Xzenivar

you can contact me here, or possibly skype on Ravrohan.

A'kos has done a fair share of investigating. 8-)

Hm, I kind of like that bard set, but for my ninja I like playing my ninja as more of a rogue, with a dervish/roguish style. The gloam coat is still one of my favorite looks for him. I haven't seen all the top armor, but I'm mostly looking forward to the chivalic coat in white.

Thanks, looking forward to it! :thumbsup: I'll look into that

Cinnmon and honey Chai. Doesn't have to be a latte but it should be much stronger and spicier than what you'd get in Starbucks. There's a Little India not far from where I live, where an old man who barely speaks English and works out of a corner shop made some of the best I ever had. Spicy and sweet, strong with the cardamon, it was great. Relating it to A'kos, spicy yes, but warming and pretty kind, but it's tricky to get it right and can sometimes be to weak or to strong. And no matter how much you mix sometimes, there's gonna be some dregs down at the bottom of the cup. A'kos would get some made special and carry a cask on it if he were going to Coerthas highlands for awhile.

A'kos has a great love of pina coladas since coming to Limsa Lominsa. He's never had the like before, but otherwise doesn't like to drink alcohol for reasons he won't talk about. This might be the only drink he can make, but he makes it damn good. :thumbsup: He also has a false magitek eye, it functions very well but without much in the way of optional extras, but he couldn't afford a proper match and so looks like he has hetrochromia. The looks normal to anyone who sees it unless they know what to look for and have experience with a magitek prosthetic.

[align=center]Need something delivered and don't trust those flying fluffy cat to get your package where it needs to go? Need something found and secured until you can come a call, but don't want to risk your retainers or suffer amateurs? Maybe you have a bit of magitech that needs looking over and don't know where to turn? Or just have some trouble and don't know how to solve it? Then contact A'kos Saiyal! Freelance courier and troubleshooter! Just leave word at the Drowning Wench or Maelstrom Command and we'll be in touch. Solving your needs today! Endorsed and employed by the Maelstrom Grand Company of Limsa Lominsa, swabbing decks and handling opo's costs extra. [/align] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OOC....I think, can't say if the above was totally IC anyway 8-). I'm looking for rp, and thought of this hook to get involved with a variety of things. A'kos is a pretty easy going most of the time and can be seen traveling hither and yon the realm over (save for Ishgard for now, haven't unlocked Heavensward yet) If you need someone to fill a role or just randomly rp something, hit me up! If you're looking to employ his services, contact me in game by letter or tell, or pm me here and I'll get to you asap. I'm also looking for an FC, based in Limsa/Maelstrom and is into pve as well as rp. Good aligned (more or less), housing a plus. I gave some thought to starting my own based on the above concept, but I'm newish and suck at the recruiting part :blush: Walk ups welcome, just have to get the man to slow down for a bit. I mostly play ic, and yes he really does run everywhere like he has a million things to do

Similar boat here, I'm kind of shy, and hesitant to get into rp until I've at least caught up to Heavensward content. A'kos had some definite ties to the Empire, and can pick out the accent in a crowd, even disguised to a degree. You can hit me up for rp anytime, or if you see me running around approach me.

A'kos if really thirsty would drink it. If he's serving drinks for some odd job, it's half full, on the way to being all full. If he wasn't really thirsty, he'd think it was someone elses or just left out and probably not good for drinking. The less practical side of his brain would think "who cares? Want it full, fill it yourself. Want it empty, drain it. Just do something already."

I usually go by when the game came out to when the last major content update happened, unless the game says "X amount of time has passed"

It's mostly an aesthetic thing with me. I have an idea in mind for what I want to play and what I want them to look like. That usually means human or dark elf characters, males since my mains are almost always males. Female alts tend to be anything but the race of my main.

I couldn't make it had to build rl furniture.

I was thinking something like this after the housing question thread and finding out how hard it is, or expensive it is to get a house. I like how it's done in SWTOR, in that you have instanced homes of various sizes. I'd like to see that in FFXIV, they don't have to have the garden or stable being an apartment, but some kind of home that we could decorate and invite people into or give keys to in order to let someone in while we weren't there.

Haven't gotten to Heavensward yet, so I can't say I know them all. But for now, I'm going to have to go with the dual primal team of Godbert and Juylana.

FBI agent or the Transporter.

