Election 2023: Results!

[Narv]

Hello all, I come bearing results! Lail did all the work, but thought it would be nice if I did this bit, kinda like how the queen gives all the prime ministers the little thumbs up before they get into it. King now I suppose. time rages on

So -- please join me in welcoming our new admin team for the upcoming term:

@Arnyn !
@Rivvy Elf !
@Silky Gooseness !

A great set as always IMO - but also as always, I would feel much the same regardless of who wound up in the top 3, so thank you very very much to all the nominees who were willing to put themselves in for consideration.

And on behalf of myself and Sil and Arnyn and the whole plaza, but mostly myself, I want to say a heartfelt thanks to Lail for taking on this whole election running process while I was off getting married and travelling and getting a bunch of wisdom teeth yanked out and various other distracting pastimes over the past 6-8 weeks. You did a wonderful job with pretty much zero guidance and while I apologize for the zero guidance part I am very pleased about the wonderful job part. We will miss you in the admin role but we hope you enjoy your well-earned retirement/hiatus/whatever-you-want-to-call-it-no-pressure-or-anything!

I think that is that - please join me in welcoming the new team!

[Silky Gooseness]

I’m once again delighted to be part of the team and honoured by your trust.

Big thanks to @Arnyn and @Lail and especially to @Lail for her immensely hard work in getting all the election details sorted whilst @Narv was becoming ever more toothless and married!

And a big welcome to @Rivvy Elf - I can’t wait to work with you and see what you bring to the team.

[Pele Alarion]

Aha, aha! Here they are!

@Narv Great to see you as well, doing the announcing part and such.

@Lail

@Rivvy Elf Enjoy! I am very sure that @Arnyn and @Silky Gooseness are a very good company to be with!

I cannot promise that I won't come up with some shenanigans or drama, or... some thing or other for y'all to deal with, though. It's been a while since I've done anything of the sort, it seems.

[Aikári Salmarinian]

Ah yoooo! Wow, the results! How wonderful. Thanks Narv, I hope you had a fabulous day when you married.

Lailyn: Thanks for all your dedication and efforts. Good luck out there!

Rivvy: Let's see, my friend, how you will tackle this. I have no doubt you'll a good addition to the team. Congratulations.

Silky: Ah a well weathered face, you're fabulous as ever.

Arnyn: Awesome you can stay on too! Proficiat.

Well wishes for the next six months, may they be quiet, peaceful and vibrant under the stars of Elbereth.

[Moriel]

Congratulations to the new team!! Thank you for being willing to take on the job, enjoy a pleasant term and have some shenanigans

Lail, thank you for your service and enjoy fluttering off into well-deserved retirement/vacation/mysterious quest/etc!

@Narv, congrats on your marriage and travel and eviction of teeth!! Glad to see you around and in one piece (except for the teeth), hope you and Mrs. Narv are enjoying newly wedded bliss

[Lail]

congratulations you three! @Silky Gooseness and @Arnyn thanks for being such awesome people to admin with. We had fun and we did the work and it all went wonderfully, imo. well done sitting in for another term!

@Rivvy Elf - congrats! I'm always pleased to see a new person join and excited to see what you bring to the team! I am sure you are going to do a great job and also hope you have some fun, too!

thanks for the kind words all! I am likely going to flutter away into a quiet tree-ish retiremENT for a while but may pop my head? beak? branch? - I don't know - back around for ooo a mysterious quest, you say, @Moriel I am already intrigued , or something else sometime!

[The Good Hunter]

[Rivvy Elf]

Well this is an awesome surprise. Ever since I was 13 years old when I joined the plaza in 2004 I always wanted to have a really shiny icon, have like 10 billion plaza points, have a house, have the best equipment for the fun Battle Arena, have multiple Leg O'las healing items, and be an admin.

So I finally get to be an admin of the plaza! Yes! So happy! *celebrates*

Thank you @Lail for running this whole thing while @Narv got his mawwaige done! Have a fun rest/relaxation/busy season! I'm sure I will have fun.

@Silky Gooseness Shared sentiments! Can't wait to work with everybody and turn this website into... oh wait that would take too much effort to turn this into a Pikachu fansite.

