Cosmos Mission Log: Where's My Gundam?!

  On 26 JUN 2025

Today was my first time joining the new Cosmos Mission. When the bunny driver dropped me off at the base in the moon rover, the place was already packed—so many people gathering and crafting stuff.

It’s not just about gathering and crafting, though. Sometimes there’s an emergency alert, and everyone rushes to pilot these robots (crafters here casually call them "Gundams"—no idea why) or bulldozers to clear weird lunar fungi or minerals. But you gotta win the lottery for pilot rights. If you don’t, you can still join as a helper.

My mentor stuck around with me too. I checked the credit points per task, and… yeah, looks like I'll have to grind here daily to afford some outfits and emotes. But the stuff I really want—the spacesuit and the Gundam—are locked behind a lottery wheel. You need 1,000 points for one spin, and each crafting Mission only gives about 50. The drop rates are brutal too. Who knows when I’ll get lucky?

I totally forgot how to craft properly. Everyone's saying you need macros and food buffs to make anything decent. Luckily, the suit Enatsu made for me lets me crank out B-rank items even without any food buff.

Did three spins today—still no Gundam. Time to log off. My mentor, who’d been AFK this whole time, suddenly got up and said she is heading back to the construction shift.

My Mentor Stayed With Me Until Midnight

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Afternoon: Hung out in our FC house yard with Enatsu and my mentor. When my mentor found out I was working a shift at the RP venue later, she said she’d swing by to check out the place.

Evening: The venue was in the Lavender Beds (on another server). Clocked in on time—since it was an idol-themed cafe, most of us were either dancing on the stage in the main hall or entertaining guests.

Sure enough, my mentor showed up at the entrance. I was about to greet her when a guest walked in. She quickly sent me a /tell, warning me that she’d met that player before and they might act rude, so I should be careful.

Later, a bunch of staff and guests went into a private room to hang out. Things got wild—two staff members who lost a game had to act out a scene from some anime, complete with dramatic duel lines. No clue about the lore, but it was hilarious.

Next round, the losers had to fight in the Wolves' Den. Everyone headed out, and my mentor /tell’d me asking how it was going, saying she’d wait for me in the main hall.

At the Wolves' Den, we dueled in pairs. I was stuck as WHM against a SAM, so I just ran around healing until I ate dirt.

By the time we wrapped up, it was super late. Our shift ended, and everyone started dipping (leaving the party and logging off). I quick-ported back to the Lavender Beds to hop servers… and then realized I’d totally forgotten my mentor was still waiting at the venue.

Teleported back like “OH CRAP,” then met her at the aetheryte. We finally headed home together.

Big thanks to my mentor for sticking around that late just for me.

Got Kicked for Saying Hello

Once, while playing as a DPS job in a randomly matched dungeon, I greeted the other three players at the starting point. But as I was typing my greeting in the chatbox, they had already rushed ahead, and I could see hordes of enemies swarming toward them. After sending my greeting, I quickly ran over to join the battle.

After the first wave of enemies was defeated, one of the players said, "We're getting hit, and you're still typing."

Then, suddenly, a vote-kick prompt appeared on my screen. It must have been unanimously agreed upon by all three of them.

I believe greeting others upon first meeting is basic courtesy—at least, that's how I see it. In this world of Eorzea, due to the Roulette matchmaking, some people might only fight alongside you this one time.

At the time, I was furious. After leaving, I told NuomiTuan about it, and she said that two of them were probably a couple, and the third might have just gone along with the vote (if not their friend, it was blind conformity). She told me to check the logs and add them to my blacklist. When LemonCool heard about it, he also found it hard to understand their toxic behaviours and suggested to personally take me through dungeons to level up.

For a while, I didn't want to queue for dungeons anymore, afraid of encountering unfriendly players. But remembering the support of good friends, I mustered the courage to enter that dungeon again and continued forward with new teammates.

Not everyone will understand your actions, and not everyone shares the same values.

Hydaelyn is no longer here to protect us, but there are still friends who support each other, helping you stay strong and move forward.

