The Nightcross Initiative

  intro   The Yak'tel Village of Nightcross was devastated by the attacks of Zoraal Ja and his mechanical army. Left in shambles, some of its people have fled to the safety of Tuliyollal, but still others wish to struggle on to not only preserve their way of life, but to improve upon it like a phoenix rising from the ashes, determined that their tragedy should not be the last of them.

  disclaimer   This is an exclusive roleplay opportunity that is invitation only. If you want to be involved, then by all means talk to me OOC and we can see about getting your characters involved. But everyone who joins this initiative MUST adhere to the guidelines listed down below. Cause drama, headaches, or problems for anyone involved and you will be removed. We're here for fun, not drama.

  You must be invited to participate.    An existing Participant must invite your character to take part. After which, you will be required to roleplay with every current participant, whereupon the collective will vote upon your acceptance or not. This ensures that you find plenty of people to RP with and we get a feel for both you and your character, OOC and IC.  One-for-One    If you Participate in one of our events, quests, or scenarios, then you will be expected to HOST or lead one as well. Nobody gets a free ride here, everyone contributes. Failure to do so will result in your removal from the initiative.  When In Doubt Ask    If you're not sure of something, whether you're allowed to do something or not, then do please ask us! We don't bite. This is a shared community roleplay, so we're all in this together. The only dumb question is the one you don't ask.

  No Wallflowers.    If you're a shy little bean that can't get involved in things without an engraved invitation, you won't last long here. We want active, engaged and contributing participants who look forward to adding to our over-arching story.  Participants & Townsfolk    Every participant must create a Townsfolk person to contribute to the growing story. It doesn't have to be immediate, but soon after you join. This will become a Community resource NPC that people can use for their stories, at no time will you be expected to roleplay these characters unless you specifically ask to.  Just be Excellent to each other.    Don't be a tool that sucks the fun out of all this. Be good to each other and have fun! Don't make me have to make any more rules.

  Unnamed Inn & Tavern    The inn with no name. Now fully renovated, the inn is prepared to receive guests and visitors while doling out tasty, nutritious meals from a variety of cuisines! They also provide a bathhouse for guest use. It's become a welcome beacon and heart of the community in Nightcross, making it a prime gathering place for Townsfolk and Participants alike!  Unnamed Hospital    The hospital was the hardest hit in the attacks and leveled to the ground. It currently needs to be completely rebuilt, restocked, and restaffed.  Storage Warehouse    A place to store unused materials for the entire township  Town Hall    A central building where characters will find the Duty Board, a place where Townsfolk can come to air their grievances, and other issues can be met on and addressed.  Aetheryte    No quest hub is complete without an aetheryte!

  Safety Concerns   Duties that involve public safety, such as culling the local wildlife, saving the Townsfolk from danger, or addressing other outside threats to the township.  Roads & Infrastructure    All the roads have more or less been destroyed or broken to unusability throughout the township. Bridges will need to be rebuilt. Waterworks will need to be re-established.  Recreation & Festivities    Games and entertainments to keep the townsfolk and participants entertained and help them to blow off steam. Also festivals and parties to celebrate holidays and landmarks in progress!  Field Exploration    covers just going out and around Nightcross as well as further abroad to scout out everything from resources to history. Includes learning more about history, finding resources to blitz, uncovering ancient secrets, and finding where the livestock keeps running off to.  Innovation Frustration    Sometimes stuff goes haywire for the populace of Nightcross. Covers everything from Gardeningway's experimentations on plantlife getting out of hand to magitek malfunctions, poking the ancient secrets too hard, pissed off domesticated animals, etc. miscellaneous townsfolk shenanigans brought about by their, or player, quirks.  Combat & Militia Training    Participants take the populace under their wings to try and teach them how to use combat weaponry and defend themselves and the town. This can also apply to building defenses for the township, practice spars, and the like!

