SessionZero

Another new one!

I look at healing as super duper awesome accelerated first aid. A healer will be able to stop bleeding and take someone out of the immediate danger of dying, but more grievous wounds will take more time to heal fully. It's a band-aid on steroids, not an insta-cure.

Seconded Val's opinion. It's good to have a space where we can get the shitposting out of our system.

The slight Hyur woman approached R'elend's desk, walking with swagger, albeit laced with purpose. Her masked turban obscured most of her face save a smirking pink-lipped mouth and reddish hair that framed the sides of her face in large clumps. Her loose-fitting shirt rippled slightly in the warm Ul'dahn breeze, and her lightly armored boots made no sound as she approached. She slid her butt onto the edge of R'elend's desk and turned sideways slightly, swinging her leg over the other, then lifted her hand to inspect her nails. She dropped a severed hand on the table, bearing an identifying mark, and, still focusing on her nails, said in a bored tone to R'elend, "Oi, bounty turn-in mate. Pay up."

I would second what FW said, namely the part about two bright lights holding out against the encroaching darkness. While I find nothing wrong with conflict when it is between the two in question, I find it more enjoyable for any conflict to arise from an overwhelming outside force. Warriors who walk the battlefield together and develop an inexorable bond that transcends even baseline romance into something unshakable. They can't fully embrace their passions until after the battle, but they might find small measures of peace throughout to develop the connection between them, that is the sort of romance RP I enjoy

yes. "friend". I'M TRYING TO RESPECT YOUR ONLINE PRIVACY WOMAN.

A good friend of mine is partial to, "Halone's frozen tits!"

I got 59/100. Do I qualify for shitlord status?

Necroing this thread to rant about the asshole in my firm who keeps fucking up his laptop then blaming us. Today he actually had the nerve to say to me, "Do we have anyone smarter that can fix this permanently?" Here's an idea fuckwad, why don't we get someone smarter to do your job for us, who won't also completely brick their laptop on a semi-monthly basis because you think you know so much technical bullshit about your laptop when in reality I'm amazed you can even velcro your fucking Sketchers in the morning, you impossible moron.

I completely agree that it doesn't take much effort to play fair, and I share your wish that less people would be dirtbags about it. I'm just saying, if SE truly believed their players wouldn't take advantage of every loophole they could find, that's frankly astonishing. When the creator of Ultima Online visited his own creation to meet with his game's players, the first thing they tried to do was kill the shit out of him, just to see if they could. There's a precedent for MMO players being impossibly evil, and there has been for years.

Building a system based on the expected altruism of people on the internet is a system designed from the ground up to fail miserably. Since the dawn of digital interaction we've proved that if you give someone on the internet a chance to be a massive jerk, they will be a massive jerk nine times out of ten. Intention doesn't mean jack squat if you don't implement the means to enforce that intention. If SE is honestly surprised that people took advantage of a glaring loophole in the housing system, I would question just how based in reality Yoshi-P's housing team really is.

Reilan's eyebrows shoot up in surprise. "Okay, I guess I do like you."

Reilan stares blankly at the Miqo'te. "Do I need to buy more saucers for milk? I have no idea what you people eat."

Reilene sat brushing her raven black hair, staring into the mirror. Her own crimson gaze stared back at her, and she exhaled slightly. The jingle of chainmail rattled behind her, and before she could speak, her husband leaned over her shoulder to peck her on the cheek. "Your efforts are wasted, my dear. Any more beautiful and you would rival Halone herself." Reilene turned to her husband and smiled. "Ware your words, my lord. They could easily be construed as heresy." Her husband chuckled, standing back up to his full height, and his dark chainmail dyed the colors of House Fortemps gleamed in the daylight filtering in through the bedroom window. "If appreciating my beloved's beauty is to be considered heresy, then the Fury may take me and my house, for it should be worth the damnation." He turned and strode gracefully from their bedroom, stopping only to allow two small children to pass. Reilene scooped the children into her arms, moving to follow her husband. She trailed his steps to the front door of their estate, where he stopped and turned back to his family. "Mind your mother, Martilioux, Ceilline. I shall return ere the sun rises on the seventh dawn." "Fury be with you, my dear. And hells take the scalekin," Reilene replied, smiling. Her husband leaned down to kiss each one in turn, then stepped out of the door, closing it with a sound thud behind him. Reilene watched the door for a moment before setting her children down, shooing them off to play, and tread softly to the parlor of their estate, where a suit of Temple Knight mail was hung with a gleaming steel lance. Running her hand over the mail, she whispered softly to herself, "Would that I could join you my love. Would that I could fly as my father did."

