Trouble Is As Trouble Does

It's been a good run but Nefzen has been officially retired from play. Read here for more info.

[nefzenffxiv]

[OOC] Muse, a definition

Ok… I have to, well I don’t want to say rant but just have to comment on this. Ever since I started this blog I’ve been following other FFXIV Blogs and I’ll see these “Send me something back I’ll tell you something about my muse”. This… confused the HELL out of me. Why? Because my muse is a dark tormentor who doesn’t care about handholding or being nice. My muse torments me day and night, sometimes badgering me to write non-stop and othertimes deserts me completely. My muse is my -inspiration-, my drive to create.

My muse is NOT my CHARACTER.

Until I joined the FFXIV RP community I had -never- heard this referenced like this. My writing and fanfic communities follow the classical definition that is in the dictionary.  Our muses are things outside us who give us the inspiration to create our characters, our stories, our art. Read the story of Calliope in the Sandman: Dream Country.

Now please don’t take this as a rant that demands everyone to change because they are “doing it wrong”. English is a living language that is constantly changing. It’s just.. confusing to me. And not just me. @erahsae-ffxiv was just as confused as I was. It wasn’t until I saw someone answer a question and I realized they were answering from the POV of their character that it finally clicked. Part of me just can’t accept it though so don’t expect me to use the two interchangeably. For many, many, MANY a year I’ve already established my bitch of a muse. So if stuff like that crosses my dash rather than reblogging it I might re-hash it with the word “muse” changed to “OC”.

Anyone else out there in the same boat?

[lethannaeda]

Posting this on my OOC blog because this is really an OOC thing.

So I was browsing through Tumblr today and ran into the whole ‘muse’ thing again, reminding me of this rant I wrote a while back. Even now, two years later it still just really irks me. 

Why you ask?

For a couple reasons to tell the truth.

First the the actual definitions of the word. 

verb (used with object), mused, musing.

3.to meditate on.

4.to comment thoughtfully or ruminate upon. 

noun

1.Classical Mythology.any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede(song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry),Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene(tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance),Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae. any goddess presiding over a particular art.

2.(sometimes lowercase) the goddess or the power regarded as inspiring a poet, artist, thinker, or the like.

3.(lowercase) the genius or powers characteristic of a poet.

Second is that there is a subtle psychological difference going on here that quite possibly may be overlooked. How to put this…. well first I’m not a professional psychologist or anything so this is just my personal opinion about how the English language interprets these words and how I’ve observed other players in my close to 15 years of RPing in MMOs (closer to 25 for actual RPing).

For me, the creative process goes sorta like this:

Inspiration/Idea -> Player/Writer -> Character/Story

My inspirations or actual ‘Muse” is something outside of my creations. It is what drives me to create and weave the stories i wish to tell. However if rather than getting that outside inspiration I’m solely driven by my own creations we have a closed loop.

           Player/Writer

       /                            \

         Character/Story

This closed loop is… well in this case, from my point of view, bad. When your stories have no outside influences you run into problems like stagnation. We grow through exposure. Any good author/artist will tell you that exposure to other writing/art helped them grow in ways they never would have otherwise. If the story or character you have seems to go nowhere or feel boring, repetitive, etc, then I suggest you look outside your creative process for inspiration.

It’s easiest to see the issues if you replace the writing/role playing with painting. An artist looks at a model or landscape. They then turn to their canvas to fill it with their interpretation of that object or scene. If you solely only look at what’s on that canvas in an effor to continue to fill it you likely will end up with a mess rather than a work of art. Even abstract expressionism takes feelings and emotions from the artist or situation, not the canvas they are working on. That canvas was blank to start with.

Just because we are dealing with words doesn’t change the creative process. It’s the same principle and we have even more of a blank canvas to work with than painters. All we have are our experiences to draw on.

