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[Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Lament - 10-14-2013
OK, now that my arm is better, I can repost (and rework) the idea!
I know several LSes like this type already exist, and I know they tend to be popular and fill up fast, so you may have a hard time getting into one (or they may have incompatible timezones). One more can't hurt!
The IC premise:
The Wings is the name of an association that sponsors individuals all over Eorzea. They can be artists, adventurers, crafters, gatherers, or have any other number of talents. All it takes is being an affiliate.
Ways in which they can sponsor you (or someone on your behalf):
- Pay for travel expenses/provide mounts
- Arrange for permission to enter normally restricted areas
- Pay for provisions and housing
- Scholarships
- Supply you with quality equipment (weapons, armor, research apparel, etc)
- Any number of things that take money
In return, you are given jobs to perform regularly. The more they sponsor you, the more work you do. Jobs usually have additional pay attached which is not considered part of the sponsorship.
Jobs generally depend on the skills you said you had when you affiliated. They could be pretty much anything, similar to the in-game quests and leves. They do not do assassinations or any type of illegal job. As far as anyone's concerned, they are a squeaky clean organization.
Buuut since nothing is perfect, and this is unknown even to most Wings staff, a certain organization pulls a few strings every once in a while. They specialize in information trading, rumor mongering, and generally anything that will push a (wealthy) client's agenda. So while to you a job of "locate item Y" may seem harmless, it may actually have a hidden purpose - it can be good, like item Y turning out to be important and earn you the gratitude of someone important, or bad, like luring you into a trap.
scrapped for now!
OOCly, of course, there will not be any hidden purpose unless you want there to be one.
The idea is to both give characters a reason to bond - e.g. by doing joint jobs, or just meeting via Wings - and an IC excuse to pull a plot device. The organization can, for instance, know a deep dark secret of yours, if you want. And they can give fate a friendly push for others to find out, too. It's up to you how to use that.
You can also decide on a job you want to be sent to you, for instance. Say you have a crafter and you want an excuse to interact with someone who has gathering skills - the job could be to make quality items out of a certain material, and be sent to the two characters so they can cooperate.
Actually turning in items or killing stuff wouldn't be necessary. All that's necessary is to pretend your character did it! But of course, the idea is to use jobs as an excuse to RP, so if you RP them, even better.
A FC may be made (not mandatory) just so people without one can get FC bonuses and such.
The LS would be OOC, for chatting and setting up RP.
If people like, there can be regularly scheduled events. Like an IC dungeon run night, where the job to run a dungeon is sent to everyone (who wants to participate). Or there may be an optional job advertised to the entire network for anyone who wants to show up. That sort of thing.
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That's about it for the idea. Nothing too groundbreaking, but hey!
The idea came up because myself (for my alt Elissa Vermont) and Oroban (for Khyros Oroban) wanted an excuse to get more people involved in a little storyline we're developing. Our characters got robbed and will affiliate so they can continue what they were doing - and a LS like this would give us a perfect IC excuse to get more folks to hear about what it is that they were doing.
Getting involved in our little story isn't required! You'd be more than welcome to incorporate it into your own story, if you wanted.
So welp! Checking to see if anyone would be interested. If we do have interest, we'll set up a schedule for starting IC activity.
Note: We wouldn't have timezone restrictions or anything, but Oroban and I are (very) nocturnal. I usually hop on around 9 PM eastern and can stay on up until 5 AM some days. Oroban is usually on later and stays awake until roughly the same time. So people who mostly play outside of those times might not see much of us around. Sorry. ):
Please let me know if you'd be interested! I wanted to ask before making a LS Hall entry and such. There are also finer details to work out that input would be stellar for. Thank you!
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Daca'li Molkoh - 10-14-2013
Oooo~this looks interesting. I'm down for this. Your time is good for mine, as I am also nocturnal (I work third shift) and I can be on till about...1AM EST on work days and all night on days off.
 SO! Woot.
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Lament - 10-14-2013
Cool! We're mostly scouting to see if anyone would be interested in becoming an affiliate, and then getting set up for some RP whenever. c:
I already made a LS, there's only the two of us in it now, obviously - I can send you an invite, if you want? No strings attached yet, need to be sure it's viable.
I suppose I should also mention what it is that they're doing, IC--
Elissa is a researcher affiliated to the Immortal Flames. She researches Primals and tempering. Recently she packed up her research, hired an escort (Khyros), and left to research other Primals (since she has primarily focused on Ifrit thus far).
All was well and good until everything they had (including personal belongings) was stolen. And now they're stranded in Gridania with no money, no ariship pass, no provisions, and no research.
Thus the opportunity to affiliate to the Wings will present itself, so that they can at least make the trip back to her home in Ul'dah for money/new airship passes.
They'll also be trying to get their stuff back. Basically! They'll be traveling together for a while, in an RPG adventure sort of way. And we'd love to get more people to join them - or even just for some random RP fun with.
If the LS doesn't work, we just keep RPing them, no big. It'd be cool to have more people though. c:
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Doshka17 - 10-14-2013
I'd be interested. And if it doesn't take off atleast I hope I can make some RP friends.
Toon's name is Alaneen Ristofar.
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Lament - 10-14-2013
I'll go ahead and try to add you guys to the newly made LS. I'm sticking all my alts into it, for easy contacting.
Edit: OK! Contact any of these in-game for an invite:
Khyros Oroban
Elissa Vermont
Ethne Lancaster
Cerise Vallois
Maliqa Lamahni
Lyra'to Maegah
Rhesh Awanah
And like Doshka17 said, even if it doesn't take off, maybe we can make some RP friends. c:
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Daca'li Molkoh - 10-15-2013
Alrighty cool, sounds good to me!
 I'll throw you a message once I'm in game tomorrow. I had a busy few days so I haven't been on, but thankfully things have calmed down. xD Cool thing about Gridania also! That'd be a perfect setting for my character to run into yours! He hunts in the Shroud (Keeper Miqo'te) so he could run into you guys at one point or another in Gridania or the Shroud or wherever! And I'm always down to expand my friend list, that's for sure!
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Lament - 10-15-2013
Sounds perfect, then!
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Celeste - 10-15-2013
I think this would be interesting, and what would make it a bit more "edgey" (if that is what you want to call it), is if there were circulating rumors that the benefactors to this have an ulterior motive for doing so. Perhaps a type of recruitment? (Whether or not that is true is entirely up to you guys, of course).
Oh, and minor nitpick -- scholarships are money provided for the purposes of education. The word you want is "sponsorship" pr "patronship," depending on the extent to which you guys want to cling to the person that is providing all these services.
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Lament - 10-15-2013
I think that kind of rumor might get in the way more than help, mostly because characters who don't deal in shady things would probably not like that. I mean, they do have ulterior motives, people just don't know. :oa
I do mean money provided for the purposes of education, yeah! They will pay for your studies, if that's what you need.
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Doshka17 - 10-16-2013
I'll be on from this moment on until the rest of the night on Alaneen Ristofar if yer around. So far I've had no luck trying to message you at the right time x3
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Lament - 10-16-2013
Found you!
I also made a LS Hall entry. I left out the shady info mongering bits... for now, at least. Simpler may be best. c:
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Evalentino - 10-17-2013
Very much interested in this LS, RP jobs , dungeons and plot device to group is always great. Hopefully I can contact you in game =)
Quinten Marquis
RE: [Balmung] [Interest Check] Adventurer Sponsor-type LS - Lament - 10-17-2013
Cool! c: I'll try to find you in-game.
Edit: Found!