Miza

These past couple of years have kinda worn on me as a gamer. I'm finding it easier to pass on games coming out than ever before. The only new game I liked this year was Witcher 3 and even that had its own problems. Then again, I've been out of the PC scene for some time until just recently, so I'm sure there's some stuff I probably missed. I really regret buying a Wii U around launch at this point. Done with Nintendo for the most part.

I'm disappointed by their decision to split up the game, but it's not a deal breaker for me. I'll still get it probably. FF7's remake is something I've wanted for nearly 10 years now. If they really make it $60 per episode, that would be just plain ridiculous but not too surprising as they are already trying to say each episode will be its own complete game. I would imagine that at least someone from SE's marketing/PR team has already seen the massive backlash this news has brought. Perhaps the SE overlords will take a break from writing their Lightning fanfics and take this all into account when preparing to price the game(s).

I can definitely relate to how you're feeling. But I don't think you should give it up. I mean I would be down to RP with you too.

I tend to go with the whole one IRL year = one RP year deal. However I don't really go by 1 IRL day = one RP day because things can get confusing with scheduling people and going backwards or forward in time on stuff like forum RP here. I use the main storyline's timeline as a guide line, but I'm not too concerned with matching up to it 100 percent because I never RP my characters in MMOs as going through the official story for the respective game. Like someone else mentioned earlier, stuff like Mor Dhona makes it evident that time is passing in the game and I like to acknowledge things like that. Personally, I used when the Calamity happened to determine how old I wanted Miza to be in the present. I wanted her to be old enough to have that event cause consequences for her life direction. With her going into the Limsan Navy, I decided to make her 17ish when the Calamity went down making her 22 today.

Her first real job since she had made it back to Vylbrand. Of course Miza had done a few "errands" here and there around La Noscea as a sellsword, but this was definitely her first mission since her time as a 'Cuda. Perhaps that's why she felt butterflies fluttering about in her stomach. Or maybe that was excitement. Despite her rough past with Zhi and the little resentment she still held for her choice to join up with a gang, Miza didn't want to let Zhi down or appear like a complete waste of aether to Flit. The arrival of the new guy caused her ears to twitch. She had never seen him before and she wasn't quick to trust new faces. Still, he had to have shown up to this early gathering for some reason, right? Miza gave the man a simple nod and then looked back to Zhi. Clearly more concerned with the job than pleasantries, she uttered out "Just tell me where I need to be."

A blue brow was quirked at Zhi's comment. Miza was the older one, though only by a couple of years, and it was a bit odd hearing her friend say that. It didn't bother her really. In some ways, Zhi had actually raised Miza on the way the streets work in the past. Regardless, she kept quiet and gave a light shrug to her partners. Her eyes fell down into her drink. She pursed her lips as she contemplated whether or not to ask the barkeep to add alcohol to her juice. The thought vanished as Zhi made her bet to Miza. "Alright, I'm in I s'pose." Miza briefly rubbed at her temple before getting up from her seat, drink in hand. Her head felt like several chocobos had stomped on it. She sluggishly followed Zhi and Flit to the boss's table.

Well....here's what ol' Yoshi had to say. So it can be used as declaring someone is your BFF as well. It would be silly if they didn't eventually offer other ways of getting a dual mount though, so I'm thinking you'll be able to grind some rep or use some gil to get one down the road.

I'm going to wait. Besides the marriage system, I'm pretty sure there will be alternatives to getting two-seaters eventually. I've waited 8+ years for Kingdom Hearts 3....so a couple months or so is chump change to me.

It had been another late night for the blue-haired Miqo'te. Miza had taken a peek out of her room's window and was made aware that she had slept longer than she probably should've. She drowsily made her way down the stairs out to where The Mizzenmast became The Drowning Wench. Her odd eyes caught sight of her dear partners and she quietly sauntered over to where Zhi and Flit were sitting. Miza gave the two a nod as she took her seat and tapped lightly on the bartop. "Orange juice please, I need a wake-me-up." Her voice was plagued with grogginess, but that didn't stop Miza from smiling at the conversation going on next to her.