I see it frequently where some get so absorbed in their character yet quickly their passion for it fades and they often make a new one, the cycle continues. Not knowing their situation makes me wonder if this might be the case. Of looking solely at that character for inspiration, as a muse, and not looking outside that character to expose them to new things and help them grow.

In any case, I know that using ‘muse’ to refer to one’s character is an established thing and that likely won’t change. For most it’s just a term, a label, and nothing else. I’ll never use it though. The next time you refer to your character, just think about what I’ve said here. If you don’t like using it (I’ve talked to a few before about this) then don’t. Why be pressured into using a term you don’t like? 

So if you ever hear me talk about my Muse, I’m not talking about any of my characters. I’m talking about that spark of creative inspiration that loves to torment me. My friends and I have been talking about our creative muses probably for close to 3 decades so if you talk about your muse to me I’m likely to not understand that you are referring to your character so please be patient while I figure it out. 

[accendieredsteele]

[OOC] New Face, New Name, New Me

It’s been a year now since I retired @nefzenffxiv unsubbed from FFXIV due to IRL goings on. But now I’m back!

Everyone say Hello to my new RP character on FFXIV Balmung server Accendie Redsteele.  Her profile is up and she’s ready for RP now. 

Hope to see folks around!

[nefzenffxiv]

*whistles nonchalantly and points*

@accendieredsteele

[where-is-the-rp]

BalCal Analysis: Trimester update. 

>>>Previous Post Here<<< >>>Review the data in your own copy here<<<

*Disclaimer:  This Analysis is done by amateurs. We are not experts, so take the values with a grain of salt. This Analysis only focuses on the Balmung RP Calendar, and does not take into account any events advertised outside of this. The Balmung RP Calender’s management was not involved in this project.

Four months have gone by since we first did the BalCal Analysis, and as we have just exited the first trimester of 2018, we thought it was an appropriate time to do an update on the data. 

Some things have changed: 

Weekday events now slightly outnumber weekend events - but given that the weekend has fewer days, it is still more popular than weekdays. 

Service events now has a lead over “Other Events” & Trade events are now slightly more popular than performance events. 

Bar/Tavern/Restaurant events still dominate everything else. 

No adventuring events so far! 

Total events so far, including recurring: 561*  2017′s 1st trimester: 382  *Including the 1st week of April 

Recurring events, end-2017: 60  Total loss of recurring events in 2017: 40  Recurring events, 1st Trimester 2018: 60  Total loss of recurrent events between November-March: 10 

Total amount of One-time events in 2017: 99  Total amount of One-time events in 2018, so far: 41 

Overall, I would say this is a positive update to the previous! We have fully recovered from the slump of Summer ‘17, and appear to be holding the level.  Keep it up Event Organizers! You are the blood in our veins. 

Got questions? Shoot this blog a message! We will try to respond to your queries as best as we can. 

[nefzenffxiv]

Oh so long ago when I started up the @balmungrpcalendar I never in my wildest dreams imagined it would grow like this. Thanks to everyone for making it last even long after I had to hand it off. 

[mirkemenagerie]

3 Days Until Stormblood

Part 1 of 3 posts going over the lore of Ala Mhigo to set the scene for the city’s role in the Stormblood storyline.

Part I: The History and Culture of Ala Mhigo “Born from Blood”

“Our home may be lost to us, but it takes more than stones and mortar to define who we are. No matter where we may be, Ala Mhigo lives on within us all. It is for you to decide what to make of this legacy.”           -Gundobald

Lodestone: “The highlands of Gyr Abania in the eastern reaches of Aldenard were once under the control of a martial nation known as Ala Mhigo. It was, perhaps, the historically conflicted nature of the territory that forged the country into a significant military power. Even as this aggressive nation sent its forces to conquer in the west, it repelled repeated attempts at invasion from the east. In the Year 1557 of the Sixth Astral Era, however, it finally fell to the incursions of the Garlean Empire. From that time onwards, the country became merely another imperial territory under the governance of its usurpers. Though the people of Ala Mhigo once revered Rhalgr, the Destroyer, as their patron deity, any such religious observance has since been forbidden by the controlling authorities.”

