Let the Parade Begin!Dec 9th, 2004 at 8:27 PM by Haggan

As the hubbub from the Harvest Festival died down, the inhabitants of each town called upon holiday tree craftsmen and began preparing for the "Starlight Celebration." The Starlight Celebration is an event in which the night sky is mirrored by vividly decorated trees and strings of brilliant lights. It is also a time for handing out presents to children and experiencing the joy of giving. The three regions are striving to see who can make the biggest and brightest festival of all. However, not everything is ready. The Starlight Celebration cannot begin without you there to enjoy it! Bring your companions and behold the spectacle of gloriously decorated trees illuminating the night! Find a comfortable spot beneath the glittering boughs and revel in the wonder of the Starlight Celebration.
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Dream Hat
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# Dec 10 2004 at 3:42 PM Rating: Excellent
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well, I have been trying to find out more about this "Dream Hat" and this is what I have found:

Dream Hat- DEF: 1, Lvl: 1, All Jobs
Dream Hat +1- DEF: 1, Enchantment: Ginger Cookie, Lvl: 1, All Jobs

I don't know what the charge on the +1 is for the cookies. as of now it seems there is no way to obtain these items yet, though I would guess they are going to be given away somehow later on in this event. I can't find any information about any other items related to this event.
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a shame...
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# Dec 10 2004 at 2:56 PM Rating: Excellent
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Too bad I can't wear my santa hat and my bunny ears at the same time....
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santa hat
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# Dec 10 2004 at 2:38 PM Rating: Decent
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how do you get the santa hat?
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#REDACTED, Posted: Dec 10 2004 at 2:31 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Ppl keep posting and asking, but no one is responding about what we are supposed to do... I WANT TO KNOW!!!
well....
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# Dec 10 2004 at 1:32 PM Rating: Decent
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if any of you nice and kind ppl wanna share on how and what the strategy to get all thew "christmas" items please post cause i made "santaclause" on my server and wanna trick him out and plus it will look cool a big red galka handing out presents


Amoth>>>> leviathan
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NIN 20 DRG 27
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RE: well....
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# Dec 10 2004 at 4:13 PM Rating: Good
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I've been trying to find out what the items for this are and here is what I have found out so far:

Dream Hat (Head)- Rare/EX, Def:1, Lvl:1, All Jobs
Dream Hat +1 (Head)- Rare/EX, Def:1, Dispense: Ginger Cookie
<Max Charges:1/Equip Delay:30s/Reuse Timer:1d>, Lvl:1, All Jobs

some other new items that may or may not be related to the event, but seem like they could be are:

Rabbit Belt (Waist)- Rare/EX, Enchantment: Costume, Lvl:1, All Jobs
Worm Belt (Waist)- Rare/EX, Enchantment: Costume, Lvl:1, All Jobs
Mandragora Belt (Waist)- Rare/EX, Enchantment: Costume, Lvl:1, All Jobs

Bastokan Tree (Furnishing)- Rare, Stg:1, Ice
Windurstian Tree (Furnishing)- Rare, Stg:1, Ice
San d'Orian Tree (Furnishing)- Rare, Stg:1, Ice

Kiddie Present- There are 4 different items bearing this name, the difference being the picture on the item, also, 3 of the are EX, the fourth is not.
Thankful Letter- Rare/EX, This letter, written by a child, is addressed to a "smilebringer."
Grateful Letter- Rare/EX, This letter, written by a child, is addressed to a "smilebringer."
Joyful Letter- Rare/EX, This letter, written by a child, is addressed to a "smilebringer."

as far as I can tell none of the items are available yet, I don't know when the event will be getting into full swing, right now it is only the decorations.
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well....
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# Dec 10 2004 at 1:32 PM Rating: Decent
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sorry double posted

Edited, Fri Dec 10 13:33:38 2004
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Spyro`s Hugging Booth
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# Dec 10 2004 at 12:43 PM Rating: Decent
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Awww Spyro! Did I miss your hugging booth and firework show? Well poo, do it again! For me?

Last night me `n my buddy Pops and his linkshell LeWaka had a group picture infront of the Windurst Tree/Fountain then we had a nice Level 1 suicide in the same spot. :X

Happy Holidays!
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Huh?
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# Dec 10 2004 at 12:06 PM Rating: Decent
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Did I miss something? What was the Harvest Festival... was that recent?

*goes back to his rock*

Edit: Getting my *** knocked around 6 or 7 grid squares at a time sounds like probably the most fun I'll ever have in this game... I hope they bring those monstrosities back.

