Oli!

Oh yeah? M-More like #sunburnswag YEAH I WENT THERE WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M JELLY?!

These four letters are a dime a dozen and every magazine / store / DDP / website has their own award. All you need is one to slap it on the box. You can generally ignore a GotY award.

HA HA YOU COMMENTED ON IT. NOW YOU HAVE TO. 10/10 WOULD RP WITH.

I find your lack of dick disturbing.

If you're not playing the Lalafell Master Race you're doing literally everything wrong and should start over. The Highlander Not-As-Masterful-But-Still-Pretty-Okay-I-Guess Master Race is fine, too. I feel like I've seen your name before.

I keep getting hungry at 3 AM and there's nothing open at that hour so I have to sit in bed awake and starving. Also I hate all of you. Especially Faye and Gharen [NAMES REDACTED] because they kicked my puppy when I was but a wee lad still roaming the rolling fields of my youth. These are things that happened and I have my whole friends list as witnesses. Guards, arrest them. Uploading IPs for truth and great justice.

Aw darn, I meant to come but I ended up sleeping for far too long. u_u I will certainly be there next week though!

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...welcome to the serrrverrrrr.

Here's an example: Oliwat Kokiwat Theme Stage Description A grassy plain near the sea, with a Plainsfolk village in the background. Some Lalafell sit at the edges of the stage to watch the fight, while others go about their daily business. Moveset Description Mid-ranged magic attacks with high mobility but low damage. Good for zoning and staying out of reach, but a lack of heavy moves and low health makes for trouble if an opponent closes in. Special Moves (or Limit Breaks if you wanna be fancy) Astral Achoo!: Oliwat takes a deep breath, and then sneezes a fireball that covers half of the screen before dissipating, and blows him away from his opponent. Umbral Ice-Skating: Oliwat skates towards his foe in the blink of an eye, and causes a giant ice spike to erupt from the ground below them, tossing his opponent into the air. Buddy Beatdown: Oliwat's Mammet and Chocobo rush in from off-stage to pummel his opponent. Oliwat himself stands on the side and eats a sandwich during the special. Nemesis None! Intro Quotes General 1: "It's Oli!" General 2: "It was YOU that took my orange juice!" General 3: "Want a sandwich when this is over?" Against Surilian Blu: "Well! I wonder how good you've gotten!" Against Adaji Oonarund: "Stupid hat-scribbler!" Against a Thaumaturge: "My robes look nicer." Against Flynt Reddard: "DON'T BITE ME, I'LL DO ANYTHING!" Against a Lalafell: "You wouldn't hurt someone this cute, would you?!" Against Himself: "AGH! GET AWAY FROM ME!" Win Quotes General 1: "And now...Time for Sandwiches." General 2: "Well! Time to keep wandering!" General 3: "Now where did Clatterpouch get to..." Against a Thaumaturge: "Guess you didn't bring enough boom!" Against a Lalafell: "I'm the taller one, and that's that!" Against Surilian Blu: "You've grown a bit, that's for sure!" Against Adaji Oonarund: "...So yeah. Don't touch my hat." Against Flynt Reddard: "...Gross." Against Himself: "This hat's just not big enough for the both of us!" Lose Quotes General 1: "Owie, sandwich cramps..." General 2: "Too much orange juice..." General 3: "...I need a nap." Against a Thaumaturge: "I feel c-cold all of a sudden." Against a Lalafell: "If only I had been born a Roegadyn..." Against Surilian Blu: "Guess you don't need me anymore." Against Adaji Oonarund: "My hat! You...You touched it!" Against Flynt Reddard: "You bit me! WHY DID YOU BITE ME!" Against Himself: "Deja Vu sure hurts more than it used to."

...Because these threads are always fun and I haven't seen one here yet. Hopefully everyone has played a fighting game at least once. So how about a fun brainstorming exercise! What sorts of win-quotes and specials would your characters have if they were in one? What would their stage be? Would they have a Nemisis / Special Boss fight? Here's a template below to get you started! [b]Character Name[/b] [i]Theme[/i] Music goes here! [i]Stage Description[/i] Where would they fight? The backstreets of Ul'dah? The sunny La Noscean coastline? A crowded bar? A Garlean fortress? The possibilities are endless! [i]Moveset Description[/i] What sorts of moves do they have? Magic? Fist-fighting? Swordplay? Do they prefer to stay up close or attack from afar? Do they attack lightly but quickly? Slowly but powerfully? [i]Special Moves[/i] (or Limit Breaks if you wanna be fancy) [b]Special 1[/b]: [b]Special 2[/b]: [b]Special 3[/b]: [i]Nemesis[/i] Do they have an enemy of note? A special boss they defeat in their campaign? [i]Intro Quotes[/i] [b]General 1[/b]: [b]General 2[/b]: [b]General 3[/b]: [i]Win Quotes[/i] [b]General 1[/b]: [b]General 2[/b]: [b]General 3[/b]: [i]Lose Quotes[/i] [b]General 1[/b]: [b]General 2[/b]: [b]General 3[/b]: Feel free to add to the template as you see fit! Maybe your character has specific win-quotes for certain people, or multiple enemies, or various other things! Go nuts!

