shotgunbadger

No shame, I'm amped.

Entry 3 I felt it. I know it's been a while, I'm sorry for not writing enough, but I felt it. I was out on a boat, fishing away, having a grand old time, when one of the seamen saw my magic book. He was a Miqo'te, I think the sun tribe? I know it's a little bigoted but I kinda assumed those guys didn't have a lot of magic, they always struck me as the hunters rather than the scholars, you know? Still, it turns out he was a pretty accomplished mage. We talked for a while, the fish weren't biting so I was feeling chatty. He said he had a lot of respect for the Arcanist guild but they missed a lot. He said we were all books and no emotion, and all the circles and formula in the world didn't mean anything if magic became just routine. I actually liked that a lot, he was right, magic kinda needs a sense of wonder, of awe, even if it's something basic to you. Then he asked if I ever felt 'it'. To be honest I thought he was hitting on me for a bit and frowned, but he explained quick enough. He said mages like him, guys who spend their whole loves toying with the Aether when things get bad they can feel everything. For just a moment, they become merged with the Aether itself, or so it feels. For just a moment he says it feels like every bit of energy in the entire world is flowing through you, and you can call on it. He says he only felt it a few times, it's not something you can call on, just something that happens, and all the times he felt it was during moments he was sure he was going to die. I was polite, but I kinda thought he was putting me on. You know, tease the bookworm with mumbo jumbo and all. Still, he painted a pretty picture. Then it happened. I was out in the wastes, there was this little grotto I wanted to fish in, I caught the most beautiful sunfish in there last time and wanted to get a whole bushel to fry up. So I'm there, line in the water, and right on the back of my head I feel hot air. I turn and see the biggest damn jackal I've ever seen. It's twice as big as the underfed runts around the area, with fangs like swords, seriously he looks like he could eat little me in one bite. I panic, my book's in my bag against a rock, and I'm running as fast as my legs can take me, the dog on my ass snapping and barking the whole time. I got to the bag, just as he got to me. He tore my leg up bad as I was pulling the book out, gods I'm shocked he didn't just yank it off. I can't stand, I'm on my back flipping through my book for the summoning diagram when he lunges again, and I'm just sure this is the end. Zutoto Zuto, dead because a jackal ate her while she was fishing, isn't that the perfect end? The I felt it. It was like I was flying, it was like the rock under me vanished and I was just floating in this blue void. There are lights all around me, stars they look like, popping up in clusters, every one making me feel like I'm getting pumped full of fresh energy. I look down at my book and it's open to a fire spell, super basic, I'm talking lighting a candle when I'm reading late basic. My hand moves to it and I feel it. I can feel the fire, it's like it's flowing through me. It didn't burn, it just made me so warm, like a fresh mug of tea on a cold night. The weirdest thing, though, I can feel the jackal too. I feel his rage, his hunger, his hate. This thing is messed up, I don't know why but it sees everything around it like it's food. I feel my teeth ache from when he bit at rocks, my skin is sore where he has scars. I feel the fire, I feel the jackal, I feel the world. And then I erupt. Every pore on my body feels like it's opening as the fire spews out, and I feel the Jackal's pain as it sears him. It hurts me like a backfire, I scream in agony as the beast skitters back. I feel his fear, this meal is too hard, this meal could kill him, I have to run. It takes every ounce of control in me to not flee like he is as I feel the void fading. The ground is hot under me, he must have been right in my face when I blasted him. My body isn't burned though, even though it feels like it should be. That's it, that's what being connected to the Aether means. It's not wielding it like a weapon, it's becoming part of it. You feel the pain of everything else because Aether is in everything. Is this what the Primals feel? Is this why they're so brutal? Do they feel every time someone hurts around them? It only lasted for a short time, not even a minute, though it felt like hours. I have no idea if I'll ever feel it again, but I'll treasure that memory forever, because it helped me understand the world greater. The Arcanists are great, they'll always be my guild, but I need to leave. I'm going to Ul'Dah, to speak with the thaumaturge guild there, maybe they can grant me a different view. Besides, I hear desert peppers are hotter than fire, I can't wait to add them to my stir fry!

Yea I've always liked the RP logic that in the big cities you find 'catgirls' playing to fetish and stereotype because of how many outsiders built them up, but outside of that it's a rare thing. It kinda makes sense in that way, and it makes stuff less awkward. For my characters, Drunken Comet makes tons of use of the whole 'savage Roegadyn' stereotype. Since she spent most all of her life as a mercenary and gladiator if people think she's just a dumb meat-head they get caught off guard by her tactical mindset or magics. By the same token she tends to view other races as weaker, even if they're in martial jobs or the like, though recently she's gained some respect for the Miqo'te abilities.

