Clang the symbols, beat the drums! Glitter canons fire!!!! We have a new HRM guys. I want you to welcome my newest duckling very warmly!

Aris, thank you for all you do. For being a dedicated member. For wanting to glorify God through your writing.

*CONGRATS!*

Aris, thank you so much for becoming a purple person! Hugs. Congratulations!

*Tosses glitter into the air*

Congrats!!!! Now you are one of the purple people eaters. (Hope I got that right.) ^_^

Hoooooooray!!!!!!!!! I just KNEW you'd be the next one!

Congratulations, Lady Aris!

SHOOTS OUT PURPLE GLITTER! CONGRATS!

Carliss

Congrats, Lady Aris! I know you'll do a magnificent job as an HRM. Looking forward to seeing new purple about the forum.

Oh! It seems like it's been so long since we've had a promotion party! This is a most dandy occasion indeed that calls for extra cupcakes! And extra glitter. But I'm not in charge of glitter, so you'll have to talk to someone else about that.

Thank you so much, fair Lady Aris, for putting quality effort into the forum. Be brave and noble as the newest purple duckling, and please continue to bless us with your posts!

Normally we don't call the purple people "ducklings" outside of the forum - I thought - but since Airianna started it...

Congratulations, Aris! *gets a bucket of glitter, climbs up into the rafters, and dumps the glitter out over everyone*

Welcome to our ranks, Lady Aris! The Purple People Eaters are most glad to have another member added to their number.

Haha, thanks, you guys.

I'm a people eater? O.o I'll do my best! (Not people eating. Posting with quality)

Please don't eat me. I am not edible. *Runs and hides*

Maybe purple people eaters means they only eat purple people?

I love our "continuous" quoting and private messaging, Lady A! I hope that God will bless and direct your steps to where He wants you to be. You are a joy to talk with and I love having you on the team.

Congratulations a million times, Lady Aris!! I ish so happy for you! *throws tacos in the air*

No one, and I mean no one, calls them ducklings except me!!! Well, and my HRM. They call themselves ducklings. The Mama duck and her ducklings are the only ones who call themselves as such!

*rolls eyes * You would have had to been there when it was first used, and seen it in context.

And I resent that, Brendan!

But I'm an honorary HRM member, aren't I, Airianna? We discussed this when I accepted the position of mod. So I can use the phrase "ducklings" and NO ONE CAN STOP ME!

Well... So long as they are not your ducklings, I think you are safe.

Oh, Aris! You will forgive my late-ness, yes? *brings in a tie-dyed unicorn for the occasion* *unicorn goes after the extra cupcakes*

Congratulations, Aris!!!

Oh, I'd never think of making them MY ducklings.


*shoos the unicorn away from the extra cupcakes* Go eat some glitter or something instead!

You are forgiven.

*Sneaks unicorn a cupcake*

Thank you, everyone.

Eek! less than 24 hours and two pages already?

Anyway, 'tis story time.
*finds a comfortable corner, eats some party goodies, and waits for an audience to arrive*

Oh, wait, this is a forum, and the audience is already here. Okay then, in that case...

Once upon a time, last fall, we had a great big even known as Fall cleaning. We promoted lots of people, instated greenies, redid room names, and all sorts of other busy cleaning things. You can find the records in the Citadel. It had been so long since we'd promoted anyone that we actually had a list, and promoted a new purple person every single week. (On Wednesdays, I believe.)

During all that the group leader of the HRM changed (or maybe was instated to begin with?). One day I looked up and realized a name must have been dropped off the list. I picked it back up, and thought nothing of it. Until I noticed the name still hadn't been promoted. So I poked it, looked at it, but didn't make too much fuss.

Until I noticed the name still hadn't been promoted. At which point I started repeating myself over and over like a musical box... "Lady Aris should be promoted! Lady Aris should be promoted!"

The Mama Duck patted me consolingly and said "Don't worry, she already has been." And some random other yellow person who participates in these kind of discussions said, "She was purple, but she must have changed her default group to regular."

Well, that was an interesting thought... after investigating we discovered that the name had fallen off the list... again! (We've got to get new magnets for those things! )

So finally Lady Aris got promoted, a good two or three months after we thought she had been. It makes me happy for more reasons than one; every time I saw your name I would think that repetitive phrase, and now that it's purple I can feel comfortable again. Hehehe... the strangest things bug me.

So anyway! Congratulations, and I'm sorry we spoiled your surprise with our investigation, but then maybe you're glad of that.

Oh she pretended to be very surprised, for my benefit, Katie. It was very funny. When I sent her my "Welcome to the HRM Ranks" PM, she acted quite surprised and shocked. It was very funny.

Marcher Lords. They're hilarious.

We are? Why?

Aww. That was a good story. Don't worry, I made sure I was surprised. ^^

I wanna hear Mama Duck's story about how she started calling the purple people her ducklings!

*chuckles * PM me.

Mmm... it varies everyday, but your internal drama tends to be amusing to us lower ranks. "I won't be there to keep Council members from killing each other..."

*chuckles * I'm not sure mine and Brendan's drama should be pinned as ML internal Drama. That would be very unfair to the Marcher Lords.

Congratulations, Lady Aris!! I'm so happy for you!

Hardly! ("I do like ducklings!") *loves her HRM nicknames*

Hrm. (No pun intended. ) Congratulations, Lady Aris! I know you'll do a fantasmical job as a HRM. Welcome to the ranks!

*glitter penguins slide in on top of bags of glitter* Where should I open these, Queen of Chat?

No, no, that's sibling banter. But the incidents in Katie's story - that's ML humor!

I think we need to put the bag of purple glitter over by the strobe light, and the silver glitter should be sprinkled throughout the southeastern section, Glitter Princess.

*enters thread super-late* (sorry about that *sheepish girn*)

CONGRATS!!!!! *Gimli trumpets extra loud*
*is slightly deafened*

*does so* The pale blue glitter? Maybe we should use that for an aura around our new purple people eater- I mean, HRM.

Oooh! Good idea.

Congrats!

Congrats, Lady Aris! I've been wanting to see you purple for a long time now

*glares at Philli, hands on hips*
We are strange, are we? Well, for your information, miss, we don't even use the ML room - that's just where we let Airi keep her extra glitter. All the talking goes on inside a hidden forum just to the left of the User Control Panel

eru

*laughs really hard then checks "FAQ" just to make sure*

Oh, you did that too?

Huey, you can't fool me. I have ML permissions on the Sci-Fi side.

Yes.

I had forgotten about that, O Illustrious Cupcake-Giving Chatterbox. Besides, how do you know we don't do things differently over here?

@Sui & Jonathan: Never hurts to check, right?

I'm Ciela.

Your titles for me keep getting more elaborate. I rather like this one!

I don't, but I talk to Airianna and Jaynin enough that I have a decent idea of how you operate up there.

You're all awesomely funny.

Mwah ha! That's right, lots of extra storage for my glitter!

@Ciela: My profuse apologies. Not that you remind me of Jonathan, but you both have green rings and green avatars and two word names. All sure things to trip up my brain

@Philli: But you can never be sure, can you? (I quite like that nickname too, BTW)

@Airianna: In fact, I believe you have seven or eight hidden sub-forums for your glitter stash. That's where you and the Glitter Princess talk, right?

eru

Nay, I can't... and I'm okay with that, really! I'm fine with not getting in the way of the Council people's plots to kill each other.