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This is a temporary change to allow officers time to breathe, because we have some people that still need to be played in (who now are limited to a month to do so). This is partially because of upcoming changes regarding our recruitment and activity policy!

The application on Google Forms can’t be filled out at this time, but if you want to see about getting into the LS anyway, please contact one of our officers in-game and we can see about working something out. Our officers are:

• Leonnaux Altoix (me!)
  
• Itara Irispyre
  
• Edda Vincents
  
• Ma’sae Pohju
  
• Gwannes Oskwell
  

We apologize for any inconvenience. You could also send a PM to me on here, or send an ask to our Tumblr at EBONGUARDLS.

In the meantime, we have some stuff going on that outsiders are naturally welcome to attend (as they take place in public places): a little social shindig tomorrow at 8PM CST, and the recurring Lucky #7 speakeasy openings every second and fourth Thursday at 7PM CST..

Recruitment Status: Open.

We have decided to reopen applications, along with change up our recruitment process a little bit.

Due to a lack of manpower, play-ins are no longer required, however they can be done upon request (because who doesn’t like some good ol’ fashioned RP?) and said play-ins are instead replaced with a short OOC interview, though ‘interview’ is probably not the most fitting term. Before granting access to the linkshell and the Discord, officers will instead strike up a conversation with prospective applicants to further ascertain whether they and their characters are a good fit for the linkshell.

Additionally, several questions have been added to the application; however, many of these along with some questions that were previously required are now considered optional.

One of our officers has also chosen to step down due to personal reasons. Our team is now comprised of:

• Leonnaux Altoix (yours truly)
  
• Edda Vincents
  
• Gwannes Oskwell
  
• Ma’sae Pohju
  

Please contact one of the above listed officers in-game or via screaming up into the cold, empty night sky if you have any questions!

LF both allies and enemies of the network.
Connections thread right this way!

On a semi-related note, I'm looking to get a "main story" sort of series of events started for Ebonguard. This series of events will start off with a story arc concept I've been wanting to take for a spin for a long while now: a heist! Details are still being panned out but where this will take us, nobody knows! Somewhere where we can split the money three ways and sail off into the sunset never to be seen again, I hope. Or becoming a shower of gil coins as we jump off a building somewhere in Ul'dah. Whatever the future may bring, please look forward to it!

This will mark the beginning of a long-term story arc for Ebonguard. This instance/event/arrangement is a members-only occasion IC, but spectators are welcome! Members do not have to attend this initial meeting to take part in the rest of the story, but there will likely be certain segments later on that will require people to get an IC hook to participate in if they weren’t initially involved.

The time is come to make some plans and plot our schemes! That connections thread I made earlier is open for people who want to jump in on this plot arc too, either as antagonists or allies to Ebonguard in our escapades. What's a good heist without a little suspense?


(Ohhh my god look at all my cool fonts guys. I have so many fonts. Take Photoshop away from me before I hurt someone with all my fonts.)

... I totally didn't just decide to update today for the sake of the rhyme. (But I am trying to keep the RPC thread here and the Tumblr more current! There's a lot of stuff to do and all -- I'm a bit pinched on time honestly but you know!)

First and foremost, a warm welcome to our newest addition to the officer team, Aran Aethersmith! I'll update the first post there (along with everything else) with this information soon (probably tomorrow...?) with this information but yeah, Aran's enthusiasm especially with regards to heists and willingness to volunteer has earned her a spot in the Blue Name Club, so she'll be helping out with event planning and the like. Look forward to more crime in the future!

Anyway, without further ado, I'll just copy-paste from the Tumblr update post I made this morning!

1) The start of a long-term LS plot is still on May 12 and is still at 8:30PM CST, but if members interested in getting a leg up on it want it to start earlier then I can absolutely do that! (I’m just used to starting events hella late because in the past, later has usually been better. But any time before the 12th barring unforeseen circumstances, I can shift stuff around so it’s more convenient for people!)

2) Ebonguard still wants connections! – and who knows where the LS plot will take us as we delve into 4.0? Ever wanna try your group’s hand at cracking a criminal network wide open? Executive decisions at Ebonguard HQ suggest that this could be your chance! Get it now, while supplies last. I can set up a Discord group for all of us to chat it out (briefly) and if all is well then you’ll actually get full, unadulterated access to the Discord! Well, maybe not full to type, but full to view. You have access to the channels that matter. Allies and adversaries will even have unique name colors, aren’t I benevolent! I haven’t decided what they will be yet but if you wanna be either of those things hey, I’ll let you pick why not. Just not red. That’s my color.



