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Thank You
Hello one last time, Polychromatids--
Caru here, in case you didn't know by now. Sure, I'm using the ol' Robot Mod account, but this is me blathering. It's more personal than a mod announcement. I guess I've gone rogue, making wild, unofficial mod posts here at the end of things. But I just want to take a moment, here at the last, as the closing credits of POLYchromatic start to roll, as a retiring mod, to say one thing:
Thank you.
Thank you to all the (other) mods of POLYchromatic, both past and present, for all your hard work and dedication and devotion to this game. There has been a great chain of modding here at Poly, with the game and its customs and the attached egregore handed down from mod to mod. It is hard work, and given how many people have participated in modding Poly and in modding other games, we all know it. Modding is hard. It's hard work to keep everything organized and running and going, to read all those apps, to make all those plot plans, to make the calendar, to keep the Taken list accurate, to keep up with activity, to handle problems when they arise, to keep the peace in OOC-world... It's hard work that goes on in that meta-layer to a game, keeping everything running so the real game, the real fun can happen. It takes a lot of work and a lot of energy and a lot of love. And it takes a lot of ideas and brainstorming to come up with plots. It takes a big heart. I came in without knowing a lot about how this whole mod thing worked, and the mods I started with helped me immensely--in ways that I think I have carried over into real life (what?!). Thank you, to all the mods I modded with and to all the mods I played under in the years before I became a mod myself. Thank you for all you've done for my first and home game, POLYchromatic.
More than that, far more than that, thank you to all the Polyites, Polychromatids, Polychromosomes, Polyers, Poly Players, whatever you'd like to call yourself, past and present, that have come into this game. All the best ideas, all the crazy plans, all the most elaborate events, all the creative notions, all the times that a simple plot point suddenly became a massive and multi-part event--that was because of you. Because of your ideas and your creativity and your love of doing what we do here. Call it roleplaying, call it collaborative writing (to people outside it, I guess). It is from you that all the best and brightest things have come--from your enthusiasm and your ideas and your willingness to take some notion and run with it for days or weeks or months or even years. The mods created a landscape, but you made it the City. All the reminiscences that I've seen on poly_crack and on Plurk just prove it: the sheer number of things that have happened, the hundreds of times players took an idea and went all in or all out with it, the plots and plans that had nothing to do with a curse or an event, all the details added to the City, all the times a single post made a plot just explode and everyone was talking about it... And this is to say nothing of all the small things that I know go on: friendships, connections, gifts exchanged between characters, love and loss, romances and marriage, the growth and change inherent in a character that is the meat and milk of RPing... All of these things are the things that are the true heart of the City.
When those metaphorical credits start rolling here for POLYchromatic, the names that we will see will be yours. You are the creators of this place and this game.
I think I probably put my words in Tristero's mouth in his last couple of posts. All the stuff he said ICly? That goes for me too. Thanks for standing with us and standing together, thanks for working with us, thanks for your support and ideas, and thanks even for the challenges that made us stop and think and go back and reconsider and try to make POLYcromatic even better.
If there are Higher Ups to the Deities, perhaps it's the Animal Trinity. And perhaps there's someone even over the Animal Trinity. If you think about it, we, the players, are the top of that hierarchy. We choose who comes and goes in the City. We choose what curses strike a character and what they will endure and what the ramifications will be. Think about it: we, the players, are at the top of that hierarchy. We are the Higher-Ups. And we can be because we can deal with this meta-level to the existence of this shared imagined place. We are the Higher-Ups for the Deities and the Anons and the NPCs. The Higher-Ups maintain the City and care for it, as they know it is something important that needs to be cared for. Nothing more complicated than that. Every being needs love and care.
I mentioned this before, but I'm going to say it again: POLYchromatic is an egregore, near as I can see it. At least in a metaphorical sense. Not to be too pedantic, but an egregore is a "thoughtform" or "collective group mind," or the "spirit" of a place or a thing or a group. In more occult circles, it's an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. If that doesn't articulate how Poly works, how we made Poly and Poly made us, how Poly was ours and yet a thing unto itself, I don't know what does. And now we're going to release it but also take pieces of us with it as we go.
I know I've been changed by all this. I used to think, back when I first joined, that, if Poly ever closed, I'd just go back to my life like it was before. I realize now that that's impossible. I cannot go back to life as it was before Poly.
I've been in POLYchromatic for nearly 7 years--not as long as some, but still a decent amount of time, right? I joined with Cain Hargreaves back when I hardly knew how to do this LJRP thing, and now I'm leaving with Cain Hargreaves, knowing more about this surprising, unpredictable, wild, wonderful, amazing subculture that is LJ and DWRP--something I never knew existed seven years ago, something I never thought I'd know and do for so long.
All things have their time. And here, it seems, it POLYchromatic's. So I will say it again: Thank you. For everything you've done and said and created here with us. It has been made and done and it cannot be unmade or undone now or ever. We have made this place and it is ours.
