Marisa

Because of Ethys, I now make it a point to call every lalafell mage a 'popoto witch'. Additionally, an Au Ra BLM is a Lizard Wizard!

It's times like these I often wish I'd stuck with Barrett as my main RP character. God he was awesome... he loved to tell everyone their race sucked, and he wasn't afraid to punch a gnome for having a stupid face. You know what they say. The only good elf is a dead elf. Or the one who sells me that sweet Valenwood opium. Dwarves are cool, too. Everyone else can die in a ditch.

Wow, it is just a whole different world down there, huh? But yeah, I certainly can't argue with that. So many pieces of gear have that weird tail-cover, I guess I just mentally wrote it off upon seeing it. It looks like a hamster tail :<

I see the point about the other girl also having a little stub for a tail, but in my defense, I want to point out that what you circled is part of the coat. It may have a tail under it, but all that's visible in that picture is the cover for the tail-hole.

Nah I got down there and looked, that's just an empty hole on the coat was gonna go back and get a picture, but now she's disappeared again >: (

The one we were debating over whether or not she was possibly half lalafell? Did y'all notice she doesn't have a tail? There's a slot for a tail. But no tail. Illuminati cheesemake?

-Lalafells are scary! -It's hard to carry treasure without pockets. -Climbing is easy if you really want to know what's at the top!

Stupid dumb temple knights said I can't wear my favorite outfit anymore

Katt is the best tiger person from Breath of Fire! But of course, we all know who absolute best girl is.

I thought that seemed silly! Especially since conjury staves are supposed to be made from special trees or whatnot, yet the ironworks healing staff is very clearly a magitek device. I was told it was a lore oversight for the sake of the gear theme, but I think it's quite literally magitek healing technology!

Don't do it, bro! There's more than enough Au Ra, but almost no perpetually-sad Elezen.

This might be me grasping at straws, but I'd like to point something out about the miqo'te/lalafell answer. Look at the two examples used. The first one, Elezen-Hyur, is already in-game in the form of Hilda. The second example just happens to be Miqo'te-Lalafell. Which may also already be in-game, as that weird cat girl. Personally, I'd be excited for that other option, adding more clans. I've always fancied the idea of a wolf or fox Miqo'te as an alternative to cats.

Nicholas Graveshire, trying to teach me conjury I'm just sad our schedules didn't allow that to continue, was a lot of fun

You can't make me wear pants! I WON'T DO IT! Anyway, Marisa doesn't really have much in the way of romantic thoughts, so it's hard to say what she's find attractive or unattractive. Maybe when she's a bit older. Personally, I find the majority of female player characters to be hideous. One of the things that always baffled me about the official forums is how everybody would shower compliments on people who's character looked like somebody put clothes on a donkey. Men tended to be more normal looking, though. I mean, you can make some very beautiful characters in XIV. Everyone just chooses to make inbred-looking catgirls and call them adorable. Meanwhile I'm just like SICKNESS MUST BE PURGED! Sami Rakara had, I think, the most prettiest catgirl I'd ever seen. Then she went and became a very plain-looking elezen and I were sad.

Now what I don't understand, is that I was told pretty summarily by my Linkshell that Magitek healing is impossible. But for why? It does such a great many things, one would think emulating cure or Physick would be a trivial task. Especially since, wouldn't you be able to reproduce arcanist magick with a computer and a printer? I mean, aren't they literally just drawing shapes and equations for their spells?

Popoto Witch literally did come to Eorzea though. I can't remember what event that was for, but I specifically remember fighting a 50-foot tall lalafell named Shantotto and getting a pet from it. (Blade made that post 3 years before the Shantotto event >_>;; ...) ... ... ...woah I blame Popoto Witchcraft.

Popoto Witch literally did come to Eorzea though. I can't remember what event that was for, but I specifically remember fighting a 50-foot tall lalafell named Shantotto and getting a pet from it.

Tin-foil hat time! Now this is going to start off pretty reasonable, but get worse as it branches out. Stay with me here. Okay, so let's get the obvious out of the way first: Each 2.0 primal is based around an element: Wind, water, earth, fire, ice, lightning, moogle. But I would venture to say these are all not simply elements, but aspects of magick. And that this list includes two other aspects: Light and Dark. So it would break down like this: Wind - Garuda Water - Leviathan Earth - Titan Fire - Ifrit Lightning - Ramuh Ice - Shiva Light - ??? Darkness - Odin But where this gets cool is that, I think, the 3.0 primals are now combining aspects. Earth + Fire - Ravana Wind + Water - Bismarck Water + Fire - Alexander (steam, if you didn't catch that) Light + Darkness - Thordan Let's back up a sec. 2.0 gave us almost every "pure" aspect, except for Light. OR DID IT?! I told you this would get weird. I am going to claim here and now that the Heroes of Light died at Carteneau. All of them. Completely dead. Louisoix could no more send Derplander to the future than he could contain Bahamut. After the Calamity, life sucks for everyone. Everything is burning and/or flooded, and there's big monsters everywhere. People are desperate for a savior, kind of like the beast tribes... So, with their combined prayers for salvation, and all the unleashed ether just sitting around in giant goddamn crystals, they unknowingly summon DERPLANDER (Extreme)! Think about it. Dude just appears out of nowhere with no real memory of who he is or what the hell happened to him, but an incredibly strong drive to kill things for his supporters. He proceeds to go punch Ifrit in the face, by himself. Don't give me that crap about 'THE ECHO!', half a dozen people have the Echo. Not one of them punched Ifrit in the face. But Derplander did! And then people give him crystals for payment. What kind of reward is that? The only other people in the world who are paid in crystals are other primals. And even when he loses the blessing of light, he's still powerful as shit! Sure, he still can't be tempered, but no random dude who's lost all his superpowers should be able to just beat Ravana down 1v1. Though art strong, mortal! Bullshit. Though art a goddamn primal. Finally, why does everyone vaguely remember his face, just because they were at Carteneau? He's an average-sized Hyur, on a battlefield of thousands. Even if he's kicking ass the whole time, the vast majority of soldiers aren't going to see him. Derplander wasn't wiped from their minds; he's an idea in the back of their consciousness. They know him because he's the god they've been praying to, to come save them. He looks familiar because mankind collectively imagined him into existence. And he's not just out to accomplish the big hero stuff; no, Derplander goes and carries grain sacks for downtrodden Lalafell farmers because they've poured all of the little trials and tribulations of their everyday lives into creating this man. He's the combined hopes and dreams of all Eorzeans, big or small. And he's the goddamn Light primal. edit: Urianger already figured it out, and that's why he's being sketchy as hell. You know if anyone would notice, it would be him.

