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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
alex | alphys & taako | this is so long im so sorry
So I apped Alphys here in October of 2017 on the game's one year anniversary. I had just gotten back into RP about 6 months previous after a LONG hiatus, and the only game I was playing in before this was one where I knew the mods and most of the playerbase. It was a very safe space, and I followed a canonmate there to be a canonmate here just to... try. Back in the day, city jamjars were my, well, jam (I modded at Discedo forever ago) and I was really hoping to recapture some of that magic.
What I got was... so much better than I could have imagined. There was plot I could pick apart to study, there was reveals that made me CRY (LOOKING AT YOU, DELIGHT AND END OF ARC 2), and I don't even think I can get into what this whole thing means to me. I brought in Taako almost a year later, going way out of my usual character comfort zone, and ya'll welcomed me in that too. With both of them I've had some of the most amazing cast I can think of, and the most incredible CR I never could have dreamed. Seriously, I don't think I can put into words how happy I am. There was a certain point last year, where I just realized like... damn, I'm sticking with this until they fucking kick me out. I'll leave when they fuckin MAKE me leave. And now they are so im ;A; WEH
I wanna go by character to shoutout some amazing shit, so starting with Alphys:
-the great prank war of 2k16
- theshipping chart because it was fucking golden
- Alphys' network post after Sans left because it was so FUCKING heartwarming to me that people cared about this little lizard
- tfw Sorrow just SHOWED THE FUCK UP and gave her a FUCKIN HEART ATTACK because he thought she was a SPY
- getting to see the sun for the first time
-her first chat with [Name] and everything this fucking robot became and represented and CAN I LINK EVERY [NAME] THREAD, FUCK
- every stupid exchange with newt ever i literally just lobbed one at random because this one still leaves me reeling
- and i'd be BEREFT not to mention GETTING A KEYBLADE AND BECOMING A MAGICAL GIRL LIKE FUCK
im sorry this post is already so long but i knew this was going to happen BECAUSE TAAKO HAS SIX BILLION GOLDEN THREADS:
- THE ENTIRE GHOST THAT WE KNOW EVENT FOR RUINING MY LIFE FOR YEARS NOW
- theres only 2 threads on this tl but they are the first threads with lup and nathan drake and they are. flawless. perfect. im fucking
- just every fucking network post they've ever made but magic fights and smash or pass CANNOT be ignored
- taako walking in on dream nate and elena having sex and elena decking him in the face
- BABY ELVES BABY ELVES BABY ELVES
- the sappiest love confession i've ever gotten to write that i cherish
- this absolute trainwreck of a thread that ruined my life
- CAN I SAY EVERYTHING WITH MY CASTMATES IS THAT CHEATING, FUCK
seriously im gonna be shot if this continues but. shoutout to Nate, Elena, Cecily, Rey, Rosie, Newt, Kate, Rhy, Wash, Nick, Mariane, Gren, Aqua, George, Tinya, ALL MY FUCKING CASTMATES EVERY SINGLE ONE IVE EVER HAD, OKAY, but especially my current squad for just... being there, always. I've literally never been around for an endgame of a game before but this one's gonna stay in my heart for a long, long time.
FINALLY: ENDGAME PLANS. Taako is going straight home, until I CRAU him somewhere else and he throws a fit, but he will also be trying to convince his close CR to come with him. If you're friends, he wants you to come party it up in his world where he's rich and famous and can have magic. It's all good, y/y, come break shit with him because he's about to olly off this fuckin plane!!!
Alphys was a really hard decision because she's even been ICly waffling for a long time, but I finally decided she's going home too. I was struggling on what her "good end" was, because I think she deserved this happiness and growth she got, and I finally realized it wasn't about avoiding her problems. She's going to go home, free all of her friends from the Underground, and then whoever wants to come with her can come with her to Hadriel again and then... somewhere else. Who knows where, by then. Just somewhere, with her friends by her side, returning to a place she didn't think she'd ever want to go to with her head held high and a purpose in the world. It makes me cry, frankly.
ANYWAY... THANKS TO EVERYONE... Seriously ya'll have been incredible, I cherish everything I've done, I'm going to miss so fucking many of you it makes me die. And if for SOME REASON you've read this long....... I made a playlist for hadriel alphys and her journey here, if anyone else cares about stuff like this :V
I LOVE YOU ALL, SERIOUSLY, THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES I HOPE I SEE YOU ALL AGAIN IN THE RPVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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of course I don't have to scream here when we are still in a game and planning to app into another together BUT LOOK I JUST LOVE YOU AND i want the whole world to know how amazing you are! Thank you for being so welcoming when I first came into the game and for just immediately dragging me straight into hell where I've never left (and never want to). We are the Ultimate Lup and Taako duo and no one can convince me otherwise.
Can't wait for a hundred years of being friends and rping together to come. <3
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Thank you for always being energetic and excited about plotting things! That's the best part of modding, really, seeing that people are having fun with what you've made, and you always did that so well. Thank you for being so awesome, and for staying with us for so long. ♥♥♥
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also Alphys will come back eventually and she'll keep prattling on to Hope about whatever shit, they were so cute, ALL OF OUR CR WAS SO GOOD AHHHH ILL MISS U
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And ALPHYS. Holy shit, Aqua's arc-such-that-it-was in Hadriel was kinda truncated, but every thread with those two has been a gift, and I absolutely loved the shit out of passing on the Keyblade. Like that's the kind of awesome stuff you put on the RP achievements shelf because it's just so awesome.
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seriously meeting and getting CR with you was one of the BEST parts of being in this game for me so I'm so so glad we got to do this together <3 <3