Roelle Riviere

Oh my god so much this. I have never been able to fathom the attitude that undercutting someone by a small amount is somehow malicious or petty or otherwise deserving of ire. That's how the markets stay healthy, people. Undercutting in huge chunks all the time is destructive to everyone. My own sins? Uhh I dunno, I'm a pretty swell person. The other day I died to a really simple mechanic because I was too busy making jokes and flirting with the bard (and maybe also the healer) in the middle of the boss fight to play at 100%. Does that count? I mean, it really wasn't my fault. They were being all, like, aggressively hot at me, and laughing and engaging with me through the whole dungeon. What was I supposed to do, not respond and just focus on the fight? What am I, a robot? (This may or may not happen on a semi-regular basis.)

*holds up protest sign reading MOGHOME GO HOME* 55-57 is so damn tedious. They really need to just...make the MSQ for that range worth more experience. Maybe boost the experience gained in Aery, or something. I did get the impression reading an interview one time that I can't be bothered finding again that they may have kinda regretted some of their design decisions in that zone, so here's hoping lessons were learned for the future. Other than that, agree 100%. Getting into Foundation that first time and hearing that soft piano soundtrack was magical. Didn't even mind the onerous task of unlocking flying in every zone, even if having currents tied to random side quests is a bit obnoxious. *high five*

Ohh, gifs. You seem like fun. And I do like to have fun! Oh, crap, wait, that was the wrong gif I swear! Don't shut me off! That was the wron--

You won't regret this! I wash all my own dishes, and I have an uncanny talent for de-tangling old Christmas lights.

I would rate them 4 > 3 > 1 > 2 It's hard to tell since she blinked, but those eyes look like they would really pop with those highlights on #4 ;D

[align=center](or unbuckle, ladies)[/align] [align=center] [/align] The Character: Roelle is a rake and a scoundrel. A downward spiral in progress. A thug with a heart of gold covered by an iron fist. If she had a theme song, it would probably be this. It wasn't always that way; she used to be an upstanding citizen of Gridania, a young Wood Wailer with a strong sense of justice and full of chivalrous ideals. But seeing firsthand what it takes to keep the peace--that sometimes, to protect the greater good, you have to be worse than the criminals--stripped away that cloak of youthful naivety. Betrayed by her lover and exiled by her comrades, Roelle set out on a doomed quest for vengeance that left her mired in the sticky, weird-smelling swamp of Ul'dah's underworld. An awkward position for a lanky law dog from the Shroud! But in the wake of Dalamud's descent, it was sink or swim, and being on top comes naturally to this scarlet-eyed sinner. Now, she is a freelance agent billing herself as a Private Investigator. Plenty of her work is legitimate, but sometimes "investigating" someone might mean finding out how they react to being knee-capped in a dark alley as a final warning, or investigating their stash of money out of their personal vault. Finding missing persons and making missing persons are both on the table, so long as the particulars match the pay. Roelle doesn't consider herself a bad person--who does, really?--but she has become a "the ends justify the means" person. Deep down, she still has her sense of justice and aims to see it done, one way or another. Bounty, beating, or burglary, she sees the people of her world as fair game, because you reap what you sow. She is a monster that eats monsters. She does her best to avoid jobs that directly hurt the innocent and downtrodden, though, and occasionally goes full vigilante on the most egregious offenders of that code, with or without warning. But a girl's gotta eat, and reputation means everything for a person in Roelle's line of work. Stepping over the line has never been easier... The Player: I've been playing FFXIV on and off since 2.0, but as you can see by my sick anime references, I've been a dork my whole life! I never took the time to properly join in on the big RP server, though I always meant to. I've been an avid MMO RPer ever since the Firiona Vie server back in Everquest. But somehow I always end up in non-RPing social circles. Roelle was one of a few characters I rolled up on Balmung back when all it required was logging on at 4am, and played just enough to collect the occasional event gear for glamours if "someday" ever came. Mostly, though, I raided with a tight knit group of ex-WoW-friends on a different server and just didn't have the time to devote to multiple characters (because I can't stand to not do all the crafting omg). Then, a bunch of IRL things happened to different people in my group all at once just as we were busily burning out our medium-core members in AS3, and we called it quits around the end of October. Well now I'm back, baby, and it's Balmung time! Due to certain circumstances, I'm able to play a lot right now (like, a lot), so I'm focusing on getting levels and resources on my chosen main to better facilitate playing Barbie dress-up without hassles. I might get back into raiding eventually, but I'm mostly here for the RP this time around. By and large, I am not a serious person at all, but when it comes to RP I go deep. I don't break character on a whim, and I try to avoid breaking the fourth wall (unless it's really really funny) if that's the kind of atmosphere you're trying to cultivate. I believe lore should be bent but not broken. I will treat your dramatic scenes with proper gravitas if my character allows it. I will not shy away from intensity or tension, nor take it personal. The way I see it, RPing is essentially collaborative writing, and not much different than being an actor in a really long and strange TV series. Some people might find the whole practice ridiculous, but I'm not one of them. I kinda feel the same way about RPing that this guy feels about Pro Wrestling. But I'm also a when-in-Rome girl, so if you're not feeling it that night, we can run a dungeon and chat about anime and stupid youtube videos instead! About the only thing I'm wary of is freeform RP combat, just because I've not had many good experiences with it. I'll do my best, if that's what you're really into, but don't expect me to keep up if your character is a hyper-ninja-commando fresh out of Xavier's School for Gifted Wizards. I roll mundane, and generally prefer to navigate that kind of conflict with guile or predetermined outcomes. So hit me up, any time, any place. If you approach me IC, I will respond IC, even if I'm busy crafting. Don't be scared. Roelle may sound kinda mean-and-edgelordy on paper, but she's really quite affable ;D I'm also looking for an active FC that would be a decent fit, though I could probably wiggle my way into most groups as a non-specific adventurer/mercenary/treasure hunter.

