Chocobo Bedding  

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haha the power of photoshop ^_^

not sure if this is the same thing but you said that the chocobo had "Moogle" over its head...so what im thinking is someone changed the charactor skin for the moogle into a chocobo on his/her PC.

that might be what it was.

If you have been following the posts about the Strange Apparatae which produces items from a Colored Chip and a Core (dropped in Dynamis but available at AH under other), there is a request for a password when you use the Apparatae. So far, no one seems to know the password. You can still get an item from the apparatae but the belief is that if you have the password, you might get something better or actually pick which item the machine produces. Anyway, in people's scouring of sites for any clue to the password, there has been a reference made to a quest from the Ru'Lude Garden Dining Hall. I wonder if this is the beginning of the answer to the password question.

Okay, the NPC guard's name is 'Maunadolace'. This is what he says:

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(what he says when you talk to him)
Maunadolace : I am Maunadolace of the Temple Knights, on order from the prince to watch the auction house. I would love to chat, but I'm on duty.

(what he says when you talk to his chocobo)
Maunadolace : A Fine chocobo, is she not? My tried and true companion, mine since she was but a chick.
Maunadolace : Admittedly, I'd rather be out in the field, doing battle with fiends, not standing here monitoring...commerce.

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This is all without any Chocobo Bedding in my Mog House. I've thought about trading some Chocobo Bedding to him, but it occured to me... you can't trade EX items. =P

Other possible NPC's that might have some role to play in any of this:
•Any NPC in or outside the chocobo stables in Upper Jeuno (likely because this is where the Chocobo Licence quest takes place)
•The Beastmaster you speak with during the quest to unlock the BST Advanced Job (likely because he owns a Chocobo Ranch from my understanding, also because he 'makes up' with his personal chocobo during the quest)
•Someone in or around the chocobo stable in your home country (likely because there are many quests that take place in structures from your own country [but not limited to that country][i.e. the Mog Safe Expansion series of quests])
•Your Moogle after having the Chocobo Bedding in the layout of your Mog House from before the sunday Conquest Update untill after it (likely because it might work exactly like the Mog Safe Expansion series of quests and similar quests [like how your moogle gives you Scope's Operetta {a Bard song-scroll} if you have a certain type of furniture in the layout of your Mog House]).

That's all I can think of... I don't have the time to thoroughly explore these possibilities, so I'm posting them here in hopes that someone who does have the time will read this and explore them him/herself.

[edit] Edited it to make the "Other possible NPC's that might have some role to play in any of this:" section a tad bit more readable.

Edited, Mon Oct 25 00:33:25 2004

Actually, if you stand in the far corner of the airship agency room, you can use tab to select the vendor in the airship-pass-only area and click enter... If you're in the right spot, you can buy/sell with him ;)

All of these new furnishings are sold all the time, regardless of the nation's place in conquest - before the servers died last night, I rode the airship to all three nations and collected the new furnishings. Bastok was in last place, and their store still carried it along with Copper Ore.

Edited, Thu Sep 16 12:01:05 2004

Yeah, I want a personal Chocobo so bad. Then we could do quests to change the color of our chocobo to our personal choice.