Just wanted to give my kudos out to Zhavi and Rurutani for helping me get into the RP community and for being great RPers in general! It's been fun breathing life into Limsa RP with these two and Zhavi has helped my character develop a rich background.

Welp I'm sorta late to this thread, but this topic is something I've been through a couple times so I'll drop my two gil. I'll start by saying I don't think you can ever truly separate IC/OOC 100 percent completely as I believe our characters are, at the very least, a fraction of our greater psyche as individuals. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I'm under the belief that we can't ever escape ourselves completely. At the end of the day, it is still you making those choices for your character. To say that we can all create a completely different persona a la Tyler Durden would make us all crazy, right? Or maybe I'm just crazy. So with some RP topics, such as romance, there will always be a little spillage from OOC to IC or vice-versa. Like other people have stated in this thread, some of us make the conscious decision to reach out to someone and deny them OOC'ly. Others try to make up for their lacking lives IC'ly by seeking out relationships and situations they couldn't find elsewhere. This doesn't excuse people who actively seek to manipulate and destroy relationships, but I think those cases are in the minority with this particular topic. There's always two sides to a coin and I think it's a bit silly to expect someone to be able to have a 100 percent distinction between IC and OOC. Honestly, I didn't always hold these opinions. In fact, what changed my perspective was my experience with someone who became my RP partner. I used to think you could have IC and OOC completely separated. And that's not to say that I don't think you can step back and say "I'm not my character." Because we're not our characters. But we all are humans - a lesson I learned the hard way. In the MMO I previously RPed in, I had two characters who I RPed quite frequently. Very different characters from each other and both went through this type of drama from opposite ends. One character, I'll call her Annie for the sake of privacy and yada yada, found herself one day in a relationship that had happened very "organically" (quotes because we talked about the possibility a couple of times in guild chat) over the course of 4 months with a guildmate. We were good friends OOC wise and I knew that my guildie was married happily to his wife IRL. At this time, I had the believe that my IC actions would have no consequence in the OOC side of things but boy was I ever wrong. So Annie more or less had the mind of a child in an adult body as that's how her race worked in the game. She didn't have any sort of grasp on the social complexities of human culture and courtship. Playing into this, I had Annie cheat on her boyfriend with someone else who started coming on to her. And by cheat, I mean just an embraced kiss. Lo and behold when my gulidie found out OOC'ly and then IC'ly, he was miffed to put it lightly. He felt like I was throwing all the development Annie and his character had been through out the window. That was not my intention. The fact of the matter was Annie, the character, didn't understand what being a "girlfriend" really meant. I, the OOC Annie, didn't have a child-mind in reality and tried telling him that I wasn't trying to throw away the relationship. He didn't really like my answer and him and his wife ended up never talking to me again and leaving the guild. Now, who was in the wrong there? My guildie who felt like I betrayed him and effectively put a dent in the relationship we had built? Or me for making that naive decision for the sake of my character OOC'ly even though I had an inkling deep down that it might have repercussions? Aren't IC and OOC supposed to be completely separate? While all this Annie craziness was happening, my other character, let's call him Paul, was in the midst of a relationship with a character played by someone who had become my closest friend in that game. I met her out of the blue one day and we started RPing. I invited her to my guild and from there, our relationship grew both IC and OOC-wise. The IC relationship had evolved from a mercenary partnership to Paul finally popping the question several months down the road some time after the Annie Incident went down. Little did I know that Paul's fiance had taken a liking to me OOC. In retrospect, I should have saw the signs earlier. There was a period of time where we did everything together - from lvling to sitting around in town idling to even doing AH stuff together. She had also reached out to me outside the game with MSN (back when that was a thing) and we would talk for long periods of time. But much like an anime protag or video game character, my whole life I have been quite oblivious to romantic advances people make toward me. So it wasn't until one day when she got mad at me for giving her space (something that she herself had asked me to do like a week before) that I started to realize something was off. Finally, a mutual friend of ours revealed to me one day that she was deeply in love with me - something that dumbfounded me because she had told me plenty of times about her girlfriend she had IRL. To this day, I still don't know how I really felt about her. What happened was it turned out that IRL-wise, she was a savant with severe bipolar and depression mental ailments. Our last conversation was her confessing to me that she always thought her character and Paul represented the IRL version of us in-game and that she thought I knew that. She then was committed to a home a few days after we talked last. Was I supposed to reciprocate her feelings? Did I make the mistake of doing everything together with her? I would like to think the answer is no to those questions, but I did sort of enable her in a way. I could have made the effort to keep ourselves more distanced, but I did genuinely enjoy her company. I had tried to keep IC/OOC separate and by maintaining that mindset, I feel like it destroyed these relationships I had. Maybe my stories are extreme examples. I mean, Paul's fiance was literally crazy. However, Annie's boyfriend was very sound of mind and happily married. IC and OOC had managed to leak into each other with both scenarios. We're not our characters, that completely true. But what I realized is that we are still humans and despite how hard we try to not let IC decisions to affect the OOC side of things, you can't completely wall it off. Otherwise, we would readily let all of our characters have permission to be killed and die off. Despite all of the above, I haven't written off RP romance. But I'm definitely much more...selective and cautious about it now. It is not one of my goals and it wasn't back then with those characters either as I use RP as practice for my own writing. But I think if I learned anything, it's that RP romance is like reaching into one of those hats with lots of pieces of paper. You don't know what you're going to pull out, but for whatever reason, you hope it's something good. RP isn't supposed to be a dating service. The people who RP just for relationships, I don't think they realize that it won't fill that void in their hearts. Your character will most likely end up very one-dimensional and the relationship, if they get one, will not last. Sorry for the long-winded rant and thanks for reading. :blush:

