Ignacius

Orleans wouldn't have joined the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. He wouldn't mind if they hire him, but Orleans can't stand Minfilia. Or really any of them...

Kids today. Hanging around unarmed and unarmored.

Look, if you don't like it, do what I do. Carve an insult backwards into their chest. My personal favorite is "PEDO". Careful cutting those curves and make sure you leave enough space for all four letters. You don't want people silently judging your handwriting.

IF I have no motivation to play FFXIV or RP? Usually Diablo 3. Sometimes, a little mindless slaughter is good for the brain. It's like running a brain reboot.

Orleans thinks the glass is best left upside down on the doorknob propped up on the door.

Ignacius was almost born to kill. Though he wasn't initially raised to be a soldier, when the Garleans took his family and pressed him into service, he proved to be exceptionally capable. He was in the field and killing at a time when most people were still in school and doing just fine about it. Not that it's led to any long-term damage short of Orleans seeing all life as transient and bereft of value. That's the biggest problem with Orleans. He's been exposed to so much death, destruction, and mayhem that he simply sees it as a natural state of the world. He killed the only person he felt something resembling love for. He now kills for money and money alone, because killing is all he's ever been good at and killing is all he's really ever been trained to do. It's still up in the air whether or not he'd have been fine if left to his own devices and his own family, but more than a little of his killer instinct is completely natural. Maybe he would have ended up being a killer anyway. Ignacius completely compartmentalizes death, seeing it as akin to animals killing each other for food in the wild. So complete was his training or natural state of being that he has done this ever since the first life he took in combat. He rarely thinks about it afterwards except in vague abstracts. He is completely remorseless. Just about the only reason he refrains from killing, when he does, is because it often attracts undue attention from local authorities. He isn't a serial killer, and he doesn't derive pleasure from it. To him, it's simply a tool in his toolbox, the means to his ends, just another fact of his life. He will kill and continue to kill until something finally manages to kill him first.

zg2076b5Lqc I can't believe I didn't buy this earlier!

Well, during the short time Orleans HAD a long-term position IC, he charged by the hour. So he was often sent "home" until he was needed.

You just showed everyone the deterioration, ironically.

it's probably the same sort of thing as a Liberal Fascist.... at least in the way that it tends to be used now. It still doesn't make any sense. Totalitarianism isn't "liberal" no matter what the ideology is. You can't strictly enforce anarchy. I mean, either way, it does feel pretty toxic on this forum. I think it'd do for people to just step back and take a breath. I mean, we do still talk about RP here, right?

On that note, what the Hell is a "liberal" police state? I mean, leftist I'd understand, but liberal police state is an oxymoron. A police state is, by definition, totalitarian.

Ignacius doesn't have any character flaws. He's just a sociopathic and callous hitman and murderer who doesn't care how old his target is, what their situation is, or even if they deserve to be hurt, maimed, or otherwise terrified. If it wasn't for the restraint he has to practice just to keep from being outed and arrested by the authorities, he'd probably have no problem telling everyone what he does and who he's been killing. That's not a flaw, is it?

I'll run it!

This is pretty much what I assume, too. IMO, the vendor prices are a perfectly reasonable benchmark for determining gil value. Also... hehe, this thread is a blast from the past! /wave

I think it's pretty easy to ballpark, but it might be independent of us player characters. Your common working stiff only needs the barest essentials to survive. Food, clothing, shelter. According to what I've seen around, those don't cost much. I wouldn't be surprised if the average income of your traditional wage slave was 10-20k a year if they stayed in one place and did one job (a basket weaver or fisherman). Now, something that changes from our world is that travel jacks up the amounts. Tradesmen and adventurers put our lives technically on the line every time we step outside of town. This drives up the price of trade goods since you have to cover the shortfall and expenses for danger. That means your average international traveling man might make quite a bit more. Then you've got us. Our specialty, by and large, is fighting. We have to upkeep armor. We use Aetheryte. Nation-states built us little paradises to sell us houses. Even the poorest wandering sword, just to maintain his kit, is probably making a LOT more than your average peasant. But we have our own pecking order, you'd think. Just because you're rich compared to the guy butchering the animals you hunt doesn't mean you're rich compared to other adventurers, and isn't that what we all care about?