Encyclopedia Eorzea: “The Ala Mhigan flag is a field of purple upon which stands a silver griffin with sword in talons. The winged creature is the sigil of the nation’s royal house, and the blade signifies the force used to see all other clans bend the knee before them. Purple is the color of Rhalgr, the guardian deity of the nation, and is associated with His element of lightning. The hue’s presence on the pennant also marks the bond betwixt the royalty and the religious order of the Fist of Rhalgr.”

Government:

Encyclopedia Eorzea: “Though Ala Mhigo has long been ruled by kings, the Garlean invasion two decades past brought an end to the monarchy. The city-state is now a provisional imperial territory, and its people, the Emperor’s albeit unwilling subjects. Under the Garlean viceroy’s iron reign, not all Ala Mhigans have earned citizenship and its privileges. Many live in squalid conditions, their lives little better than those of slaves.”

Encyclopedia Eorzea: “All matters of governance fall to the viceroy - dispatched from Garlemald - and his staff.”

Racial Distribution:

60% Highlander Hyur

10% Midlander Hyur

10% Hellsguard Roegadyn

10% Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te

10% Other Races 

Industries:

Encyclopedia Eorzea - Mercenary Work: “In the rocky terrain of Gyr Abania, few are the patches of arable soil. There were many disputes over the extant ones - jealously guarded by their owners, and fiercely coveted by all others. Indeed, even after Ala Mhigo unified the region, little industry could grow from the lands. The men and women of the nation began to sell the only thing they could: their skill at arms. They found many buyers, particularly during the times of conflict betwixt the Eorzean city-states. Indeed, each nation is said to have had its own company of Ala Mhigan sellswords. Even today, many of those who fled the city-state eke out a living as mercenaries.”

Encyclopedia Eorzea - Magitek Manufacturing: “For many centuries, the mountain hamlets of Ala Mhigo were self-sufficient. Villagers coaxed crops to grow from small fields, and reared animals for their wool. However, the Garlean invasion brought an end to this way of life with magitek technology. Now, Ala Mhigans are forced to work for a pittance in great smoke-belching factories, while Garlemald reaps wealth and luxury from their labor.”

Military:

Encyclopedia Eorzea: “Ala Mhigo stands at the far-eastern tip of Abalathia’s Spine. For centuries, it commanded the lands of Gyr Abania, and was known as the premier military power amongst the Eorzean city-states. In the face of the armies of Garlemald, however, this might proved less than sufficient in repelling the Empire’s metal-clad warmachina, and thus has Ala Mhigo borne the yoke of imperial rule for the past twenty years.”

Tyon: “We had heard that Ala Mhigo’s armies were more than enough to fight off the Garleans. Tidings of her demise were… disheartening, to say the least. And now there is word that Garlemald has made a stronghold of the ruins. It is from there that they launch their winged monstrosities, such as the one which destroyed our own airship. Their juggernauts have been spotted in the skies over every part of the realm, and their silver-clad soldiers are becoming a regular sight in the borderlands. Aye, it would seem the Garleans mean to unleash their full wrath on Eorzea.”

Encyclopedia Eorzea: “Though now under Garlean rule, the city-state of Ala Mhigo once boasted the greatest military might of all Eorzea. Among its standing armies were the monks - ascetic warriors as dreaded by foes on the field of battle as the city-state’s great pikemen. The monks comprised an order known as the Fist of Rhalgr, and it was to this god - the Destroyer - that they devoted their lives of worship.”

Griffin Mount: “Fantastical winged beasts native to the unscalable peaks of Abalathia’s Spine, griffins actually have a long history of serving as mounts. Indeed, before the city-state’s fall, the Ala Mhigan army maintained a regiment of griffin-back soldiers who would harry opposing forces.”

