeuno, Pasifika was greeted by the ducal guards, and not in a good way. Aldo did prevent the guards from arresting Pasifika right away, but the situation can't be very good if you need to be defended by the leader of the Tenshodo... The ever-hyperactive Prishe urged Pasifika to go and clear her reputation, and what else could she do?!

So... with all the grace of a soon-to-be royal bride Pasifika entered the ducal palace to convince everyone of her innocence. Apparently it won't be easy... but Pasifika will do her best. /psych

Sea tails and other stories

Pasifika has been walking on clouds lately, bacause the long-awaited wedding day has been finally confirmed. ^_^

However, she was shaken out of her daydreams when Linathra offered to go adventuring with her. There were a couple of jobs both wanted to unlock, and some other exciting things to do, so they started by visiting the Mithra Chieftainness in Windurst Woods. She told them to seek out tigers and they did, but... who would want to become a ranger to hunt these beautiful big cats? :o

The one Lina and Pasifika found was old and feeble, looking for a final resting place... (/cheer) Old Sabertooth, you can make it! And (/comfort)... ;_;

Back in Windurst, Perih Vashai explained how it's all so noble and um... fanged, so it must be ok... No time to try any rangering, though, other things were awaiting...
In Jeuno, a minstrel was feeling very depressed in the Merry Minstrel tavern, and the Mithra behind the counter suggested a visit to an inscribed stone in Buburimu.

The song inscribed there was touching, and Lina and Pasifika rushed back to Jeuno to tell the minstrel about it - but he wasn't very impressed. The other song stone in Valkurm Dunes was more inspiring, it seems, but Pasifika was kind of lost in thought there.... ah, sweet memories... ^_^

In the Dunes Pasifika also raised an unlucky adventurer and dug up a chocobo treasure. Lina and Pasifika weren't in a hurry, so they took the ferry to Mhaura - and back to Selbina, and then Mhaura, and... ^^; They were hoping to see the infamous undead pirates and retrieve an important charm, but the pirates were taking it easy... When they finally attacked, Lina and Pasifika were waiting. "Hey, pirates! Hurry up and board this ferry already!"

The fighting wasn't as fierce as Pasifika had expected, but it had been a while since she last saw pirates, so no wonder they seemed so terrible in her memories... ^^; Lina and Pasifika defeated a good deal of the skeletal pirates, but only got two bonechips before the pirates retreated and their ship disappeared into the mist where it had come from. :/

After their first attack, the pirates went on a vacation altogether, and things looked very peaceful - most of the time. There was a bit of rain at times, some morning mist, beautiful sunsets... and a Sea Horror climbed on the deck to say hi. o_o;

The Sea Horror brought back some memories as well, of a time not so long ago when Pasifika had defeated it with a certain skilled red mage... Since that RDM wasn't around, Pasifika kind of hoped the Sea Horror wouldn't remember, but those mean looks told otherwise... best to stay out of reach. ^^;

After parting ways with Lina, Pasifika headed out to Altepa Desert with her adventuring fellow Romidiant. It wasn't a very fruitful trip, but not a completely wasted one either, although Romidiant had something very important to take care of and he left in the middle of a battle. -_-; Well, Pasifika warped away as well, no point in fighting all alone. There were some scary-looking monsters lurking nearby....