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Hello again, Wanderers! Long time no see!

2025 has begun in earnest, and with only two weeks left until February, I figured it was announcement time.

"Has your journey been good? Has it been worthwhile?"

A question that left many of us to think back, and remember. The good times and the bad. But I pray this journey will spark memories of the good.

Come join us February 1st at 8pm EST for the first of our walks through MSQ, traversing the great expanse of Eorzea and beyond. From Source to reflection, and beyond, to reminisce on what made the journey worthwhile.

Bring your story glams, your favorite mount, and maybe a friend or two! We embark on our Realm Reborn journey soon!

If you'd like to keep up with happenings over these next few months, feel free to join our discord! Though all major announcements will be posted here as well!

You can also visit our carrd for dates and general information!

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Raffleprize done for Starlight Initiative

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The Starlight Initiative prize for winner Roodee Ookami!

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Join us this month at the Cracked Cluster for some food and fun!

(Challenge Fennie to a game of darts if you'd like, if it's not too busy!)

When: Sunday, January 19th, 7 -10 PM EST

Where: ICly located in Revenant's Toll, Mor Dhona

OOC: NA - Crystal DC - Mateus - Lavender Beds - Ward 19 - 57 (SE Subdivision aetheryte!)

For more info and menu, click here!

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Just a note that the Cracked Cluster is a venue open to RPers of all skill levels, and respectful non-RPers or curious folk that would just like to observe. We don't have any requirements for mods, but we welcome anyone who enjoys them, and welcome writers of all types! We aim to make the Cracked Cluster a place anyone can come to for some good food and some good fun!

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Raffle winner for our Starlight Initiative '24: Mim!

@ kabochako.bsky.social

Their character is so cute! Definitely go check them out!

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Don’t forget!!!

Tomorrow night.

”FIKA NIGHT / Meet & Greet"

This Saturday **January 4th, 2025**

• Doors open at 7pm EST and close when the last person leaves.

• All are welcome to attend! (Feel free to invite some friends.)

• Location: Primal, Behemoth, Empyreum, Ward 25, Plot 47

https://discord.gg/qbXSCMrKWy

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Salutations and Happy New Year! 🎉 I thought I'd start 2025 off right with a Compendium update, especially since I plan on trying to run a drive to put the document out into the world again and try to find some new communities in the wake of a fresh year.

This update is small, mostly because I was travelling the month of December, but I'm hoping to have some new resources/communities very soon. ✨ As always, if you know of a place that isn't featured here, feel free to submit it using the google form here!

However, without further adieu, the following communities have been added to Sea's Community Compendium for XIV Creatives.

LORE

FFXIV The Twelve—Collected and compiled by ann0yance(bsky)/@sa8oteur, this spreadsheet contains currently available lore, trivia and speculation about the twelve deities commonly worshipped in Eorzea.

Have you thought about joining our Tumblr Community? You can find it here!

Want to submit? You can either fill out the google form here or send me an ask with the relevant information!

Is my space suitable for the Compendium? Most of the time, yes! Below the read more is some more information/stipulations. This is all publicly available on the document. 🍷

Below are the following things I do not accept on the Compendium:

Personal/Single-Character LFC ads. (Though these get posted to the SEAFLOOR Tumblr Community when I find them!)

Content intended for or can be used for bullying, harassment and OOC gossip. E.g. ‘Secrets’ blogs, receipts, callout posts, etc. This does not include IC tabloid blogs or other ventures used to generate roleplay.

Communities that do not have an RP/writing element (large-scale exempt).

Anything I find personally distasteful or goes against the spirit of this project.

Common-sense rule applies.

I want to put my community on the Compendium but we have an application process. Is this okay?

Yes! Just note somewhere in your application that's a requirement. The only thing that is mandatory for the Compendium is that you must be open to new members or have a public-facing/accessible facet. There's no point advertising a community if no one can join it in some way!

I want to put my Community on the compendium but I only have x number of members —

Also totally okay! People don't start with large communities. Activity is a must but, whether your server has two or two thousand members, if you're looking for new people to join, I'd love to help you find people.

I want to put my community/resource on the Compendium but I worry its too niche?

Okay, and? If your Eorzean Fishing Alliance has four members but you roleplay every second weekend, I still want to know about it. The same goes for resources; if it's relevant to the game, it'll be useful to someone.

How active does a community need to be?

If you find a community has not been active in about two/three months, send me a message and I'll take a look at it. Communities have ebbs and flows, especially event spaces that may take hiatuses depending on member interest/life events. I'm not strict in my implementation provided a space isn't dead. If a link or anything is broken, contact me asap!

I have [insert a question not stated here]?

No drama! Send me an ask or use the #Compendium channel in my Discord!

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Starlight Initiative 2024 Wrap Up

Good evening, everyone!

