@Steel - Eep! I hadn't even considered that! oAo;  Maybe I'm just too trusting? It makes me kind of dejected to hear that people would actually do that, but I also acknowledge that there's some trust involved with the sponsorship angle. All I can really do is point to the Vylbrand Academy Bachelor's Auction that I ran last month to try and lend evidence to the authenticity of my events; I'm fairly sure that everyone who paid for a date got one. (It's why I only allowed people from my FC to be auctioned - so that I could come down on them with the holy fire of a thousand suns if they didn't go as promised. 
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While our FC is PvE + RP, we have a fairly extensive setting and layout for our RPers (which is most of the guild.) We are an avid and active group of RPers over at USH, although the responsibility of this event falls squarely on my shoulders. If this race doesn't happen and gil has actually been collected, I will take full responsibility and repay everyone out of my own pocket. (For the record, all of my characters are Seer Noyeme, Haii Hai, Jessamine Hook, and Trade Chevalier, if anyone would like to bounty hunt me at that point.
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But Trolo is just a character in our FC, and he'll be co-hosting the event with Esmond Briggs. I'm thinking their race-oriented banter will be a pretty humorous exchange, actually. XD
@Kage - I saw those things too, although I swear they're unrelated, haha. I was originally inspired to run a chocobo race from the Winter Olympics, and the sponshorship bit was directly inspired by the Every Step of the Way campaign from my workplace (which had a similar-if-not-identical set up). It's been in the works for a few weeks now, but I had to find some committed Heralds before I felt confident enough to post it here. ^^;
)While our FC is PvE + RP, we have a fairly extensive setting and layout for our RPers (which is most of the guild.) We are an avid and active group of RPers over at USH, although the responsibility of this event falls squarely on my shoulders. If this race doesn't happen and gil has actually been collected, I will take full responsibility and repay everyone out of my own pocket. (For the record, all of my characters are Seer Noyeme, Haii Hai, Jessamine Hook, and Trade Chevalier, if anyone would like to bounty hunt me at that point.
)But Trolo is just a character in our FC, and he'll be co-hosting the event with Esmond Briggs. I'm thinking their race-oriented banter will be a pretty humorous exchange, actually. XD
@Kage - I saw those things too, although I swear they're unrelated, haha. I was originally inspired to run a chocobo race from the Winter Olympics, and the sponshorship bit was directly inspired by the Every Step of the Way campaign from my workplace (which had a similar-if-not-identical set up). It's been in the works for a few weeks now, but I had to find some committed Heralds before I felt confident enough to post it here. ^^;
