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[video=youtube] I pretty much built Armi around this song. It's Japanese but it's subbed.

No there isn't? If you mean more than one person who time skipped, yes that's true. However the Devs confirmed in Fanfest there's only one WoL - the main hero - he is the only person who became the WHM or the BLM or whatever - he's the only one who has the ECho, is Hydalaen's chosen, and working with the Scions. Just one. Devs said so right at Fanfest.

As with most legacy players, my FC had to decide if we were getting time skipped or not. The general consensus as the time here and everywhere else was you could - and that hasn't really changed we just learned it would be harder - so we came up with a story of the old guard (Called the Crimson Blades) so they could be there if they wanted too. Most of our members chose to time skip (Only had 10 at the time who were legacy), while a few opted out and one deciding while she was at the battle, she didn't time skip. I chose the skip. I wanted to revamp Armi from a priestess to someone trying to find their own life and thought the skip would be an interesting Catalyst. It really really has been.

I wouldn't know why a person would roll an Ascian main (Wouldn't that get boring? They mostly be spooky on the sidelines) but I don't really see the problem with someone rolling an Ascian for a plot? An NPC of sorts, I think that could be pretty interesting! In fact, my fc is working on trying to work in an Ascian villain right now. Lore is currently being checked for how possible it is though.

Oh man, I haven't needed to look for an FC in about 12 years, since that's how long I've been running (Or helping to run as the case is now) the Night Blades. Some of these I am thinking "Oh, you wouldn't like our FC then" because we do require Mumble for Raids, have a website for applications (We're large, you don't go to our website you miss out on A LOT of events), we're large, and I'm hella guilty about not saying hi when people log on (The FC is so chatty in the FC and LS I figure I'll talk to them eventually).

I'm actually one of those people who believe that being a WHM ICly is in fact quite lore breaky (Since only the WoL can be one if they aren't a Padjal) and there are many people who believe that as well. Sounssy once came up with a completely lore appropriate way to be a WHM but it took a lot of bending around. The Elementals have such tight control over the WHM job it's near impossible to maneuver around them. THAT being said, the dev team said they were going to find ways to open up WHM in lore (Maybe they realized the error they made with the job) so I'm actually looking forward to it.

Same. I run weird times on the game, so I rarely - if ever - run into anyone on the RPC.

Your app was received, it's currently being reviewed by the officers =D

I get called an Elitist for preferring my guild and the people in it stick to lore as closely as possible. The thing is... we're not that strict when it comes to the murky bits (We don't know everything about the Twelve, we don't know everything about the void, we really don't know exactly how Ul'dah is ran) so it's completely okay to bend the lore around the parts that are... fuzzy. We have a voidtouched THM in the guild, my character been possessed by a voidsent, our guild has stolen Allagan artifacts from nonexistent ruins, raided nonexistent Castrums, Have a 100 year old mages soul trapped in a book. All of these things aren't in lore, but we use Inductive logic to see if it would be possible. If it is, just go do it man. The only time we're super strict is when the lore is clearly written in black and white of what it can and cannot be. That's it. We're not even mean about it, if you don't want to follow lore - you don't have to. You just can't be in our guild. We've had people whine at us and say it was unfair - since we also do endgame and some non-lore compliant rpers just wanted a slot on our raid team - but we all agreed to these rules and it's unfair to let someone who doesn't follow them in. I think actual elitism is bad. I've actually seen it, even if this game. I've had people around me believe that if you didn't write a paragraph a response - complete with inner thoughts and feelings - that you were a bad rper. I had to tell them over and over again, it's a different style - some people are into dialogue RP and don't feel the need to get deep into it, and others do. It's just style and has no bearing on how good you are or aren't. I've had some people chastise me for not spelling something correctly (I'm a fast typer and tend to typo) and that made me a bad RPer... for a typo. There are people running around who look for "Good" or "Bad" rpers, because they want to feel superior. Those people exist and they kinda suck... but not everyone is like that. I don't think a lot of them are like that. It takes too much energy too worry about how bad someone else is. Elitism is gaming: I'm in Final Coil with my guild, and it's really the only time I have a high expectation. Dungeons are generally easy, and unless you're a huge derp I don't really mind much. In Coil though, I expect my team to learn the mechanics, gear up every week, and learn their jobs. I don't really care that much about DPS unless we aren't hitting a dps check - since I used to have a pretty low DPS back in the day and caught a lot of flack for it despite the fact we were clearing, I tend to be more sympathetic to it even though my DPS is really high now. I do get annoyed wen I get into a farm party for a Primal or something and it's pretty clear someone got in for a carry >.> Like, dude I just say you die 4 times in the first run of Shiva Ex, you shouldn't be here. BUT if it's a clear party I don't mind. For me my gaming elitism absolutely is determined by context.

