The Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern is a cozy teahouse and bar located within the Lavender Beds of the Twelveswood, serving a wide array of beverages and snacks and selling their own specialty loose-leaf blends of tea. At least, that is what is most publicly known. Less mainstream is the knowledge that the establishment also serves as a front for an information brokerage and private investigations business. Secrets, lies, rumors, intrigue... what is it that you are seeking, or selling, perhaps? Pay us a visit, cut a deal, and spill the tea. Or just enjoy a warm drink and some pleasant company!

Shroudrose Teahouse & Tavern

Within the Lavender Beds of the Twelveswood, with a cliffside at its back and a flowing stream beneath a short bridge at its entrance is a large mansion with a finely manicured yard in the fifth ward Lavender Northeast subdivision. Once housing a rowdy free company of adventurers summers ago, it now serves as the site of the Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern, a teahouse and upscale bar serving everything from specialty tea blends, to a wide array of spirits, to light meals and snacks both sweet and savory.

Teatime Free Company

Teatime <<Tea>> is a med-heavy, morally grey role-play free company on the Balmung server of the Crystal Data Center. We strive to take our role-play seriously and everything else lightly. We provide a space for role-players who are mature and take initiative to get plots moving, create events, and find role-play. We seek members who enjoy role-play with depth, complex characters, artistic writing, and an approach to lore that is both flexible but respectful to the setting and canon; who look for more in their stories than romance and ERP; and who are considerate to other role-players around them.

Shroudrose Public Events

Shroudrose regularly takes part in open RP events, be it hosting our own events for the Teahouse & Tavern, or collaborating in large community events such as festivals and galas. Feel free to contact us for any event inquiries if your event needs vendors, wait staff, food and drink, or other services we may be able to provide. Our teahouse is open and fully staffed select Monday evenings, and our tavern is open with live entertainment one Thursday night each month.

Our Members

From the friendly waitstaff and cooks at the teahouse to the clandestine employees collecting information in the shadows and even those who walk both worlds, learn more about the colorful cast of characters who call the Shroudrose home. Just as a common purpose brings us all together IC, our members come from all walks of life but are united in our love for RP and all else Teatime has to offer. Get to know the people who make Shroudrose the special place it is.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, or if you would like to organize any RP with us, please do not hesitate to contact the Free Company Leader:Faye Covington (Balmung)

Or contact one of our Officers:
Grey Spring
Ato Meme
Thalia Atoel
Alueredus Atoel
Raisan Arcmantle

Our Events

These are our regularly scheduled public RP events. We sometimes host one-off events both private and public, or participate in events hosted by other groups on the server, as well. Our public events are open to anyone and everyone! Even if you're a stranger, come become a friend!

Teatime

Join us at 7:00 PM eastern time on the first and third Monday of each month (and fifth Monday, if applicable) at the Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern, located at Lavender Beds, Ward 5, Plot 58 nearest the Lavender Northeast Subdivision aetheryte. Come try Shroudrose’s specialty blends of tea! Enjoy a cup in our tearooms on the main floor and second floor (including our far eastern themed rooms), or purchase some to brew at home! You can always cozy up in our library to read or get some work done while you enjoy a cuppa. Snacks and treats will be available to compliment your tea.

    Happy Hour

    Visit Teatime's Shroudrose Teahouse & Tavern at our monthly Happy Hour for an evening of half-off drinks, good company, and live entertainment! Shroudrose Tavern seeks to provide a bar environment that is both casual and refined, where those from all walks of life may gather to enjoy one of our unique cocktails or a bite to eat, and a bit of conversation among friendly company alongside our musical entertainment.Join us on the last Thursday of each month at 9:00 PM eastern time at Lavender Beds, Ward 5, Plot 58 on the Balmung server in the tavern downstairs. Performances begin at 10:00 PM eastern time. We look forward to seeing you there!

      Joining Us

      Tea Party Fellowship

      The Tea Party is an open Fellowship for our FC and friends! This Fellowship primarily exists to track our upcoming events, make any important announcements, and to facilitate networking based around our FC and venue.
      Anyone on the Crystal Data Center is welcome to join this Fellowship on any character(s) you please. Whether you are a member of our FC, interested in the FC, a patron of our events, interested in attending future events, a friend of our FC members, or just looking for RP or new friends–you are more than welcome to join!
      Please feel free to make use of message board to make LFRP posts, advertise your own events, or to introduce yourself or just say hello.

      • Keep up to date on our events

      • Receive any important updates

      • Network with us and our allies

      • Meet new faces and stay in touch with familiar ones

      If you are interested in joining, please contact Faye Covington (Balmung) in game, or search for “The Tea Party” using the Fellowship Finder under the Social Menu. We're tagged under RP Fellowships.

      Teatime Discord Server

      Our Discord server is open to all FFXIV players. We welcome those who are unable to join our FC to still RP and socialize with us. You may join to stay in touch with our members, receive notification and reminders of our events, or to get a better feel for our FC if you are interested in applying. Please contact us with your Discord handle, your character name and server, and your reason for wishing to join. Please understand that some of our activities may be limited to FC members only, and for events with a limited amount of participants, preference may be given to full FC members.