Yea this has been what kept me from being too mad about no preview, for once the icons in an MMO fit the looks usually fairly well, so you can at the very least tell 'I want a set of bright white plate mail' and you can see 'ok this is heavy armor for a Paladin and it's white, I bet this is what I want'. Of course since I have female characters I sometimes get bit by a pair of pants looking pretty sweet and then realizing they go from nice sleek leather pants to assless chaps when they touch anything with a vagina.

Yea the bell implies that Coeurl training used to be a thing (no clue if it was as common as Chocobo training, or if it was a luxury thing) but now in the modern day has fallen away. Honestly my characters ride them because they're fuckin cool as hell, no real grand explanation to that, just they got their hands on a bell by some method and thought 'yea cruising around on a big ass cat is cool as hell'.

I figure it's like a guy named Ralph meeting another guy named Ralph, kinda funny and can sometimes cause confusion but if both of you stuck to traditional rules and all you have some odds of winding up hitting the same name.

Pure numbers say Balmung but Gilgamesh has a lot of RPers too so it's not like you'd be in a wasteland if you went there. Hop on both, try em out, see what crews you fall in with, nothing keeps you from RPing on both servers.

I think Duskwight elves are a really cool concept, like Drow but without the shitty pseudo-S&M "matriarchy" (that just happens to be made up of sexually appealing women to men...), but I don't really have an 'attraction' to any of the in game races. Any romance that comes up IC is a result of the player making it interesting and all. I view it as a perfectly valid thing IC, as long as the lore of 'no half-breeds' is stuck to. If your Human wants to get married to a Miqo'te that's cool, from what I understand all the major cultures are down with that as a concept so you wouldn't be some silly special snowflaker. I do get a little 'wtf' at Lala/anyone else relationships if only because of...logistic reasons... For friends none of my characters care about race, Drunken Comet tends to drift to other Roes if only because she feels like they 'get' her better, but she doesn't turn away any races. For relations they're about the same way, Zutoto is a bit sheltered due to her upbringing so she's not one to jump into the 'climbing' jokes some other Lalas make about other races but again, she doesn't DISLIKE any race. Most all of characters are all fairly down with interracial pairings, my Miqo'te has some issues with cross cultures stuff due to his own history but he'd never discourage anyone from that stuff, just maybe a few snide remarks about how they should be glad they can't have a kid or whatever. Comet, though, kinda looks down on Hellguard who go after relationships with non-Hellguard, if only because in her mind the guards are such a small culture they need MORE kids to man the volcanoes and such and learn the traditions and a cross species relationship isn't going to get that. She's not fanatic about it but maybe a few semi-private comments about how they'd do better 'thinking of their duty' or some such. Of course this is a bit of a shitty idea since her homeland is rather hurting for resources and she herself isn't exactly spending her life staring at magma craters, so I'd OOCly expect her to get called out on that shit.

Entry 2 So, here I am. Limsa Lominsa, this great shining jewel on the coast. I can smell the sea air, I can see great ships in the sea...I can see the SEA! That vast empty blue expanse that holds entire other worlds! I'm surrounded by people of all walks of life...and I feel totally alone. I don't know why, maybe it's shame. I just don't know what I'm supposed to do. For so long all I wanted was to get OUT I never imagined what I'd do when I'm actually OUT. So here I am, in an inn, again, this time bigger. Here I am, cooking, again, this time with much nicer ingredients. Here I am, fishing, again, this time with sea fish rather than lake. So, what, I've left my family behind to just upgrade the class of people I cook for? Am I that selfish? My parents are good folk. Mom's been a cook all her life, learned from her mom and so on and so on. My dad sold his trade in the navy back in the day, retired to spend his twilight years fishing and getting fat. I got a few siblings back home still, I'm the oldest. I miss them. All this time wanting a bigger life, all this time wanting to see the world, and now I'm not a day away and I miss them. No, I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to sit here crying, I'm not going to just be some cook... I'm going to be the greatest cook in the world! I'm going to catch the biggest fish, I'm going to cook the best meals, I'm going to nurture my magics! I'm going to be the greatest mage this world has seen, a mistress of the mysteries magical! After all this mooing about wanting to leave I'm not going to give up just because I'm a bit homesick! I'm not stopping here, this is just a rest! I'm going to go all over, not just this land, but every land out there, I'm going to learn from everyone I meet, find their foods and fish and master them, and then bring them back to my family. I'm going to make our sleepy little inn the heartland of culinary culture! When I'm old and gray like dad all the hoity toity spice traders and gourmands of Limsa Lominsa are going to come to US if they want the finest! The bottom of the page is dominated by one last sentence in elaborate cursive written in golden ink. Zutoto Zuto: Mistress of the Arcane and Culinarian Supreme!

