Shoshopu

May 11's Spellguard winners are Ehfi Rhinsu and Stampede Ruckus! Congratulations! I hope everyone's been enjoying 4.3!! If enough people are around, Spellguard is set to take place tonight in under an hour!

Congratulations to April 27th's winners, Stampede Ruckus and H'rihn Nhaviri! Spellguard will be back tonight, same time, same place!

Don't forget Spellguard is tonight! Ward 6 of the Mist, Seagaze Markets, 10 PM EST!

I think I might as well give my input while I wait on Spellguard to start... The whole forbidden magic thing that was going on with the Runestone is, completely frankly, the reason why "no illegal magic" is an IC rule at Spellguard. The design of the magitek aether-shield generators each team has was also a direct response to criticisms I was hearing about the Runestone's method of protecting its combatants from harm-- I was trying to find something that had precedents in the lore, and also had IC limitations, and aren't just flawless and powered by how incredibly magical Shoshopu is or whatever. The Familiar clause was implemented as an attempt to kind of... manage IC power level I guess, because one time a summoner character who had lots of different -egis beat someone and the loser kinda blew up my DMs about it even though they didn't have any actual advantage, it's random vs random. Ever since I made that clause I've not really had many summoners enter. I hope it didn't scare them off. : x Spellguard's been more successful in the past, but obviously its claim to, uh ... Well, its Thing is the whole 2v2 aspect that adds another dimension to writing emotes and things. I was trying to go for something different to make it stand out from the other tournaments going on. I like Unnamed Mercenary's idea of a tournament for a specific school of magic, but of course you'll have fewer people at those because it's more limiting by design. I feel like it's more important to enrich the experience of the people who do enter than to try and grab as many people as possible for a sub-par experience, though. If I may half-hijack this thread, I'd love to hear how I could make Spellguard better too!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Good Friday! Spellguard is back tonight, same time, same place!

Reminder that Spellguard is tonight!! See you at the beach!

Four teams squared off tonight, and we had some really interesting matchups! Tonight's winners are... Team A to Z! Congratulations! (I know A is Azrat Lariss but I totally forgot to write Z's name down sorry I'll edit this later. RIP)

Spellguard is tonight! See you in the Mist!

Two returning champion teams squared off for tonight's anniversary match! Our winners are... Jebei Dotharl & Sa'ran Kha! Congratulations!

Tonight is the 2nd Anniversary of the Spellguard Tournament! Tonight's winners will receive a special OOC prize in addition to the IC gil prize! Please look forward to it!

I hope you don't mind me saying, this sounds kind of horrible and reminds me of Gaia Online RP back in the day! It makes me kind of nostalgic for forum RP. Sounds like a good learning experience either way though! Depending on the context or setting of the RP that might be some sort of interesting meta, I guess. I'm in the "If you can understand what they meant, then don't bother" camp. I know OP's already decided what they're going to do, but I wanted to add my two cents. Several of my own RP partners (including my own fiance-- I give him shit because he's my fiance and that's what we do with eachother but I wouldn't anyone else) make these sorts of spelling mistakes, and occasional grammatical mistakes in general, but I still understand what they meant and I know they're trying because they capitalize and punctuate and all that. And that's really all I need. Life is too short to get hung up on the little things in video game pretendtimes and I'm anxious about enough already. I know my partners will be forgiving of my own typos and mistakes too. I would only really draw a line (I say would because I've never actually seen it!) if the other person was typing with no capitalization or punctuation at all, the way I would in a casual conversation in Discord or a tumblr shitpost. Or *emoting like this*. I wouldn't actually say anything to the person though, I'd just not really go out of my way to RP with them again and leave it at that.

Due to technical difficulties with the iCal (kind of bummed about that, I had the entire year manually mapped out on the old calendar T_T oh well!), I'm just bumping as a reminder that Spellguard is this Friday! It's our 2nd anniversary!!

I'll keep an eye on it then and see if it shows up. It's a strange error, though. I wonder if it's affecting any other events, then maybe we could narrow down what's going on there.

