OttoVann

Honestly trying to argue that people shouldn't be shirtless because Ul'Dah is in a desert is a bit dumb. Who wants to be that much of a nitpicker? Who -wants- to be that much of a nitpicker? Damn, I get it, sometimes you feel its hard to take people seriously sometimes in RP because of the clothes they wear, just say so and the majority of RPers will dodge you.

Dayum son where'd ya find thisssss This is why we go shirtless.

You're goddamn right. Especially me because I'm not cookie-cutter (HEUHUEHUEHUEHE IM SPECIAL SAMEFACEAMIRITE). Its been sometime since I was running around just plan shirtless IC, though I did it last night with my wife as we RPd people.

Name it Sons of Bahamut

Damn this expansion is still unappealing to me for anything RP related.

Yo I look good, enjoy this pic and giving me attention.

Otto and his two wives. What more needs to be said. They're a happy family to be sure.

THE MALE EQUIVALENT OF MARY SUE IS OTTO VANN NOT GARY STU THANKS

I'll go and steal the show

I've found scant information about them online, and theres so little to find I cant even form an idea of what they are. I know the 6th is Minds Eye and the 7th is called...? Thats all I know about them. What do they do?

Wineport is a good place to take a date. Two tables with three chairs. Huge atmosphere, mega romance. Literally vineyards. Also the chairs are red, plush topped ones that are from old wine barrels. Like dayum son this is easy mode getting a lay. One of Ottos secret RP-weapons

This is true, the Bismarck will usually, during peak hours only, have a couple or more there doing their thing. But its not always populated. Ive been on Balmung during non-peak hours a lot lately, the cities, from what I can see, are ghost-towns except for Ul'Dah.

A lot of us, though not everyone, laments how other city-states have relatively dead RP in them. Whether its simple tavern-rp stuff or something more, Ul'Dah dominates the RP scene handily. This isn't really a bad thing, but variety is also not a bad thing. A lot of us have echoed similar thoughts in the vein of "I with there was more of a hub than just the Quicksand." So, well, what have you done to fix this? I'll tell you what I did the other day, my own drop to add to the bucket. About a week or so ago I just randomly sat at my desk and said "Fuck it, I'm going to TP to Gridania right now and if there is anyone IC inside the tavern Im going to rp with them." And I did. Lucky for me it was a fem-elezen who was rather interesting. In fact, she possesses a lot of IC talents and ideas that are very useful to Ottos materia and aether research (which you can find here http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=11359&pid=184119#pid184119). Now, I know that's not much, one guy roleplaying with some random chick once in Gridania won't do much, but thats what I've done so far at least to help out Gridania's rp scene. I've also just been asking people who I have scheduled RP with if they care for a change of scenery, but thats less spontaneous of course and more akin to a hair transplant versus organic growth by interacting with someone already there. Still, I'm doing something about it. Not much, and it wont change anything on its own. So, what have others here done to help out Limsa, and Gridania, and perhaps to a lesser extent Mor Dhona?

Be warned if you head to the quicksand, especially as a female, people will come to you seeking lewd rp exclusively for a while. I sometimes run around the quicksand on my wifes account absent mindedly, speaking to a friend for a moment, repair her stuff and maybe change her elezens hair style to try new stuff - and her characters gets swarmed. Hard. Granted its smokin hot so take it as you will. If you like erp, the quicksand is FOR YOU. With that said Im not trying to be a debbie downer, you will find a lot of cool people there. I met a one Coatleque Crofte there, we became friends, and a lot of others actually. Lately as time has gone on I think the Quicksand has gone downhill a bit but you can still make friends. Sometimes just doing something as benign as using Party Finder with a "RP WANTED" ad or just using /shout to ask "wanna rp in the inn at gridania?" might even be enough.

