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Warren Castille

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  1. Grindstone #291 complete! Congratulations to Binxi Saphe on his second victory!
  2. Hey I remembered to update the thread this week! Last week's victor Rhoa Yhisa turned up to compete this week but was quickly struck down by the curse! Lo and behold, the instrument of the curse would then go on to win the whole tournament as well. Congratulations to Ylva Ironfist!
  3. Another night, another Grindstone! The final bout came down to two new faces, but ultimately only one of them could emerge victorious! Congratulations to Ceresa Blackburn!
  4. The second Grindstone of 2019 is all wrapped up! Tonight saw 60 fighters line up for a chance at victory and when all was said and done, we had only one fighter left standing! Congratulations to Xiscys'a "Feather" Juun! (I lied about having pictures this time)
  5. New year, new resolution to keep the thread bumped! I sadly don't have any pictures because I forgot to set up new folders and they errored out on me, but hey! Last week saw a fairly successful end of the year FIGHT AUCTION NIGHT and tonight began the new "season" of the Grindstone! Congratulations to our first new winner, Joyce Blythe! ...next time, more pictures.
  6. https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-xivs-player-run-tournaments-embrace-the-f-1829911284 Feel free to read into this, I sure as hell have. (If this is the wrong place for a topic feel free to shunt this wherever is best appropriate.)
  7. Annnnnd we're back! Despite going a bit quiet over the summer the Grindstone has continued to run each and every week. Last night marked the 257th edition of this event and we're happy to present Binxi Saphe as our newest winner! Binxi's no stranger to the event and was finally able to climb the mountain. Hooray!
  8. Two weeks left until the next Fight Auction night, taking place on July 7! Congratulations to tonight's newest debuting champion, Arin Tayuun!
  9. It's normal to wait a few weeks between posts for a weekly event, right...? Anyway! Congratulations to Freyja Odinsdottir, Livicette Rillemont and Rokuro Dataq for their victories! For some reason I don't have a shot of Freyja, but here's our other two recent champs! In other news, we're happy to announce that July 7th will make the return of our semi-annual Fight Auctions! I'll put together a new thread with the details, but it will largely operate the same as the previous ones, where people can bid gil on who their first opponent will be. As always we'll also be allowing people to bid on the ability to fight Grindstone staff, so everyone who wants to fight Judge, mark the date!
  10. What's this?! The Grindstone managed to end before 1am?! Unpossible! Oh, but it IS possible, and thanks to new champion Kira Mura we're all able to go to bed at a reasonable time!
  11. Hey, the thread's being updated again! Last week's Grindstone saw Evening Fist repeat his previous victory, making him one of the rare few to not only win multiple times, but to do it in back to back weeks! This week we crowned yet another first-time-fighter as our new champ. Congratulations to Temujin Moks, who won the night with a giant suplex!
  12. Tonight's Grindstone is in the bag! It's been TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY WEEKS since this thing began and we're proud to crown the newest champion in Evening Fist who finally takes home the title after numerous tries. He had to best multiple promising newcomers to do so, and to be honest we all expected one of them to take the whole thing! nepotism
  13. I'm curious how one becomes obsessed with primals when summoning doesn't exist yet. Are you homebrewing primals, or primal-equivalents? The answer's really easy if so: You have the DM throw some boss fights at you and you absorb their powers Mega Man style. There are hideously overpowered beings floating around in the old eras but I'm not sure they'd be considered a special class that people would be trying to utilize. Crystal Tower shows an example of it, but considering it's Cloud of Deathness, that's not really... the norm. Really, I'm just interested in the campaign fluff.
  14. Verad's correct, there isn't a player consensus. Lore-wise, Eorzea knows The Void is bad. If words gets out to the public someone's corrupted by Voidsent, that means calling whatever authority is nearby and letting them handle it. At best, the Ossuary cleanses you. At worst, you get buried real deep in the ground.
  15. 49, 62, 71, 31, 54, 39, 31, 40, 42, 49, 48, 38, 46, 50, 33, 41, 50. We're doing just fine.
