asgardfinis | MOD POST: A BITTERSWEET UPDATE

a major announcement.

Hello, everyone. It's Faith, here with some incredibly bittersweet news today. I've gone through some dramatic life changes over the last year, and I'm at an exciting yet painfully stressful turning point right now. Because I love you all so dearly and want to be fully transparent about what's been going on with the game, I want to give you a little bit of background about me on the other side of the internet tubes.

As I'd mentioned back in November/December, I left the place where I'd grown up and lived my whole life to move to a new city. I worked part time in a public library for the better part of a decade and just last week started my first full time job at a social services agency. I am enrolled in full time classes to earn a bachelor's degree in social work and I'm so fucking close to/far from graduating I could cry about it. And due to the nature of both my profession and my passion, I am also a volunteer and an activist. There is no time of day or night when I am not working in that broad capacity, and it is exhausting.

Building this game was the most creative fun I've had in years, and getting to facilitate plots for you all in this setting has been immensely rewarding. But it's also been endlessly stressful as one more thing on my plate. I'm launching my new career in a new city, and I ultimately just don't have the time to spend on this hobby anymore.

Effective immediately, I'll be stepping down from my mod and NPC duties, which essentially means I'll be leaving the game. It makes me unbearably sad to do so. I've been in love with Asgard for 8 years and I'm going to miss getting to do such weird nonsense with you all. This playerbase has been so strangely nice and lovely to me this whole time that it's genuinely jarring. Creating and moderating a game is very vulnerable in a way, because I poured my love into this world and invited a bunch of strangers into it with the hopes that they'd enjoy it.

You've all been so great, and I can't overstate how much I love and appreciate you all for your support and even just your excitement about the game. It makes me so happy to see people having fun here. It's everything I wanted, and I hope you can continue to find cool shit to put your barbies through.

Trace and Pia are amazing and have graciously stepped in to steer the game moving forward. They've each been a great help with processing power applications and developing the NPC role over the course of the game, and I've given them all the game lore and plot threads that have been left hanging, including player plots. They'll be making their own mod update very soon to discuss the state of the game and where you all want to go from here. They have some awesome ideas kicking around and there are fun new toys in the works that I think you'll really enjoy. Because he is my love child and it would break my heart to leave the game completely, they're letting me keep one hand on Honir in case I can pop back in for some shenanigans with him someday. And I hope you guys won't mind terribly if I continue to lurk in the Discord like a little gremlin.

I love you, I miss you, and I hope you understand this unhappy-making decision. I'll be around in the background helping out where I can and bouncing around ideas, so don't hesitate to reach out to me on Discord if you want to. Thank you for everything forever, my beautiful Assguardians. ♥

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