Thank you,
POLYchromatic♥
Caru here, in case you didn't know by now. Sure, I'm using the ol' Robot Mod account, but this is me blathering. It's more personal than a mod announcement. I guess I've gone rogue, making wild, unofficial mod posts here at the end of things. But I just want to take a moment, here at the last, as the closing credits of POLYchromatic start to roll, as a retiring mod, to say one thing:
Thank you to all the (other) mods of POLYchromatic, both past and present, for all your hard work and dedication and devotion to this game. There has been a great chain of modding here at Poly, with the game and its customs and the attached egregore handed down from mod to mod. It is hard work, and given how many people have participated in modding Poly and in modding other games, we all know it. Modding is hard. It's hard work to keep everything organized and running and going, to read all those apps, to make all those plot plans, to make the calendar, to keep the Taken list accurate, to keep up with activity, to handle problems when they arise, to keep the peace in OOC-world... It's hard work that goes on in that meta-layer to a game, keeping everything running so the real game, the real fun can happen. It takes a lot of work and a lot of energy and a lot of love. And it takes a lot of ideas and brainstorming to come up with plots. It takes a big heart. I came in without knowing a lot about how this whole mod thing worked, and the mods I started with helped me immensely--in ways that I think I have carried over into real life (what?!). Thank you, to all the mods I modded with and to all the mods I played under in the years before I became a mod myself. Thank you for all you've done for my first and home game, POLYchromatic.
More than that, far more than that, thank you to all the Polyites, Polychromatids, Polychromosomes, Polyers, Poly Players, whatever you'd like to call yourself, past and present, that have come into this game. All the best ideas, all the crazy plans, all the most elaborate events, all the creative notions, all the times that a simple plot point suddenly became a massive and multi-part event--that was because of you. Because of your ideas and your creativity and your love of doing what we do here. Call it roleplaying, call it collaborative writing (to people outside it, I guess). It is from you that all the best and brightest things have come--from your enthusiasm and your ideas and your willingness to take some notion and run with it for days or weeks or months or even years. The mods created a landscape, but you made it the City. All the reminiscences that I've seen on poly_crack and on Plurk just prove it: the sheer number of things that have happened, the hundreds of times players took an idea and went all in or all out with it, the plots and plans that had nothing to do with a curse or an event, all the details added to the City, all the times a single post made a plot just explode and everyone was talking about it... And this is to say nothing of all the small things that I know go on: friendships, connections, gifts exchanged between characters, love and loss, romances and marriage, the growth and change inherent in a character that is the meat and milk of RPing... All of these things are the things that are the true heart of the City.
When those metaphorical credits start rolling here for POLYchromatic, the names that we will see will be yours. You are the creators of this place and this game.
I think I probably put my words in Tristero's mouth in his last couple of posts. All the stuff he said ICly? That goes for me too. Thanks for standing with us and standing together, thanks for working with us, thanks for your support and ideas, and thanks even for the challenges that made us stop and think and go back and reconsider and try to make POLYcromatic even better.
If there are Higher Ups to the Deities, perhaps it's the Animal Trinity. And perhaps there's someone even over the Animal Trinity. If you think about it, we, the players, are the top of that hierarchy. We choose who comes and goes in the City. We choose what curses strike a character and what they will endure and what the ramifications will be. Think about it: we, the players, are at the top of that hierarchy. We are the Higher-Ups. And we can be because we can deal with this meta-level to the existence of this shared imagined place. We are the Higher-Ups for the Deities and the Anons and the NPCs. The Higher-Ups maintain the City and care for it, as they know it is something important that needs to be cared for. Nothing more complicated than that. Every being needs love and care.
I mentioned this before, but I'm going to say it again: POLYchromatic is an egregore, near as I can see it. At least in a metaphorical sense. Not to be too pedantic, but an egregore is a "thoughtform" or "collective group mind," or the "spirit" of a place or a thing or a group. In more occult circles, it's an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. If that doesn't articulate how Poly works, how we made Poly and Poly made us, how Poly was ours and yet a thing unto itself, I don't know what does. And now we're going to release it but also take pieces of us with it as we go.
I know I've been changed by all this. I used to think, back when I first joined, that, if Poly ever closed, I'd just go back to my life like it was before. I realize now that that's impossible. I cannot go back to life as it was before Poly.
I've been in POLYchromatic for nearly 7 years--not as long as some, but still a decent amount of time, right? I joined with Cain Hargreaves back when I hardly knew how to do this LJRP thing, and now I'm leaving with Cain Hargreaves, knowing more about this surprising, unpredictable, wild, wonderful, amazing subculture that is LJ and DWRP--something I never knew existed seven years ago, something I never thought I'd know and do for so long.
All things have their time. And here, it seems, it POLYchromatic's. So I will say it again: Thank you. For everything you've done and said and created here with us. It has been made and done and it cannot be unmade or undone now or ever. We have made this place and it is ours.
Thank you,
POLYchromatic♥
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