(It’s always my color.)

3) Because of the rules shift when recruitment reopened back in March, any members who were not in the Discord as of today (or who I just... Flat-out didn't know who they were because I didn't have their name on a name-change or alt list and they didn't have an application with the name) were removed from the linkshell. This was surprisingly few people! Going forward, all important information that members need to know will be plunked in the #announcements channel of our Discord. (That's where all the important information for members is anyway, actually, barring our Tumblr and this thread, and that's why Discord is required to join. It's much easier to keep the Discord updated constantly and then update this thread and the Tumblr periodically with big stuff.)

And, as an aside, we have a few people who we have yet to get to with regards to their application and OOC interview. The officers have been a little occupied with RL stuff lately, so we’re sorry for being quiet! (I know I’ve been fixing my sleep schedule, writing for contests to make money so I can actually buy Stormblood, etc) If you’re waiting for something then feel free to poke us via Discord, Tumblr, or RPC – we’ll try to get to things as soon as humanly possible!

(Log from 4/30/2017) I should make that a recruitment PF... Anyway hey hi! Not much going on at the moment aside from gearing up for the first part of a longer storyline, kicked off by the planning of a heist on May 12! Allies and adversaries are still a thing we're on the look-out for; in fact I'm going to bump that thread up later today with a few additions! We also got a few new members recently, so a warm welcome to them! It's always nice to have a few fresh faces around.

Who are they? Telling you would defeat the purpose! Members of Ebonguard could be anywhere...




JK, they're Bandaera Hawkins, Sylas Vairemont, and M'ruhna Kaehl! Looking forward to RPing with all of them soon; I've just been a bit busy with other things so I've been slacking off on pursuing RP plot hooks... (ʘᗩʘ’)

Next big update should be after the heist; please look forward to logs, screenshots, and much arguing about who should get the biggest slice of the pie. Apart from in-game events, I'm also planning to do something a little different for interested members and non-members who wanna hop in our Discord during the 48-hour maintenance which should be interesting, so please look forward to it!

There is no finer motivator than money, and the Ul’dah-based Crow (and a good half of Ebonguard) are no stranger to that fact of life. The promise of it was what drew Greeneyes and Ace to the cave behind Lost Hope to meet with Crow in person for the first time, who quickly laid his cards bare: intel contained in an envelope he carried with him (which he read off and allowed the two of them to verify) indicated that a company known as the White Chocobo Trading Company would soon be coming to port in Vesper Bay, and the goods they meant to peddle in the city totaled two and a half million gil. No petty sum, but this was no petty work.

They plotted and planned – and joked around a bit, granted, and agreed to meet again the following week in order to gather intel as to the more precise details of their target. After all, anything was subject to change at any given time, and it was always better to see things with one’s own eyes and lay the groundwork necessary for a successful operation than to blindly place trust in outsiders…

But the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

What the future holds for these three of the Ebonguard has yet to be seen…


Interested in getting involved with the Ebonguard Scenario, either as an ally to this band of n’er-do-wells or as a force working to stop their criminal ways? Both members and outsiders more than welcome! Send an ask to our Tumblr or contact me on the RPC via PM and we can work something out! (Posting in this thread is also acceptable. SCENARIO ONE is locked to members-only for the purposes of setting up future plot arcs properly, however. But non-members are more than welcome to come watch!

The date of the next event in the chain is TBD, however in-character it will take place a week from this first meeting regardless (due to continuity and the fact that any potential schedule-fangling is due to OOC reasons). It will be posted on our Tumblr and in Discord once decided!

A key part of any successful mission is reconnaissance. After all, it pays well to know what you’re getting into before you’re in too deep to get out, and as the White Chocobo Trading Company docked at Vesper Bay, that is precisely what Greeneyes and Leonnaux Altoix (Crow’s messenger) did. The evening air was cool, the breeze coming off the sea salty, and the fickle desert climate gifted them with a brief shower toward the beginning of their endeavors.

They donned their chosen guises – Tamrik Brokenblade and Vaicean Daimetois – after brief discussion and set their sights on the matter at hand.

