Asmodean

Another few suns and nothing really new to report. I guess I should be happy nothing has happened while on patrol, and not having to deal with any useless knights but it starting to feel like I am only be sent out so the nobles can hold back more knights in case of an attack. I can not blame them but doing busy body works wares on a man. In other news, my hand has finally fully healed up so once my time here in the north is done I may be able to begin training with the lance once more. Still no idea what happened but wasting time thinking about will change nothing. The dream is what rally matters, but his its words still puzzle me. Mayhaps I should have been more honest with her. Hindsight... seems what they say is true about it. [align=center]Tiny hooves ink marks marred the page[/align] ... And again she gets free. I swear there should be no way for her to every get free but even now she makes sure I know it's pointless to try keeping her trapped. At least I saved most of the ink this time. I think it time to name her but I've never been very good with names. But thinking back on her... maybe Halone would be fitting. I can't be Oschon's walking incarnate without the Fury by my side now can I?

For Asmodean, three things come to mind. First would be the fact he is in fact a merchant even if he doesn't live that life anymore. He still has a few connections, he can still call on if needed, making him a boon to any whom may need the help. Next would he has a ear for music when it come to the piano. When he was young he was trained to play and while he hasn't practiced in a long time, he be able to play back a tone by ear given a few bells to relearn the notes. Lastly would be how much anger and self loathing fills the huyr. He's seems to be a humble and straight forward man with little amiss. However, he keeps up a simple mask to keep others from questioning it. This, however, has been fading since I started to rp him so no one isreally seeing how bad it was when I first thought him up.

As a tank main, I know the feeling. It gets tiring seeing people trying to tell me how to do my job, when they barely know how their job works. When the group is nice or laid back I give out hints until I feel like I'm not being listened too or asked/told not to. I've gotten to the point, that I don't even look at chat anymore in the lvl60 dungeons. I just do what I have to and talk to friends over skype and vent about how bad that summoner is, or pissily wonder why I've been at less then half hp when I only have two things on me. When I do get a good group the skype chat more or less fall into lore or what we think might be coming up in patch yet come. I'd say just fine something to get your mind off the problem and just sit back and relax. Some people will be looking for something to complain about. Ignore them and do the job you need to. Odds are you will never encounter them again after this run.

Asmodean carrys a number of items his mother once owned, a locket, a sliver sword and a old leather bound tome. Locket: A simple sliver locket kept on a steel chain around his neck, hidden by his heavy armor. He has never shown the item off as he has never felt close to anyone enough before to really feel comfortable to. Sword: A seemingly simple sliver blade of a standard arming sword length. Asmodean carries the weapon on his belt and rarely uses the weapon having relied on his ax for combat. Well kept and clearly cleaned and polished on a near daily basics. Tome: His mother's old journal written in a odd runic text save for the final ten or so pages. Is far older then what it seems, Asmodean has been seem from time to time in the local bar trying to translate what he can.

Mind reader : "You are a real bastard. I mean, come on... you can't hate people that much.... can you?" Me: "Work a weekend bar crowd night with three useless, slow wait staff, that make the manager have to bust their ass to keep the place running, while you are doing things they should be doing, while also having to deal with the worst humanity has to offer while they are drunk and dealing with food.... You would come to understand. Mind reader: "... How do you turn that of?" Me: "People online are easier to deal with. Also I don't happen to deal with their food orders. That helps a lot." In real life, I'm a walking ball of anger. Once home and playing a game, I can just unwind, relaxed and enjoy myself.

For Asmodean: Physically: - Oversexualized attires. It more a annoyance for him as often he been asked why he refuses to wear anything other then the full armor he dose. - Over used make-up. Often used by other to hide flaw, Asmo never thought about hiding his own scars. What you see should be the real person not a mask. Mentally: - Controlling people. No has any right to control another for any reason. Slavers are the worse and will Asmodean openly attack them if he knows they deal in the slave trade. - Manipulative people. People should be forward and true to their intention. Those who aren't become problems not just to those they try to manipulate but to themselves as well. - Those who pry for information despite Asmo already saying he dose not want to speak about. He has a lot of problems in his own life and rather not burden others with his own problems. He as opened a bit more then others but he has his reason. -Needless lying. Asmo has grown up in Ul'dah and has to come to most will try to trick him and lying to get what they want. However, he has come to hate himself for having to lie from time to time to keep somethings about himself secret. AS you can see it more the person then their looks that Asmo has come to hate.

