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Sorry about the silence! It’s been a crazy busy last few months for myself and Drekki, and I kind of forgot about the tumbling device! But I come with a new announcement, Drekki’s new bar is officially open! In a collaborative effort with Balmung’s foremost lore-friendly Va11 Hall-a RPer, Jill Stingray, we have opened HE11 F1-R: Fantasy Bartender Action Magitek Bar in the Goblet! Check the RP calendar for event times! Right now, we’re every other week, but as we hire more staff we will up it to weekly.

Check us out at he11f1r.carrd.co

Packed opening night at the Demon Queen’s Bar! Shoutouts to all of my bartenders for hopping in to help! Thanks L’iru Wulf, Minoshi Tasugana, and our special guest bartender, the famous Jill Stingray! Missed the fun? We’ll be back in two weeks! Check out the menu here. https://drakkenheart.carrd.co/

Official Opening Date

The Demon Queen’s Tavern’s grand re-opening will be this Tuesday (the 24th) at 7pm CST! If you’re interested in bartending or performing, please drop me an inbox message and we’ll work out the details! Looking forward to seeing you all there!

The Return of the Drakkenheart Tavern

Going to be re-opening my bar on Balmung here in the next week or so, now that I’m done remodeling for the most part. It’ll be open every other Tuesday at 7pm CST, if anyone wants to hit me up about bartending plz and thanks.

New Drekki artwork get! She recently took up dancing in the last few months, always gotta have a new performance angle. Visit https://twitter.com/Kendellm07 and keep an eye out for commission openings!

Gonna be sharing some old artwork of Drekki over the next few days! Even demon queens enjoy pumpkin spice lattes.

Insight into Drekki Performances

Thanks to everyone that decided to follow me! I’m looking forward to getting to meet all of you guys and get to know you better. For my first post out to my followers, I wanted to give some insight into how I put on the shows when I head to open mic nights on the RP Calendar. First, the tools. I never really got the hang of the Bard tool that’s pretty popular and available off Reddit. Never got it to work with the timing on my macros and it kept dropping notes on my files, so I used this weird combination of Bome Midi Translator and Free Piano to process the files I use. So! Steps in the process. How do I determine what songs I play - I don’t really stick to a genre. If I like the song, I endeavor to make it happen. Could be classic rock songs, some weird nightcore track I heard, an anime opening, really anything. Sometimes I’ll try to stick to a theme. There was a brief period where Drekki was The Demonic Idol of Song and Darkness so I stuck to anime openings and pop songs. More often than not I prefer to play lore-friendly classic rock songs. Getting the song ready for the stage - Once I figure out a song I want to play, I go scouring for the file. My go-to is Musescore, but I don’t have issues hunting down midis on really obscure websites. I’ve had a few rare occasions where my desire to play a song has outweighed my laziness and I’ve made the file myself, but that’s been a super rare occurrence. Once I find a file for the song I’ve chosen, I toss it into onlinesequencer.net for clean up. Messing with it to make it sound good in-game can take anywhere from 30m to an hour or two, depending on the quality of the file I’m working with. Singing and Playing - One unique thing I haven’t seen replicated very often that I do is have the lyrics for the song timed to output in /yell or /say while the song is playing. This is honestly a really easy thing to do, though sometimes it can be time-consuming to get the timing right. And the problem is FFXIV has a text limit for macros so I usually have to cut the songs off at the midway point. Let’s take one of my most popular ones, Sweet Home Steppes of Azim. Here’s a snippet of what it looks like in the macro: /wait 14.0 /yell “Big wheels keep on turnin’, carry me home to my kin.” <wait.8> /yell “Singin’ songs about tha Steppe-land, I miss ‘ole Azim once again I think it’s a sin.” <wait.20> /yell “Well I heard Hien Rijin sing about ‘er. Well I heard Garlemald put ‘er down.” <wait.9> /yell “Well I hope these foreigners remember a Xaela tribe don’t need ‘em around anyhow.” <wait.9>

