Happy (Sixth) Birthday, Hammel!

[Sean *]

Dear Hammel:

Happy sixth birthday!

It's incredible to me that we've reached our sixth anniversary month, and that, as of today, we have officially reached six years as open as a role play site. Six years of continuous activity. Six years of IC drama and character growth. Five years of wonderful events. Over 1,500 characters over the five years. A RL convention that we hope to make happen by next year to boot.

It's a pleasure to be here with all of you, from the members who joined back in 2010 to the members who joined last week. You make Hammel the wonderful site that it is, and without you, we would not have lasted thing long. We are thankful to have you with us and to have your energy, imagination, and dedication.

It's a pleasure to work with our staff, and thank you to our founders Tony and Mads, as well as to our current staff: Dryope and Captain Omega.

With all of that said, we want to open this thread up to you. Tell us your experience with Hammel. Have a good story? Have a goal for the next year? Please tell us!

Happy Birthday, Hammel, and get ready for another great year! (Here's to another six!)

-Sean, on behalf of the Hammel Staff

[Dryope *]

In honor of Hammel's sixth birthday I have returned sharkify and cornify to their rightful place on the sidebar.

I've been on Hammel for what seems like forever, but this is probably because joining Hammel coincided with getting pregnant with my oldest child (I didn't even realize I was pregnant when I first joined...) so it's the first RP I was on in the Mom phase of my life. It's also been quite a change for me from an RP perspective, because this is the first game I've joined and really stuck around on that had liquid time. I'm not much of a superpowers person, I'm more into fantasy and the supernatural, but I also love slice of life fluff and high school absurdity so I gave it a chance and.........here I am, six years later, still here. I made one of my closest friends in the world by taking a chance on Hammel, so hey, no regrets there. (and for my birthday this year he got me a MUG with Sean and Josh manips on it and it is sitting at my desk and holding all of my drawing pencils -- both the lead kind and the tablet kind).


Annnnnd I'm really excited to see where we go from here! For the next year I'm hoping to get some site plot rolling again with PUSE so be on the look out because I'm gonna be posting up a new want ad for them! and I'm very glad that Doro wrote her hilarious blind date opener with Paul because I don't know if I would have necessarily thrown Sunar at Paul otherwise, but I'm having a lot of fun with them. Of course, I want Chuck to have 28930283 bad dates, and there are like 28983947390 more characters I have apps written for that may or may not actually see the light of Hammel day, because like many people I'm a character addict. but since I have to balance posting with the rest of my life I probably shouldn't have fifty characters no matter how tempting that is >___>

And I'm very excited about all our new members. omgggg I don't know how we lucked out with so many nice new members, I keep vacillating between "yaaaaaaay these people are great" and "oh no I'm not great enough for these people" haha

Here's to 2016 and beyond!