Happy 1 Year Love Meme

[gordianknots]

So in addition to two memes already up, I figure we might as well have a third celebrating the fact the game's been open for a year. We've done so much collectively, had an entire damn battle, literally changed the map, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. We may as well take a minute or two to bask in what we've done together!

i. Comment
ii. Leave love, talk about good memories, link to old threads you're proud of, gif-train if you want
iii. Have fun

Comments

[bullhorned]

Here's our 20 characters that have been there from day one! We have plenty of other players who have been here the whole time as well, but here's a nice sampling of our tenured characters who will be exiting the timeskip with two years under their belt!

[gordianknots]

You beat me to the punch, Masa. (So thank you for screencapping it so I didn't have to.)

Goddamn I'm still impressed with the retention rate.

[bullhorned]

The chart for the retention rate is pretty interesting since a lot of first round people stayed, whereas the retention rate for subsequent rounds isn't quite as high. Here's hoping we'll see most of them still there next year!

[fell_to_hell]

jesus christ Nico's going to be 16 at the end of all this what the actual hell

[gordianknots]

Cheers to that!

look i even have an appropriate icon

Someone's growing up. Cue the bewilderment.

[thebreakingwave]

[jaywalks]

WE SHOULD DO A "photoshop shitty hats on everyone's icons" meme to celebrate......

[sangilak]

i can't believe it's already been a year; that's CRAZY. this has seriously been one of the best experiences i've had in a game ever, and here's hoping for many more exciting plots and threads to come!!

[gandere]

So many Seelie! I'm honestly surprised by that.

(Must be the loyalty thing rubbing off on you all)

[sangilak]

chinhands at this list

[bullhorned]

You would think that! But in fact the Seelie outnumbered the Unseelie like 3 to 1 (or maybe 4 to 1) in the first round. It kind of worked out for the Unseelie since it made for a pretty cohesive and tightknit group at first, but it was definitely a huge Seelie party at first!

[stickseller]

I'm really looking forward to really getting into stuff post timeskip.

[wholesail]

harry's face was mine when i realized this has been a part of my life for an entire year

[thebreakingwave]

the future is now

[gordianknots]

Also I'm linking to the first Redgate log ever because that was still one of the most beautiful things I've been involved with in this game.

Cheers to everyone who was involved I am hard pressed to think of one of the best examples of what this game can be.

[gordianknots]

IT'S TRUE

[notyetlegend]

I've only been in game for half of that time and I was apprehensive about joining because of previous game experiences but each is seriously one of the warmest, kindest games I've ever had the pleasure of being in. thank you all for making mine and Merida's stay here worth every minute ♥

SHOUT OUT TO YOU. YES, YOU.

[falconkick]

I'm gonna be leaving work in a few minutes so I'll try to get this out as quickly as possible but wow expect a lot of gross flailing.

I just really really want to thank literally everyone in this game, from our incredibly talented and kind mods to our welcoming and ridiculously creative playerbase, you guys are insanely awesome. Each is a little bit intimidating to come into as a newbie, because there is so much going on at any given moment and it would be all too easy to get locked out of involvement by sheer virtue of how big this game is, but that has not at all been the case for me.

You have all been so lovely and eager to help make things happen, whether it's explaining the million and a half questions I come up with every day or plotting out the next silly thing to get rolling. It is seriously such a wonderful thing to have the privilege of being a part of, most especially in a big game with a big plot and a big playerbase. You make it so so easy to feel at home here.

And a super huge shoutout to the mods, because goddamn. Like, seriously. I am at a loss for words in awe of how much time, effort, and creativity y'all put into running this beast. You have kept your doors wide open for anyone to step in and move in any direction they want, and you're super patient and sweet and just the right amount of monstrous along the way. Thank you so much for all the energy and love you pour into this game, it really shows and I am ceaselessly grateful.

OKAY I GOTTA JET NOW BUT I LOVE YOU ALL OKAY I LOVE YOU OODLES AND OODLES

[brainiest]

heck

[brainiest]

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO SAY.