I always treat them like ear-mics from heist movies and all, push em in the ear. As for travel I personally don't RP the crystals but I obviously acknowledge they exist and that others chose to use them. For me my characters just wouldn't use them. Zutoto is a wanderer who thinks the crystals kill the fun of it, Drunken Comet is a very traditionalist Hellsguard who thinks they're not to be trusted and my Miqo'te thinks they're just insane much like how in early Star Trek stuff you had people afraid of transporters. For plumbing and electricity, plumbing yes but only in major 'modern' areas, electricity no, most of the lamps and such look like oil lamps to me.

Oh seems I was using the wrong word, yes I meant Clans as in Keeper vs Seeker! Thanks for the info!

I'm sure this has been answered elsewhere and I'm missing it but how do the two Miqo'te tribes actually interact with each other usually? Obviously they have a few very opposite features but do they look down on each other for them or is it more a 'yea those weirdos in the desert let the dudes rule everything' vs 'oh those forest hermits that hide in the shadows, whatever' thing? Is interbreeding possible? Since the main dividing line seems to be a spiritual one it seems to make sense to me that 'halfbreeds' would be a thing, especially considering the two tribes have plenty of reasons to have issues with their men and women wandering around if they want a better life than breeding. Did these tribes exist before the Miqo'te came over on the ice bridge, or are they a product of their new lands? If so, what was 'ancient Miqo'te culture' like?

Thanks!

Hey guys, I'm going to have to change computers fairly soon and I'm kinda confused on one thing, where can I go in my account to redownload the FFXIV client if I bought it digitally?

Brb rolling a Manqo'te and running the hell outta this event.

Yea my Dragoon is gonna be someone who trained under a 'proper' Dragoon. She has the fighting style and understanding but no if she walks into Ishguard someday no one will go 'oh yea she's that Dragoon'.

The journal is an unassuming pale tan leather book. No fancy gilded paper or even a bookmark in it, the only signs it's even anything more than a blank book are the words "The Journal of Zutoto Zuto" engraved on the front. Entry 1 Wow, where to start? Well, I suppose at the beginning... I'm Zutoto Zuto, a Lalafell Plainsfolk. I grew up in a small inn my family runs in the more rural part of La Noscea. Nothing major, but it's a nice little place to get a drink and a hot meal in safety, can't beat that. Safe, secure...but boring... Yea I guess that's what sent me off, huh? Before all this I was just a cook, I'd spend my days in the kitchen working with mom and dad, out back fishing, or just...sitting around. That's no life for a young woman right? I mean...I can't live like that forever. There's this whole huge world out there and I can't just stay in one little inn! I'm not helpless or anything, I'm pretty good at magic, it's not like I'm some easy target! So yea, today I just...left. Yea that's it. Monsters didn't destroy the inn, bandits aren't holding my mom and dad hostage, I just...left. I feel almost selfish, it seems half the people I run across have some sob story that inspired their lives but I'm just a bored inn girl who left her family high and dry but...I mean come on, there has to be more to life right? ((Just a little intro, more to come soon when I have her better fleshed out.))

So, kinda a silly thread, but since my main seems to be leaning hard to Culinarian and her backstory involves her living and working in an inn all her life, it's something I feel she should know. What are some iconic alcoholic drinks of the world of FFXIV? I know there's ale and wine drunk regularly, and in general alcohol is viewed the same as in the real world by most people, but I don't know any specifics. It seems Vylbrand is famous for their grapes, so logically they'd also be famous for their wind, right? The Gridania intro also involves the old man getting seemingly shitfaced on wine, and Limsa Lominsa has its share of drunken pirates enjoying grog, so at the very least it seems real world fermentation stuff exists just fine. What about spirits though? Is there some special kind of, say, brandy that a noble would be seen sipping on, or maybe an 'iconic' rotgut whiskey that all us miserable adventurers blot out bad memories with?

I was finally able to make my Hellguard alt yesterday! Drunken Comet, currently a Lancer, soon to be Dragoon once I level her up!

Thank you so much! I only just hit 10 on Zutoto and was worried I needed to start doing dungeons but was missing it or something, but it seems I was five levels off.

Whoot finally was able to make my Hellguard. Drunken Comet the Lancer is a reality at last :moogle:

So do people just not read the post or what. Yea, the highly popular servers with 'severe restriction on logins' aren't super smooth and easy to log into when everyone is mashing log in at once. Maybe have a bit more than 2 hours worth of patience before declaring the game a failure?

Yea they didn't mention capacity in the recent update because they've been saying for a bit that the 'capacity update' that previously was thought to be JP only was for everyone.

One major question I had, Ishgard was like every other state right, in terms of being multiracial and all? I was kinda thinking my Hellguard could have ties there, but I obviously am not 100% sure if it welcomed types like her.

Yea I love my Carby for soloing and think he (shut up he's a boy) is totally the cutest thing but there's a time and place. In an instance I let the tank do their thing unless they specifically say otherwise.