Red Warrior Bot and a Friend's Thoughtful Gesture

Enatsu showed up at the Maelstrom Barracks with a fresh new haircut and said he had a gift for me. When the trade window popped up, I saw the item name but still had no clue what it actually was—looked like some kind of vehicle key, though. My best guess was a mount. Enatsu told me to head back to the residential district and try it out there since you can summon mounts in housing areas. That way, I could finally see what it looked like.

Once I got to my front yard and summoned it—boom, a red-colored robot appeared, complete with a cockpit for me to sit in. This thing was even carrying a glowing hot axe! Enatsu said people usually call it the "Warrior Bot" (since Warriors wield axes). He mentioned it was a rare drop from the Unreal version of some raid. Since I don't do any high-end content, there's basically zero chance I'd ever get my hands on something like this. Really grateful Enatsu always thinks of me when he's got cool loot to share!

Farming the Diadem for the Emote /lean

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When I was taking photos with my mentor, she asked me to do a certain pose, but I didn't have that "lean" emote. Turns out, you need to exchange Skybuilders' Scrips for it in the Firmament. So, I headed back to The Diadem in Ishgard to gather a ton of ore to get enough scrips.

After finally unlocking the emote, I went back to the photo studio where my mentor took me before. I checked out almost every room in order of their numbers—each one had such great interior design! I snapped some cool pics while I was at it.

From Blueprint to Reality: Enatsu's Perfect Window

I've always admired other players' interior decorating styles, especially how skilled crafters cleverly utilize certain structures to create windows that showcase outdoor scenery or lush garden courtyards. However, I never quite understood the specifics of how they achieved this or what materials were used.

While I was racking my brain over decorating the northern wall of my living room, I sent Enatsu a reference image, asking how to recreate the style in the picture. After looking at it, she said it shouldn’t be too hard to achieve. Then I logged off.

The next day, when I logged back in, I found that Enatsu had already recreated that window with outdoor scenery on the western wall of the basement. Judging by the timestamps of her messages, she must have stayed up very late to make it happen. Thank you so much, Enatsu.

MWp's Server Transfer Party

She said the items she put up for sale in the Shirogane (a server) market Board weren't selling—apparently, the population there is too small, and the market’s pretty dead. Since her mentor is in the Dragon’s Aery (my current server), she decided to transfer servers and settle here. Her name is Mermaid Warrior p (or MWp for short).

We first met in a Linkshell chat. Back then, LemonCool—who was helping me level—was worried that as a sprout, I’d have too many questions and no one to ask, so they added me to the channel so I could reach out anytime. Another mentor in that Linkshell was Bonwee. After a while, MWp showed up there as Bonwee’s student.

MWp and I chatted occasionally in the Linkshell, though not too often. Mostly, I'd ask for tips, and she'd help out. We first met in person at the Maelstrom Barracks in Limsa—she was there with her mentor, probably handling some business. That’s when I saw she was an Au Ra with those striking golden, glowing eyes.

Then yesterday, I asked about Blue Mage skills. Since you have to learn them by defeating monsters that had cast them, she offered to help me get some of the trickier ones, like from primals or dungeon bosses. But our afternoon run in Pharos Sirius (Hard) (one of the level 60 dungeon) didn’t go well—we kept wiping. She suggested waiting until evening so Bonwee could carry us. At the time, she still had the green sprout icon, meaning she hadn’t finished the MSQ up to 7.0 yet.

That night, Bonwee joined and luckily, we found a Party Finder group looking for mercenaries to help farm Blue Mage spells. They were two people short, so Bonwee dragged me in, and we cleared three primals—meaning I got three new spells. After that, MWp took me to fight a few more.

Today, she finally transferred and settled on Dragon's Aery, so I threw a little welcome party at my small house. Enatsu rushed to decorate the north wall before the ceremony, working all the way until midnight. MWp was really touched and told me to thank Enatsu for her. She’s planning to join the raid static team later, so if anyone’s putting one together, hit her up!

I dimmed the lights and asked MWp to make a wish, then pretended to blow out the candles. Even though we can't actually eat cake in-game, I hope her wish comes true anyway.