Ok, there seems to be a bit of confusion between people regarding this quest, so I thought I'd clear things up for those of you who want to try it out, rather than sit here and complain about it.


First off, as I assume you already know, there are six locations with moogles:

Southern San d'Oria (K-9)
Northern San d'Oria (D-8)
Bastok Mines (I-9)
Bastok Markets (G-8)
Windurst Waters (F-5)
Windurst Woods (K-10)

Each of these moogles will give you the "quest" (though, its not realy a quest, its an event :P) To complete this quest, you must form an allianced party of 10 people, no more, no less; after, go talk to one of the moogles listed above (with your party/alliance still together) and receive your gifts.


The rewards of this are 4 different types rice cakes, each type turns you into a female child(Hume rice cake= Hume female child; Mithra rice cake= mithra child; Tarutaru rice cake= Tarutaru female child; Elvaan rice cake= Elvaan female child)
The ammount and type of rice cake(s) varies, not sure if this is random, or has to do with how many guys/girls in the party.
Also, this event can only be done once every Vana'diel day (yes, you can do the quest again when the Vana'diel clock resets to 0:00, you dont need to wait 24 game hours)

There have also been some rumors going around, a couple which I know are not true:

"You need a party of 6male and 4female characters"
This is not true, I've done this with a party of 4 male and 6 female characters and 5/5; there might be a need for a 9/1 ratio, I'm not positive about that.

"You can only complete the event once a day"
"You have to wait 24 hours to do the event again"
The first one here is true, but often mistaken. You can only complete this quest once every Vana'diel day. As soon as the game clock resets to 0:00, you can do the quest again.


Hope this little bit of info helps. If you see something wrong here, please correct me. :P


*edits*
If you create a new character, you must wait one untill the clock resets to 0:00 (the next day) before you can do the quest.

There is NOT another reward becides the rice cakes, no armor, no weapons, no furniture, just the rice cake foods.

There IS such thing as Elvaan rice cakes; just quite rare I guess.

Edited, Thu Mar 3 19:02:10 2005

C'mon...after the stinky Valentione's day "event" (whoa...a crystal I can't use is called an event!?) this is awesome. So they're not having some super-awesome event item, so what...at least it's something that involves everyone and that appears to have been thought out (unlike the event mentioned earlier).

Reading some of the posts for this event, it seems that there is a player haters ball going on. Really people, do you have to complain about how much the event s***s or how stupid others are? Also I see a lot of racism on this event forum. I feel sorry for you all. Well not really, cause in the end karma will catch up to you.

Oh Wow! Girl's Day in Vanadiel. Ever since I can remember my family (I'm Japanese/American) has celebrated this day 3/3 and Boy's Day 5/5 (we hang a fish for every "boy"). It is a wonderful custom and lets the children know they are important too. Rock on SE.

It doesn't need to be 4-6 i had 2x 5-5 partys moogle says And by the way, the 5 guys represent musicians who entertain the empress and emperor. I wish i could play an instrument, kupo!
i got 1 hume, elvaan and tarutaru cakes for doing this in windy my other character done this in bastok and got 1 hume and 1 tarutaru cake.

[edit] i noticed people complaining about this festival. noone is forcing you to take part in it so why complain about it. I think it is a good change of pace especially from the exp grind and experiencing other cultures is something you wouldn't experience in most other games. Kinda fun having my friend see me run by as a hume then come back to her a minute later as a taru she kinda freaked out hehe.

Edited, Tue Mar 1 17:20:41 2005

You need a 6:4 ratio. 6 men, 4 women.

One party of guys allianced with one party of girls, This will net you three of each cake.

Even if you dont enjoy this event, you can be like me: Be a greedy merchant and make money off it!!! 72K made already =)

Thanks for the background on the event. Now it's a lot more interesting since I know what's going on.

My elvaan male is now a little tarutaru girl. Heh. And I suppose for those who think the fest is dumb, I suppose there's no forced participation.

Me? I'm havin' fun. ^^

Doll's festival (March 3 of every year) is called hina matsuri in Japan, synonymous with "Girl's Festival". At this time, a family will display a set of dolls in their house, it is to wish their girls a happy and sweet life. That is also why sweet rice cakes are given out. Usually the participants of this festival are really young girls, but most can take part if they want. That's why you turn into baby girls :)

There is also a boy's festival too, where warrior type figures (samurai) are displayed. This is called tango no sekku, and is celebrated on May 3rd of every year.

It's good to learn another's culture! :) Hope this post explains some ...

do the rice balls give any special effect