LOVE MEME | THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES

[hadrielmods]

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

Comments

Mey l Lup

[restinglichface]

It's so hard to put into words just how much all of you and this game has come to mean to me.

Hadriel was the first jump back into rp games after a couple year hiatus. I was in a game back in like 2010 for nearly five years and after that, I just really couldn't find another game that ever held my interest like it had. I dipped my toes in here and there, then decided dw wasn't my thing since I couldn't get into any of the settings.

But then I found Hadriel after my hiatus and holy hell, it was exactly what I had been missing from other past games. Being able to bring in a character like Lup and see her make these beautiful friendships and grow has meant something to me personally, above all of the amazing fun I've had writing with you all. I feel like my confidence in rp has been fully restored and that's mostly in thanks to the warm welcome I was given and to the friendships I've made. Without Hadriel, I would have disappeared from dw again for at least a few more years, but because of this game I've made some of the best lifelong friends I've ever had.

GOD trying to think of good memories is so hard when I'm certain there at least a hundred or so. Some favs are:

shark dick
taako and lup blowing up a toaster
sniping krav at lethal paintball
worst date ever ft gren and wade
taako dreams of killing lup
literally everything that happened during the first null invasion
SMASH OR PASS!!
baby lup and barry

Okay I could 500% just go on but let me cut myself off there.

Let me give some cr shoutouts! Lup's most important cr: Drake, Ephemera, Nate, Elena, Gren, Kate, Alphys, Ellie, Laura, Glacius, Dany, Poe, Finn, and Kyna. I also have been gifted with some amazing castmates!! Alex with Taako, Mar with Barry, Buttercup with Lucretia, Molly with Angus, Dani with Merle!! My GOOD BABES. Thank you all for writing with me, for plotting with me, for letting me bounce dumbass ideas off of you. I'm so grateful for these beautiful friendships and connections I've made here. Thank you thank you thank you!!

Lup wants desperately to go home, but she is going to be crau'd somewhere (still figuring out where) and end up off on her next adventure with her family tagging along. She will be keeping her memories, so if anyone wants to have a Hadriel playdate, she'd def be up for that kind of fun! (And Peanut is coming with them, in case you needed to know.)

Thanks again to all of you, mods and players alike! Please keep in touch!

[murderpotato]

hello yes i love lup and i love the weird, great relationship that she and Gren had

10/10 would have gross monster man get high and set shit on fire with skeleton wizard lady

[pocketspa]

part of me is like "its stupid to even comment here when i tell you how much i love you 24/7" but... fuck. we're like 2 days off from meeting 2 years ago when you RESERVED AT THIS GAME and i had a panic attack before ing you on plurk while crying. I literally never dreamed Taako was going to get a cast, and even when Javid brought Magnus and Dani brought Merle I was like, okay. I'm already luckier than most people in DWRP, there's no way. And then you fucking APPEARED and were the perfect person and continue to be one of my best fucking friends. Literally thank you so so so so much for EVERYTHING, being in my life and our threads and the INCREDIBLE CR and IM GONNA BE GAY ON YOU FOREVER AHHHHH

[lingeringhope]

I love that Hadriel has been an entryway back into RP for so many people. Lup was consistently entertaining and often hilarious, I loved all the crazy shit that whole cr group got up to. It's really fun to see people just going wild with the stuff we threw out there, whether that was events or bits of plot or something else entirely. Thank you for giving us a try, and I'm so glad it's been fun for you!

[nonscriptum]

Mey!!!!!!! I love you so much and we have had such a wild ride!!! I am forever grateful that you put up with me at the beginning because I'm so glad we got the cr we did and you as a person are just so lovely, and wonderful, and fun to write with in the best of ways. Lup and Nate's friendship is beautiful and if the twins don't show up to be the worst aunt and uncle to Cassie Drake ever, I'll eat my hat

you better keep in touch or I'LL CRY

[storyseeker]

MY DARLING. I have always been ride-or-die Nate/Elena 4 Lyfe but my goodness, our CR made me want an alternate timeline where she and Lup could be girlfriends for real. But even without then, their friendship has been so wonderful, developing into this deep caring thing where they just have this depth of love and support and understanding that was a joy to play, every single thread. Who thought that would come from a log where they giggled about Nate in a spa, amirite?

I adore Lup and our CR, I adore you, the end amen.