I've called this game a home for years, and I was hoping I'd be able stick around through its final days, but my motivation for it is getting less and less, and I think at this point I have to admit that probably isn't going to change any time soon. I love playing my character to death, and I regret leaving behind some of his close CR, but the game itself has turned into a grind for me, so I think it's time to let it go.

Not really feeling up to having him go out heroically or anything like that, so Court and Lauren, you're free to have your guys find the room empty and sort through his stuff as you please.

Have an awesome endgame, everyone.

Sorry to say, but I'm dropping from the game as well. I was hoping to stick through to the end of the game, but I've been losing focus on my threads more than I'd like to admit and it's just time to bite the bullet. Sorry to everyone Al's made friends with, and have fun dumping Landel off onto his rear!

Hey, Damned. It's been almost three years of wonderful memories with you guys, and I'm really sorry to be doing this, but I'm going to be bowing out of the game now.

Damned was not only my very first LJRP game, but it was also my home game for so long, which makes this goodbye all the more painful for me. I really wanted to stick it out to the end, but I think the fact that I haven't been able to get back into the swing of things for awhile now is a sign that I should step out before I end up idling out.

I'm really going to miss y'all. Thank you for all of the awesome threads and thank you mods for all of your hard work. I'll be stalking endgame from the sidelines, and I hope everyone has a rocking time with it. <3

- Ginga

P.S.: Zero has a lot of stuff to give away, if Sechs, Aigis, and/or Lana want any of it? Notable things include a handgun (+ ammo), maps, and a first aid kit.

Damned is a magnetic game. I first apped back in 2007 and had to drop a year later, but then I was back! And I've been back for... about a year, actually. I really thought I was going to be able to make it to endgame.

But, well. Real life has other ideas.

I've talked about a lot of this on plurk, but for anyone who doesn't know, my dad's cancer came back and it's not treatable. He has a matter of months left. There's a lot of other stuff piled on top of that, but I've had flagging motivation for a while now and I have to bow out of RP completely. I feel terrible doing this right after so many other drops, but at this point, it's practically vital to my health. I don't want to hold anyone up and I can't handle the obligation hanging over my head. This affects Skulduggery Pleasant.

I just want to say that this game was, is, and always has been absolutely fantastic. Big shout-out to all the mods, past and present, who made it possible, and all the players who made it great. I love you all and I'm so sorry I won't be able to make it to the end. <3

- Amaraq

I wish I had something good to say here, but all I've got is bad news. I've gone back and forth for months at this point, and put it off for far too long, thinking I could get back into the swing of things and I'd find time and this and that and to finally move along in the plot, but I guess I really need to be honest in that it's just not happening no matter what I do and how badly I want it.

And I really did try, because this was my first big game on the current LJ/DW RP scene and was my only game for ages, but with my wedding coming up and us buying a house, I just don't have the time and drive I had for RP nearly five years ago. I've made some amazing friends here and had some threads I still reread and enjoy when I'm feeling nostalgic, but it's time for me to bow out. I wanted to make it to the end, especially with the Scarecrow, who has been here since I joined the game, but I'm just letting people down as I leave them hanging these days. I'll definitely be keeping up with the end-game events, but it'll be as a spectator, not a player.

If anyone wants anything the Scarecrow or Edgar had, their inventory lists are here.

I'm honestly going to miss a whole lot of you, and I hope we can keep in touch on Plurk. You guys have given me some great memories, and I'm really glad I took a chance years ago and apped completely on a whim with a lighthearted character not at all suited for a horror game. You have made this a wonderful experience that brought me a lot of good times.

And who knows? Maybe we'll see each other in another game somewhere down the line. ♥

This comes as no surprise, I'm sure, but it's time to officially send Locke off. I wanted to make it to end game, but my motivation has dwindled down to zero.

Thanks to everyone who played with me and my dork, it's been a lot of fun <3

-Ly (Locke Cole)

I'm sorry to do this, but I'm going to have to drop the game. I haven't been active for awhile now and I have had a far busier last few months then I expected. Because of that it doesn't seem fair to keep being a member of the game.

Thanks for having me over the last few months. I've enjoyed it!

Tohma and Fai

I wish that I could give more to this game, but sadly I couldn't. Real life has a way of things, doesn't it?

Sorry for the disappointment I've caused, and the disturbances I've made in in others' plots without having contributed properly in return.

You all deserved better. I simply thought I would have been able to deliver.

Since this is a drop, I guess it was my last shot at things with applications having closed. Best of luck, everyone! I believe you'll be able to end this on as good or even better of a note than what inspired me to try this out in the first place.

Take care. I'll remember this game and such great people always. ♥

--Pierrot

Maaaan I wanted to make it til endgame (so close!) but I'm going to have to drop. Thank all of you (past and present!) for the wonderful times, damned. I hope everyone has all the fun (all of it) til the end! \o/~

Auuuugh, this actually hurts. My activity has been abysmal, even leaving aside my legitimate reasons. I kept hoping some sort of drive for the game would come back, because, man, Damned is actually super important to me as a whole, even if I haven't played here for all that long. It was the first game I learned about in ljrp, and it's just always stuck with me, since. I've stalked it for years and was just always overwhelmed and amazed at everything--the ideas, the presentation, and, of course, the gripping and absolutely phenomenal quality of writing here.

So yeah, it might mean little, or it might not apply at all, but I'm really sorry to anyone I've let down or inconvenienced. I figure it's best to just get off the pot. :c

I really did have a lot of fun here, and I wish you all the best!

Uh, also, Flora actually has a lot of lab stuff, knives, and also her guitar which can all go to Lloyd, I guess, if allowed?