That fixed it, thanks! Now all the people cruising random profiles all the way back to the R's can stop to appreciate my sweet pic and the aesthetic of the template I copypasted before going "Why the hell is this text so small!?" and leaving to read something else! Do, uh...do I still have to get out? I already unpacked some stuff...

Just the other day I was getting started on Lancer in Sastasha and knew before the first pull it was gonna be New'tank McGee escorting us. You can spot them a mile away. Male midlander, full bronze armor, helmet still turned on. It's like those guys get stamped out in a factory or something. Sure enough, he couldn't hold aggro over anything. But I didn't mind, really. I mean, it's Sastasha, right? Just do the thing! What did bother me was how the healer and bard started being all condescending to him, telling him to go do the training ground and how he should do this and do that and just really making a commotion out of shaming the guy as if he didn't know he was new. I don't mind new players, and I don't mind bad players, but damn I cannot abide soft-fisted bullying. So I stopped to type out, "Just flash 4-5 times and regen your mana at the end with riot combo, it'll be fine." I don't personally do it that way anymore unless there's a good Black Mage or Scholar in the group going ham, but it's a simple tactic that a brand new Paladin can use to do a decent job for any group makeup without feeling like a rube, and he wasn't waiting around for us nerds to stop nerding before he pulled the next group anyway. Then the healer starts laying into me instead, telling me I'm an idiot, and flash isn't strong enough to hold aggro on its own, and you only need to flash 1-2 times tops, and all he'll do is run out of mana and lose aggro, and it's impossible to flash that much and regen all your mana without losing aggro, blah blah blah. I'm just sitting there like, mothertrucker I've played Paladin before, probably more than you, and it works different when you're at minimum dungeon level and don't even have Rage of Halone! But all I said was, "If you're holding aggro with 1 flash, your dps is bad," because I was too busy stabbing to expound thoroughly upon the finer intricacies of level 15 Paladin skills, the probability of pug DPS target synchronization, mana management, and the regen potential of the between-the-pulls jog. And the healer replies, "Maybe you're just so bad you have to flash that much ;)" condescending winky face oh shit! wolfing out! bitch moon rising! Typed out half a paragraph of tank-otaku-sperging, then I remembered I'm a grown-ass woman, deleted it, and just said "Whatever man, your penis is huge, I give up," and let it drop so I could focus on spamming Impulse Drive. So the healer spent the rest of the instance being passive-aggressively insulting to me and not healing when I inevitably pulled aggro. Funnily enough, the Paladin never said a word and seemed to be ignoring chat entirely, thereby winning the encounter. That event made me want to load up my little level 26 Paladin gear and go do a dungeon the right way. When what to my wondering eyes did appear, but that very same Bard in her artifact gear! So I went and did exactly what I'd told that new tank to do, spamming the hell out of flash on every pull way more than I needed to, just to show it could be done without losing aggro and that I could begin every pull on near full mana without any standing around required. In the end, the bard made nice and agreed that the smarmy healer was probably full of it. I'm not such a good person that I didn't feel just a little pumped over getting to put my money where my mouth was and come out on top on such a petty issue. Sometimes you get lucky.

I guess I did it right by accident? But my character page doesn't seem to be showing up in the big list of character pages and I'm not sure why. Suppose if other people can see it with the link or by searching, that's all that really counts. Thanks for checking it for me Nailah!

New fish, here! I'm Commander Shepard, and FFXIV is my favorite MMO on the Citadel. I've been playing MMOs for over 16 years, now, and FFXIV is, in my opinion, the best on the market today. I guess I'm a bit of a unicorn in that I think hardcore RP and hardcore PvE are both worthwhile activities. I look forward to doing one or both with you all sometime soon! So send me a /tell and lets be friends! ... :blush: So, uh, I was trying to make a wiki thing and I think I messed it up multiple times. I read the directions but I have the dumb and can't computer good. Someone pleez haalp x_x