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Teatime <<Tea>> is a med-heavy role-play free company on the FFXIV Balmung server. The Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern is a cozy teahouse and bar located within the Lavender Beds of the Twelveswood, serving a wide array of beverages and snacks and selling their own specialty loose-leaf blends of tea. At least, that is what is most publicly known. Less mainstream is the knowledge that the establishment also serves as a front for an information brokerage and private investigations business. Secrets, lies, rumors, intrigue... what is it that you are seeking, or selling, perhaps? Pay us a visit, cut a deal, and spill the tea. Or just enjoy a warm drink and some pleasant company! Teatime is a free company where we strive to take our role-play seriously and everything else lightly. We wish to provide a space for role-players who are mature and take the initiative to get plots moving, create events, and find role-play. We seek members who enjoy role-play with depth, complex characters, artistic writing, and an approach to lore that is both flexible but respectful to the setting and canon, who look for more in their stories than just romance and sex, and who give fair consideration to the other role-players around them. We also enjoy a healthy amount of PvE such as dungeons, trials, and maps; PvP; and social activities such as game nights, movie nights, and voice chat on top of the usual OOC chatter. While active members are ideal, we understand the demands of real life and we are open to those who may have limited playtime or who wish to join on alt characters. We accept characters of all sorts and alignments, so long as things make sense in character, and they may be involved in the teahouse, the information brokering business, or both. We accept players both new and old to role-play as long as they meet our standards, and above all else we seek members of all walks of life who are friendly and open-minded. Non-RPers are welcome to join us, as are RPers who may not wish to have their characters associated with the free company IC. We are primarily based in NA eastern time, as are most of our events, but we accept--and have--members from all over the world. Event participation is strongly encouraged, but never mandatory. If you are interested, please review our FC Rules and if you feel you can abide by them, check out our Recruitment Info where you can find an explanation of the recruitment process, as well as a link to the application. For those who wish to spend time with us or role-play with us but cannot commit to joining the FC, you are welcome to join our Discord server as a guest and/or our in-game Fellowship, "The Tea Party." Simply contact us for an invite, but please be mindful that when it comes to RP events with a limited amount of participants, FC members will be given priority, and some activities may be limited to FC members only. Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern is our free company estate, a large mansion nestled within the Lavender Beds. The free company house is a public role-play space where anyone is welcome to come role-play at anytime, and can be used as a venue for events with some prior discussion. To stop by when there is a crowd and the place is staffed by player characters, please see the Role-Play Event section below. If you wish to role-play in the teahouse outside of our event hours, you can assume NPC staff take care of your characters, or you can contact us and we will have a character come assist you if possible. Feel free to come take a look at our decor, and leave a message in the Guest Book if you please! You can learn more about Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern here. Lavender Beds Ward 5 Plot 58 These are our regularly scheduled RP events. We sometimes host one-off events both private and public, or participate in events hosted by other groups on the server, as well. For a full view of our upcoming events, please check out our calendar or join our Discord server or Fellowship for reminders! Public Events Our public events are open to anyone and everyone! If you are a stranger, come become a friend! Teatime - Our open teahouse event, hosted the first and third (and fifth, if applicable) Monday evening of each month beginning at 7:00 PM eastern time. Enjoy some of our teas and tasty treats! Check out the tea list here! Happy Hour - Our open tavern event with performances, hosted the last Thursday of each month beginning at 9:00 PM eastern time, performances starting at 10:00 PM. Enjoy our unique drink menu! Private Events Our private events are meant for our free company members, often as well as our Discord guests. We regularly have DMed events, social nights, eternal bondings, or OOC events like game nights and movie nights, sometimes scheduled and sometimes impromptu. We are always glad to role-play with other groups and individuals outside the FC! Please let us know if you are interested in working with us in any capacity. We are open to... Information brokering Clients - Please see information on how to hire us here! Storylines - As allies or as enemies, we are open to plots, pending discussion. Business Partners - Whether it's transporting goods, providing ingredients, or anything else we might need the teahouse can strike up a deal! Retailers - Shroudrose will conditionally allow the bulk purchase of our goods to sell at other businesses! Performers - We welcome entertainment for our public events whether it is song, dance, stories, or anything otherwise! If you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact the Free Company Leader. In Game: Faye Covington Discord: Destiny (Faye)#8463 RPC: Faye Tumblr: Fair-fae Follow Teatime on Tumblr!
