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Ada would be the quiet person that stays in the back of the room and doesn't talk or raise their hand, and somehow manages to play for every sports team. Oliwat would be the guy that skips school to go do the things that they were going to talk about in class that day, survive somehow, and then tells all his friends about it over the weekend.

I might be a little off but last time I had checked (admittedly awhile ago) it was something like 1 Yen = 1 cent USD... so 20 gil for a glass of orange juice would be 20 yen would be 20 cents... which... nope. EDIT: Just checked and it's actually .8 cents now. Yikes. Poor yen! I did some conversion math a while back using averaged food prices in the Coffer and Coffin compared to averaged food prices in working-class establishments, and it came out to one gil being worth a little over two USD, which I thought was reasonable. "One-hundred gil on the Hellsguard!" Comes out to a little over "Fifty bucks on the Hellsguard!" to borrow on some "famous" NPC text. Your average teleportation would be about $200 USD or more (coming down from 400 gil or more), about the price of some plane tickets, while the 40 gil it takes to take a ferry to Limsa comes to about $20. A $15 per hour job would be around 30 gil an hour; a 40-hour work week would net you 1,200 gil, accordingly (it's interesting to note that higher-level quests involving decent amounts of danger will pay you around this ballpark in-game). Having two-million gil would make you a millionaire in USD. A 140 gil airship ticket would be roughly $70 USD. It's not a perfect estimate, but it's what I've been using so far, and nothing outlandish has come of it yet.

Someone liked the outfit one of my characters were wearing, so they decided to match. They took some neat screenshots too. My character is the one in the red.

Maybe a linkshell would be handy, if people have space?

Truly we are faster than lightning.

1.) It does. 2.) Ul'dah has the Ossuary, run by the Thaumaturges, Limsa has kind-of a library thing run by Arcanists. I don't know what Gridania has, but they probably have something similar.

My lalafell friends would like to have a word with you.

inb4 Eorzean Teen Titans forms out of this. ...I'd be down, though.

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I want to RP lighthearted, fantastical adventures, but most people prefer to be serious. Kinda bums me out a lot.

Hiya! I happen to have Ada, an eighteen year old Monk. She's more towards the timid side, and might serve as a good foil! I'm usually around a lot, so feel free to poke me on the forums, or in-game if you want!

Voted for Highlander because Highlander.

Oliwat was a copy-over of my Asura from Guild Wars 2, even though he eventually ended up evolving into his own separate character through different experiences. I threw in the bit about him being an explorer to explain why I didn't know jack about the game starting out. The character he came from was an off-the-wall Engineer designed to be a foil for the high amounts of tragedy that people tend to play. Ada was created because I wanted a calmer character, and because I wanted to explore the idea of personal discovery, as opposed to geographical discovery.

From a technical standpoint, if someone were to hit something that interprets sound, you wouldn't "feel" anything out of the ordinary. The reason for this is that sound is nothing more than the vibration of air; touching, slapping, hitting, or otherwise doing something that causes vibration to something that interprets vibration as sound would just end up "sounding" like something. It might sound really, really weird, but it will still just be a sound. If you've ever, for example, put a sea-shell or a cone or something up to your ear, and then scraped it and slapped it and whatever else, it would be something like that, one would imagine. What I really wanna know, personally, is how you use a Linkpearl with that sort of thing. I guess you could strap it to your horn or something, but it's still really awkward.

Adventurers (otherwise known as Us) are like, 2% to 5% of Eorzea's population or whatever. We get to be special. Every Tom Dick and Harry putzing about in cities and around the world could probably teleport like, once a month, accompanied by extensive puking or whatever else happens when people try to teleport and get sick. It's also noted that anima, the life-force, is needed to teleport. This means all physical goods must be transported through physical space, because objects are not alive. That alone gives substantial reason for boats, airships, and chocobo carts to exist. To make it more personal, Oliwat can teleport all the time because he's a wizard, but usually doesn't because he's also an explorer, and teleporting would defeat the point. Adalhaid does not because she's broke and a slave to debt. As an afterthought, a good analog for thinking about how something that would seemingly see such little use would still be a service is Airplane travel. Some people might travel by airplane once a year. Some might travel once a month. A small amount of people might travel every day, or every few days. In this case, it isn't the frequency of use of any one group of people, but the sheer number of people using the service collectively that make it profitable. Less expensive or less uncomfortable methods (chocobos, airships, etc.) would therefore still see use. Chocobo and Airship Travel are to Aetheryte Teleportation as Bus and Rail transportation are to Flight. Additionally, Aetheryte, like Flight, can only take you to very specific, already-established places where extensive infrastructure already exists. Chocobos and Buses can just drop you off at whatever backstreet you need to get to. That's another advantage for them. We, the Adventurers, are the Frequent Flyers with like a million bonus miles or whatever. Normal townsfolk are the Average Joes that might travel twice a year to visit their family or whatever.

Sin's post has the information you need as far as these points go, I believe. Most people just can't cast teleportation skills all the time. If you tried to teleport out of jail, I'm pretty sure the guards that take your money would slap you and send you back. Or they could just jump into your cell and tackle you during the ten seconds or whatever it takes for you to cast it in the first place.

Various methods I have seen people use to avoid teleporting ICly, while still acknowledging its existence: -- Not enough internal aether. -- It gives you travel sickness. -- Too expensive. -- Fear of accidents / Questioning reliability -- "I haven't been there yet." -- Religious concerns (Oschon might think Aetheryte is cheating.) -- Wanting to see the world. -- Carrying goods / pets / objects that don't respond well to teleportation. -- The fear that literally being broken down into magic and transported to another physical location will cause serious health concerns / turn you into the Fly.

I'm sure we've all heard about it by now. We've got people from all walks of life in here, and I just wanted to offer my condolences in the event that there are people with family from that area. Know that there are people supporting you. I hope everyone is safe and everything is okay.

Hi someone mentioned Monk things and I'm here now. Character-wise, Ada takes a lot of inspiration from actual monastic practices, and is therefore quite religious. Blessings and prayers and such would be right up her alley. What time is this so I can help

Kind of sort-of related. Oliwat plays the Banjo, and I imagine he'd play stuff like this with his mammet backing him up on guitar. Banjo is best when it's FAAAAAAAST. JxQOc4RPDmA

I'm fine with no context. The reason why is because sometimes things just happen with little or no context. As an example, I recently, randomly bumped into an old teacher of mine from New York on a Chicago L station. He and his new girlfriend were in town for a singing festival. Neither of us was expecting to find the other. We didn't plan to meet up. Sometimes things just happen. There's no need for everything to be a part of some serious, overarching master plan. If you're in town, and they're in town, and you can come up with some half-reason for them to both be there, that's all you need.

Not sure how long you ran the benchmark for, or how quickly you ran it again afterwards, so I don't know how plausible this may be, but in addition to what was offered above, I would also check to see if anything funny is happening with heat throttling.

I would love this too! But I can't guarantee a constant showing, sadly. Although I'm an EST person that tends to stay up all night due to a malfunctioning sleep clock, I'm not up every night. Still, if you happen to see Adalhaid Rask or Oliwat Kokiwat around, I'd be totally happy to do stuff with you guys!