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Participation

In keeping with the theme of the Celestial Nights story, each World Portal on the Linkshell Community site will be decorated with stalks of bamboo.
Thoughts are brought to another level of meaning when you put them into words. Just as the prince and princess in the legend expressed themselves through words, why not try composing a poem of your own?
Once these stalks of bamboo become heavy with poems and messages, something special might happen somewhere within Vana'diel!

Composing a Poem

Choose a theme from the list below, and write a poem in the haiku style describing events and emotions from your life in Vana'diel. A haiku is written with three lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively.

Themes: Adventure, Friendship, City, Synthesis, Harvest, Dungeon, Battle, Chocobo, Conflict, Quest, Mission, Assault, Besieged

Example:
- Adventure
Seeking for party
Alright! I got an invite!
Their reply: mistell

Displaying Your Poem

Once you've composed your poem, it's time to write it down on a strip of colored paper and hang it on the World Portal bamboo!
Follow the steps below to display your poem:

1. Log in to the Linkshell Community site!
First, log in to the Linkshell Community and take a look at the bamboo stalks decorating your World. Clicking on the strips of paper will take you to that Community's "official" thread where you can see the poems everyone has created.

2. Create an "official" Celestial Nights thread!
Next, create a new thread on the message board for your Community. By creating a thread following the below requirements, a strip of paper containing your Community's poems will be displayed in a random position on the World Portal bamboo.

Category: Official
Title: Celestial Nights
Comment: As in the example above, choose a theme, and enter your poem

*Each Community is restricted to one official thread.
*Official threads cannot be set to "Private."

3. Write your poem in the official thread!
Once you have created an official thread, the members of your Community can enter their poems (comments)!

*You must be logged in to the Linkshell Community in order to enter a comment.

We look forward to discovering the poets hiding among Vana'diel's adventurers!
Click here to access the Linkshell Community.

Event Details

Celestial Nights will commence at 1:00 on June 29, 2007, and continue until 1:00 on July 17, 2007.

*The special event in Vana'diel will begin once the bamboo decorating the World Portals are completely covered with Community poems.

Event within Vana'diel

Worlds that have completely covered their bamboo with poems will be rewarded with a special event in the following areas:

Southern San d'Oria
Northern San d'Oria
Bastok Mines
Bastok Markets
Windurst Waters
Windurst Woods

Adventure
Seeking for party
Alright! I got an invite!
Their reply: mistell

lol.

[Jhes]

Seems they really want people to use that linkshell community site

[Mike-sama]

I think its a cute Idea ^^.

[Nyamavu]

The dats from the last update showed 3 bamboo furnishing items; green, red and blue. Obviously the colors for the 3 nations. From what I can tell, if your server gets enough haiku poems posted, the event moogles show up in the game? Then you can do some quest to get the bamboo furnishings? Hopefully someone will figure out how to get them soon. I suck at poetry, so I don't think I'll be writing one.

[Redaru]

Watch this be like Outpost Warp several years ago (X-mas Treants when SE just GAVE it to every server in the end even those that failed to "earn" it.

[Teslithia]

I'm good at this kinda thing. So I can pump out poems really fast if you give me a topic.

Adventure:
No love for dragoons
Should have leveled warrior
What a waste of time

Friendship:
Items in bazaar
Set at maximum prices
All from a loved one

City:
Windy has tarus
Sandy has a good story
Bastok has last place

Synthesis:
You get your support
You face the right direction
And then you break it

Harvest:
Playing with the plants
And not making any gil
Is not a fun thing

Dungeon:
The overcamping
Of good xp areas
Is a bloody shame

Battle:
Berserk, Agrerror
Weapon skill to close skill chain
Grab hate, level down

Chocobo:
Racing and digging
Breeding to get a color
Spending all my gil

Conflict:
White Mage / Warrior
Summoner / Beastmaster and
Dragoon / Samurai

Quest:
Camping for hours
To claim a big quest monster
The RMT won

Mission:
Shouting in Jueno
Begging my linkshell for months
And I'm still Rank 6

Assault:
Stupid people lot
White Mages have no magic
Paladin gets all

Besieged:
Enemies coming
Ready to go to battle
I was kicked from zone

I said I could do it. I didn't say they'd be star material. There's 13 for you guys to fill up your tree. I don't have a shell on that comunity, so it's useless for me.

[Myrrial]

Quest:
Camping for hours
To claim a big quest monster
The RMT won

I said I could do it. I didn't say they'd be star material. There's 13 for you guys to fill up your tree. I don't have a shell on that comunity, so it's useless for me.

I stole this one for the Odin tree, Teslithia. It was just too good to pass up. Thanks for sharing 'em. I was having major writer's block.

I wonder how many of these things are going to need to be posted in order for the event to trigger...?

~Myrrial

[Psyvariar]

Here are a few I wrote on the Midgardsormr tree while bored at work. I'm no an English major...


- Battle
It's manticore time
Point them away from mages
Heat breath to the face

- Battle
Shish is main assist
Please wait for the macro guys
Don't melee statues!

- Battle
Anyone dragoon?
Anyone want it for points?
I guess its free lot!

- Battle

Everyone have soap?
Black mages, wait for skill chain.
We got Thief again????

- Friendship
Although friends may leave
We will never forget them
And we wish them luck

[Samiam]

This is a ploy to see which Playonline accounts post while they're logged into FFXI to have a mass banning for using windower. Good luck!

[Aladwar]

Maybe we'd actually use the Linkshell Community if it didn't suck so much...

[Eldarias]

Is this supposed to take the place of Summerfest or something? I hope not...

[Mewten]

Square wants us to think
about making poetry
this is very fun

[Shinjobi]

I used this one:

-Friendship

My good friends have left;
Mog house empty and quiet.
Memories cherished.


I CRIED!!!D=

[Cairthenn]

Anyone know how many Haiku are required to "fill the tree"?

Titan has..50 now. :con

[Eldarias]

Cairthenn :
Anyone know how many Haiku are required to "fill the tree"?

Titan has..50 now. :con

Where does it show how many a server has?

[Cairthenn]

It doesnt, you have to count them yourself. ;

And by 50 I meant 50 little colored tags dispalyed..didnt count them *all*..(like if one linkshell posted multiple, I didnt count that)

[GeneralRamuh]

i really didnt think SE could surpass the gayness that was the greeting card event a while back you remember shouts like "i need a 20s dark knight" and "anyone have a 50s bst?" ... but by god they have done it! amazing! lol

[Cairthenn]

GeneralRamuh :
i really didnt think SE could surpass the gayness that was the greeting card event a while back you remember shouts like "i need a 20s dark knight" and "anyone have a 50s bst?" ... but by god they have done it! amazing! lol

Yeah, really.

But indeed they have. We're at 53 now...maybe 60? It doesnt look like there can be too many more spaces left.

[Eldarias]

Something tells me they just start the event for all servers at the same time.

[hophopgirl12]

When do we get are swim suits?