Torvhan

K'mana walked in silence as she followed K'ailia. In a few years K'ailia would be taking her own trial of adulthood, and K'mana silently prayed the girl had an easier time of the whole evolution then she had herself. In short order, the small group was standing outside of K'luha's tent and K'mana took a deep breath before following K'ailia in. "K'luha, I'm home" K'mana spoke into the silence her voice wavering ever so slightly, as she braced for the coming storm.

K'mana smiled as the girls ran up in excitement, she smiled "I'm back, I'll tell you all about it later" and she winked. She looked at the oldest girl K'nali, "Could you gather the elder's for me I'll need to report to them shortly...I need to make a detour before meeting with them." She knelt slowly and helped K'ailia up, a flash of sadness showing on her face. "Could you take me to your mother? I should let her know I'm back."

K'mana couldn't even raise her arm, the pain was excruciating and she closed her eyes for what she knew would be the last time... A faint whistling sound echoed through the night and she felt the warm sticky spray of blood on her face. She heard an inhuman gurgle and realized that the sound had not come from her. She looked up and saw one of the Amalj'aa spears pierced cleanly straight through the center of the beastman's chest. The Amalj'aa fell foward and she rolled out of his path wincing in pain as she rolled onto her broken arm. As she sat up she realized that no one was standing behind where the Amalj'aa had stood. Standing over the corpse of the first Amalj'aa hunter about 40 yalms away stood the Miqo'te woman, *grinning* and rolling her shoulder in a stretch. K'mana slowly lifted herself from the ground and searched the dead Amalj'aa, taking a iron ring of keys. She slowly made her way down the dune and over to the camp and the waiting women. The mood was subdued and no one talked as K'mana freed the two women from their leg irons. The miqo'te woman spoke up "That was a foolish but brave risk you took young one, but I am grateful you are here." She looked over K'mana and dressed and splint K'mana's broken arm as she spoke. "What tribe do you hail from?" K'mana winced as her arm was set and answered "K'mana Haaz of the Hipparion Tribe, and your names?" The Hyur woman spoke quickly uttering a single word "Brianna." The miqo'te woman smiled softly "Well K'mana, I am know as K'rei Heleh also of the Hipparion Tribe, though sadly I am the last of my family." She looked over K'mana once more, "You look barely old enough to have completed your trial what are you doing so far out here by yourself?" K'mana had the grace to look embarrassed as she answered quietly "I umm....abandoned my trial to find you, or at least I think I was meant to find you" K'rei looked at K'mana evaluating, "Did you indeed, well your little adventure may have well bought your tribe the time they need to survive." K'rei suddenly spoke seriously losing all traces of the earlier humor. "The Amalj'aa here are a small foward scouting party, while we were captive they spoke of their tribes plans to attack and secure a small tribe of miqo'te who lived deep in the Sagolii, we need to get word to your tribe as soon as possible." She looked at Brianna, "What do you plan to do it maybe be safer to travel together but we may very well be walking into a battle." Brianna shook her head and stood stretching her legs "I am bound for Ul'dah, I will not be caught unaware agian." She turn to K'mana and saluted "K'mana Haaz of the Hipparion Tribe. I owe you my life, should you ever find yourself in Ul'dah and require assistance, ask for Brianna Hawke at the quicksand, Miss Momodi will know how to contact me." With that she turned walked into the desert towards Ul'dah. K'rei looked back at K'mana "Will you be able to travel?" she asked indicating the arm. K'mana looked at the older huntress "It hurts like the seven hell's but my tribe is in danger, I would crawl back if I had to." She looked up into the night sky and got her bearings and lead the way out camp, they could travel for a few hours before they would need to rest. ((OPEN to all Hipparion Tribe members present in camp)) ((Note: takes place 12 days after K'mana left her trial)) 18th Sun, 5th Astral Moon, 2nd Year of the Seventh Umbral Era 5 suns later, a battered and worn K'mana walked into camp followed by a young adult miqo'te woman with a muscular build and short black hair.

