You cannot deny us shenanigans or we shall make our own!
Do I dare attempt to summon this steve? Or maybe I will just sit back as ABN and I tend to get into enough shenanigans already.
Steve sounds like a fun guy! Letās summon him 
@EnteiEmperor do we know enough about weatherwatch? What do we use to summon him. We should def find some antlers
@onedeepABN help us summon this steve, or bring your shenanigans!
(Moving post to general discussion so as not to crowd welcoming)
@Emissary hello!!! New here also
@EnteiEmperor Just also had to add - love the name. Entail was my favourite legendary doggy. Lol
@Emissary Noobs all around! Yay!
@LoliOwar But but butā¦I is like the shenanigansā¦I am a shenaniganā¦and Loki!
Hey everyone, Iām happy youāre all getting to know each other but Iād like to keep the welcome thread to directing new members. You can absolutely continue the conversation in the general discussion!
Thatās our bad @BrokenVoid. It wonāt happen again 
No worries, just letting you know.
Hello all!
I just joined today. Iām⦠very late to this, but Iām not letting that get me down. I was drawn in through an Instagram ad, like many others.
My name is Mallecho. I am a Flinterforged! I started reading the Monarch Papers just a few hours ago and am already making good progress.
I am just entering university next fall, and am planning to major in molecular biology. I enjoy exploring anything to do with art, music, and literature, and am constantly moving between interests. (Letās not talk about the heaps of abandoned projects I have.)
I have barely scratched the surface of this forum, but I already feel so safe here. 
Welcome to the Ackerly Green Community @michingmallecho! Iām Void, the Thornmouth Wagoneer. The good news is the story is still going so thereās plenty of time to get involved! Iām a senior microbio major so I know what youāve got coming your way.
To get started here on the forum make sure you read the initial post of this thread and the forum primer linked there, as those will give you the basic rules and info for getting around. Once youāve done that you can start getting involved in our many discussion topics such as currently reading, hobbies, and pets! If you have an interest youād like to talk about but canāt find a thread for it, let me know and Iāll help you out!
After youāve been active on the forum for a few hours youāll be able to interact with the guild page, where you can introduce yourself to your new guildmates and discover what it means to be a Flinterforged. The leadership roster will tell you your guild leaders as well as who takes care of what around the forum. There is also a Q&A for any further questions you may have.
Weāre all very happy to have you here, and hope you enjoy being part of the magiq!
Welcome!!! I am also late to the story but since it is ongoing and having this awesome community here we are not missing out at all!!
Welcome! As a fellow Flinter, I can tell you pretty confidently that no one will judge you for heaps of abandoned projects; weāve all got quite a few.
A good chunk of this forum is just my half-finished projects.
@BrokenVoid Thanks for the tips! Also, happy to meet another bio person!!! I have an idea of whatās in store for me in my major, since I just finished a rigorous biology program in high school. (Still trying to fix my sleep schedule.) I⦠am both thrilled and terrified.
@LoliOwar Glad to see Iām not alone here! I wish I found this earlier, especially around the time it started. 14-year-old me would have looooved this. Not saying I donāt right now! Iām so ready to dive in and explore this.
@Viviane @CJB The mountain of my unfinished pieces and I feel validated.
All jokes aside, that does make me feel better. :))
Thanks all for the warm welcome!! 
Well, this is more a āmake-believe for big kidsā kind of place so I think you found it right on time!
@michingmallecho Sorry for the late welcome, but welcome to the Famā¦forum! Glad to see another enthusiastic new face!
Hello! My name is Alice! On the interwebs, people often also call me Cynical, or just Cyn for short. Iām fine with any, call me what you will! Iām a new recruit to Ebenguard.
Iām⦠sort of I guess as close to a professional larper as one gets? Which is to say that I make no money doing it, but I spend nearly all my time preparing to travel or actually travelling around the US (and the world when there isnāt a pandemic and I have the funds to do so) playing make believe, dressing up, and telling collaborative improvisational stories in far off worlds with friends and strangers alike. If Iām not participating as a part of someone elseās story, Iām writing my own, or Iām doing research, or building costuming or⦠well, you get the idea. I specialize in a style of larp known as freeform, to those that know it.
So, uh, my journey here is a bit of a story. I think about⦠4-ish years ago? I stumbled upon some super interesting and weird posts on some random corner of the internet, got curious, and followed them to their source. Turned out it was something to do with this whole Ackerly Green, āBriarverseā, book⦠arg⦠thing. I was very interested at the time, especially given what I do and my personal interests, but I had a lot on my plate, and was overwhelmed by the idea of needing to catch up to all of that lore, so I filed it away under ācool reative things someone is doingā, and moved on.
But then I kept stumbling into it. Either through random mentions in the most innocuous of places, or through advertisements, or whatever. Of course, there was always even more lore than last time, and more reasons to be very overwhelmed, so I continued to pass it by. Regardless of my intentions, I just kept stumbling into stuff relating to this weird magical world whenever I least expected it. Long story short, I eventually just lost that war of attrition I didnāt even fully realize I was a part of, and, well, now Iām here. And of course, after all that time thereās mountains more of lore to catch up on⦠and I proooobably should have just started way back when. 
Nice to meet you! There are a few larpers in here. I was at CoWā¦16 I think? March 2017. And second Convention of Thorns.
Welcome to the Ackerly Green Community @Cynical! Iām Void, the Thornmouth Wagoneer.
To get started here on the forum make sure you read the initial post of this thread and the forum primer linked there, as those will give you the basic rules and info for getting around. Once youāve done that you can start getting involved in our many discussion topics such as currently reading, hobbies, and LARPing! If you have an interest youād like to talk about but canāt find a thread for it, let me know and Iāll help you out!
After youāve been active on the forum for a few hours youāll be able to interact with the guild page, where you can introduce yourself to your new guildmates and discover what it means to be an Ebenguardian. The leadership roster will tell you your guild leaders as well as who takes care of what around the forum. There is also a Q&A for any further questions you may have.
Weāre all very happy to have you here, and hope you enjoy being part of the magiq!
@Alligatoramberlee CoW always looked fun! And I was also at CoT2! Obviously there are better places than here, but I would absolutely love to chat with you about it sometime, learn who you played, etc! Itās possible we even ran into each other!
@BrokenVoid Thank you very much for the warm welcome! Iāve definitely been going through the various rules and guides on here, all very helpful! Unfortunately it looks like I need to wait until Iām at a higher level of trust before I can post in the hobbies or larping threads, although I have definitely taken note of both! (Unless there is some other reason those forums are locked to me that I am missing.) But Iām sure Iāll be seen in there quite a lot.
Reading helps level you up, so youāll be in there in no time. Iāll PM you so we can chat about CoT!