Tsukiko Tanshi

[ Just dropping a quick note here: this event is an all ages event and will be very strict about upholding that. Please don't let assumptions about my character nor my company dissuade you from attending! If you have any questions or concerns, just contact me for further clarification. Thank you! ]

[align=center] [/align] The Wanderer’s Way is proud to present their first Wolf & Rabbit Hunt! Join us for an evening of festive amusement with tricks and treats and much more in store for those who refuse to let the forest spook them! Where: Sweetbloom Pier, Eastern Shroud! When: 3PM EDT, October 21st! What: Hunt & Party! Who: You! Server: Balmung Featuring: Wolf & Rabbit Hunt - Put on your running shoes and your lucky dice, because only the quickest will make it out of this one! Compete with others for your chance at a hefty gil prize and the first set of titles! Two winners will be walking away with 500k gil a piece… not bad for a little fun and games. DJ Booth - Let’s send the forest thumping with tunes! Listen in to get your groove on as we get the party going with spooky songs a ghoulish guitars! Fancy a try yourself? The DJ Booth will open up for others after the first set is done, just keep it in theme! Costume Contest - Gussy up and get ready to glow, folks! Want a chance to win some prizes? Get creative and wow the judges! You might walk away with something real special by night’s end… Bobbing for Apples - Tie your hair back and get ready for a game of chance that could make your night something to remember! Catch the right apples and you could come out with some wickedly wonderful prizes… or a devious trick! Interested? Read up on the Wolf & Rabbit Hunt >>here<< and sign-up for it >>here< Any questions or concerns can be directed to Tsukiko Tanshi#9604 We are accepting volunteers for this event! Please contact Tsukiko at the above Discord, or use the event sign-up sheet and leave your Discord so you can be contacted.

I've been a little quiet while getting things rolled out for Tsukiko's company, and with that in progress, I'm here to start networking again! Please feel free to contact me, easily done over Discord. As a side-note, please do not leave your contact information here for me to find later. My entire first post is a rather large 'I would like to RP with you and here's some ideas if you have none of your own!' I come here to scope events and I only check this thread about once a month - if you are interested in playing with me, just add me on Discord and talk there. I've already expressed my interest, my door is open, it's up to you to step through it and come have some tea while we talk things over. Asking if I'm interested and making me chase you down after I've already put in the effort really just reads in a bad way to me and is a terrible first impression. I know that sounds a little uptight, but I need people who I can trust to communicate and be proactive, especially as I move into leading a company. I look forward to speaking with you!

[align=center][/align] The Wanderer’s Way is a mature role-playing Free Company on the Balmung server of Final Fantasy XIV. Aiming to provide a dynamic environment for players to explore their characters in a story that grows from the bottom up, The Wanderer’s Way follows the path of Tsukiko Tanshi and her comrades as she builds a home for the lost and forgotten, and plies their trade across Eorzea. As each person joins, the story becomes more vast, forming friendships and alliances that help pave the way to a bolder and brighter tomorrow. Please explore the tabs for further information - OOC Information for an idea of the company's intentions from the viewpoint of the leadership, and the F.A.Q for a quick and condensed list of the common questions and their answers. We look forward to meeting you. [align=center]We are currently hiring: Companions, Security, Staff.[/align] [align=center]We are not currently open for business; once our staff is in place, we will open![/align]

Stormblood surge over, Tsukiko has been more commonly spotted! Feel free to say hello, and please look forward to her taking her first steps as a business owner soon!

Fairly well, I would assume! Text RP is more than welcome, you just need to add me on Discord.

It's perfectly possible that Hathaway and Tsuki have run into one another, if you are okay with under-the-radar contacts. Tsuki's not at all a reluctant prostitute, but she'd certainly be the sort to give 'safer' contacts over if she recognized that he was more reluctant than she, or happened to find one that he might be a better fit for than her!

Tsuki has been a busy little bee, but is still on the lookout for fun and profit!

No, because I have been through several server launches when playing WoW, and I have seen enough of what happens to know that creating a server with an RP tag but nothing else to set it apart or give it advanced functionality for RP'ers beyond adding two letters onto the server name does nothing but congest server lists and fracture an already niche base. It sounds great and needed now, but long term it's a pretty bad deal and actually isn't even the bandage that Balmung (and Gilgamesh to an extent) really needs.