Xochitl Canek

ㅤWarriorㅤ
Projects
Inn | Storage Warehouse | Combat Training
Aetheryte | Recreation & Activities

While she's no skilled artisan by any means, this xbr'aali warrioress knows that she has a preternatural strength that can help with moving materials, helping to build things, and generally doing a lot of the grunt work. She's a skilled cook that will help prepare the meals, even hunt the game if necessary.She hopes that by taking the lion's share of the physical burden off the townsfolk that she can encourage them to rebuild their lives and regain a foothold in the region.

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Garret Hjorth

ㅤBlacksmithㅤ
Projects
Inn & Tavern | Storage Warehouse | Town Hall | Aetheryte | Roads & Infrastructure
Recreation & Activities

Garret knows his way around building up an area. He has helped on many homes across Eorzea and now he hopes to work in a new environment. With his knowledge of crafting, he hopes to eventually have a hand in helping with every building while also teaching those who begin to reside in the small area, how to do their own work and upkeep. And a big thing with him is knowing that after a good long day of work, that a nice time to relax and enjoy the company of others, is what is needed for everyone.

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Zerey

ㅤSamuraiㅤ
Projects: Combat & Militia
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A jack of no trades, Zerey lends his strength and perseverance to tasks in order to get them done. No stranger to hard work, he can be relied upon to contribute wherever he's asked.

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Oxomoco Canek

ㅤMage & Adventurerㅤ
Projects
Inn & Tavern | Aetheryte | Roads & Infrastructure

Oxomoco will hesitate to speak up on the prospect of helping this town from scratch, but as her sister's in it and she holds a tiny, hidden, miniscule bit of sentimentality for her homeland, she at least wants to pitch in on areas which encourage self-sustainability. Her specialties don't seem to point to anything immediately useful, so her thinking is set firmly in the long-term. Water safety, food security, trade, etc. It can get really dry, so she won't bother explaining.

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Zibraal Ja

ㅤHunterㅤ
Projects: Unknown
Contribution: Transport and Hunting

A far-travelled Mamool ja, Zibraal Ja looks to return to his home forests of Yak T'el after a peppered history with his own people in Mamook. A strong hunter and wivre trainer, he looks to put both to use in Nightcross.

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Briar Balboa

ㅤMagiteknician & Engineerㅤ
Projects:
Any and All! Briar will help out wherever she's needed most!

Briar may look tiny but has high strength, she would seek to utilise everything in her arsenal and power to help rebuild the town of Nightcross. Being a jack-of-all-trades thanks to her engineering, she can help out wherever she can. However, she can only focus on one thing at a time and thus would focus on a single project till completion. Regardless, she hopes that her engineering talent can help retain tradition while introducing modernity.

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Yumari Takeyari

ㅤSageㅤ
Projects:
The Hospital | The Tavern

Yumari is by no means someone with the talent for physical labor. She does make up for it through her want to help those in need. What talents she does have involve the healing artes and medical knowledge. She hopes to pass that knowledge to future hospital workers as well as aiding those who find themselves hurt while restoring Nightcross. She does have a passing interest in helping to make meals for the good folk lending their aid to Nightcross.

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Gospel Lightfaith

ㅤSage & Ship's Captainㅤ
Projects:
Hospital | Aetheryte
Contributions:
Healing | Overseas Transport | Negotiation

A renown and charismatic hyuran, Gospel has traveled the world over, making friends and allies in every corner of the globe. She uses that plus her healing abilities to bring better days for beleaguered places.Her hope for Nightcross is to bring additional trade to the region as well as providing them with a means to be self-sustaining through import and exports, reliable transport provided by the Silverwing and her crew, of course.

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Kosuke Kiritsugi

ㅤMerchant Investor & Chronic Urbaniteㅤ
Projects:
Storage Warehouse | Aetheryte
Roads & Infrastructure | Town Hall

While building businesses from the ground up is something Kosuke has grown used to, building an entire town is certainly a step beyond that. Certainly, it's a bit surprising to see an Ul'dahn urbanite deep within the jungles of Y'ak Tel, but supposedly he's here to find some profit in-between the shaded boughs of the forest and help the locals rebuild. If there's more, the Raen certainly feels no need to say it, as he handles the more clerical matters as best as he can without an office and a steady supply of coffee.

