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 Post subject: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
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Rise above your standing!

Little Ladies' Day approaches, offering women all across Eorzea the unique opportunity to experience life as a noble. So don your best outfit and take an afternoon stroll under the blossoming peach trees, for the day is yours!

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 Post subject: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
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Little Ladies' Day

This springtime festival is said to have its origins in the relatively recent Ul'dahn Legend of the Lost Lady. Over the past three centuries, it has transformed into a celebration where women of all ages, races, creeds, and repute dress up in their finest habiliments for a day on the town, stopping to pose in front of specially erected backdrops while nibbling upon colourful sweets; all the while, being waited on hand and foot by their loyal 'seneschals.'

And who are to serve as these seneschals, you ask? Why, the realm's gallant gents, of course! Yes, Eorzea's menfolk have sworn a solemn oath to show their appreciation for all damselkind by dedicating this delightful day to them.


Duration

The festivities are scheduled to last from 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 17, until 2:59 p.m. on Thursday, March 3 (GMT).

Ring My Bell

These bells need no introduction: they sang for the Starlight Celebration, hummed for Heavensturn, vibrated for Valentione's Day, and now their tintinnabulations shall resound throughout the realm once more for Little Ladies' Day. One need only ring the bells to receive a gift, compliments of the city-states and their benevolent rulers.


Gifts Available:
Peach Branches
Powdered Sugar
*Gifts can be received once every eight hours (earth time), starting the first time a bell is rung. Up to six items will be stored for each person in the event that periodical returns to the bell prove difficult.

Bell Locations

Limsa Lominsa (Upper Decks/Lower Decks)

Gridania

Ul'dah (Merchant Strip/Hustings Strip)
Of the Hand

Festive confetti made of peach blossoms, and tasty rice cakes are two items associated with the Little Ladies' Day celebration. The following is a guide on how to craft both:

Item Class Materials
Peach Confetti Alchemist (1-10) Peach Branch, Growth Formula Alpha
Sweet Rice Cake Culinarian (1-10) Sticky Rice, Cinnamon, Blood Currants, Mugwort, Mineral Water, Powdered Sugar
The Legend of the Lost Lady

Three centuries past, the city-state of Ul'dah was ruled by an iron-fisted sultan by the name of Baldric Thorne—a man feared across the region for his quick temper and his even swifter justice. Perhaps as punishment for his compassionless ways, the Twelve saw fit to bless the sultan with but a single daughter, Edvya, whom the sultan loved more than the sun and the moon. And it was this love that drove Baldric to take measures that would ensure no harm ever befell the princess—including her confinement to the royal palace and the assignment of a retinue of over fifty handmaidens and seneschals.

As the princess grew older, however, a longing to explore the unknown land that lay beyond the palace walls tugged at her soul, until one day, in a devilish display of wit, she switched clothes with a miller girl come to the palace with her mother to deliver flour to the kitchens. Once Edvya had exchanged her beautiful gown and tiara for the soiled rags of a commoner, it proved little trouble to pass unnoticed through her legion of servants and slip out into the city for a day of wicked fun.

It did not take long for the palace to realize something was afoot, and upon discovering that his only daughter was missing, the sultan, overcome with rage, immediately ordered the sultanate's entire standing army to scour the city until they had found the princess. As for the royal impostor, thinking that Edvya may have been kidnapped by the girl's mother, the sultan ordered the miller's house torn apart, her family arrested, tortured, and thrown in the royal oubliette.

As luck would have it, the princess had not wandered far from the palace, and was discovered in a nearby market by her father's men. Once back in the safety of the palace, Edvya revealed the whole ruse to her father, explaining that she had conjured it on her own, and begged that he show mercy to the miller's family.

Upon realizing that the atrocities committed to the miller girl and her family were without warrant, he had the family released from the oubliette and summoned to the royal audience chamber. Here, not only did he personally apologize to the family and order the royal architects to design and build them a new home, but, in a move most unexpected, Baldric himself offered to serve as the daughter's seneschal for a full day, saying that no young woman, regardless of her standing, should be denied the respect due all citizens of the sultanate; that all girls, common or noble, are 'ladies' in their own right.

Rumours of this unforeseen display of humility were quick to spread through Ul'dah and ultimately proved to be extremely well-received amongst the smallfolk, who, until then, had perceived their leader as little more than a heartless despot. So well-received were they, in fact, that the sultan declared one day from each solar year on which he would select, via lots, a common girl from the city and serve as her personal seneschal, as he had done with the miller's daughter.




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 Post subject: Re: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:13 am 
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Groundbreaking!

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 Post subject: Re: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
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How did I miss Valentione's Day?

Also, does anyone else think they may be going a bit overboard with these holidays? I wonder if these are leftover from the old team.

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 Post subject: Re: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
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WAIT A SECOND! I ring a bell, get an item, and craft it into something useless? What an originL idea! Yeah, these events are getting stale. I will be ignoring this like the previous 2.

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 Post subject: Re: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:10 pm 
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mugwart and sticky rice are hard to get....

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:23 pm 
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Yes finaly an event that recognizes that all you shall be my personal slaves


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Yes finaly an event that recognizes that all you shall be my personal slaves


we need growth formula alpha stat!

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:40 pm 
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I'm fucking sick of seeing that bell


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 Post subject: Re: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
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i'd rather see nothing and have no event than have to see a reused graphic that poops out shitty sugar

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 Post subject: Re: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
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Did you guys see what they said about reusing the bell in the Valentione's post? lol. And I only both to get materials when there's an item to get. I think they ninja gave me some sugar from last event though.


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 Post subject: Re: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
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very disappointed at more powdered sugar give away..... i need to see a dentist soon or My galka teeth will be gone....
was wishing for a more detailed update content. Still wishing.....


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very disappointed at more powdered sugar give away..... i need to see a dentist soon or My galka teeth will be gone....
was wishing for a more detailed update content. Still wishing.....


yeah still waiting for more actual storyline and entranced to jeuno II.

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 Post subject: Re: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
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Way too many holidays. Here's hoping they figure something good out for you in time for the Summerfest.

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 Post subject: Re: Little Ladies' Day (02/15/2011)
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Im still waiting for that content update.

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the content update will be 1 quest that has you run to camp iron lake and ring a bell to get powdered sugar which you can craft into a food item that you can use to initiate parley on a boss to avoid having to fight him, and the boss has a 5% chance to drop cool-looking but statistically useless gear, and you can only engage this boss once every month

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i think most the big things like group craft projects, and ship wars was intended to come out in march to entice ps3 customers. However, I wonder if they will put those on hold until whenever the ps3 version will come to be, or release them anyway.


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So is this a lalafell porn event or what

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