Lupo

Hello ladies and gents of RPC! Henceforth I am going to describe and outline the project that is what prompted me to begin RPing in FFXIV:ARR in the first place and I wanted to gather the community's opinions, feedback, and assistance on the matter. Currently, as it stands right now, there are close to 100 very talented individuals in the community with very creative minds, an aptitude for writing, and an eye for detail. So my thought is to tap into that talent by introducing a Chronicler Project (name pending). The News! For now, the plans are thus: Planned Project Stages To create a linkshell consisting of those interested in the project. This is an OOC linkshell that collates and assesses stories of RP that happen in game from the various players and members of RPC. COMPLETE!! Assemble Teams of Editors and Contributors to assemble these stories and dialogues into a formal writing format. I.E. Chapters, Paragraphs, Titles, Descriptive Sentances etc. Something you would find in a book. These stories assembled above would be like a vignette or a short story. They will be categorized, sorted, edited for all to view here on the forums. The End Goal: To have enough content to self publish a small book that can be printed on a book by book basis. Only printed when someone wants a copy. What differentiates this project proposal compared to the Journal Section on this site is the end goal. I would like to slap this text into a word doc, following typical English language art rules and narrative structure and eventually be able to print it on a page, so that someone can sit down for a few hours and read about a good story in their favorite world. Another distinction from what you normally read about here is that the stories END. Not with death, but think of a story arc or similar. I admit, the work is probably a bit redundant from what already goes on here, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone already has something similar going, but let me know. Obviously, this is a lofty project and a week worth of RP can turn out to be a months worth of work and editing, but the important thing about ambition is to not just talk about it but to start working! To that end, I have done the following: I have an old character from 1.0 on Durandal that will be transfering over to Balmung. His name is Aidan Levine and is a Hyur. He is a very low level (highest class is 19) however he will server as my Chronicler. The guy who observes RP, but in a lore friendly way. He will be like Erik the Historian. Once the transfer is complete, he will "chronicle" the events of my main character, Balthazar Lupo, but beginning with his backstory. Of course, since they are both my characters, Aidan cannot be present during actual RP but it will serve as the basis for my third person writing. I have about 4 pages of backstory complete. Its a work in progress but I intend on having about 10 pages done by the end of next week and ready for someone to edit. General Guidelines If you are providing feedback, critique, or general comments, please put a tag on the top of your post [FEEDBACK] or something obvious. I'm going to try to prioritize those. If you for some reason you DO NOT think this is a good idea or an appropriate RP related discussion please PM me first or leave your opinion with a tag of [FEEDBACK] in your post. I'd be glad to receive any criticism if the community does not believe this to be a worthwhile or redundant project. Sharing Protocol: Currently, being the only person in the project, I keep the written works in my Evernote account and Dropbox as a word doc. This will change if people join the project and as the project expands. You are welcome to share the text freely, however in order to ensure that the text is formatted for print properly and edited without tampering, the main copy will only be shared with contributors. We wouldn't want a spelling mistake in the real thing! That would be embarassing! NOTE: You are also free to have members of the forum inspect writing and such here or on a seperate thread, but please be sure to credit them for whatever they helped with (I.E. Thanks [forum member] for helping with fact checking!) I'll make a special thanks section for that when it happens. (This list will expand as I think/experience/am recommended of more things to add) I'd like to help! What do I do?? If you'd like to help, here is a section where you can find that info! I am looking for any and all help. After all, this project is the product of FFXIV, an MMORPG, so by default must be a group effort! Steps to Help Step 1: Introduce yourself here! Mention you'd like to help out! Step 2: Fill in this template and either PM me or post it here with [i'D LIKE TO HELP] somewhere at the top of the post. Step 3: Choose a capacity to help in. (NOTE: There are many options and I am always open to more! This is so we split up the work well, and things will shift around.) [*]Step 4: Contact the RP, LS, Writer, Editor or whomever else you are working with to start helping! Also to help clarify things, here are some arbitrary terms that have no academic meaning that I am using just to differentiate characters and storylines so no one gets confused. List Of Terms (please let me know if you think anything should be changed) Narrative Lead: The Character the Chronicler or Narrator follows around in RP. The story is often told from his/her/its perspective. Chronicler Character: The Narrator. Can be random voice in the sky or an actual person living in Eorzea, depends on the story. Mary Sue: Do I need to explain this? Should be avoided at all costs since it destroys the integrity of a written narrative. Its one thing to god mode in RP, quite another to read a short story about a god. Of course, all other RP terms commonly in use apply here to. (I.E. IC, OOC, etc.) For now, this is all the information I have clearly thought out, but I will add more as is appropriate. The following post will outline the current project status, contributors and other important social info. Project Progress In this post, I will include and update any project progress and notes and other notable information. The titles should be fairly self explanatory but please let me know if there is any questions or suggestions for this section of the post! Current Participants All names listed are the FORUM user names. This may change later. For now, I am in all three categories since I am doing the work alone, but I will probably step down from one or more of these positions if more people join the project. Writers Lupo Swygrael EDITORS Lupo Lore Masters Lupo Other No one yet! Chronicler Linkshell N/A. Not yet established until necessary. Current Vignettes and Shortstories Miquo'te Uncertainty (Balthazar Lupo's Backstory) You can visit the story here! A Bow For Beggars (Balthazar Lupo's FFXIV 1.0 Backstory) Bard's without Song (FFXIV 2.0 Story involving Balthazar Lupo) EDIT: Typo correction. Added formal process to expressing interest in helping. EDIT: Added News Section.