Unbeknownst to the two of them, they were joined by another member of the Ebonguard who heard of their planned escapades over the linkpearl: Adder. The bookish, quiet sort watched from a distance as they went through the motions, gathering intelligence, submitting their (forged) employment papers, and investigating the crates that had yet to be unloaded from the Company’s ship. Watching for if anything went awry – but luckily, this was simply reconnaissance, and when a company is in the business of hiring sellswords to handle security… Well, they hardly acted out of place.


Interested in getting involved with the Ebonguard Scenario, either as an ally to this band of n’er-do-wells or as a force working to stop their criminal ways? Both members and outsiders more than welcome! Send an ask to our Tumblr or contact me on the RPC via PM and we can work something out! (Posting in this thread is also acceptable. SCENARIO ONE is locked to members-only for the purposes of setting up future plot arcs properly, however. But non-members are more than welcome to come watch!

The next (final) part of SCENARIO ONE will be on June 10, barring any unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances. Any updates to the schedule will be relayed to members of the LS via Discord.

Now you see me…

The heist was a success. Continuing their facades, Tamrik Brokenblade (Greeneyes) and Vaicean Daimetois (Leonnaux Altoix) returned to work for the White Chocobo Trading Company as they prepared to enter the city of Ul’dah at the Scorpion Crossing in Western Thanalan. The heat of the desert subsided slowly as the sun dipped under the horizon, but without a doubt summer had begun in the southern reaches of the realm. The duo was joined in short order by an unexpected addition: Aodh Dohern (Page).

Assigned to look after chocobos for their work, they were forced to improvise – sleight of hand, after all, was not a viable option when they were not allowed near the goods. After some difficulty getting the bids to trust the team, they wiggled their way into a situation where they could get their hands on some goods… By simply taking the cart with them once they were out of sight of the Crossing.

It was at this point that Aodh revealed that he was one of them – perhaps as a ploy to ensure his safety.

Now you don’t.

After deciding in short order how the goods would be split up, the team went their separate ways: the cut may not have been in cold, hard cash and they may have made off with goods worth only 1,359,000 gil, but for a first effort? It would certainly turn some heads…


Interested in getting involved with the Ebonguard Scenario, either as an ally to this band of n’er-do-wells or as a force working to stop their criminal ways? Both members and outsiders more than welcome! Send an ask to our Tumblr or contact me on the RPC via PM and we can work something out! (Posting in this thread is also acceptable). We are also open to being involved in the plot lines and scenarios of others, either as allies or antagonists. Our Discord is available for non-members, and we even have a channel specifically for the purpose of making these arrangements. We ask only that you provide us with a character name, and that whatever we get involved in be lore-compliant.

Ebonguard is a network – plain and simple… But what’s a network without the people in it, the members comprising it? The members of Ebonguard are as varied in interests and tastes as there are interests and tastes to be had (to say nothing of motivations).

Have Linkpearl? Will Travel! is a thing that the officers of Ebonguard are going to start doing which entails encouraging members to attend events that we have been recommended to or that we believe would be fun to attend as a group. These events can feasibly be anything: performances, tavern nights, book clubs, fighting tournaments, black markets… While Ebonguard as a group is themed around criminal activity, it’s safe for most of us to show our faces in public. For the moment.

The criteria that we will likely be considering when picking what events to recommend are…

1. Attendance/Turn-out: We are more likely to recommend events that have a lower turn-out or are smaller on the whole. This is partly due to concerns with chat scroll.
   
2. Location, Location, Location: As it pertains to most events, we are more likely to recommend events that are hosted in their own spaces (not in the open world). There are likely to be exceptions to this on a case-by-case basis (i.e. it’s kind of hard to have a parade in a house or something).
   
3. Entry Fees: We will never endorse an event that requires an OOC gil fee to enter or attend.
   
4. Personal Schedules: Our application requires all our members to inform us of their timezones, so we have a vague idea of what times are likely to work for our members. (Ebonguard is an NA linkshell most active during the evenings.)
   

(These criteria are liable to be amended at any time as the Ebonguard officer team sees fit.)

