ACW tab Wrote:We use an interesting feature for company called the Advanced Character Workshop. While the Workshop itself is available for anyone to view, a key component to the Workshop is exclusively for Dark Embers members - the Advanced Character Worksheet.

The Worksheet has a two-fold purpose. The first is to help members bring more depth to their character by asking both common and uncommon questions about the character itself. The second is to give the storytelling staff character information that can be worked into the over-arching Company plot lines, making them more personal for our members. These story hooks can work hand in hand with personal plot progression the player is already advancing, and give other characters more chances to discover things about their fellows they might not otherwise find.

Only the storytelling staff has access to the completed Worksheets. The Worksheet itself is a form page on our site that members fill out and submit, in a similar fashion to the application to join the guild. Once submitted, members can make updates to their Worksheet in the Player Comments section, while the storytelling staff can discuss each Worksheet in the ST Comments section. Should a member feel there have been too many significant changes to their Worksheet, we can discuss archiving their original Worksheet so that they may fill out a fresh one.

Even if one doesn't decide to join the Dark Embers Free Company, we welcome everyone to take a look at the Workshop, as it has a lot of links to helpful articles and sites that even the veteran role player may find useful.

About Us tab Wrote:

Dark Embers was established during the beginning of winter of 2013. Many of the members had been gaming online via MMOs and platforms like Steam for several months to several years prior to the group's formation, while some had even been gaming offline via table top RPGs and LARPs for several months to several years. Everyone in Dark Embers loves games in all their different forms, in all different kinds of mediums, so expect to hear us geeking out about that variety.

While we do have an interest in a number of different games, we have chosen to have a single primary game as our focus. Currently, our primary game is Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, where we have a role playing progression PvE free company. We are keeping an eye on EverQuest Next, and some of us have been tooling around in Landmark off and on as a side game to get a better idea of what EQN might be like, though there's a question of how many systems are going to be shared by the two; eventually, we may transition from [i]FFXIV to EQN if that's what the majority of the group wants to do. We're also planning on playing Star Citizen as a side game whenever it releases - Chris Roberts is taking his time to do it right, so we're okay with waiting for it.

In the meantime, whenever the FFXIV servers are down, some of us tend to play Steam-based games like Path of Exile, Borderlands 2, and Civ5 together. There are a lot of games available on Steam, so we sort of just play whatever the people online at the time have; we just want to have fun while they work on the servers. A few of us also play Flight Rising, a browser based game by Stormlight Workshop.

Free Company Staff tab Wrote:

Edur Attwater

  

Edur is Claire's brother-in-law, and he manages some of the more menial, non-research related paperwork for the free company. This includes any permits the company needs from the three city-states, the various bills the company needs to pay concerning the estate in the Mist, and whatever project is being worked on in the closed wing of the free company house.

While he's usually an easy going, Edur will get a bit hot tempered if anyone tries to head into the upstairs area that has been closed off to the majority of the free company and public. He'll sternly remind people that Claire's ordered the whole upstairs to be off-limits with very few exceptions, and become a bit more forceful with each subsequent pressing - especially in the same altercation; if someone really won't take his warnings seriously, he will use physical force to ensure they don't go down the hallway, and report the incident to Claire or whichever company officer returns to the building first.

Lane Ealdwine

    

Lane is an associate of Claire's from the Path of the Twelve. Lane was essentially Claire's contact within the Path, and would often travel Eorzea with her prior to the Calamity. While many of the Path remained with the organisation, some left Ul'dah to check on their friends and contacts; that's when Lane and Claire were reunited.

Lane's current job is to handle contact/paperwork between Dark Embers and the three Grand Companies, and to recruit new talent for the company, which causes her to travel between the three city-states and is why no one really sees her all that often at the company house.

She's a generally energetic, outgoing individual who tends to be more optimistic than not, which makes most people wonder how she and Claire get along at all; a few people believe that Lane's public personality differs from that she uses behind closed doors, but if asked about it, she just rolls her eyes.

Damimi Dami

   

Damimi is a Plainsfolk Lalafell that basically keeps the interior of the house clean and in order. While Edur can manage paperwork, cook decently, and take care of certain projects, he's not exactly good with housework. So Damimi does all of that sort of work with another Plainsfolk woman, Selala Sela. Damimi always helps Edur cooks, or handles the cooking when Edur is busy.

She is an incredibly bubbly, cheerful Lalafell who speaks with a very happy, prim and high pitched voice that's a bit more rapid fire than most people can handle ((think a higher toned, faster speaking Mrs. Doubtfire)). Once she gets talking, it can be a bit difficult to get Damimi to shut up, and often times Selala must intercede on behalf of whatever poor soul has been waylaid by the excitable housekeeper.

Selala Sela

   

Selala is the second Plainsfolk Lalafell that helps keep the interior of the house clean and in order. She's less talkative than Damimi, but works just as hard. She is also more handy than Damimi, and does more in the way of repairs, being particularly skilled in carpentry.

She is quiet, speaking in a rather low and somewhat husky voice. She refuses to raise her voice, and will simply glare at anyone who talks over her until they quiet; her stare is quiet intimidating, and most people swiftly get the hint.

Unlike Damimi, Selala is apparently part of whatever project is taking place in the closed off level of the free company house, though she claims she only goes upstairs to clean - mostly just dusting and sweeping, changing furniture covers and such things. She also takes food back to Edur whenever he's working to long back there, and whenever the conjurers show up to provide whatever assistance they give, she will lead them back there.

