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Hadriel 💕 Love 💕 Meme

Please allow us to say thank you for sticking with us for so long and throughout our endgame! This meme is for us all to gush over one another with our love, our farewells, and our favorite memories throughout the game.

Instructions are simple- simply top level with your name and the characters you play/played (and if you want to include a few of your favorite memories in the game, as well as a character epilogue to say what your character will be doing after the endgame, please do so!)

Go around and tag other folks, reminisce, and tell everyone how awesome they are! Players who have left the game at any time can also participate, so please come on back and let us tell you how much we enjoyed having you here!

FROM MANDA

Hey folks!

It feels weird to be saying goodbye to this game. Hadriel has been such a big part of my life for three and a half - wow, almost four? - years now, and I have to admit I'm not sure what I'm going to do without it. It's been a huge source of inspiration and creativity, an immense and sometimes difficult undertaking. There have been ups and downs, but above all, it's been so much fun.

While I had modded games before starting Hadriel, I'd never created one of my own. Building Hadriel from the ground up with Rae is something I'm always going to remember. Coming up with events every month, creating NPCs for people to love and hate, and forming an overarching plot for people to react to was a constant rollercoaster, stressful and exciting and satisfying. I really hope you all had as much fun as we did, because that's the truly rewarding part of running a game: seeing other people enjoy it.

More than anything, I want to say thank you for spending time with us. Whether it was a few months or a few years, I really deeply appreciate everyone who invested a little part of themselves, their time and energy and interest, in our game. I can't tell you how many times Rae or I posted a plot OOC post and sent frantic Discord messages back and forth because we were so delighted about how people were reacting to it. We tried our best to make a game that people could have fun in, and one that people could feel like they were affecting. I hope we succeeded, and even if we didn't, thank you for caring about our game.

I want to especially thank a few people. Kels, who continued making beautiful graphics for us even after she left the game. Alexis, who stepped in to help us with apps and NPCs when we desperately needed it. Grimme, who was kind enough to volunteer to mod the Hadriel Discord. Without them, Rae and I would have been totally overwhelmed. Not long after the game began, we agree that we weren't interested in turning it over to new mods, that when we couldn't mod anymore we would end it even if we hadn't completed the full three arcs we intended. Thanks to the help we got, we were able to go the distance, and I really, truly appreciate it.

All of our players are awesome and this game would be nothing without you. Thank you for making this big chunk of my life so fun, and I wish you luck and even more fun wherever the RP world, or life, takes you from here on. I'm going to miss Hadriel and all of you.

-Manda

FROM RAE

I can't follow up what Manda said, guys, I'm already tearing up just from reading it!!!

But please let me say from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Hadriel was my first major modding experience, and it was born out of Manda and I conspiring with one another late one night during one of our many discussions about rp in general. We weren't truly serious about it, but it was something fun to talk and DM one another about when I was at work- what would the setting be like? Who would the NPCs be? What kind of rules would we make? Eventually, after another session of excited, frantic brainstorming, I realized: oh god, we're actually going to do this.

I was really scared! I didn't think that I had it in me to bring a game to completion. Enter Manda, who was with me every step of the way. She has been the absolute rock of Hadriel, keeping everything together and encouraging me and reassuring me, even when I was going through some rough times and wasn't around much to push the game forward. I can confidently say that without Manda, the game wouldn't have survived past its second year and I owe so much to her.

And then there's all of you! This sounds weird to say, but I've never really written a story that other people have cared about before. The enthusiasm and excitement that so many of you showed while we were dropping major plot events, or the debates that you had over our moral dilemmas, or the way that all of you just consistently volunteered, showed up, and thought outside the box to bring the plot forward in ways that Manda and I hadn't anticipated... I can't even begin to explain how much that means to me. The players of Hadriel, past and present, have done so much and the game wouldn't exist without you guys! So thank you all- thank you so much for being here, and for playing in Hadriel!

