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You were an amazing Goddess to follow, it was an absolute honour to be one of your first followers. I lowered my playing time the last few years and our timezone difference made it so our playing times rarely overlapped. But I simply can't imagine having played Achaea under any other patron. Thank you for all the time you spent making this text world a much better place.
You were hilarious in game, never afraid to troll us simple mortals, no small feat for a Warrior Goddess. Here's a log from Halos and Tesha that really sums it all up. For all you non-Aarashi, you missed out.
(OOC clan): Silas says, "Lmao."
(OOC clan): Silas says, "What the fuck is enchanting."
(OOC clan): Silas says, "This is the dumbest shit hahahah."
(OOC clan): Silas says, "I just feel retarded."
(OOC clan): Silas says, "They should be hidden in like." "Cyrene."
(OOC clan): Silas says, "You're not allowed in while I'm enchanting."
A swirling maelstrom of gold and ivory light sweeps across the room, dissipating to reveal the form of Silas.
Aurora, the Lightbringer says, "Silas, we wish to see you enchanting, please."
Silas grows still and his lips begin to move silently.
It happened on the 16th of October 2014. It didn't just make my day back then, I'm still feeling it today!
Your eyes bug ingloriously outwards as an invisible current surrounds your neck, squeezing the breath from your lungs with an exuberant hug.
Don't really have many funny stories to share, but I will always appreciate the time you gathered your faithful into your temple towards the end of the black wave for what was essentially a group hug..
You're desperately missed
Thinking back, we used to be able to talk about lots of things, but I kept going dormant and you went god-mode. We eventually just sorta drifted apart I guess. Thought about you, especially when I'm in that 'holy shit I am running out of Achaean contemporaries' mode. I'm sorry I didn't try contacting you since
anyway funny story.... I don't know if this qualifies as funny in a traditional sense:
I think we shared at least 1 or 2 guys (lol), and I remember going to you and asking about one of them. And you said "Well you can but he's kinda weird". And he really did turn out to be kinda weird. He made his lovers write a journal for his, I dunno, deviant pleasure. He will always be remembered as 'journal guy' among other nicknames that other players gave him >_>
I love you. The Light will forever guide us.
Have some photos of my puppy, Penelope. She always makes me laugh. You can find her instagram at https://www.instagram.com/pennypoobarker/ too! She stole a steak knife too and you can find that on IG.
Human Tetris Game show Japan
Silent Library Gameshow, do not make noise while you are punished!
I also have some funny memories at anime conventions if that is your thing...like from voice actors and cosplayers.
I've never really had any characters that were made solely for role playing purposes but Ila was. Ila was Tesha's first daughter and the daughter that she had literally planned for. A mousy little thing with her mother's looks and a shy admiration for Lady Aurora, because Tesha's whole world was essentially her devotion for Aurora.
I remember the first time Ila had been accidentally summoned alongside Tesha and had her awkwardly sweet first encounter with Aurora. I hadn't been ready at the time, I hadn't known what to say, but that first personal interaction and the conversation that followed really ranks up there with some of my best Achaean experiences ever. Aurora was the one that gave her Ila's surname, as Aurora had bestowed it first upon Tesha. She stressed the importance of living up to what that name entailed because it meant a lot, and I fondly remember Aurora's parting words. "Be strong, little Justice. Grow."
Playing in Targossas around that time when the city was still very new but growing rapidly was amazingly fun for me. I had begun playing Ila just before one of the very early Festival of Dawns and I remember Tesha was coordinating the events for that at the time. I like to think that I'm a whirlwind of energy when it comes to getting things done sometimes but Tesha? Tesha is a whirlwind of sugar, catnip, and everlasting Energizer bunny goodness. She puts me to shame and the way she inspires and encourages people, especially during that time when morale was incredibly low for so many people, it's awe-inspiring. I'm pretty sure Tesha's single-handedly rallied that entire faction more than once and at times I do really miss my interactions with her.
One of my fondest memories was during that Festival of the Dawn where I had been strongly nudged into participating in a recital event. I hadn't planned on doing that and about half an hour beforehand, I threw together an incredibly rough poem on Targossas and the Bloodsworn that ended in heathens getting burned on a pyre. At the very end, I'd won over Sothantos and gotten his approval, and I have to say that Sothantos was an incredibly solemn sort of guy that didn't appear to tolerate much of anything that was even remotely silly.
I am so incredibly grateful for that time I spent in Targ on Ila and the memories of my interactions with Aurora.
Another fun time, I randomly happened to run into Aurora AFK in the temple. And the reason that was funny was that she would often make comments about how a certain Order member was in another of their "stupors" when they did the same thing. So what could I do but quietly (with emotes) step on, pretending I had seen nothing ... she got a kick out of that when she finally came back.