Asmodean would be a "Base Deciple of War" but claimed the title of Warrior due both his skill with the ax all well as the fact he dose carry a number of weapons he will use if better suited to the problem at hand. Just about any Hellguards would seem him at least as someone who might be worth of the title, but at the moment see a midlander carrying a big ax.

They did say for about a month or two that you would need to beat all of 2.0 to 2.55 to enter Ishgard at all. They even said the job wore gotten in Ishgard so it was implied you need to get to the 3.0 story to play the new jobs.

I'm curious as to why you would qualify Ilberd as morally grey. Morally grey typically involves some form of redeeming factor (large or small) and I'm not really sure what his is. He's just a spiteful, angry man lashing out at the people he projects all of his problems onto, with no apparent greater purpose than to hurt people he doesn't like. He falls on the far more darker side of the gray scale in my mind. He wants his homeland free. Who wouldn't? But the world has broken him. He lashs out seeing anything not aiding in freeing his home is in the way and has to be removed. He means well but has become a villain because he see no other way. Like Dr. Doom from marvel. He seems every but the reasons that have made him become who he is makes him a far deeper character then a standard villain.

It has been a quite few suns since my last writing, and thankfully I have not had to deal with the lording whelps again. Seems the beasts of the western highlands have become a far less blood thirsty, leading to less conflicts out in the snows. While the paths can still be dangerous, a small group of trainees should be able to hold their own. My main problem as of late however, has been this little unicorn. Somehow she always get free of her pen. I swear there should be no way for her to escape, but somehow... she just finds a way. I have already needed to replace a bottle of ink after the last log... and now I see keeping more then a sun worth of fruit is a poor idea. How can such a tiny thing eat five mirror apples, three pineapples and a pair of sun lemons? No matter, I just have to hang the bag holding on to spare food from the ceiling, Seeing as this one has taken to enjoying to escaping her pen as she dose would make this the simplest solution. Looking at her now... it seem we are much alike. She seems to enjoy looking about the room, looking for something she hasn't see already. A small tiny wander found by a much larger one... seem Afline was right. Maybe it was really meant to be. I guess I should come up with a name for her... Another time perhaps. It is quite late now and I have been asked to head out earlier then I have normal asked. Seems something is going on that the High Lords aren't willing to share with outsiders like myself.

The Thordan fight was amazing. I didn't think they could pull off such a true to the summon from ff7 version but god damn, I am glad they proved me wrong. It felt like I was eight again seeing the summon for the first time. I look forward what other crazy ideas they try using from now on. Also I want to bring up a thought about the primals... We know for a fact how to make one.... I'm I the only one thinking we may fight a primal version of the WoL somewhere down the line?

Location: Ishgard/ Coerthas Western Highlands Who may mention this: Ishgardians Knights, commoners of the Brume Rumor: "I've hear an outsider has taken residents at Cloud Nine. Seems he's gone most of the day, aiding patrols out in the western highland while also helping to cull the beasts out there. Still haven't seem him myself but I hear he often spends his nights down in the lower half of The Forgotten Knight or just outside of it doors, siting on the ledge." ------------- Location: Ul'dah Who may mention this: Merchants Rumor: "The Blades have starting asking questions about a dead man. Their looking for something and I worry the questions will only cause the the markets problems. We are sure he died.... right?"

Regret often sever as something to remind us all to life to the fullest, so we can have a few regrets as possible. What regrets do your characters have, both from their per-game history and in game history? Asmodean main regret that severs a dive to better himself is the death of his father. The last time he had seem the man was a week before the Calamity. Asmodean had more or less faked his reason for leaving Ul'dah to Mor Dhona, so he could try giving any aid he could to the Eorzean Alliance. He would end up wounded so badly he was put into a death like coma for four years. During said coma his father was executed for what he see as a damn bloody lie. While he knows even if he had been there of his father, odds are he would have been hung along side him. But it still sits in the back of his mind as something he in part blames himself for. Now he keeps the memory as something he to push himself to be stronger and there for those that need him, so he never has to add to his regrets.

