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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!

"Ahahahaha! Fancy yourself an aspiring sorceress?" "Are you brave enough to dive into the deep of matters and some perplexities of the arcane that some others would consider.... unnatural?" "Well then, would-be witches. Wherever you come from, you may find yourself at home with this wonderfully wicked band!" https://caliginosus.carrd.co/ A newly christened Free Company, this dark alliance of witches is seeking out those who find themselves sharing in the circle's ambitions. Will they see themselves finding work with an underground order of mages? This might be the Company for them! There is a focus on magic and intrigue as an overarching theme of the storylines this Company will be about, perhaps even coming into conflict with the law from time to time. FC Leader : Kokoghoa Borlaaq [illegaleagle90#8263] Themes: Dark, Magic, +18, Witches, Sorcery, Adventure Estate: Pending

Aeonian Expeditionary Project - What lies beyond the Horizon A Balmung Free Company IC: Have we really discovered everything this world has to offer? All its secrets? Do we have the best understanding of Aether and Magic we will ever have? Are the technologies we use today, the best they will ever be? Or could all of this be better? A deep-rooted desire to see what lies beyond the horizon, what tomorrow may bring, and what those of ages past have left for us to unearth, fuels the Aeonian Expeditionary Project. The Aeonian Expedition has been commissioned by the Grand Companies to explore affairs throughout Eorzea and beyond. The projects mandate centers on research, knowledge, cataloging, assessment, and containment of anything that might expose the people of this realm. With a broad mandate and substantial funding, there are few limits to which the organization can delve into. OOC: Our community is an friendly and welcoming outlet for people to explore and share their stories. With our open concept based in game lore any player can find a home in our company. We Offer: Campaign outcomes that are based on player involvement. The story grows and evolves with your character's decisions! Weekly events In Game and through Discord for players with busy schedules. A unique Rolling system that allows you to explore your character's abilities. Simple profiles are created for players not as interested in dice systems. An original storyline combined with social and player-made events make for a unique experience! Are you looking for a helpful community that will focus on your character's inclusion at the participation level you're interested in? Our dedicated officer team will work with you to find out how best to include your character in the company! Here in the Aeonian Expeditionary Project, our primary goal is to ensure all players have fun and enjoy themselves while playing FFXIV. Aeonian Expeditionary Project has launched it's main storyline and has a strong core player base. We'd love for you to add your character's story! Private Message me for more information or visit our Carrd below. Discord: Joe (Dalliance)#0148 We appreciate your consideration of our Company! https://aeonianexpeditionaryproject.carrd.co/

Hi Everyone! Holy crap I came back and re-did this since I've been working on my character. Why I'm here: I go by Bauldric online and I am looking to make connections for my character and to make some new friends that enjoy the same aspects of the game as I do. This can be participants for IC crafting quests, adventures, business settings, and other non-sense I can't even think of currently. I'm looking for mainly long-term roleplay opportunities and I am not opposed to almost any kind of RP so long as it based in the story of the character's life. So hit me up if you are interested! IC Info: Full Name: Kindled Flame Age: 29 Place of Birth: Ul'dah Race: Hellsguard Roegadyn Home: None at the moment (Traveling Trader) Profession: Tradeswoman/Surveyor Primary Skills: Working trade deals and obtaining supplies Mineral identication and collection Geological and General Surveying Jewelry making Link for backstory and in-depth character info. OOC Info: Playtimes: I am a night owl but work a day job. On weekends I can be found at any time but during the weekdays I work 8am-5pm. I am found at PST times. Contact Info: Contact me in-game at Kindled Flame or by DM on this site. You can also leave a reply here on this thread or snag another contact method from my Carrd.

Come to the The Rainbow Room on Mateus (Goblet W 19 P 49) on the third Sunday of every month at 10 PM Eastern Time (New York, USA) to meet and greet fellow food and drink enthusiasts. A small tasting menu of unique drinks and tapas will be served as complimentary to visitors. Donations are welcome but not required.

The Rainbow Room (Mateus, Goblet W 19 P 49) invites you to join us for a night of revelry and a costume contest on Sunday, October 25, 2020 from 10 PM - 1 AM Eastern Time (New York, USA). Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes!

