#The Riskbreakers

[rasenkaikyo]

Sandsea

@crimson-bull / @wispofwillow / @bad-moen-rising

[bubblyernie]

More of the work I did for Riskbreaker's Gambit! This is just a sneakpeek of the characters I did for them (see all of them plus the monsters on their website here!)

art tag // commission info

[therealjasonx]

[shslivalice]

sasaxia saxia is back!

...as a way for me to play with NA friends. leveling her up and getting her thu EW... soon. gotta get her DRK up.

[onwesterlywinds]

THE RISKBREAKERS' 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!

Saturday, May 25 marks the Riskbreakers' TENTH ANNIVERSARY as a free company!

We'd love to have you join us on Crystal/Balmung for as much of our celebration as you'd like: 💎 Noon - 1PM Pacific: Fall Guys 💎 1PM - ~4PM Pacific: Return to Ivalice raid sweep 💎~4PM - close: Open bar night at the Sandsea (RP)

On behalf of the entire company, THANK YOU so much for an absolutely incredible ten years. We can't wait to keep saving the world alongside you all!

...And if you're looking for a new social/RP/PvE free company on Crystal, please don't hesitate to hit me up!

[scales-claws-and-thorns]

(Count)Down to Dawntrail Free Day :V

Look at me, actually doing all seven days, woo!

Considering one of the options for the free day was "talk about how the game and the people you have met have made an impact on your life", I'm going to go with that.

This is going to be a long one

I started playing FFXIV back in the ARR open beta. At the time, I didn't have a good gaming PC but I did have a PS3 and I saw XIV as an opportunity to play a game with my then-GF and roommate. I picked lancer because it would become dragoon and I really dug the armor. The character was a male keeper because fangs. I even dug up a picture.

Look at him. Obviously this is not lancer but of the few pictures I do have at the time this is probably the clearest one haha.

I had also picked Adamantoise as the world to be on :V

At some point, I joined an FC called .. I think it was Order of the Wild Rose? And I followed some of the people who were members of that FC on tumblr. This is important.

Anyway, I played off and on (I was terrible looking back lol), sometimes I would talk with other FC people, sometimes I would just .. do quests and try to figure out what I should be doing. But, my then-partner quit and so did my roommate and I just.

Okay, so, to try to get myself more attached to the game, I decided to try RP. I made a character on Balmung :) I joined a new FC :) and I even had my first ever RP with them!! And then I deleted the character.

:D

I don't know, I had this problem of becoming suddenly self conscious and afraid that I was doing things wrong and I would rapidly pull out of whatever I had tried to do. This was definitely not the first time I'd done this.

At that point, I had decided I might quit FFXIV. I didn't feel as connected as I wanted to and so maybe I would just let the sub lapse and move on. But! I did transfer that moon cat up there onto Balmung first because there was a brief thought of maybe trying RP on him. Which I didn't do. But now he lived on Balmung.

Fast forward ... I don't know how many months later and HW was releasing. I was still following some people I had followed back in that old FC and knew they had also ended up on Balmung. And I saw all of them be rather excited about the new expac coming out (you know, kind of like right now).

At the time, I was dealing with what would become my diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and couldn't work. I desperately needed something to do and people to talk to because otherwise I would just be kind of alone sitting at home.

I decided I had three options: Elder Scrolls Online, FFXIV, or return to Destiny with a vengeance (I had played a ton of it and even was in a clan, I'd just quit by this point).

I ended up landing on FFXIV because... well, I was following people who played it! Technically, I had an in! Maybe I could even join that new FC of theirs! They seemed to be having a lot of fun!

So I get myself a sub, boot up the game, and fantasia that moon cat into a Xaela. And this is when Tai arrived!

It wasn't until I had gotten into Ishgard and then leveled Dark Knight that I started RPing. And it wasn't until a couple months after that where I did end up joining The Riskbreakers. But I did, in fact, end up joining that new FC of theirs. It turns out, they remembered my old character's name!

I met a lot of cool people through that FC. And many of them helped me out a ton a couple years later when I ended up becoming homeless for a time. I am forever grateful for all of their help.

But that isn't all of the cool people I met.

At the end that same year I joined the Riskbreakers, I joined another RP group called Rendezvous of the Stars. And it is through this group that I would meet my current girlfriend of .. it'll be eight years in July.

Several years after that during Shadowbringers, I would end up (through more connections) meeting my boyfriend as well! Along with one of two awesome roommates.

