Dogberry

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Fresh Bread, bard out of Gridania, reluctantly loyal to the Garleans. Let's meet up and get plotting!

Dogberry curses like a sailor. Because he is one. He will also not think twice about making a downright ghoulish joke or threat from time to time. He is a product of a very coarse upbringing. Part of that also comes from me. I've got no problem with profanity and take a bit of pride in how far I can stretch the limits of vulgarity. If you don't like it OOC, come to me and let me know. I'll tone it back when you're around. Believe me, I can still get make him get his point across. I certainly don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable, when all it costs me is just a few word substitutions.

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Character Name: Daghbheri Himalspyr, but goes by "Dogberry Himalspyr" for the sake of the rubes. Hells/Sea?: Sea Wolf Gender: Male Timezone: EST Looking for?: Nautical nonsense, piratical patronage, business contacts both legitimate and "legitimate" in nature, organized crime and anyone who knows something about magitek. Also, y'know, people. Dogberry's a people person. Server:[ Balmung 2. Does your character fit the 'common' lore of your Roegadyn or are they singular? (Eg. Raised by hyur so does not understand X or Y = singular) They're pretty common to their type. 3. What are your Rp limits, if any? (Eg: no permadeath, no ERp etc) Not into ERP. Permadeath isn't really my thing unless you're going to help me level another character and get all my gear back.

That was extremely useful. I spent a good deal of last night trying to figure out how to change the UI size, but no matter how many times I hit the computer machine box with my caveman bone it wouldn't work. Also, that focus target tip was brilliant. I had no idea. Kinda wish I had known about that when I was running copperbell.

HI GUYS! I had a lot of fun RPing with you this weekend. It was really great just encountering random RP and running with you guys. I've already got the linkshell, but I'm not entirely sure Dogberry would fit in the Free Company, given that he does get involved in criminal activity, and in fact, that may become a vital part of his character. But Dogberry is the type to try and keep ties to legitimate organizations as much as criminal enterprises.

The house I will own in FFXIV is better, and in a better neighborhood, than the house I own in real life. Feels good man.

And suddenly I have a hankering for some Iron Maiden. \m/ Welcome!

My interest is piqued from an outsider's perspective. Wait. Did I say interest? That's not quite the word I was looking for.

My alt is also a Lalafell bard! I think all the Lalafell bards need to start a band. Welcome to the game! Love the Zep reference, too. Also, LARP story? Do tell! *grabs a bag of popcorn and lounges on his boffer shield*

A loose conglomeration of ne'erdowells and scofflaws, you might say.

Dogberry's got some serious trauma issues and a sense of survivor's guilt that leaves him with a death wish. He doesn't want to confront his past, so he picked up a new profession, a dangerous one that he secretly hopes will get him killed. Most of Dogberry's time is spent avoiding having to deal with what happened to him during the Calamity. Fresh Bread is a coward.

I saw this thread before and meant to post, then kinda forgot about it. My alt, Fresh Bread, is actually an unwilling Garlean spy. By which I mean, he's had a certain level of indoctrination and will toe the line when forced to, but he chafes against it emotionally. He's trying to fight his indoctrination as much as possible, but sometimes he just can't. He isn't happy about it, and feels completely like a traitor. I was going to have him be a former Garlean spy looking for redemption, but I think this is much more interesting.

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An excellent post. Thanks for your insight. I'm no martial artist, just a guy with a huge collection of Jackie Chan movies. I mean, technically I'm a full contact "foam fighter" but to compare me to an actual fighter would be like comparing a paintball player to a real shooter. I definitely play Dogberry as more of a heavyweight boxer than anything else, but as he grows he's sure to take on a much broader style. Thinking about the lore and the animalistic style of the stances and forms given in canon, one could make an argument that a Blue Mage style of class that uses enemy attacks could come out of Pugilist. This is pure speculation, with little to back it up, but I can definitely see a martial artist using more animal based forms to perform more complex techniques.

Now my work begins. I take it where I find it. The Maelstrom, the Pugilist Guild, Blue Skies, Soliloquy, family, friends, strangers. If it's good work, I'll take it. Hell, somedays I'm not so concerned about good work, but I try to keep my nose as clean as possible. It would be a lie to say I'm a law abiding citizen, but money's money, and I figure sometimes it's better that I be the one doing the dirty deed, and not some of the psychopaths I seem to find myself rubbing shoulders with. Some poor sob can't pay his debt. I try to reason with them. I'm always very sympathetic. Give 'em something to bite down on. Let them have their dignity if they want it. Sad to say sometimes they don't. Even then the worst I'll do is maybe give someone a black eye. Maybe break a nose or a rib or something. Not everyone's like me, though. I've heard stories. The honest work, though, for whatever weird reason, has me usually fighting animals. I like fighting animals. See, fighting's mostly mental. I'm at least quasi-sentient, right? So I can usually get into the minds of people. Animals aren't like us, except for that they are. We've got this level of pretention to us. Animals don't, and that makes them much harder to predict. They start off fighting for their lives because they know no other way. When you fight an animal, you've got to come correct. They've been places you'd never go. Done things you'd never do. You have no frame of reference. Us civilized types have civilization on our brains, and it takes a lot to get through that. We constructed these sets of rules, and we cling to them even when we have no reason to do so. You break through that civilized indoctrination, and you've got yourself a real fight against an animal so dangerous nobody's seen it since the discovery of agriculture. Animals that even before we remember, bowed out of the natural order and declared itself a winner. An apex predator so bad it decided to retire while it was on top. So you goad this animal out of hibernation from its den stone pillars, religion, and math. The only thing that can beat it is nature itself. I know this sounds grandiose. To most, it would appear that I punch things for a living. I do more than that, though. Every punch I throw is a conscious choice. Every kick is a decision. Every breath I take is fuel I need for power. Every heartbeat is an act of will. The purpose of training is not to make rote forms and motions that I don't have to think about as I do them. I train to think about each movement more with every repetition. There is danger in doing things without thinking. Occasionally I have a scheduled fight. For honor, glory, and coin. I was never one to be motivated by honor or glory, and while the coin is nice, I make enough to consider myself more affluent than my needs. I'm a little embarassed by it, actually, but I find it's useful. At least I can say my father lives well off of me. I work, and I train, because I can't stand the alternative. The idleness seems too much like silence, and silence was once the end of me. When the world felt like it was ending, at least the crashing and explosions, and screams let me know it was still there. When the world was silent, I knew I was standing at the the hells' gates. The fear comes up. It takes hold of me and it won't let go until I lose myself again for a while in drink, or in moko grass, or in women. The quiet wipes away all the civilization on my brain, and leaves me with my animal needs. This is the real fight.

