02-22-2013, 02:35 PM
Hello everyone, first time posting here, hope to get to know you all better as the days go by. Below you'll find a bit about me.
--MMORPG background
I’ve been playing online RPG’s for longer than I would like to admit, my exposure was at best uncensored. I started with UO mostly playing with my sister and our uncle who footed our bill/allowed us to use his computers. EQ was my first in depth time with the genre, again I played alongside my sister, but we were often at odds. EQ was what we were interested in primarily because of its toning down of Pvp, but as I got older my attention turned to this new game on the horizon “world of warcraft†I wasn’t a huge fan of frozen throne preferring Starcraft for my strategy fix, but it was interesting, and that carries us up to the “modern†times. My interest in wow started to wane in Wrath of the Lich king, I dabbled, Rift, SWToR, the Beta for FFXIV 1.0 (which was quite interesting as even at the time I was disappointed in missing out on XI which my uncle had moved to after UO). I played FFXIV lightly, it was mainly my sisters game, (we played on Lindblum/Sargantes) but got more interested in it after I discovered Balmung and we migrated there. I got my Thamturge to 50, met some interesting people, and here we are.
--RP experience
Roleplaying has been a part of my gaming experience since it started, being as that most of my original experience with classic RPG’s started with Pen and Paper (2nd ED, yay ThAC0~). It really came into its own during EQ, part as a reflective response to people treating me like a child if they had not met my “character†first and part hyper active imagination. My Roleplay in WoW was pretty steady on the Twisting Nether and Steamwheedle Cartel servers. In FFXIV 1.0 Sargantas RP wasn’t really something I did. Being that I hardly played, but after moving to Balmung, while not as active as I would like to become I think that my encounters with the occasional stranger left us both content, if not pleased.
--Character ideas/info
My plan is to utilize the same character and template from before the descent of Dalamund and utilize looking back into 1.0 as a kind of dream/vision trouble mind set to spur “discovery.†Being as Quarimar was a bookish fellow before, I see him going out into Eorzea comparing his old works against the new world, excitedly penning in changes between the lines and scratching out no longer relevant information.
As a note he's a middle aged Duskwight Elezan who works out of Ul'dah, previously I had him documenting minerals and species around some of the more remote camps... not sure how he'll be making his way in the new world.
--How did you learn about the coalition?
I was a forum lurker of the old site, poking around the linkshell postings such as T.A.L.E
--What kind of a role-player are you aiming to be? Light, medium, or heavy?
Medium, depending on the people I come to meet, I like to stay in character pretty much all the time, but I make some exceptions for explaining mechanics or interaction in OCC, if I can manage to drag Synndil into this I will likely lean Heavy as we’ve always been a bit competitive (read:working off each other) in our abilities to immerse ourselves in the world.
--Anything from real life you’re comfortable with sharing? (Work, school, hobbies, etc)
Hrm, not much I’m uncomfortable in sharing, I’m in my 20’s I work in IT for the provincial government, I have a beard, I love history and language.
Feel free to ask questions!
--MMORPG background
I’ve been playing online RPG’s for longer than I would like to admit, my exposure was at best uncensored. I started with UO mostly playing with my sister and our uncle who footed our bill/allowed us to use his computers. EQ was my first in depth time with the genre, again I played alongside my sister, but we were often at odds. EQ was what we were interested in primarily because of its toning down of Pvp, but as I got older my attention turned to this new game on the horizon “world of warcraft†I wasn’t a huge fan of frozen throne preferring Starcraft for my strategy fix, but it was interesting, and that carries us up to the “modern†times. My interest in wow started to wane in Wrath of the Lich king, I dabbled, Rift, SWToR, the Beta for FFXIV 1.0 (which was quite interesting as even at the time I was disappointed in missing out on XI which my uncle had moved to after UO). I played FFXIV lightly, it was mainly my sisters game, (we played on Lindblum/Sargantes) but got more interested in it after I discovered Balmung and we migrated there. I got my Thamturge to 50, met some interesting people, and here we are.
--RP experience
Roleplaying has been a part of my gaming experience since it started, being as that most of my original experience with classic RPG’s started with Pen and Paper (2nd ED, yay ThAC0~). It really came into its own during EQ, part as a reflective response to people treating me like a child if they had not met my “character†first and part hyper active imagination. My Roleplay in WoW was pretty steady on the Twisting Nether and Steamwheedle Cartel servers. In FFXIV 1.0 Sargantas RP wasn’t really something I did. Being that I hardly played, but after moving to Balmung, while not as active as I would like to become I think that my encounters with the occasional stranger left us both content, if not pleased.
--Character ideas/info
My plan is to utilize the same character and template from before the descent of Dalamund and utilize looking back into 1.0 as a kind of dream/vision trouble mind set to spur “discovery.†Being as Quarimar was a bookish fellow before, I see him going out into Eorzea comparing his old works against the new world, excitedly penning in changes between the lines and scratching out no longer relevant information.
As a note he's a middle aged Duskwight Elezan who works out of Ul'dah, previously I had him documenting minerals and species around some of the more remote camps... not sure how he'll be making his way in the new world.
--How did you learn about the coalition?
I was a forum lurker of the old site, poking around the linkshell postings such as T.A.L.E
--What kind of a role-player are you aiming to be? Light, medium, or heavy?
Medium, depending on the people I come to meet, I like to stay in character pretty much all the time, but I make some exceptions for explaining mechanics or interaction in OCC, if I can manage to drag Synndil into this I will likely lean Heavy as we’ve always been a bit competitive (read:working off each other) in our abilities to immerse ourselves in the world.
--Anything from real life you’re comfortable with sharing? (Work, school, hobbies, etc)
Hrm, not much I’m uncomfortable in sharing, I’m in my 20’s I work in IT for the provincial government, I have a beard, I love history and language.
Feel free to ask questions!
It would be appreciated if you would maintain a beard safe distanace, pleased to meet you as well /bow