Chakha Malqir

That will help tremendously. Thank you very very much for the resources!

Hey there! So I've been around for a good many years now, but I rarely ever RP'd seriously. I've been trying to get back into it with a backstory that wasn't absolutely bonkers. So I was wondering if anyone had any critiques for my RPC profile thus far, so that I can address any critiques. I tried to keep it short so that I can fill in as I go. Thank you very much! (RPC Profile is here)

I live EST, so I'm thinking about 7PM or 8PM EST (6PM or 7PM CST/12AM or 1AM GMT). Should be fine for American players and European insomniacs. I'm thinking around 2.5-ish. So anyone not yet at 50, so long as they don't go on a two-month extended leave of absence, should be able to be ST-ready by the time this happens, even from Level 1. That sounds good! BP is a Warrior who tries to protect his allies, so healing would definitely be helpful! Alright! Glad to have you aboard! I look forward to running with you and your men! =D

This is exactly right. I apologize if I may have misled anyone on this.

That's very fair. I don't have an actual schedule yet (Looking at Thursdays around, like, 8PM, not set in stone), but I'll get more of an idea within the next couple of weeks.

Hey there! I'm looking for folks (preferably IC mercenaries or sellswords) to fill some ranks in an RP. More specifically an RP that involves running through both Labyrinth of the Ancients and Syrcus Tower. I am about to begin a multi-part storyline (that I'm writing myself) involving the secrets of the Crystal Tower. However, OOC, my Free Company (who I hope to involve in my story) lack the number of properly leveled/geared individuals to run it ourselves. So we require the numbers to fill a 24-man alliance that is willing to RP at certain intervals throughout each dungeon. The storyline will split Labyrinth and Syrcus Tower into two different sessions, and each session will end at St. Coinach's Find to deal with the aftermath, so anyone who only wants to go for a single session can be permitted to do so. Other than being a special outside group angle for RP and allowing many RP opportunities, as well as the drops in the dungeons themselves, I cannot promise any other form of OOC compensation other than my sincere gratitude. If you have any questions or are willing to sign up, please reply below and I will let you know when this happens. Right now, the itinerary is as follows: Chapter 1: The Heart of Sabik (No need for mercenaries) Chapter 2: The Heart of Gold (Meet and greet with mercenaries) Chapter 3: The Heart of the Guardian (Labyrinth of the Ancients RP Run) Chapter 4: The Heart of the Emperor (Syrcus Tower RP Run) Chapter 5: The Heart of the Issue (Aftermath of Chapters 2-4) Chapter 6: The Heart of Darkness (World of Darkness RP Run (Not until 2.5) ) Chapter 7: The Heart of the Forgotten (Finale, Mercenary Attendance Optional)

Heya! I contacted you guys earlier, but I was going through some stuff and never really followed through. I sent an application to the official site. Thanks for considering me!

Eh. Considering I'm the only one who even has the faintest amount of interest in the idea, I'm not gonna bother going through with it. Not worth it.

If you want to stick with your own Free Company, that's fine. I'm not here to force anyone to do anything, merely stating my case. The thing I've noticed is that, while every FC is, IC, extremely diverse, when it comes to OOC stuff, every single FC usually falls under the same goals and the same ideals as every other FC. A friendly, welcoming free company that is newbie-friendly and is willing to help others out. Why not flip the current structuring upside-down? Right now, I have two or three different RP OOC chats I participate in frequently, one of which belongs to my old free company, which is only there because no one is really allowed to use the FC chat for anything due to excluding others in the channel. Why can't we have organizations use linkshells for RP purposes and Free Companies for OOC purposes? Why does it have to be separated? I mean heck, for that reason, why are we all members of this forum when we could be off on our own free company forums elsewhere? As for the events, that's pretty simple. Essentially, there'd be scheduling involved. Group A wants the house to host their Gala on Day X at Time X, and Group B wants to treat the house like a bazaar/marketplace on Day X at Time X. Whichever group puts it into the schedule first, they'll have that event at the time of their choosing. The further in advance, the better. Then the other group will be required to find another date and/or time unless they can negotiate a compromise amongst themselves. It'd be the same as hosting two events on the same date at the same time in the same place. Negotiations would happen between the two parties and a compromise would be reached. Heck, we can even separate things between Indoor events and Outdoor events to enable two different venues. But like I've said before. This FC will be for folks like myself who want to reach all of the latest content first, but who also want to have an RP focus. The unfortunate thing I've noticed is that, despite being in the same FC in-character, a lot of those characters can be completely left out of the OOC operations. Heck. I don't remember ever running anything with a single member of my last Free Company. I always ran with people from other Free Companies through the RP OOC chat or with people through the Duty Finder. I want housing so bad. I want to be in an actual, established community in-game where folks can enjoy that content even when the prices are ridiculously expensive. I don't want any players to feel left out if they miss RP events or they can't seem to make any friends in their RP groups at all. If you want to stay in your own FCs, that's fine. I still plan on going ahead with this, though, because I really, really want this and I think it will be good for the community.

