I am holding a Gift-Giving Festival on Monday the 26th in the Evening, some might call it a Winter Festival. This replaces my ENM Run on the 26th because it is December and folks are too busy for FFXI Events other than silly ones.

If you play the game strictly for levels, gil and/or experience - and that is the only reason you play - you do not want to come to this Event. We did a Gift Exchange on my other linkshell and some enjoyed it; pretty much a mindset kind of thing. I could understand if someone had other in-game interests they wished to pursue during the same hour. For my gift on the other linkshell I gave 3 stacks of fresh black sole sushi (I cook, after all).

Clan Winter Festival starts at 9PM Eastern Time in North San d'Oria and runs for only an hour. If you are interested in the gift portion you post here. Not much will be happening except exchanging some gifts, shooting off some fireworks. We meet by the fountain and the trees, of course.

The Mistress of Gifts is a Mithra named Santaclaws; she exists for those to send their presents to if they cannot be online but want to participate. Since the presents show up in the delivery service with no gift tag on them the character's name you will be acquiring a gift for gets posted to this thread; I will be generating a list of Event participants. If you don't want to participate in the gift portion, but want to show up for fireworks then don't post to this thread - just show up. If you do want to participate in gifts and do plan on showing up then you can hold onto your gift to exchange in North San d'Oria at the proper time.

Here is the sort of posting I need to see for GIFT EXCHANGE Participants:

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Tamara (Mithra)
Primary job is WHM, currently below level 50
but I do have scrolls of HOLY and RAISE II in my safe
Secondary job is SMN, currently below level 24
Crafting (hobbies) are: Fishing (34 skill) and Cooking (99 skill)
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Post your character's name and main job levels here if you wish to participate in the Clan Gift Exchange.

The cut-off to participate in the Gift Exchange is by U.S. midnight (11:59PM Pacific) on the 22nd. On December 23rd I will /random to match you with your Gift Partner and I will post the results here. Hopefully on the 24th, the 25th, or the 26th you will find a chance to review whom you are giving a gift to.

Brief example of how the Gift Exchange List I will be generating and posting may turn out:
Tamara gives Maior a gift (I tend to give food).
Thersites gives Malkier a gift.
Kitchel gives Avatarx a gift.
Maior gives Kitchel a gift.
Malkier gives Tamara a gift.
Avatarx gives Thersites a gift.

For characters with jobs < 20 remember these items you could likely farm:
silk thread (crawlers) is now worth about 4,000 gil each
fresh mugwort (harvested in Giddeus) is now worth 13,000 gil each
stack of wild onions (Goblin Thugs) is now about 26,000 gil

Happy Holidays and remember the Winter Festival/Gift Exchange Event is really just for fun! It is not intended to advance your character in the game nor make you rich! Of course I recognize folks may be too busy for this (it is December) so if I do not get four names besides myself on this thread I will just cancel the entire event =^_^=

The Even-Numbered Monday ENM Runs I host will begin again on January 10th, 2006 at 9PM in Jeuno.

Happy Holidays!