Hammersmith

Hammersmith: Fuck you, got mine, AND THEN THE MOON FELL.

Signed up to punch some people.

Flameson Hammersmith will send in a flier Also he'll comment on how it'd be a pity if the entire thing were to burn down if he didn't win.

1. Moonfire Set 2. Bluebird 3. Tonberry 4. Rug (a dub dub) Neat giveaway!

I'm with Warren and Val on this. "Genuine for efficency" only applies to the far end of late game purestrain raiders. The majority of players make friends, bring friends with them, and then play in those groups because they legitimately enjoy playing in those groups, or -leave-, not soldier on for phat lootz. That in mind, your friends also arn't mindless loot zombies, and treating them like such isn't being a Real Human, so party finder and the like lets you do quickies without always having to reach into the Organization box. It's a good balance of convenience and if anything also a sign that makes the game fun to play with just picking it up instead of needing a say: Raid calander to run dungeons with groups when you want. Efficiency doesn't mean lack of genuine interaction/enjoyment. The two can, and often do, act in concert for an enjoyable game experience that people want to stick with.

Hammersmith's To Don't List from his time in the Immortal Flames: 8. Not allowed to add pictures of officers I don’t like to War Criminal posters. 9. Not allowed to title any product “Get Over it”. 10. Not allowed to purchase anyone’s soul on government time. 12. Not allowed to join any militia. 13. Not allowed to form any militia. 19. May not call any officers immoral, untrustworthy, lying, slime, even if I’m right. 30. Not allowed to wake an Non-Commissioned Officer by repeatedly banging on the head with a bag of trash. 39. Not allowed to ask for the day off due to religious purposes, on the basis that the world is going to end, more than once. 42. Not allowed to attempt to appeal to mankind’s baser instincts in recruitment posters. 43. Camouflage body paint is not a uniform. 46. I am not authorized to fire officers. 54. “Napalm sticks to kids” is *not* a motivational phrase. 57. The proper response to a lawful order is not “Why?” 59. May not make posters depicting the leadership failings of my chain of command. 67. I am not the Psychological Warfare Mascot. 69. May not pretend to be a fascist stormtrooper, while on duty. 70. I am not authorized to prescribe any form of medication. 71. I must not flaunt my deviances in front of my chain of command. 74. Woad is not camouflage makeup. 82. May not form any press gangs. 91. I am not authorized to initiate Jihad. 115. I should not speculate on the penis size of anyone who outranks me. 122. Radioactive material should not be stored in the barracks. 124. Two drink limit does not mean first and last. 125. Two drink limit does not mean two kinds of drinks. 126. Two drink limit does not mean the drinks can be as large as I like. 127. “No Drinking Of Alcoholic Beverages” does not imply that a Jack Daniel’s ® IV is acceptable. 130. “I’m drunk” is a bad answer to any question posed by my commander. 161. Bodychecking General officers is not a good idea. 179. On Army documents, my race is not “Other”. 180. Nor is it “Secretariat, in the third”. 185. My name is not a killing word. 186. I am not the Emperor of anything. 187. Must not taunt officers in the throes of nicotine withdrawal, with cigarettes. 188. May not challenge officers to “Meet me on the field of honor, at dawn”. 196. I am not allowed to give tattoos.

What Oli said. Need to know more about your monk typery to throw names at.

Who wants a kickin?

Ah. This thread is open again. And we've already seen the path to being taken seriously as a lala bBeSi-ODfJk

Got mine all planned out: lGNjugb1dKQ

It's from aDaOgu2CQtI Which was animated by Bruce Timm, who was responsible for Batman the Animated Series and the char designs that lead to Batman Beyond, yes.

Step backwards from what you want. Why does the char have an illness? Family? Inherited? Curse? Poison? War Wound? Where did that cause come from. How does that make them feel? Chronic illnesses are ugly things that take a lot of effort to control and deal with. Why does the char's joy de vivre lead them to fighting and carousing in bars? Background? Upbringing? Friends indoctrinated them to it? Why is he happy there instead of -angry and looking for a fight- with a chip on their shoulder? How'd they get into Mercing? Apprenticed to a company? Sold into debt slavery to fight off the debt and just kept at it? Guild Recruit? Do they like fighting? Is it just a job? Are they annoyed that it's all they know how to do? Are they trying to get a secondary profession to transition out of professional soldiering?

Throw Hammer in for Spook Costume. I think I have the mats to make this work.

Oh. He's coming back.

They could (And let's not touch white mage, destroyer of threads) do it to try to short cut it, but I think we've established Soul Crystals can't make someone with no potential/leaning/ability already there into a paragon of the job type in under a day. It's just a catalyst for improvement/guidance. If you don't follow it's learning stuff, you don't improve. It's a shortcut, but still a shortcut with requirements for getting there.

Yeah, I covered that under "No one is left to teach how to be a Sch or SMN". Of course you'd still be using a carby, there's no one except the crystal's centuryies of knowledge left to show you how to do any of this. Can't produce an entire magical discipline out of thin air, especially one that literally went extinct. In their TIME though, in Nym and Allag, where these disciplines originated? I doubt you needed it, teachers existed, though I bet they were still -extremely helpful-.