If you've been keeping up with the news, you may have noticed that on October 15th, 2013 Free Server Transfer is finally going live! And its free! That being the case, since I was unable to make my new 2.0 character on Balmung, here comes a transfer and I'm gunning to join the RP Community. *queue FF Victory Music* Anyway, there is probably no better way to get started than the template so here goes. And there is no better way to start with a good old fashioned template. What shall we call you? This is something I think we should add to the template, but I think we should have a section where you tell people what to call you! Even if its obvious to use the Username, sometimes we can list appropriate variations of the name or a different name or a nickname. Anyway there is no other way to describe it, but I am Balthazar Lupo, or for the purposes of OCC, you can use Lin or you can use my character name, or Bal. Balth has shown up in my LS in my current server Siren. MMORPG Background I've played LOTS of MMORPGs, but I've never been much of a hardcore community. Usually I play a game, level to max, then once I've gotten to the endgame I get a bit bored. Loot treadmills started to bore me, and usually I cancel my subscription or whatever and leave! That is until I found RP...more on that later. Games I have played include Dragon's Nest, Perfect World, Forgotten Realms, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Aion, Lineage II, RF Online and, of course, 1.0! You get 10 points if you know all of those! As far as playerskill however, FFXIV 2.0 is the first game where I primarily play as a DD, so that is something to factor in when partying up with me. Some guys online have been playing tank for 10 years! RP Experience As I mentioned above, I found RP-ing when I got off the Endgame treadmill of most MMORPGs, namely Lineage II about 9 years ago. Anyway, my style ranged from light RP to heavy RP, which changed from game to game, but I had a period where I stopped playing MMOs and focused on school and computer hardware. The past few years I RP'ed on my own time (in Skyrim!) by writing short blurbs of what happened to my character and some justification behind it in a personal google doc but thats about it. My favorite thing about RP is being create a story for yourself and the ability to make it your own! Character Ideas/Info To start with, I'll be attempting to play the Sun Seeker Balthazar Lupo. I have this HUGE backstory I am crafting for him that explains his name not being traditional Miquote style, his skills and some faults I am going to roleplay. I believe its important to establish this somewhere since when you meet someone in real life they MUST have a past, known or unknown! A few goals with this character is to generate a story worth recording. I am hoping to write (paragraph by paragraph) things that happen in game with other RPers into a sort of book that I can go back and read from start to finish with some sense of storyline. He will, of course, have some issues namely he's poor (true in game too) but skilled (in 2-3 classes, true in game too). He may be slightly morally dubious but overall good intentioned. What good is an adventurer who doesn't sometimes run into gil problems? I am going to try to create someone interesting who had a fairly typical (in the scope of FFXIV lore...i.e. lots of refugees, Garlean takeover of Ala Mhigo, Ishgardian Isolationism etc etc) upbringing, but to be basically me, transplanted to the world of FFXIV. I'll be referencing as much official SE lore as I can from the SE forums and verified lore via interviews and such. He'll be late 20's early 30's since I want him to experience certain events at cognitive age, such as the fall of Ala Mhigo, and he'll be well traveled (as an adventurer should). Anyway, you can find a thread I started about his backstory here one day. I'll edit this post and link it when I get around to writing a backstory I am satisfied with and feel free to provide constructive criticism! I know my creative writing needs work and some things may need to be fact checked! Avoid the Mary Sue! Current Mary Sue-Test Score: 25 How did you learn about the Coalition? Good old fashioned google. Oh and someone on Reddit told me Balmung was the unofficial RP Server? What kind of Role-player are you aiming to be? I'm trying to do medium RPing. As is with most MMORPGs, you gotta go OCC to really level, and sometimes I will login without RPing at all just to level. Other times I will be logging in to really RP and will RP for most of the session. Either way I intend on leveling with my RP, i.e. I won't call my RP self a master carpenter unless I have Carpenter lvl 50. Who knows how that will work out, but it helps me stay in the mindset. Real Life I am a 24 y.o. part-time college student who also works full time! As such, I may not be online as much as I'd like but I'll do my best, so take that into consideration with any RP opportunities and story lines. I do statistics and math in college and at work. I also love computer hardware and gaming in general, and split my time between this game, learning to use Unity3D, and playing other games (right now ME3). I listen to Aetheryte Radio, PC Perspective Podcast and Crate and Crowbar at work, and my musical taste vary depending on season. I also have lofty goals of being a fairly decent writer (enough to freelance for media at least) and to have my own podcast. #WishfulThinking. Anyway, with 4 days to go before I can transfer servers, I'll continue leveling on my own on my current server. In the mean time, I intend on participating here (about once a day in brief spurts) so I can integrate myself smoothly with the community! I am perfectly open to LS and FC invites! I do also intend on making a personal RP linkshell for a story I kinda want to start if anyone is interested, but that is a work in progress until I can flesh out details.