Alas, it is sadly less interesting than the proposed headline!
Since the game went online (and, who knows, maybe in the beta), there's always been an NPC standing in South San d'Oria named Varchet. He's a compulsive gambler and you can go on a quest where, at the request of his coworkers, you try to beat him at gambling and send him back to work. He never actually leaves, but whatever. ALWAYS THERE.
Yesterday I logged and was running through town and notice, Varchet is gone! He wasn't at his job, either, and I have to doubt a "tummy ache" would keep him from terrorizing the ranks of players with his please for a gambling partner.
And why would a Moogle go to replace him? Don't they have more important things to do? And you can't gamble with the Moogle, because the only thing he says is "Varchet has a tummy ache, so he's currently not here, kupo."
Clearly it is a wild Moogle who has taken it upon himself to eat poor Varchet, and he is now on the lookout for his next victim. I think this calls for an NPC protection program. We'll have members in every town and city on the lookout for man-eating (well, Elvaan-eating, in this case) Moogles.
(Actually, Square's pulled him for a while due to "improper use (http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news11333.shtml)." You can win 10 WHOLE GIL - which approximates to nothing, given the economy in FFXI - from him, so perhaps some people are bored enough to play him as a get rich not-at-all-quickly scheme.)
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Since the game went online (and, who knows, maybe in the beta), there's always been an NPC standing in South San d'Oria named Varchet. He's a compulsive gambler and you can go on a quest where, at the request of his coworkers, you try to beat him at gambling and send him back to work. He never actually leaves, but whatever. ALWAYS THERE.
Yesterday I logged and was running through town and notice, Varchet is gone! He wasn't at his job, either, and I have to doubt a "tummy ache" would keep him from terrorizing the ranks of players with his please for a gambling partner.
And why would a Moogle go to replace him? Don't they have more important things to do? And you can't gamble with the Moogle, because the only thing he says is "Varchet has a tummy ache, so he's currently not here, kupo."
Clearly it is a wild Moogle who has taken it upon himself to eat poor Varchet, and he is now on the lookout for his next victim. I think this calls for an NPC protection program. We'll have members in every town and city on the lookout for man-eating (well, Elvaan-eating, in this case) Moogles.
(Actually, Square's pulled him for a while due to "improper use (http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news11333.shtml)." You can win 10 WHOLE GIL - which approximates to nothing, given the economy in FFXI - from him, so perhaps some people are bored enough to play him as a get rich not-at-all-quickly scheme.)