The knights have told me recoding my thoughts on my work and travels in Ishgard may calm my mind. I have never tried before, having always thinking the practices pointless... but given the few I know here, and even fewer I'm willing to speak openly with... It seem I have no real choice. The events of today have... made me question my choice of coming to this land. My latest patrol earlier in the day was most trying. I was sent out with a completely fresh set of knights, seems the nobles seem to think I'm some kind of trainer or something. Seems think my skills may somehow make me able to train lancers.... bloody fools. I was to take the soldiers and move out from Falcon's Nest out towards Camp Rivermeet then to make sure the old Gorggane Mills and then to the Ninth Vare. If it had not been for the heavy winds, things would have been quick and over easily. However, thing are never easy. We hadn't even come to see the Black Iron Bridge before being attacked by wolves from the area. Vicious beast, hungry and desperate from a lack of pray. I think it was a pack of about nine. More then two to one when compared to us. The young knights wore meant to follow my orders, but just the sight of the wolves made them panic. These wore not soldiers but some noble's young sons, possible sent out here as a punishment for something. I was lucky in the least the healer was another outsider, much like me. She quickly grabbed the pair of panic whelps and pulled them towards a wall of earth to at least force the wolves attack from one side and not from all sides. I have to thank the twelve I happened to have such a quick thinker with me to make the problem much easier. I have to also be thankful for the heavy armor I was offered before heading out. I think it's was called Halonic Inquisitor. Far more sturdy then what it seems.... I only wished it was better fitted. Breathing is hard... but I would have to take that over wolves ripping through the armor so it would be some discomfited I must endure. The metal and cloth stopped the angry fangs from digging into my flesh. Hell... having looked it over after having taking it off, I still can't see where the wolves had tried to harm me. Having forced the beasts to attack from head on made things far easier on me. Keeping two crying grown men safe while not be knocked to the ground by the pack would have been near useless out in the open. I fell half of the pack before the rest ran, I'm still not sure if I had killed the leader or simply made the beasts scared off my having cut their numbers in half. Lucky for me after the wolves wore chased off the travels to Rivermeet and the mill wore uneventful. Even to walk to the vare was easy, aside from the two soldiers trying to swear they wore not cowards. I swear from now I if I have to travel with noisy fools I just tie them to a Chocobo and find some way to keep them silent. The Ninth was clear aside from a spare wolf or ice elemental. I had thought we would have started back towards Falcon's Nest but a scream caught the boys ears, and they pair deiced to try to play heroes. I swear I must have anger a member of the twelve to have to travel with these idiots. We spent bells checking and rechecking the ghost town of Hemlock as the pair wore sure they heard a woman cry out of help. IF they hadn't been placed in my care I would have left the pair there and went to rest, but I didn't want a noble breathing down my neck because his sons wore missing for a few bells. Luck would have it I would find something, but it wasn't a woman. I had over looked the tiny thing in the pointless search, but I guess I have the fools to thank for forcing me to stay. A tiny horned colt... nearly frozen stiff. I had quickly removed my cloak and wrapped the animal and tried to warm it as I looked for the healer. Afline was her name, and she was shocked by what I found. She used her magic to slowly bring the tiny colt back from the brink of dead. She told me what it was really was and said something how it mush have been the will of Halone I would fine this Unicolt, as she called it. I tried to give it over to her but she refused saying it was meant to be. So now I have a tiny unicorn... at least he/she seems to enjoy fruit. I still want to know how in the seven hell I became a ...... The rest of the page was covered in ink and a few signs of tiny hooves having stepped through the ink.

THis so damn hard. It's a planed event not and NOT the spot open world rp. To be part of events you kind of have to play by the rules. Guy was going out of his way to interrupt an event as I see it. Safest way to deal with it would just ot hope everyone blacklists him and gets back to the event acting like he is not there.

Character Fear? Asmodean only real fear is failing to protect around him. He's the kind of person to dive in to the heat of battle and last to leave type, regardless of the risk to his own life. How do they cope? Asmodean has come to avoid letting other get to close to him. He already blames his self of something he had no chance to change, so he avoid let history repeat itself by keeping himself a loner. How do people respond to their fear? While Asmodean loner mind set has made his fear something he never spoke about, I think most not only would understand but would try to help midlander though his own lose. Do you think one day they could be cured of there fear? He's already starting to shift away from his loner mind set due a few people met in character but I think the fear will always set there in the back of his mind, effecting every choice he make from here to the grave.

