(11-06-2015, 09:59 AM)Vyce Wrote: [ -> ]ALSO! You might try speaking with the players who do the IC recruiting and see if there is a way to arrange ICly for your Lala to be sought out and invited rather than him applying. Perhaps someone has a super friendly Miqote who would befriend him on the street and say,
"Hey, I'm a recruiter for a Free Company. You should join."
Lots of this.
We often run into this issue in the FC I'm in. People want to apply, but they don't know how their character would find out about the group, how they'd get looped into it, and so on. Despite the semi-IC styling of our application form, we're pretty open on how to actually do the IC side of the recruitment based on what works better for a given character. I've RPed conversations set up by our NPC caretaker, randomly bumping into people and striking up a conversation, and even meeting someone in the field and being impressed by their skill.
I suspect most RP FCs are similar -- if they like your app, they're willing to work with you on how exactly you get RPed in, as opposed to just slapping a tag on you and saying "that's that." Think of the app as the OOC part of the process and the actual recruitment as the IC part. Since it's IC, it can be done however all parties involved want to.
Just popping in to vouch for some FCs that recruit in person. I've been standing on the steps of Ul'dah for an hour or two a day IC handing out flyers for our FC.
Most of our applications have come from the forums and between Ais and I, we work out how to RP the character in. Absolutely doable, but we're both out there trying to RP people in in-game as well.
If you're character ever feels like taking a walk outside the Quicksand, you may just stumble on Kasumi trying to hand you a leaflet for Wandering Horizons! Be wary!
(11-06-2015, 09:59 AM)Vyce Wrote: [ -> ]Hardcore RPers have a tendency to be okay with retcons when they find out something about their character isn't possible. There are a lot of HC RPers in this game (many of them post in these forums) which equates to rigid attention to lore.
I wouldn't call the dragoon thing straight up
impossible, else the Warrior of Light wouldn't have managed it (ok, they used a soul to get to that point, but the fact remains that an outsider becoming a dragoon is possible, even if it is incredibly unlikely). If it was entirely impossible, that would have been gone from my backstory ASAP (whilst I wouldn't call myself hardcore, I try to at least respect the lore, even if I do sometimes bend it). But I won't argue with the fact that it's still meh and can cause IC problems.
One thing I have thought of over the past day or so is an idea to 'blur' out the whole thing. i.e. keep it in, but obscure the details both OOCly and ICly in order to not OPENLY cause scepticism. Fact is, it has no relevance whatsoever with Riku's current situation apart from being part of his skill-set. If I reduced it to something as simple as "Riku was a lancer who helped out in Coerthas for a while", it could still refer to a dragoon if some people still wish to RP that fact, but to everyone else, it could mean any number of possible jobs. Would that be a sufficient compromise?
(11-07-2015, 07:22 AM)Riik Wrote: [ -> ] (11-06-2015, 09:59 AM)Vyce Wrote: [ -> ]Hardcore RPers have a tendency to be okay with retcons when they find out something about their character isn't possible. There are a lot of HC RPers in this game (many of them post in these forums) which equates to rigid attention to lore.
I wouldn't call the dragoon thing straight up impossible, else the Warrior of Light wouldn't have managed it (ok, they used a soul to get to that point, but the fact remains that an outsider becoming a dragoon is possible, even if it is incredibly unlikely). If it was entirely impossible, that would have been gone from my backstory ASAP (whilst I wouldn't call myself hardcore, I try to at least respect the lore, even if I do sometimes bend it). But I won't argue with the fact that it's still meh and can cause IC problems.
One thing I have thought of over the past day or so is an idea to 'blur' out the whole thing. i.e. keep it in, but obscure the details both OOCly and ICly in order to not OPENLY cause scepticism. Fact is, it has no relevance whatsoever with Riku's current situation apart from being part of his skill-set. If I reduced it to something as simple as "Riku was a lancer who helped out in Coerthas for a while", it could still refer to a dragoon if some people still wish to RP that fact, but to everyone else, it could mean any number of possible jobs. Would that be a sufficient compromise?
Dragoons going off to help kill dragons in Coerthas is perfectly reasonable.
(11-07-2015, 09:38 AM)Garalona Wrote: [ -> ] (11-07-2015, 07:22 AM)Riik Wrote: [ -> ] (11-06-2015, 09:59 AM)Vyce Wrote: [ -> ]Hardcore RPers have a tendency to be okay with retcons when they find out something about their character isn't possible. There are a lot of HC RPers in this game (many of them post in these forums) which equates to rigid attention to lore.
I wouldn't call the dragoon thing straight up impossible, else the Warrior of Light wouldn't have managed it (ok, they used a soul to get to that point, but the fact remains that an outsider becoming a dragoon is possible, even if it is incredibly unlikely). If it was entirely impossible, that would have been gone from my backstory ASAP (whilst I wouldn't call myself hardcore, I try to at least respect the lore, even if I do sometimes bend it). But I won't argue with the fact that it's still meh and can cause IC problems.
One thing I have thought of over the past day or so is an idea to 'blur' out the whole thing. i.e. keep it in, but obscure the details both OOCly and ICly in order to not OPENLY cause scepticism. Fact is, it has no relevance whatsoever with Riku's current situation apart from being part of his skill-set. If I reduced it to something as simple as "Riku was a lancer who helped out in Coerthas for a while", it could still refer to a dragoon if some people still wish to RP that fact, but to everyone else, it could mean any number of possible jobs. Would that be a sufficient compromise?
Dragoons going off to help kill dragons in Coerthas is perfectly reasonable.
That's more-or-less what the whole section of Riku's past is based around anyway. That said, he was more a basic lancer when he started, but a knight saw his potential and so trained him in Dragoon combat (the word azure may have been floating around my wiki for a while, but that's just another left-over thing from when it was fine RPing that sorta thing, and has since been erased XD). Riku essentially worked for that knight from then-on, essentially serving Ishgard by proxy. That's basically how it is. I never said Riku was an "Ishgardian Dragoon", nor did I insinuate he had even set fut in Ishgard before its gates were opened (fact is, he never did).
Either people still have issues with the above paragraph, or those disagreeing with the whole Dragoon thing jumped to conclusions. I'm willing to bet it's because the word "serve" was being mistaken as "military service", when I was simply using it in its literal sense.