Come out to The Rainbow Room (Mateus, Goblet W 19 P 49) on Sunday, October 18, 2020 for a night of spooky stories around the campfire! Listen to and share your most spine tingling and hair raising tales as you huddle around the fire and hope the light keeps the monsters at bay! Prizes will be awarded to the spoooookiest storytellers!

Join us at The Rainbow Room (Mateus, Goblet, W 13 P 45) on Sunday, October 11, 2020 from 10 PM - 1 AM Eastern Time (New York, USA) for Open Stage Night and a special Witching Hour midnight performance by Clayde Lockheart. Also featuring guest Mistress of Ceremonies N'Bhadra Jhiti.

The Rainbow Room cordially invites you to a Murder Mystery Dinner on Sunday, October 4, 2020 from 10 PM - 1 AM Eastern Time (New York, USA). Can you solve the crime, or will you be the next victim?! Mateus, Goblet W 13 P 45

The Celestial Dance Network is a Crystal datacenter-wide community that serves as a hub to help tribal/traditional-themed Seeker of the Sun & Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te role-players find role-play with other tribal/traditional-themed role-players. We offer a Crystal datacenter-wide Discord as well as three optional in-game cross-world linkshells. We are happy to accept players that are new to Miqo'te lore/role-play! We welcome Miqo'te that are: Exiled from their people. Keeper and Seeker mixed. Have tribal/traditional roots. (Ex: Raised tribal/traditional, now a city Miqo'te interested in exploring their roots.) Discord: — Join our Discord! You will land in a #lobby area. A member of staff will be with you as soon as possible to tag you appropriately and send you to the main section of the Discord. ☾.｡.:* ★ What We Offer ★ *:.｡.☽ An environment that proactively strives to maintain a casual, comfortable, immersive atmosphere to build your character's story. Monthly gatherings to make contacts with new characters as well as other events that include themes such as sparring, story-telling, festivals, tavern RP, hunts, and more. A lore-friendly community with designated sections and channels exclusively for character-building, including but not limited to sept/clan-crafting, prompts, and lore discussion. ☾.｡.:* ★ Community Rules ★ *:.｡.☽ We are aware that our ruleset and tone section presents us as a strict community with high role-play standards. That simply isn't our intent and you will find, contrary to the language here, that the staff promotes an easy-going atmosphere. It's important to us that we explain our expectations and tone in a "no-nonsense" way so you can assess if this community is a fit for you or not. The reality is that we're a bunch of shy folks flailing around trying to get along, have a few laughs, and enjoy the game together. You must respect the tone that the administrators of the community curate. Swearing, sarcasm, dry humor, dark humor, dirty jokes, ribbing one another, and spicy tom memery prevails in the culture of this community. You can also expect that adult topics will pop up in discussion or in role-play and we expect you to handle it in a mature fashion. We have taken the time to list a couple of tenets of note below. Be courteous to your fellow community members. Leave your Out of Character prejudice elsewhere. All nationalities, races, religions, sexual preferences, and gender identities, et cetera are welcome here. Violating this tenet is one of the quickest methods to getting removed. Seek out RP. Don’t wait for it to seek you. You have several outlets at your disposal. This is not an echo chamber. Constructive criticism done in the spirit of civility is welcome in the community. In that same vein, another player having a different opinion over role-play is not a personal attack and do not treat it as such. This is not a furry convention. No Out of Character cutesy purring/nyah/lap-sitting/meow behavior. This behavior is viewed as grating, best left on Second Life, and a significant amount of our player base may have joined this community to escape this behavior. Substance over style. Our screenshots/showcase channels are not meant as competition for members to "out mod" each other and see who can "make the hottest character." These are also not channels for you to post "hot screenshots" of your characters repeatedly while never participating in role-play events. We want to see your role-play over your aesthetics! Use spellcheck and use proper grammar/punctuation/capitalization to your best ability. No one is perfect and mistakes happen, sometimes plenty of them, but expect a member of staff to pull you aside if your posts are not legible. If you want to start an in-depth discussion of politics and religion we recommend you find another outlet. The staff is not interested in moderating extensive political or religious debate. In fact, we don't care to moderate heated arguments at all. Take it to private message. No non-Miqo'te species. This community is focused on Miqo'te. The nature of an open community such as ours presents the unfortunate reality that new members will join that may disregard the rules, are new to role-play, display poor role-play etiquette/quality, or they simply don't mesh with you and are not your style. We ask for your patience and understanding. Be self-aware. Do not make this community a hostile or intimidating