Bolded for emphasis on my point. This is something I actually try to avoid. Most of my characters aren't outright "ugly" but they are certainly not models or maybe even "attractive" in the conventional sense. Two of my oldest, main-est characters, Reilan and Llaine, are both lifetime warriors who bear horrific scars all over their bodies from the trials of war. Reilan may be considered "rugged" for an Elezen and Llaine at the very least not horrid looking but they are both meant to be rough and tumble and certainly far less attractive than the character creator will let me make them look.

This seems to be a common theme for many roleplayers I've met. They crave the social interaction of RP but make incredibly antisocial characters that put off more social players. It's something I'll never really understand, but to each their own. I've learned through rigorous trial and error that, for me anyway, very open-ended characters are my best option for RP, since I tend to be one of those RPers who plays the game first and RPs when I have extra time for it. A character that can simply walk into the Quicksand or other designated gathering area and strike up a conversation with anyone can fulfill my RP needs without the need of a RP FC to facilitate it for me, and FFXIV's Linkshell system only assists in that endeavor. As I said, there's nothing wrong with being a wallflower RPer and waiting for the RP to come to you. I just don't have the time to wait for it between gathering and running dungeons and raids 8-) If I see you in-game, I'll have Rukon come bug you.

It's an easy way to invite other RPers to initiate RP when you're not feeling particularly ambitious yourself, so I've done it on occasion. Normally I am one of those self-starters however, so I tend to be the one responding to solo emotes. Or if I'm bored or waiting for a roulette/raid party, I'll stand in the Quicksand and creep on other people's RP. In that case I pretend to be a lamp, and emote lamp things.

Reilan would hand out shade. Rukon would give out household items within reach. "You get a stapler, you get a sponge, and you get bleach. Don't drink that."

I feel like I just came down from a bad trip.

She's a succubus, which is not the same thing as a vampire.

A valid point, but it is important to note that playing hardware-intensive games on laptops not built to withstand that sort of constant strain can be detrimental to the system as a whole in the long run. Gaming laptops are designed from the ground up to be able to deal with the strain of hardware-intensive games and still last as long as possible.

I've always been a big fan of ASUS stuff, as are a lot of my IT peers. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232602 That's going to do everything you want and cost you a fraction of your budget.

Hey look at that, an update after a hella long time away.

Hi there. One of the said tattooists FW was talking about. My catgirl K'hane and her husband have both inscribed people with runes and glyphs as part of magical rituals but I see no reason a plain-Jane tattoo would be beyond them.

It was very unlike Reilan to give a care to anything that happened outside of Ishgard. The Dragonsong War held his full attention, and as Templar of the Vanguard, so did the bumbling (in his mind) soldiers under his command. However, he chanced upon a copy of the newspaper while in Limsa Lominsa on unrelated business, and while flipping through it (pausing with interest at the Bronco ads), he skimmed the latest sensationalist material to grace the pages. As he read down his face grew steadily more incredulous, until at the end a soft chuckle escaped his lips. "So she lies to one Keeper clan, falls from grace with another, then writes this dreck outing herself to both? She must have an unfathomable death wish." He carelessly tossed the paper in the nearest refuse bin and turned with a swish of his armored coat towards the aetheryte to return to Coerthas.