A'kos is pretty much a ninja in terms of skills. A combat oriented spy. He knows some other means of fighting, but their not half so advanced as the ninja stuff. Personality wise, the Rogue's guild quests were some of my favorite in the game, and really struck a cord with me in and out of character, so he considers himself a Rogue. Currently though, he's a modest courier (Ninja mail man!) doing odd jobs to put food on the table and blades at his hips. Sometimes he'll find work putting his skills to better use as a private investigator. He has some basic understanding of magitech, not like an engineer but maybe a mechanic...maybe. I'm not sure how to represent that through a class though, Alchemy? I haven't done crafting in years.

Why do I feel the potential for getting in trouble is strong with this one... A'kos likes healthy women, light to strong muscle definition (basically not to soft) with ample chests. So he kind of prefers roe's and highlander women almost by default. Though midlander and elezen aren't to far behind anyway. He just doesn't like cutesy so a lot of Miqo'te and Au ra he's encountered are out. Lalafells are adorable but, no. Naturally he doesn't care if they're taller than him, but he's pretty tall himself (max for a midlander) so he actually stands taller than some highland women. Hair color, something exotic, or red, but not a big deal. Skin color has no bearing at all. He's most attracted to women who are warriors themselves, and would prefer someone who would always have his back in a fight. If they can kick his ass, all the better to have at your side in a scuffle. :thumbsup: *rereads, wonders if there's a paper A'kos should submit this too*

Turn a character into an instance hmm, I can do that 8-) can't say I've ever tried designing a raid. Quest: Heart of the Lost. Scenario: A'kos Saiyal, an officer for the Maelstrom and courier of letters has been attacked by Imperial Shadows. The only reason he isn't dead now is thanks to the efforts of strange hooded pair, a woman and man's constant efforts to keep Saiyal's mind from slipping away, though his body is healed. What could be causing this slow slip into mental death? The hooded woman means to send you in to find out. 8 man raid: 2 tanks, 3 healers, 3 dps. The party is transported inside Saiyal's subconscious, the scene resembles a Castrum fortress in poor condition, a prison camp from the looks of the barbed wire and lean-tos. Trash mobs include refugees of various races, an imperial soldier leading the group of some kind and attack. dogs. Mechanic: Eliminate the soldier and dog and the rest of the mobs will scatter harmlessly. 50% chance of granting a random player an appreciation buff. First Boss: Richter Amandus A hyur boy stands in the middle of a mud pit surrounded by a wring of razor wire holding a pair of knives. Phase 1: Richter starts by attacking whichever player has the highest appreciation bonus. Attacking with a basic puglist combo and assassinate. Cannot be pulled off the target and tanked normally until the opening attack is finished. Richter will randomly attack a player with Assassinate, leaving a ground debuff "slick ground" that lowers block/parry/dodge chances. If two or more ground effects overlap, it'll create "Bad footing" and knock a player down for two seconds. If Richter is close to someone knocked down, he'll break off whoever has aggro and pounce on them delivering a "blind fury" attack that does massive damage. Will occasionally attack the party member with the highest appreciation stacks with Assassinate throughout. Quotes: I don't want to do this... (when battle starts) You think you helped!? (Assassinate target) Better we be allowed to die...(switching to phase 2) Phase 2: Everything continues from phase one, only now Richter will vanish occasionally and perform the rogue skills "Trick attack" and "Sneak attack." Usually targeting whoever has the lowest amount of appreciation buff stacks. Quotes: What did YOU do for them!? (lowest appreciation target) Think you're helping!? (random) Oh no... it's to late, JUST GO! (phase 3 start) Phase Three: An imperial officer rushes out from inside the base and opens up with an line aoe centered on Richter that sends him and any player caught in the aoe flying back. At this point Richter can't be targeted for damage by the players and the officer will focus attacks on him. Aggro grabbing skills will pull the officer away for a very limited amount of time. If Richter's HP falls to 0, it's considered a wipe. Once his HP is restored to full, he'll kill the officer. Officer cannot be killed otherwise. Appreciation buffed dps will do more damage against the officer, appreciation buffed tanks will take more damage, and appreciation buffed healers get a bonus to heal Richter per heal. Quotes: Dog! If you won't fight then...(officer at the start of phase three) Just let me go (Richter on being healed) Leave us alone! (Richter killing the Officer) After the first boss Richter runs away and the party proceeds inside. (Area change) Inside starts off looking like an Imperial fort, but quickly changes to something more warped, the walls tilting at odd angles, patterns swirled and hazy looking. Everything is generally off. Mobs include Imperial Shadows and voidsent imps. Boss: Wasted Youth Quote: Only one of you will be allowed to leave alive. (Imperial) Phase 1: Wave battle style. The party is attacked by waves of Imperial Shadows and Imperial Shadowlords. Object is to keep an older Richter alive through the fight. Occasionally other prisoners will spawn, bound around the room. Interacting with them will set them free and give Richter and the player releasing them a buff. Quote: I'm still here? (Richter, phase 2 start) Phase 2: Once the waves are over Richter collapses and a greater voidsent spawns, something like the final boss of Dzaemel Darkhold. After the boss falls Richter vanishes and the party can move on. Quote: He belongs to us! (boss, fight end) The next area is even more twisted, the fort giving way to something fleshy and dark. Trash mobs are various voidsent. Boss: Shadow of the Past. But we flip the script! Phase 1: The boss resembles a grown hyur blackened out like a shadow. Mechanics for this phase are identical to phases 1 & 2 of the first boss fight. With a couple added mechanics. SotP starts with zero hp. Healers will need to take the roll of dps and heal SotP to full. The entity will attempt to kill them and must be tanked, however the entity will break off and focus a healer, the only way to stop it from attacking is for dps to attack. Periodically 'good memories' will spawn, and interacting with them will make the entity pause whatever it's doing and be stunned for a short duration. Phase 2: Two adds will spawn, Guilt and Doubt. In addition to attacking like voidsent boss of the second boss fight, they'll target the good memories until defeated. And we flip the script back! Phase 3: Shadow entity collapses when his hp reaches the 25% mark, and a new boss spawns. Allowing the healers and dps to go back to their normal modes. Attacks combine the AoE of the voidsents from before as well as Richter's attacks. The 'good memories' have the same function as before, stunning the boss, and now add a vulnerability buff that alternates between physical and magic damage. When the boss falls, the SotP stands up, "I'm still here.... thank you." and vanishes, Duty Complete!