Everyone in this game is incredible and so creative, so open to doing things and exploring the plot and the world, so open to ideas and torture and hilarity and I have never felt so lucky to have been in a game! I really love you all so much and I am so glad that I've been able to be a part of a game that's so amazing and beyond what I ever imagined. It's a dream come true and I've met so many lovely, beautiful people that are some of my best friends, so thank you for that!

Please never stop letting me throw myself at you and thank you so much for giving me the room to do so many different things and develop characters and explore so much. I love you!

[cinnamoned]

I know I haven't been here anywhere near as long as some of you. But in saying that, I've really been adoring what I have been here for. The mods and all the work you guys do, answering so many questions and clarifying thing for us not just on plot/ooc posts but regarding quests and all sorts in pm from players as well. All you players for getting so enthusiastic about it and tagging me and all the other newer arrivals. I've loved the cr both of my girls - Colette and Snow, have managed to acquire and develop since I apped and hope to keep adoring it all the more as time goes on.

[showmeyourwreath]

how the hell yo

IT'S LIKE A YEAR. A WHOLE YEAR, GUYS!

[wholesail]

time is fuckin weird yo

[hiddeninfidelity]

All I can really say is that I had Mordred here at a few other games before this one, but she never seemed to fit in till she ended up at this here lovely game.

So yes, I'm always really happy to be here and to be able to play Mordred in such a great place.

[zerotohiro]

Keeping this short and sweet and sadly without a gif, but okay you guys know what I love most about this game? I love the fact that we house so many lone canon warriors, so many obscure-ish canons and yet everybody blends in and works so well together. I've only been in the game since August and I apped in with a High School Musical character and kept him for six months. That's incredible. This game is incredible. We have such an amazingly creative playerbase, not to mention a fantastic mod team and I'm so happy to be part of everything here. I can't wait to see what comes for the game in the next year!

Shine on, etc etc.

[andallbite]

So I can't say I've been here for a whole year, because I dropped a couple of months after the first round due to life beating me up... But I decided to app back in with the same character on a total whim, and I'm really glad I did!! I haven't been this invested in a game in years, and it's been incredibly easy to slip into things and play with the setting and basically I love the shit out of this awkward tree. Thank you to everyone who's played with me and let me do cool things or just let me have cr with, and thank you mods for working hard to make this game fabulous ;u;

I don't have any fancy gifs on me but pretend there is one here that appropriately expresses how I feel :*

and now the text version of the really loving drunk person in a bar

[gordianknots]

This has been my primary game for a year now, and I cannot begin to speak to how much I adore it. Each popped up at a time that I was looking for a politics based game that I could have fun with, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that something like what I was after existed. I apped in so last minute it wasn't funny, and I was damn surprised that I got in. I came in knowing no one, and I was stupidly nervous when I hit up that first feast log.

Since then, I can only look back at where this game started and be amazed. Not only am I simply floored by the worldbuilding in this game (literally, in several cases!) I cannot overstate enough how solid this playerbase is. I have had the time of my life plotting with people here, I have been floored by some of the stops pulled by this game. I remember the first Reynard log, where the motherfucker tried to Redwedding a chunk of our Game of Thrones cast and laughing myself stupid over the narrative decision+the characters it was happening to. And then you know, learning to go "fucking Reynard" which might as well be one of the game's tagline. (Or at least the tagline for that plot.)

Fucking Reynard brings me to the next point though, and that is the metaplot for this game plus the NPCs. These characters are incredibly lively, and the plots they give us have provided some of the best events of this game. Hats off to everyone involved with Reynard from November onwards, because it was a beautiful piece of storytelling. Having that final defeat of Reynard felt like a true victory, and in a game that revels in twists and turns, it was a nice thing to have something final. Cheers to our plot-mod for making this, and other plots, possible.

But let's sidebar that, because the players involved with February's war planning deserve their own round of applause. Saber's and Lancelot's muns did planning above and beyond what a game could ask of players, and they (plus the mods) gave us something that felt intense and real and with painfully high stakes. The set up and the effort that went into it can't be emphasized enough, and I can't begin to imagine how differently things might have gone otherwise.