environment for others, especially for the purpose of browbeating another member into ERP. We have noticed that the prevailing method of attempting to coerce others into ERP is not overt advances, but rather, a more subtle pattern of unwelcome misconduct or behavior that's based on sex and pervasive enough that a reasonable person could find it intimidating. Please keep the staff informed if you drastically fantasia or name change. Do not directly rip from real-world mythology/culture. Want that Greco or Norse inspired sept or clan? Cool with us! Go for it! Please do not directly rip off names of deities or major historical figures in the pursuit of this. (ex: U'bastet, H'ercules, etc. Yes. I know. Don't look at me like that.) Do not borrow heavily from or create clones of NPCs. Do not post explicit gore of people or animals being cut open, mutilated, or innards on display. This includes surgical procedures. When in doubt, spoiler it out! Confine explicit NSFW imagery to its proper place. While we cannot guarantee the text in the Discord will be clean, we ask that you confine NSFW to the Shadow Realm & Sin Bin respectively. This includes your avatar. We do not control you and your account, however, you will be removed if your avatar contains sexual/violent explicit imagery or insinuations such as "ahegao." Communicate with us. We are human and might miss something. We cannot fix a problem if you do not come to the staff and speak with us. You (the player) and your character must be over the age of eighteen. Seven hundred-year-old "ten-year-olds" are not acceptable, nor is any other form of “loli” character, no matter how old they “actually” are. All characters are on the same even playing ground in this community. Let us preface this section with a disclaimer and be crystal-clear: We are not here to lore-police you. What you do outside of the Celestial Dance Network is quite frankly none of our business. Our community, however, is an open community to all. Oldhat and newcomer members alike have not consented to playing in a setting where your character has a lore-breaking ability, ultra-rare talent, or legendary artifact. Giving your character ultra-rare abilities/artifacts/gifts/et cetera quite understandably can and will make some members of the community uncomfortable as they are no longer on an even playing field with you and your character. One of the best examples is how rare Black Magic and White Magic are and how difficult they are to accomplish In-Character. To avoid Out-of-Character conflict, many players simply make the choice to gloss it over In-Character or have their character treat characters who make these types of claims as nutcases. Respect their wishes and personal preferences. As always, if you have questions, feel free to clarify with the staff. We will do our utmost to work with you as we do actually want you here! Below are some tenets we have adopted to ensure that all characters are on even-ground: In Character Actions = In Character Consequences. We will not be accepting ancient Allagan experiments, extradimensionals, nor extraterrestrial characters at this time. You are welcome to gush over your Mystel or the "alternative universe" version of your character. No tempered or those that can temper. The echo is fine to a reasonable extent. No halfbreeds. (Au Ra/Miq'ote, Hyur/Miqo'te, etc.) Just to be clear: half-Seeker and half-Keeper (or any percentage of the two) is fine. You cannot dictate the lore of a full Seeker of a Sun tribe. Keep in mind that most in the community have crafted their own culture, backstory, and headcanons for the branch or sept of a tribe that their character is from. In order to avoid stepping on the toes of other community members, we do not allow our members to claim the lore of an entire tribe. Instead, we recommend an informal (or even formal!) nickname for their branch of the tribe based on your own creative writing. (Example: X'zirashah Bakt, the owner's character, is from the Lynx tribe. Her people are called "Dune Specters" as one of many nicknames attributed to them.) At this time we are not accepting characters that belong to Free Companies that claim the name of an entire tribe, as this does not align with the spirit of this rule. (Example: "The Lynx Tribe" or "The Bear Tribe" FC name.) Do not project your own lore onto established NPCs/groups/organizations in-game. You can very easily craft your own branch of NPCs. We are not accepting Hrothgar-model Miqo'te at this time. We do not allow characters to hold a position of exceptional ruling power in any canonical government or organization. This is including but not limited to the ruling bodies of Eorzea's City-States. This is not extended to the creation and cultivation of player-owned organizations/septs/clans. In fact, CDN encourages the creation of hierarchy within player-made clans and septs. Some examples for clarity: Claiming to be a General of a city-state army. Claiming to be a close direct-report to a high ranking NPC. Claiming to be a character that can make sweeping legislation over city-states/Eorzea/et cetera. Low to medium-high ranking member of Maelstrom/Adders/Flames, et cetera welcome! Low to medium-high Resistance movement members welcome! We are lore-bending, not lore-breaking. If you role-play