1.0 Lodestone: “The strategy of the lancers is to out-range and fluster opponents with their long, two-handed polearms, peppering them with a barrage of thrusting attacks. They are trained with a number of weapons, giving a diversity to their attacks that makes them extremely versatile combatants. In former times, the longspear saw the most widespread use, due in great part to the influence of the proud lancer legions of Ala Mhigo. Since then, the guild has greatly expanded its armories to include a variety of weaponry, such as the throwing javelin.”

Erik: “Ala Mhigo dispatched its pikemen - known far and wide for their effectiveness against mounted units, such as the knights of Ishgard.”

Religion:

A more in-depth look at Ala Mhigo’s religion, Rhalgr the Destroyer, and the Monkhood of the Fists of Rhalgr can be found in this post.

Encyclopedia Eorzea: “During the Sixth Umbral Calamity, people fleeing the floods spied a blazing comet in the night sky. As Rhalgr’s symbol is the streaking meteor, they took it as a sign of the breaker of worlds, and followed it to a new home high in the mountains. Thus, worship of the Destroyer took root in the lands of Gyr Abania. In time, one sect known as the Fist of Rhalgr grew in power and influence, and came to flourish as the state religion. However, King Theodoric oppressed this faith with fire and sword, and the Garleans - finding no value in worship - have forbidden religion altogether.”

Encyclopedia Eorzea: “To better know the Destroyer, seek strength of body and mind - such are the teachings of the Fist of Rhalgr. Over the ages, this idea has shaped all who call the mountains home. Ala Mhigo is also geographically vulnerable to invasion from Ilsabard, and this ever-present threat has given birth to a culture that greatly values martial prowess.”

Hihibaru: “In case you’re unfamiliar, Rhalgr is the guardian deity of Ala Mhigo, which is currently under Garlean rule. It’s highly uncommon for folk of other nations to revere Him.”

Holidays:

Waldomar: “To say it plain, plants and animals rely on the turning of the seasons. The coming of the cold tells them to hoard their food, to shed their leaves against the chill. And in its passing, winter leaves behind melted snow to nourish the land. But winter hasn’t come to the North Shroud. The conjurers believe an imbalance in the aether is to blame, but no one can say for certain. Anywise, when we saw how despearate they were - and we Ala Mhigans are no strangers to desperation - we thought it might help to tell them about Winter’s Knell.

It’s a festival for ushering in winter, where grown-ups and younglings alike cry “Winter is coming!” while hurling snowballs in a joint effort to build a giant of snow named Father Frost. What sets him apart from ordinary snowmen, you ask? Why, it’s the gemstone he bears within his breast called the Heart of Winter, an age-old Ala Mhigan relic.”

Relics:

Waldomar: “A priceless Ala Mhigan relic called the Heart of Winter was embedded within the snow giant’s breast, and now it’s gone as well. The gemstone’s been with us since time immemorial. Dynasties came and went, kings ascended the throne and turned to dust - but the Heart fo Winter was there through it all. When the Garleans seized control, it was smuggled to safety, at the cost of many lives… And now it’s gone - lost by a fool who dreamed of building a snow giant. …But I refuse to wallow in self-pity any longer.”

Ice Elemental Incarnate: “In days long past, mine essence was entrapped within a stone by the art of wicked men. Of free will was I stripped, and borne away from my forest home, to be passed from one mortal hand to the next. There did I languish, waxing ever more weary, until at last I was taken by a deep sleep. So did I remain, dormant, till Fate saw fit to return me whence I came. And by snow’s rejuvenating embrace, I knew the waking world again and the power that was lost to me. My strength restored, I broke my bonds that I might once more savor the sweet air of freedom. Yet all around I found chaos. Chaos where harmony should rightly reign… And so did I set forth to bring order to the Twelveswood. Winter cometh, bearing with it the benison of ice and snow. Fare thee well, daughter of man.”

