T'salmaveth

Oh wow, that's adorable! I envy your clean lines and coloring... very crisp and appealing. Nice job!

HAhaha! I used to cook a lot... had roomies. Realized almost a year in that I was doing a lot of work for very little appreciation and really no reciprocation. So I swore off cooking for others until I have a ring and some *ahem* appreciation for my work. I kinda miss doing it. Oh well. I get to be lazy for now instead. Best way to a man's heart, eh? I think the fastest way to mine is a nice back massage. I'd trade a steak dinner for that, no problem. Hehehe :thumbsup:

You might know T'sal from: The Arcanist Guild The Mizzenmast Inn, studying and brooding The Limsa Lominsa docks, helping out and inspecting shipments Very rare chance encounter outside of Limsa Lominsa when he's out running or playing his flute Word of mouth from Rugged Path's(deceased adopted father) friends/contacts Word of mouth from merchants in Ul'dah and Gridania where he discreetly orders rare and hard-to-find books of history and is known to pay very well for them

I'm currently 31 and got my BA in English Literature, so I've always been a bookie... and wrote horrible horrible fanfics waaaay back in the day. :blush: I've been a writer since I could pick up a pencil to taking the step into RPing was fun, if a bit intimidating. I did semi-RP like things online for a few years but didn't start to ACTUALLY table-top RP until I was dragged kicking and screaming from my hidy-corner when I move across country for college. She was 6'1" Italian lady and would have none of my shy hiding-ness.... granted, she also decided I was too skinny and needed to eat more. (I kid you not. It was a college kid's dream come true... fresh home-cooked Italian food on a regular basis from the GM. Her family didn't even care I was a tiny little Irish thing. This was Boston... so the whole 'Italian family adopting the Irish kid' was fun to laugh about.) I spent 7 years RPing with them and I miss that character so badly... :cry: Anyway, I RPed in DAoC when I got dragged into MMOs and did sort of PERSONAL RPing(basically working a character up and drawing them, writing stories for myself) in WoW because I never found people I wanted to, or felt comfortable enough to, RP with(and I was a hardcore progression raider from DAoC>Vanilla WoW up to Wrath before I retired to more relaxed gaming)... I haven't really gotten into an indepth RP MMO community in a few years and I'm still feeling a TAD intimidated/skitterish. But I'm working on that.

T'sal is part Keeper(and being rolled up as a Keeper since you have to pick one in-game...) but his mother abandoned her family-tribe and made darn sure her son was never exposed to them. ^^' Granted, they were a very small insular tribe that was very reclusive, so I don't know how helpful her tribe would be at all. /shrug

I. Basic Info Characters: T'salmaveth Sadi'a Primary character: T'salmaveth Sadi'a Linkshells:None, seeking Primary RP linkshell:None, seeking II. RP Style Amount of RP (light, medium, heavy): Medium, I prefer to stay IC when talking /s and in RP-Linkshells, but I can and will be OOC when necessary to chat with people as well. Basically I'll be IC unless it's private tells or casual-buddy LS. Views on RP combat and injuries: I'm all for RP combat and don't mind the idea of injuries, but I don't really focus a lot on the injury aspect of it unless it's a story situation. Healing magic is so nice... >_> Views on IC romance: When done in a mature respectful manner, it can be fun. Not that T'sal is made for that. Not saying he's 100% immune, but his nature is very hard to connect to others. It might organically happen after a long time of RPing, but it isn't anything I'm really looking for at all. (I've had one too many bad experiences in the past of people confusing IC and IRL which just gets awkward and really stressful...) Views on non-romantic RP (family ties, etc): All for it. T'sal has issues connecting to others and I'm curious to see if/how/when he'll learn to make friends, if he can. Currently he has no family ties, but that doesn't mean cousins or other members of his dead parents' tribes can't pop up someday. Who knows? Views on lore: Very important. Lore serves as a very important guideline for players to be able to have something to use as a base to interact with others. That doesn't mean people can't adapt and be unique within the lore, but I'm not really interested in lore-breaking or RP that ignores this world's lore setting at all... it just confuses things. Views on chat functions (/say, /linkshell, etc): /say = In Character /linkshell = In Character(for RP linkshells), OOC(for casual linkshells) /tell = In Character(for any private RP), OOC(as needed/wanted by the other party involved) III. Other Info Country:United States Timezone:Standard time zone: UTC/GMT -6 hours / CDT Contact info: In Game, here on RPC [align=center][glow=blue]~Special announcements can be found in the posts below~[/glow][/align]