@Pele Alarion Hehe, I'm sure I will enjoy this. Muhahahaha!

@Aikári Salmarinian Thank you! Since tackle has a 5% chance of missing (in the Pokemon video games), I will be headbutting this!

[Arnyn]

Hard to believe you voted me back in, but I'm very happy to serve

@Lail, you're a gem and I much appreciated you (and doubtlessly will continue to do so)!

@Silky Gooseness is the most goosiest admin alive and forever will be, so it's no surprise she's staying on.
@Rivvy Elf - Thunderbolt it up, good man!
I think the three of us are going to have fun.

@Pele Alarion, a little less blah blah and a little more shenanigans, please.
@Aikári Salmarinian - Dank je wel, Aiks!
@Narv, expert announcing

[Drífa]

Congratulations, Arnyn, Rivvy Elf and, as always, Silky Gooseness!

Enjoy your adminship, and thank you for stepping up and taking on the task of keeping us all safe and snug.

[Rivvy Elf]

Thank you, @Drifa.

Hi everyone, my name is Melkor. I hope we all get along and sing together songs of joy to help heal this marred world :D

[Ercassie]

Can't wait to work with everybody and turn this website into... oh wait that would take too much effort to turn this into a Pikachu fansite.

Melkor's masterplan revealed ! Seriously, Congrats @Rivvy Elf. You always bring a lot to everything you do and such a unique take on things that I can't wait to see you in action as an administrator. If we don't see pikachu for Halloween though .. yeh, I'm calling it here and now ! Lol.

@Arnyn and @Silky Gooseness you are both so good at what you've been doing. Thrilled to see you keeping on. There were such a fantastic pool of options for us to vote from this time around and the fact that you guys have come out again on top just proves how much we appreciate you. Thankyou for taking such good care of us, and being your wonderful selves.

@Lail my heart is torn. While it is sad to see you step down, I am so grateful that you took another turn at it because you are a fantastic admin. On the other hand, now I can request trib for your absolutely awesome rps without looking like a kiss-up to a person in power. Muahaha !

And not forgetting Congratulations for the @Narv himself. Married ! Awesome and all the best to you, sir.

[Drífa]

You're welcome, @Rivvy Elf! Nice icon!

Congratulations on your wedding,@Narv! Best wishes on this beautiful journey as you build your lives together!

[Karis Ziranphel]

Congratulations to each of you, and thank you for being willing to serve as admins!
Thank you Lail, and congrats to Narv!
(I am a bit late checking in, but quite happy to see the results)

[Silky Gooseness]

Round of applause once again for @Peeg who has produced the skeletal Melkor face our @Rivvy Elf is wearing!

[Chrysophylax Dives]

i'm sorry, i never quite got this thread. we give our consent for you to grind our faces in the dust, and now we have to come and say thank-you? but, plaza rules is plaza rules, here goes.

@Rivvy Elf - just a top icon!

@Arnyn - your willingness to sacrifice yourself to the riddle thread machine has been noted!

Goose - your riddle guess was noted.

but this one i am happy to do: @Narv congratulations, good luck, and thanks for the site!

[Chrysophylax Dives]

I cannot promise that I won't come up with some shenanigans or drama, or... some thing or other for y'all to deal with, though. It's been a while since I've done anything of the sort, it seems.

Pele Alarion, come talk to us (quietly) on one of the riddle threads.

[Pele Alarion]

@Chrysophylax Dives Me and riddles? But who knows... *eyes Arnyn suspiciously*

[Chrysophylax Dives]

@Pele Alarion, i was just being a minion for the riddle thread. But the riddle thread can suck you in and supply you with shenanigans and dramas hitherto unglimpsed before it spits you out again. So if that is what you are looking for you could give a riddle a try. (Arnyn is already a bit of an expert, and she never even ventured a guess.)

[Melahny_oftheWoods]

Congratulations! I'm glad the Plaza is still going strong. Thanks for keeping the site running well and everything.

Edit: This sounds like a celebration worthy of the long conga line hehehehe.