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Post by eakyra on Oct 6, 2006 15:34:34 GMT -5
YAY!
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Post by The Observer on Oct 8, 2006 21:17:47 GMT -5
*silently enters from the backround*
wow...that's all I can say...wow...
I don't know whether to cry or to laugh. I have returned to a land I once knew so well. I left it with a promise and I journeyed far. Now I find that the castle is gone and the rulers, my friends, have left. Now thier the kingdom has been replanted in another land, and is ruled by those who have no memory of the time in which I lived.
I am The Observer. I joined the original YWG in that mysterious time that bears no memory on your memorial board. I was one of the moderators during the true zenith of the guild, when we would spend hours together, all on at the same time. Reading each other's stories and playing role games as fast as the internet could post our responses.
I watched the guild grow into the huge metropolis it once was. That was when Hauke, Windfall, SE, and myself decided that it had become too crowded for the rapid response and more intamate conversations that we once had. So, in semi-secret we started out own splinter board that I was (and am) global moderator of. I quietly left the guild and devoted my time to that board. From a distance I watched the fall of the guild from what it once was. Saddened by this and by what I forsaw as a similar fate for our splinter board I left, but promosed to return. Years later, I am here. And I find the boards are run by third and fourth generation members that don't remember me, my peers, or the worlds we drempt of.
I'm not sure wether to laugh or to cry.
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Post by Denithar on Oct 8, 2006 21:53:45 GMT -5
I think I need a tissue... Actually, that was a sweet post! Really emotionally pulling even though I have nothing to do with it. Your good whoever you are.
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Post by The Observer on Oct 8, 2006 21:57:58 GMT -5
thx. It's really kinda wierd. one of those "I am a stranger in a strange land" kinda moments. I've returened to the kingdom, but no one knows me. My powers and merits are gone and forgotten. Stories written in love and hate now just dusty volumes clutering an abandoned shelf of a locked room. I left my creations as mighty monuments of shimmering crystal. I have returned to find them melted like ice in the noonday sun.
Sorry, I tend to get poetic with things like this...
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Post by Denithar on Oct 8, 2006 22:01:13 GMT -5
And again, I really like your originality. Hope you stay on!
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Post by The Observer on Oct 8, 2006 22:09:43 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I will or not. I don't know how much you've seen of message boards, or how old you are. But you may soon learn that these things go in cycles. In oursleves there are cycles of need for this electronic compainionship, and cycles of dissilusionment with its artificiality. I've seen this in myself and in many others. There are also the lifecycles of the boards themselves. They grow, florish, stand for a moment, then die. I'm not trying to be depressing, but this is true. It is a great investment to write regularly on these boards, and there is little return for the investment. I have posted many hundreds of comments in the Guild and in the Forest. I have achieved ranks and powers. yet now they are all worthless. No one comments on my works anymore and my achievments are forgotten. I'm not looking for pity, but I'm stating the thouhgts that are occuring to me as I debate what to invest in this new board. A board that will end with the same inevitable result.
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Post by Denithar on Oct 8, 2006 22:13:16 GMT -5
the funny thing is, I'm actually not one of the more involved in the site. If you stay on you will quickly forget me, or at least not know me well, because I'm quite busy with real life and cannot spend to much time vicariously living. (I'm 17 and attending Crown College in MN.)
I agree. The more you talk the more I want to get to know you...
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Post by The Observer on Oct 8, 2006 22:21:05 GMT -5
That's the horrible thing about this place, you want to get to know people so bad. But you can't. Many of the others (hakue, SE, etc) knew each other personally outside the internet. I did not. I came to love them and they me through our art. Yet we could never truly know each other. It is like the longing one gets looking at nature, the thrist to know its Creator. To see the art, but never the Artist. The only difference is that one actually can speak to God and He will listen. We have only this shabby electronic medium with which to share our souls.
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Post by Angie on Oct 9, 2006 17:41:18 GMT -5
I remember your name, but I came too late to ever get to know you. Quite sad - I wish I could've been here in the beginning. Is the Forest still running? I lost the link ages ago. . .
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Post by The Observer on Oct 9, 2006 18:32:40 GMT -5
It seems to have passed away. At its zenith it was greater than the YWG. Ther would be over a dozen dedicated members all on at once. Joint stories and RPGs ran practically in real time. But it faded. There was a brief ressurection attempted, and it was somewhat successful, but it has faded once again. It will never be as it once was, but seems to come and go in seasons. At the moment it is in a winter. If you want to check it out, I can give you the link.
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Post by eakyra on Oct 9, 2006 22:49:20 GMT -5
It seems to be that way for several guilds. Its very sad really.
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Post by johnsapphire on Nov 21, 2006 23:45:35 GMT -5
Any links?
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SapphireBird
Rank 3 (Almost Not a Newbie)
Memento mori-Remember that you are mortal
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Post by SapphireBird on Nov 24, 2006 19:15:43 GMT -5
I joined in April 2004, so that'll make 2 years in about 6 months.
That place is so sad now. I can almost hear the laugter of the times that we once had. One could post anything at all, and the topic would change about fifty times and we would party till sunrise. Sometimes, if you were lucky, someone would be on at 4 in the morning and you could chat with them untill you almost fell asleep on the computer. I remember when Hakue was active. She was a really cool person. She was really good at reveiwing stuff, and then she dissappeared.
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Post by Chris on Nov 24, 2006 19:18:01 GMT -5
Sounds cool. This site is new as I understand it, though, so give it time. Perchance with time and a little more advertisement to let people know that we're here, you'll get the site you remember back.
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Spinner
Rank 2 (STILL a Newbie)
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Post by Spinner on Nov 26, 2006 9:00:29 GMT -5
I came about a month after sapphirebird... I love this place but it's not quite the same as the old YWG and (no offence to new gen) I miss the older members.... Observer, I feel your pain..... Like observer said, it's a cycle.. this site will die out in time. We may become the best of friends but will never meet each other. Can anyone really imagine him/herself still logging in at the age of what?..... 28? 30?40?
I could rememer a time when new and active members came practically every week.
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