so far ive got both the hts from the quests, pumpkin heads I, and II, and treat staffs I,and II. but i cant figure out how to get a pitchfork because i really really really want one and from what ive read, people are saying the bomb decorations may give you it but i havent seen any bomb decorations, so if anyone could tell me exactally how to get one, it would be amazing

so far ive got both the hts from the quests, pumpkin heads I, and II, and treat staffs I,and II. but i cant figure out how to get a pitchfork because i really really really want one and from what ive read, people are saying the bomb decorations may give you it but i havent seen any bomb decorations, so if anyone could tell me exactally how to get one, i'd appreciate it alot

Basically a problem that comes up is knowing when its ok to leave the witches alone, some people stick around too long, and more often then naught, people leave too early. I'm compiling a speech resevoir to help people know how far they are in that specific ghost. Besides, their speeches are just interesting.

Also, if you don't hear "You hear a voice speaking softly..." when you come into proximity of these ghosts you don't have the quest active. Once you hear the last line you can return to the npc and recieve your Witch Hat. For the second ghost, and your Coven Hat, you must wait one Vana'diel day and talk to the exorcist wearing your Witch Hat.

If you throw away your Witch Hat after obtaining your Coven Hat, and wish to either redo a Witch Hat ghost, do a new Witch Hat ghost or want a new Witch Hat, you will recieve a Witch Hat after completing that ghost.

If you approach an exorcist with a Witch hat or Coven Hat equipped, you will start the Coven Hat ghost, if not, you will start the Witch Hat ghost.

If you have a ghost's prize (either Witch Hat or Coven Hat) upon completion of that ghost you will instead recieve a number of Papillions in respect to the type of ghost you help to exorcise.

If you talk to a Moogle that is selling Jack O'Lanterns while wearing a Coven Hat, you will be able to buy Halloween-theme furniture for your house at 10,000 gil per piece.

If you get the line:
[Dark Lily Name]:!!!
You... you are no monster!

You will revert to your normal self and will have lose your costume. The exorcist says you must wait a time and the witches will forget, that is a blatant lie, these witches are dumb, get a new costume and you can pick up where you left off. The only time this will not result in failure is if you have heard the last line of that Dark Lily, then you are done with that part of the quest and can ask the exorcist about your prize.

There are three ways to approach them in costume:
1. Get in costume, go to the area, hope you are to their back.
Pros-
Quickest way
Cons-
Most easy way to lose
2. Wait at an NPC in costume and change as the witch passes.
Pros-
Safest way
Cons-
Takes patience
3. Grab a costume from a Trick NPC as they pass the ghost.
Its a mixed bag of the other two.

Exorcist locations:
Gertrude : Northern San d'Oria (D-8)
Brian : Bastok Markets (G-8)
Roger : Windurst Waters (F-5)

Ghost locations:
Poseaulloie (Witch Hat) around the Parade Ground area, North San d'Oria
Maryse (Coven Hat) around Laborman's Way, North San d'Oria
Selma (Witch Hat) around Gold Street, Bastok Markets
Pretty Heart (Coven Hat) Around the entrance to Metalworks, Bastok Markets
Bikho Ronpotteh (Witch Hat) around Huntsman's Court, Windurst Waters (North map)
Guwanana (Coven Hat) H~I-6~8, Windurst Waters (South map)

NPCs for way 2:
Antonian (J-8) North San d'Oria
Vichuel (F-4) North San d'Oria
Ahyeekih (H-10) Windurst Waters (North map)
Maqu Molpih (H-8)Windurst Waters (South map)
(There are no NPCs that I've noticed good for either Bastokan ghost, so try way 3.)

San d'Oria

Poseaulloie

You hear a voice speaking softly...

Poseaulloie: So pretty... the fountain is still so...

Poseaulloie: That must be the Chateau...
and over there... the cathedral...

Poseaulloie: I never thought... to return here...

Poseaulloie: Every morning... I watched him training... from afar...
If only... I had had the courage...

Poseaulloie: No... he was a Hume...
I... am a witch...
If I were... to confess...

Poseaulloie: And then... there was the lunch... he always carried...
Someone... must have made it... for him...

Poseaulloie: He passed... without ever knowing...
But I... am still here...

Poseaulloie: I...
I should no longer care...
I want to forget...

Poseaulloie: The fountain where he took his res...
The stones that grew wet with his tears...
Nothing has changed... except me...

Poseaulloie: Ah... I know you are there...
But to have soemone hear my pain... has lightened my soul... if only a little...

End

Maryse

You hear a voice softly speaking...

Maryse: This moat... where I fell in..

Maryse: I slipped... on the bridge...
I fell...

Maryse: He was always there...
I didn't notice...

Maryse: From the time that I was small...
Always there to save me...

Maryse: Even when I was loathed and feared...
You were there to praise my powers...

Maryse: My brother...

Maryse: But I... I was always angry...
I even forgot the lunch you made...

Maryse: But here...
I want to tell you just once...

Maryse: Thank you...

Maryse: Thank you for being there... for me...

Maryse: I see you there... listening to me...
I should curse you...
But I will forgive you... as my brother would...

End

Bastok

Selma

You hear a voice speaking softly...

Selma: These trees...
I burned with the Fire spell...
Yet they have grown back...

Selma: The stream...
I froze with Blizzaga II...
Yet now it flows...

