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dankmemes2019-06-22 01:25 pm
hadrielmods) wrote in dankmemes2019-06-22 01:25 pm
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LOVE MEME | THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
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!FROM RAE
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
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
Manda
Dorian Pavus |
Josh |
Rhy |
Hope |
Tranquility |
Love |
Confusion (last 6 months) |
Wow, that's a lot. Also I have to be totally honest here, I was like 'hmm, who did in play in Hadriel?' and went back to look at my threads, upon which I got distracted by reading EVERY TERRIBLE SHITPOST THREAD JOSH EVER DID. What a fuckboy. I wish I had been able to keep him around a bit longer, my memories of him are entirely hilarious shitpost network threads and messed-up angst-filled log threads. I love it. The Until Dawn cast was SO fun and I will always remember that time people turned into wendigos. Classic.
Dorian and Rhy were both characters that I wish I'd been able to play longer, because they both had wonderful castmates and I had a lot of fun with them. But between modding and everything else, I had a hard time sustaining a second character - still, I really appreciate everyone who threaded with me and I had so much fun playing them.
Adam was around for almost the whole game, though Rae and I both decided it was time to send the Raven Cycle boys home a few months ago. It was really valuable having a player character in the game, getting to see things from the ground level, and the CR he had over the years was some of my favorite of all time. I tend to play one character for a very long time, and Adam was that one for the duration of Hadriel. Thanks to everyone for playing with all of my characters, and they have all returned home to have happy endings (more or less), except Josh who is, uh, dead or a wendigo. Sorry bro.
I also LOVED seeing the NPCs I played shift their opinions and thoughts about everyone in Hadriel. Every single person who slowly warmed to Hope, realizing how hard he tried for them despite the fact he didn't ask for this (Fear activated the Door! HOPE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR NOTHING, HIS LIFE IS EXTREMELY HARD) and was kind of a bitch about it. I loved the careful sort-of friendships he built with people like Alphys and Kate. Other NPC high points: people convincing Tranquility to give Hadriel the gift of weed. Everyone hating Love THE MOST even though Love never did anything to earn it, thus proving all of Hadriel needs therapy. Tranquility's totally underwhelming response to everything that happened ever.
They were super fun to play, and I loved getting to interact with everyone's characters. Thank you so much for all the threads. ♥♥♥ I legit teared up at work today when this got posted because it's so final and I will miss this game and everyone in it. You all really mean a lot to me.
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Again, we didn't get much PC-PC interaction, but god there were so many good threads to read from your boys that I was spoiled anyway. Josh was always an absurd delight during his stay, or heartbreakingly vulnerable, but that's just a sign that you were playing him wonderfully. As I've already said, it's thanks to everyone who was in the Until Dawn cast at this game that I even knew the game existed, never mind played it. And I'm so glad I did. Each of you did a wonderful job building upon the canon and creating this amazing group of friends, and I'm so glad I could be a part of that even for a few months. And that couldn't have happened without your Josh being part of what inspired me to play the game.
I can't quite say the same for Rhy, if only because I picked up the series without actually... realising it was the series he was from. But, if I ever get out of the pile of books I haven't read and re-read SOM, I might just... re-attempt Kell.
So, now onto the NPCs! And again, I'mma lift from what I said to Rae and say that these NPCs have been amazing to watch and you guys never made them feel like they were just there to provide information or be antagonists. They developed and really lived and I was (and still am!) so invested in their outcomes. I absolutely adored each of them and I'll just give a special shoutout to Love, because unfortunately all my characters who would like them didn't stick around long enough. Matt and Serah support you, Love, I promise!!
Hope... God I have so many feelings about Hope and I have spent so much time with my head in my hands during a tag like I'M SO SORRY YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH MY FEELINGS VOMIT. But he ended up such amazingly important CR to Kate and I honestly never expected to have CR with NPCs to that sort of level. But the emotion has always been such a fraught thing for her and to have that development from "I hate him on the very principle that he's fucking with an emotion that already hurts me so much" to "Oh shit this dumbass reminds me of myself" (which he really, really does at times) was just. So very important and good and I hope it didn't bother you too much to be stuck with me in his inbox leaving novels lmao.
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I love inbox novels. ♥♥♥ I just don't have words to express how happy I am that you enjoyed our game so much, and that you were always in the thick of it, plotting and doing wacky and emotional and complicated stuff. I'd love to thread with you again sometime, if you pick up Kell or just with any character. You're awesome.
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