Through The Branches

A journal of one woman's journey through life in Eorzia. Between these pages you will find pieces of her life, memories and maybe even some dreams! (( IC with some sprinkles of ooc and inspiration! ))

[erahsae-ffxiv]

FFXIV RP Events for 2021.07.26 and Change Log

Welcome to all the new folks Hop on in, the water’s fine.  I hope you all find somewhere to make Eorzea home, and tell some amazing stories with each other, no matter where you were previously.

Venue Listing Interest Check We’re doing some interest checking on if a venue search function would be useful as part of the FFXIV RP Event Discord Bot and Website.   What this is for is to provide a method of finding housing that people have created for others to use as RP setpieces. Example: A warehouse, a back alley, an business office, or anything else.  This is not for events, but just always (mostly) open locales.  

If you’re interested in having a location listed, please fill out the form at https://xiv.page.link/newvenue

The new [Meta] tag We’ve had from time to time folks wanting to list things like “roleplay tutorials”  Traditionally we’ve skipped these because they’re not technically a roleplay event.  However since it’s come up again, we think that there is room for these on the calendar, so we’re trying the waters out.  If this is favorably received, we may add a new filterable category for ‘Meta’ events.

As always, if you have comments, suggestions, or just need a hand finding your place in the world we tell stories in, we can be reached at the support discord or at [email protected].

~ Erah'sae Zhwan / Erroch (Balmung)

Additions Crystal 07/27/2021 - The Dragons’s Lair 08/27/2021 - [M] Bean There, Read That Café - https://xiv.page.link/dhzn 07/31/2021 - [Meta] RP Seminar: Learn to RP - https://xiv.page.link/f4yN 08/01/2021 - Carbuncle Cafe - https://xiv.page.link/qqeC - https://xiv.page.link/qqeC 08/10/2021 - Blood Drive at Termon Hollows - https://xiv.page.link/VWhB Light 07/31/2021 - [M] The Raider’s Retreat - https://xiv.page.link/XSNS Primal 07/30/2021 - The Celestial Lounge - https://xiv.page.link/bpnt Updates Crystal 07/27/2021 - Coffee’s Coctail Lounge (New URL: https://xiv.page.link/oqSA) 07/29/2021 - Verdant Grove Cafe/Flower Shop (New Location: Lavender Beds Ward 16, Plot 46) 08/01/2021 - [M] The Spider’s Web (Now Sundays at 6PM US Eastern, was Wednesdays at 4PM US Eastern) 08/06/2021 - Hunter’s Gathering Hub - (New end time 9PM US Eastern, was 10PM US Eastern)

Removals Crystal 08/03/2021 - Topsy~Turvy Tavern and Cafe (Will return in September) Light 07/28/2021 - The Raider’s Roulette (Rebranding to The Raider’s Retreat) Full calendar can be found at https://ffxiv-rp.org One Time Event:

Saturday - 2021.07.31

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM [Meta] RP Seminar: Learn to RP [Balmung]Goblet Ward 4, Plot 60 Rating: Teen A event that teaches new Rpers what to look out for and the basics of RPing! Category: Other Contacts: Masao#2913

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Dream a little dream of Me

So ... bit of an OOC bit first I think. I get scared annoyingly more easily than I would like and as such I find it hard to do things I know I wanna do. I love my FC, even if we just hang out but I know I need to get out there more for some rp. I also just kind of talk myself out of it all the time. I am not sure why I am sharing this with anyone maybe because its the venue I have to vent. Last night was bad but today is better and I guess it can't rain all the time.

anyway :) onto more fun stuff, FIrst story of the reboot woooooo!

She walks through the large empty room, she recognizes it as a dim version of the stairway landing of her home. She knew it wasn’t real, she knew she was in trouble, pain raced through her chest as she walked down the stairs, it had all gone from bad to worse quicker than she had thought it would have. It was supposed to be a simple thing, something she has done since the tinderbox was lit years ago now, wow years really. Airship goes out to have a peek and sometimes doesn’t make it back, when they linkshell back, she sometimes gets tapped to go find them and bring them home. She was good at being sneaky, getting in places without being seen and so it should have been easy.