Hey folks. As you've probably heard, the housing costs are a little bit pricey (Balmung is especially feeling the pain at a whopping 20 million gil just for the smallest house!). Many of you are angry, and rightly so. And many of you are petitioning Square-Enix to drop the prices. But I have a different strategy to tackle this. This time tomorrow, I will be starting a new Free Company, called "The Hydaelyn Alliance" (Working Title). It will be an OOC Free Company meant to gather all of the roleplayers on Balmung together under a single roof. There are many benefits and purposes to this. First, with enough members, we will certainly get our housing even without the prices dropping. I have absolutely no doubt about that. And this housing will be used as a central meeting place for all roleplayers on the server. A tavern, a meeting hall, an opera house, whatever you like. It will be all-purpose. Those Free Companies who would much rather have their own customizable base, they are free to do so. But this is for those Free Companies that either utilize other areas as their personal bases anyway, or for those Free Companies that do not have any bases whatsoever. Second, with all of the roleplayers being a part of the Alliance, they will all get to vote on and share the benefits of Free Company buffs, which will be voted on as needed, with the previously voted on buff being temporarily taken out of the voting for the following buff. (Example: the Combat XP buff is in effect. For the voting for the next buff, the Combat XP buff will not be eligible to be voted on, but it will regain eligibility during the following vote). Third, because all of the roleplayers that will be a part of the alliance, it will be easy to spot fellow roleplayers out in the field and even communicate with in the Free Company Chat, which will be 100% out-of-character (linkshells, events, and other meet-ups will be relied upon for in-character chat). Fourth, because we will have our own community of roleplayers, we can help each other out like a real Free Company. Do you often find that you want to work on certain content and most of your Free Company is either offline, busy with their own stuff, or RPing? Perhaps you want to help someone else out with their content? Or perhaps you're working on a Disciple of Hand skill and you want sell your crafting services to other people in proper RP fashion? Or perhaps you want to commission such items from a Disciple of Hand roleplayer? All of these things will be much easier with a Free Company uniting everyone together! Finally, and I cannot stress this enough, as we go further and further down this road in the game, more and more content is going to get added. A LOT more content. Maybe content that's just as big as this housing thing, or maybe even larger! Don't you want to experience that content first, even though you're a roleplayer and you don't grind stuff out for hours upon hours every single day? Just one of the many other benefits of having every roleplayer under one roof! Now one of the biggest concerns that I have heard about this idea is that many Free Companies have their own themes. Now this free company, as I have said, will encourage the use of Linkshells for RP purposes. I see absolutely no rhyme or reason why you could not keep your themes and values. This whole free company idea is meant not as a way of forcing everyone to conform to my vision of what an RP is supposed to be, that's not fair of me to do. What this free company is meant to do is join us all together in an out-of-character sense so that our in-character lives can be much more fruitful. Being a part of this Free Company should mean absolutely nothing to your character in-character. I just want everyone to reap the benefits of those free companies that do grind for hours and hours, have hundreds of members, and can afford stuff like housing without even batting an eyelash. And honestly, I want this for the community. And if I don't do something like this, who will? And I promise you. Even though I'll technically be the "leader" of this free company, all that means, to me, is that I will be the one managing all of the technical details. Things like looking at polls and votes to properly change the Free Company's buff to the highest voted one (whether I like the one voted in or not), setting up important notices about a particular group or individual's events, etc. I have zero interest in a proper leadership role and I do legitimately having any kind of power over others. I'm just a regular guy, like the rest of you, and I intend to keep being that regular guy. I don't want to abuse my power (in fact, I'll neglect my power as much as my duties allow me to do so). I just want this to be a great community in the game for roleplayers to enjoy all of the out-of-character aspects of the game without having to feel like they're lagging behind everyone else. That's all. I hope I've made my case for this, and I appreciate you reading all of this. I just want to help. That's all. Feel free to agree with it, disagree with it, critique the idea constructively, suggest a better name, etc. This is all a work in progress, and I just hope people can see where I'm coming from with this idea.

I'm starting to wonder if we should have one great big Free Company merger of sorts, to be perfectly honest. Try to maximize just how many people are in a Free Company, then use the Linkshells for the denominations. Have the Free Company be more of a "We are Role-Players! This is what we do!" and have the Linkshells be where everyone splits up and affiliates amongst themselves. Sounds backwards compared to what we're doing now (at least on Balmung), but if we do it this way, it would be far easier for other Roleplayers to connect!

I'm kinda glad that Hellsguard Roegadyn use strung-together English words. Definitely makes naming a lot easier, and makes names like "Burning Passion" quite lore-friendly where it otherwise wouldn't be.

Oh this'll be fun! Here are a few hot beats for Burning:

I didn't make my character with a specific character in mind, but I did make my character with a series of character archetypes in mind. Some more flattering than others. You got your boisterous bruiser archetype:

Okay, so you might remember me as a Miqo'te Scholar who was trying to unravel the mysteries of the Rift, yeah? Well... I kinda regenerated Doctor Who-style. Say hello to the new me, Burning Passion! A Hellsguard Roegadyn with a fascination with fire and a fierce determination to fight for what's right! I took a hiatus from the RP scene because I wanted to focus on playing the game, and I was also dealing with a lot of college and life stuff at the same time, so I couldn't juggle that many things. So I made a new character on the Cactaur server, leveled him up significantly, got his Relic weapon, and I have definitely had my fill of gameplay (sans Coil of Bahamut. Haven't tried that yet.) But I am taking a hiatus from college right now and I don't feel this pressing need to force my way through the plot of the game, so... I'm ready to come back. And because I poured a lot of my hard work into this character, I figured I would use a server transfer to pull him back into Balmung. Haven't done that JUST yet, but I do plan on it happening very, very soon. In any case, I'm ready to come back now and enjoy the company of all of you awesome people. See you in the game soon!