1. Your character gets judged! What stereotype do other students see them as? (Nerd, jock, etc.) Band Geek, probably? She likes music and is weird and awkward when not playing so yeah, band geek. 2. Your character gets an A+! What class(es)? Band. If I have to pick a core class, probably English since she loves fiction so much. 3. Your character fails a class. Boo! Which one(s)? Science. Math. 4. What sorts of people gather to your character? Are they popular or a loner? I think Armi would hang out with the other band geeks and be perfectly fine with that, not really worrying about what her place is in the High School hierarchy. But, she wouldn't have a lot of close friends, really only hanging out with large groups during Band activities. I'd also assume she's probably the lead singer of some Garage Band her friend made and told her to join. It has a name like "Sex Kitten Hand Grenade" for shock value to other 15 year olds. 5. Your character goes to future career counseling! What is their ideal job!? Pop star idol.

Yup.

Recently, a friend of Armi's who was renting out her house (Since she now lives with her current boyfriend) died. She... didn't handle it well. 1. Denial: This is actually the shortest stage for her, she didn't deny it at all. 2 . Anger: There was a lot of this, but Armi doesn't compartmentalize anger very well. It always shows itself as despair or frustration. She was angry at the Gods for taking him away before he should have gone. But it only came out as "He bought a table." referring to a patio table he bought for the her house that he was planning on using for guests, but he was never able to. 3. Bargaining: Everyone was trying to find a way to maybe bring him back. There just wasn't a way to. 4. Depression: That whole "He bought a table" thing pretty much destroyed her for awhile. 5. Acceptance: Not there yet. He died almost a month ago. It's still hard for her to think about.

Life embarasses my character. She's gotten a lot better, but Armi is still extremely easily embarrassed. Compliment? Embarassed. Insult? Embarassed. Thought she said something weird? Embarassed. Though you said something weird? Embarassed. Sex? Embarassed. Flirting? Doesn't... actually notice it. So she's fine. She used to get extremely embarrassed at too much attention, but recently she's been singing in cafe's and bars around Ul'dah and is getting used to having eyes on her during those moments. She's becoming a showman, but offstage she's still very, very shy.

1997, my boyfriend at the time got me into Vampire: The Masquerade. I had no idea you could rp on the internet, though I had had it since 1995 (Most of my time on the internet at the time was spent in mIRC chat rooms talking about Savage Garden. Look, man... I was a teenager). Though when I heard about Everquest, I just assumed everyone RPed on MMO's and found that pretty fascinating, so when I played by first MMO (FFXI, 2003) I was a derp who assumed everyone was rping and started an rp ls on my server.

*Sings the Still Alive song* Night Blades is still around and still super active, but I've been on sporadically this month due to health issues so I almost forgot to post this <,

Forever waiting for a medium plot. I understand the crew is working on the Golden Saucer, and at least I can distract myself with it till more housing comes out - which I'm guessing won't be thought about till after the expansion.

*Suddenly feels compelled to check the Grindstone out for some reason* Man, more and more folks just keep getting interested in the Grindstone. What gives? :? There's an ebb and flow to the GS that will probably be there forever. A rush of people who have never heard of it show up, some become staples of the GS, then a lot fade away, the a new rush of rpers who have never heard of it show up, ad nauseum forever. The GS fills a niche a lot of RPers like, so it'll probably be around as long as people run the thing.