More people! \o/ If it's interaction you want, I have a fighter of my own that's starting to take her baby-steps into independence! Maybe they could spar sometime!

Welcome! Always glad to have new people. Hope you find some good folks to interact with! I don't think this is a thing, no. I'm not entirely sure, but I think that last time I checked, although the races can interbreed, they come out with only the traits of or the other, or something odd like that. I can't remember where I read / heard this information. Maybe someone else could come up with something more specific.

Spoiler alert, they're actually just metal cases with big red buttons inside when you open them.

(( This is a little kickoff vignette for a plot that I'll be running soon. More details and threads will probably pop up as things start to roll along. )) -------- Oliwat Kokiwat, the Very Last of the Rattlepacks, trudged through the Coerthas snow, holding his staff as a walking cane with one hand, and his robe close to his chest with the other as the wind whipped around him. The brim of his black conical hat managed to keep most of the snow from his face, yet every time he dared look up at his guide, the brewing storm rendered him almost blind. The Elezen native rushed him with hurried words that were scarcely audible above the howl of the snowstorm. Were it not for his gesture (and the fact that he had been hurried along since arriving in Coerthas), Oliwat would not have been able to realize what he was being told. Their chocobos had been left by a camp some distance behind. Although Oliwat would have liked to think that it had something to do with the storm, he knew in the back of his mind that his guide's paranoia was the real reasoning behind it. As loyal to his country the young Elezen was, it would seem that even some of the citizens had a doubt or two when it came to the Holy See. Inviting an adventurer to examine something that the government had not even been told about was grounds for more punishment than neither Elezen nor Lalafell were willing to go through. He had picked that day for this reasoning as well. A snowstorm would do well to hide their movements, and their tracks would be covered within mere minutes of their forming. By the time the two had made it to the Witchdrop, Oliwat had long since lost himself in thought. It took a run-in with an outstretched arm of the Elezen to stop him. "Down there," the guide said, "it's down there." He immediately began scrambling through the snow to the slope that led into the fissure, and Oliwat, though falling behind, did his best to follow. He had not been told what "It" was yet, only that it was something that seemed like Arcane Geometry. Not Oliwat's field of expertise, by any means, but it was something he had a little experience in. The snow blowing over the Witchdrop seemed to form a solid, gleaming ceiling as the two descended, safe from the storm. The winds were calmer, and bursts of individual snow flurries that escaped from the storm drifted down and spiraled out into white dust. Oliwat had half a mind to rest when the two had reached the bottom, but his guide, ever paranoid and pressed for time, would have none of it. "It's in the tunnel, here," he said quickly, immediately lowering his voice as if worried that someone else had been hiding in the crevasse, before scurrying over to the end of the area. Oliwat, with a sigh, pulled himself together once more to make the final trudge to the tunnel's entrance, pulling a book of geometrical references from his pack as he approached. The tunnel seemed blank when he approached, causing the Lalafell to furrow his brow as he examined the walls. "I've hidden it behind the rocks, see," the Elezen explained before Oliwat could ask, "it takes a little work, but we can get it off. But don't look for too long, it could...Cause you to lose track of your surroundings." The guide produced a staff, and with a few strained grunts, began using aether to peel away stone and rock that had been hastily fused to the cavern wall. Oliwat flipped through his book in the meantime, familiarizing himself with what was there, and happened to glance up at the wall once a few moments had gone by. His eyes locked onto what he saw, and would not let go. Etched into the walls were designs, swirling, interlocking, comprised of circles upon circles like interlocking, half-formed astronomical charts, yet repeating in places as if it were writing. Small, dust-like hints of aether lined the inside of the carvings, which were only a fraction of an inch deep, and thinner than the mage's finger. Were it not for the glow, they would have been nearly undetectable. The interlocking patterns seemed to swirl and shift within Oliwat's mind, yet what he saw remained the same. The Lalafell stood, dizzied yet frightened by the sensation. "...This doesn't look like anything I've seen before. It isn't in my guidebook either," he said, stopping abruptly as he unwillingly immersed himself in the sensation of staring at the marks. "How long have they been here?" He finally managed to ask, failing to break away from the carvings. The Elezen fidgeted uncomfortably, then shook his head as he came up with an answer. "No more than a week," he said, pausing, "I-I'm a good chef, you see, and my fellows at the observatory keep bothering me for some of my food whenever I bring it from home." He swallowed, as if afraid that his story would be going straight to his superiors afterwards. "So I started sneaking down here during my lunch breaks so that I could have some peace and quiet from time to time. Things became a bit busy at the observatory for a while, so I wasn't able to come back for a few days, maybe a week, and when I did, I found this." His own gaze became locked upon the Lalafell, unease filling his face when he saw exactly how enraptured Oliwat had become. Looking away, he darted off to the end of the tunnel, and began digging through the snow before pulling out a small, spherical object. "There was also this," he said after a moment of staring at it himself. He hurried back over to Oliwat, who finally managed to tear his eyes away from the wall. In the Elezen's hands was a small sphere, just large enough to be held in both of the Lalafell's hands. Etched on its surface were similar patterns, all circular and interlocking, yet the glow of the wall was absent, and Oliwat felt no haunting pull towards it. "May I take this with me?" He asked after a moment, still staring at the orb. To his surprise, he was greeted with a frenzied nod from the Elezen when he finally looked up. "Please do," he responded, "I want this, and knowledge of it, far from here. I would have destroyed this and the markings myself, but any tool I tried against it shattered, and the wall failed to crack or move, even with my aether." He shook his head. "Please, take it, and see if you can find a way to get rid of the markings, they extend all over the wall, and I refuse to uncover any more of it." Oliwat furrowed his brow slightly at the Elezen, then nodded in acknowledgement. "If it's alright with you, I'd like you to help me take a rubbing of the section of the wall you uncovered, and then we can leave." He paused, looking towards the wall once more. "...Yes. I'd like to get out of here, too."