  16. I'M BACK BITCHES Grindstone 239 in the bag! New winner: Zegram Wolff!
  17. Long time no see. I'll be reposting our winners for the past couple of weeks as soon as I'm able due to some IRL absence. In the meanwhile, long-time healer and supporter Lucerna Sainahs has written a thing! Feel free to read it. It's a general primer-style guide for tournament RP!
  18. Don't advertise but do check for advertisements. Works out pretty good for me thus far.
  19. It's not about being "better" it's just experience. For better or for worse, you will never be able to satisfy everyone's expectations. Play your character the way you like, be prepared (or even expect) people to tell you how you "should" be playing it, and carry on. As soon as you begin writing your character to satisfy other people... They're not you. Don't do that.
  20. In the aftermath of the MSQ, Dotharl seem less inclined to fight anything that moves and more inclined to fight anything that gives them prestige. There is a huuuuuge difference between "fight that guy in the bar who looked at you in a way you deemed offensive" and "Fight Brock Lesnar because he's fucking terrifying." Anyone playing the middle ground of knowing Au Ra tribes? Probably meta-gaming; If you dwell in Eorzea 1) what the FUCK is an Au Ra and 2) What the FUCK is with their last names? Roleplayers suck. Don't mind them.
  21. There's a non-negligible amount of people who roleplay pregnancies and children without actually wanting to, you know, roleplay pregnancies or children. Parenting is a full time job and in my experience, most folks trying to throw a rugrat into the mix are just doing it for flavor or attention. Warren's met a lot of new parents who adore their tyke for a week or five and then the kid is an afterthought. As far as what you can do? Involve it as much as the players do. If there's a magical absence of supervision because your players don't want to have the burden of actually thinking out their actions and the consequences? Fly with it, just pretend the kid doesn't exist. On the other hand, contract killers would have a reputation, and if there's a plot available for, say, kidnapping said babu? That's a lot of character growth and a rewarding experience once all is said and done.
  22. I'm curious about this. I know the no-call-outs rule but... This is sort of unprecedented, right? Someone's allowed to flag outside pages and say that's not them, right? I mean, imagine if the mod group here suddenly had a tumblr of graphic ERP being posted on the daily. It's okay to point out that's not the source, yeah? Edit: That is, in fact, exactly what was pointed out.
  23. You're fine. I was conflating what you said with what I've seen other people say and it wasn't directed at you specifically, just the point. There's a lot of people who don't quite understand how burden of proof works and wrap themselves in the safety blanket of "well they didn't say I CAN'T do it." Ain't no rule dogs can't play baseball, you know? Caveat: Most of my experience with that sort of thing was from ways back and I'm pretty sure most of them don't play anymore.
  24. I was ready to jump in and answer this question when I realized I don't actually know the answer, I just filled it in in my head as we went along the story. The Scions of the Seventh Dawn used to be the Path of the Twelve, based out of Ul'dah. Over the 1.x storyline you interacted with a whole host of people who had the Echo and met the movers and shakers in the world. Exactly how much of this is retained moving into ARR isn't currently known but the major points stick: Uncle Lou came to help us, the team rebranded in the wake of the Calamity, and the Scions are in touch with the higher-ups in the world. Considering that the Grand Companies were instrumental in the battle of Carteneau (and in turn, it was Lou's plan that, you know, saved what got saved) it makes sense that the existence of the Scions would be known to some level. Consider it like a black-ops military or intelligence agency thing: If you don't have a need to know, you don't need to know, and since the Scions were a secret weapon given their use of the Echo, you wouldn't want that getting out too widely. Tangent: There used to be a LOT more people with the Echo. ARR nicely wraps that up by murdering almost all of them. Again, headfluff here, but I always figured the random NPCs were get directed to fill in as a spy network of the Scions' own design. The priest obviously has code words to be recognized with post-scion-murder and a lot of the seemingly-clandestine people we get quests from seem to jive with what the Scions are doing. Post Ultima/Castrums, though, the WoL is practically a symbol for Eorzea. When primals turn up, the WoL gets called. Seemingly every major event that's gone down in Eorzea in recent memory has been solved by the WoL. It makes sense they'd pick up a bit of fame over time, at least for the people looking for it. It doesn't mean every person on the planet recognizes them, but I think it'd be known enough now that any time there's news, WoL's there.
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