This is pretty much spot-on. I figured I'd add my two cents, especially seeing as I've, uh, flat out stated my character's a prostitute. Personally, I didn't want to restrict myself to just doing "vanilla" roleplay scenarios, because I enjoy watching a relationship form between two characters over some period of time. I didn't want to box myself in and remove sex/ERP from my character's story entirely. Also I think watching him struggle with it makes him more interesting, since there's plenty of Miqo'te out there. And yeah, I'm open to quick, one-shot scenarios. But does that mean that I'm trekking down to the Quicksand every night and getting lewd in public chat? Of course not. If it isn't private, if my partner doesn't fit, or if the scenario isn't written well, then I'm going to be less inclined to RP, no matter what kind of content's involved. But I like doing short little scenes occasionally, so I created a character where that was possible. I can't say if it's become more prevalent, but I think in the past good writers might have been dissuaded from it because it was sort of looked down upon. I wanted to be upfront about it because I think there's a lot of writers/roleplayers who might want to try it but haven't, and I want people to know what they're potentially getting into. ERP's always been here. It's just more accepted now. These two posts are pretty much on the nose, and like Hathaway, I'm writing as someone who is playing a prostitute who has no reservations about saying that she's exactly that. In my experience, nothing has changed over the years. I can't think of a time where I have not seen or had a romantic or erotic aspect to a roleplay. I learned rather quickly that I preferred such things to happen for a reason rather than be the focus of it - it is the same even with Tsukiko, and much like Hathaway's own experience, if things don't line up the right way then they just don't happen. Having a character with a sexual aspect to them doesn't mean that is all they do - though I will never discount that there are characters who are made exactly for that. I think that the only thing that has really changed is how common the role-play hobby is these days, and you can often see that more and more people are using it as a method of escapism. How or why a person uses role-play is up to them, just as much as it is up to an individual on where they stand on certain aspects of role-play. But, generally? If you keep looking for something, especially if it is something that annoys you, you are going to find it. I would much rather see and encourage people to learn to 'live and let live' rather than see people continue to complain that the role-play they are seeing isn't to their taste. It is very easy to say 'this isn't to my taste, no thanks' and move on.

Still looking! If I have not gotten to you yet, please know you haven't been forgotten! My schedule got a little wonky! Do not be afraid to approach, Tsuki doesn't bite! ... well, not without cause.

Just giving this the gentlest of bumps! I am still looking for a variety of contacts for Tsukiko, so please don't be shy!

