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 Episode 6 - Conviction

Hey everyone! ^^

With early access less than 48 hours away, this episode was a great chance for Indy to expand on Sera and Zett's posts about Conviction's expectations for everyone moving forward as well as his own blog post about 'the space between' the new recruits and the old-school Conviction team.

There has been a lot of discussion back and forth on the forums and I think that is an indication of the strength this community has. When you look through these forums and you see funny stories, friends just messing around, people organizing help for everyone, as well as gushy posts from the leader about how much effort is put into making this community great, you can't help but like it, I feel!

As has been stated a lot in posts the past couple days, Conviction isn't just a group of people that happens to be really good at endgame. It is a community that enjoys playing the game with each other and helping everyone out. Only because of that are we able to succeed in endgame.

As I spend time with you all every day on the forums, it's very easy for me to see how I was able to get excited enough to start this podcast with Indy, Arla joined up after we asked around, and Aryden, Sayu, and Mairah have been invaluable in helping keep this going. It might not be the highest production podcast and we have talked about non-FFXIV related things, but it's Conviction's podcast, and I am very proud of that.

Just seeing the "Comradamerie" (as Aryden says in the podcast intro) of everyone even before my application was accepted made me excited enough to want to participate with everyone even if it was just on the forums, let alone in game. I was vocal about this excitement with Indecent and the conversation turned to a podcast at some point, which spawned into this. I am indescribably happy and proud of the time I've gotten to spend with everyone here, and I look forward to bridging that 'space between' and having a tight-knit group of gaming friends that go beyond just a particular game.

I know that I'm Conviction 4 Lyfe.

Long, gushy Conviction love story aside, we have a bunch of topics for you in this week's podcast episode! ^^

This week we changed the schedule to an hour earlier to allow Aryden, Indecent, and Sayu to join us easier. Arla joins us about an hour into the episode in our "Conviction After Dark with Arla" segment.

As stated earlier, this episode has Indy expanding on Conviction's expectations, but we also touch on plans for Early Access and release.

After some talk about future plans we take a trip to the past and Indy/Aryden tell the Conviction story of Puscifer from 1.0.

We have a portion of lore talk as always (45 minutes in there might be something in the background about a fanfic.....?)

Near the end, we get a nice D&D story from Arla as well. Sayu replaces Arla for the introductory solo, her composition of choice: The Spider-Cat Song.

Lots more as well, this episode is a long one! 2 hours. I am hoping that in the future the podcast will be able to have more structure like this episode does compared to previous ones (although hopefully not all as long as this one lol.) I believe that as we get more content to talk about that will flesh itself out naturally as we find ways to use that content to create 'segments' or something of the like. In any case, long ass post is over, enjoy.