The other roommate was technically also through the Riskbreakers later down the line.

Man Risk has done a lot for me haha

I need you all to understand that if not for this game, my life would look so much different. I like to say that it saved my life, in fact. Maybe not directly, but through all the wonderful people I met who made such an impact on my life.

I can imagine that I will be continuing to play this game until they stop updating it entirely and then even then I'll probably still pop in from time to time until they shut down the servers.

It is just extremely important to me, in all sorts of ways. From the two best partners a guy could ask for, to every single fantastic friend along the way, and even to all the brief connections with strangers..

I don't think I could ever really put into words just how much this game means to me.

I hope to see you all in Dawntrail!

[escherstrange-ffxiv]

"You seek the truth? Then follow me, Riskbreaker."

Cathedral: Dynamis - Maduin | Empyreum - W9 - P60

Some extra pics from the set:

[faerantstory]

Some Riskbreakers did Titania EX tonight, on account of it being midsummer today.

As soon as I started tanking Puck, Thistle hopped up into my lap.

And she stayed there until she made me fail the button-mash on Shinryu EX.

🌿

[barbariccia]

AU where the Riskbreakers are much more violent and/or "the ends justify the means" - Izarra or Orella!

Let’s play a game. Send me a potential AU and I’ll tell you five fun facts that would happen in a story.

oooh. a more militant ashelia riot, i presume? runs the ship tight, no room for anyone not entirely devoted to the cause?

orella probably receives a warmer welcome after busting herself out of ul'dahn gaol. welcome aboard, riskbreaker, you're one of us for true!

she probably wouldn't say (unless specifically pressed...) but ashelia's reign reminds her a lot of theodoric. before he turned entirely loopyloo. there's no chance for change, no different course to take - only blood and bloodshed, as is their birthright. and orella, well, in for a penny, in for a pound... resigns herself entirely to this having always been her fate.

ala mhigo liberated isn't the homecoming she thought it would be. even if ingvald made it to the riskbreakers as well (and boy, would he even want to? orella's a grounding force, but the groups she shacks up with sure are, ummmm...) she'd be having doubts of her own at some point or another. ala mhigo back in the hands of ala mhigans, but ala mhigans like /her?/ she already made herself unwelcome in her home and now she has the balls to come back and do it all over again? no, she can't do that. orella flees in the dead of night. she's gotten good at doing that.

she wants to put as much distance between herself and all this everything as she can, but she still wants to help, still wants to make up for everything she's done... she ends up in gangos with the bozjan liberation. (as fun as it would be to shove her bodily back into ivalice. ingvald and gabranth spiderman pointing meme dot jpg) it's not her home, not her business, but she carves out a little place of it for herself. without phantom pains hanging over her head, her arm still works - and she trades in the sword and shield for a gunblade instead of a greatsword. she's surprisingly comfortable with it.

i'm not sure where her story would end, admittedly - but even if it's premature, it's still on the battlefield, for a better cause than either of the ones she devoted herself to before. a fight worth fighting! also, the concept of orella finding a whole new nemesis in lyon rem helsos is kind of hilarious, actually. two old grumpy bitches occasionally 1v1ing each other. beautiful.

[ajaneofmanytalents]

I sat bolt upright out of a sound sleep because I could not remember if Basch FFXII had a pearl bindi like Garleans from FFXIV.

(He does not, BTW.)

I was also convinced that Ashley Riot from Vagrant Story was a Gunbreaker.

(According to wikipedia, he was actually a Riskbreaker, BTW.)

Getting spoiled on upcoming location names really messed with me it seems :/

[4th-make-quail]

Today's ffxiiposting is brought to you by REDDAS' BEAUTIFUL FACE. LOOK AT HIM, HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!

I love his fancy office as well, ahhhh. And you guys. YOU GUYS. His airship is a Bhujerban model you know. It's Bhujerban. Maybe he got it as a gift from Halim >:3 yeah yeah I'm on copium, it's totally a viable theory JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE

Anyway, he fucks me up. Nabradia, not his home but a memory burned forever in his heart 😭😭😭 baby...... Baby boy...... Beautiful pink pants man....