I found the first 3 bosses to be a breeze, and this is coming from someone who never cleared turn 6. Mind you, this is on day 1. Nobody should be unable to get through this raid, if you're willing to try it a few times.

As someone who's had to wear a gas mask on several occasions, I'm like 90% certain that the "pshhh shkohhhh" noise is some sort of respirator they're using. On the subject of the Koji post, I had completely forgotten that Goblins do, in fact, have a native language. I don't think this language is ever shown in-game, though. What I'll be doing over the next couple days is finding every speaking goblin in the game, and recording all goblin-specific words they use. Hopefully I can get a reasonable vocabulary table going.

Terrible monsters. All of them. Fortunately they can only see you if you can see them, so if you cover your eyes and yell loudly enough, they eventually go away. Which is important to know, because they'll eat anyone smaller than them.

Okay, so to make the 'Marisa', you take 8 packets of Kool-Aid. Lime, Cherry, Orange, Fruit Punch, Grape, Lemonade, Watermelon, and Blueberry. Dump all of these in a 2-gallon pitcher. Pour in sugar on top of that. Like, a shitload of sugar. It should be mostly sugar by volume. No, don't stop, I'll tell you when it's enough sugar. Now then, pour in water. Just tap water should do, we're not fancy here. Once the water is overflowing out of the pitcher, you can turn off the faucet and stop pouring sugar. Wait, you weren't still pouring in sugar? Well dump like half the water out and replace it with sugar. Now stir the hell out of it. I don't care that it's going all over the floor, stir harder! Water's saturation limit isn't high enough to absorb all of this sugar, so you need to stir so hard and so fast that you break physics. Got that done? Great! Now go ahead and taste it. By this point, you're probably dumping Kool-Aid down the drain because what you just made tastes beyond terrible. That's fine, the 'Marisa' isn't so much a drink as it is an experience. Finally, contemplate what you've done for awhile before getting a cup of coffee and a container of cake frosting. Consume both of those; you'll need the energy for all the jumping you're about to do.

I'm looking for basically anything that might increase my understanding of the goblin language. I've had my character on something of an adventure while I was grinding OOC, and it's about time I got back into the rp game. I figure any good adventure ends with new skills or knowledge, and to add to Marisa's incredible repertoire of useless talents, she's coming back from this one knowing how to tongue-flap gobbie-talk. I remember Koji laying out some grammatical rules for it at one point, but my google-fu is proving too weak.

As an Ishgardian RPer, there are a few tropes that, while there is nothing wrong with them by themselves, they've become so common as to be painfully cliche. In my opinion, anyway. Basically it will go something like this: Paco Taco was born to an Ishgardian noble family where he learned to read, have infinite wealth, be an azure dragoon, and also be super edgy. After having a family member accused of heresy, while simultaneously failing on a mission of utmost import, Paco was sentenced by the Holy See to make the decision to put himself in self-exile. Normally they'd just have you hanged or push you off a cliff, but Paco was too important! Paco then joined a mercenary company which just happened to work for the Holy See, performing missions that mostly involve sitting in the Quicksand. The mercenary group had great influence over Ishgard, giving all of the benefits of being a Temple Knight but with 20x the pay and 0 of the rules. But then Vishap attacked, and the mercenary company was called upon to slay the dragon! Yet Paco Taco didn't want to move forward in the timeline yet, so he used his infinite wizard magic to freeze time until 4 weeks later when he organized an FC even to run Steps of Faith and claim that yes, it was the great Paco who had slain that dragon. As such, Paco was welcomed back into Ishgard with open arms, with no regard for his past indiscretions. And now he's both a mercenary and a temple knight! I mean, don't get me wrong, I'll still play with you even if a bunch of those things apply to you. I'm not upset about it or anything. Just know that when you tell me you're an Ishgardian exile, I'm always thinking, "Man, how does anyone still live in Ishgard when 99% of the population gets exiled every day?"

Doma's been burnt to the ground. You may be noble-born, but your title means nothing when it relies on the authority of a dead nation.