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Ateela Ja

ㅤInnkeeperㅤ

A kindly Mamool Ja woman escaping her troubled past who took up running the inn just before the attack. With her business now in shambles, she hopes to rebuild, but trouble may come looking for her before too long...

Gardeningway

ㅤGardener & Budding Botanistㅤ

A little bit clueless to the ways of Etheirys, Gardeningway has come to the Nightcross Inititiative in order to learn the proper way to garden things that aren't carrots! She has a budding interest in botany, but has to learn about all manner of gardening first!

Oeric Forest

ㅤBlacksmith's Apprenticeㅤ

A man who has come to Garret for work in the past, but is looking for something more permanent. In light of that, Garret has taken the man under his wing in order to give Nightcross a permanent blacksmith of its own once they rebuild, thus supplying the town with a much-needed artisan and Oeric with a trade by which to make a decent living.

Yaluk Ja

ㅤFarmer & Herbalistㅤ

A farmhand and self proclaimed Herbalist who spends his free time experimenting with the local flora to find use of it for others. Now with the town destroyed, he looks to aid everyone with his knowledge. That is if anyone will volunteer to prove his wild theories.

Bozhin Bozvasch

ㅤGuardsman & Scoutㅤ

Gunbreaker and close friend to Briar Balboa, this hrothgar decided to settle in Nightcross in order to learn more about the xbr'aali culture and more of Tural by extension so that he might bring such knowledge back to their tribal community in Bozja.

Lyaate

ㅤSkywatcher & Conjurerㅤ

This long aged and eccentric hermit has boldly stepped out of her withdrawn status to participate in the recovery of Nightcross. The Shetona offers to them her keen senses, to listen to the calls of the land and skies, and to provide support against any natural and unnatural disasters that may come.

Ellanora Nelasi

ㅤPictomancer & Ecological Chroniclerㅤ

Ever the wanderer, there are few corners of this star that Ellanora has not visited. The Veena's goal? Chronicling whatever fauna she can, both through immense note-taking, and the hand-drawn pictures her tomes are famous for. Thorough and curt, she sees Nightcross as an unparalleled opportunity to examine and discover the vast ecosystem of Y'ak Tel... and perhaps find a home amidst its dark boughs.

Oldax Gliermaut

ㅤMercenaryㅤ

Some mercenaries… most mercenaries like to play the short game. A few dangerous jobs for a good payout. A few mercenaries like the long game. Reaching the later years of his forties, Oldax is looking for something more permanent and possibly a place he can call home. The further away from Eorzea, the better. So why not try his opportunity with Nightcross?

Hyuran Waif

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A young hyuran boy has appeared in Nightcross, left in the care of Ateela Ja at the Inn. What's his story? How did he get there?

You might have to ask Xochitl Canek or Zerey about it...

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Unnamed Inn & Tavern

The inn run by Ateela Ja is a clean and orderly establishment now that it's been fully repaired!It provides temporary housing for all the Townsfolk of Nightcross, with room left for the occasional visitor or two. The kitchen is fully stocked with an array of spices and foodstuffs provided by our steadfast Participants! So there's a variety of meals to be had.With repairs done, there's even a small bathhouse so that the hardworking folk can get clean after a day's work is done!

Unnamed Hospital

The hospital was the hardest hit location in town and was pretty much leveled and in need of being completely rebuilt, along with being resupplied and restaffed. Participants who get involved with the Hospital Project will be able to decide on the new name for the facility by committee once it's complete.

Storage Warehouse

A large storage warehouse watched over by Bozhin Bozvasch. Building it will take large loads of lumber and metal, so it can be built to withstand the jungle climate without rotting.