Selma: This building...
I toppled with Aeroga III...
Yet it has been rebuilt...

Selma: The wall of the Metalworks...
Icracked with Thunder IV...
Yet it has been repaired...

Selma: It is as if... I never existed...
Have my sins... also been erased...?

Selma: My magic... has always been over powerful...
The cold stares... of the townspeople...

Selma: I learned my spells... for vengeance...
People called me... heartless...

Selma: I loathed... this nation... this town... its people...

Selma: The why...?
Why do I feel so at home here...?

Selma: You... I see you...
Cease your stalking...
I wish to be alone...

End

Pretty Heart

You hear a voice speaking softly...

Pretty Heart: A genius... is never understood... by the massess...

Pretty Heart: A genius... is isolated... from the common people...

Pretty Heart: A genius... will be persecuted... by those who do not understand...

Pretty Heart: I wanted to save her...
The girl with astounding talent...

Pretty Heart: To help... the girl... who had nothing but her magic...

Pretty Heart: The Dark Lilies...
A coven of... chosen...
A sanctuary... for witches...

Pretty Heart: Yet... I wonder...
Was it all... for the best...?
To leave... this world behind...?

Pretty Heart: Was she... truly happy...?
Being enveloped... in the darkness...?

Pretty Heart: I wished to gaze once more... on the answers to be found...
In this town... that I once loved...

Pretty Heart: You... go back...
Back to the exorcist...
Tell him... I am ready... to leave...

End

Windurst

Bikho Ronpotteh

You hear a voice speaking softly...

Bikho Ronpotteh: This... was a secret place...

Bikho Ronpotteh: A place... that nobody knew...

Bikho Ronpotteh: The perrrfect spot...

Bikho Ronpotteh: An enchanted spot...
So many fish...
They would just jump... onto the hook...

Bikho Ronpotteh: To fill... my empty belly...

Bikho Ronpotteh: To help... my strrruggling mother...

Bikho Ronpotteh: I would fish... and fish... and fish...
We were poor... I had no other choice...

Bikho Ronpotteh: Even so... those days were fun...
But I hated... being poor...
I delved... into forbidden magic...

Bikho Ronpotteh: I'm sorry...
I brrroke my prrromise... to lead an honest life...
I wanted... wanted to tell you...

Bikho Ronpotteh: Enough...
You have learned my secret...
Leave me in peace...

End

Guwanana

You hear a voice speaking softly...

Guwanana: Glimmer... shimmer...
Shimmer... glimmer...

Guwanana: Little fishies....
Shimmering fishy-wishies...
Where have you gones...?

Guwanana: Little fishies...
Glimmering fishy-wishies...
Are you here...?

Guwanana: You mustaru be here...
You mustaru be hiding...

Guwanana: Here and there...
The fishy-wishies I let free...
Shimmering... glimmering... fish...

Guwanana: But... I don'taru see you...?
Where have you gone...?

Guwanana: The same as before...
Nowhere to be found...

Guwanana: But wait...
That... shimmer-glimmer...
The Flash spell fused into your scaly-wales...

Guwanana: Shimmer... glimmer...
So many little fishy-wishies...
You swim... and glide...

Guwanana: Are you satisfied...?
Then hushy-wush and leave...
You'll scare the fishy-wishies...

End


Updated 10/20/06 13:33 CST- added Bastok, added info about being seen.
Updated 10/20/06 16.02 CST- added Windurst, added NPC locations, clarified being seen, added tips, added rewards, finished.

Edited, Oct 20th 2006 at 11:37am PDT by VakuAdikaia

Edited, Oct 20th 2006 at 2:04pm PDT by VakuAdikaia

Idk all the sweets you use but but basic sweets work. i.e. cookies chocolate, etc. Trade to the exorcist NPC then find the ghost NPC they tell you to seek out. Now just follow them while in costume, when they stop, they will say something then a few sec later start moving again. After you hear everything they say (they wont say anything more once you have heard all that they have to say) return to the NPC and he'll give you your Witch Hat. If you get in their line of sight they will see through your costume aka True Sight :P. Also the messages are cumulative, so if you hear one and then they see you the message still counts as having been heard. This is what I've seen from my experience. You can only trade the same sweets once per game day too.

little mistake

Edited, Oct 20th 2006 at 4:09am PDT by SweetCharlene

my husband is mad because he will not beable to do this event because he is in Iraq. I am goin to do it since he can't. Hey hunny if u read this good luck and I love you

Witch Hat, finally a rival to the Santa Hat :D

What do you mean by the town being littered with bodies after getting close to the bombs?
it says that,"During the Harvest Festival, you will see decorations resembling the bomb monster.
See what happens when you approach these decorations in a party of two people wearing a certain combination of costumes..."

How can a "decoration" of a bomb monster kill you?

maybe it rewards you for figuring out the combination of costumes?

anyone know?

Woot I finally get to see a proper FFXI festival. This should be fun.

LOL! I can't wait to see the towns littered with dead players after getting too close to the bombs.

My first holiday on FFXI!!!! im excited lol

well appears that the new items are the body peice and hat peice that look sorta like blm af. I have always wanted that hat.... (tho ill prolly end up dumping it like i did to all the other halloween items after i got them >.< (20 stacks of garlic crackers ftw!))

Guess that means you are "the bomb." kek
God i hate myself.
WOOOOO HOLLOWEEN TIME!