And Black Magic which uses your own body's aether reserves will kill you. And Scholars need one to even comprehend Nymeian magic. And Summoners need one to comprehend Allagan magic. And Bards need one to figure out how to sing aether into battle. You get the singing part down, and the arrow part down, but what you don't know how to do is magically make all the panties drop with a single note. That is what the soul crystal teaches you. It doesn't seem like something someone else could just teach you- you gotta prove you're worthy and then the crystal helps you feel the groove. It basically teaches you how to DRR on extreme mode. Out of those only BLM requires a soulstone since it's said, explicitly, not using a BLM soulstone while using BLM sets -you on fire and kills you-. (I have no idea about BRD) Scholar/Summoners need them because there's no one left alive to teach those particular schools of magic use. Scholars were rare, even in Nymian ages, and Allag summoners...well. We all know what happened to Allag civilization if you've run the Crystal Tower. So you CAN say you need them For SMN/SCH magic since they're the only source of getting the knowledge but, originally, these schools probably didn't need (But probably used) crystals. They don't unlock anything. The Scholar quest has you "find" a fairy, and the SMN job quests are you fucking around with primals to get access to the power. Nothing soulstone unlocked there, other than the methodology to do the things.

I beg to differ: http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Pride_and_Duty_(Will_Take_You_from_the_Mountain) "Duly impressed by your strength, Curious Gorge presents you with the Soul of the Warrior. When your inner beast awakens, he explains, the runes will resonate, granting you such strength as you never thought possible." This explicitly states that the Warrior soul crystal augments your abilities. Of course, you must be a skilled fighter to even access your inner beast to trigger the runes in the first place, but yeah. "When your inner beast awakens, he explains, the runes will resonate" Another way of reading this, and the correct one I think, is that your inner beast, the defining characteristic of a Warrior, can wake up regardless of soul stone possession. The stone just shows you -real quick- how to make it into an axe murdering machine. The soul crystal becomes useful when you already match the job description it's tied to, but at no point in the process does it ever state it's required for access to anything. If anything it's a good divining rod for people who have the Beast up and running already. "Oh. This guy wants to be a berserking fury fueled horrorshow and has the potential already. Let's show him how to do that REAL GOOD REAL FAST" And, as demonstrated in the Warrior quests, the knowledge you get from it might not be power you can -handle yet-. Out of all of the jobs, Warriors not needing, and not USING soulstones regularly makes a lot of sense. The fact that the stone itself says it's only useful after you've already woken up the beast, combined with Limsa's Warrior Training Program, combined with the fact there's just the one Warrior stone (Bear and Gorge were using the same one as you, all three of you were studying the one stone's effects on a burgeoning warrior....gorge and Bear just got the shaft end of that) means the Soul Crystal is USEFUL AS HELL for speeding the training as a catalyst (Or fucking you over by giving you insight into the beast that you can't control) but not required to start the process.

WAR also doesn't require a soul crystal. Especially since by the end of the level 60 Job quest Limsa is looking to crank out it's own platoon of the things and the only known soul crystal for the job has been in your hands the entire time. Both Gorge and his Brother don't use one and still Warrior (Badly) until you "fix" the training process for them. Soul crystals are, in most cases, a learning catalyst that keeps adding to itself for every bearer it has. You resonate with it, maybe you see into one facet and one bearer's life more since that's more your 'style' of whatever that crystal is trying to teach.

Report, Brass Blades Night Watch, Steps of Nald patrol station, 17th Day of the 5th Umbral Quiet night. We're expecting an increase in disturbances of the peace the closer we come to the All Hallows eve celebrations. Only circumstance of note tonight was a giant roe that stumbled through the door and into the drunk tank of his own accord. The roe didn't have any shoes on, and had red painted toenails. Patrol station agrees this one probably blew their entire coinpurse in the red district, most likely at one of the high-end Cat-Houses given the work on the toes, and left too drunk to remember how to get home. There may have been a fight involved since the large roe's arm was in a sling. Cathouse doctors are good, if the bandages are any indicator. We're not sure how he forgot how to get home but remember how to get back HERE but the C/O seems to think this probably isn't the first time he's holed himself up in the drunk tank of his own accord. The Roe said to give his things to Commander Leila Dahn for safe keeping, they'd "Know where to shove it". (C/O note: Name sounded familiar. Blade records indicate Commander Dahn retired 15 years ago, with full pension) We searched him after he scratched a line into the drunk tank wall with a knife. There were a lot of other lines, with the letters "FSHS" and "TMB". TMB's scratch count was hard to read due to corrision and years of drunks rubbing against it. Whoever it belonged to hasn't been in the tank to update it in some time. FSHS was where the Roe had put his own scratch. Several of those were fresh. We decided if the scratch-count was accurate it'd explain how he knew how to get back here. There were a lot of scratches. The roe didn't object to a search after he'd pulled the knife. Official listing of goods is listed below BELONGINGS FOR PRISONER #46091-D Knife x16 (Where was he KEEPING all of these?) Gloves, metal plated. Long Chain, metal weighted ornament attached. Belt, with pouches Pouches contain: x2 flasks, x6 hand rolled cigars, small Immortal Flames branded (empty) powder horn,oil flask, rolled paper, waxed charcoal pencil. After subject produced another knife out of their sling, further search of the bandages and sling revealed: Knife x3 Bottle x1, Sharlyan "Frog Brand" Absinthe. (Confiscated) (C/O Note: This bottle is illegal as hell since it's a hallucinogenic in addition to being a powerfully strong liquor. However: Few people actually drink it because it comes bottled with a 'magic' frog inside the bottle, so smuggling of it is almost non-existent. The brand is also rare after the Cataclysm since no one alive who knows how to brew it is exporting. Talk with one of the local brewmasters at a later point in the night indicated it's because you can't get the frogs anymore. Per our orders the only punishment was confiscation, and for the bottle to be to be put up for auction later with the weekly 'Lost Goods' lots.) Prisoner shut the cage door shut behind himself. Subject said he sleeps better behind a locked door. Subject released in the morning, sans confiscated goods. Last words noted as "I'm going to kill fucking Tealeaf." (C/O Note: Check local brothels, make sure no mistress named 'Tealeaf' goes missing in coming weeks.)

Fantastic Fortemps. Really No one's grabbed that one yet? ... I'll see myself out. :cactuar:

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