(07-14-2015, 08:33 PM)Kellach Woods Wrote: To me, Gridania is boring - because absolutely nothing happens there in both MSQ and actual happenings. Like seriously when your worst troubles are a bunch of birdmen without wings, salad and poachers you don't have problems.I'll admit this made me laugh mainly because in my head I could just hear Dheina shrieking and throwing a tantrum.
There's the whole thing with the elementals and having to be careful not to piss them off or they could go after everyone nearby and wipe out towns/cities, and the whole Calamity thing didn't help at all with their stability.
Also the issue with how strict natives tend to be even over smaller things because holy shit what if this pisses off the elements SHUUUUUNNNEED (as shown with that one quest for this kid being shunned years ago because he stole some seeds or flowers or something to give to his sister because they were her favorite. Managed to survive and then steals shit from other people to give to his sister because he really cares for her even then, even if she has no clue who he is. Personally the quest broke my heart because holy shit harsh punishment for some kid stealing just some seeds for his sister. There's some real terror the locals have to go through to end up being that harsh about minor things because they're that afraid of the elementals and that they may get pissed off at something small like that, that one person (esp a kid) did and decide to take them all out.
I did a lot of research for Dheina as she's supposed to be from the Twelveswoods, and while I'm sure there's A LOT I don't know about what's going on I got the general idea of what natives would go through and while yeah I get annoyed at how they act with outsiders and even each other, and a lot of my non-natives get kind of pissy or even play pranks on natives to mess with them as a "Fuckin' shit pull the tree out of your ass and relax", I still understand why they're like that.
The Twelveswood is harsh man, nevermind the birdmen and poachers. That's just like scratching the surface of the problems.
And oh man, I know Dheina's not very threatening being the itty bitty skitty kitty that's obsessed with pink things and flowers, but she has attacked people before (mostly verbally) for something that wouldn't seem like that big of a deal to most people, but being a native, especially a very skittish panicky one, she freaks out and fears that it may bring down the wrath of the forest on everyone.
Going in to Conjury didn't really help her either with the whole "maintain the balance and don't anger the elements" thing.
It really is a personal thing, but half the time I noticed the lack of interest tends to come from not paying a whole of attention to a thing in general because the overall theme to it didn't strike a cord with someone personally....
Like the whole thing with Limsa and focusing on hurrdurr pirates and cutthroats hell yeah badassery and oh no the rogues guild ruined it because honor among thieves? Boring
(Where Kal would disagree and more than happy to kick another Lominan's face in if they cross certain lines. She's very big on at least crew unity and common goals/wellbeing and has seen what kind of troubles can happen just on the smaller scale of a ships's crew. She applies the view to the larger scale of the city and nation and she's find with people doing shit for personal gain, as long as it's not being harmful to the "crew" overall. Mainly because it's a view of "We got enough shit to deal with from outside threats and yer turnin' yer swords on yer people instead of yer canons against our enemies. A crew without unity is no crew at all, but jus' a mass of drowned men! I ain't got no problems cuttin' yer throat if yer jus' gonna add to the problems we already 'ave. Ya ain't gotta like everyone 'ere but in all our interests not ta be completely fuckin' over each other. Ya could easily enough be fuckin' over the other fucks from other cities that flock in fer trade")
(Also horray for Merlwyb's speech)