Even if the lyrics for a song start as soon as the playing does, at a bare minimum I put a /wait 4.0 at the front. I have this neurotic counting that I do where I count to 4 as I do steps. So it’s: One, click the macro. Two, click the instrument icon. Three, tab into Freepiano. Four, hit play. IRL Bard Stuff - While I enjoy performing and doing stuff with the performance tools and my macros, I have an immense respect for people that hook up their keyboards to their computers and play the songs by hand. You can always tell how much cleaner a song sounds when someone belts it out freestyle, but the main reason I perform songs in game is because I like twisting lyrics to fit things in game. And doing the lyrical stuff is more important to me than playing the songs. It’s why I don’t do instrumentals anymore, I’d rather leave those to people that play by hand for them to shine. You’ll never see me doing instrumentals at an RP event. Killing time in a map party or waiting for a queue, sure. But not on-stage. IRL I play the guitar at a pretty average level. Much more suited to being the rhythm guitarist over the lead, and I don’t practice at all like I should. I’ve been taking up the tin whistle to toot my way around ren faires but I am like a child in those regards.

LFRP - Drekki Drakkenheart

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DETAILS –––

Age:27

Race: Au Ra - Xaela

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

Alignment: Chaotic Stupid (Mostly good, sometimes Neutral)

Marital Status: Married

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE –––

Hair: Red dyed white, sometimes red shows through

Eyes: Red with one yellow limbal ring in good eye

Height: 5′4″

Build: Lean and Athletic

Distinguishing Marks: Damaged eye, doesn’t light up anymore. Stab scar on stomach, several smaller scars.

Common Appearance: Usually never without one of her several pairs of fake demon horns. Usually dresses over the top in something befitting a stage performer, but if she’s without her performance equipment she’s usually dressed in casual clothing. Dressing up for her is rare upon rare.

PERSONAL –––

Profession: Mercenary/Singer/Dancer/Magitek Blacksmith

Hobbies: Drinking/Music/Gambling/Creating impractical weapons

Languages: Common Hyur, Ancient Auri, Hingan, Limsan Slang

Birthplace: Steppes of Azim

Residence: Bar located in The Goblet, apartment in The Goblet

TRAITS –––

Extroverted / In Between / Introverted Disorganized / In Between / Organized Close Minded / In Between / Open Minded Calm / In Between / Anxious Disagreeable / In Between / Agreeable Cautious / In Between / Reckless Patient / In Between / Impatient Outspoken / In Between / Reserved Leader / In Between / Follower Empathetic /In Between / Apathetic Optimistic / In Between / Pessimistic Traditional / In Between / Modern Hard-working / In Between / Lazy Cultured / In Between / Uncultured Loyal /In Between / Disloyal Faithful / In Between / Unfaithful

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION –––-

SMOKING HABIT: Doesn’t Smoke DRUGS: Has done drugs infrequently ALCOHOL: Heavy alcoholic

RP Hooks –––-

Demon Queen of Song and Darkness - Drekki has been advertisted in several papers and performance announcements as the bard Drakkenheart, along with her brother, Ragna. She is a frequent performer and will often play songs she hasn’t “audience tested” before in social areas like the Quicksand. Most bars and taverns know her name, and she has a long-standing agreement with Momodi for performing on the streets outside the Quicksand.

The Demon Queen’s Tavern - While it has undergone many names and changes in the years that she has owned it, she is still the proprietor of a small bar and general store in the Goblet.

Killer Queen - Drekki was arrested several years ago for enacting vigilante justice in the streets of Ul'dah, and was tried for the murder of thieves in a public street. She was forced to serve in the Maelstrom during the Ala Mhigan war, and her Xaelic nature had her shine on the battlefield. Maybe you saw her slicing a path through enemies while also fighting in the war.

Shadowy Dealings - Served in the Yakuza for a brief stint as a weapons and armor dealer. While she doesn’t bring it up ever, she still stops by her former group to perform for them.

Skysteel Hopeful - Drekki took her blacksmithing to the next level by becoming an apprentice smith at the Skysteel Manufactory. If you are also involved with Skysteel, there’s a good chance you might have seen her training under a worker there.

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