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untilOn Friday, October 22nd starting at 8:00 EDT at Nanawa Mines (X:21, Y:12) in Central Thanalan on the Balmung server, Shroudrose Teahouse will be participating as a vendor in the Crimson Circle's Black Market, offering both our tea as well as our information brokering and private investigation services! Come get some tea, literal or figurative, and enjoy all the market has to offer! More information here!
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Stuck on how to progress your character's plot or your FC's storyline? Want to create an interesting arc with another player character? Maybe just want an excuse for your character to meet some new people and network with other groups? Perhaps even want some test subjects participants to DM an encounter? The Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern is a cozy teahouse and bar located within the Lavender Beds of the Twelveswood, but lesser known is that the same establishment serves as information brokering and private investigations business. Teatime can help provide information on any person, place, or thing. What you need to know OOC: Due to the potentially questionable nature of the business, the information brokering side of things is kept on the down-low IC, but it’s no total secret. If you have reason for your character to know, then you can assume they do. Our FC is not lore-strict, but we are lore-friendly. We are flexible and can accommodate for bending the lore, but not breaking it. Please be respectful of this and do not knowingly ask our FC to investigate anything that goes against lore or reasonable belief, or that may otherwise be uncomfortable or inappropriate. Teatime has no interest in getting on the wrong side of the law. Any deals involving anything too immoral or illegal may potentially be declined... and maybe tattled to the proper authorities. All payments are IC, no actual gil or item exchanges necessary. We can find information in two ways: If your character needs to know something to advance your own plot, your character can hire Teatime, and you can give us the necessary information OOC along with any details about when/how/where you wish our characters to discover it, which we can either role-play (be it with NPC's, DMing, or otherwise) or assume to have happened behind the scenes. This is your story, so the details will be in your control as much as you wish for them to be! Teatime can then relay the information to your character. If your character wishes for Teatime to gather information on another player character, Teatime can try to obtain this information. This will happen organically via role-play or with whatever cooperation the other role-player is willing to give. Given this involves the variable of a third party, we cannot guarantee results this way. We will not metagame for information on other characters, though eavesdropping IC will be considered fair game, unless any party objects. This is meant to be a fun and collaborative experience, so we will respectfully drop any job where a participant is unwilling or unhappy. You may be responsible for getting us in touch OOC with the player of any character you want us to obtain information on. We want to embrace "secrecy" as much as possible for the fun and immersion of the RP, but we have to make some sacrifices in the name of fairness to all parties and we hope you will be understanding! If you are interested in using Teatime's services or otherwise setting up a role-play with us, feel free to contact us here, message Faye Covington in game, or on Discord: Destiny (Faye)#8463. You can also drop by our FC house at Lavender Beds, Ward 5, Plot 58 for RP, but please be aware there may be no one present unless you schedule with us beforehand!
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The Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern is a cozy teahouse and bar located within the Lavender Beds of the Twelveswood, but lesser known is that the same establishment serves as information brokering and private investigations business, Teatime. Teatime can help provide information on any person, place, or thing. What you need to know OOC Due to the potentially questionable nature of the business, the information brokering side of things is kept on the down-low, but it’s no total secret. If you have reason for your character to know, then you can assume they do. Our FC is not lore-strict, but we are lore-friendly. We are flexible and can accommodate for bending the lore, but not breaking it. Please be respectful of this and do not knowingly ask our FC to investigate anything that goes against lore or reasonable belief. Teatime has no interest in getting on the wrong side of the law. Any deals involving anything too immoral or illegal may potentially be declined... and maybe tattled to the proper authorities or sold as information to some do-gooders. All payments are IC, no actual gil or item exchanges necessary. We can find information in two ways: If your character needs to know something to advance your own plot, your character can hire Teatime, and you can give us the necessary information OOC along with any details about when/how/where you wish our characters to discover it, which we can either role-play or assume to have happened behind the scenes. Teatime can then relay the information to your character. If your character wishes for Teatime to relay information on another player character, Teatime can try to obtain this information. This will happen organically via role-play or with whatever cooperation the other role-player is willing to give. Given this involves the variable of a third party, we cannot guarantee results this way. We will not metagame for information on other characters (though eavesdropping IC will be considered fair game). If you are interested in using Teatime's services or otherwise setting up a role-play with us, feel free to catch us IC, or contact us OOC via RPC, Discord, or in-game to organize some RP. Disclaimer: Any job you bring to us may potentially be used as a hook for our private FC investigation mission RP's. These RP's are just to give our FC members something to do and help their characters be involved in the work! You do not have to accept the happenings of any of these role-plays as canon to your own character's story. Follow Teatime on Tumblr!
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