ext_29219 ([identity profile] indy-go.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] ways_back_room2005-06-29 10:37 pm

Blow out the candles, Milliways, it's your birthday.

And lo, the auspicious day is upon us:

Milliways is one year old.

To celebrate, here is my offering... a timeline of some highlights of the Milliways experience thus far. It is by no means exhaustive, though I've taken suggestions from many of you, for which I am eternally grateful. Do feel free to leave other milestone threads in the comments of this post. Share the love, everyone.



The very first post, courtesy of Aziraphael. (June 30, 2004)

The Bar can serve on her own (July 4, 2004)

Spiked Absinthe (July 7, 2004)

Crowley's a bastard -- or is he? (July 13, 2004)

Bartleby... goes a little crazy (July 16, 2004)

Enter the bomber. (July 18, 2004)

...And because I cannot resist: Bomber, meet Auror. (July 20, 2004)

Tom Riddle meets Moiraine, and things get interesting (July 20, 2004)

The First Lake Party (July 21, 2004)

Houston, we have a sentient Bar (July 28, 2004)

Snow delivers some spookily canonically-correct babies (July 31, 2004)

Raph, the Human Turtle. (August 4, 2004)

Star Wars Movie Night (August 10, 2004)

Aziraphael and Crowley Get Recalled (August 13, 2004)

Sirius gets blinded by science Yrael (August 13, 2004)

Enter the Loompas (August 23, 2004)

Bernard "cures" Holden, and Ingress Opens the floor (August 25, 2004)

Strip Poker (August 27, 2004)

Sirius and 'Skandra Leave,; their friends and family mourn, and Bernard becomes the Barman (September 9-10, 2004)

Tom Riddle becomes an Opener (September 26, 2004)

Broom asks permission to court Bar (oh noes! Luggage's heart: *breaks*) (October 9, 2004)

Tim creates Baby...no, not like that (October 12, 2004)

Security is hiring! (October 19, 2004)

Emergency Potato (October 23, 2004)

Halloween, and Bernard is hurt (October 30, 2004)

The Quest for the Landlord (November 2004)

Indy and Baldrick get wasted; there are nuts involved (November 11, 2004)

Never thought you'd ship a car with anyone, did you? (December 23, 2004)

Crowley makes two friends see reason (January 1, 2005)

The Black Rider breaks free (January 26, 2005)

Nyarlathotep (January-February 2005)

Old Rent friends reunite (February 11, 2005)

Lake Party, version 2.0 (February 12, 2005)

Birthquake! The arrival of Seth (February 18, 2005)

Quite the nasty bite. (March 4, 2005)

Todash Monsters in the bar (March 10, 2005)

Alanna gets kidnapped. Captain Jack style. (March 17, 2005)

Xander meets Marjory, and Socko is born (March 18, 2005)

New Loompaland EXPOSED (March 2005)

Tony Almeida is driven to the edge(March 27, 2005)

Duels for the Rosebride, or, How River Became a Gunslinger (April 6, 2005)

The Joe/Mina Wedding... that wasn't (April 17, 2005)

Thom and the Morningstar face off (April 24, 2005)

Life out of Commala (April 26, 2005)

Tim's Funeral (April 28, 2005)

Guinevere arrives (May 9, 2005)

Raph and Large: You're wearing my face, man. (May 11, 2005)

Shelley has a slight case of zombie (May 25, 2005)

Palavar: Dark Tower and Firefly folken (May 28, 2005)

Legilimency on the Bar (June 2, 2005)

The Rescue of Bill and Tonks (June 21, 2005)



Finally, let me just say -- as a mod, as a player, as a friend... thank you, all of you. You have made Milliways Bar what it is, and I am proud to be a part of it, and I am proud to know all of you.


Rock on, Milliways.
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[personal profile] steadfastknight 2005-06-30 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'm all touched... Kitt and PeeJee got in the milestones...

*sniffles and reaches for kleenex*

[identity profile] pee-jee.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
It was a fine, fair thing while it lasted. And I'm damn proud of that first thread, too.

[identity profile] the-woodpecker.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
This place has stressed my shit out, arguably made me insane, and given me grey hairs.

And I am proud of everything I've done here, and I'm proud to be playing with the people I do.

You all make this place what it is. Thank you.

And MEG. YOU ROCK. But you forgot the thread with the oiled corsets and for that I shall never forgive you. NEVAH.

(Also, the A/C rift of DOOM, but I can understand now including that.)

[identity profile] horseblanket.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Rue loves all of you.

So so so much.

The adorance is HUGE.

You all put up with me and my weird wibblings and dallyings and random plottings and app sprees and insanity and I love it a ton.

[identity profile] iwasalevel6.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
*sniff*

*tries not to be way too amused that Tony's suicide, which happened two days after his freeking birthday, also makes it on the milestone list...oooh that's going to be some lovely angst there, say true*

*loves Milliways forever and ever and ever no matter how much I might get stressed out and paranoid over it, because, wtf, everybody here rocks no matter what I may think in my warped perception sometimes*

*loffs everyone*
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[personal profile] vivien 2005-06-30 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
A year... it seems so long ago, since I've feel like I've known you guys for years, and yet it's also gone by so quickly.