I definitely agree with Uther here. There's a very specific set of criteria for becoming a proper Dragoon by lore standards. There are many, many ways to make a character who fits the Dragoon archetype of a heavily armed spearman, but making an honest to lore Dragoon has a set of criteria that most just can't plausibly fit. I can be done! But please do it right. Dogberry, for example, learned to use a spear on board a whaling ship where heavy armor is pretty unreasonable. (Even though Marauders wear it. Dogberry thinks they're all crazy.) He will seldom use heavy armor, but you bet he'll know how to jump like crazy. Jumping from boat to boat, or occasionally from boat to giant sea creature, goes with the territory. But even though he's a spearman who can jump like a freak, he is not, and will never be a Dragoon even if he parades around in fancy armor. Maybe he'd have made a wonderful Dragoon, but it just wasn't in the cards for him, and he has no interest of ever joining their ranks. It's entirely likely that any Dragoon who saw him fight would see his style as a bastardization of their art. That would actually make for some awesome RP. Dragoon is an OOC class that I have to play to make the character do what I want him to do. It's not something Dogberry would ever claim to be. I can definitely jive with that. I'd say Ishgard opening its gates is an inevitability and us having access to the area in game is a matter of time. Personally, I'd wait until then and the lore releases that come with it, but I'd say you've got a good concept for a capital D Dragoon that leaves lots of room for a clear character development arc to role play.

Dogberry could definitely benefit from a corrupting influence like Bhara. He's a former whaler and "alleged" pirate who put down the harpoon after the calamity and now makes a living as a pugilist. I do eventually want him to get back into the piratical saddle. Next time I log in I'll throw a friend invite your way and we can talk. Would Bhara's reputation as a pirate precede her?

I wake up on the La Noscean beach to the curiosity of scuttling crabs. They seem to wonder what I am doing sleeping on their beach and come to ask me. They have a crazy way of asking, which involves using their claws to pinch my face off. After a quick morning stretch, I find myself eating crab for breakfast. Once I've had my fill, I take a bath. This is usually the highlight of my day. I wade out into the ocean, past the breaking of the waves, with my giant wooden board, and I find a big enough wave, and I jump on it, then stand on my board. This is an important part of the bath process, because the salt spray is good for my skin. I ride the board until I fall off, or the wave is no longer able to be ridden. Usually I fall off. Sometimes when bathing, I see a shark or think I saw one, and I think about years ago. I used to call myself a shark. I was a hunter, and considered by many a good one. I felt like I had no natural predators, like sharks do. I was the apex of the food chain. In those days, when I rode the waves I imagined that I was a shark, hunting for prey, making a kill, and moving on gracefully and perfectly through the water. Not a single wasted motion, just killing perfection. But an apex predator is still a plaything to nature. A shark can't swim if the tide doesn't allow it. I remember the day I was taught this lesson, and the five years it has taken to sink in. Now, on this beach, I understand. I shouldn't try to be the shark, I should strive to be the ocean. I should be the gentle lapping at people's feet, and the violent crashing of a storm's tide. What's an apex predator to the ocean current?

This may be why there's so many female Miqo'te prostitutes, out of all the different races, their potential clients are far less likely to be of their own kind (male Miqo'te are rare, right?), which makes the chance of them getting pregnant pretty insignificant. This is of course assuming there's no contraception in Eorzea, which I think may be likely from all the STD references...

Well, there you have it. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be busy lobbying the city-states to teach my Lifestream Goo theory equally alongside the Fantasy Biology theory.

I'm definitely fine with using any kind of impartial system, so an out of game RNG is fine, preferably if the results are viewable by both sides. I can go by the honor system fine, but the more transparent the resolution mechanic, the more comfortable I think it will be for everyone. Edit: Whicih it looks like rolz.org is, so that works fine by me.

I'm totally down for this kind of thing. Just one question, in fights, how are we going to know what lands? I was under the impression that FFXIV doesn't have a /roll function.

Given airship design and Lalafell jumping capabilities, I would say it's a safe bet that gravity doesn't exist, things just fall to the ground because everyone consensually agreed that it would be convenient for reality to be that way. I mean seriously, Lalafell jumping puts NBA slam competitions to shame.