I happen to love how welling people are to hop ion to a rp scene if they happen to see me standing about a city somewhere. Most of the time, if I'm standing around with the afk sign, I'm still in in keyboard reach. It's just nice to see some willing to notice Asmo standing around if they had seen him before. I also love how nice most seem to be, having only two months on Balmung I thought by now I might have found the local set of asshats but nope. Not a sighting of one set of people like that yet.

Our kind don't tan... we cook. Seeing as I'm posting here guess I should put in a shitty webcam photo too. having a week off makes one lazy.... but I never really cared what I look like anyways so that no excuse.

The only two I have would be: -Having rp out in the open world but then ignoring everyone buy your little group. If you don't want someone possible joining in then please avoid using /say. Most people from what I have seen are nice enough to ask before jumping in. - Others trying to shape my character growth and changes over time, to something they want to rp with more. Asmo is a more stoic and quite person for reasons, don't try to force him out of that and expect suddenly think he's fixed. It would just make him avoid your character for the time being until he has come into his own as a more open person. After all the changes have started for him, but no one would notice, so just let his change run there course.

For Asmo it more or less, hey look.... new things. He wouldn't really be the type to hate them or anything until he started to get an understanding of what they are but he would as seen them as another threat on the roads he would have to deal with. After all it's not like only the good and law biding ones would come to Eorzea. At worst... he found a good source of free grindstones for his ax

I would just roll with the rp and see where things take me. However if someone was using it every other day I would be annoyed and I would let them know. If they keep , I would give me a reason for Asmo to start punching them at random cause: hey I have no idae who you are... touch me and I will hit you again... wait... , whatever you doing stop. I may use one myself for RP reasons but no to change race but remove Asmo's scars. But with the way I take my time rp wise that would be a far time off it is dose happen.

Well I be sure to keep my eyes open next time I am on. Asmodean should get long with Misuzu from what I read. He respects Jancis so more interaction will be nice and seeing as it might not be a large group meeting, he might talk this time. When it come to Septhaja... I'm pretty sure Asmodean counts as part of EVERYTHING, so that would be interesting. Might have to see where that meeting might go. But again thank you all.

It is possible but I doubt it as in both ff3 the Warrirors of Darkness are not evil, just the other side of Light. Hell ff4 even had Crystal of Darkness in the underground world. I don't think Light and darkness are going to become the more western view of good and evil most think of it as. Balance has been important in a few Final Fantasies but it rarely the focus. I know 3 cared about the balance betwen Light and Darkenss and 6 has the balance between the Warring Triad to stop the world from tearing its self apart. Edit :Ninja'd by Genenji

Lol sorry ^^; my phone formatted weirdly. Twas not my intention. (Hopefully it won't do it again). I guess my confusion lies in the picking and choosing of OOC mechanics. To me, if someone looks at my character and says 'lvl 50 monk.', then they should also be saying 'lvl 9 conjurer. Lvl 43 bard. Lvl 34 dragoon.' Which forces upon me a degree of power and Mary Sueism I frankly don't want. But. .. lvl matters, right? Additionally, I should RP that I have 2 retainers, behemoth and magitek mounts, 2 dozen minions- should I RP all the times I died while leveling? Oh god.. are we all just zombies and Eorzea is actually an apocalyptic world? On the bright side, I have yet to find any Cazadores (thank the twelve) All jokes aside, things like this are always going to be a problem due to how large the rp community. As I said before myself, I try to only limit myself by level and check others levels to see how how much work they have put into their characters. It alwasy going to come down to whatever mind set of the people involved after all.

I didn't notice a really different unlocking BEX. Kind of rushed it in the just have the damn thing unlocked so if you might fill me in I would very thankful. >.> Became a bit of habit I need to break myself of. Also wasn't Eikon just what the Allagan and Garlean call Primals? From what I noticed them seem to just be what different groups call the same thing. A "to-may-to, to-mah-to" situation. >.> really need to still do that then. Still from what I heave heard is Zantetsuken is the problem and not the Man we fight. It just seems he may not be a primal like all the others unless the blade is one.