K'mana gripped her spear and stood and the top of the dune ready, hoping the slope and loose sand, would help off set the mass advantage the beastman had over her. "By Azeyma, their much bigger than I thought" she gulped reminded of a charging auroch as the mass of muscle charged up the dune. The Amalj'aa weight and speed worked agianst him as the loose sands slowed his ascent up the dune. Much of his moment was lost as he reached striking distance making a fierce strike, his greater height and larger weapon afforded him longer reach and K'mana began to doubt her chance as her arms shook from deflecting strike. She exchanged several blows with the beast man and realized though on higher ground his advantage in reach was far to great, as he kept her out of striking distance. She continued to exchange blows as her arms and lungs ached with exertion looking for an opening. The sand shifted under the Amalj'aa and the beastman staggered slightly, K'mana deftly steped inside the reach of his spear and thrust her own spear downward into the beastman's chest. She realized her folly as she saw the beastman's fist swing in. She head the crack as her arm fractured and she flew sidewise into the sand. She looked up as the Amalj'aa approched. "Sorry K'luha" she whispered as she saw the beastman pull her spear out of its chest and raised it to strike her down.

K'mana looked out amongst the desolate sands of the Sagolii, and thought. It had been a week since she had abandoned her trial and she was beginning to worry. She was in no immediate danger, K'luha's lessons had indeed prepared for life in the desert. She had set a brisk pace but, had she set off on a fools errand? She was around 3 suns travel out of Ul'dah and had still found nothing. She thought back on her partying with K'luha, her sister was going to KILL her if she came back empty handed after worrying her like that. She continued to march up the dune she was climbing, while lost in thought, but froze when she reached the top of the dune. She cursed under her breath "Amalj'aa", as she quietly lowered her self to the sand and backed down the dune. She shut her eyes and took a deep breath, steadying herself and blocking distractions out allowing her to think, as K'piru had taught her so many years ago. There had been two Amalj'aa hunters, she wondered what they were doing so far south, but quickly discarded that line of thinking as unimportant. She focused her memory on the two women she had caught a glimpse of Hyur and Miqo'te. A direct assault would be far to dangerous, not only was she out numbered but they had possibility of using the women as hostages. There was no chance of help, and she quickly realized her only chance would be a ambush at night, hopefully the emptiness of the desert would cause them to lower their guard. K'mana began to erase the tell-tale signs of her presence and circled around behind them tracking their movement keeping far enough behind that they were never insight, should she be spotted any chance of rescuing the women would be forfeit and she seriously doubted she would escape with her life. As the day drew to a close she began to focus watching and listening for the signs that they had stopped for the night. Night fell and and the twin moons rose in the night sky. K'mana left her bow and spare gear in the sands and once more checked herself over. Any clink of metal or glint of its surface could give her away. Certain she was as prepared as she could be she said a small prayer to Menphina, guardian diety of the Keepers of the moon, sister clan to the Seekers of the Sun. She smiled at the irony but Menphina was keeper of the twin moons, and the night was under her watchful gaze. K'mana silently crept over the dunes and looked toward the camp, scanning for movement. The camp was silent the only light came from the twin moons high in the night sky. One of the Amalj'aa hunters kept watch but he was facing away from her. Between her and the watch, slept the women and the other Amalj'aa. She swiftly decided that silencing the sleeping Amalj'aa first would be the surest path to victory. She surveyed the camp as she moved silently through the sands, noting position of the sleeping Amalj'aa's spear. Heavier and wider than her own spear it lay close to the sleeping beastman. She kept a watchful eye on the other beastman as she approched the sleeping form. She silently placed her spear on the ground in the direction she planned to flee, and scooped the Amalj'aa spear from the sands. The blow was swift and clean as she jammed the weapon through the soft flesh of the beastman's throat. The cry was short and the beastman gurgled blood before falling silent. The other Amalj'aa rounded in surprise weapon at the ready, but K'mana was already racing toward her own weapon in the sand. Scooping it up in one fluid motion and racing up the dune before the beastman fully registered the attack. He roared and charged.

Looking foward to it, shot you a tell in game.

My vote is for Eorzean Medical Society (EMS), EMS seems the most I don't know medical? When I see Twelvewood Apothecary Organization (TAO) i think Tactial Actions Officer

At 100% spirit bound an item can be converted into materia, an item will bind anytime you earn xp while wearing it combat/crafting/gathering etc..