Now I am just a drunk.
I'd give you some super amazing rumours and stuff to chow down on some popcorn and whatnot but I mean, I'm lazy and see above
Edit: Oh, and I love you
Goddamnit, Kard!
(I kid. Kard's good people)
I wish I had something better to say. I love you
Let see... gossip and grumbling. Had my own issue with getting a prescription which not having was causing me to sleep for 10+ hours a day. Oh and I finally tracked down this cute Indian girl who worked in a nearby lab and kept talking to me. Told her I was looking for someone else who I knew was out to lunch so managed to finally do lunch with her.
I've missed the little moments where I worked with you, and the pieces of advice you've given me while I was trudging away getting some things done and wondering what the best solution was.
I also remember the pictures of Aimee you used to share. You were so proud of her as she was growing up and doing stuff, and I think you have a beautiful and an awesome daughter.
I hope your doctors are able to treat your bone mets enough to allow you to escape the confines of your hospital bed and do things outside of the hospital to make the most of your time. Is hip replacement (total hip reconstruction or hemiarthroplasty) an option? Keep waging the good war against cancer.
Best of luck!
You played the most convincing and most positive divine I've ever had the opportunity to interact with. You are also one of the sweetest, funniest, most thoughtful and most compassionate people I know. When you heard that Real Life fucked with people, you reached out with love and kindness and empathy even in the midst of dealing with all the shit you yourself were going through. I can only speak for myself on this, but I owe you so much more than I am gonna be able to contribute to daughter's fund. Thank you for all the years of support and fun and friendship.
You add so much to the weird nerdy community that exists here, and so much to anyone you seem to interact with.
Someone asked, I was kinda fishing for ideas.
I heard she liked cake. Especially those amazing god-approved products from your local Targbucks (buy today!)
What I do know is that @Aurora will always have a special place in my (and Antidas') heart. When I felt lost and at odds with leadership in Mhaldor and didn't know what to do next with my character, Rory was the one who swept in and paid an interest in me. Her random interactions and small little emotes meant the world even at that stage, and it only got better once I actually joined her order. She always had a way of making me feel special, even when at the same time I knew she would treat everyone in her order the same way.
I'll always remember the time, reasonably early on in my life in Targossas, that I was sitting in Al Qalat chatting with her. While I don't remember exactly what it was in reference to, I remember she spontaneously she referred to me as her "Luminous Shade." Two seconds later she made some comment about how that was just too good an opportunity to pass up, and put that in my suffix. Its always been a major point of pride for me that I can tell people that my god gave me a custom title to fit my character.
Aurora always had a way of knowing when things weren't going too well either. She would always chat with us in game periodically, but she was special in that we could talk to her OOCly about whatever it was that was problematic, and she was always there to listen and lend advise as needed or to simply let us know that she understood our frustration. We love you, @Aurora.
Amazing person to interact with and play with, one of a kind, and always made it fun and exciting.
It's my stuffed animal collection. See, this is what I have after only getting a couple of more after I got rid of over half of the ones that I had... Yeah, some of us have major addictions.
I'd add in my rubber duckies, but the problem with having cats is... well, you get the idea. They know that they own everything, even humans.
,--.!, __/ -*- ,d08b. '|` 0088MM `9MMP' Here, have a bomb.Why it bad form hunt baby deer in Targossas?
Because, everyone know they not approve of that light harted stuff...
As for stories of divine, I would have to delve into older characters. Beniah's mom became a divine long ago, although I have no clue which one. ShanShan was the best. The funny story though actually involved Beniah's fiance, known as the cookie queen. She used a shouting horn to cry out her claim of royal cookie sovereignty, and shortly after a giant cookie descended into either Eleusis or Shallam I forget. Several novices ate some cookie and quickly died of poison... She felt so guilty.
For something funny:
Having spent, probably, the most individual time with you in-game I can say that you left a lasting impact on not only myself, but everyone you spoke to and touched. You cared for us on a level I've not really seen before, even the smallest, and even when facing what you're facing your biggest concern was that you were abandoning us. A bunch of nerds playing a game, versus your own mortality, and you still thought of us.
I have about 5 years of material of meaningful interactions with you (mostly involving zapping me, or threatening to zap me, or behead me...frankly, you're a little violent if you ask me), but I'll stick with the last commands you ever gave to me, from Divine to Order Head. We miss you, we love you, and we're praying for you.
I extend that hug to all of Achaea, for it's not just the Aarashi whose lives have been made better by your smile. You're in our thoughts and prayers, as is your daughter.