Heya Otto. I think you mistook the intent of my thread(?) I'm not demanding an explanation or apology from anyone. I'm curious as to why X character is away from Y through a story perspective. Backstories are the foreground of our characters, so I don't believe it's out of line to ask. We all have reasons. If you choose not to share them with others that's OK. (Normally I wouldn't respond to these types of things but the last line of your post came off as a jab. If not I apologize for taking it that way) Oh, I'm not trying to jab at your or anything. I think were talking about two different things. I thought we were like, trying to justify how our character can or can't do things or something. No bigs.

I don't justify shit to anyone anymore. My RP has blossomed harder for it. I render no apologies. Free your mind OP.

Ideas for infusing aether into fabric and metals. Precious metals focused. An idea was given to me about enhancing jewelry at the basic level. As everyone reading this likely knows, materia is crystallized aether which contains the energy therein. It can be described as being 'aspected' and this to me is largely mysterious. It is mostly known that to 'create' down, artifacts: swords, knives, armors, gear in general, is deconstructed at the basic level and condensed into materia. During this process, if say, a gladiators sword was used often, 'broken in', you generally get materia aspected for enhancing physical traits of the body. However, to me the thought that aether has a personality and will only affect certain parts of certain people based off its source...is frankly queer. Anyways, I have new ideas for harnessing materia. Ways to work around my seemingly muted aether capabilities and still get what I want. Normally, if you crack a materia, or break it, shatter it, etc – it's trapped crystallized aether dissipates. It loses color and becomes brown regardless of the previous color it held. I was given the thought of trying to pulverize a materia under a press while it would be in a container of some sort holding metallic sands, say gold, and carbonized plus dark matters. The basic idea is that as the aether is 'escaping' its crystallized prison, the reagents and sand will attract the loose aethers and force it to 'meld' or cling to the metal sand. I have some initial concerns with trying to form proper, workable and forgable metals working materials from this. I can foresee the crystalline shards from the materia causing problems in the molten gold and other metals, disrupting the alloying process, due to the inherent differences in the basic crystal structure that crystalized aether does not share with metals. It will likely form a brittle intermetallic alloy that will more prone to shattering than molding with hammer blows. That alone is a...rather difficult task likely littered with failures to come. Should this process ever work, I would then melt these sands down into alloys and further refine them from ingots into working material to make jewelry from. However, merely making rings and trinkets is no longer all that will be getting produced. More is needed. It's awkward, and ineffective to try and sew a materia onto a shirt and expect results. A belt is fine for actual garmets, shoes perhaps, pants maybe, overall the process is awkward. Therefore I will be undertaking the extremely old, and almost entirely forgotten process of lamé to weave ribbons of gold and other aether-infused ingots I will have produced. Most weaver don't know of the process, and none of us practice it for a reason. Weaving in ribbons or wires of gold into a garmet lends it to being not ideal for continued and repeated wear. I have recruited others to help me understand this process. I suspect my forray into lamé wont work fully, but I intend to see it through to get an understanding of fusing goldsmithing and weaving. I have heard, but never seen reference materials to another process of precious fabrics, called samite. The rough idea of samite is it leans on gold leaf and silk, and weaving it to produce patterns you can apply to, say a jacket, to gain the effects of the aethered metallic fabrics. We shall see, I have sent Ridley and Integra to Ossuary to pour over texts regarding both samite and lamé.

My time to shine is now.....not really. But I can point to one ic later dorne

So, lets talk about linux. Me and Franz like to do this often enough, time for old-adminbro to join us in skype.

Otto has two wives, with a third in the works. He thinks of marriage largely as a joke due to rampant not-giving-a-fuck-itis he contracted once he hit 30.

People all the time trying to call me a creep ooc and stuff when I'm pretty far from it. Trashy hoes mostly. Let the haters do as they will op, your actions will speak louder.

Are you hot?

Drugs, money, hoes.

I posted a thread about this a while ago that had a lot of replies about this. Ill see if I can find it. Might help you Actually I was wrong its barely related http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=8714

Dragoons?