any of the bullet points disallowed in this section this is not a reflection on you and your choices. These are our preferences and how we wish to maintain our community. Black Magic, White magic, and voidsent should be treated IC accordingly. We are not accepting Female Nunh/Female model Nunh. This is not a statement on gender roles, those who are transgender, or personal identity in the real world. No incest role-play. No "abusive Nunh" and/or controlling Nunh trope. In this community, Nunh are family IC. They are trusted members of the community. We are currently not accepting characters with this trope prevalent in their backstory. See below for more information. A single man cannot control a host of strong huntresses. Yes, we know about Coeurlking, no, we don't care. The "alpha Nunh" and "beta Tia" trope is not welcome. We do not know where this trope came from, but in this community, it goes in the trash. Here, Nunh, Tia, and female Miqo'te are equals who love and respect each other as family. A Tia is not 'below' a Nunh or for that matter a female Seeker. Birth control exists, women can have sex freely, there is plenty of evidence of strong adventuring Tia in-game as well as female Seeker being sexually liberated. (Ex: the women of the Drake tribe in the Forgotten Springs.) Subhuman treatment of Tia would imply that the majority female society is accepting of it. This is insulting towards huntresses who grew up with them as sons, brothers, and fathers in their precious family unit. We don't consider Fantasia/race changing something that can happen IC. If your character starts speaking about a previous life of them being another race, don't be surprised when other characters IC think they're pants-on-head nuts. No overpowered characters. Characters who can casually wipe city blocks off of the map, time travel, teleport to other worlds, or withstand a haymaker from Titan will not be a good fit for this community. Such characters tend to pressure other players into making their characters that powerful, or risk being made irrelevant in combat RP. The general rule of thumb is that if your character's strength even approaches the WoL's, much less surpasses it, then they are too powerful for community. No cult-like role-play where the Nunh controls the Seeker women sexually and/or romantically. As stated before, the thought of one man controlling multiple women in a society where the women are both seen as equals and outnumber him is simply ridiculous. This will not fly here. We do not want a pervasive theme of rape like this in our community. We welcome non-Eorzean based tribal/traditional Miqo'te save one exception. Is your character from an island? Thavnair? That's perfectly fine! The only exception is that we are not accepting Doman/Hingashi-born Miqo'te at this time. If your character has briefly lived or traded in Othard/Hingashi/Kugane that is fine. Out of respect for those who have not finished Shadowbringers as of yet, the following tenet is placed in the spoilers tag. We recommend you not read it unless you are finished with the Shadowbringers MSQ. Leave personal differences and cross-server drama at the door. Every person who applies to the community will receive a fair shake. If you have a negative personal history with someone who joins the community before or after you — you are welcome to speak to the staff — but unless you provide compelling evidence you must accept that until they act out you have the option of blocking and ignoring them. There will be no Final Fantasy server drama or bashing in this community. No one server is "better" than the other. This is not Party Grindr. Let us be abundantly clear: we do not care if our members ERP in their own private time. This particular community is not a fit for ERP-centric characters nor does it exist as a venue to find a romantic relationship for your character. If you are going to be hosting 18+ events with sexually explicit and/or incredibly gory/violent themes—you must include a disclaimer in the advertisement or call for role-play. Transgender characters and players are welcome! We have transgender characters, players, and staff in our community, and out of respect for them ... No futa, dickgirls, shemales, cuntboys, traps, or similarly labeled trans-fetish characters. We are currently not accepting characters with search information that contain f-list (or any type of fetish) links (also represented as /c or /c/). We will perform regular inactivity checks. This is nothing personal. We will occasionally remove members that no longer appear to be active and have zero presence in the community. The key is communication! Talk to a member of staff if you are going to be inactive or on hiatus. If you feel if you have been removed by mistake or wish to rejoin, all you need to do is follow the steps above to be reinvited. We have specific protocols and regulations for events we ask you to respect. Weekly gatherings are community-focused events. Please run it by a staff member when you intend to bring guests to them! Feel free to announce events that you, your linkshell, your friends, or your FC are hosting. We ask that you not use our community as an advertisement venue for other Discords, linkshells, Free Companies, or your personal Seeker sept/Keeper clan.