And here nomnoms go!

[Jihadjoe]

I'm not really going to enter into the discussion regarding the future here. I'm not going to pick apart the reason for the keepers disbanding.

Instead I'm going to do this.

The keepers were an excellent faction. Like everything it had it's ups and downs. That's something to be expected in any group of people. Some days everything just hangs together, and some days it simply doesn't. To generate an atmosphere in which people have been able to generate interesting, exciting, innovative and remarkable roleplay isn't easy. That's something that Yuri managed to do with the Keepers.

I joined the keepers at a time their roleplay was vibrant, mysterious and intriguing. Pushed forward by creative minds such as Hyung Soong, Titan, Skoko, Skyelius, Exile and Yuri and so many other people. It felt like I was stepping into a new world. Abstraction built upon abstraction, with a light sprinking of violence. It reflected my image of the nomads wonderfully.

Some excellent members joined, some excellent members left. Days spent flying with the people named above, along with latecomers like teschy provided some of the best disco memories I have. But like everything everywhere, it had to be fought for. There was a lot of crap flung at the Keepers, despite what I perceive as an excellent mode of operating, and weathering the storms was ssimply something that you had to accept as being a part of the faction.

Over time, that generation of members dispersed, and with them, my drive to fly as a nomad.

But for that time, the Keepers provided me with some of the most astonishing good times I've had on this server.

So for that, to both Yuri and those people with whom I flew, thank you.

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