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Presenting: Oscare's ass, kupo!

MY pillar.

Something awesome.

I see your bootknife and raise you one foot switchblade.

"I suppose that means that you'll just be a hard sell on handing over that book, huh? No matter--more than one way to skin a coeurl." "You do not want this book. Trust me."

It's a fact of life: Everyone in Eorzea seems to be toting a sword, or a spear or a bow, etc. No one is empty handed, and the personal armories run the gamut from slightly prepared to armed to the teeth. But exactly why do we carry around these weapons all the time? How did our characters come across them? Are they of sentimental value? Are they unique specimens not unlike Relics? That's the topic for today. Does your character carry an intensely personal weapon/artifact, and why so? Let me start things off with Edgar's own equipment. Edgar possesses but one weapon and one artifact which he inherited when his parents were brutally murdered. The weapon is his Father's spear, Drakkeneater, which owes the majority of its construction to draconic anatomy. The shaft of the spear itself has a tube running through it, and inside that tube is a hefty collection of Dragon bone marrow. This is because Edgar's father believed by imbuing his weapon with the humors of a Dragon, it would produce an aura that would benefit his agility and Jumping prowess against the beasts. The artifact he inherited is none other than The Precautioned Pocketbook of Wicked Portend Regarding Manners of Voidly Manifest, a wicked pocketbook containing an intense array of information on the Void, and known for having wrought great misfortune during its creation. For some reason, nothing bad has happened to its current owner...Yet. Both are of great sentimental value to him, and he utilizes them when appropriate.

It's J.E.N.O.V.A.'s frikken head!

[align=center]AI Controlled[/align] Warrior of Light: "Are you...The one they spoke of?" Garland: "Shame you won't remember this..." Firion: "Oh just pick one, already!" Emperor: "Have you come to offer me death or paradise?" Onion Knight: "Want to discuss Allag when this is over with?" Cloud of Darkness: "You Voidal types just don't know when to quit." Cecil: "Hold on to that light..." Golbez: "Your father would be disappointed." Kain: "...What's your opinion on dragons?" Bartz: "I know. I miss mine, too." Exdeath: "I've fallen so far as to fight a tree." Gilgamesh: "You seem...Familiar." Terra: "Ah shucks...Have the first punch, dammit." Kefka: "This speaks for itself, I'm afraid." Cloud: "Chin up. She'd want to you to be smiling." Sephiroth: "Your mother was just as crazy." Tifa: "You remind me of someone." Squall: "You ever been to Garlemad, by any chance?" Ultimecia: "This existence refuses to be denied!" Laguna: "I have a book." Zidane: "The rouge-ish type, huh?" Kuja: "You're making us sophisticates look bad." Tidus: "You should write a book." Jecht: "An otherworld awaits..." Yuna: "How do you draw runes with a staff?" Shantotto: "My pants are fireproof, sorry." Prishe: "...Can we talk about this?" Vaan: "One bad gambit." Gabranth: "Gaius...?" Lightning: "You're nobody's tool." Feral Chaos/Chaos: "Immortality is for the fearful." I'll have the Player quotes soon.

That's...Literally the dance they're adding. Yes, it most likely will be, but they called it the firedance then. It's a shame the financial clusterfucks and other issues surrounding 1.0 kept me from becoming a Legacy player. I would have had a fancy chocobo and a nice yukata. Better late than never, I suppose.

That's...Literally the dance they're adding.

......When they announced the restructuring I was expecting something bad. This figures. One way to make Miyazaki retire for good, I guess. EDIT: WAIT! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11018226/Studio-Ghibli-Miyazaki-may-return.html . . . I think it might be bad translation again. People thought the studio was shutting down when they announced the restructuring, so this might be one of those things. In the article I linked, it says "brief pause" on the movies. Hope yet remains. edit 2 - also this: http://kotaku.com/studio-ghibli-is-not-dead-yet-1615520289 Come on Miyazaki, don't quit! We need you, man!

Studio Ghibli has announced that they will no longer be making feature length animation. I just felt a part of me die.