Waldomar: “Why, this is the Heart of Winter! But…what in creation’s become of its shine!? It’s as if the life has gone out of it! …I can scarce believe my ears. We’d all been told that the gemstone harbored great power. To learn that it was in truth a prison for an elemental turns my world upside down. Though it shames me to admit it, I am saddened to see the Heart of Winter bereft of its shine…but as a refugee, I know full well the pain of being parted from one’s home. A homecoming after what must’ve felt like an eternity - that’s a joy I’ll gladly share in. It also give some great comfort to know that winter is coming. It may take years - decades, even - but someday my kinsmen and I will return to our homeland. Never will we give up hope.”

Miscellaneous:

Encyclopedia Eorzea: “With so few crops, the Ala Mhigan diet is a rather stark affair. However, as a stop on the trade routes, the city-state has adopted some fare from the near East and Ilsabard. The foreign influence is said to be particularly apparent in the usage of spices. For drinks, it is customary to brew medicinal teas, such as ones made by steeping the ground horns of beasts in boiling water.”

Kukusi: “The Frondale’s Phrontistery’s search for curative reagents to use in new medicines encompasses the whole of Eorzea - including those parts one might not think to look. Many from the lands of Ala Mhigo, for example, show great promise… which makes the Garleans’ decision to occupy the region all the more regrettable.”

Meffrid: “In my homeland, long antelope horn is a traditional remedy with poison-purging properties. If you could bring me, say, four horns, I’d forever be in your debt.”

More lore on Ala Mhigo’s founding and history, the Autumn War, the Reign of the King of Ruin, and Ala Mhigo’s violent end at the hands of the Garlean Empire can be found below the Read More.

To view the full lore compilation on Ala Mhigo, click here.

Hope this helps! Stay tuned for Part 2 tomorrow.

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[its-one-dark-paradise]

Units of time/length measurement FFXIV

Ilm = Inch  Fulm = Foot (12 Ilms)  Yalm = Yard/Meter (3 Fulms)  Malm = Mile (1760 Yalms)

 Onze = Ounce  Ponze = Pound (16 Onzes)  Tonze = Ton (2,000 Ponze)

 Bell = Hour (1 Hour in game time = 2m 55s in real life)  Sun = Day (24 Bells)  Sennight = Week (8 Suns)  Fortnight = 2 Weeks (16 Suns)  Moon = Month (32 Suns)  Year = Year (12 Moons)  Epoch = 12 Years or one full Zodiac.

 Astral Era = Time when mankind builds up his civilizations. (Seem to average 1000-1500 years.)  Umbral Era = Time when mankind tears down his civilizations. (Length of time varies greatly.)

http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=13330  (main post) I highly recommend looking at the #5 post by Sounsyy!

(Also a thank you to Cam'nahl for finding this post for me <33)

[faerie-apples]

((Hope you don’t mind my adding to this))

The order of and the days of the week are:

Firesday –> Earthsday –> Watersday –> Windsday –> Iceday –> Lightningday –> Lightsday –> Darksday

[erahsae-ffxiv]

Missed an anniversary

Missed a chance to post this a few weeks months ago.  We have managed to mark one year that the Balmung RP Calendar has been it’s own entity and one and a half years we have been doing the RP Event Calendar weekly posts.

This started out as a little project @nefzenffxiv​ and I had to keep track of the insanity that is Balmung’s RP Scene for our own purposes as soon as we snuck into Balmung.  We had inadvertently stumbled into a @crescent-ffxiv​ pub crawl on our first week.  We were still building the personalities of our characters, so we can blame Crescent for that.   We also ran into a certain @diskwrite-ffxiv​ at the event whom we decided to adopt.  (Or maybe she adopted two strays, we don’t know) She then pointed out we should meet them at the @drunkenmoogle​.  The trail from there to now is lost to memory, chaos, confusion.