If A'kos got wind of this he'd be interested in investigating. His most relevant skill set deals with espionage and information gathering and he's been looking for some people he lost personally. Though right now he's working as a courier (hey it feeds him and pays for that inn room!, Maelstrom needs to pay their people better.) I'm not sure how to get involved though, since I'm new to the FFXIV rp scene. Though since A'kos is a fresh unknown that could work out too.

Or make housing instanced :dazed: gude lawd the prices of these things. I think Akos is going to have to make due with his inn room for awhile, and maybe give up his dream of beach front property. There is instanced housing available via guilds in the rooms you can purchase. *writes up a sign, 'will join FC for room' * :cry:

Or make housing instanced :dazed: gude lawd the prices of these things. I think Akos is going to have to make due with his inn room for awhile, and maybe give up his dream of beach front property.

Side question, but if you were going to buy from the npc without trying to convince someone to give up their land, how much do houses run for? Sounds like Archage all over again.

My character learned a belief system that looked at Primals and the Twelve as a whole pantheon, where each represents an aspect of humanity. He takes them figuratively as representatives of something. It's a belief system that's more on the spiritual side than religious, but he's still not a great proponent of it anyway. It's something left over from my 1.0 character's back history and where he came from. What he does believe though, is that the only real god, if any, would be Hydalyn (I'm sure I spelled that wrong, please forgive). The world provides, shelters, teaches and punishes. If there's anything like a deity in the world, he would point to it being the world itself. After all, it does everything one would ascribe to a deity as far as he's concerned.

I....I have no idea where to even begin :?

A'kos I think would like to be a hero, but wouldn't want all the fame it could bring. Small scale attention is fine, wider reaching attention is a death trap in the making. He's been the other guy, that figure that may not be a villain, but did some nasty things for poor reasons. 'Following orders' doesn't really make up for it, but when it's all you've known then what?. That's his thinking, but he's had his wake up call and thinks being something like a hero may be the way to go. So he wants to help others, and fight for a good cause. Wealth, (quiet) glory and a beautiful woman or two at his side would be great bonus' but right now he wants something to believe in, wants to feel like he's doing the right thing, and maybe make someone else's life better along the way. And fight stuff, because that never gets old. 8-)