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TRANSPORT

Walking	Because of the immensely vast size of Vana'Diel, walking from A to B can really be really big a pain. Trying to get from one A to B which can be great distances apart from each other, can take at least a good hour and a half. That is if you run from almost every battle that is encountered that is. Usually, if you fight every battle you encounter on your journey from one place to another at your end destination it is not uncommon to find many people kneeling on the ground. Why do they do this you say? To regain HP and MP for their next journey.
Chocobo	Once your character reaches level 20, you are able to ride a chocobo! This is a much faster method of transportation other than walking (well duh). It costs 100 gil to ride a chocobo, plus an extra 10 gil for every player that is riding, or departing a chocobo. Monsters can still chase you, but they cannot catch you or harm you (thanks to a patch... Huraa!!!). Chocobos can be rented at Jeuno, and the price of the chocobos decreases as you continually surpass level 20. They can only be rented, and once you get off the chocobo, it runs away (like FF6). You must first accomplish a quest before you can ride a chocobo.
Boat	Riding the boat in Vana'diel, is one of the fastest ways of getting from continent to continent. This isn't a free service, however, and costs 100 Gil which does not seem a lot when you consider how much time is cut off your journey. The boat ride however is not without its perils as Pirates (A monster called Crossbones) can sometime ambush you with their boats, and board your ship! (which is not a good thing). Aswell these pirates unfriendly octapuses can also attack the ship (which are also not a good thing). You'll know if either if these things are going to happen to you when on the boat, because the music will stop playing, and everything will be quiet for a about minute. (the calm before the storm). When you are attacked you have to be at least level 30 to have a chance at winning.
Airship	This is the 'safest' way in the sense of transportation. It costs quite a high price considering everything. It costs 200 Gil for one ticket. You need a rank of at least 5 to be able to use the airship. The interior of the airship is beutifully designed. It has a sort of 'high class' theme to it. Don't worry! As up till now, you can't be attack by birds or anything like that while riding on the airship though seeing what happed to the ships makes you thing that something is going to happen sometime in the future. It takes about 3 minutes (real time) to get from one place to the other.