      Teatime Free Company

      Teatime is a med-heavy RP FC on the Balmung server. We are a free company which strives to take our role-play seriously and everything else lightly. We provide a space for role-players who are mature and take the initiative to get plots moving, create events, and find role-play. We seek members who enjoy role-play with depth, complex characters, artistic writing, and an approach to lore that is both flexible but respectful to the setting and canon; who look for more in their stories than romance and ERP; and who give fair consideration to the other role-players around them. We also enjoy a healthy amount of PvE such as dungeons, trials, and maps; PvP; and social activities such as game nights, movie nights, and voice chat on top of the usual OOC chatter.We accept characters of all sorts and alignments, so long as things make sense in character, and they may be involved in the teahouse, the information brokering business, or both. We accept players both new and old to role-play and/or the game as long as they meet our standards, and above all else, we seek members of all walks of life who are friendly and open-minded. We are primarily based in the NA eastern timezone, as are most of our events, but we accept--and have--members from all over the world. Event participation is strongly encouraged, but never mandatory.In order to keep our laidback environment just that and ensure our numbers remain manageable, we are selective in our membership, as we know our free company is not a good fit for everyone and vice-versa. We strive to maintain a tight-knit group of people with a similar focus, who we feel will complement each other and be comfortable in our free company.Please be aware that though the free company may be morally grey, our members and theme are not exactly evil, or entirely illegal or immoral. Characters who are openly very villainous and antagonistic may not be a good fit for this free company (though we are happy to let this play out IC, if you are on board).Perks: Chill people, active Discord server, monthly raffle, Fellowship, FC tumblr, fun RP, multiple RP events each month, FC buffs, large FC house with private rooms available, airship, crafting facilities, and more!We are looking for members who are mature and independent, who can take initiative and hold accountability for themselves. We are looking for passionate and talented role-players (even if new and still learning!) who take their writing seriously, and who do not focus their role-play solely on romance and ERP. We are looking for members who are fun and relaxed OOC, who fall into the pleasant middle-ground of both having a sense of humor but remaining considerate of others. Please check out our rules, and if you feel you can abide by them and agree to them, feel free to apply to our free company.We are currently looking for a wide array of characters to fill various roles, such as…Chefs & Cooks
      Bake and cook the food served at Shroudrose Teahouse!      Bartenders & Servers
      Help staff our teahouse & tavern and serve our guests!      Bards & Performers
      Perform on stage during our events!      Household Staff & Groundskeepers
      Help with daily operations, cleaning, and upkeep of the establishment!      Gatherers & Farmers
      Supply the ingredients for our teas and food!      Traders & Suppliers
      Provide us with goods and supplies we need in our operations!      Guards & Bouncers
      Keep the peace and protect our staff and patrons alike, in the teahouse or perhaps in some more clandestine ventures!      Couriers & Transportation Guards
      Safely transport our supplies to us, and our goods to various markets and customers!      Researchers & Consultants
      Provide the information brokering side of the business with information on topics of your expertise!      Spies & Investigators
      Retrieve information needed for our information brokering clients!      Our application process consists of a brief general OOC application section followed by a short RP application section. Please have patience, as the application may take a day or two for us to review and discuss. Please contact us with any questions regarding our FC or the application process.

      Shroudrose Teahouse & Tavern

      Nestled within the Lavender Beds of the Twelveswood with a cliffside at its back and a flowing stream beneath a short bridge at its entrance is a large mansion with a finely manicured yard in the fifth ward Lavender Northeast subdivision. Once housing a rowdy free company of adventurers summers ago, it now serves as the site of the Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern, a teahouse and upscale bar serving everything from specialty tea blends, to a wide array of spirits, to light meals and snacks both sweet and savory.Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern is our free company estate, a large mansion in the Lavender Beds. The free company house is a public role-play space where anyone is welcome to come role-play at any time, and can be used as a venue for events with some prior discussion. To stop by when there is a crowd and the place is staffed by player characters, please see our Events section. If you wish to role-play in the teahouse outside of our event hours, you can assume NPC staff take care of your characters, or you can contact us and we will have a character come assist you if possible. Feel free to come take a look at our decor, and leave a message in the Guest Book, if you please!Lavender Beds, Ward 5, Plot 58
      Northeast Subdivision Aetheryte
      Balmung Server, Crystal Data Center

      Main Floor

      The teahouse is grand yet cozy, the smell of teas and pastries lingering upon the air of this quiet and tranquil place. Just inside the entrance, you will find the armoire, where you will be expected to deposit any and all weapons. The main floor features the teahouse of name, where you can enjoy a fresh, piping hot cup of tea with whatever fixings you desire. Ordinary teas of all varieties are available, along with Shroudrose’s specialty loose-leaf blends which can also be purchased to enjoy at home, as well as sweets and snacks to go with your tea. You may order whatever you please at the counter to the right of the grand staircase.

