Coming Up In The Vana'diel Headlines

[jecca_mehlota]

SAN D'ORIAN GAMBLER EATEN BY WILD MOOGLE



Explanation, such as it is, given only to the curious.

... back to flashcards. Or not.

Aniko, I swear, you're not even online right now, but I need to get some sort of restraint against you and my Brain working together, because you encourage it and it is currently refusing to shut up and let me do my schoolwork.

I have spent, literally, the entire day composing scenes for "WST-Live!" and it is ALL YOUR FAULT. If (either) Prowl murders (either) Jazz by the end, it will be completely justified, AND THAT WILL BE YOUR FAULT, TOO.

Despite - or possibly to spite - this, I have instead been working on "GT" all afternoon.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

...I have to admit that I'm curious.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

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.)

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

..."pleas for a gambling partner." That is an annoying mistake.

[rionaleonhart]

Ahahaha! I think I'm going to subscribe to the 'eaten by a Moogle' theory; it's certainly more interesting than the 'improper use' one.

Although I've just realised how very innuendo-y 'improper use of Varchet' sounds.

PERHAPS THE TUMMY ACHE MEANS THAT HE'S PREGNANT.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought, too.

... That is horrifying.

...But some people honestly can't tell male Elvaan from female Elvaan. (He is going to be put back, but only after "counter measures have been enacted.")

...I am never going to look at Varchet the same way ever again. hee!

[ineptmagicuser.livejournal.com]

That is so great XD tiny Prowl and Jazz ftw ^^! I'm glad to know the corruption doesn't just go one way >D.

Oh look multiple replys because I suck and don't post it the right way x_x /deletes.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

You're not corrupting me! You have failed to convert me to... most things. Naruto, Harry Potter, and One Piece, anyway. Was there anything else?

You are, however, assisting my brain in it's effort to destroy my mind, which is probably worse in the long run.


And actually, I've since concluded I might leave all four of them for Red Alert or something. That'd be fair, too, wouldn't it? (You know I probably won't really kill anyone, of course, but that's not the point.)

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

(YES, MY BRAIN AND MY MIND ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.


MY MIND MAKES SENSE.


My Brain does not. And it appears to hate, or at least to want to destroy, my Mind.)