IV. Characters Torvhan Durant Threads:100 Questions K'mana Haaz Threads:A Trial and Foraging -K'mana's Trial of Adulthood

So I've been on the forums all day today and was replying to Nimarhie's thread on Apothecary FC, and suddenly thought about the Lantern. (The RPC newspaper link on the top bar with everything else if you haven't noticed it ) I then stumbled upon a bright idea, K'mana is going to write an article in a few days asking for information on missing members of the tribe. Including K'shenyar, it has been driving me nuts recently knowing he's dead and trying to figure out how K'mana would ever discover the link to the moon keeper branch, and I believe I've hit on it. Though I wouldn't expect actual people themselves to suddenly reply to the newspaper, NPC's or other people who know the characters may provide clues K'mana could follow up on. Also along with this *grins* is the idea to post bounty on especially hard to locate members who refuse to come out of hiding. This would be much in the future, due to K'mana lacking funds, and gotta give time for the first idea to work out. (Posted with players permission of course.)

I am planning for K'mana to be a primary crafter with botany and alchemy as her main skills so this interests me greatly. Has me thinking of the healers guild from "Touch of Power." I think it would be a great idea, especially coupled with the plague idea brought up in the other thread, the possibility of Tonberry Latern posts and help of the Leaders Roundtable a large event could possiably be pulled together. Nimarhie, if you start this FC up I'll be sure to join in

Welcome to the RPC! There is still discussion going on about choosing an RP hub of sorts, so that when people ask we have an answer. But I see small groups all around in game. If your not comfortable running up and joining in. I would recommend attending one of the open Roleplaying events or joining one of the link shells you may find interesting. This is one of the more recent threads on finding and walking up and joining RP, there is a lot of good advice there. At the top of the welcome forums there is a help thread by Xenedra, it has links to various Roleplaying Help threads on the RPC as well as instructions for various site features. I jumped over to Neoseeker, and I am floored looking at the post numbers. I am quite surprised that I have some how managed to never hear of it before. On the anime note do you have a blog? *grins* I am a fan of all things anime and if I'm not on the forums here or in game, I am watching or reading about anime. I play Torvhan Durant and K'mana Haaz hope to see you around. Edit: Forgot to mention your avatar, I like it! Kenjiro was a hoot

Welcome to the RPC, hope you enjoy your time here. On Character locks I can not speak from personal experience but having read through much of the forums the locks seem to be relaxed mostly during late night/early morning times. Likely coinciding with lower starting area population, and once your character is made I have not seen much in the way of difficulty signing on since the initial server troubles. Ah Champions, unfortunately it suffered from lack of dev team manpower, Perfect World was more focused on Star Trek online, sad really I was really hoping it would have been closer to City of Heroes in quality. Well I hope to see you around the forums.

Khaze'to and the others are part of the Hipparion Tribe linkshell. They are the only tribe that I personally know of on Balmung, their branch is on the family tree at the bottom of the Hipparion Tribe wiki page. I am on the ship tonight and can't get on; but if you look up Khaze'to or Antimony(Naunet) in game, I believe they are both linkshell admins.

Well we do have a small keeper branch which Khaze'to I believe is in charge of and we even have a Tayuun (npc i believe), though being male his name isn't carried foward. He might be able to fit you in, if you wanted. I can understand not wanting to roll a new character I'm going to try and stay with my two for now, for level purposes. Naunet I would consider the other head of the tribe, and she handles the family tree. If your looking for more information on stuff, I kinda just collect the information they post and scour tribe members wikis for more and then organize it all into the timeline. Couldn't really find much on Taijha (you should make a wiki ) but I did see your thread on apothecary service/chocobo vet, if that applies to Taijha, that may be a way you can interact with the tribe since we use chocobos to hunt. Well except for K'ailia (silly conjurers )

Hey Nimarhie, love your avatar by the way. You might have some better luck if you start a new thread with the [Gilgamesh] tag, our own thread here seems to be slowing down, and speaking from my own experience I don't tend to pop into older threads if I am not following them. Second point related to the first if our brothers and sisters on Gilgamesh form another family we'll have seriously think on the idea prefix someone brought up earlier, so that we can keep them organized without having to rely on tagging everything for one server or the other. Also if you don't find much interest Nimarhie, I'm sure everyone would enjoy having defect to our server [/end recruitment] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On a completely different note on the organization of tribe, it seems like separate topic of discussion are sometimes lost to the generalist nature of the thread. I was curious if we wanted to start a Clan site, (I'm kinda on the fence about this even as my own idea cause I kind like the RP and such staying on the RPC) or if we should start topic specific threads here on the RPC. Such as in my case a thread covering the more information bits of the tribe, such as dates, deaths, tribal events and such. Or if someone has a better idea please toss it out there. Also I was thinking It may be a good idea to archive our skype chats and tag it on the specific topics that are brought up so that we can look back on it, since sometimes people will not be around for various discussions and decisions. If people don't mind the chats being archived I could go back through that last few weeks if skype plays along and transfer them into google docs.