Frydanbluom Bylgfaeldsyn

Peaceful Flower, Son of Fertile Field

  

Frydanbluom is a Roegadyn Sea Wolf gardener who is the grounds keeper for Dark Embers. Frydan is a very calm, almost shy individual who likes spending his time amid the plants more than he does out in the field or on the seas. His father died during the in fighting between pirates when he was very young, and his mother was a gardener for an Elezen household in Gridania; he ended up taking after his mother, clearly.

His voice is very soft, with a very heavy Lominsan accent, which is almost contradictory, given his history and his mannerisms. If people are too loud, he will simply clam up, and not speak again until they all calm down; he'll usually encourages them by handing everyone present some sort of pretty flower that has calming aromatherputic qualities.

Mister Attwater

As the company expanded, Edur found himself drowning in the ever increasing paperwork that came with a successful free company. His father, once the manager of a successful shipping company, stepped in to help manage the day-to-day aspects of the company, as well as help keep the armour and weapons of its members in repair; although he doesn't really say much, it seems Mister Attwater is a man of many talents.

Edur says his father used to be some sort of adventurer, however Mister Attwater just claims he's paid attention to a great many things over his long life - if he'd been an adventurer, he'd more than likely be dead by now than be a dad, he often says.

(08-05-2014, 12:17 PM)Narcisseoix Wrote: This looks like a rather interesting concept!

We've sent in multiple complaints to Enjin, but they haven't really done anything about it. 

We're very active in game, and on our own site. I haven't been active on here as of late because of how much time it's been taking to manage the free company (I run one company plot, and I am currently writing a plot leading into Heavensward) and my offline stuff. Apologies for the late reply here. 

Quote:Three.

There had been three cards, and three stars. I should have known then. Three brilliant lights in the heavens, and three dark cards on my desk, correlating perfectly with one another. The astrolabe never lies, nor does the deck that I had stolen from my mother before leaving for Eorzea.

The first, the trouble in the Sylphlands, has already born fruit and revealed the second. While Lin and her team search for the missing naturalists, another team went to investigate the corruptive disease afflicting the trees and the other flora in the nearer Sylphlands, and discovered that the shards that the bitch Lycelle created from the Void can infect not only creatures of flesh and blood, but also Treants, which can then infect plants through their roots.

During the battle with the Treant, a large branch broke off, but remained animated. The corruption was that strong. It attacked three of the casters that had been with the group - Lionnellais, the Kid, and Jawantal - with a swing of its branching body, cracking their ribs, triggering the Brooding One’s sensitivity to corruption, and given the Kid’s frail nature, his ribs broke and damaged his lungs.

The remaining mage, barely more than a kit himself, Zekaru’li Rakiu, managed to channel the energies of the group and call down the power of the stars, alighting the Treant; fire was the only way to kill the damn thing, and that was the only way they could manage to do it with just summoners, healers, and melee combatants there. Even with Zakrin warming up, and an Ifrit-Egi swiping at it, they needed more fire than that to take it out before it corrupted someone. These Void-plague shards are viscious that way.

Oddly, it is the third that troubles me the most.

The rumours that come from Coerthas bother me. While most worry over the issues the Scions have uncovered, the issues surrounding the drawn out Dragonsong War, my mind turns towards the fact that the commoners may be caught between a rock and a hard place.

Tierell and Di’tirin have heard that the common folk may be turning to the heretics not because they believe in this Saint Shiva’s rhetoric, but because they tire of the Holy See’s corruption of Halone’s teachings, of the Holy See’s treatment of those who are not noble born, they tire of being unable to follow their stars because of the sins the Holy See has committed, because the Holy See continues to go against their destiny and dooms all of Ishgard - they turn to the heretics in desperation, not in belief.

And the heretics welcome them with open arms.

Of course, the heretics will use the common folk just as the Holy See does, but they coat their abuse with promises of freeing them from the shackles the Holy See places on them, with promises of equality after the Holy See has been destroyed. They paint their supposed Saint Shiva as a deliverer, yet they do nothing more but potentially lead the common folk into the arms of a Primal-like being. And possibly the rule of the Dravanians, who may be cruel in their madness, as they have forgotten their destinies just as the Ishgardians have.

Then there are the Dravanians, readying to assault the Ishgardians with the full might of their people for the first time in centuries. The forces are likely more than the forces of the Holy See are capable of handling, and they likely are going to use the common folk as fodder in their campaign, or at the very least, leave them the least guarded.

Ishgard is not ready for the attack that is coming.

Above all, I worry for the true people of Halone. As the Scions ready to stand with the Holy See, and will draw in those of Eorzea who are willing to help, I personally am preparing those of the Embers who are willing to stand to protect the commoners from their many threats.

The Embers are preparing to go to war - against the Dravanians, against the heretics, and against the Holy See. We will fight to the last breath to protect those who are forgotten in the Dragonsong War, to free them from the archaic caste system that leaves them for dead when their betters no longer have use for them, to keep them safe from those who would prey upon them in their most desperate hour, and fight their ancient enemy once their oppressors are struck down.

Should these rumours prove correct, we shall fight against even those we know as friends if they cannot see they are allied with the monsters in the snow; we can only hope they can see sense in time.

“Lances of light herald the dawn,
Beckoning shadows deeper still.
Splendour dances with shades
Unsheathed, a rime kissed blade
Spills crimson o’er fields of white.”

…I believe I know what he meant by it, you stupid bard…

And so the Embers shall go into Ishgard…