Edited, Fri Dec 10 12:08:15 2004
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x-max hat
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# Dec 10 2004 at 11:47 AM Rating: Decent
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If i dont get one of these santa hats. you can expect to see my taru running around Sylph kicking everyone in the shins for the next month!
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hey
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# Dec 10 2004 at 11:11 AM Rating: Excellent
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all i had to say was on garuda i set up a hugging booth called spyros christmas hugs. i charge people 5 gil for a hug. i had hundreds of people ask for hugs and of course the price when up and up and up and soon people where giving me 1000's of gil for a hug from a taru drg in full af. now i know what your thinking you greedy little taru. well its not like that all the money i made from my hugging booth when into a massive fireworks show. i advertised my firework show for 2 hours real time in bastok. and spent about 150k on fireworks not including the donations. and at 19:00 when 200 people watching i lit up the sky it was so pretty everyone was cheer and claping. firework macros work wonders.
anyway i thought i would just let ya in on the festive fun . ^^ MERRY CHIRSTMAS VANA'DIEL

i love you pikko
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Item,s
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# Dec 10 2004 at 10:54 AM Rating: Default
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What items are available are there any? Will there be any?.... please respond >.>;
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reality orientaion for the slow witted lol
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# Dec 10 2004 at 10:41 AM Rating: Decent
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ahhh how i long to have a clue of what is going to happpen lol. can anyone give me facts just plain facts lol
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Ummm...Stupid Question, but...
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# Dec 10 2004 at 10:05 AM Rating: Decent
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Well, has anyone here SEEN any new items or gotten them? And, if you did get some items, what in the world do we do?!?!
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RE: Ummm...Stupid Question, but...
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# Dec 10 2004 at 10:10 AM Rating: Decent
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its called a dream hat, its a santa hat, its at least one of the items you can get. well my theroy at least.

http://tune.ache-bang.com/~vg/outitem/up/img/2610.jpg
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cop?
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# Dec 10 2004 at 9:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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hmm new music is only for those who have CoP?

i sill gotta purchase expension lol just that i got NA version and live in holland -.- and they dun sell expension packs >< zzz lol
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RE: cop?
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# Dec 10 2004 at 12:18 PM Rating: Decent
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Look around, They do have expansion packs here and there around in Holland.
Imported versions that is.

Check the more specialiced game shops

Edited, Fri Dec 10 12:18:46 2004
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Huh?
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# Dec 10 2004 at 9:25 AM Rating: Excellent
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I have to be blind or something...I haven't seen any decorations. ;; I've seen some people running around wearing crowns though. Is that something you can get for this event or was that a last year thing? I need to get my butt out of Kazham and see all these decorations you're all talking about. ^^
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RE: Huh?
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# Dec 10 2004 at 2:58 PM Rating: Decent
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I was playing FFXI all day yesterday. I was in Windy most of the day leveling my RNG in Saruta. I never saw any Christmas decorations. A member of my LS jumps on says something like "Awww, pretty Christmas decorations" (I was in Valkrum at the time). I thought he was talking about the menu screens before you log on. Later on in Bastok heading out to do the NIN quest, I saw decorations. That was around 3 AM EST (after playing all during the day).

I was in Sandy later with a mule, and noticed the decorated trees have a horrible pop-up.
I want to see a christmas hat, that would be sweet.
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Crowns
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# Dec 10 2004 at 9:48 AM Rating: Decent
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The crown you've seen is likely the Opo-opo Crown, which is the reward of a quest starting in Kazham.
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ANOTHER EVENT!
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# Dec 10 2004 at 8:55 AM Rating: Excellent
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I love the FFXi events. Only seen afew, but love 'um. Might see me hunting around in Shiva to get any rare item. If there are treants this year, if any1 wants to hunt them with me, send me a tell, ill be on all night.
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wasnt around last year
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# Dec 10 2004 at 8:53 AM Rating: Decent
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wut happend last year?
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RE: wasnt around last year
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# Dec 10 2004 at 9:39 PM Rating: Decent
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O.O big trees..... mass death ..... bodies everywhere...... and lots and lots of fun ^^

there was a event where the Twinkeling Treants from the year before came back for a reason i have forgotten, but there were moogles in the lowbie areas of the 3 cities (ex: East and West Ron.) that restricted your lvl (lvl cap) to 20. with the lvl cap you did not lose exp if and when killed by the Treants. i was there as a lvl 16 WAR... at the time i didn't have subjob, but i did remember how for the first day (RL day) you could not even hurt it. we fought the Treant the whole day just to find out there was a bug in it ..... lol SE fixed the problem and by the next day i came back to see about 1/10 it's life gone. lol we spent 3 days (RL days) killing both the East and West Ron Treants with 50+ other people... all i can say it that it has been the best event FFXI has ever had (since i have played the game) good luck to all and enjoy the sights!
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#REDACTED, Posted: Dec 10 2004 at 9:06 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Did you even read the postings that came before you? Scroll up and look!
RE: wasnt around last year
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# Dec 10 2004 at 9:51 AM Rating: Default
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The posts above were posted after those below. Thus, the posts that came before are down. Check the timestamps.
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RE: wasnt around last year
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# Dec 10 2004 at 7:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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The posts above were posted after those below. Thus, the posts that came before are down. Check the timestamps


