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by Kilgannon on Tue Dec 29, 2015 2:46 pm
I've been on this site a while now. Longer even than my profile lets on. I joined when I was young - and when I say young, I mean it - so it's safe to say that Gateway has played a huge role not only in my life, but in my development as a person.
I have many stories, though I am unsure if I am able to pick a favorite, so perhaps I'll just catalog the 'first' of them here, and then maybe edit in more or just post again.
This was back during either October of '09 or '10, I'm not quite sure which year exactly, but the point is that it was a while back and that the site was a much different place then. The chat, specifically, differed greatly from what it is now. Users were able to go IC whilst in the OOC, rooms were navigated using a drop-down list (much like it is now, I ken) but also via cardinal directions. The room descriptions would be stated as you entered, and then you'd be informed of what other rooms were relative to it.
I remember wanting to do something special for that Halloween, so I contacted Rem and we discussed. I'm not sure which of us had the idea to make it a chat event first, but we rolled with it and collaborated on some rooms/locations to be added to the Multiverse. I don't quite recall how commonplace users adding their own places to the MV was yet, but I do remember feeling special when I got to do it.
Whether or not this was just youthful entitlement is up to you.
The event itself was fun and played out better than I could have expected it to. Many people participated, and I was able to get help from many other (older) users to manage it, because at the time I was, well, a child.
Eventually, of course, somebody had to crash the party and it only became more chaotic from there, but it was a fun sort of chaos.
I apologize for my failure of retaining all the detail about the event, but I remember how it made me feel and it was honestly the deciding event that kept me here. For good.
There are many other stories, some good, some bad, as I'm sure is the same for the rest of us, but the point I really want to drive home is that this place is important to me and has made a significant impact in my life.
I'm glad I'm where I have ended up, and I'm thankful to Rem and all the other people that made this place a reality. It has played such an integral part in my life that I am legitimately unsure where I would be without it.
The good people here have helped me through many things, and I have returned the favor as best as I can. I look forward to (hopefully) another ten years.

This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves.
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