You quickly unwrap a divinely wrapped present, which sprays glittering silver dust and cheerful confetti into the air, and excitedly pull the Marauder's Mask from within.

Not as extravagant as the others, but it makes me happy. First artifact ever!

Being able to help people with their gnomes.

Shadowdance

Finally baptised Synl!

This holiday season, I've been reminiscing quite a lot. Today, my thoughts turned to Lusternia and all the time I spent here, and I realized just how much fun I had in this game, despite my spurts of arguing, complaining, and whining. Thank you - all of you - especially:
- Estarra and Charune, who put up with me at my worst,
- Whomever played Virathuru (Estarra, I think?) for getting me addicted to the game in the first place,

And also:
- Daevos, Murphy, Xenthos, Shayle, Ibaesha, Elryn, and Diamante for providing and maintaining a wonderful roleplaying environment,
- Krellan for being an awesome partner in crime,
- And of course, Ialie, Brylle, Forren, Linwe, Tsuki, Gehn, Nejii, Xiran, Gwynevere, Yini, Dylara, Danae, Elysiana, Ista, and Gwylifar, who were such good friends to me while I played.

(And if you're still there Krellan, before you ask, no, I'm not coming back =P)


EDIT: Oh yeah! And Ashteru! How could I forget the DAYS we spent up on Ethereal on "patrol" back when Serenwilde policed it. That was incredibly boring at the time, but somehow I remember it fondly =D And I see Anisu reading this thread - we had some good talks when I just started to play, and some great fights later when she decided she loathed Shorlen =)

At least you visit. Hope you're well for the holidays.

-Arel, for the nice little Solstice letter
-Rika, for not being a prick about gnomes
-The rest of SKH and the clan-that-must-not-be-named. You guys are fun.
-Haiden. TAKE ME TO YOUR OVERLORDS, I DEMAND CHOCOLATE MILK!

and whomever made the gnomeshouts last night, you are my hero, because not only was it more fun to find the gnomes, the shouts often made me giggle like a small school-child.

Merry Christmas, Eliron.

<3 Elostian
<3 Nihmriel


(The amount of < and 3 would be too much to write down, so I'll just replace it with a single one.)

Your skill in Magic has risen to Transcendent.

No more getting owned by bards for me!

Lendren, Ialie, Zia, Aramel, Iola, Laysus, Nezha, Saaga, Tervic, Lysandus, Alodia, Xiel, Nejii, the rest of the PA, the rest of the 'singers, and the 'Doom' brigade in Celest

PS I know I've left the SS, but hey, you guys still rock

EDIT: And this doesn't go just for Arvont, but for the rest of my Altarmy.

All of you guys, thanks for being awesome!

You're welcome!

Very fun time this holiday week. Interacted with a lot of people!
<3

<3 FSM.

*braces for a random message: You have been touched by the noodly appendage of Morgfyre. \\n Hmmm..... Why do you suddenly have a dreadful thirst for rum?*

Game of slippers that Jolly held. Especially when it came down to the final three. Was very exciting then.

Amarysse for offering me her gnome presents cause I didn't get any....

Better than what the gnomes gave me!

Other Raves:
Actually finding a gnome.
Harbingers. Not only have we had people lately, they've been awesome people.

Same for the Singers. Maybe the Bards have become appealing...