#...sorta.

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Plant lads smoochin.

Holy lads. Angels blessing to Madeleine.

I came to my attention that Alolan Vulpix straight up looks like Milk Cookie.

DC is totally an Absol.

Yam is a Granbull.

Since Cacao and Holly are the sword and shield duo back in the day... I also ship them. theyre also the Red Queen of Hearts and Black King of Diamonds (even tho diamond set is red but w/e)

Cacao is used to being alone so he doesnt know how to handle Hollys boisterous friendliness.

This was part of a little doodle comic where Mala and Dino are bullying Milk for being obvious with his big ol crush on DC... but then Mala spots Chili and CC and is like >:///C so Dino turns on her instead.

But im lazy so...

Espresseleine time!

These are my central concepts:

Some sort of initiative or corporation formed as a separate legal entity which characters could ICly invest in.

Its goals will be:

to research and develop new agricultural techniques that will work in frozen Coerthas, so that its common people can continue to produce staples to feed themselves without relying entirely on imports from the rest of Eorzea.

to experiment with farming in Dravania, since its climate may not be so different from pre-Calamity Coerthas, though its remoteness and unique flora/fauna may provide new challenges.

to provide work for the displaced farmers and shepherds of Coerthas, so they don’t have to live in terrible conditions in the city if they don’t want to.

Player characters won’t be doing the daily labor themselves (unless you really want to!) but be providing funds, support, contacts, information, and supplies.

My goals:

A low-key side plot that players/characters can participate in without investing tons of time and effort. (Though maybe with options if they do want to.) I want it to be accessible to people who will be busy with their main plots taking them to Stormblood areas and also to people who aren’t that connected with Ishgard/Coerthas/Dravania.

A variety of potential “ins” for characters of different concepts.

For characters with money, I’d like them to be able to invest and maybe make an IC profit.

Characters with an interest in botany and agriculture could contribute their expertise as advisors.

Chocobo hunters, naturalists, etc., could advise how to conduct this project in a minimally destructive way.

Negotiators/people-persons to talk to the dragons and Vath, recruit workers, etc.

Sellswords/adventurers looking for work could take a temporary job helping the Convictors guarding the road from Coerthas to Dravania.

Even foreigners who are busy in Gyr Abania or Othard could contribute by sending seed samples or texts/wisdom.

To have some sort combination of a system running in the background, telling us how the farms/greenhouses/etc. are doing, but also some in-person events and roleplay.

Not necessarily all in-game. Could be Discord, Tumblr, etc., -based, since that also allows cross-server roleplay!

Unfortunately I’m not really sure what these woudl be yet.

Visits? Tours?

Letters? From the farmers, or, like, bi-weekly letter from the chairperson to the investors summarizing what’s going on lately?

Fund- and interest-raising events like aforementioned agricultural conference, maybe chocobo races or farmer’s markets (if anything actually gets raised).

To be flexible to whatever direction the FFXIV devs end up taking Coerthas in the future, if they do. If Coerthas melts, the initiative won’t be needed anymore and may dissolve, but it will have helped some farmers get a head start. If starvation ends up being a story point in the future, the initiative was trying to prevent it but failed to make a large-scale difference. And so forth!

I don’t think this would amount to a linkshell, much less a Free Company. Instead, if there’s interest, there might be a Discord+group Tumblr for it, and people from all sorts of FCs could contribute a little roleplay and get a little roleplay back out.

If you have any interest in any part of this, please please get in touch to give your feedback or get a Discord link. And reblog and spread it, if you can! If there isn’t much interest me and a few friends will probably go ahead and do this on a small private scale, but if there’s some other nerd out there who, like me, will go YES! HARVEST DALAMUD! I don’t want to miss them. x3