If you have an event that you would like us to check out, then by all means contact us on Tumblr or here on the RPC! Again, all event themes are technically welcome. If you recommend an event to us then please include…

• Name of the event (example: The Pub Tavern Night)
  
• Start time of the event (example: 7:30PM Central Standard Time)
  
• Event host (example: <FCTAG> or Character Name)
  
• Location of the event (example: Goblet Ward 99, plot 99, room 9)
  
• A person to contact (Name#1234 or an in-game character name)
  

A little bit about the event would also be appreciated, as would any links to Tumblr or RPC posts.

Thanks! We look forward to potentially hearing from people.

News travels fast in Ul’dah, particularly when money is involved. Hardly a sennight after the completion of the ‘heist,’ the White Chocobo Trading Company took to the news… And their story was promptly snatched up by two freelancers who, to this point, have only managed to be published in The Sunway Daily, a news journal known for its less-than-becoming ‘respect’ for journalistic integrity. Still, given that the Ebonguard has historically been plagued by issues of publicity, the fact that it was reported at all ought to give the members some pause…

The Ebonguard is and has always been a network of criminals, comprised of thieves and smugglers and other such knaves. But in a time before, prior to the Ebonguard becoming the Ebonguard, there was another case. It was a mile and more away from the network’s most recent escapades, but due to the lack of organization of the network, the way that the case was covered by the newsprint and handled by the authorities very nearly led to the network’s downfall.

Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.

NEXT SCENARIO: THE OLD GUARD

(Details TBA)

Interested in getting involved with the Ebonguard Scenario, either as an ally to this band of n’er-do-wells or as a force working to stop their criminal ways? Both members and outsiders more than welcome! Send an ask to our tumblr or PM me here and we can work something out (posting in this thread is also acceptable)!

We are also open to being involved in the plot lines of others, either as allies or antagonists.

Our Discord is available for non-members to use as freely as members, and we even have a channel specifically for collaboration. We ask only that you provide us with a character name, and that all involved parties are lore-compliant.


Hey everyone; it's been a while! There has been some delay in stuff and things due to Stormblood hype (and I myself am preparing to attend college), but we're still around and now-gearing up to head into our next Scenario, which is going to be a lottle more plot-focused than the last one. Though don't get me wrong, crime will still be happening, but Scenario Two: The Old Guard will likely be more about delving into Ebonguard's background lore a bit than anything else... And, well, learning from the mistakes of the past as it were. With so many meddling kids around, can't get away with nuthin' these days.

Going into this plot arc, we are more than open to the idea of collaborating with mercenary, bounty hunter, or law enforcement characters and groups who would be interested in acting against Ebonguard seeing as it is very much a network comprised of criminals. If you're interested in the prospect of doing this on a semi-consistent basis, then drop me a line and we can work something out! In order to keep things fair, we will likely be using some form of dice-rolling shenanigans, because it's no fun when one or the other side is guaranteed to win.

Aside from that, we apologize for some noticeable slowness when it comes to getting through OOC interviews to bring applicants into the LS. In addition to Stormblood shenanigans, many of our officers also have real life things to tend to. In the coming months, I will be looking into growing the officer team (we have only four at the moment) so that this is less of a problem in the future, and to help make events for the LS more frequent!

We are also looking into boosting our activity by encouraging our members to attend events through Have Linkpearl, Will Travel and have been plugging events in the Discord lately. Look forward to screen caps and event accounts from those shenanigans as well, to be posted on our Tumblr!

Till next time!

On Wednesday, July 19, Ebonguard attended the grand opening of the After-Dark Grill! It was quite a bit of fun for all the members who attended -- and I know I had a ball watching how many ears perked up at the mention of 'Crow.' More screencaps here!

We're always looking for events to crash attend, so if you have one you think we'd be interested in, then by all means send me a PM here or contact us on our tumblr!

We have new officers! In light of the fact that Stormblood hype meant we got behind on a lot of interviews to bring people into the LS, I promoted two new officers to help keep things running: Narantu Dazkar and Vasir'li Sohlu!

I also promoted two people to the rank of Organizer to help arrange events and get things going in the linkshell proper: Aerius Destroven and Ququki Quki!

That makes it so as of right now, our officer team is comprised of: Leonnaux Altoix, Edda Vincents, Aran Aethersmith, Gwannes Oskwell, Narantu Dazkar, and Vasir'li Sohlu, with support from the organizers Aerius Destroven and Ququki Quki. If you have any questions about Ebonguard and catch one of us in-game then by all means feel free to ask! I'll update the main post in this thread (and our Tumblr) to reflect this change as soon as I'm able! Hate to update and run, but I've got some last-minute planning to do, heh.

