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0:00 – Introduction
0:26 – RECONSTRUCTION: The Enclave Barracks
12:28 – RECONSTRUCTION: The Watchtower
22:33 – RECONSTRUCTION: The One Garden
35:09 – QUEST: “Lighting the Way”
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This has been a long time coming, but Durmin finally did it: the Reconstruction has been fully paid off at last 🤩
I just imagine all of the other saiyans watching and Cher's shock and questioning how he got the funds to pull this off😂
About time in Hydealyn:
They measure it much like we do in the real world, but there are some odd quirks to it. Hours are called bells, days are called suns and months are called moons. Additionally a week is actually 8 suns long, while a moon is always 32 suns.
It's a Starlight Celebration miracle
i checked if the 5 second delay was actually 5 seconds, and yes, it was.
Merry early Christ- er, Starlight Celebration!
…man, I keep guessing that we're going to cut straight back to the MSQ, and then we don't, and I'm surprised. I probably shouldn't be, since this is something that still needed to be finished, but I am anyways.
That being said, I'm making no predictions about what will come NEXT TIME ON PLAYFRAME, because I feel humbled. Good job, Dan, you've successfully completed the long endeavor that is selling your money to the Doman Enclave so they can buy it for double the price!
I'm still loving the barbershop Chocobo theme you use as transition music.
01:24 Short King spotted! Having a Lala WoL presumably gives his neck a break, which is nice…
09:55 The Buduga are so nice and brotherly, it's easy to forget that they technically are here to kidnap strong men- namely, Hien- to press gang into their tribe…hopefully they privide as much support as trouble.
15:10 Good call; I don't see Hien as the self-aggrandizing type even without the massive war they just had… now is the time for utility.
20:15 I note that Ishibushi has facial scars… In the right place, they can paralyze the muscles that control expressions. no wonder he's so taciturn, poor guy.
26:50 Catboy in Summer-mode gives me life 🙂
41:00 What a sweet finale
The Doman Reconstruction is a nice little way to make your mark on the world… you get more gil and materials you know what to do with, so It's nice that you have a way to clear up your inventory, and do well by doing good by bringing a city-state back from the brink.
It seems like things are progressing rather piecemeal – funds are allocated towards one project, then the next, then the next, with little to no incentive to go back to old areas once complete. What would it look like if we were introduced to these quests sequentially, and saw things progress in tandem, perhaps with a big party quest (EDIT: not unlike the tento-oguri quest, I imagine) once the Enclave was complete, I wonder? Would bouncing between projects work to maintain player interest, or would engagement plateau, or even drop off?
Doman Kickstarter Campaign
I love the way they wrapped up this little questline tbh. Like, recognizing the dead, especially with a ritual that had been banned, is such a touching capstone imho. Add in that, regardless of any given headcanon, the wol has lost people across their journey, so it’s a good way to address such losses too imho. It’s such a lovely touch.
Loved this, thank you for going through the whole thing..
16:30 – When I saw the character standing next to Durmin, my first thought was, "Is that Dante from Devil May Cry?"
it really speaks volumes of the game's character writing that this little quest works so well & ends up being so satisfying, and the characters are so likable you want them to finally get closure
– so reading from the comments, half a bell is half an hour, which is pretty excessive for a change of guard
– I mean i get wanting to get rid of the Garlean watchtower, but i feel is probably well built enough you could have disguised it
Playfriends, it's time to finish up the Doman Enclave reconstruction. This is your spoiler free lore comment!
Continuting off our last Doman Reconstruction lore, we'll talk about more crafting and gathering questlines.
As an aside, the One Garden's pavilion does have a feature that I love: it's where the aged Isildaure shows up! He's made the long journey from Revanant's Toll to visit his buddy Homei, exchanging playing host to Homei in Revanant's Toll with playing visitor in Homei's home!
The Fishing quests pick up after you help your fishing buddy Ishgardian nobleman regain his estate from his brother, with the assistance of the nobleman's new fishing buddy/girlfriend who is a part time assassin (there is not a better way for me to summarize the HW fishing quests in a single sentence). The Limsa Fishing Guild's perpetual shirker of responsibility and guildmaster, Wawalago, is once again caught skipping town to go fishing. But this time, you discover he's actually doing guild work, just covert guild work. The guild is tasked with maintaining the aquatic ecosystem around Limsa, and Wawalago received a request from an old friend of his. It's just that this old friend, Govv, can't walk through the gates of Limsa on account of being a Sahagin. Govv has noticed that "the shooting stars of the sea", a particular fish important to the Sahagin, has suddenly vanished from local waters. Tracking the fish back to Gyr Abania, you run into your friend, Reyna, the part time assassin/full time fisher. She helps Govv determine that the shooting stars are migratory, and the come from the east. The Far East! With Reyna in tow, you and Govv head to the Ruby Sea, finding smaller versions of the Shooting Stars in their waters. With a tutorial about the new spearfishing mechanic, Govv discovers that the reason for the sharp drop off in Shooting Stars is due to a massive increase in plesiosaurs in the Ruby Sea. It seems that there was once a festival to catch plesiosaurs, culling their numbers, but the Garlean invasion 25 years ago put a stop to the festival. Since then, the plesiosaurs numbers have been increasing, preying on the young Shooting Stars. With your assistance, the festival tradition is revived, and Govv is heartened to know that the Shooting Stars will return to his seas in time.
