Crystal Wars Revisited

As I was tromping through Northern San d'Oria after returning from a fishing trip, I happened to talk to a Moogle who had many adventurers gathered 'round. It seems that Moogles from the three nations (San d'Oria, Bastok, and Windurst) are having an argument about which was the most instrumental nation fighting against the Beastmen during the Crystal War 20 years ago. It's silly to me that the Moogles are even arguing over this - but then again, you know how Moogles get!

To end their argument and decide once and for all which nation is the best, the Moogles decided to have a little competition. They're asking adventurers to infiltrate some of the Beastmen strongholds around Mindartia and steal shards of their crystal collections. Naturally, my San d'Orian pride wouldn't allow me to pass this opportunity up. So, after talking to some other adventurers, I found out the location of one of the crystal collections in the Orc stronghold of Davoi (E-8 on the Davoi map - the Screaming Pond).

I made a trip out there and upon arriving, I saw the crystal was guarded by one of the biggest, nastiest Orcs I'd seen in a long time: Warder Neckchopper! It certainly seemed like the Beastmen (or at least the Orcs) were on to our little game already. Shortly after I had arrived, one of the adventurers in the area decided to engage the huge Neckchopper. He quickly called for help and all us adventurers in the vicinity joined in the battle.

I called out Courier Carrie for some help and while my crab was actually doing the slightest bit of damage to Warder Neckchopper, I wasn't even making a scratch. This guy strength was truly impossible to gauge! With all of the adventurers attacking at once, we eventually had defeated the huge Orc - but it wasn't easy. The original adventurer ti engage it was already knocked out during the battle. After a kind White Mage raised the fallen San d'Orian, everyone collected a few more shards and returned to San d'Oria. I turned in six shards after that run and the Moogle gave me some dandy spectacles (cool sunglasses) for the effort.

With the Warder Neckchopper down, I decided to take the opportunity to collect as many more shards as I could. I made seven more runs between San d'Oria and Davoi over the next couple days and collected a total of 20 shards for San d'Orian honor! The Moogle gave me a pair of fancy spectacles in return for all the effort. Not only do the glasses make me look pretty cool, they really help my accuracy. Unfortunately they aren't any good at all at night.

It's quite a bit of work going back and forth between Davoi and San d'Oria (an exceptional amount of travel time), but I am happy to have been of service in keeping my country's honor. I'm sure San d'Oria will prove to be the best at the Moogles' little Crystal War revisited.