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I... think... people having "aspected aether" about their person is... fanon, not canon? I can't think of an example of it from within the game, and a quick lorefinder search for "his aether" and "her aether" showed up nothing about aspected aether of a person at all. Correct me if I'm wrong - by my understanding, transmuting personal aether into fire, ice, etc. for the creation of harmful missiles is done outside the body, after the aether has been siphoned into a spell focus (e.g. a sceptre). Like - you have one mana pool you can use to cast any sort of spell you've learned. You don't have six different mana pools (one for each elemental aspect) (or would it be twelve, to account for astral and umbral manifestations?), plus one of healing aether and one of, like, the unaspected damaging aether arcanists use, and and... It's just one pool of personal aether. It's channeled to cast spells. In the cases of offensive utilisation of conjury and thaumaturgy, it's usually transmuted into aspected magic before being thrown. In the case of arcanima, it's just funnelled into a very precise geometry (presumably so it retains the form of "harmful missile" while reaching its target, because non-crystalline aether naturally seems to be quite floaty and vague). HOWEVER All that means is that, if you're keeping the thing about different personal aspects, then you're looking at fanon stuff to figure out whether your character would be able to utilise arcanima or not. I have seen it around in roleplay quite a bit. So ask around people you see using similar concepts for their characters, or the people you're going to be roleplaying with, to see what they think - since that's the most important factor in determining your character's reasonable level of aptitude!

Finally finished 3.0 MSQ today and the WoL makes some gr9 faces in ARF.

Attributed by whom? Most of the realm's small folk would probably just assume "ah, the poor lass, she's probably seen something terrible" and leave it at that. If it was an aetherial scholar or medic, they might see the aetherial disturbance first, then ask "have you experienced any loss of memory lately?" as a result. But people with only one "2" can't put "2 and 2" together, and the huge majority of people in Eorzea aren't well-versed in Aether or its effects. Without knowing what blackouts you're referring to in the MSQ, I can't help you understand what's causing them. But the spell that erased everyone's memories of the Warriors of Light is... less, if I understood correctly, to do with affecting everyone and more to do with affecting the Warriors of Light. They were removed from the world for a time - they, as people in their entirety, did not exist - and so everyone forgot them because of that, not because of a mass-memory-loss-spell specifically.

Still holding out for "any new personal houses which are purchased are now per-account, also each alt which can access them does so as if they were also the owner of the house, and also can make a personal room in the house". I mean, I'm not hopeful. Devs are like, but roleplayers might want a house that suits their alt!, and I'm like... this roleplayer would just like one house, please, I'd be happy with that, and Balmung folk with multiple houses "because it suits my characters" are actively preventing me (and countless others) from doing so. But what I'm holding out for would solve the "alts are ruining the housing market!" (well, a gil-rich asshole can already own 16 houses per account per server... I'm not sure how making that 18 or 20 will make the problem massively worse) and also the "um, so I bought a personal house and it's literally the most restricted thing ever compared to FC housing, I am sincerely regretting not making a 1-person FC and purchasing it under that" problem too.

Reiterating our intention to have a second meeting this Saturday 10th September, 9pm UTC \ 10pm BST \ 5pm EST \ 2pm PST Same location as last time: inside the Rogues’ Guild. Characters who weren’t at the last meeting are welcome to attend, but again, must be in-character members of the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss. If attendance is solid again, I'll see about making things like a Discord server to stay in touch outside the game and regular weekly meetings, possibly 2x week at different times for different folks on other schedules. I need to post a proper event listing, but I'm too tired to do it today. x_x