Not gonna lie, I tend to get very vocal about ONE thing that I hate more than anything - characters falling in love within the week. It's mostly because every single person who has caused drama for me in RP tried to push romance too fast and either got upset that I took it off the table or, in my earlier years, it raised a red flag but I let it continue and then it blew up in my face. When I see two people roleplaying their characters as in love or closely bonded after a week, I get really, really agitated and feel like they only want RP romance. I can even tolerate blatant lore breaking more than that and I generally don't even WANT to rp with people who I find out doing it. I know this makes me kind of a bad person, it's not any of my business at the end of the day and I'm really vocal about it, but I'm trying to hold my tongue more. On that I actually do have to take a step back and breath. Regardless whether or not I'm right in the end, these people are adults and after my initial vocalizing my distaste I need to let it go. Working on it. Even I am human

I kinda do a mix of both. I'll age them if it's relevant to a story, but mostly I'll wait for the MSQ. Or age them and then retcon it later if the MSQ and her age don't line up. Currently, Armi is 24, but when she started the game she was 23. If the game considered all of this stuff to have happened with 6 months, I'll roll her back to 23.

That wish fulfillment is such a huge problem. I understand roleplay means you can slip into any persona, and that can be enticing if you want to be popular or loved, but please for goodness sake, understand this isn't about working through your issues with real life. Also, boys (And girls, I've seen it with them) if you're harassing a girl in order to get them to love your character or erp with you -- you are suffering from OOC bleed and need to stop rping. Right now. If you believe because the characters are in love that means the players are in love, you need to stop rping. Right now. Honestly, it's easy to become attached to an rp relationship. It's cute and maybe the two are really good together. Attachment, in a detached way, is fine. It's trying to make it happen irl AND getting upset when people don't do what you want that ISN'T OKAY I tend to try to become really, really good friends with my RP partners so I can talk frankly to them about things and I'm really close to Armi's current boyfriend, but despite the fact I'm engaged, despite the fact I'm 10 YEARS older than him, we STILL had that talk about OOC/IC bleed through. Never assume someone understands it, talk to them. I agree with Teirgan. I tell my guild that we are watching a TV show, and we're all just a fandom of the show. Dicussions are okay, heated discussions are fine too, but trying to harrass other other fans into making their "favorite" character do something isn't okay. Screaming at someone for not liking their "favorite" character isn't okay. If you can't treat it like a TV show, where we are fans but there's a sort of healthy detachment, you need to take a step back.

Most everything can be solved with a heavy dose of communication. For me, I've ran into rps who don't want to talk ooc very much because it ruins their immersion, and if that happens I generally choose to take a step back. I am very open with my intentions, my characters feelings, or anything that needs to be spoken about and pretty much require other people be the same. We have a person in our guild who plays a very caustic type of character, so is easily angered and quick to snap. The player, however, is really, really nice oocly, so when he is meeting someone for the first time icly, he always warns "Hey my character is a jerk." This has done a lot to help alleviate any drama that may come with his characters snippy behavior. Also during any tense scenes, where a bunch of people are fighting or something bad is happening, I like to try to get discussion happening oocly in the ooc ls we have, to keep people from feeling the anger OOCly (Cuz that's really easy to do, lets be real). Some people don't like talking DURING a scene, which is fine but after a scene happens I like to get people to talk it out to A. blow off steam from a tense scene and B. to have a nice reminder that it's not real and we're all friends here. Overall, I want people to discuss things that happen ICly - whether or not they agree with it - because that discussion keeps the reality of all this being pretend real. In the OOC ls we are very quick to say that we didn't agree with something a character did or thought something was a bad decision and, yes, some people have gotten really upset by this -- but we them getting mad only makes them look petty and most eventually learn not to take RP oocly. Romance needs a lot of communication, too, and is it's probably the most important thing to have when doing an RP romance. Constant discussion of the ground rules, that this won't be taken oocly, etc etc. It's all about making your rp partner as comfortable as possible. There's a trust that comes with RP romances, a promise that this isn't real and neither side will make it real. When you say something is Okay, it actually being okay, and when something is not, you stop immediately. Communication. Communication Communication.

I'm working on 7 different events, while the officers are each working on 3-4. This is becoming a scheduling issue lol. We do love our rp though. Anyone is welcome to join without being in the guild, just grab an ooc pearl from us! (Warning: Dark themes)

Still alive and kicking. There's actually too many stories gong on right now ; ;

So! someone made a program that pings the server to see if it's open and sends you an email if it is, I figured it would be helpful for people: http://www.world-alerts.com/

I keep one, it's current but a few months behind since I got REALLY busy September - December, but I'm doing a massive post dump soon to catch up (Seriously the Word document is 21 pages so far). Current and still being worked on though! *In signature*