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I'm sorry to see this news, though it's a very reasonable decision. I dropped off this summer due to new job and moving things but I was hoping to come back and start connecting with people this fall. However, I'm glad I saw the announcement before the closing; I hadn't realized how long the history of this place was! Thank you very much for running it for all this time. Even if I joined at the tail end of its life, I've found it a useful place to start as a brand-new RPer.

Oh, that's good to know! It's definitely the most intimidating part for me but I will steel myself and give it a shot this week, I think. And I think I saw someone from your FC advertising your teatime last week! Didn't make it then, but I will try to make the next one. I've always wanted to try a teahouse/cafe/pub open house event... they sound like a lot of fun.

Hello all! New here, looking to get into roleplay--you can call me Ink. I've been playing XIV since early 2020, but I have been RPing in some form or fashion since high school--typically through play-by-post games in forums and on Dreamwidth, as well as some tabletop experience with D&D, Shadowrun, and Quest. So I have been very interested to explore the RP scene in FF14, and have spent a lot of time looking at people's various carrds. Now that I've finished the 4.0 storyline, I feel like I'm in a better position to start. (For one thing, it means I've gone through the Steppe, so I can be confident that my Xaela is lore-compliant.) I'm on the Crystal datacenter, with my main on Balmung and my alt on Mateus. My backstory for Dalii is a lancer-botanist from the Steppe. She grew up in a tribe that was unwillingly pushed to the mountainous margins ~50 years ago. Her name is taken from the Mongolian word for a type of rhododendron, so my character concept for her is that she is hardy, showy, and slightly toxic. So that means she is a little overconfident and too willing to get into arguments or fights with people (bad thing if you live in the margins and don't want anyone antagonizing your neighbors or leading the youth to do dangerous things). She worked her way to Eorzea after boldly declaring that she was going to become an adventurer and become very strong and very knowledgeable and show everyone that the mountains didn't have to be an enemy, and absolutely nobody argued with her decision, yay! She's been an independent adventurer for a couple of years and has gone back and forth a few times--so she has some experience but there's still plenty of new adventures out there. My alt is a Duskwight from the Shroud who decided to go and become a gladiator/miner/jeweler in Ul'dah because she grew up in a traditional subterranean village that was forced to disband after the Calamity and being refused help by the Gridanians because (supposedly) the elementals said no. So her plan is to get rich and re-found the village. But I'm still restricted to Ul'dah with her so I probably won't be doing anything RP-wise with her for a while. Dalii is already established in an FC, so I think I would be looking for events, independent connections, and linkshells to start with? But I am very shy about the prospect of doing walk-up/tell and proposing some kind of independent storyline. I see announcements in shoutchat for events and such. I'm also trying to avoid spoilers for Shadowbringers & Endwalker as much as possible. So my main questions are. What kind of RP groups are out there for people who are already in an FC? What kind of hooks/storylines are the most effective for starting with an individual player? (I'm interested in character development and connection-building, so would "adventuerers on a job together" be a good start, for example?) What IS the etiquette for doing walk-up/tell?