The raffle has ended and we had 7 main winners who each won 1 million Gil and 34 runner-ups who each won 100,000 Gil. We also had 21 people who didn’t win anything at all, so they each received a 50,000 Gil consolation prize anyway!
This means the total prize money for the raffle was 11,450,000 Gil and here’s a table of the winners:
It’s that time of year and I am happy to announce that, for the third year running, we are going to be holding an FC raffle! This is free for all FC members who were with us at the start of 17th December and have been active within the last 30 days.
Previously we’ve had 5 days where the prize has been 1 million Gil (each day), but this year we are extending it to 7 days! As before all runner ups will get 100,000 Gil and anyone who didn’t win anything at all will still get a 50,000 Gil consolation prize at the end!
For more information, please see this years special page for the event!
Don’t miss out, enter without delay and pick your (hopefully) lucky number!
It’s Sunday so as usual we were doing some treasure maps and this week we really hit the jackpot. Not only did we get a lot of “Timeworn Thief’s Maps”, but Ashelia also managed to actually beat the crazy RNG and get us to the the of the Hidden Canals!
So much loot!
Getting to the very last room requires opening the correct door, 6 times, from a choice of 3 doors each time. We don’t know for sure if there actually even is a correct door each time, but it’s very common to get thrown out on the first room, so making it all the away to room 7… wow! It also gave each of a us quite a lot of Gil:
Can’t argue with that! There’s also an achievement for finishing it, I personally did that one about 2 years ago (only the one time!), but everyone else in our group got it today:
We actually ended up doing treasure maps for nearly 4 hours (overran, a lot!) but we got two hedgehoglet minions worth 2 million each, 1 gold whisker (worth 1.1 million) and a Matanga elephant minion worth 400k (and other smaller items). We finished with 1.4 million in Gil, each (largely thanks to that 500k Gil mentioned above!) as well as few people who got the above mentioned minions. It was a very good week!
Finally here’s just a group picture of us looking awesome!
Lucy Evercraft, Hannibal Glamdring, Kamisato Ayato, Ashelia Raphael, Scott Pilgrim and Elza Kanzaki
I don’t think we’ll get even close to this next week… but we can try! Thanks all who came today, I hope you had fun too!
It’s been a few months since the FC house exterior was changed and with the start of the Moonfire Faire in-game event, now seemed like a good time to try out the “Florist’s Walls”!
It’s quite tall so unfortunately I can’t quite get it all in!
I’m sure you’ll agree it’s very different to the “Forge’s Wall” skin we were previously usin and it’s much more colourful! Here’s some other pictures from different angles:
Chocobo stable, fountain, flower stall (retainer inside it) and garden toolshed at the bottom leftAnother flower stall, one of our two striking dummies and the new pool areaGeneral overview of the gardenGarden plots are round the back out the way and also we have this… so we can get on the roof!“I can see London from here!” – Moby, SSX Tricky, 2001I’m so far up, everyone looks like ants!Chilling out in the new pool area at night
Finally, we rarely manage to actually get everyone in the same place at once and today, is no different, but here’s a picture of some FC members that I managed to rope into posing for a picture!
This week was quite a big deal for our Free Company as we turned four years old! Huzzah! So naturally we celebrated with some party games and some Gil prizes!
I made everyone taking part wear an “Altered Woolen Cowl” dyed in the colours of our FC and it caused quite a few comments from other players wondering what was going on!
We’re not a cult, honest!
So as in previous years we warmed up by climbing the small tower that’s in Shirogane (where our FC house is). A few of our members were familiar with this so it didn’t take them too long to get to the top and the first three people won prizes.
Jump!
After this we moved to Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks where I had 5 alt characters hidden. Everyone started off at the Aftcastle and then spread out to try and find the hidden characters. The first three people to find each character won a prize. This didn’t take too long, because it’s pretty hard to hide in the Upper Decks, but I think it still went well and everyone had fun!
“I bring this meeting to order…”
We even managed to get a quick group photo of most of the people playing, although sorry that it has gotten dark by this point:
Some of the Crystal Crusaders
After this we all moved to Horizon to play Lawn Darts. This involves having a waymark on the floor and everyone throwing themselves off a cliff, like a lemming, with the intention of trying to land as close to the waymark as possible. People had three tries each and scored 1 point for landing on the edge of the waymark and 2 points for dead centre. Scores were tallied at the end and highest scores won!
We had 21 people play this game and I was a little worried that it’d be chaos with everyone jumping at once, however, as requested everyone lined up and jumped in an orderly fashion and we got through the game without too many problems!
Is anyone else having flashbacks to “Raubahn Savage”?Geronimo!
After this we headed back to the FC house for a quiz. It was mostly about the FC itself and there were a few “go and count these objects” type games. These all had a prize for each correct answer. I always worry that it’s unfair to non-native English speakers as well as those who can’t type as fast, but everyone still seemed to have fun.
Inside the FC house
After the quiz we had a quick raffle for some bigger Gil prizes. To generate the raffle numbers we had everyone do a “/random” in chat and noted down their number. They had one chance to draw another /random and then the prizes were drawn (also using /random). The closest person to that number won.
