I've got a few tiger-related stories.
Tiger Horror Story#1:
I remember helping someone in my other LS get to Jeuno recently... I was only level 30, but I offered to help cause I like helping. ^^ I figured Invisible and Sneak would be enough to get us through. We went through Ronfaure and La Theine Plateau easily of course, and then when we got to Jugner Forest I tried casting Invisible on him and it wore off really fast...I decided to forgo Invis, at least for Jugner, where I could kill anything there. I decided I would deal with this problem when we got to Battalia...I'm lazy, lol ^^
Within minutes of entering the forest, we were ambushed by a tiger. We never saw it coming... I killed it, and then my MP was really low. I've always had problems with low MP...>.> So anyway, it took so long to heal after each fight that I decided to try invis again. It lasted much longer this time for some reason. I guess there's a lot of randomness involved in determining duration.
And so we went through Jugner using the "Invis and Sneak" method.. the method for the lazy. (Or the MP-challenged. =P) I had to heal MP from time to time, all that invis and sneak can get tiring. ^^;; I remember we rested at the outpost, and I tried to ask him "How much does it cost to set home point at this outpost" but I never got a real answer to that one...
By the way, at the time I had no idea what tigers aggro to ^^;, so I used both Invisible and Sneak at all times when around a tiger (which was often.) Finally, finally, we got to Battalia... My first thought was, "We did it! Finally...we're out of that evil forest of tigers..." then after that I thought, "Oh, wait... this is the hard part, where invis is not just a MP saver, here it's one false move and we're dead..."
We healed up and, nervously, continued on. The first time I needed to heal MP, we were backed up against the wall and there was a tiger nearby...I was so scared. He seemed to think tigers aggro to sound, (or maybe I told him that...) and he said not to move. He also asked, "your casting like 20 invis's on me, and like 2 on you what is with that" and I told him that invis sticks longer if you're higher level.
But it crept closer, ever closer, I don't think it noticed us, because it wasn't really chasing us, and we just needed to move, so we moved away from the tiger, I was scared it would hear us moving and aggro, but it didn't. They don't actually aggro to sound, luckily. ^^ Eventually, we saw the entrance to Jeuno!! I said, "We're almost there, that bridge is the entrance to jeuno." and he said, "are you sure it doesn't lead to a den of tigers?" and I said, "lol no.. my map says it leads to Jeuno. ^^"
But...there was a goblin right in front of the bridge! I wasn't sure how to get past it, I guessed we would just invis, but I was worried his would wear off...Just then, the goblin moved! we just walked on by, I forget if we had invis or not, but the gob didn't notice us. ^.^ And finally, finally, we made it to Jeuno...my feeling was not one of accomplishment, but relief. Then I helped him with the chocobo quest. He could only afford 3 gausebit grasses, so I bought him one. ^^ I'm nice.. I would give away a lot more gil if I had a lot to give.
And that is Tiger Horror Story #1.
Tiger Horror Story #2:
I had heard that RNG quest is very easy, and I thought it might be a fun job to level, and not super expensive like everyone says, cause I can make my own arrows. ^^ So I got the quest, and set off to Sauromugue Champaign to give it a try. I found the cave easily enough. I went in on a chocobo, noting the tigers outside the cave, but I did not worry about them, I figured they would not bother me on the quest itself, and afterwards I could use them to bloodport back.
At first, everything went fine. Then... the tigers came! *scary movie music* =P They just walked right into the cave, I tried to fight them...and died. >.< So eventually I got someone to help me, but everyone thinks it's so easy.. That's for people who can kill those evil, evil man-eating tigers.
Then it was pretty easy, he killed the tigers and I got ranger.
So far, it's only level 2...^^;
After those happenings, I hate tigers with a vengeance.
Edited because in the original version, the grammar was atrocious and practically nothing was capitalized.