I would be happy to meet her! Tsukiko is always happy to make a friend or twelve, and is quite interested in the Twelve, so there's opportunity for learning there as well! There are actually many different types of sex worker. By rule of thumb, courtesans are generally regarded as quite high-class, frequently well-learned women who attended court and were often companions or mistresses to upper-crust gentlemen; remember, marriage was more for bloodlines and lineage than passion, so men would have their wives with whom there would be babies, and then the mistresses for their fun. The male equivilent to the courtesan goes by a different name depending on the region, but in France they were 'chevalier servant.' Oirans are the Japanese courtesan, further punctuating the differences - these focus more on the entertainment/hosting/comfort than they do the sex. This is all generally why a courtesan finds offense at being called a whore. Tsukiko, however, refers to herself as such with little issue! While she is well-learned -- she can read and write, sing, and play an instrument -- her clientele range from the lower class to the rarer upper class who thinks hiring a street worker is a thrill. She has no home to work out of, no room, her domain are streets, taverns, and sometimes even events [ though I respect event runners, so if you see Tsuki at an event, she isn't soliciting! ]. Street workers like Tsuki are the nightmare stories you hear on shows like Law & Order and such, and are often controlled through substance abuse. Tsuki isn't, by virtue that she has a guard and good sense, but that's the class of worker she is. It's about the job, and the job is sex. Lace & Steel is a 'jack of all trades' FC that I wish to avoid, admittedly. Research into it's history tossed it out for me rather early. I will keep an eye out for you on your characters, however! Thank you! No, I do mean actual gil, which is not against the policies at all -- I've not only seen the screenshots on Reddit, but spoke to a GM myself about it. It doesn't encourage RMT sales like the housing market often does, and has no out-of-game transactions. I do sort of wish I had saved the conversation between the GM and I, as they were very well-spoken about it. As it is, there is very much an aspect of roleplay behind it. Having a cost doesn't negate the fact that there is still RP to be had! It's just behind a paywall, so to speak. Actually, from what I have heard, anything that is done in the game can be bought with ingame currency, yet at the same time they supposively ban people for selling houses...So it's unofficial...Though I've never heard of the working girls getting banned so it might be more on the people who scalp others for the price of housing. Eitherway, while I may never RP with you myself I don't judge what people choose to RP so I wish you luck...Though her being cheap is kind of depressing. Someone needs to give her a hug!...For free! lol PS. Only reason I commented on this is because, despite the subject matter, as Sena said you do seem to be a really good writer and this looks professionally thought out so, kudos! She is cheap simply because it fits her! She's not a high-class courtesan or escort, she's someone you drop a pouch of gil on in a seedy back alley. She enjoys the work, though she's been told she should raise her prices, but she just tells people that if they liked the meal, feel free to tip. She also loves hugs, and hugs are free! Offering (E)RP in exchange for gil is not considered RMT according to FFXIV. There's a Reddit thread on it somewhere. I'm sure Google can help you out there! That said, I'm glad to see an ordinary sexworker and not yet another courtesan. Besides that I have little to add. Best of luck o/ It wasn't really until I got into a fairly heated argument over the difference that I realized how uncommon a common street worker was! Thank you! They're definitely inconsistent with their policies, that's for sure. People have gotten in trouble for things like selling a character art commission in exchange for gil, and there's the housing thing. I don't think they do anything about what doesn't get reported, though, so... who knows. Could be that all it'd take is for a customer with some screenshots to go to SE and complain that gil was demanded. But yeah, good luck, for sure, OP. No judgment here either. Just about everybody does ERP (especially the ones who protest that they don't). There's heaps of people falling over themselves looking to do it for free, so I'm not sure why anybody would pay gil for it, but people apparently do, from what I've heard. A fool and their money are soon parted, eh? In regards to the 'I can get it for free, so why should I pay?' mentality that I run into a lot, I have a few answers that tend to make people think twice before asking it again, but I generally just state, 'if you don't want to pay, don't have sex with Tsuki.' The reality is that anyone can do something for free if they want. The people who complain about artist prices being too high could start drawing their own. Free art, self-satisfaction. Do they? Not often. I get that a lot when attempting writing commissions, and I encourage people with the 'I can do it myself' mentality to... well, do just that. The world could use more artists! I love baking. I'm a damn good baker if I do say so myself, but red velvet is my bane. I just cannot get my red velvet to turn out quite right! So I go to a bakery nearby who does absolutely wonderful red velvet when I'm really craving it, and I pay them. It's worth every penny, it's just what I want, it's a short drive away, and I didn't have the self-loathing involved of wondering why my own cake just isn't hitting the spot. Are other places cheaper? Yes! Doesn't matter. That bakery has it just right, and when I want red velvet right then and there, they are who I go to. Could I go gather those ten high-quality oranges in game? Yeah, I could. It'll just take me 2 hours because of RNG, so you can bet your knickers I'm going to hit up that MB and find as many low cost high-quality oranges I can find to get my daily done! My point is -- anyone can do anything themselves. There are just reasons they don't. It's perfectly okay to not want to pay, but there are reasons people will. I've been doing the erotica-for-money game a very long time, so I'm not bothered by who will and who won't, because for every one who loudly proclaims they won't, there's about four more who will. I would like that! It is indeed the sort of craftsman that Tsuki is looking for. There's plenty of fun to be had with machinery, after all. Especially for Tsuki, who collects music boxes. Lots of little machinery she'd like to learn to tend to! That sounds wonderful! Shady undertakings are my jam. Please feel free to prod me in-game or over Discord!