K'mana closed her eyes she did not want to distress K'luha, but the pull was undeniable. She opened her eyes and looked back at K'luha. "I don't think its a matter of choice, I could never forgive myself if am needed elsewhere and I ignore this call. I am sorry that it is so sudden, but we WILL talk about it when I return." K'mana turned with her heart heavy and set a brisk pace into the desert.

"K'luha..." K'mana started to speak then stopped. She reached into her pack and pulled out a worn tome. "Do you know what this is? In it is all of the stories that I have recorded from the elder's around the campfires. It is my most prized possession. I want you to hold on to it for me, I'll come back for it I assure you." "Besides you know the law as well as I do." She shook her head, "I failed my hunt, I can't return empty handed. I certainly don't want to be exiled. I will go, if my feelings prove to be false, then I will return with something else worthy of my Foraging." K'mana knelt in the sand and lowered her head "I swear upon these burning sands, with Azeyma as my witness, that I will return to the tribe, worthy of becoming an adult." She slowly stands up and places her tome into K'luha's hands.

K'mana closed her eyes, and searched for the words she needed. "K'luha, I love our family, I'm not going to run away and never return. You know how often I badger the elder's of our past. But....there are to many stories left untold. K'piru, K'airi, K'airos, K'aijeen, even K'haz he came and left like the wind following The Fall. So many stories came to an end following The Fall, our family is being slowly torn asunder." She took a breath, looking at her older sister "I don't think I can bring order to our tribe's story, I have a feeling that task lies with others, but If I can bring those stories together..." She gripped K'luha's hand "You taught me most of what I know of the hunt, and I have the knowledge K'piru taught us; I will be fine and I will return. Will you let Raqi and the others know that I am departing on my Foraging?" She released the hand and slowly backed away.

K'mana slowly drew a few breaths to steady herself and focused on that uneasy feeling, as it slowly receded. She looked up to K'luha and saw the worry in the huntress's eyes. "Have you ever felt that feeling of uneasiness in the pit of your stomach? As I drew, something, was telling me that this is not my task." She paused as she was speaking collecting her thoughts. She thought back on times she had spent with K'piru and her daughters as the shaman had spoken of the spirits. She thought on the tribe a sudden stinging pain echoed through her, a feeling much like being torn apart. Then a strong but clear pull towards the horizon in a direction away from the camp. "It is not clear, but there is someplace I must go, maybe something I must do, and I don't think it can wait for my trial." she spoke firmly, determination for the choice ahead welling up inside.

((This thread covers K'mana's Trial of Adulthood and subsequent Foraging, and is open following the scene change to any of the missing or displaced tribal members, or any wandering tribal members who happened to be in the area K'mana is searching at the time of this event)) 2nd Year of the Seventh Umbral Era ((1573, 1 year following Dalamund's Fall)) K'mana followed the trail of the creature, she had been tracking it for several hours and traces of its passage were fresh. She glanced back at K'luha, the huntress who was observing her trial, as the huntress silently followed K'mana through the desert. She crested the dune and saw the worm basking in the late afternoon sun, she maneuvered to stay downwind and silently crept forward into range of her bow. She carefully withdrew several arrows and stabbed them into the sand at her feet. She drew another arrow, nocked, and drew back the string aiming at the unmoving worm. She slowly exhaled as she prepared to loose the arrow, but felt an uneasiness in the pit of her stomach. She froze, and felt a strange tug on her senses, a feeling that this was not how she would complete her trial. Flashes of the camp came unbidden to her, the tribe had been successful on recent hunts and was not in need, but her trial had come and they could always store extra meat for later use. But some feeling was telling her that this worm did not have to die today, that she had to complete her trial another way. She slowly released tension on her bow and stowed her arrows, the huntress looked at her questioningly but remained silent until they retreated a distance from the dangerous worm.

SPOILERS ABOUND Hope this was helpful.

