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There are many Strange Apparatuses around Vana'diel.

Check this website out posted on the Mystery Tour website:
http://mysterytour.web.infoseek.co.jp/ffxi/us/tips/strangeapparatuses.htm

There you'll find out exactly what it is and what you need to trade to it for random items which are:

– Infinity Core - Dropped in Dynamis and one of the new BCNM 60 fights or you can buy in the Auction House for anywhere of 4,000 - 100,000 gil
— Compatible Chip - Bought in semi-hidden Goblins in San d'Oria, Bastok, and Windurst for 21,000 gil

Just look at the above website for all the details.

There is just one thing that the website does not explain or is unknown to so many, this is what the password you have to put in is for. There is an 8 digit password that no one knows about. It's so mysterious.

When you examine the apparatus you basically get this:

It is some sort of device.
(Some clue is put here that indicates what elemental chip you are supposed to use)
The voice of a young woman rings in your head.
"Wel…to the…morph Matter Emulato…
Inser… an infinity core and…elementally c…patible chip to begi…item replicat…process…"
"If you…registe… doctor, emula…settings will…djuste…accordin…"
"…emulator…ill now conduc…user auth…zation. Please inp…your 8-digit passw…"

(A password box comes up in the text area and you can enter whatever your heart desires. Whatever password seems to be put in, which I'm sure is wrong, the following message will come up)

"Passw…error…"
Reg…tration comple… Your access lev…is assistant."
The voice in your head has gone silent.

Then if you trade an infinity core and whatever chip is compatible to the Strange Apparatus, a short cutscene occurs showing the machine operating, and then this appears on your screen:

The voice of a young woman rings in your head.
"…commencin…rocess.."
You obtain (Random Item).
"Syste…shutting…own."
"It is….will…Altan….
…heaven…lory….ve…mercy…"
The voice in your head has gone silent.

After you do this and target the Strange Apparatus again, it comes up with the message you started with in the first place.

If you DON'T trade the right Elemental Chip, what happens is an NM Elemental spawns. This is NOT something you want to happen.

I imagine that the only reason for doing this is to get the Arcane Flowerpot or a level 70 weapon. You just have to get lucky with the random Item that is given to you.

 

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Now that that is out of the way, just when you thought I was done, I have more. There are rumors that to me are unverified. I'll make easy on all of us and just list them. The ones with the stars by them are the ones I think are true:

1 - If you keep using the same password over and over you gain status of "Assistant" until you reach "Doctor" Status.

2 - When you go to all of them and use the same password you will gain the rank of "Doctor" status.

*3* - If you gain Doctor Status you won't lose the Infinity Core that you use, only the Elemental Chip, hense the name "Infinity Core."

*4* - The strange apparatus holds a bigger role in the Chains of Promethia expansion for FFXI.

*5* - Infinity Core prices are dropping a lot in the Auction House
(Going for as low as 30,000 gil now on some servers)

6 - The only reason Infinity Cores go in and out of the Auction House quick is because people are buying them thinking that when they DO figure out how to use them effeciently, they'll be worth more money.
(I think that this is false. Someone HAS to know what they are used for! It maybe true for some people, but try to talk to the people who are buying them, you don't get really any good responses)

7 - No information exists on English or Japanese servers about this as of yet.
(Who knows if this is true. Anybody know both English and Japanese and can scroll through them for us?)

*8* - They all are hidden by inside an invisible wall.
(This is true, definitely)

*9* - None of these are really guarded by anything at all pass the hidden wall.

10 - At Dangruf Wadi, it is protected by Goblins (Buthers and Ambushers) and There is a stone pedestal that has a ??? at the exit. There's nothing unusual about it when examined so something might have to be traded to it or something activated for it to have a comment or two.

11 - The invisible walls can be targeted.
(uh… I don't know about this one)

12 - These are connected to the mysteries of the Crags
(I doubt it. They have to have their own thing going on. It may be connected, the whole world of Vana'diel is connected somehow, but not the way people are talking about.)

13 - There is a quest to that involves the Strange Apparatus
(Whoever got told this was LIED to. Ha ha. Curently there are no quests, there maybe in the future, but not this expansion.

14 - The Strange Apparatus is something you deal with on the Zilart Missions.
(Um… I have no idea about this one.)

15 - Rumor has it the password is 44981567.
(This was posted on ffxi.Allakhazam.com and is, yet, another false statement ^^)

What are my personal thoughts about it? I'm glad you asked.

Maybe there are clues in San d'Oria as to what the password is. The the reason why I say this is because it mentioned something about the Goddess of Altana if you actually trade an Infinity Core and Elemtnal Chip saying:

The voice of a young woman rings in your head.
"…commencin…rocess.."
You obtain (Random Item).
"Syste…shutting…own."
"It is….will…Altan….
…heaven…lory….ve…mercy…"
The voice in your head has gone silent.

I imagine the translation is something to the effect of "It is the will of Altana heaven, glory, love, mercy…" Maybe there are more things in San d'Oria that is the "will of Altana" that we are over-looking here. Are there more things than heaven, glory, love, and mercy? This might have NOTHING to do with it, but then again, who knows?

Anyway, any new information about this would be VERY much appreciated. In the mean time, who's up for a BCNM? ^^

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