Unsung Heroes Presently:
Vylbrand Times Monthly Newsletter!
Caption from “Despair Only Burns†Ch2 Unsung Heroes Story-Arc
March Edition
Vylbrand Times Monthly Newsletter!
Caption from “Despair Only Burns†Ch2 Unsung Heroes Story-Arc
March Edition
Fond Farewell... Welcome Aboard
First of all, I would like to welcome everyone that has joined us over the last few months. We've had a wild start and continuing to go strong. Every guild has a transition or pattern they go through and I'm proud of each of you all for sticking with us during times. With 2.2 around the corner, we can expect to see much more on the PVE side and even more on the RP side!
With that said, our first order of business is to wish Esh Arii, one of our officers who recently had to leave the best of luck. We hope one day you'll return to us and always be considered family! Once a USH'er, always a USH'er! In the recent shuffling of our officer staff, I'd like to welcome formally Z'attano, Nykkus, and Severin to our officer family. They've been tasked with many different duties and they are well suited for the job.
Raiding Agenda
Since August, we've been officially part of Final Fantasy 14. We've broke past 6 months and still going strong. For this I want to thank each of my members. As some things to look forward to in 2.2, we will be continuing to run Coil T1-5 to finish the content and allow players to see it all versus just rushing to the next tier. In addition, we'll be aiming to start T6-9 once we're geared and everyone is comfortable. We have currently three coil teams in place: One that runs from 7pm CST to 10pm, another that runs 9pm CST till 11 or 12 pending on how we feel past 11, and one that's currently forming that's TBA as far as times players are available. Currently, we have a number of spots open, while we prefer to take FC members first, we will be looking beyond the FC until the roles are filled in a timely manner.
Upcoming Events/Information
As per our calendar, we will continue to use it to place times that we'll be hosting events, whether it be PVE oriented things like primal night, fund-raising night with t-maps, or role-playing events. So please make sure that you access our Calendar as we post events weekly as they go. I also encourage everyone to come out and support Seer's race event March 23rd, Sunday at 2pm. It'll be a great time and I feel that we should represent ourselves as a whole at it the best we can.
More information about the Race here:
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FF14 RPC
We will try to do one solid public event for everyone to come, once a month. It may be a ball, a race, a tournament or a variety of things but we will need the FC as a whole's help to achieve these goals.
As for the Academy, classes for RP have resumed and there is folks ready to move up to the next tier. We'll post in the next newsletter from an in-character stand point those that are graduating and take a few screen-shots of that. Don't forget, classes aren't just sitting in a classroom, we do field-trips galore and the experiences are meant to motivate and delight! In addition, we will be focusing on some more Academic social events, fund-raising and other avenues in the near future to bring back that lively spirit of the Academy. Remember, social role-play is a lot of fun when done right! It allows folks to get to know your characters outside of the adventures and world!
Monday's Meditation Class 3/17/2014
In light of more social role-play, we will also be working on weekly or bi-weekly tavern night, which requiring volunteers to support us in our endeavor. A tavern night, in which Dryce has graciously offered to help run it in an icily level, giving folks that living bartender feel. It's designed to be a place of information, business, shady deals, and general social fun! We've located a tavern spot in a very nice location that we will be using and announce this further as we get closer to launching the grand opening of it.
Story-Arc Roleplaying
Chapter 2 continues to go strong with our attempt to maintain once a week dedication to this. It takes quite a bit of work dming and planning out the terrain we're going to use. One thing that I like to stress cautious, we like to use realism in the story arc and what characters do directly does affect the story and the outcome. I like to keep these stories semi-freeform for many reasons. I also like taking a scenario and seeing you the player run with it. We have a few more such as Ihrie that also enjoy creating dynamic immersive roleplaying with dming. So you'll never be bored on the adventures, stories, you name it.
We'll also be planning a side mission that will take the characters to another place, handling diplomacy and a sensitive mission. More details to come out. In addition, one of these story-arc chapters we'll be doing more of a public event for it that inevitably leads to a different perspective of roleplaying. I am holding back much information on this until the time arrives, all I will say is that Lord Iqyr is having a festival to celebrate the latest success of his projects, no one knows much about this guy – or what he's playing at!
Additionally, for players who want to jump into this deep immersive roleplaying, there is numerous ways to get the player or character involved. Don't hesitate to contact me. If folks are looking for an FC or even recently joined and want to join us through this story-arc, don't hesitate to contact me!
Fundraisers!
In order to continue to fund our roleplay town project, we're going to need folks to continue to help ont his agenda. There are numerous ways to donate from treasure map nights, leves, dungeon nights, and general things of that nature. We will also be continuing our lottery system that we've done in house, but we may eventually open it to a public forum as well.
Currently, we are at a bout 10.3 million gil, so we have a long ways to go. So with that, we're going to do some more public fundraising events such as another date auction, a masquerade ball, among other things. So don't forget to stop by and participate in these events! Additionally, we'll continue to roll out events on the public forums much like Seer has done with the previous date auction and race. Remember, these events take time to plan and prepare. We tend to talk about these events over a month in advance because we want to time it right for flexibility and making sure everyone has a great time!
Anyway, that's all for now. Don't forget, our guild meeting is tonight 3/19/2014 at 7:30pm CST! This concludes our monthly newsletter oocily. We'll try to roll out the April edition much sooner! If you got roleplaying or OOC articles you'd like to add! We'll fill it into these newsletters! Trololo is our editor for the In-Character Newsletter side of things but I'll be helping where I can!
Thanks again!
Elisea Renyven
Guildlead of USH
Headmistress of Vylbrand Academy
IC Section:
A Note from the Chief Editor, Trolo Lololo
Greetings, denizens of Limsa Lominsa, and all other subscribers. I have been brought on board the School of Artisans at the Vylbrand Academy for Mystics, Tactics, and Trade (whew, that is a mouthful - and, by the way, I do mean "brought on board" in a figurative sense, as the Academy is not a vessel, to my knowledge - though I digress severely) to edit and publish this journal, the Vylbrand Times. It is my hope that I can inform, inquire, and inspire—even perspire—to meet the needs of all students, faculty, and other affiliates in a coherent, entertaining fashion.
Although I have only been involved with the Academy for a matter of hours, I do aspire to become closely knit with the community and even to find a romantic interest from within, with whom I would gladly elope if it occurred at a convenient time for all parties involved. But enough of my personal ambitions. I plan on publishing articles that are relevant to matters at the Academy on many levels: from editorials on local traditions and holidays to profiles on outstanding (or ordinary) members of the community. My previous experience at The Raven has taught me that keeping up to date on everyone and their mothers is the first step toward understanding current events on a broader scale. In short, what appears on these pages will be exactly the stories you would like to read; nothing more, and most certainly nothing less.
And with that, I welcome you to the inaugural issue of the Vylbrand Times. Enjoy, but please do not lose any sleep over this.