Take care, you crazy diamonds. ♦

/STILL GONNA STALK DAT ENGAME THO ♥

I feel really bad considering I just recently got in, but because of my health I really don't have much motivation to do much of anything. So, I didn't want to just character sit D:

I want to thank you all for the chance to play with you all (for as little as I did D: ) and hopefully I'll be back later.

Thank you again,
Amanda

Hey, guys.

Sadly, real life has been a real jerk to me lately, so I'm going to have to just... drop a few things to keep up. That includes a lot of my fun characters. So both Rock Lee and Ilia Silvestri are going to be leaving. As much as I love Lee and Ilia, cutting my roster is for the best.

Ilia leaves behind a few important things. First, to Anise she leaves her origami creatures they made together, lots of medical supplies they salvaged together (can be found under "Current Belongings" in her profile) as well as four low-point alcoholic daquiris she bought in Doyleton. To Claude she leaves some of her alcohol (four low-point generic brand beers, four hand-made bottles of prison hooch brewed by S.T., and a liter of vodka), two bottles of juice (orange and cranberry) and a package of Nutter Butters. To Lana she leaves the rest of that bottle of wine she had leftover.

Lee doesn't have much to leave but to Facilier he leaves his Flak jacket (it has a lot of pockets so maybe he can use it to hold his ingredients and stuff) and to Sasuke Lee leaves his Konoha headband and shinobi sandals. Either Flora or Lloyd can have his spandex suit and orange legwarmers to remember him by.

It breaks my heart to drop them, but there's little I can do. Still, I'll be holding onto Aigis for the time being, so I'll still be in the game! Thanks for playing with my two martial artists here, guys! I'm so glad I could have them in the game. ;u;

~Cager (Aigis)

I have been putting it off, but it doesn't make it any easier. I'm dropping down to two characters, and the one that's leaving is this asshole.

I appreciate you all SO MUCH for playing with a character no one has heard of and letting him be a complete jerk and still making some incredible friendships.

Sarah (Taura, Lana Skye, Rover)

This has been a really long time in coming, I'm afraid. As much as I have enjoyed Damned in the time I have been here, I've hit the end of what I can do in this game. If I'm honest, I hit that point a few months ago, and I've just been hanging on for nostalgia's sake. So it's time for Gren to finally go home.

He doesn't have much in the way of stuff, but the portal ring he has (currently set to the Grand Ballroom) goes to Edgar, since they earned it together Gren's first nightshift in the game.

It's been fun, guys.


-Andy

I'm sorry I've put this off for as long as I have. This was a difficult decision to make, but now it's time to bite the bullet.

This game has been a big part of my life since 2007. I've connected with so many amazing people over the years, many who are my dearest friends today. You're all extremely talented writers and I'm so grateful I had the chance to be a part of this wonderful community for so long.

Thank you, Damned. Thank you to the mods and players, past and present. It's because of you that this place will always hold a very special place in my heart. If I'm able to find the time and energy, I might come back with another character before endgame, but for now, sadly, this is goodbye.

Gumshoe will just disappear. Thank you to everyone who's threaded with him over the years. It's been a blast! If any of his CR want to claim his things, please let me know.

Take care and thanks for everything, pals. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

- Grace (Scruffy McTrenchcoat)

I had promised myself since the first announcement of endgame that I would keep both of my boys here until the bitter end. For the past several months, I've been fighting school projects and dwindling motivation to keep that promise. Unfortunately, however, real life has had other plans for me, and it's about time that I face up to that. School has been taking up more and more of my time and energy. On top of that, I haven't been in a good place mentally in quite some time, and that has been the biggest drain on my motivation to do pretty much anything anymore, especially RP.

I still want to stay here for as long as I possibly can, since I love this place and the people in it, so it has come to a choice between my two characters here. After a lot of thinking, I decided to let go of the one who's had much more to experience than the other, who I've been having increasing amounts of insecurity with, and who ultimately has less CR to leave behind.

So it is with a heavy heart that Byrne Faraday will be disappearing...soon. I want to keep going with him until at least the end of his current Farwell thread, or whenever Locke and Sora start heading back to the Institute, so that I don't awkwardly leave anything hanging there by just dropping out. Once that's done, Byrne will simply vanish, as I don't have the heart to kill him off. (...Unless that doesn't work out logically for his current threadmates. :|a We can discuss that.)

Thank you to everyone who's threaded with him in the past two years and three months that he's been here. It's been a blast, and it really means a lot to me that I got to play him this long and have so many wonderful threads with him. Now it is my hope that my threading speed with Zero (and Chilidog, whenever it's out) will kick up tremendously.

Oh, also, if anyone Byrne has CR with wants anything that he has, feel free to ask. I think it would be a shame to let some of that go to waste.

-Ginga

It is with a very heavy heart that I do this, but I'm going to have to drop Karkat here. It's just becoming more and more obvious that he isn't the right choice for me, and it's become increasingly difficult to post with him.

I do want to remain in the game, however, so don't expect me to stay away too long. I will be apping back in with someone that I already have some experience with and who I know I'll enjoy writing more. Don't go too crazy without me until then.

- Lauren

Hi guys! I'm sorry to say that I'm dropping Sonia. Since I know I won't be able to keep up with two characters at Damned this year, I figured I'd do this now rather than build up my motivation to play her again.

I've had her here for roughly a year and a half, and I've absolutely loved every moment of it. I'm sorry for not being as active with her as I wanted to be, and to all of the CR she's leaving behind. I've had a wonderful time playing her at Damned, so thank you all. ♥ ♥ ♥

I'll still be around with Gumshoe, as far as I know, but because there are RL things I need to take care of first, I'm extending my hiatus to NS 69. Sorry for any inconvenience!