Every time Edgar does a Frontline battle with the Maelstrom... ugx48uvvURc The King and his men stole the Queen from her bed and bound her in her bones the seas be ours and by the powers where we will we'll roam Yo ho, all hands Hoist the colours high Heave ho, thieves and beggars Never shall we die

*Slurping sounds*

Miqo'te are very similar to big cats like lions and tigers, in my opinion. Which is to say, Couerls and Tamayas in FF. Catnip, I believe, would have an effect on them only if you wished it. In the wild, catnip is actually just mint, and big cats will chew on mint leaves and proceed to trip out for hours, so if you're rping them as I do, then yeah, sneaking a little mint into a piece of chocolate will mess them up. As for glasses, yeah, totally impossible by conventional means, unless they clip onto the hair.

Eh? EH?

Or, how I turned a joke into a potential brainstorm. [align=center]Prologue: How it Came to Be [/align] A week back, before I had an injury and had to be treated (which I find ironic, considering the material we are about to discuss is linked to cosmic misfortune), I brought up in a linkshell with Tiergan and Askier the name of my main character's, Edgar's, most unusual book: [align=center]The Precautioned Pocketbook of Wicked Portend Regarding Manners of Voidly Manifest[/align] Or as Edgar refers to it, "The Spook-Book." Essentially, the Grimoire contains a bestiary of Voidal beasts, information on Voidal ecology, and the overall link between the Void and our realm (and why you should not f*ck with said link). When asked ICly how that information could possibly be gathered, Edgar mentioned that the Grimoire was the end result of 70 author's combined efforts, 68 of which went batshit insane during/because of the research and writing process, with the last 2 vanishing off the face of Hydaelyn, never to be found again. The first thing that came to the minds of everyone involved was, of course, Lovecraft's famous book of cosmological horror, the Necronomicon. Then Tiergan came up with an idea. A wonderful idea. A wonderful, magnificent idea. And then I came up with the same thing and we both agreed it was good. [align=center]The Purpose of This Thread [/align] So, what we're doing is creating a thread for Lovecraft-esque stories within the FFXIV universe, based on things that happened to the writers of the Spook-Book, what is mentioned in the Spook-Book, and so on, in the same manner that the Necronomicon was used in famous Lovecraftian stories like The Hound. Much how H.P. Lovecraft has his Old Gods and Elder Things and Yog-Sothothery and a personal mythos, we shall be making our tales of Cosmic horrors, except, instead of a lost city below the waves, we shall have our locations in FFXIV (or FF in general) to work with, such as the horror of the Void. Think about it. Does Amdapor have a Cthulhu analogue? Write a story about it in a reply to this thread! If you need inspiration, here's a bullet list of potential topics to get you all started. If I feel the urge to, I shall contribute as well. Contents of the PPWPRMVM, or "Spook-Book." Experiences of any of the 70 Authors who went nuts writing this thing. Stories of Voidal/FF Analogues for Entities in Lovecraft's Mythos, mentioned in the Spook Book, or responsible for the creation of it. Typical Lovecraft-style stories taking place in the FFXIV universe. Actual information on the Void as it is represented in the Spook-Book. The way this Grimoire gets around. Why such a horrible, terrible book has such a silly title. I am so looking forward to what you come up with! And for the record, before the PPWPRMVM, I was considering the "Black Mage's Cookbook" for the title, but found it in poor taste.

Source Ninja Female and Male Armor w/Relics Ninja PVP Armor and Weapon Possibilities Cloud of Darkness Render

So my launcher recently decided it wants to fuck with me. It won't open the game. It'll let me open the Launcher application, log into my account, and give me the shiny green button to play the game, but if I click it, the Launcher quits itself and the game does not run. So I deleted all SweetFX files from my folders. Did not help. So I reset my computer. Did not help. So I'm re-installing FFXIV: ARR as I type this as a last ditch effort, as I assume whatever was wrong with the original files will be purged and replaced with fresh, fully functioning new ones. I hope. I'll keep a log of how/when I deal with this problem so if anyone else is having the same issue, we can find out when it started happening and such. 7:30 CST: Launcher refuses to run game. SweetFX removed. Computer restarted. 8:00 CST: Still not running game. Uninstalled FFXIV. Reinstalling... 10:22 CST: Finally finished. Ran game. 5006 error. Game crashed. 10:33 CST Successfully ran game.

Only if Delial (cuideag) joins me.

http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/game/31/ Thank you so much!

I lack Nvidia, so I need some good SweetFX settings. Anyone willing to assist?

Being able to switch between colour/background themes for the site.

What ungodly amount of gil are we talking? ; Probably huge.