What exactly is the "imported" Balmung calendar from? Since Spellguard is biweekly I had to manually schedule each one and I had it up for the entire year of 2018 and now it's nowhere to be found on any of them. I see I can add events to the RPC Community Events Calendar, but how would I go about getting Spellguard onto the Balmung specific calendar? If it's imported from Erah'sae's calendar, Spellguard is still on there but doesn't show up on the RPC. I've not visited the site in a few days so I'm just all kinds of confused lol

Urgh. I'm very sorry I was absent on Friday, everyone. My fiance and I went out of town for the weekend and I had to clean the house before we left. Time flew by and by the time I realized it was past Spellguard time, I was elbow-deep in a malfunctioning, overflowing washing machine. I should've started a lot earlier and paid more attention to the time, and for that I apologize. Spellguard will continue on its regularly scheduled date of March 2nd. It looks like the forum got an update, too. It looks pretty slick, but.. gosh dang, the OP is all jacked up now. I'll have it fixed soon.

Four teams entered tonight, including Spellguard's very first mammet contestant! Though it made it to the finals, it couldn't quite stand up to tonight's champions: [align=center]Dahlia Blake & Hali Naras! Congratulations! [/align]

The Vermilion Vindicators almost took the championship again this week, but they met their match! [align=center]Congratulations to Tahni'sae Farreihm and Kiyokage Mizuhiki! [/align]

Had a great turnout this week, with several fun new faces! A good start to the new year! Without further ado, this year's first Spellguardian champions are... [align=center]Jebei Dotharl and Sa'ran Kha! Congratulations! [/align] Our next tournament is set for January 19th! See you then!

[align=center]https://i.imgur.com/YZ5S5iu.png[/img][/align] Happy Heavensturn, everyone! The first Spellguard tournament of the year is this Friday the 5th! The OP's been updated with a shiny new header featuring Spellguard's mascot, Popoto the adamantoise! (You might've already seen variations of it for some of 2017's holiday events) I've also updated the RPC's calendar with every Spellguard event for this year! Expect the following tournament dates to feature something extra special: Spellguard's 2nd Anniversary on March 2nd! * The 50th Spellguard tournament is set for April 27! ** * Yes, the first Spellguard tournament was on March 4th, but who wants to wait until the 16th to celebrate? ** Assuming nothing happens and no tournaments have to be cancelled for the week *** The dates for standard holiday-themed tournaments depend on when SE decides to do them all this year. The dates vary a little from year to year, and so do Spellguard's, so any holiday-themed Spellguard tournaments will be announced closer to the date.

Bullets and fire are Shopu's greatest weaknesses. She's a small target so she manages to avoid the worst of it, but she's been grazed a lot. Eaubront, on the other hand, gets shot a lot. Once a bullet got through his cheap maille and into his chest and he almost bled out. But he got a cheap pickup line out of it, and a girlfriend

What a way to end the year! Eight teams showed up to Spellguard tonight! That's the biggest tournament in a long while! There were many close matches, and all were exciting, but only one team could be named the last champions of the year! And they are... [align=center]Josiah Covey and Zigo Arlo the Geomancer! Congratulations! [/align] I want to thank you all for participating and making Spellguard a fun event! I just organize the thing, it's you all who provide the fun fights and team banter! And Spellguard wouldn't still be here if it weren't for you guys! Happy holidays, and have a happy new year, too! I'll update the thread with the winners' art when it's completed.

The Starlight tournament is on in just under an hour!

[align=center] The Starlight season is upon us once again! And as always, Spellguard will be hosting a themed tournament to celebrate the holiday! Bring your Dream Hats and room in your bellies for Starlight treats! These past few months have been quite busy for me IRL, and the little time I've had online has been spent RPing with friends as opposed to farming gil, so unfortunately this year there will probably not be a gil prize, at least not one the size of last year's. Non-Mog Station Starlight items are also quiet expensive this season. However! Each member of the winning team will receive a sketch-portrait of their character, just like last year! Here's last year's winners, Zigovali Rigovali and Ulemo Tesheremo: Spellguard is slated to begin on December 22 at 10:00 PM EST. We advise that you arrive a half-hour in advance and take your places in the combatant area! http://i.imgur.com/QbFspZt.png[/img] [/align]

We had a good five teams show up for Spellguard tonight, and tonight's winners shook things up! Besting the oft-winning team of Rinadin Dinwell and Tharsis Tor, tonight's champions are... [align=center]Kibaa Hart and Maiya Mai! Congratulations! [/align] Our next tournament is on December 22! Like last year, I've got plans to make the last Spellguard of the year special for the Starlight season, so stay tuned for more details!

Sorry for the late update! Three teams arrived at Spellguard, but only one could be crowned champion! [align=center]Congratulations to Fiona Delaine and Zigovali Rigovali! [/align] Our next tournament is December 8! See you then!