The Mining quests start after finishing up the contract work with the Oschon's Raiders adventuring company. The new questline revolves around Stickqix, a goblin in Idlyshire who dreams of a new mech to help Idlyshire reclaim the Sharlyan ruins. Stickqix has assembled a diverse crew of engineers and artisans to produce the Gobroller, but needs you to help procure the raw materials for the prototype. Unfortunately, half your time is spent mediating disputes between his team of rivals. Eventually, the team completes the Gobtroller, spurred on by the belief that their bickering has caused Stickqix to abandon the project (in reality, he's just procuring additional materials). After the successful demonstration, Stickqix joyously tells you of his first attempt to produce the Gobtroller. Stickqix is a former member of the Illumanati, and that faction's leadership had twisted his design for the Gobtroller to become a warmachine. Disillusioned, he came to Idlyshire, and found the mixing of Goblins and adventurers to be just the world he needed to produce his dream project.
The Leatherworker quests begin once you've completed the commissions for Elde and her boutique in Ishgard. Atelloune is one of the authors of the New Eorzean Geographic, and has a job for you and her young assistant Enion. Atelloune wants to bring attention to a series of endangered creatures across Eorzea and has a plan: Taxidermy! She's not tasking you with killing endangered animals, but procuring the pelts of naturally slain endangered animals for Enion to produce into stuffed examples for the people of Gridania to marvel at. After some starts and stops (naturally deceased animals don't always have pristine pelts for taxidermy), you manage to produce a few examples of threatened and endangered animals (in one case manipulating a far more common creature's fur to appear as the more rare breed). But then Atelloune discovers that her efforts are being undermined be one of Gridania's Conjurers. Marmaduke (yes, that's really his name) has been telling people that Atelloune's exhibit making a mockery of the creatures and that the Elementals will not take kindly to this display. But after some persistence and some assistance from the Leatherworkers Guild, Atelloune manages to put on a display at the amphitheater, showing just what she intended: conservation, not grotesque comedy. The crowd is amazed by your and Enion's work, bringing the majesty and plight of these creatures to the public eye. Marmaduke apologizes and ensures that future showings of the exhibit will proceed without interference.
Finally, let's discuss the Alchemist quests. Hot off your stint as CSI: Mor Dhona, the Alchemists Guild has a peculiar submission that has piqued guildmaster Severian's curiosity. The Brass Blades have discovered a corpse that does not decay. A woman has been found who does not draw breath, but does not wake. She is cold to the world, but even after days in Erralig's Burial Chamber, she is the same as she was brought in, as if she could simply sit up and walk out the door. After some investigation, you discover that the woman is not the only corpse who retains its freshness, there is another, a man who has been interred at the Burial Chamber for years. When you inquire about who the man is, you discover he once had a lover, the Songstress of Ul'Dah: F'lhaminn. Minfilia's adoptive mother. F'lhaminn will confirm that the man is her husband Niellefresne, and he was slain using the cursed blade Heartstrike. The fact that a new body has appeared seems impossible, F'lhaminn's crew disposed of the blade years ago. Your job is to figure out how a destroyed cursed sword is being used to kill again, and who is responsible for the murders.
Oh the cutscene with the paper lanterns was absolutely gorgeous!
Man.. just wanna let you know how much I appreciate all the effort you're putting in on this Dan, especially with both the reconstruction and Eureka which must've both taken so much time!
Thank you so much
These little side stories are absolutely great! One of the things that I really like about FF XIV is that it doesn't handwave away real problems. Things like the tensions between the beastmen and the folk of Eorzea, or the lingering religious conflict in Ishgard, these get addressed and handled fairly realistically. I think a big part of how they pull that off is through stories like these. So even though I know it was a pain to film, thanks for doing these stories, Dan! Frankly, after doing Eureka for this series, you're entitled to pick and choose whatever content you want to do from here on out!
33:56 "They tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat"?
35:06 I was about to say… the irony.
35:41 <excited noises> That's such a spectacle.
37:03 "Our dead friends will have the time of their lives!" …What?
43:10 Ah, so that kidnapping thing went off, did it?
44:37 <o
Woodsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud, heh, good reference.