I've been sitting here trying to fill this out for... half an hour or more now. Why is it I can write bios, wikis, and pages-long stories but I can't fill out a simple table for T'sal? :dazed: :blush::cry:

Of course I do and it would be awesome to have responsible good players joining, regardless of from where or what brought them there. That said, I'm not going to be disingenuous or lie about my reasoning for something when having a mature conversation about why choices are made or what influenced them. If anything, that should hopefully lead into other conversations on multiple fronts on why I, or those I have spoken with, have those opinions and how they can be addressed. Having a decent conversation about why a person might be uncomfortable with something doesn't have to be taken as an attack on whatever that thing is, but more a chance to explore why and how to deal with it. The more the merrier in a mature playing community. I hope you see where I was coming from in my post, too. There ARE people who are very uncomfortable with a variety of other communities... heck, I know friends who spent 15 minutes reading through the FFXIV beta forums and told me they weren't sure they wanted to play because of the community! (I directed them here and told them to just breathe and not take beta forums seriously...) In the end, once I log into my server I don't care where other people came from before coming there. What will matter to me is how they act once we're in Eorzea. I would be more annoyed if they decided to identify themselves as not from their server community but as from a community outside of the game, ya know? Heh. Like I said, in the end I hope everyone finds a home where they are happy and secure for whatever reasons they have and have lots of friends to play with.

Hey hey, hang on. I just said it was a personal thing. I wasn't comfortable for my own reasons with something and discussed with with the people who make up my little gaming group. I lurk the FFXIV subreddit and haven't seen any reason to have an 'issue' with them, but I presented everything I knew and compared notes with the people I game with on a regular basis while answering some questions from my sister. If anything, their concern(aside from a friend who dislikes Reddit for their own reasons), they were more concerned with the size of an incoming community than where they were from. I'm sorry you take my post as being offensive, it wasn't presented that way and I was simply speaking about the variety of conversations people around me have had and why. There is someone I play with who had a very bad impression from Reddit and two that are regular members of several subreddits. It's simply finding a place we all felt happy being. That's all. Given that I've already dragged two of my friends into trying RP, which they haven't done before, I'm hardly an 'isolationist'.

I actually had this conversation with my sister last night while working on my wiki. She is a much more 'progression is what matters' type, though I still giggle at her about it. (She got into MMOs later than I did and I was a 'hardcore/server first' raider back in DAoC/Vanilla-WoW days, so her 'raider mentality' is very... "cute" to me, as I retired from that for relaxing and RP focused game-play.) Her issues are addressed in this video... the Economy and people having max levels and getting to do End Game stuff right off the bat. I told her the entire reason for joining Balmung was the RP community that I have been observing for awhile now. (Staaaaaaaalker....) With no 'official' RP server, I'd rather go to a server that already has an established community and is known for it. The people here are friendly enough that I don't feel concerned, as I did originally, by the Legacy aspect of it. (Jealous? Yes... but I'm a 'collector' at heart and knowing I won't be able to ever get some of those goodies galls me just enough that I sulk every now and then. But it's all in good fun, I also will viciously fight for/defend Legacy for their support of the game.) For me, the biggest reason I decided to talk my friends out of Gilgamesh were the large 'other communities' that have declared their intent to go, such as Reddit and, I've heard, 4chan. (Not sure about 4chan?) It's just a personal thing but... I'm just not keen on that. Again, just me. Granted, I'm still 'nervous' about the economy, but at the same time, I'm not. I can only hope that prices aren't obscene for new players and knowing there will be crafters ready and able to make a massive range of gear for people who level fast or slow is great. They can also help newer players learn how to do the crafting classes well. In the end, I think my sister was dragged off to a totally different server choice, I think Behemoth. But that's her call and what her friends are most comfortable with. While I don't want the niche community split up, I also want people to play the game the way they are the most comfortable and can have the most fun. Some things matter more to some than others and respecting that will let everyone have fun. (My only concern is a population cap with the server being full since it is Legacy. I hope my friends don't have problems getting onto the server. >_>)

