The Official Forums of Elements, Free Online Fantasy Card Game
This place has been my passion ever since January 15, 2010, 10:34:58 PM Elemental Time. With my slow average of a low 2.013 posts a day, one might say something along the lines of: "You never spend any time here, n00beh!" That is where they are wrong. I spend a total of more than twenty hours a week on either the game, forums, or chat. This is something I'm truly proud of. I started the game way back and have my fair share of experience. I started when the background of the game was what appeared to be random spots of wood stain applied with a sponge. The Main Menu was what it now looks like if you open the Quests tab. I was hooked like an addict to his poison of choice.
After playing for a long while, someone linked the Elements Forums in the Kongregate chat box to the right of the game screen. I followed that link and saw a rainbow array of my beloved marks on either wing and a Morning Glory with a Black Dragon on the top left corner. In the top right corner, I saw 3 simple words that would change over an entire year of my gaming career.
(http://cdn.elementscommunity.com/forum/Themes/default/images/smflogo.png)
I joined right away, knowing that this would be my home for the next couple of months at least. I was browsing the forums and made my first post agreeing with an earlier post on the Titan, owning 2 that I used in my Mono-Gravity deck. I noticed the arcade section, (yeah, we had one way-back-when) went there, and concluded that the games were kinda lame. I went to a section called Forum Games and spent a long time on Mafia. I proudly hosted one, which was kinda rough and hosted another, which failed miserably. Purity Riot, the former Forum Game Organizer (or whatever the title was), left due to problems in real life.
I was actually the man with the idea for the :electrum symbol on the forums. I made a post as a newb that looked like this:
We should have an Electrum mark in the forums. Like: :) ;D 8) :-[ :air :gravity etc.
to which SG replied ten months later:
:electrum icon added!
:electrum
And it only took 10 months for this to happen! :)
Moral of the story: Just be patient and good things will happen.
I was shocked that that had happened. I felt that feeling of euphoria the rest of the day.
I strayed from the Forum Games and went into more of the General Discussion section. That was when War I came around. I noticed the thread a bit too late and applied to Jumbalumba's Team Gravity. I sifted through the thread and saw a post that looked something like this:
Team Gravity is full!
My heart sunk and waited for war II.
After about 4 months, my chance came. The big announcement came and I made a slave topic. I had the best day ever when I saw this post:
Do I hear 1 card, anybody? 1 card?
You do hear 1 card.
1 Card
I was shocked that I was picked and was very excited. Gravity went on to make Eleventh Place out of thirteen and I had a winning streak of...nothing. But my 0-5 record still made me happy.
I lurked more and had to leave for about 2 weeks due to my job and stuff. Afterward, I joined the 12 Realm project, in which I wrote a story about an amnesiac called 918273645.
That brings me here. I have had a great amout of accomplishments on this forum (well, in my opinion), and I hope you vate for me after that monumental wall of text.
Thank you,
918273645