It should have been easy, but then the beasts came and came fast. She was good at the bloody things, many years of practice but this was more than she could handle, and she knew it when she told the crew to run, one of them had a broken leg and they would need time to get back to the airship that carried her into the area. She had turned to face the horde of the nightmare things and did so with anger and lightning. She knew though there were far too many, and as they came on and on, she got slower and slower. Expending aether, bruises cuts.. Stabs.. All took their toll, so much she didn’t see the shadow creep up on her. She doesn’t see it as they close in for the kill, licking fang filled mouths savoring the meal to come.

She didn’t understand how she got here, she could hear the sounds of the waves outside, and the distant cries of gulls dance in her ears. She pauses as a light breeze rushes past her bare legs and in that moment she realizes she is clad in what she was when she got the call to head out, shorts and a tank top hair down and swishing in the breeze. “You…” a voice said.. Nearly a whisper in the wind, full of malice but also confusion..”You … infected… me.” it said as ayla spun around trying to find the source of it.

She stopped when she saw something. A shape.. Vaguely outlined in the corner of the room, she narrowed her eyes and gazed as the form seemed to move a bit, gaps appearing as if to suggest it was looking back. “Who..” she began to say before a sound akin to nails on a chalkboard echoed out from it and caused Ayla to stagger back and cover her ears. “FUCK!” she managed to shout before the sound stopped.

The sound stopped as suddenly as it began at that pained utterance, causing ayla to look up.. Unsure of what was going on here. “Is this it?” the words hung in the air as the waves rolled outside. “Am I .. dead.” she asked perhaps herself but the form seemed to solidify more, enough so it had a vague outline of a person, maybe even a viera judging by the ears.

“Not yet.. hurt though.” it said as if it both relished and hated the words. “I.. wanted to … help hurt.. But.. they are… and you.. You …” it seemed like it was struggling for words. “Feel… you…” it motioned to where its heart would be. “You need help… or will die, can’t go home or will die.” it said as that wavering confusion creeped back “we … die.”

She tried to speak but then fell to her knees grabbing her side, pain lanced through her and the world got darker.. She blinked in and out and in that space of time she found a hand being held out to her. “Let help… save… me… save… you.. Save… us..” she could feel it as the words now so very distant rang in her head, she didn’t want to go, she didn’t want to not wake up next to mana.. She reached out, and when she took that hand.. The fire began to burn again, and it sprang forth from her black as that shadow.

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AylaRiki

Ayla Riki info

So I am back :) and I finally finished the thing I was talking about! The first step to getting back out there i made a carrd profile site! Gonna need to link this on my in game profile, but I think now I can get down to writing now that I have created my site and my background outline! Thank you for checking it out and I hope to see you back here sooon!

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Starting fresh!

Hey there! It has been a while hasn’t it? when I was sweeping up, it seems about a month after shadowbringers launched, so about.. .two years give or take! I hope you folks out there are doing well and having a great time of it! did you guys catch that trailer for end walker? Holy crap been hyped since it dropped! This however led me to do some thinking, and some very hard thinking about where my character is in terms of RP and writing and I find myself hemmed into a corner and locked into doing the same routines I have done for the last several years.  After some long talks with my RP partner we decided to do a soft reboot, change some bits and bobs in her past and her heritage, to chop some rp dead ends dragging her down and reformat in the present just a little bit! She will be taking up a new class in end walker, Reaper \ o / screams in hype \ o /! I have already begun some rp to that end already! So... what we are gonna do here.. is put up my writing... some profile stuff i can link to.. I am going to make a Carrd Finally beginning today, and some other general shake the dust off! thank you for reading all that and I hope you have an awesome day! <3 ayla!