I agree! Seeing the differences and comments here have very much helped me in the way I wrote up T'sal's childhood... not so much because of how HE was touched by it but more where his parents had come from and their opinions. I actually enjoy lore that has some grey-area wiggle room. It lets people play around a bit more and be creative/unique without having to slip dangerously close to the Mary Sue cliff-edge. I got T'sal's wiki done last night around 3am, so hopefully it all makes sense/works out... though I need to start sketching to break up some of that Wall 'o Text that will probably make some people wince. Aaaaah, it's been too long since I got to do so this, I've missed indepth character creation/writing. :love: Oh, and his Wiki, in case anyone had any issue with how I worked the random bits of Miqo'te lore in. (IE: His father was from a more integrated Miqo'te family group whereas his mum was from a very old-fashioned reclusive group.)

Working on T'sal there are a few very different songs that flitter across my mind as I go... Here are 3 that have been the most prominent today as I finished his wiki(which I'd love some feedback on, but I'll tentatively inquire about that elsewhere I guess.)

Thank you for the replies. I just wanted to be sure that any writing I did for T'sal's backstory and view on things meshes with the RP community's over-view on things. I did not play much of 1.0 at all and was then too busy with the games I was working on job-wise to play anything for awhile so I'm wanting to be sure I don't A)tread on any toes and B)sound like a twit(more than usual). I'm almost done with the writing for his wiki and will then take some time to read through more of the stories and RPs here. Thanks again! I love lore-learning. :3

Okay, so BASICALLY we can say 'not freak-out-rare' but 'huh, don't see that very often....' rare. Just so I can get to getting his backstory set down for the wiki. Debates aside, since all the lore I have read indicates that male Miqo'te birth-rates are low in the first place, it makes sense that they aren't widely seen in general. Granted, I'm still a LITTLE confused about a few things after reading these replies... Are the Miqo'te still living in clans away from other races or are they more or less fully integrated into society and living in the cities and settlements along side Hyur and so on? I guess I just assumed all the races still tended to gravitate to their own groupings except for the major cities(Ul'dah, Gridania and Limsa basically).

I swear I used the Advanced Search tool, as I'm sure that this discussion happened when they announced Male Miqo'te as finally gracing us with their delightful presence... but I just can't find and pin down an answer to my question and I don't feel that I can write up a nice solid backstory/history for T'sal that is correct in the formation of his personality through the interactions of those around him growing up without knowing this. (Okay, breathe... that was too long of a sentence. Way to sound pretentious there, yeesh!) We haven't seen male Miqo'te until the Calamity. Or was this ret-conned? Are they still TECHNICALLY rare(minus the influx of adventurers *cough*) so that one growing up outside of the tribes would be a unique formative experience because those around would be surprised to see one? Sorry if this has already been addressed. If there IS a thread of it I just didn't find, please link it to me with a 'look harder!' scolding and I'll tuck my tail and go read in the corner. And thank you for any help. I'm hoping to have T'sal's wiki done today so I can try to sketch him up with my rusty rusty art skills. ^^

Haha, we weren't actual characters from the books, though I THINK we were specific houses. It's been years since we did it.... All I remember about my character was that I was single and obsessed with my brother, who was married to a woman I didn't trust/like/etc and one of my goals was to get blackmail on her and get her firmly under my thumb so I would be sure she couldn't do anything to endanger my brother. Thankfully I wasn't 'Circe'-esque obsessed with my brother... /shudder Thank you, S'sato! :3