Hello! Thank you for the tips, but I should mention that while I'm a very long-time roleplayer, I'm simply new to the server. I already have a wiki, a tumblr, and a far lewder advert on Darknest. I added client in because it's part of her character to have them, but I have very little care if I fetch any from this site. It would simply be awkward to announce that the character is a prostitute and ignore her major income, no? As it is, I went on a fairly mass tumblr search and followed many people. Them being a courtesan or not matters little to me -- Tsuki isn't a courtesan, she's a freelance working girl. It's two different types. I thank you for the time taken for your input, however! I'm actually not looking for a Free Company at this time! I did spend about two weeks going in and researching the various 'brothel' venues; Kiss was a little too classy (and also an entertainment venue) but full of very kind people, Roses was attentive but also not a brothel by Tsuki's standards (entertainment venue) but I made a couple friends, and Bandee Pakshee... I was OOC'ly banned my first time ever speaking to any members because someone was jumping at shadows and made a very serious and baseless accusation. I think there's a couple others that I may have missed, but that was basically where I stopped and decided I was better off making connections outside of companies. So I decided simply to keep my character freelance for now, but I most certainly do appreciate the tips in regards to the linkshells and I will attempt to pop around if something happens to be running during my playtime! Thank you very much for the time taken in your reply!

I'm sure that title is enough to raise a few brows, so let me simply dive into the good bits and leave the rest for later on in the post, hmm? Tsukiko Tanshi is a Doman Exile who travels Eorzea and makes her way with her charm and body as a prostitute, and with her nimble fingers as a thief. One of these is rather lesser known than the other, simply because Tsukiko shows no shame at all in being one of the many who makes her living on her back -- or, of course, however the client desires. As a person, Tsukiko is a rather honest individual with an odd moral code that keeps her in the 'Lawful Evil' bent of things, but overall she is surprisingly kind and open with a wisdom that some would say doesn't quite match her years. She enjoys attention, pretty things, the arts and sciences, sunrises, and falcons. She dislikes strong cheeses, prefers rain to snow, and has little respect for those who assume without due cause. Tsukiko is seeking: Clients: The obvious one, and the one to simply get out of the way. Sexual escapades with Tsukiko do cost gil, though her price is quite low - she's more a back-alley girl than a high-class courtesan, but she works as hard, if not harder, than the latter. Craftsmen: Tsukiko does truly value hard work, and is actively seeking out talented and creative artists and craftsmen. As her dreams come to fruition, she is considering things in the long-term -- she wants good relations with people who will do custom work for her workers and her business once it's formed. Mentors: Specifically, I am looking for Tsukiko to find fellow thieves, thaumaturges, and craftsmen to learn from. Alchemists, botanists, miners, weavers... expect some hilarious messups -- Tsukiko has lost more fishing poles than she's caught fish! Competition: I'm looking for the Tilly Devine to my Kate Leigh, or other friendly competition. Tsukiko's goal (and the reason she works for real gil) is to open a business of her own, and friendly competition is just the name of the game. Other ladies and gentlemen in the same field are good as well! Co-Workers: One of Tsukiko's goals is to open a brothel -- not an 'entertainment venue' and not as part of a 'jack-of-all-trades' business, but a legitimate place where people come, enjoy themselves with company, and go. It's other purpose is as a safehouse for other prostitutes, as well as those who are down on their luck and need a little help. She's planning for the future by making those connections now. The Corrupt: If your character has some questionable morals and is in a position for a little give and take, Tsukiko isn't afraid to make under the table connections. She knows what she's getting into with her work, and dirty cops/politicians/merchants and others are all just part of the job. Old Friends: Tsukiko is a Doman exile that left in a storm of rumors. Fellow Raen and Hyur are welcome to recognize both her and her father, and she did leave one childhood friend behind for possible romantic options. Healers: Aside the more obvious in regards to Tsukiko, her other work as a 'lifter of shinies' can land her with injuries she wants to have seen to quickly and quietly. I am well aware of the battle about paying for roleplay, so I'll make my stance on it rather clear here - if you don't want to pay, don't have sex with Tsuki. It's really that easy. Her cost is low, and she makes sure every gil spent was worth it. As the player, even the smallest cost keeps the people who are in it to get their OOC jollies away, and helps me find the people who are actually interested in Tsukiko's dynamic being tossed into their play. I never, ever charge for anything else. Tsukiko's Goals: Housing: Mechanically, this one is fairly difficult because it's Balmung. That said, Tsukiko saves every coin in hopes of securing a parcel of land to open her business. It's more a dream for her right now, but who says a girl can't dream? Tsukiko's Contact Information: My game time is a little sporadic, but I can be reached as Tsukiko Tanshi. I am available at all times on Discord ( and will play with off-server folks there, or just folks off-line ) as Tsukiko Tanshi#9604. She does have a Tumblr, and her Wiki is available as well.