Thank you, first and foremost, to the volunteers of the Starlight Initiative. Without them, this would not be what it is. I'm so happy to have many of them still active and wanting to fulfill many wishes. I am happy to have our new volunteers, who have added that much more to our group in fulfilling wishes and making this year's Starlight Initiative even better!

We would not have been able to raffle off some of the prizes we had without them. Whether they turned out their own pockets for the sake of the Initiative, donated what they were already hanging onto, or even just helped with farming certain things, it has all been appreciated.

To those of you waiting for the Creatives Raffle, winners will be announced tomorrow (on our Discord) when I am awake. Unlike the bot raffles, these ones are more closely moderated to ensure that I can get people paired to the creatives that can best fulfill what they are hoping for should they win.

It is my sincerest wish that next year, we may be able to go out of our way to fulfill all kinds of wishes; that we can lift the gil cap we've enforced to keep our collective savings from running dry too quickly. I hope next year, we can give you all what you wish for far more reliably than we sometimes are able to.

Thank you everyone who came by and made it possible for this event to persist. Last year, we fulfilled a total of forty-three wishes. This year, we fulfilled a total of fifty-five! While it may not seem like a giant leap, that's still fifty-five people that got something that made their season that much brighter. I'm glad we could do that for you.

Please look forward to any events we do in the future, and please look forward to the Starlight Initiative's Weekend of Gift Giving 2025!

-Admin Prim

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Our fifth and final mount raffle is live on our Discord!

To end the night, we have a Pinky mount from the Excite-a-Tron 9000! We hope that it brings fun and whimsy to your life should you win! \ o w o /

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Our fourth mount raffle is live on our Discord!

Here's hoping we can put an end to diving deep into Palace of the Dead past floor 150, or even opening all those 3.0 Materiel Coffers! Best of luck to all those who enter!

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Our third mount raffle is live on our Discord!

We have the Rroneek available as a prize! At home on the plains of Shaaloani, may this steed guide you across the lands in safety should you win! :>

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Our second mount raffle is live on our Discord!

For our second mount, we are offering the mighty Barreltender! May all your journeys into the Tender Valley feel that much more secure with this guy carrying you around should you win!

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Tonight's Weekend of Gift Giving events are live!

From 6PM to 11PM Central, feel free to swing by either the Crystal Data Center, Mateus, Empyreum, Ward 9, Plot 42 or the Materia Data Center, Ravana, Mist, Ward 22, Plot 1 where we can fulfill any wishes in game! If you can't make it, no worries! We're more than happy to tackle our wishlists in our Discord at a time that is more convenient for you!

Another five Figmental Weapon Coffers are being raffled tonight in addition to some hard to get and some highly coveted mounts! :D Our mount line up tonight will be released hourly!

Starting tonight's Discord mount raffles is a Ty'aitya Whistle!

Be sure to also check out our wonderful creatives this year who have volunteered their time to making prizes!

We hope to see you, and we hope to fulfill your Starlight wish!

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That concludes tonight's events for the Weekend of Gift Giving!

Thank you everyone who was able to come out, I hope that you were able to get your wishes fulfilled and taken care of! Congratulations to the ten lucky winners tonight who brought home Figmental Weapon Coffers, and their own minions tonight!

Tomorrow, we have some really big things in store to raffle, and we're looking forward to seeing who takes them home! :>

As a note: I would like to take the time to say that we are run purely by the efforts of volunteers, and I appreciate everything that they have put forward to make the Starlight Initiative what it is. It would not be what it is without them. We are run purely on that generosity that no one is obligated to give anyone, least of all me.

That said: I witnessed a behavior I must address. If you enter into our raffles with the intent to trade that item for something else, I must stress: do not enter that raffle. All items that are raffled are final, and if you do not actually want it, then leave it alone for someone else to win.

I do not take pleasure in feeling like I'm policing people on how to interact with our raffles and what they do with their items. It matters little to us if you want to give those items you win to someone else, or even sell them to make your own nice chunk of gil. It is when you take our efforts for granted in such a way that I cannot find myself finding joy in seeing someone win something to try and trade it for something else from the event itself.

-Admin Prim

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Our fifth and final minion raffle is now live on our Discord!

In our final hour, we have the Corgi minion being raffled off! We hope this adorable little guy goes to a good home tonight, and that it may see many adventures at your side!

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Our fourth minion raffle is now live on our Discord!

For our fourth raffle this evening, we are offering a Sand Fox minion! Here for your Faux Leaves again for another retelling? Perhaps he'll join you to see the stories you weave yourself!

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Our third minion raffle is live on our Discord!

For the third hour, we have the Tin Soldier S3 as our next raffle prize! Best of luck to all those who enter to win this little guy with a big heart of gold!