An OOC Linkshell?! As people are doubtless aware, Ebonguard is a strictly-IC LS! However, an idea was pitched to us to look into potentially creating an OOC LS for ease-of-communication while in-game. While this didn't end up getting enough interest from our members or our officers to become an actual thing, we do think that having a way to communicate OOC in-game has merit... And thus we are teaming up with a pre-existing OOC LS that a few of our members and officers are already members of: ERP:NEO! Please direct inquiries about this to the appropriate people, because I myself am not an officer of ERP:NEO. I'm just there for the dank memes.

Discord Channel Changes! We got rid of two never-used channels recently in order to make way for the new-and-improved #workshop channel, which is exactly what it says on the tin, really. It's where we're probably going to shunt lore discussion and character-building prompts -- and talks of dice systems when people are in the mood for that.


Scenario Update! We've finished figuring out a rough 'skeleton' to work with for the next leg of the Ebonguard Scenario -- so our focus is going to shift toward putting meat on that skeleton's bones! The goal is to get it kicked off sometime in August, but things are pretty hectic for the officers and organizers at the moment (myself included, since I'm preparing to move halfway across the country for college) so we're also looking at early September at the latest.

Hopefully August, though, because coming up on August 25th is Ebonguard's one-year anniversary! ... Unfortunately, I will be away from the internet for Fall Orientation beginning on that day! GG, past me. G fuckin' G. But I'll try to do something for it anyway, because woah! A year! That's pretty awesome.

September Update!

It has been a while! Crow here with some semi-important announcements!

1) First Activity Check! In the past, the other officers and I (mostly me, really) have struggled to figure out what would be a fair way to guage activity for the members of the linkshell. As a result of not requiring activity, the LS has thus become bloated with members who don’t really interact with anyone else IC or OOC.

For our first activity check (and probably subsequent ones), we decided to make it a bit different from how people usually think of activity checks: we created a Google Form for our members to input their character names into so that we have a list of every character who is interested in remaining in the LS. That’s it! There are more precise details that members are privy to that I won’t bore people who are just happening across this with, but starting on October 1, any member of the LS who didn’t put their name on that form is going to get booted from the LS.

Does this mean we’re downsizing? In a way, yes! After my most recent sweep of members of the in-game LS who were not in the Discord (which is required for membership), we have 45 members, and we will likely lose quite a few through this activity check. However, it is our hope that we get a more involved and interested memberbase out of it, especially since being a member of the LS is not required to join the Discord and make connections with people that way (even if the reverse is true because our Discord is how we make sure that important announcements like these get out to the memberbase).

2) New Tumblr Theme and Application! They’re both pretty swanky. The second is what’s most noteworthy, though! Recently, I gave the application a once-over and reformatted it to be less messy, and to be functional for people who want to bring in alts or notify us of a character change. The new application is already linked on the blog and in the first post, but for the record, it’s located here: [ https://goo.gl/forms/J9PKAt8nqNayPUbP2 ]

3) I have recently acquired a house which I intend to put to use as an event venue for Ebonguard.


It’s located at The Goblet Ward 11 Plot 55 and is the site of The Cloak & Dagger. This venue is staffed by (invisible, currently; use your imagination ssshhh!) NPCs and technically exists already, but I want to play it into Ebonguard’s story and lore through a mini-storyline, after which I’ll unveil my plans for running a monthly event out of it! Hopefully these plans generate a bit of RP for all interested parties, and needless to say…

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH AT 7PM CST

After a while of quiet, the rumor-mill has begun to spin once more: of a search for a place to call their own and of what is, quite possibly, the perfect location… Recently under new management.


Hey, it's been a while! Things have been a little hectic on my front so it's mostly on me (ah the woes of being a student), but we're going to try and get some stuff going both in the way of (somewhat) benign socializing and (significantly) less benign criminal enterprising. Starting with a meet-up on November 4! While IC the Cloak and Dagger is currently unstaffed (and therefore, to some extent, this meet-up is BYOB... so in other words it's high time to judge others for their drinking tastes), this meet-up technically is public, and it would be public knowledge that the establishment has recently come under new (currently anonymous) management... So if anyone outside the LS wants to stop in and chat, then they are more than welcome to do so!