Non-Adventurers and the Quicksand

[Aya]

My suggestion for dealing with this fellow is to point and laugh, liberally! :lol:

[TheLastCandle]

This guy sounds like a real peach. I wonder if he actually roleplays with anybody, or if he just spends all the time he could be RPing just berating people for not conforming to his limited view.

[Kage]

Well according to the logs, L-name got G-name to back him up. So he obviously got -one- person to RP with him.

[TheLastCandle]

I remember the Weirdly-Vocal-Anti-ERP-Guy-Who-Ended-Up-Getting-Banned-Here, but L-name is definitely not an alt of his. L-name is a legacy character, as he has the chocobo; Weirdly-Vocal-Anti-ERP-Guy is not. This means that along with L-name's good friend G-name, there are at least three people on Balmung who act like this. And that makes me sad. :

[Kage]

Oh yeah. Weirdly-Vocal-Anti-ERP-Guy is definitely not L-name.

 

But L-name does have a friend in G-name. Who also sounds pretty douche-y.

 

Hence, I'm glad I know the names of all three and hence can avoid them.

[LiadansWhisper]

Oh yeah. Weirdly-Vocal-Anti-ERP-Guy is definitely not L-name.

 

But L-name does have a friend in G-name. Who also sounds pretty douche-y.

 

Hence, I'm glad I know the names of all three and hence can avoid them.

 

Oh man, I remember Weirdly-Vocal-Anti-ERP-Guy and his crusades in the /shout channels in Gridania. o_O

 

I wish I knew the names of the other dudes!

[Dravus]

Is there a possibility that it may simply be a really devoted troll? Back in WoW there was a guy who spent 6-8 hours each day trying to 'troll' role-players by flying around and spamming. Due to Blizzard not generally caring about that sort of thing it took four months for him to receive a ban - but he literally logged on every day for hours on end to spout nonsense in various chat channels and harass anyone he found role-playing.

 

It's surprising how much time and effort some people will spend being a prick on the internet, especially if they think they've got an audience. I get the feeling that anyone trying to tarnish every role-player as a potential hardcore ERP fiend is just trying to stir up controversy and get a reaction.

[Merri]

As some one who's character has an extensive background with the Adventurer's Guilds, I figure I might chime in, even if the general consensus has already been reached. :>

 

Honestly, I wish more people were into the whole idea of being an actual adventurer. There's an incredibly in-depth amount of lore regarding Eorzea's adventuring workforce, and they're incredibly prominent these days, just as they were prior to the calamity.

 

Some of the best RP I've had has spawned out of hanging around the guild and grabbing a few guildleves ICly to hammer out with some other adventurers. It's just...  ....fun. There's also a ton of lore around guildleves themselves, as they're a huge staple of the adventuring business. Being an "Adventurer" has a lot of background available to it. It was much more prominent back during 1.0, but you literally would go out and do guildleves with your friends as one of the main forms of content for quite some time. Even the first endgame revolved around guildleves. 2.0 sort of downplayed them, but from an in-character perspective, guildleves are a huge staple of the adventuring trade. Echo-induced flashback aside, the original intro did a great job painting the idea of what the adventurer's guilds are like in Eorzea. If you keep an eye out, yes, there are in fact a few civilians hanging around inside, like the two Lalafell that come into the shot at one point.

 

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That tangent aside, the Adventurer's Guilds serve three purposes. One, they all happen to be housed in taverns that are open to the public. You most certainly don't have to be registered with the guild in order to have a drink or two. It just so happens that most of the customers are in fact adventurers because the guilds are located inside them. Adventurers come in, have a few drinks, and plan on what guildleves they're going to tackle for the day. That's the primary reason you'd see so many adventurers hanging around, though there are naturally other reasons for adventurers to be there, as well as civilians.

 

 Two, they have inns, which also are open to the public as far as we know. It's never explicitly stated that they're adventurer-exclusive to my knowledge, and they're quite large. Ul'dah's actually extends out near the gold court, even.

 

Lastly, they house the guilds themselves, which is what attracts the adventurers. Namely, they house levecounters, which are the only place an adventurer is able to obtain guildleves outside of sanctioned officers of the grand companies who present company-issued leveplates in the field. In order to withdraw guildleves, you are required to be a registered member of the guild, as that specific business is facilitated entirely by the guild in the first place.

TL;DR

 

The taverns and inns are open to the public, but yes they have a large presence of adventurers for the obvious reason of the guilds being located inside of them.

[Aduu Avagnar]

If I wasn't having fun RPing Nako as a soldier, an adventurer would be his port of call, I know if anything happened to force his leaving the army proper, he would sign up and remain signed on as a free brigade member.

[Alastyrr]

Honestly, I wish more people were into the whole idea of being an actual adventurer. There's an incredibly in-depth amount of lore regarding Eorzea's adventuring workforce, and they're incredibly prominent these days, just as they were prior to the calamity.

 

Tbh, I wish I could have AJ be an adventurer! But, for IC reasons (namely that she just wouldn't be able to handle herself in a fight against monsters like most adventurers can), that's currently not possible. Adventuring life would suit her just fine, but she lacks the combat skills to make it happen.

[Sounsyy]

I bring you all definitive PROOF that The Quicksand, The Carline Canopy, The Drowning Wench and all of their inn rooms are not adventurer exclusive.

 

[video=youtube]

 

The Great Agent of Enquiry has unwittingly solved another mystery! Good on you, inspector!

 

(skip to @9:10 to see the best part, and the single most proofiness of proof ever proven to exist as proof in a court of law.)

[Kage]

I think I'm going to save that if I ever meet these people ICly or OOCly and need to deal with them.

 

Not that I will considering I've blacklisted them.

 

 

 

Although I know a few people who say they are familiar with their very strict lore thing... and then they say "maybe it's a 1.0 thing" and that video just proves... no.