Dogberry

My prediction: The Emperor is not dead, but was turned into a chocobo during a botched assassination attempt involving an incompetent servant who used the wrong poison. There will be a questline where we help him, and make him realize that it was wrong for him to invade Eorzea in order to build himself a vacation home for his birthday.

I'd be down for that on my alt. She's totally a witch in training.

Only thing that I can say really reminds me of Florence and the Machine is Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac. [video=youtube] Coming up on 10 years of an event that's defined well... the last 10 years. Doing a lot of thinking about that lately.

MARIIIIIIIIINES WE ARE LEAVING

Dogberry's secrets are dwindling as time goes by. Some aspects of his past he never wanted to talk about, so he just never did. Lately, he's opened up about them as he comes to terms with his past. It's actually a really rewarding process to play a character in the middle of a healing process like this. At this point, all of his skeletons are pretty much out of the closet. Iskierka's biggest secret is that nobody knows ICly what happened that made her wear a mask. She's admitted to a few that it is because her face is horribly disfigured, but the only explanation she's given for the nature of her disfigurement has been that "she is as her father made her." In truth, her voidsent obsessed father noticed her aptitude for magic and snapped, carving arcane patterns into her face. He said it would help her.

Hi! We've talked in the Quicksand before! I've seen you around since and it seems like you've taken to things pretty well. I'll see you around. Don't be a stranger!

Happening right now!

"What's it going to be then, eh?" That was me, that is Dogberry as I sat in The Quicksand making up my rassoodock what to do with the evening...

Oooh I have a DogxYangh pic from way back in the day. Just before the ol' couch incident. OMG! Post it! Yanghberry, back before Yangh's makeover. Taken from the vantage of someone creepin'.

Now that Osric got me thinking about The Wire, I realized that Dogberry is a similar character to Dennis "Cutty" Wise. A man trying to get over his past, ends up backsliding for a while because he feels its his only option, then takes on an enterprise to lift himself and others up. With Dogberry it's his ship, with Cutty it's his boxing school.

Iskierka Stormspeaker, my alt. This is pretty much how everyone reacts to her.

[video=youtube] The original by Bryan Ferry and David Gilmour And its fantastic cover [video=youtube]

Oooh I have a DogxYangh pic from way back in the day. Just before the ol' couch incident.

That ship sank in the dock! Hornberry was never meant to be. I think I hear our song... [video=youtube]

You forgot one, Hornet.

Dogberry and Echidna Poole a.k.a. "Toothache" during their brief time together. Interrupted by Fireworks Even though they aren't a couple, I felt the need to post this shot of Dogberry and Menelwen inspired by the video for "Bound 2" by Kanye West.

DAMMIT DOGBERRY STOP DANCING AND FIGHT ALREADY GOD

Dogberry sat at a table outside of The Bismarck, happily munching away on a salad across from a stern individual whose casual clothing couldn't hide the fact that he was most definitely a Maelstrom officer. "Do you know how suspicious not eating meat makes y'look, Dog?" The officer asked, cutting into his own marmot steak. "I eat fish," Dogberry said, shrugging. "You go ahead, eat all the red meat you want. It'll sit in your stomach like a rock. I'll pass on that." "Sure, more for me," the officer said. "But that ain't the only thing suspicious about you?" "Oh?" Dogberry looked up from his salad, and leaned back in his chair. "Go on, then." "You wash out of the Maelstrom after the calamity," The officer began. "Sure, I don't blame you. Then you wander around for five years doing... nothing really of consequence. You start fighting in bareknuckle boxing matches, and acting as muscle for the pugilist guild and petty loansharks in Ul'dah. Spend your free time drunk and stoned, chasing skirts and basically just being a text book low-life." "Guilty, yeah," Dogberry said and nodded in agreement. "Then something lights a fire under your ass," the officer continued. "You take out a loan with a known crime boss known as 'Meat', and form a crew. 'Meat' conveniently disappears, so your debt goes free." "You have no evidence for that claim," Dogberry interrupted. "I never made any claims, I just said it's convenient," the officer said. "You come back to The Maelstrom last year during our big recruitment boom. You pick up a letter of marque, which, by the way I'm a little insulted you didn't come to me for. You start attacking Garleans and doing some hunting work. Something about a ghost whale or something. You start dealing in magitek pretty heavily. You know some pretty heavy hitters in the magitek game. Some of them are even close to the Garlond Ironworks. But you refuse to sell to any Maelstrom interests. Furthermore, you begin openly criticizing The Admiral, claiming not to trust her." "I never said I don't trust her," Dogberry said. "I said I don't trust who comes after her. She's got so much power, an' even if she doesn't abuse it, her successor--" "I don't give half a rat's ass," the officer said calmly. "It's not illegal to criticize The Admiral, just suspicious when selling weapons tech to others. Then you fall in with this... Stormwind fellow. We've got so few records on the guy. The only thing we have on him is through you. He gets you to start fighting primals. You lose your legs to Leviathan, but he builds 'em back. He sends you after Ifrit, and you lose a man. Get drunk. Get in a bar fight, then lose an honor duel when you piss off the man's regiment. Not long after, you start a pattern of raiding and hunting at sea, and small vacations in Ul'dah. You fight some moogles in the woods. I heard one of them knocked you out." "It was a sucker punch," Dogberry said defensively. "I'm sure. But now, you want a favor from me," the officer said. "Why? Like I even owe you one after all that BS." "I'm surprised my file is that extensive," Dogberry said. "Maybe even a little flattered." "Boy, you're just a small fish in a big ocean. But we do like to check up on you every now and again." The officer smirked. "By 'we' you mean you," Dogberry said, sitting forward. "And you do owe me. You sent me on that damn mission." "That mission saved you from dying at Carteneau," the officer said flatly. "Or I could have saved Laughing Bird. And Greimoen." Dogberry said the name Greimoen and the officer flinched. "You don't know that," the officer said. "There's no way you could know that." "And don't think I'm an idiot," Dogberry leaned in over the table, putting his face closer to the officer's. "I know you knew a lot more about Syldra's purpose than you let on. You had to know. I felt the swell in the ocean. I was there.. I saw... things. If that moon hadn't exploded, who knows what--" "Alright!" The officer said, and Dogberry sat back down. "So you owe me for that. Even if we weren't blood, we were kin, and you did me wrong. Because of you, I almost died. Hells, because of you, my woman and my sister died, too." "Your sister was my woman," the officer said, contempt in his voice. "But she was my sister first," Dogberry said, almost yelling. "So you owe me." "Fine," the officer said. "What do you need?" "I need an airship," Dogberry said, crossing his arms over his chest. He just played his hand. "To where?" The officer asked. "The Howling Eye." Dogberry smirked. "No. We are NOT throwing away a twelve damned AIRSHIP by landing it on The Howling Eye!" The officer was yelling now, spitting mad. "No need to land it," Dogberry said. "Just get us there."