Go us! And thanks for the lovely timeline, Meggo!

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[personal profile] chelleuncurled 2005-06-30 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Rachel loves everyone here so much. Best role playing game ever.

You all rock so much.

*giant amounts of love*

[identity profile] iwasalevel6.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
*snogs you*

[identity profile] in-it.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Eeeeee! The Woobie made it as a milestone! *is hopelessly proud*

Thank you all SO much. I love this game. It is far and away the best, most fulfilling RPG I've ever been in. Everything else just pales. Much endless love to everyone involved, and especially the mods, for keeping this mamoth thing running smoothly.

Milliways = <333333 x 10 bazillion x infinity

[identity profile] notsoyoung.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
And here's to the next year.

*pops a party popper*
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[personal profile] minkhollow 2005-06-30 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Happy Milliversary to us, happy Milliversary to us, happy Milliversary to the crackiest game in the WO-ORLLLD!
Happy Milliversary to us!

(And if anyone knows what I was kinda sorta filking there, and/or what the text in my icon is from? I'll be needing to squee at you quite a lot. XD)
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[personal profile] mnt_raph 2005-06-30 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my goodness!
Steven Banks!

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[identity profile] saphyria.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
*throws streamers and sets off fireworks*

And that's just the first year!

[identity profile] fairest1.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
*tosses confetti, pulls leftover christmas crackers*

Okay, a green fishie keychain that Del might like and a weird spiraly star-topped paperweight.

It's been a year now, and I'm glad to be here. We had no idea what we were getting into, did we?
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[personal profile] mnt_raph 2005-06-30 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
At first it was just a silly thing I did to kill time at work. Fun stuff. I mean, who in their right mind would take a Ninja Turtle seriously?

But then it sort of evolved...heh, mutated...into something else entirely. I swore to myself that the novelty would wear off around Thanksgiving. But then December came and went.

Next I proclaimed that by New Year's everything would be neatly tied up, and I'd scurry off. No such luck.

Now I think ya'll are just stuck with me forever.

Happy Birthday Milliways. You cracktastic sum'bitch you.

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[identity profile] darthrami.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Holeee crap. in less than two weeks, I'll have been playing in this place for a year. What a thing.

Even more insane? I'm marrying somebody I met here.





Let's just all take a moment to think about THAT, shall we? *boggles*

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[identity profile] unique-moments.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I for one am so happy my friends linked this place like woah. I loooove playing here! Happy birthday Milliways!!!

[identity profile] pee-jee.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
I can't believe I've been reading this place for a year.

I can't believe I've had PeeJee in my head for ten months.

I blame Mir. Mir and Sam. Or I thank them. But certainly I thank Nny and Sophie.

This is the best thing about LiveJournal, this bar. It makes me happy.
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
*clicks gleefully*

The spiked absinthe! Whoa! That was...wow.

I was hoping to get my summary of the War For Billy done by the 'versary (nostalgia's infectious at the moment, I suppose) but I'm still scraping together threads. Pending! Pending!

Thanks for this, Meg :) And thanks to Nny for the creation and for poking me to join on the first night, to ALL the mods for their brilliance and to everyone who's played and plotted and pimped.

You people continually amaze me.

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[personal profile] not_that_spike 2005-06-30 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
I so well love playing here. Spike, Bill, and Coop thank you for making it such a great arena.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Wheee!

*throws confetti*

Congratulations, everyone!

[identity profile] asar-suti.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
I love the place to pieces.

I brought a character in the very first night, just to hang out at this odd new idea of Nny's.

Then, I resisted fully joining the crack while I watched the former denizens of the game where I used to live quickly and inexorably having their brains eaten by Milliways.

Then I was asked to bring a certain character for a fortnight of plottishness, wanted to do a friend a favour, brought him in - and, wham! bang! my mind was eaten utterly, and I never looked back.

Plot request characters can be the most tenacious; there was a certain Cardassian doctor I played in a Star Trek RPG on CompuServe in the 90s that comes to mind - I took over a slightly evil pre-existing NPC, and she took up permanent residence in m brain, ousting all others... /offtopic

[identity profile] son-of-all.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs you, for great squee, and for making her feel particularly welcome* I adore you all. <3

[identity profile] turnipman.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh, great birthday pressie! :goes to read some of those old threads:

And thank you to everyone - mods, people I've RPed with, people whose plots and crack I've read, everyone in crackchat - for making Milliways so great.

[identity profile] miscellanny.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for this, Meggo.
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[personal profile] batyatoon 2005-06-30 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I love you all. I love you all so much, forever.

*hugs everybody*
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[personal profile] balletrat 2005-06-30 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Every day I write a word in this place, it feels like an honor just to be here with all you wonderful brilliant people.

Thank y'all for putting up with me. And - just for being here.

*loves. In spades, and always.*

[identity profile] plague-journal.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, this surprises me, considering how deep you're all into it. Only a year? I'm still really a newby, but I feel privileged that I made it in on the 'bottom floor'.

[identity profile] highking.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I... can't even express my love.

Just can't do it.

Milliways is home.
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[personal profile] tiltingheartand 2005-06-30 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

*points up*

Said it better than I could, Mir.

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