I told you personally everything I needed to say, and my feedback to this year's Metaplot makes quite clear in just how high of a regard I hold you.
You've given not only more than enough, but probably too much. It's time to play, man.
Where it's true the server will miss the DM, it's equally true it has missed the player just as much.
Therefore, thank you for the wonderful service...
And welcome back.
This twisted culture got you feeding from its hand
But you will lose that food if you don't meet all their demands
And loyal is the soldier that gets slaughtered with the lambs
Examining the blueprints got you questioning the plans
I can't agree more with the post above.
Thank you for everything you have done for the server and its players. You will be missed as a DM. Extremely... but I do look forward to play with the player once more!
“People are stupid. They can be made to believe any lie because either they want to believe it's true or because they are afraid it's true.”
You excelled as a DM, Bloodlust. From afar, the thing that impressed me the most about your DMing was just how inclusive you were of everybody. I liked that, and continue to like that, about who you were as a DM and who you are as a person.
Enjoy the well-deserved reprieve. It'll feel like you have so much free time now.
To open, thanks for everything you've done. I will put my two cents in and say that I detest server wide large scale events. The lag, EVERYONE feeling the need to talk constantly and interject themselves, the amount of standing around. What I DO love is when a DM plans a small event for a level range, and then announces in game calling for players of that level range.
Anyways, that's I guess neither here nor there You've had a huge impact on the server, and positively changed the way things are done. I'm sad to see you go as a DM, but also happy at the thought of having you back as a player even if you are obscenely wealthy
James Merlin - Traveling, Treasure Hunting Troubadour of Tymora
Garet Sunder - Monk of the Fallen Star Duncan Thorne - Sellsword and follower of the Red Knight Vivian Blake - Wheeler and Dealer (Merchant) Bran Emberfist - Monk of the Order of the Four Ways
Your tremendous skill with the client will be very much missed. If that was not obvious already by the comments in this thread and that I know others have shared with you privately!
I am sure that many of us look forward to continuing to play with you playerside and I am glad to hear that you will not be leaving us entirely as such.
I also want to thank the entire DM team again and our great players for all of the wonderful RP work done during the past year. Greatness enables greatness.
DM Bloodlust, you are/were truly technically gifted with the client. In many ways it was a perfect storm this past year, it was a year RP metaplot wise that allowed you to showcase and utilize your extreme client talents in a high number of epic events in a big metaplot campaign that fit with the lore of the year. It was a year with many new event and metaplot processes internally that facilitated your strengths. It was a year with a great, relatively speaking, overall workload sharing of DMing tasks that I feel empowered you to focus on your gifts as a DM and made your campaigns even stronger and more robust as well as less prone to error and positively facilitating you to rapidly grow and improve as a dynamic storyteller. It was a year with an incredible player base of solid RPers that wanted to get involved in shared dynamic storytelling and that persevered through multiple DDOS attacks and other periods of motivational headwinds! It was a year capstoned by a great developer team with new outstanding content updates!
Plus, we were lucky to have what I agree was the best all around DM team possibly in server history. We had a lot of team wide support in helping to facilitate administrative work and RP work on the forums and in game otherwise and a team with very high integrity. We had multiple major and minor metaplot campaigns by multiple DMs of different styles and strengths that helped share the metaplot workload and that each offered something different for players of different play styles. Relatively speaking, I think that the team also through collective counseling and lessons learned avoided severe metaplot mistakes of the past that are always in danger of being repeated even with the best intentions.
All in all, if you had been on the team another year, I think perhaps you may not have been able to so awesomely display your talents. It is good fortune that the stars aligned and a great team I feel like even better showcased and empowered a DM, you, with great gifts and mastery in the DM client seat!
Despite my critique of the metaplot, I am very thankful to Bloodlust for both being a fantastic visual DM (despite what I know now to his beliefs being antithetical to the very events he was running) and for keeping the metaplot running for so long and for so consistantly.
I am looking forward to seeing him ingame as a character and taking a well deserved break
but i really wanted to express some gratitude here.
i remember one of our first interactions was, i think, when i just ranted at you about stuff i really dislike on the server. you listened, you disagreed at some and agreed at others. i really liked talking to you and remember i thought right away that you were a reasonable person.
and later something happend that never happend to me (or the people i play with most) we actually got into important server events thanks to you.
i really liked your events. i liked the effort you put into things, your mastery of the toolset, i liked that you always felt approachable as a DM.
i loved the magefair. just some sorta random event where (almost) everyone was welcome, and naturally it looked great.
there is more i wanted to write but it just looked alien to read it (lots of "look at me rant but you are one of the few exceptions")
so just . . . you did a great job, you were a great DM. or to repeat what i said to you a few months ago: if the server had 5 DM Bloodlusts it would be at 75/75 every day.
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