Thank you from Derristan Barley
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:58 am
Hello!
Would like to take a moment to thank everyone I've interacted with so far on my toon Derristan Barley. It's the first character I created on Arelith and I have had so many incredible encounters with a lot of you, too many to count! From brief and spontanious meetings to IG years of working together or against some of you.
When I was first introduced to this server I remember being so amazed how long this world's been active and the fact it still is, be it the awesome work done by the developers, events created by DMs and the staff in general keeping things running. You don't get enough kudos but not only are you making it possible for us players to enjoy our time here but you also make it all feel alive with everything from smaller events to world changing ones.
I have to give kudos to the players too and to this day I keep being amazed at the creativity of some of you, some of the stories are worthy of movies and some of the characters worthy a book series!
There are too many to name and I fear if I started naming I'd miss certain players because like my character I too suffer from occassional brain farts but I like to think you know who you are and I hope I've shown my appreciation to you one way or another.
Derristan is getting older and I know there is a slight stigma to keeping a character for long (3 years of playing on and off now) and creating something new is often prefered but I always thought age is part of life and my toon has gone from a young and naive doofus, to an older and slightly more grim doofus. I've tried to change him accordingly to events happening to him personally and those around him and I'm still having fun, so this is not a farewell kudos, not yet.
I think it's important though to take a step back and let other characters shine as well and I have tried to do this by taking on more of a mentor role and delegate rather than being the grand hero, if some players feel I haven't done that sometimes I'm sorry but know that I tried to at least.
The reason I'm writing this kudos now is Derristan was retired from being the military commander and leader of Guldorand's Shields a while back, I know some think I've been hogging the position and again I'm sorry if this has been the impression but I feel I've always been open to the idea of being replaced and certainly made sure to tell all Mayors/Sheriffs that I won't hold it against them if they did fire him, it would just start another chapter.
I've had so much fun leading the Shields and I'm so grateful that I got to be a part of so much, meeting all sorts of characters from all kinds of settlements and factions, be it on the surface or in Underdark and deal with victories and just as many defeats, each affecting my toon one way or another.
This got awfully long but thank you so much to all the staff, the devs, the DMs, Irongron and mods! And thank you to all the players I've one way or another interacted with so far, be it directly or indirectly!
Much love from Derristan Barley's player.
Would like to take a moment to thank everyone I've interacted with so far on my toon Derristan Barley. It's the first character I created on Arelith and I have had so many incredible encounters with a lot of you, too many to count! From brief and spontanious meetings to IG years of working together or against some of you.
When I was first introduced to this server I remember being so amazed how long this world's been active and the fact it still is, be it the awesome work done by the developers, events created by DMs and the staff in general keeping things running. You don't get enough kudos but not only are you making it possible for us players to enjoy our time here but you also make it all feel alive with everything from smaller events to world changing ones.
I have to give kudos to the players too and to this day I keep being amazed at the creativity of some of you, some of the stories are worthy of movies and some of the characters worthy a book series!
There are too many to name and I fear if I started naming I'd miss certain players because like my character I too suffer from occassional brain farts but I like to think you know who you are and I hope I've shown my appreciation to you one way or another.
Derristan is getting older and I know there is a slight stigma to keeping a character for long (3 years of playing on and off now) and creating something new is often prefered but I always thought age is part of life and my toon has gone from a young and naive doofus, to an older and slightly more grim doofus. I've tried to change him accordingly to events happening to him personally and those around him and I'm still having fun, so this is not a farewell kudos, not yet.
I think it's important though to take a step back and let other characters shine as well and I have tried to do this by taking on more of a mentor role and delegate rather than being the grand hero, if some players feel I haven't done that sometimes I'm sorry but know that I tried to at least.
The reason I'm writing this kudos now is Derristan was retired from being the military commander and leader of Guldorand's Shields a while back, I know some think I've been hogging the position and again I'm sorry if this has been the impression but I feel I've always been open to the idea of being replaced and certainly made sure to tell all Mayors/Sheriffs that I won't hold it against them if they did fire him, it would just start another chapter.
I've had so much fun leading the Shields and I'm so grateful that I got to be a part of so much, meeting all sorts of characters from all kinds of settlements and factions, be it on the surface or in Underdark and deal with victories and just as many defeats, each affecting my toon one way or another.
This got awfully long but thank you so much to all the staff, the devs, the DMs, Irongron and mods! And thank you to all the players I've one way or another interacted with so far, be it directly or indirectly!
Much love from Derristan Barley's player.