It was! It was actually my first job in the game industry, believe it or not. An awesome experience and probably the first job I ever truly loved and was happiest at. Of course, they also spoiled us rotten and I gained some weight with all the snacks and catered breakfasts and crunch dinners.... I'm paying for it now. >_> /hisses at Crossfit T'sal works, too. So yes, feel free. Thank you for the greeting. ^^ I've done a lot of table-top RPing, but I don't know how much guts it takes compared to an MMO.... the table-top is just with friends and there are way more people involved in the MMO scene. I did get to do one LARP-like event once, which was kinda intimidating since I didn't know a bunch of them. It was a Game of Thrones dinner event where we all had goals. I actually achieved mine, but I was such a sneaky underhanded cunning person that everyone decided I had been the one responsible for the murder and I got arrested by the Hand at the end. I was innocent, dangit! Ah, the curse of being a little too good at plotting/manipulating. >_> Oh pish, I'm sure it can't be any worse than dealing with Yoggie-poo. But if that particular corner is bad, I'll just go conquer a different one. I will, however, avoid the closet.... >_> Thanks! I hope to be in for the long haul, yes.... I miss the 'home' I had in DAoC and then in WoW. And convincing myself to actually post and offer up my little T'sal up to the judgement of others is what I really need to do to settle in. Hopefully he won't be so bad that I get the boot... I already attempted one exercise in the '100 questions' thread. Thank you for the greeting. :3 Thank you! I hope I do, people seem to be having a lot of fun from what I've seen. Hmmmm... pie. <3 Haha, I will take your warning to heart. But I think... once I'm comfortable... I am not the one who is going to need the warning. >_> >:} Thank you all for the greetings! I'll start working on getting T'sal's wiki set up.

So, I have something already written up for T'sal, but this is always a good exercise to cement things. So... I'll take a swipe at it. If anything, I can get some feedback on him since this is my first Final Fantasy RP and I might have missed something in my lore research. ^^' (I'm answering this as the creator, not the character... He'd never give anyone this much information. Ever.) Part 1: The Basics Part 2: Growing Up Part 3: Past Influences Part 4: Beliefs And Opinions Part 5: Relationships With Others Part 6: Likes And Dislikes Part 7: Self Images, Etc. Ah, that was long. Hopefully it isn't horrible. >_>

...right over here. >_> It stinks to be an avid day-dreamer/writer/RP-er AND be chronically shy-at-first.... Makes it hard to join in anything new. Bleh. So yeah... here I am, finally posting after lurking around here as a guest for a few months now. So hm. I'm a 31/f rolling up a male character and have talked my friends into coming to Balmung because I want to be AROUND RP even if I'm too shy to jump into it. (Which I'm working on... hence the post, yes?) My gaming started with the original gameboy and my first console game was FFVII.... I've been gaming since with both RPG and action/puzzle games. I got to college half-way across the country and was dragged into my first table-top game as I desperately tried to claw my way back into my corner. The GM, one of the first friends I made up there, would have none of it and I played 7 1/2 years with them, same character, until I finished up college and moved down to Texas. I just got a new gaming group half a year ago or so, which I'm very happy about. Of course, they have managed to corner me into attempting to actually GM and I will be starting my first ever attempt in a few weeks time. (I'm freaked out, frankly... 100% sure I'll mess it up, but they'll forgive me, I'm sure.) Hmmm... what else? Ah, I work a job I hate right now but I have been lucky enough to work at Bioware, NCSoft and SOE in the past. My first MMO was Dark Age of Camelot and I was dragged into WoW by my coworkers at GameStop after that... I was a hardcore raider there from beta/vanilla on and just retired finally a few months ago... um... I played SWTOR(worked on it), City of Heroes(worked on it, RIP), Guild Wars 2(worked on it), DC Universe Online(worked on it) and uh.... beta'ed a few other things that I didn't really stick with. I'm currently MMO'less until FFXIV arrives to save me from my horrible 'I-Hate-My-Job' evenings. I guess that's enough? I can end up writing a lot and I'm sure people don't need Wall'o'Text in a 'meet'n'greet' thread, right? Right. So yeah... I'll just skitter back to my corner now. >_> /SKITTER