Cyroselle

Oooh, I love the imagery here, I can see this, crystal-perfect in my minds' eye. I look forward to further installments!

I think it's a bit exacerbated by the fact that we don't actually have an officially designated RP server. This isn't to say that people that have no interest in RP don't roll on RP servers. They most certainly do. But usually in those cases they do so with the understanding that they are playing on an RP server, and often have a better tolerance of people playing ICly. Not to say we don't get trolls and ill-tempered people though, those exist everywhere. But there are environments that are more RP positive, it's just sad that with all the truly awesome RP tools we were given by SE, an RP-tagged server wasn't one of these.

The game itself has content that such people would find offensive on many levels, were they just to pay attention to NPC dialog. :3 In other words I think it's a bit silly when people in a mature game claim offense at mature language when I'm standing next to an NPC that's dissuading me to visit on the attentions of a pair of working women because they gave him 'crotch rot'. At the same time however I don't want to hear people telling 'The Aristocrat' on general chat and I'll actively blacklist people that are being gross just for gross's sake.

I think the context is closer in reference to when we used to keep time according to the bell in the town hall. Before we had neat things like the Atomic Clock and cellphone synced to over-the-air networks, and before that radio and TV a method people would use to unify time was to sound off the hours via a giant bell located in the tower or a church or town hall. The people living within earshot of the bell's ringing would set their clocks and pocket-watches to that. Yeah, I'm now wondering if Eorzeans actually say "corse" rather than corpse, because it is a "typo" that has come up numerous times now in quest text. >_> Either Squeenix really sucks at typing, or Eorzeans are frickin' weird. It may also be Old English or possible Welsh. I've been noting that a lot of Eorzean words and terms seem to be rooted in Old English, Gaelic, Welsh and ancient Norse. Leve for instance, is an Old English term for Writ, or 'permission'. Note also, rather than 'Graveyard' citizens of the Eorzean subcontinent use the term 'Lichyard'. There are numerous examples of these funny uses of (to us) anachronous terms. FFXIV is peppered with lingual oddities. <3