I am so with you on Dark Knight. Dogberry just aches for it. He'd already be one if it were available. Consider a man who has had so many brushes with death, he no longer fears it. Who in a way considers himself already dead, and fights a little harder than he would otherwise because of this. He's so DRK it hurts.

Osric really does strike me as Jimmy McNulty. A fantastic detective, totally dedicated to his job, and constantly in over his head. I can't recommend The Wire enough. It's a fantastic show, and that's not just bias because I live in Baltimore.

I'm just like you. Every game my wife and I play together, we RP some heavy romance and get married and live happily ever after. Our characters just underwent the Ceremony of Mara in Elder Scrolls Online. They eloped. She's a stuffy Altmer, he's a scruffy Bosmer. They will make many merbabies forever. If she starts playing FFXIV, I can only imagine she'll make the kind of Roegadyn girl who will tame Dogberry, and keep him on a very short leash.

I kind of doubt this will ever happen for Dogberry ICly. I mean, I'm not saying never, but the guy's got some hang ups about long term relationships. If I do this OOC, it will mean my wife has started playing FFXIV.

When: October 12th. 4 PM EDT. Where: Limsa Lominsa Airship Landing What: Garuda Hard Mode Captain Dogberry Himalspyr, in conjunction with Alexander Stormwind and Rhianna Oruissi, are once more looking for brave souls and able bodies to take on the task of hunting and killing primals. This time we're going after Garuda! Please be advised that we will be taking an airship, so nausea from airsickness, mild discomfort, dismemberment, becoming tempered by Garuda, and possible violent horrible death at the hands of bird monsters may occur. Please consult your primary Conjurer before joining. I know this is late notice. This is to be a make-up event for September, as I was in no condition to run an event. But now I am! And I hope you'll join us! If you have plot threads you want to work in with these event, or personal character stories, please let me know and we can work them into the event itself! Please! Take the spotlight! You guys are awesome, and deserve it!

So, guys, this forum has stopped being useful, since now we are being told what we can and can't discuss. I'm sorry, that kind of thing just doesn't jive with me. I'll be using the OpenRP linkshell and word of mouth to organize the remaining primal hunt events. Remember, last Sunday of the month. If you're interested or curious, just shoot me a tell in game. I'm Dogberry Himalspyr. Most of you know me. Feel free to send my a friend request. in b4 the lock.

Not allowing discussion is only going to make people angrier. It's an unpleasant subject, I know, and people feel passionately about it. That's why it should be let out now so we can all get tired of talking about it. Silencing people who are already upset just makes us more upset. Cool heads prevail when there is an effort made toward civil discussion, and that was the majority of the last thread. At least the one I was in. I don't know what you were looking at. I feel comfortable in this community. It's the only FFXIV related website I post on with any regularity. I feel that this community has provided a lot for me, and I have tried to provide for it by hosting events and trying to stimulate discussion. I've made a lot of friends here, people I feel comfortable talking to. But if I'm going to be told which subjects I can and can't discuss, then I don't really see this place as useful for discussion of any kind. I hope I'm not the only one that feels this way.