Not sure you can go quoting products of your insanity as calling you insane. Aren't they supposed to reassure you that you are sane?

Jimmy is real. I keep trying to tell you people. That evil demonic purple squirrel is real!

He's coming for me. Save me!

A rose to Nepthysia for giving me a couple reasons to not want to quit

Hum... well, I'll skip the obvious lists of people I would give a rose to. You know who you are, and know that you're loved. I'm opting for not breaking my fingers typing this and skipping to a list of non-obviousness.

A rose to Shamarah - for NOT being a jerk player and smooshing just because you can when it's easy. You opt for fair play. Proof - leaving Etherwilde when a small group of not-so-great combatants kept trying to defend despite constant dying, making Shorlen go somewhere safe when he got disconnected but his character remained. Bravo.

A rose to Barrin - for making me feel all warm-fuzzy like about my job as Trademaster again with just a short conversation.

A rose to everyone I've yelled at in-game recently - you know who you are, and know that you SO deserved it. But I felt tiny bits guilty about yelling at one or two of you. So now my conscience is clear.

A rose to Rylan - for bearing with Linwe since almost the very beginning and being her friend despite the fact some of her decisions have hurt Rylan. You've cheered me up more than once. Thanks.

A rose to name forgotten - I'm sorry! But I'm relatively sure it was a Magnagoran? Possibly a Geomancer? Can Geomancers be illusionists? But, for showing me sparkles in the aetherplex several in-game years before the beginning of Bards and making a lasting interest in illusions. If not for that, I probably would have taken up hunting, and I very much enjoy my illusions. Which Jimmy well knows.

A rose to the Cacophony, the whole like 5 active members for sticking around and actually trying to make things work... with 5 members, you know who you are so I dont really want to bother naming names.

A rose to Reiha, because she needs one about now

I think this should be in the common grounds or something. Anyway..

A rose to Dylara for being Dylara. She makes playing Gelo worthwhile. I dont even mind dying in raids just as long as I'm with her.

Once there was a poor woman who had two children. The youngest one had to go into the forest every day to fetch wood. Once when he had gone a very long way to find wood, a child who was very little but very strong came to him and helped him gather the wood and carried it up to his house, but then in the wink of an eye he disappeared. The child told his mother about this, but she did not believe him. Finally the child brought a rose and said that the beautiful child had given it to him and that when the rose was in full blossom he would come again. The mother placed the rose into water. One morning the child did not get up; the mother went to his bed and found him lying there dead. On that same morning the rose came into full blossom.

Beware the roses!

That story's sad, but amusing in how you're using it.

And thank you Gelo, Arix.

(I'm going to get you though when I see you next Arix.. >.>)

A rose to Forren for helping me merge into this world...

A rose to Laysus for helping me refine, and learn more about my skills, and for proof reading for my lack of British Spellings...

A rose to Exarius for constant help with design writers block...

A rose to Silvina for being the coolest in game sister ever.

And many many more to everyone who knows how to make me feel good when sad.

...I don't get it. *unsure*

Don't worry.

Neither did I.

Its an old Brothers Grimm fairytale. Boy given a rose by a mysterious boy, dies in his sleep. So beware when someone gives you a rose.

What's there to get?

There's no ending to wrap it together. There's no further link between the boy and the rose. There's no explanation for "The boy will come back when the rose blooms." The boy doesn't come back, the kid dies.

The best I could come up with was "The boy came back and killed the other boy."

see you do get it.

Thanks. I mentioned this to you IG but you calm me down when GM (and Serenwilde and Celest) drive me nuts. So a rose to you.

And Shamarah gets one too, for the hug threat. And for returning corpses after raiding.

But... why? What was the reason?

to show roses are evil? I'm guessing on this one.

Because that's what fae sometimes do?

Though, the translations vary. In one, its a girl, and when she dies, she looks very happy. So it could be interpreted as being freed from an unhappy life, or even a punishment to the mother for disregarding her child. *shrug*

Are you sure that's the whole story? Most Grimm stories aren't all arb like that...