One of our FC members, Blithesome Carl, is a talented artist and offered a raffle prize of a drawing of someones character as a raffle prize. L’ireiya Tia won this prize and I look forward to seeing the final drawing!
Oh and while we were getting the numbers… it involved more Raubahn Savage queuing:
We’re not all British, but we still like to queue!
After the raffle we moved to the PVP area and split up into groups for some PVP tournaments. We had one for melee DPS, tanks, ranged physical DPS, healers and magical DPS.
The DPS fights all went rather smoothly, but in the end we had to call a draw to the tank and healer fights. The tank fight was going on for about half an hour, long after we’d called it a draw. It was impressive to watch though!
It’s time to duel!
After that we called it a day and I went to tally up the prizes and send everyone what they had won!
Thank you all for coming, I hope that you had as much fun as I did and thanks for all being a part of such a great Free Company! Here’s to another amazing year! Here’s the list of prizes and who won how much!
Name
Gil won
Meow Chow
1,300,000
Nekomi Hounami
1,300,000
Ceyri Noca
1,200,000
Lex Miahto
800,000
Lyallon Estaqur
800,000
Rydia Nishiyama
550,000
Sylvia Flutterstar
550,000
Wom Blorm
550,000
Blithesome Carl
500,000
Terazoic Willowstar
500,000
Elydith Nelhah
350,000
Geralt R'ivia
350,000
Roy Yunomi
300,000
Driess Raronek
250,000
Kamisato Ayato
250,000
L'ireiya Tia
250,000
Erza Keso
100,000
Lucy Evercraft
100,000
Primatus Soprey
100,000
Sirradez Halvic
100,000
Dacent Valeroyaniox
50,000
Gianix Giari
50,000
And just to finish up here’s a random picture of us all mounting up in our “party outfits”!
It’s been a while since an announcement, and even longer since our last giveaways. Scott has be working on it and now you can join in on giveaways through the giveaway website.
To enter a giveaway, you need to “log in with Discord” and the character you have linked there will determine what giveaways you can enter! As always the giveaways have its own rules and with the new Giveaway Page it will be able to track which minions and mounts you have already (via Lodestone) and block you from entering if you have it. It isn’t fool-proof since the Lodestone doesn’t allow us to track other unlockables such as Orchestrion Rolls/Hair Styles/Bardings . Please be sure to check if you have the item to be given away first.
Just a reminder too; All giveaways are for your personal use only and are not for gifting to others or selling for Gil, breaking this rule will result in being blocked for future giveaways. For those wondering why we aren’t using the old Giveaway bots on Discord, they are either no longer being backed by its developers or didn’t allow us to do what we wanted.
We’ve had the “Shirogane Castle Walls” on our FC house since we bought the house back in 4.1, all the way back in October 2017 and it felt like time for a change. When 5.5 was released it added some new items, including the “Forge’s Walls” and now that’s what our house is using:
Looks great doesn’t it? It’s very different from the previous Shirogane Castle, but a change was definitely overdue.
The main reason we hadn’t changed the skin earlier was because we had a “Stump Elevator” setup which allowed us to get onto the roof of the house and also to glitch “inside” the house as well. The first time people saw that it always made them say “What the…” and that never got old!
Sadly, changing the skin around actually broke that and the stump which should have been on the ground, floated into the air, breaking the elevator as you can see in this picture below:
It took many hours of trying to get the elevator to work in the first place as it had to be pixel perfect, but I’m actually relieved it broke. It means that now we can change the house skin more frequently without having that stump elevator holding us back. It was great, but we had it for well over 3 years, we got our use out of it!
We just completed our first map party of the year and it was a massive success! It did start off really badly and for the first hour we had hardly any portals and those we did have, didn’t last long.
And then it all changed… portal after portal and we got to final room, not once, but twice! We also had 4 calfskin leathers drop too (currently worth approx 830k Gil each). If that wasn’t enough, we also all walked away with 527k of Gil each too (just from the cash drops), so that’s not a bad week!
Thanks all who came, see you next week and let’s try and get even more!
This years raffle has now ended and all prizes have been mailed! Like last year, we had 5 main winners who each won 1 million Gil, but we also had 13 runner ups who won 100,000 Gil each. Then finally we gave out prizes of 50,000 Gil to each of the 13 other FC members who didn’t win anything else.
This means we gave out a total of 6,950,000 million Gil, but because the fundraising for this event was so successful, it’s resulted in an additional donation to the FC chest of 3,480,148 Gil (which will be used in the future, such as paying for FC rooms for members!).
Wow has it really been a year since we updated this site? Ouch.
I’m glad to say that the Free Company is still up and running and we’re well over 3 years old now. Although the faces change from time to time, I’d like to think it’s still somewhere fun for everyone. Oh and yes, we still do treasure map runs every single Sunday!
So like last year, we will be doing another raffle for FC members and the total prize money will be at least 5 million Gil! The prize amount will vary depending on how many runner-ups there are, but last year the total prize money was just under 7.5 million!
For more information, please see this years special page for the event!
Don’t miss out, enter without delay and pick your (hopefully) lucky number!