We all come up with our own names and elements in the course of RP, but I often found it fascinating how different people read names I come up with. I had a character in WoW named Zumoktaga, and people tended to shorten it to "Zumo" and, I found, pronounced it the same way you'd pronounce "sumo". But in longform, it always was pronounce ZOO-mock-TAH-gah. Now, some names, such as my alt Clayborne Turk, get pronounced correctly, but last night, and after only having been returned for a short while, I actually found out my characters name was being understandably mispronounced. Do any of you have any names or backstory elements and how do you pronounce them? For the record, Orleans Ignacius is actually pronounced: OR-lay-awns ig-NAY-see-us.

Ignacius isn't interested in finding a lover. He's pretty hyper-aware of what happens to loved ones when they end up on the wrong side of his profession.

Orleans Ignacius Battle intro: The Crown - Deathexplosion Victory: Sorry, kid. Nothing personal. Defeat: Son of... a... Assist: I gotcha, brother. Taunt: *sniffs the air* I love the smell of easy money. Reacting to Taunt: Quit flappin' your lips, punk. Time to dance. Flee: You're better than I thought, kiddo. Reacting to Flee: Yeah... figures.... Tie: Get up and come at me again! Perfect Victory: *glances around suspiciously* There's got to be more to it than this....

There's a general rule in RP that unfortunately isn't something that's very formulaic. It goes, "Anything can work, but if it doesn't, knock it off." This applies to just about everything. I played a character once in WoW who was, to say the least, somewhat mentally imbalanced. If I had to put a tag to it, it would be paranoid schizophrenia. He constantly referenced things that weren't there, threats that couldn't possibly exist, and conspiracies that seemed plucked out of novels. However, the way I played him, it worked. People enjoyed RPing with me and went along with it, even though I doubt highly it was medically accurate. Also, I have played quite a few sociopaths (people who can't understand human emotion outside their own) in my time. These are people who, in the bounds of video game logic, aren't strange, but in real life they'd be the scariest things walking the face of the planet. However, since they work in the game, they work. On the other hand, I did play a recalcitrant recluse of a mage in a free-form thread. He was blind and very dependent on his brother. He often came off as afraid and somewhat pathetic on his own, despite his ability, and he was constantly nervous without his brother. I played that rather convincingly as an anxiety disorder, but it very quickly got irritating. Not to people who had the disorder (I played the anxiety correctly), but because in the concept of the RP we were doing, it got aggravating for the other players very quickly. I think we sometimes forget that one of the first rules of RP is that if you're going to do something, make it work, and if it isn't working, stop. The point of RP is to have fun, both the person playing the character and the people playing their own who interact with them. Very rarely will someone put the brakes on to scold you for your poor portrayal of real-life symptoms if your character is entertaining and fun to play off of. However, they'll definitely do it if you're being an ass in public, even if being an ass in public might be an occasional symptom of a mental disorder your character has. In the end, let's try to keep things in perspective, here. The first question you have to ask when playing a character isn't "is this offensive" or "is this right" but "does this work." Remember that we're writing characters here, just like authors. They have to work first, because no one wants to read something that's medically accurate but has nothing happen.

I'm sorry I've been gone for so long. Almost a year, and for some reason, from the posts I'm seeing, I feel like I'm just dropping into Corpus Christi after a hurricane blew through that I didn't see. Did I miss something?

uoNPnAsYNQw What if Hell is where you live?

Thanks, that might help a lot. Let me see what I can do then. EDIT: Oh, also, I ran into a full server last night and had to wait for a slot to free up. Is that more common on Balmung or less?

Hmm. I'm not much of a politico. I don't mind being on Gilgamesh, for example, if there's a "scene" to be in of substantial size that we can work with. However, if it's gone or unwelcoming, it might be easier to transfer to Balmung. How easy is it to transfer to Balmung? Or do you think I'll be fine where I am?

Well, would it be in my best interests to simply transfer to Balmung, or is there enough of a scene on Gilgamesh to continue (or salvage, as the case may be)?

Well, that seems like a shame. This community always seemed very welcoming and inviting. What happened?