Everyone's contributed so much to this game, with locations, with character arcs that impact the metaplot, by simply doing things in this world and interacting with it.

I'm so glad that this game appeared when it did. I am so grateful for the playerbase that it has, with everyone being so game to explore. And I am very, very proud of the past year's worth of play.

Cheers to the next one and shit getting even more real.

[marred]

awkward tree is the first game i have ever joined from the beginning of its life and stayed in. it's been such an amazing learning experience for myself to know what it is i enjoy most in a rp game and in writing -- i've never been in a game that has encouraged me, as a quieter player, to get involved and affect the world because i could. i'd been in games that were stagnant or only specific types of players/characters could affect the world, and it has been an amazing learning curve to know that i can get involved. this is due to the mod team and the playerbase who have encouraged me over the last year!

i've brought in three characters i've never played before! and to see luke grow as i get to explore the facets of a dude who is seen as a one-note villain from a first pov book to being able to get away from the honour jokes and show everyone that zuko is a pretty honourable guy to being able to try and explore the very difficult and intricate layers of katherine, it's been an incredible writing experience! honestly, i've never been this involved before -- the fact that we have a mod team that encourages everyone to get involved and to grab a piece of that pie has been such a new experience for me. i think that's pretty amazing.

the playerbase has been consistently amazing to me for the last year. i'm glad that i've stumbled upon certain people and have grown close to them -- and am growing close to a few of you now! awkward tree is a pretty friendly place, and i'm grateful to those who said "jade, jump on in!" when it came to getting involved in group metaplot activities. as someone who has lost some interest in the type of rp games i've been in for the last few years, i'm glad to say awkward tree is the one that has kept me in game rp. thank you so much to everyone who i have written with thus far! i'm so appreciative of you being a part of my character's journey and mine as a rper!

thanks for being amazing trees, guys. we've built a pretty cool forest.

[marred]

wow, this is pretty amazing! i honestly thought there would be less.

[gandere]

I heard about it. Just surprised that so many remained here after.

It's been a lot of fun to go back and read on earlier things. I can't believe the numbers have evened out a bit now.

[scorchedchivalry]

I honestly fail at words to describe my love for this game.



WAIT. Wait, wait, wait...








There. Better.

[gordianknots]

WHY AM I EVEN SURPRISED BY LION GIFS <3

[scorchedchivalry]

GAO!

[gordianknots]

GAO!!!!

[boutant]

time to party tbh

[scorchedchivalry]

GAO! GAO! GAO!

[gordianknots]

GAAAAAAAAAOOOOOO

[scorchedchivalry]

okay, enough lion!saber

[gordianknots]

i think we're almost out of gifs for her too

[scorchedchivalry]

I've got about three more I could use...

[gordianknots]

I think you win the gif-off

[scorchedchivalry]

Only this once. GAO!

[digophelia]

ALICE KNOWS YOUR PAIN

[bondedgryphon]

I've been at Each for about six months now and I can say with complete honesty that I love this game and the people in it. There have been times where I've felt overwhelmed and other times when I've felt lost and terribly TERRIBLY unprepared for everything here, but... all of YOU make it incredible. You're all so open and fun and willing to CR with us lone canon warriors (whether we always have been or only recently became such). You're all willing to extend CR with characters you don't know and players that would otherwise be left to sit on the sidelines.

I'm kinda on the sidelines right now, but I'm going to be trying to get more involved after the timeskip. Zhaneel has found her footing here at Each and it's been ever so lovely getting her there.

Thank you all for being fantastic and know that, even if I don't tag all of you, I read EVERY post that goes up and am just in awe of all of you.

Thank you for letting me be a part (albeit small) of it all!! <3

[scinlae]

i can't think of anything deep and meaningful to say outside of just nonsensical words about how blessed i am to be in this game and ya'll are great and stuff1!!

i love everyone in this bar.

[notavirtue]

High fives for everyone ♥