Alright everyone, since meeting our 50 million gil goal for a housing upgrade to a large size mansion, gil contributions have understandably stopped coming in for housing.

However, yesterday it was discussed buying as many as three houses for Free Company use (two would be personal houses of leadership positioned near the main mansion with open permissions) and decorate them similarly to establish the first-ever multiple-building free company Campus on Brynhildr. This would give us room for far more activities, such as a permanent ballroom for event hosting, a student lounge complete with fully-stocked bar and spare dormitories, and even classrooms that our professors could use as an in-game meeting space in which to teach. We would also double our gardening capacity.

This is a lofty goal, and for the most part this is optional, but with everyone’s help we can raise the additional funds by patch 4.1 to make this a reality.

Let’s revitalize the housing fundraiser! For those who are new, the housing fundraiser works like this: anyone who matches Headmistress Kela’s contribution to the new house gets free crafted furniture from her for life. Your personal room, check. Your personal house, check. Anything you want crafted, mats will be provided free of charge. Multiple people can win this prize, anyone who meets the threshold qualifies.

Let’s check out the current standings as of when we met our goal, shall we?

Right now the threshold is about 12 million gil (Kela may or may not have it in her to contribute further 😉 ). The new goal is a total of 70 million gil, which will purchase the plot 30 Shirogane mansion and the medium-size house nextdoor. Another four million will guarantee the purchase of the last remaining house on that cliffside, the small cottage, but that’s low priority so let’s just take it one step at a time. In addition, any contributions over the stated goal also count toward your total and will go toward furnishing and supplying FC properties.

Contribution is totally optional, and regardless of the money donated everyone will be free to use all properties. If you would like to contribute, simply donate money in the FC chest and Kela will update her spreadsheet with the relevant data.

Please let Kela know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you!

UPDATE apparently if you tell George Hyrule you’re raising money he’ll take you up on that.

George is now solidly in first place and beating Kela by about five million gil, and the new threshold for winning the prize is now 15 million gil. Our new goal is 100 million gil, for purchase of three houses and a construction permit/furniture fund. If we get to 100 million, please don’t feel like you have to stop if you want a shot at the prize. There will be plenty of furniture we need, plus we can always open a personal room grant fund to people who’d like a personal room but can’t afford it. Basically go ham, Kela can make furniture for days it’s not a big deal.