There were some fun little bits before we hared off for Ridorana, like Reddas being worried for his people who were exploring out there in boats. Despite the town's divide in opinion over him, he really does care for them. But it also makes me worry for things after the events of the Pharos too. What's gonna happen to Balfonheim when he doesn't return? Will it go back to normal? I imagine Larsa would leave them in peace at least, so they wouldn't have to pay off the Empire any more anyway. But still. OUGH

And then I got up to Hashmal, got boned by Hashmal, and realised the true depth of my lack of shit lmao. I don't even have Dispel!! And no Cleanse, and I ran out of phoenix downs again too flckck so I shlepped it back out of the Pharos and went to pick up some stuff. Namely, 99 phoenix downs, a bubble belt, Cleanse and Dispel, Decoy, a bunch of teleport stones, and now I also have a loaaad of cash as well so I can upgrade my gear for the slog back up the fucking Pharos lmao. But! I'm almost at the (story, anyway) endgame, so I shouldn't be surprised at things getting harder. I was lv41-42 up there as well, so not that great levelled! Things were frequently beating me up real hard on the way up too, so going out and regrouping is a good idea. I was considering getting Bubble spell as well, but I'm not doing 46 hunts to make Riskbreaker rank, or however many it would need! Bugger that for a lark, as much as I love hunts!

Anyway, I'm mad that I didn't get to see my man Cid again tonight like I thought I would, but well! Can't be helped

[bubblyernie]

Riskbreaker's Gambit!! Excited to share this, it's one of the coolest projects I've worked on :3

I had the opportunity to do the cover (above!) and character+monster art for an upcoming SRPG game, which you can find out more about here! Easily a job I can say was my dream gig! Go check out the art and the mechanics :D

art tag // commission info

[piercedtheveil]

something i don’t speak of often on social media (this is a lie) is my bataar obsession. silly little swedish men are my entire personality and if you like bataar we are automatically friends emphasis on if you prefer the rebirth version of riskbreaker

[shslivalice]

You know. I see this old gift from Fanfest... 2016. and i still think fondly on the Riskbreakers. I still love you all. I hope you're all enjoying life.

oh and also ramza from the theatrhythm special edition.

[onwesterlywinds]

PROMPT #13: Butte

"Grand Steward's calling in a good handful of favors, it seems."

There was no threat in the words, nor in their speaker - and yet Tia's heart began to beat in double time, even before she'd turned to find Ingvald Bloodhound of all people standing beside her at the aetheryte while Alma finished up her attuning. He'd forgone his full red mage frippery in favor of a flowing white tunic, a hat better suited for the sun, and a light but sturdy rapier strapped to his hip.

He looked as though his retirement had done him some good, and she had no doubt that he could say much the same of her.

She wrapped him into an embrace before he could demur - and as his arms encircled her in turn, a good deal of the worries she'd been harboring for their journey faded at once.

"I thought you both were still in Dalmasca," he said, as Alma stood on her tiptoes to plant a kiss on each of his cheeks. "Or at least far enough away to be excused from Riskbreaker duty."

"Operations reconvene at the end of the moon," Alma explained - the most she could say without divulging the present known status of Lyon rem Helsos and the little shitestain he kept in tow. "We're killing some time in Eorzea until then."

"And that means… ferrying another councilmember's constituents to the capital?"

Tia nodded, loosing a breath that didn't quite release the tightness in her chest. "This time, at least."

Ingvald, to his credit, caught on to her nervousness; he laid a hand on her shoulder with far more force than he had when she'd still been struggling to walk. "I've already spoken with Gundobald and procured the necessary documentation," he whispered. "The cart's all packed and ready to go. As long as Bertliana's crew give the word, we can make a break for it before he ever learns you're here."

"No," she said at once. "I owe it to him to look him in the eyes." Regardless of whether or not she voiced her apology, the old bear deserved that much. Ashley had already had his turn. They would not have time for her to check in with Gelva, nor with anyone else who yet remained, but that was just as well.

"Where's our fourth?" Alma asked, glancing around.

Ingvald pointed over his shoulder with his thumb, then heaved a sigh before even turning around to confirm that no one was there. "Helisent Wynter. She'll be our scout, on account of the fact that staying with a group is physically painful for her."

"Sounds like she and Alma will get along well," Tia quipped. They had only been in Eorzea for two weeks, and already her chances to needle her sister had dropped off significantly without the company of Rumta-Zaraam.

"And when you snore loud enough to attract every beast in the Peaks," Ingvald retorted, "I'll be the one keeping watch. So best keep that in mind."

Tia threw up her hands, even as he drew from her the first good laugh she'd had since her return to the desert.