For big events held at private houses, I find asking if there's side-rooms available for overflow is usually a good bet - as is attending with a friend, so there's no mistake that you're sat in silence because you're AFK (as opposed to being shy/overwhelmed). Smaller tavern nights, watching for plots to get involved in, creating scenarios over IC linkshells that 1-2 characters can respond to... aaand talking OOCly over tumblr or twitter about "what would be cool for our characters to do", and then doing it... are how I've made most of my RP contacts. ExAtomos' linkshell is a good btw. In general though, I think my core piece of advice is this: be eager to initiate. Both in IC and OOC. Most people don't have the time or energy to repeatedly reach out to strangers and try to draw them out of themselves. If you're present and active and giving "hooks" for people to join in with in the form of "idle-emotes" (like... your character is just standing there in-game, but they're not doing the same thing IC, right? They're looking around nervously, or smoking a cigar, or fiddling with a linkpearl, or something; emote that out loud.), then it's more others will be meeting you half-way. It's easier on them - and therefore more likely to result in something for you. The same goes for OOC conversations in linkshells - bring up topics, suggest activities, offer help, ask if you can add people to your friends list for future contact, and just generally be chatty. I get that this isn't always easy, and TBH I need to take a break for a day or two soon because I'm getting frazzled; need to nip that in the bud before it turns into burnout. But that's how I made the RP connections I have now, anyway!

RE death:

Currently, we plan to hold physical in-character meetings, at the Sisters building in the Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks, once a week at the following time: Saturdays 9pm UTC (10pm UK) (5pm Eastern USA) (2pm Western USA) *(Relative timezone conversion correct as of 04/09/2016. Subject to change in Daylight Savings. If in doubt, use 9pm UTC as the static time to which you should compare your timezone.) We had one such meeting this week (3rd September), and plan for another next week (10th September). If attendance stays solid, we'll continue to hold them! Please note you're more than welcome to hold your own meetings at a different time of day or week! These are just the ones I'm organising. At the meeting this week we discussed this plot by the Maelstrom Command linkshell, as per this event listing. Several characters decided to investigate parts of what was presented, and agreed to use the linkshell to communicate developments, with a reconvening next week.

[align=center]These agile fighters pride themselves on their skills with knives and daggers to make quick work of enemies. Lurking in the shadows, adhering to no laws but their own, they punish the wicked, pilfering their ill-gotten gains and delivering them to the downtrodden masses. Thought by many to be mere common criminals, some would say they play an unseen hand in maintaining order in the buccaneer's haven of Limsa Lominsa. -- Official Game Lore[/align] This linkshell is an in-character linkshell for characters who are members of the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss; also known as the Rogues' Guild. It is accompanied by an out of character Discord server which is open more generally to people whose characters work with or might otherwise run plots that involve the Rogues' Guild. For linkshell invites, please contact: ★Rynathan Elurhandir ☆N'tyaka Zhwan ☆Aghurlal Qar-akimusun For Discord invites: • Click here. • Set your username to something recognisable - most people have theirs set in the following format: In-game Name | Character's Alias • Ping @leaders with whether you would like to be listed as a Rogues' Guild member or as an associate or affiliate.

Personally, I got the impression that becoming a Wildling was essentially (if not actually) being tempered by the Elementals - and tempering is irreversible. But I don't know if that's actually the case? Hopefully someone more familiar with 1.0 than I am can help you out!

45 minutes. See you there!

Tonight!! Remember to check the “when” link so you can see what time this starts in your timezone! For reference, time of this post is 16:25 UTC, and the event begins at 21:00 UTC.

Yeah, I'd still rather pay for additional slots on the same account. I've multiboxed before in WoW. It sucks. It requires SO much faffing about compared to having characters on the same account; you end up regretting not having this character or that on the same account as each other so you don't have to spend so much time and effort logging over, re-earning account-wide rewards, and so on. I haven't paid for my second account in years, despite it having several (what used to be) level-capped characters on my preferred servers, and also being a game where having alts is actually supported in gameplay terms. I'd gladly give SE extra money to be able to avoid all that faff. ._. Like... I'd basically be paying to avoid the inconvenience. I'm fine with that. And if you wouldn't be, well, you can just make another account!