Like someone just told you in the previous page, all of your posts in this thread have come off increasingly as passive-aggressive. You say to be constructive, yet you're not really doing that yourself. What does the post I just quoted add to the discussion? Nothing but upset feelings. As for city-wide RP, I believe it's a good thing. We definitely don't want to be stuck in taverns all day. And from the sound of it, it seems like this poison well situation has been getting blown way out of proportion.

It's not in the city, but when the Limsa community is big enough to start bleeding out into the La Noscea areas a bit more frequently, I think Camp Bronze Lake would be a good place for another potential hotspot down the road. It's typically not too populated whenever I pass by it and it has a tavern and hot springs. Costa del Sol also has a bar, but I feel like it would best be used as a vacation or beach party spot instead of a general hotspot.

I'm rather new to the community too. And yeah, it's disheartening to see people walk right by you and go RP with someone a few feet away. But I think you are quick to assume that they are avoiding you. As a new player, no one knows anything about you or me. So it makes walk-ups harder to get, especially when everyone already has their established relationships they want to spend their time on. When I was RPing in Guild Wars 2, I felt similar to you. I had no guild and had taken several months off from the game, so when I came back, I was more or less an outcast. I started to think there might be something wrong with me or my characters. But then one day, I tried whispering someone reputable within the community if they wanted to RP and they said sure! Yes, it's nice to have people come to you, but it's much easier to get into communities by making the first step. And from what it sounds like, you are discouraged because no one walks-up to you. Maybe I'm assuming too much, but hey if you're ever in Limsa Lominsa, I'd gladly RP with you.

Miza had woken up later than she meant to. Her eyes still baggy, she sluggishly made her way through the docks. At Zhi's request, she had been getting less sleep between scouting the Arcanist's Guild and protecting Flit from his enemies. Even though she was awake, part of I'mimiza felt like she was still dreaming. Just a few days ago, she was on her way to Aldenard and now here she was slowly slipping back in to her old life with a few new twists. In the past, she had only heard about The Heavy Handers from stories Zhi would tell her. Miza didn't know what to expect with this job. As long as Zhi was there though, she had a feeling the two of them would make it out of this alright like they always had in their "glory days." The fog had caused her to take a couple of wrong turns at the docks. After a couple of self-inflicted smacks to the face, Miza was able to locate Zhi and Flit. She walked up to them and gave them a slight nod. "Sorry, long night." She said in a low, hushed voice to Zhi.