(07-24-2017, 02:17 PM)Lydia Lightfoot Wrote: If anyone's looking for a way around the long sea voyage without handwaving, I have an a small plot wrapping up soon in which Lydia will be discovering, wholly by accident, the ruined site of an old Allagan transportation facility. She won't know quite what the place is, but, being a treasure hunter and doomed to die as a cat might (by curiosity), she'll end up activating it somehow, and... BAMF.
When she materializes, she'll be in a similar ruin somewhere else, though one in far, far greater disrepair - as in, unlikely to ever conceivably be functional again. She'll be unaware of it, but it's the sister site of the Eorzean chamber, and had been built there at the tail end of the Allagan civilization as a way for them to potentially begin exploring Othard, and then subsequently forgotten when their society collapsed.Â
A day or so of travel later and she'll find her way to Namai, and can use the aetheryte to go back and forth thereafter (albeit taxingly, as some have mentioned it really ought to be, given the distance).
Back in Eorzea, she'll discover that the teleportation device can still be used again, though it takes time to recharge itself and is only useful in a very limited capacity. Even were the likes of Cid himself to get to work on it, at best it'd be useful transporting individuals occasionally one-way to Othard, and not so potent as to, say, relocate an entire army. Worse, the Othardian side of it is totally beyond repair.Â
OOC, it'll be a convenient way for Eorzean characters to go get attuned on Othard and put the travel issue behind them. It's also lore-plausible, given that we see on Azys Lla that the Allagans certainly did create teleportation devices, and each had a specific destination point, just like this one does.Â
Anyway, if anybody else wants to get behind it, feel free to say - starting August 1st - that your Eorzean character made their first trip to Othard by way of the Allagan teleporter.
This is pretty cool actually. I enjoy ruins exploration / treasure hunting shenanigans in general.
For me, I decided to have my own character be wandering around already in Othard even before the events of Stormblood kicked off. He had the vague notion of visiting Dalmasca, but then got sidetracked and mainly enjoyed hanging out with the Xaela in Azim. If you want to have your character meet an Eorzean when she gets lost, we could arrange a fun scene
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