We've come a long way from nervously counting the apps as they came in on October 1st, 2015, from DMing, 'do you think we have enough players?' to one another, from not being able to think of good names for our NPCs(so we just named them the obvious- neither of us are good at naming things at all, see: the Null, see: [Name], see: the game was almost called The Spires until we flipped through some angelic-sounding names in a name generator site). Both Manda and I have learned and grown so much from this game, and I hope that some of you feel the same!

You guys are so amazing and we love all of you. We wish you luck wherever you decide to go, and thank you again for bringing Hadriel to life!

-Rae

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Fun fact, I test drove at least three characters before finally apping Law, over the space of a year or so. Figures Jerky McJerkface is the one who stuck, who knew. I'm glad I was able to be here for the end, this game is one of the best-run of all those I've rode to endgame. Ridden? Whatever I'm drunk it's cool.

Thanks to everyone who gave the prickly bastard a chance, he's had some weird an varied CR and I enjoyed it all, including and especially negative /points to Newt. My personal favorite moment was the nightmare event where Michael saved him from Doflamingo only to get manipulated into almost killing him. Fun times. The first Null attack he was a part of, also fun. I just mostly love his CR with people whether positive, neutral, or negative. So it's you guys. You, I love you.

Law is probably going to run for the Door as soon as he reads Sorrow's post and get the fuck out of here, he's wanted nothing more than to get back to the New World and finding the One Piece and he doesn't want to remember a thing of this place. It's a shame he doesn't have the happy sentimental feelings I do. 'Course, if Lance, Michael, Harlan, or any bots are still around he might say goodbye forever to them first.

God this CR was fun and just, yeah, really surprising? But in a good way. When I had Michael follow Law around like a lost dog that first day, I had no idea they'd end up being friends. And that Michael would end up almost killing Law, like, twice LMAO. But it all worked out in the end it's fine they're fine.

I think my personal favorite moment with them was fighting side by side in the first Null invasion, but god those dreamshare threads were fun too. Even though Law plans to forget this world, Michael would definitely appreciate the farewell, and he won't be forgetting Law anytime soon.

Thanks for the great CR, bud. It's been a great ride.

Thanks right back atcha, I fucking love Michael and his whole background and story and etc. Who knew it would be like this?

Totally going to just sort of walk up to him, awkwardly say "Um. Well. Goodbye?"

Jerks are a perfect fit in this game so that makes sense, obviously! Law has been wonderful to see around, always adding an interesting viewpoint to situations that cropped up in the game as well as generally being fun because he has Opinions and will Share Them.

(We had a lot of characters like that. It definitely helped bring the game to life.)

But yes, Law might not love this place but this place has loved having him around.

N'aww such warm squishies! Thanks, that fills me with such joy. It did make life interesting, didn't it? The general population of opinionated jerks butting heads all the time. They all had a nice home here! A nice home where gods yanked them around and gave them nightmares...

Thank you so much for exploring some real great stuff with Alphys and Law. I know it can be hard to get CR with hardass characters and I really love their talks and plans and how he'd push her from her comfort zone. Stay gold and thank you sososo much for threading with me!!!

aaaaaa thank you right back! I know nothing about her canon but Alphys was the mad scientist he always wanted to encourage to go wild. also she builds robots so that's great.

Of course!! I'm super spotty on Law's canon myself, but I think they had some really great CR and I'm so glad we got to tag :>

It was great to have Law around. I really loved how involved you were, and how willing you were to throw Law out there and find ways to get him doing stuff despite his grouchy nature - that can be so difficult with less outgoing characters, and you managed it really well. Thank you for finally jumping in after all those test drives, and for sticking it out with us until the end!

ngl it was a struggle sometimes, it always is with characters like Law, but you guys built a great game for grouchy characters, I think everyone was able to make it work somehow.

lookit that Hope face, man what a trooper. He tried so hard.

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Gem and Trafalgar Law

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