I use my alts for RP! I have three... no, four additional OC's in the wings (an Ishgardian with PTSD, a reformed lalafellin bandit, a hellsguard black mage, and a sea wolf scholar) who I could definitely stand to bring to Balmung, plus two non-RP characters that my friends want me to bring (canon clones...) that I wouldn't have space for until I'd stuffed as many OCs as humanly possible onto my roster. I love and develop all of my existing characters, even though I admittedly go through month-long phases of only focussing on one at a time, and I'd be pretty chuffed with the opportunity to expand my repertoire without having to use a fant/namechange every single time I want to roleplay something different. I'm happy with the variety I have now... but I'd be more happy with a bigger one. x_x

Yeah I have come out of at least one Sastasha NM having said {The Hall of the Novice} {Please use it.} at least three times throughout the place >_> With Novice Hall gear freely available from level 15 onwards (fun tip you can pass onto your local sprout: you can select Novice Hall from the Duty menu and queue for it from there, so you don't need to be near an inn) and the Recommend Gear button shiny in your character panel, the only real excuse not to use them is not knowing they're there... I just wish people wouldn't try to act like they're big-shot tanks when they're... not. x_x

This weekend, everyone! Don't forget you can catch me before (or after) the event if you can't make the event itself. I can provide IC linkshell invites as well as RP between your character and mine!

Problem with that is I live off savings - I prefer larger one-off costs to having to maintain multiple subscriptions, because they're more manageable from a financial planning point of view. Plus you'd have to repurchase anything off the mogstation that's "one per service account", and build up your veteran rewards again... But that's just me.

As far as I (a non-raider) can tell, a lot of people on Balmung raid in a static, not an FC. This has an advantage because it usually means a recruit only needs 1 open LS spot, and you can be in up to 8 LS's. You can only be in one FC, and if most people on a server would rather be in an RP FC or a social FC (like I think most people on Balmung would), then it limits raiding FCs' recruitment options severely. Keep an eye on the party finder. Or here. You see stuff like this all the time: Sometimes they'll say if they have a Mumble, Ventrilo, Teamspeak, or Discord, and also their expectations for use ("must listen but may not speak", "must have working mic", etc). Personally, I became a lot happier about my choice of FC once I stopped seeing it as something that had to be the centre of all my gameplay, and started seeing it as somewhere to be happy with people I basically like even if I don't play the game alongside them all that often, and to get access to company actions/housing/etc. I can be in up to 8 linkshells. I get the rest of everything from those (and my carefully organised friends list).

I feel like I should clarify - linkshell-wise, we're referring to Capital-R Rogues, as in, these guys, who are a Limsa Lominsa sort-of-law-enforcement-if-you-use-a-really-loose-definition-of-both-law-and-enforcement organisation. If that still suits you though, feel free to whisper me in-game! I should be on all night tonight - ign Aghurlal Qar'akimusun.

I wouldn't mind cash shop character slots that increase in cost as you go beyond 8, maybe up to a maximum of 16 or something. I mean. I wouldn't mind. But I'm pretty sure my wallet would. (context: a level 59, a level 41 and six level 30's, plus at least two lv17 alts "overseas" that I never play because they aren't on Balmung.) I do wish they'd implement a per-player housing thing, though. They said they won't, "because roleplayers might want a house that suits each alt", but honestly I think most roleplayers - being as most roleplayers are on Balmung - are struggling to get one house and I don't think it's fair that someone with fast internet, a good PC, a flexible work schedule, and good luck can theoretically own up to sixteen houses (one per alt and alt's solo FC) and most people, especially those without all four of those things, can't get one. Make alts on the same world automatic tenants in the house, and allow personal rooms for tenants in personal housing, and IMVHO you're good.

Only thing I can think of is party finder or /shout ads. Which is like... presumably... a pretty small proportion of the instances we're discussing here. People get cocky with PF occasionally, but I haven't seen any /sh ads since the clarification went out and I assume folks are gonna be sliding away from PF into yet more third-party communications.

Coffee that's been left out for too long and then shoved in an Ifrit-brand microwave to reheat. What?

It should be noted that borne of this thread Zephyo started an in-character Rogues' linkshell; me, them, and Charity can all invite to it, so let us know if you're interested I'll be trying to persuade Zephyo into posting a LS hall entry, but 'til then you can just hit us up. I know I've been posting this everywhere I'm just excited okay

I should probably say something here too: One of his fellow Sisters has kindly given Aghurlal the ability to invite folks to an in-character Sisters-only linkshell. If you want in, hit me up! It's not specifically for this plot; you can bring up your own plots, or just banter about how gullible your latest mark is. Especially useful for folks who end up not being able to make Saturday but who still want to do Sisters-shaped networking. I'm intending to pass out invites to those ICly interested then, too. :3