It’s been a very bumpy road from there until now, but where’ here.   Thanks for your support and patience.

Thanks for keeping Balmung’s RP community moving at such a speed that something like this feels like a necessity.  It’s -awesome-.

~ Erah’sae

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[nefzenffxiv]

Heh, it's been quite a year for sure.

Still wish I could have kept up with my original plans but life happens. "Nefling" > RP

Thanks again to Erah'sae for not only making the calendar easier to put out but taking over when I had more important things to take care of.

[erahsae-ffxiv]

Three days and a lot of crafting later...

So we’ve been busting our tails with the new in game house and have burned through a repair material from all the gathering and crafting, but… things are coming together.   

Our airship, Menphina’s Skillet, has returned from her maiden voyage and is discovering new sectors.

The outside is about done, it just needs a little dye work.

Things are coming together inside the place as well.  (Though I threw a wrench in the mix and dropped a tire 3 aquarium upstairs.)  Thanks to West, Orin and co. for tossing us a bit of indoor furniture and plants.  We’ll make good use of em.  Pics to come of the inside later… for now, here’s the outside.

Thanks again to @segolii for the giveaway where we won this little bit of awesome.  It’s at Lavender Bed, Ward 3, Plot 17 if anyone feels like checking it out.

[nefzenffxiv]

So long and thanks for all the fish...

Looks like I forgot to post here when I took my hiatus. Whoops!

So a brief rundown:

Life got super busy and more so than I anticipated. Moved in with my fiance, my little one started kindergarten, became a girl scout troop leader, aannnnd still dealing with moving and selling my old house.

All that really ate into my free time. That’s when I made qutie a few hard decisions. First was to pass off Fight Club, then I  passed off the @balmungrpcalendar off to my fiance @erahsae-ffxiv before cancelling my FFXIV subscription. It was hard but I was only getting on for a few hours each week, usually fight club, and it was seeming more like a job than having fun.

I do want to make sure that who have donated to either the Patreon or the tip jar know that their donations DO go where they intended. It go to the same place (usually my 6 year old’s stomach since she eats like a teenager). Erahsae’s and my computers are literally side by side and we work together on a lot of stuff. Heck, he wrote all the tools I was using for the calendar, so he was already doing a good chunk of the work.  To clear up any misunderstanding I took down my old Patreon page and @erahsae-ffxiv is in the process of putting up a new one. I wanted to post about this because I don’t want people to think their donations were not going towards the calendar. We really appreciate every donation, you guys are awesome! (I’m not kidding bout my kid, she’s eating us out of house and home!)

Hope that clears up a few things. 

Recently I’ve reactivated my account but only because life’s sorta easing up abit (and Stormblood looks freaking awesome!). However I won’t be doing any RP as I just don’t have the time I once did. As such I’ve permanently retired Nefzen. If I do any RP it will likely be on my longstanding character @peejeedarkmoon.

I probably won’t be on tumblr much if at all.  It was a fun run but all things come to an end.  I’m not going to delete this blog, it’s got a lot of memories I’d love to hold on to. Just don’t expect I’ll be posting here again. If I make a new one I’ll let folks know.

[nefzenffxiv]

Thanks to everyone for making Fight Club such a successful event. It’s been fun and I’ll miss hosting it but shoutout to @bexyamalaryssia and the E.R.A. crew for carrying on this for everyone to continue to enjoy.

We had some fun, at least two Null Club entries and then.. the LaLa Pileup which I had to post above. Kudos to @krick-ff14, Kazofu and Dishel for such a great ending to the night.

Hopefully life will let me drop in from time to time but I’m going to be pretty busy for the next few years.

[nefzenffxiv]

Fight Club - Need Volunteer(s)

Ok folks, general call out to the Balmung RP Community.

Looking for someone to pass the torch of Fight Club off to.

Recent IRL developments have come up and I simply won’t be able to continue doing fight club any more. (Sorry but heading of my daughter’s girl scout troupe is a wee bit more important to me.)