...So uh. How about gettin' some solo content in there for us recluses Squeenix? ...Yeaaaaaahhhhh.

I haven't mastered quantum superposition yet, so I unfortunately cannot take the Grindstone's timeslot...Yet. I'll probably post a call for good times if a sizable amount of people indicate that they'd participate so that I can figure out a good time for something like this. What's the Grindstone's secondary day? I know that the main event is on Friday, but once upon a time there was another one on Thursday, and then I think that I read somewhere that it was moved to Wednesday, but I have no idea.

Sweeeet I might be a little too busy to get into the game today, but I'll see if I can get in touch with you tomorrow if that's the case!

Hiya! Why don't you start by giving the boards a description (or a link of a description) to your character? That'll probably give us a better idea of what sort of interactions or characters you'd be looking to hook up with. Best of luck!

I'd say go for atmosphere. Try something that really feels like it would fit right in with the setting of whatever housing area you're building in. It seems like a lot of places just try to put as many expensive and / or flashy items in as they can, and although this doesn't make these places look bad, it does sometimes result in a less than cohesive atmosphere. In other words, try and make the place feel "local." I think that would make you stand out in visuals alone.

Oli burps his fireballs for comedic effect a lot. I also want to have him ice-skate around using the Umbral powers sometime, but the chance of that coming up in an RP is like 0.1%.

1.) Oliwat Kokiwat 2.) Traveling Ball of Happiness. Alternatively: 1.) Adalhaid Rask 2.) Timid but skilled fighter. DO THE THING

I had a love of writing long before RP, so I sadly don't have any stories about That Really Awful First Character. A friend and I were both playing WoW around Cataclysm's launch, and he convinced me and another guy I know to try out RP on the Wyrmrest Accord server. My first characters were a silent Worgen (werewolf) private-eye, a snarky jerk Goblin (i.e. a standard Goblin), and a mage that was kind of crazy and liked to dip cups into his water elemental and drink from it. Then I got hooked and went MMO-hopping and made All the Characters.

It would be a very hard secret to keep. I know the Allagans were into some biological fiddling, but I don't know if ultra-realistic robots were on the agenda, especially considering their technology has a very distinct look. I don't even know if the other races were known to them, and if they were, if they would make constructs in their image. I doubt they would be realistic enough to hide. Though, I've already stated my position on that possibility, so I suppose I'm out of things to say on that. I still think you'd be much better off just finding a new way to integrate their story into a new setting, instead of trying to preserve what's there but might not be compatible.

Although Allagan technology makes it possible, I would personally advise against it for other plausibility reasons. Allagan technology is rare, powerful, and valuable. Chances are those in power wouldn't want a working specimen of technology created by the most powerful civilization to walk the earth just strutting about; they'd want it in their hands and / or their laboratories. On the dissection table. Being researched. So, although it could be technically possible, I wouldn't recommend it due to the circumstantial problems that would surround something like that.