Town Hall

The future central hub of the township. But who will be mayor? Who will run this town? Questions to be answered at a later time, perhaps.But who, indeed?

Aetheryte

A project spearheaded by Oxomoco Canek, a local aetheryte will provide ease of travel to the burgeoning town. This will be an intensive project with finding the right materials, someone capable of building the thing, as well as to negotiate with the local authorities on linking it to the existing aetheryte network.

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Bump in the Night

Bozhin Bozvasch the Guardsman has spotted some unruly Branchbearers that are getting a little too close to Nightcross. Eliminate them so that the town can feel safer sleeping at night!Will award 5% Safety Concerns progress upon completion.

Trick or Treant

While on a recent foray to learn the ecosystems of Yak T'el, Ellanora might have accidentally come across and angered a rather ancient treant! The thing chased her for a long way before it returned to its territory, but along the way Ellanora dropped her research pack. She desperately wants to get it back as it has her life's work in it! She's requesting the aid of any of the local adventurers to help her out.Reward
5% to Safety Concerns if you ONLY recover Ellanora's pack.
5% BONUS to a Build Project of your choice if you kill the treant. That's a lot of lumber!Participant Limit
3-4 ParticipantsDay & Time
Saturday, JUNE 28th @ 9:00pm CST / 10pm ESTLocation
In-game | Seraph | Rak'tika Greatwood

Case of the Missing Provisions

Rain hammered against the walls of the Inn, while Kosuke sat at his ramshackle desk cobbled out of whatever they had lying around. Thunder rumbled through the air as he looked over the ledger, when to his own immeasurable horror, he discovered irrefutable proof that... the inventory in the Storage Warehouse was miscounted! Such an injustice much be rectified immediately. But what was the cause? A night of drunk inventory management? No, Kosuke would never do such a thing... though the bottle at Kosuke's desk stared back at him with an accusatory glint.Regardless! Supplies are missing and they must be found, even if the culprit is one of our own! Or even if it isn't! Especially if it isn't, actually. Kosuke, entirely unsure if he is capable of the task (or unsure if he's the one responsible), has requested help in investigating the Possible Theft at the Storage Warehouse, finding out who is responsible, and dispensing justice as necessary!Reward
5% to Storage Warehouse progress.BONUS MISSION AVAILABLEParticipant Limit
3-4 ParticipantsDay & Time
Sunday, June 29th @ 8:00pm CST / 9:00pm EST (Time flexible as needed to help everyone interested participate!)Location
In-game | Mateus (flexble as needed) | Y'ak Tel

Ireeeeeegation

After their dealings with the Botany guild in Gridania, Nightcross has made significant strides in obtaining herbs and other goodies needed to start their very own farm! However, there must be plans to be made as a village to determine where best to set up the farm and its systems. Perhaps everyone could pull up their thinking caps and discuss before things are set in stone! We wouldn't want monsters to be attacking our farmers after all!Rewards
5% progress toward Roads & Infrastructure or Innovation Frustration!Setting
We will be using Mamook as a stage for our discussions! This will involve walking around and discussing with other players as if its a base-building game, where we place the farm would be crucial since I plan on making it the official spot! That means players can and will influence what happens to the farm at some point depending on location!Participant Limit
2 - 4 (Excluding DM)Day & Time
4th July 2025 Friday 10pm ESTLocation
In-game | Seraph | Mamook, Yak T'el, Tural

A Real Coppertunity

As Nightcross is working with the Botany Guild to see what kinds of plants there are. The irrigation is the next beast. Which means, that there needs to be piping and ways to move the water around. In comes all of you! As Garret knows of the places to go mining for copper, he does need help as the ore can be heavy and there might be creatures afoot!Rewards
5% progress towards Innovation FrustrationDay & Time
Monday June 30th 10pm ESTLocation
In-game | Seraph | Scorpion Crossing, Western Thanalan

Coming Soon!

A new Nightcross opportunity will be coming soon!Stay tuned!

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