So we need someone (or a team) of folks willing to pick up the event to keep it going. It’s not super demanding but can have chaos with all the chat spam. If you are interested please send me a PM. Please feel free to spread the word to those off Tumblr. I’ll gladly pass off the rules, even my macros if they want them. Attendance goes up and down but it’s been pretty consistent which is why I’m not outright shutting it down if I don’t have to.

[nefzenffxiv]

Con Plague

Deep apologies to everyone but both @erahsae-ffxiv and I have carried con plague home with us and it’s got the both of us feeling like utter chocobo dung. Hoping to shake it soon but my default “sick mode” is to sleep everything off.

[nefzenffxiv]

Back Online (aka Calendar Deadline Update)

Got in late, hope everyone had fun at Fight Club and thanks to @alickoftrouble and @felidae-malcontent for picking up things since I was a dumbass and didn’t realize I wasn’t going to be driving back till monday.

NOTICE:

I’ll be updating the @balmungrpcalendar on Tue Sept 6 so if you have any changes, updates, cancellations, additions... get them in NOW. Fill out -->THIS GOOGLE FORM<--. Going to try to get the weekly blast out ASAP since I know there are events tomorrow.

In any case... 

Dragon Con was awesome and if you’ve never been you need to go. Almost wondering if there would be interest in a “Roleplaying in MMOs” panel, see about getting folks from various MMO backgrounds all talking about the experience and how it works, etc. 

Anyway, I’m exhausted.. going to go fall into bed and wait for @erahsae-ffxiv to get home as he’s still an hour behind me. >_<

[maelstrom-command]

~ VOTE FOR US ~ in Square Enix’s “Do you even /pose” contest!

Help this briny band o’ seafarin’ red coat do-gooders win some cool prizes!

Click here to visit our post in Square’s official FFxiv forums, then click the red “Like” button in the lower right hand corner of the post.

While you’re there, show your support for other posin’ BAMFs and like a few more of your favorites screenshots. Might I suggest @crescent-ffxiv‘s fine green clad crew?

Thanks, friends!

Pictured: @diskwrite-ffxiv @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast @crystal-brave @maelstrom-sweetheart @bountyhunterstone @mirkemenagerie @aselenanavycat and Mandrag!

[maelstrom-command]

Bombing investigation continued: Bismarck RP logs 9/1/2016

RP Event prompted by: http://elibraddock.tumblr.com/post/149657932380/til-sea-swallows-all

The Maelstrom is called to the Bismarck to investigate the discovered of a hand found within the belly of a recently caught shark… A hand garbed in the tattered remains of a Yellowjacket’s uniform…

@diskwrite-ffxiv @csi-eorzea @mirkemenagerie @gigantpole @kilieit @shotsfiredxiv @fireattunement @vhellius @elibraddock

Logs & screenshot provided by @diskwrite-ffxiv. Thank you!

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[peachiemomo-deactivated20180620]

Crafting help/advice?

So, currently my crafters are level 34 and 35, and this is mostly solely due to Ixals. But I really want them to hit 50, and the Ixal experience is very slow now.

Do you guys know how I can speed this up? And currently I am doing 5 classes at the same time, so I can share gear. But if there is a more effective way that involves speeding one class up or something, let me know. I wanna hit these classes to 50 so I can start cross-classing skills

[nefzenffxiv]

@erahsae-ffxiv could give better advice but I know he extensively used the website: Crafting as a Service - http://www.ffxivcrafting.com/

[brattygrymblade]

First images from the FFXIV Lorebook surface!  Thank you https://twitter.com/aruhyan and Gamerescape!

So much TEXT HEAVY its going to be such a good read :D Totally excited to pour over this with @folkenface 

[alisaie-leveilleur]

*fangirl scream*

[theindomitablerioghan]

i think i’ll work on transcribing these for now