Not necessarily. Depends on how you have the[Post] Forum Preferences: set, between the original News article and the first posted reply.

Some of us have our messages set to "Oldest First" so that the messages are in time order already.
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RE: wasnt around last year
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# Dec 13 2004 at 9:11 AM Rating: Decent
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Thank you, dmercure! I do have my postings going by Oldest First… how else would you be able to read them in order?

MilamberGT wrote:
Posted @ Fri, Dec 10th 2:03 AM 2004

Actually, last year's event consisted on beating the crap out of said Treants. They were level capped, and took a helluva lot of people to destroy them. Was fun to watch and participate, the trees had an attack that would knock the living crap of a player, and send them flying into the next quadrant of the map. They also had a nasty habit of dissapearing to another location if people beat on them a good while, where the beaters would then have to relocate, and then rush over and continue to beat on it. HP regen, AE, all the nasty stuff. One of the most fun times ive had playing the game.


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Posted @ Fri, Dec 10th 8:53 AM 2004

wut happend last year?


See how Avaricious' question was asked after MilamberGT's post about last year's event? Hence my original post instructing him to scroll up.

Edited, Mon Dec 13 09:16:00 2004
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Event
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# Dec 10 2004 at 8:25 AM Rating: Decent
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Ah coolness. So this is an actual event. By the announcement I thought they merely decorated the cities. Well, if anyone gathers any info on this please post. Any reason to get outta Kazham is a good one^^
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Ooooohhhh!
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# Dec 10 2004 at 8:07 AM Rating: Decent
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*excited* ^^
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hmmmm....
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# Dec 10 2004 at 8:07 AM Rating: Decent
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Since this is year of the rooster maybe we can get free chickens.... *grumble, grumble*

Yeah, I was all of level 5 last year for the frolicking trees of doom. Good thing I'm a mad axe wielding warrior... Bring it on trees!! I got your number!

Edit: by chickens I mean Chocobos!

Edited, Fri Dec 10 08:14:53 2004
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Which New Year?
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# Dec 10 2004 at 7:14 AM Rating: Decent
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lol, on the subject of New Year, is it going to follow the proper Lunar Calendar or the Japanese New Year reckoning?
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weeeee
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# Dec 10 2004 at 6:16 AM Rating: Decent
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These types of events excite me very much. its a very nice break from the hoopla of lvling. If anyone has n e more details about this even please let me know.
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yay
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# Dec 10 2004 at 1:54 AM Rating: Decent
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Constant shouts of "how do I get a hat???!!!111" Gotta love it.

Man, I'm sorry but Sandy blows away bastok and windy in the decor department. Just incredible. I'd say windy is second.
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Bring on the treants!
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# Dec 10 2004 at 12:17 AM Rating: Decent
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I just want to kill some more Treants....
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RE: Bring on the treants!
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# Dec 10 2004 at 7:42 AM Rating: Decent
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Bring on the Twinkling Treants! {Red Mage} {Revenge} {Notorious Monsters} {Yes, please!}
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RE: Bring on the treants!
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# Dec 10 2004 at 6:55 AM Rating: Decent
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Heck yeah! I had gotten to lvl 18 MNK last year for this event. On Leviathan, I was one of about 50 people crowded around this thing in S Gustaberg when it went down... After spending about 4 days killing it, we all breathed a sigh of relief, then headed for N gusta to start on that one... I want to do this again!!!
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RE: Bring on the treants!
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I agree whole-heartedly. Last year I was a lvl 12 THF when I saw a h igh lvl PLD shouting for help in SouthGustaburg. I ran to the aide to find dozens of people trying to take down the Treant. I was killed in moments and got a Raise II. I was so happy!! But now... I can actually fight thing thing lol. I can't wait to see what they do this year.
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items
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# Dec 10 2004 at 12:08 AM Rating: Default
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yah I cant figure out what to do, its ticking me off people keep saying they see the hats and stuff on characters I WANT ONE!!!! please can anyone tell me where to get them?
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