Come Ride, Heroes: Varsity Raid clears Omega Savage

January 13, 2019Leave a comment

The Royal Academy’s representative progression static has successfully deleted Alphascape v3.0 (savage) after 12 weeks of casual 4-hour meetings.

The clearning team included Dark Knight Sukutak, Paladin Ricola, Scholar Kela, White Mage Cerys, Dragoon M’laiboli, Bards Maximillion and Mana and Summoner Mika. Hunter (Astrologian) was unavailable due to his real life Gymnastics competition in which he did spectacularly and will get his first clear with the group this coming lockout. Cerys, normally Ninja, healed for him and Mana one of our residents who raids with another group and had already cleared omega replaced Cerys as the last DPS. Since Mana had already cleared this week we only got one loot drop, Omega Trousers of Casting, which Mika won! Next week the group will have all loot chests. In addition, all clearing party members recieved an Alphascape Datalog v3.0 token.

The parse can be found here.

Please feel free to check in on and congratulate our other members who raid savage with outside groups on their progress which can be found here. We appreciate their representing us to the greater community so be sure to celebrate their accomplishments as well.

The groups begins its progress on Omega M-F next week after weekly clears. Wish us luck, Stabbies!

A Classy Affair: the Eternal Bond of Nadezdha and M’laiboli

December 30, 2018December 30, 2018Leave a comment

A heartfelt Congratulations to two of our most valued Stabbies today, Professor Nadezdha Krjs and M’laiboli Fhey as they complete their ceremony of Eternal Bond. The wedding took place at 7:00pm CST on Friday the 28th of December, 2019. Reception at the FC house followed immediately. This is Nade’s fourth EB, so praying for a happily ever after for this pair!

: Sukutak Amasawa DRK @Sukutak#6446

Deck the Study Hall: The Starlight Formal Rousing Success!

December 17, 20182 Comments

Sunday night’s Formal Dance hosted for the whole of Brynhildr server was largely a success, featuring close to one hundred participants from both the Nymian Royal Academy, and outside the free company.

The night started with our White Elephant gift exchange. While the rules were confusing at first and some parties had difficulty and confusion, the vast majority of participants exchanged gifts with gusto. Many participants were especially generous, although no restrictions were imposed and gag gifts were allowed, my personal party offered an Emperor’s Throne, a Quaintrelle Ruffled Dress, and Adventerer’s Sweater, and a Glacial Coat just to name a few! FC leadership reflected on the confusing elements and next time we host a gift exchange improvements will be made to ensure that each and every party has a satisfying experience.

Professor Shishido Misido also got his Curry which was promised him in exchange for the lesson of the night before, so that was awesome.

Headmistress Kela set up a playlist in advance so there would be no orchestrion snafus

After the exchange, we turned up the music and had a dance. We had a few orchestral, ballroom style songs but before we knew it everyone had turned up the music and was bouncing around with glowsticks in an amazing raid setting. Headmistress Kela ran around frantically launching fireworks and trading people random prizes all night long!

Following the rave ambient music was played on the orchestrion and the lights were turned down low so our live performers could serenade us with songs from the game – and ONLY songs from the game, I don’t know what you heard but it was all from the FFXIV soundtrack.

A huge thank you to the Brynhildr community that all showed up. I hope you all had as much fun as I did and I am looking forward to hosting more community events on behalf of the Nymian Royal Academy!

Headmistress Kela

Class is in Session, the Royal Academy launches In-Character Events!

December 17, 2018Leave a comment

As you know, the Royal Academy specializes in organizing and running events of all kinds to encourage our members to play together, where other groups may allow their players to progress through the game using it’s built in matchmaking system, playing solo and parallel to each other.

What happens when you have content where players must organize themselves. Such is the nature of Role-Playing, where those interested players must reach out to each other and organize events. This Saturday the Royal Academy endeavored to expand its content offerings and leapt into the world of RP.

We invited very talented and serious RP character Professor Shishido Misido from Tonberry Warmachine to come give a lecture on Aetherology 101. Topics such as the corporeal and aetherial planes, the lifestream, elemental aspects, and the origination of crystals were discussed at length.

We also learned that the songs The Measure of Our Reach and the Measure of His Reach are different.

In attendance we had:

Headmistress Kekela Kela
Adjunct Sukutak Amasawa
Adjunct Ponyo Amasawa
Mimiko Miko
Jaime Porter
Kekechuri Hohochuri
Louisoix Belanger
Hope Muse
Lillica Vale
Ark Irion
Dinui Mewrilah
Vivian Cerberus
Axianne Redsteele
M’laiboli Fhey
Nadezhda Krjs
Haegar Targaryen

Professor Shishido told me that his largest ever class was fourteen students in attendance. We brought sixteen ourselves so we clearly has a large draw of interest.

For those interested in the transcript of events it can be found here.

We will endeavor to make more roleplaying events available to our members in future. Thanks for the wonderful time!

The Nymian Royal Academy hosts First Annual Starlight Formal

December 3, 2018December 3, 2018Leave a comment

Hello Brynhildr, Headmistress Kela here on behalf of the Royal Academy. We would like to cordially extend an invitation to you to join us for our Starlight Formal Ball.

The event will take place at 6:30pm Pacific Time on Sunday, December 16th in game at Shirogane ward 12, plot 7 the Royal Academy Libratorium.

The first part of the event will be a White Elephant in-game gift exchange. There are NO RESTRICTIONS on gifts brought for exchange in terms of content or price and we ask only that it is trade-able.

This will be a small group event, exchanges happening between full parties or smaller in the interest of time and efficiency. The full party members will organize their lists alphabetically beginning with a randomly determined letter so that they are all listed the same, then your party position number will be the order of play.

The player in position one will select the number of the person who’s gift he wants to open, then the person in that position trades his gift, revealing to the group in party chat what the gift is. The second player can then steal it (allowing player 1 to choose again from the remaining gifts) or choose a new gift for themselves. Gifts can only be traded three total times before they’re locked in! This continues until all (up to) eight players have received a gift, ending the exchange.

We encourage people to bring joke gifts, but we also recommend that at least some people bring truly generous prizes that people will fight over! Be as thoughtful and creative as you can be in the interest of the season!

After the gift exchange we will start the ball. This part of the event will be in character and we request that people interact as much as they feel comfortable with, dancing, conversing, playing music/performing, we will have orchestrion and stage available, as well as eating and drinking as we have a formal dining area and a bar adjacent to our dance floor. Please do your best to put together a formal glamour, as it is school-style formal dance. And bring all your favorite persistent dance emotes!

There will be a half-hour of chamber music played on the orchestrion, followed by a second half hour of rave tunes for all your /cheerjump needs!

This is the Royal Academy’s first event open to the larger Brynhildr community! Please come be a part of the beginning of something amazing that we as a Free Company are offering to you, the residents of our wonderful server, Brynhildr!