...Good Evening Everyone.
I write this as my last post to these forums for now. As firstly a thank you for your support, secondly to say this:
I came back in October 2012 for various reasons, firstly my best friend asked me to, secondly I missed one hell of alot of you and thirdly and finally I got asked to come back and rebuild the Events Team.
So yeah, I've claimed alot of the credit, I probably haven't done alot of the work but I came back and the Events Team went from a Team of three once Pheats chose to step down and leave to a team of 15 and now the largest team in ARK, having welcomed Pheats back into the fold along with a wealth of experience, knowledge, history and potential of the others that have either chose to rejoin us or the new blood that has become part of us.
I've had dreams, hopes and aspirations and the greatest involvement from Funcom in a storyline that I've ever seen. I hit the ground running with stuff I've never done before, burnt like a phoenix and just...stopped.
I spent so long fighting for a Team that I wholeheartedly focussed on as mine and I've realised it's not mine.
It was once, back several years ago, perhaps I didn't do the best with it, perhaps I didn't put as much effort into it as I could have, but second time round I've realised it's not a do-over, I'm not the director, I'm the Assistant Director and it was once my team, but not anymore and it's time I handed over the reigns once and for all.
Having achieved all I can possibly; started a storyline years ago and brought Bahirae to the tip of where she could possibly be, I've done all I can and for reasons I'm not going to go into it's time I handed the Storyline Team and the Events Team over to the people it belongs to: Everyone.
There are many fantastic people in Events and ARK with capability and potential far beyond mine. Give them the courtesy of patience, the advice of your experience, the respect of training and the time of their lives and trust me, they'll deliver more than you've ever seen before. I'm living proof that you can full out shape the progress of AO, give it a try, it's an unfathomable buzz.
ARK may be small, but I've seen the growth and hope from when we were 250 strong.
I've done all I can. Feynrose and Nashedra are more than capable of taking things way beyond where I've brought them.
I wish everyone all the best, I've met some fantastic people, dispelled concerns, made friends with those who previously I thought were enemies and gained knowledge I never had before.
I wish all the best to the team that was once mine, to the team that will always be yours, the people, the players, the colleagues, the friends. Make Events more than what I tried to make it.
All my love,
Lornavash