      Upstairs

      Upstairs on the left wing is a tiny, somewhat private Sylphic-themed banquet room if you like a more quiet and intimate space, or if you've come with a medium-sized party. Behind it are two traditional far eastern themed tearooms for those who prefer an Othardian flare. On the right wing is a small library with a modest collection of books on all manner of appropriate subjects, along with cozy seating and ample workspace. Feel free to enjoy a cup of tea as you study or work, or curl up in the book nook loft to lounge in peace and comfort as you enjoy a good read.

      Downstairs

      Downstairs in the basement is the tavern, where Happy Hour events boasting half price drinks are held once a moon. The bartenders and waiters are happy to serve some alcohol or a bite to eat. At the back of the tavern is a large stage where performers sometimes put on a show, or you can keep yourself entertained with some tunes from the orchestrion or a match of Triple Triad. Though less seedy than the average alehouse, the tavern still offers drinks for even those with strong tastes and small budgets.

      Personal Chambers

      At the back of the main floor between the two staircases is a door leading to a hallway of Shroudrose’s personal rooms, as well as our airship dock and workshop. Some of these rooms are offices, some our employees’ private quarters, and some are open facilities. Please read over the notes upon each door, follow any instructions given, and be respectful of our employees’ spaces. Knock before entering any personal spaces and mind the locked the doors.

      Policies

      If you are interested in performing on stage, if you would like to rent any of our space for a public or private event, or if you are interested in making any sort of business arrangement involving our products, please contact Shroudrose proprietress, Lady Faye Covington.

      • You may be cut off from being served alcoholic beverages if you are overly intoxicated.

      • No weapons past the entryway. Deposit them in the armoire.

      • You may be held accountable for any property damage.

      • No illegal or inappropriate activity.

      • Any guest who is being disruptive in any way may be escorted off the property, forcefully if necessary, and potentially banned either temporarily or permanently.

      ((OOC Info))

      • If there are no player characters around to serve you, feel free to assume an NPC is staffing the teahouse or tavern.

      • If you stop by the teahouse outside of our event times, you can contact us and we will have a player character attend you if possible.

      • You are welcome to use the teahouse as an RP location at anytime, please just ensure your RP is appropriate to a setting that is public and all-ages both IC and OOC.

      • Please be respectful of our staff and your fellow patrons!

      • If you would like to use our venue for an event (public performance, eternal bonding reception, private dinner, etc.), please contact us and we will be glad to arrange something.

      RP With Us

      Collaborations

      We are always glad to role-play with other groups and individuals outside the FC! Please let us know if you are interested in working with us in any capacity.

      • Storylines - As allies or as enemies, and anything between, we are open to select plotlines, pending careful discussion and consent.

      • Business Partners - Whether it's transporting goods, providing ingredients, or anything else we may need, the teahouse can strike a deal!

      • Retailers - Shroudrose will conditionally allow the bulk purchase of our goods to sell at other businesses as well as create special flavors for partnered businesses!

      • Performers - We welcome entertainment for our public events, whether it is song, dance, stories, or anything otherwise!

      Hiring Us to Investigate

      The Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern is a cozy teahouse and bar located within the Lavender Beds of the Twelveswood, but lesser known is that the same establishment serves as information brokering and private investigations business, Teatime. Teatime can help provide information on any person, place, or thing.What you need to know OOC:

      • Due to the potentially questionable nature of the business, the information brokering side of things is kept on the down-low, but it’s not totally secret. If you have reason for your character to know, then you can assume they do.

      • Our FC is not lore-strict, but we are lore-friendly. We are flexible and can accommodate for bending the lore, but not breaking it. Please be respectful of this and do not knowingly ask our FC to investigate anything that goes against lore or reasonable belief.

      • Teatime has no interest in getting on the wrong side of the law. Any deals involving anything too immoral or illegal may potentially be declined... and maybe tattled to the proper authorities or sold as information to some do-gooders.

      • Any job you bring to us may potentially be used as a hook for our private FC investigation case file role-plays. These role-plays are just to give our FC members something to do and help their characters be involved in the work! You do not have to accept the happenings of any of these role-plays as canon to your own character's story.

      • All payments are IC, no actual gil or item exchanges necessary.

      We can find information in two ways:

      1. If your character needs to know something to advance your own personal plot, your character can hire Teatime, and you can give us the necessary information OOC along with any details about when/how/where you wish our characters to discover it, which we can either role-play among ourselves or with you DMing, or assume to have happened behind the scenes. Teatime can then relay the information to your character.

      2. If your character wishes for Teatime to relay information on another player character, Teatime can try to obtain this information. This will happen organically via role-play or with whatever cooperation the other role-player is willing to give. Given this involves the variable of a third party, we cannot guarantee results this way. We will not metagame for information on other characters (though eavesdropping IC will be considered fair game). You may be expected to help put in contact with this player OOC.

      If you are interested in using Teatime's services or otherwise setting up a role-play with us, feel free to catch us IC, or contact us OOC via RPC, Discord, or in-game to organize some RP.