While it is true they split groups they really only split it down the middle, and hopefully since they're will be more active players instead of afk's (fingers crossed) it should work better. Sucks Balmung and Gilgamesh are in separate groups though So yes login restrictions will still be in effect so that the login server won't crash when everyone thats been waiting to play logs in at one time. But... They still increased the size of the servers so they can hold more people now. The login server issues and world size issues are separate. They are limited how many people can login on at one time but as they day goes on and concurrent hits lower more people will be able to get on. Full Lodestone maintenance report: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/4198c8c4e8b4b749e6881aa564b9b8b5c44d4061 This was because they hadn't upgraded the servers to hold the population yet. Though an afk timer maybe be needed to completely solve the issue, the larger population size means more people on and hopefully less afker's. => Alleviating the login issues since there will not be thousands of people spamming 0 and repeatedly trying to login which causes greater stress on the login server.

I. Basic Info Characters:Torvhan Durant, K'mana Haaz Primary character:Torvhan Durant Linkshells:Blue Skies Adventuring Company(Torvhan), Hipparion Tribe(K'mana) Primary RP linkshell:-- II. RP Style Amount of RP (light, medium, heavy): I would say around medium level of serious RP. I enjoy RP greatly but I'm not always RPing and even during RP I don't mind OOC tangents or jokes. But while IC I prefer a more serious RP, not to say characters can't joke/poke fun or do silly things, but I dislike ridiculous concepts such as characters who go around murdering whoever they please in broad daylight, players who constantly trying to kill one another for no reason, joke or gag characters (in RP). Views on RP combat and injuries: I haven't done any IC combat RP, I usually relay on the game system in which I'm playing handle this. But if it happened for some reason I could roll with it. Views on IC romance: Most of my characters at some point have had romantic relationships but usually with a DM run NPC. Not a big fan of dramatic or tragic endings. So I'm not entirely opposed to the idea, but it would take time to get used to the idea. I am not interested in ERP, if an event occurs a simple statment covering that the night events occurred is sufficient for me. Views on non-romantic RP (family ties, etc): Based on character: Torvhan has no remaining family members. K'mana is part of the Hipparion Tribe (quite a few NPC/PC ties) Views on lore: Lore is awesome, but don't forget to not meta-game, and is by no means all encompassing or the unbreakable law. Roleplaying is all about making the game yours, and sometimes things have to be stretched to work, but if you can make it work with in the lore all the better. Views on chat functions (/say, /linkshell, etc): Depends on how you using them, Linkshells are proven to work in game as a sort of radio, but an in person meeting could be equally roleplaying in text based fashion in any of the windows. Just don't use /shout /yell for being loud unless your trying to broadcast to the world OOC. III. Other Info Country:United States Timezone:EST Contact info:-- [align=center][glow=blue]~Special announcements can be found in the posts below~[/glow][/align]

1) I would say start when ever you would like, being lv 50 is by no means a requirement to role play, though I would hit 15-20 when you can get access to other cities. 2) Your welcome to develop your back story as much as you would like, I would say it depends on the age of your character or how important your back story is to their current lives. I would say at least some idea of major events that influenced your character help flesh it out and make it easier to play. My character Torvhan has a couple events that effected his life that I wrote out. While my character K'mana is part of a tribe on the forums so I am spending significantly more time on her past. 3) I found it easiest to seek out people on the forums, or to attend open events on your server. I joined a linkshell after an open event in Beta 3 on Torvhan run by Blue Skies that was posted here on the forums, and K'mana came to be as part of the Hipparion Tribe organization thread. 4) Everyone seems to have their own preference, though I believe ingame emotes must be in a separate line by them selves or you can make buttons to click from the emote window. Couple things I've seen for emotes their is a custom emote system so if you type /em sits on chair. the game will output that in emote text as Torvhan Durant sits on chair. Personally I'll use ingame emotes or the *emote* method. I usually see the (( )) for OOC chat like asking a question or talking about something metagame. 5) It all depends on your group I tend to shift to what other people in the group are doing, I feel it makes the chat easier to read. But for active emotes I usually perform them when I want the action to happen on my toon. Though I would note that emotes and such are useful for local RP and if you would like to keep your RP in party chat or such I would stick to the the text based version. 6) That would work, but often times you can just walk by and hop in especially at events, I've seen quite a few meet and greet or other open events meant to help people get to know one another. The forums from what I seen is open to people randomly joining in at taverns and such, thats half the fun. Hope you have fun and find a good group! I would make sure to attend any events you can their great places to meet people, and get an idea about the link shells that run them.