Home. Sleep soon. But in the interim, a big thanks to everyone who made Chimera possible, the people who ran the games I played in, the people who played in those games with me (and in the game I ran), and the caterers. Special thanks to Amphigori, who made my oh-so-horny helmet, Paul, for lugging my chainmail up, and the saint (nameless for his own protection) who took me on a coffee run every morning. Thanks to you, I had a great weekend.
See you all next year?
Thank you Anna and Rowena, once again you pulled of a crackerjack job of organising. And Elle and her kitchen hands for really yummy food, and I hope the horrible kitchen doesn’t scare you off.
Also, all the people who volunteered for errands and tidying during the weekend - you made the con spaces much more pleasant to be in. And the Red Hat Brigade (did you get called on much? Curious Person is Curious.)
And, of course, the GMs and fellow players for being a great bunch to spend time with. See you all next year?
Agreed on all of the above - what a special weekend, and what great organisation! Great to be a part of it.
I said on the first night that as a newbie - five games over three days would cure me or hook me. I blame you all for being so friendly and fun to spend time with because I am definitely hooked 
I still have NO clue what the little symbols on name tags mean. I remain clueless as to how and why the Gordian Knot suddenly ended. And I have not got the foggiest notion why aliens from Saturn were headed our way at a superhero’s wedding, but I don’t care because I loved every minute and every character. Snarling werewolf hero, medieval ‘marriage on her mind’ NPC, a Wodehouse Aunt, a witchdoctor, and a happy go lucky xeno-anthropologist from Pumice… I had so much fun. Sign me up for next year.
I did not get the real life names or numbers of many people but there were plenty that I role played with that I would love to stay in touch with! Any one who wants to contact me, my real name is Tanya Wheeler.
Knightshade - Nancy/pig farmer - make sure you say hello
Echo all of the above.
Also, thank you to everyone who helped unload the trailer last night - the silliness and singing actually made it fun, and the amount of hands there made it a manageable job.
As Gear Grunt for Auckland:
Thank you, Everyone that unloaded the trailer
Thank you, Everyone that helped load the trailer (double thanks for those that may have done it twice)
Thank you, Robbo for driving the trailer (despite the wing mirror thing making it all the harder to back the beast)
Thank you, Game planners for their understanding when gear got a little hectic or “improvised”.
As Personal thanks:
Thank you: Community, all of you.
Thank you: First aiders for keeping us safe and there being a mother freaking butt load of ya.
Thank you: Game GM’s.
Thank you: Any ninja helpers that sometimes go unmentioned, your unoticed service is a god send.
Thank you: Saskia for you scarf, we would have never gotten away with the late night hi-jinks without it 
Thank you: My bed, For being there to welcome me when I got home.
There are so many people to thank for Chimera for so many reasons on so many levels.
As echoed above, thank you to the organizers, all of them. Thank you to Anna for initiating Chimera and to everyone from the event planners to the flagship writers, the GMs and general game writers, the red hat wearers, the flight and shuttle organizers, the envelope organizers, the dish washers, the band aid barers, the printing people, the vote talliers and the lolly desk dwellers, all of whom sacrificed their time for dedicated service to the team and to us all. Thank you to all those who volunteered for tasks and sacrificed their social time or costume-readying. Thank you to those who completed the invisible and thankless jobs that made everything run so smoothly, not because there was nothing to it but because much work made it so.
Thank you to all the Aucklanders and long-serving role players for being so supportive of us new combers. Thank you for all your warmth and welcoming. Thank you for all your translating from ‘Where’s the keep?’ to ‘it’s that building over there where your game is’.
Thanks to everyone who put in such incredible efforts with costuming to transform fluro-lit halls into heavens, space ships, crime lairs and film sets just with your well-attired presence. Thank you to all the Legends of Costumes for sharing your expertise with newcomers and bringing extra gear for anyone who had less. Thanks to the make up men and women who sacrificed their own getting-ready time to add to other people’s outfits or paint someone elses face.
Thank you for your overlly genous voting in my games.Thank you to everyone I got to play alongside for giving such amazing performances to play with and react from. I’m a playwright myself and firmly believe that acting is reacting, as well as initiating. Thank you for providing such incredible platforms to act from and for creating creative characters to have fun with.
Thank you to my remarkable roommates and to our wonderful Wellington contingent. Thank you to my magnificent and amazingly awesome Anthony for getting me to Chimera in the first place, for inviting me, and introducing me to his incredible role playing society of friends. You are an amazing group of people. Thank you for accepting me into your group with open arms and warm smiles. This was my first Chimera. I confess on Friday night when everyone was in the hall together for the first time I had a ‘who are all these people and what am I doing here’ moment. I soon learnt that though faces weren’t familiar, all you had to do was speak to someone and you’d be met with a friendly smile and a welcoming greeting. I feel like I’ve made new friends and with each new game the friends increased. You are a truly warm and welcoming group of people and I thank you all for that, for your energy and efforts, and for being your wonderful selves.
Thank you for allowing me to come up for my first Chimera. I hope you’ll have me back. I’ll be the first to stick my hand up and say I benefit from character sheets and name tags so apologies that I didn’t bring print outs up from Wellington in the aim of saving weight for costumes and character pieces. Next time.
There are so many names to name and thank. I know I’ll leave someone off accidentally so please forgive me for speaking generally. At the same time, please accept my deepest thanks to everyone in NZ’s role playing community for your generous and welcoming attitudes. Thank you to everyone who helped make Chimera happen and make it the wonder that it was. I thank you all and I hope you take the opportunity to reward yourself, put your feet up, and rest in the knowledge that you done good. Real good.
Thanks, much thanks, and endless thanks once again.
Hannah McKie
The welcoming nature of the LARP community is by far its best feature. I have been amazed at how friendly everyone has been to a newbie like me, in an activity that probably lends itself to cliques, you have much more generous hearts than that. I thank you again too. Tanya Wheeler
Thank you for all you generous people who made this weekend a very good time.
I have a great deal of thanks to hand out.
Anna, Rowena, and longsuffering Tigger and Dave, you are the catalyst that gets this whole thing started, and your efforts are always intensely appreciated. Thank you so so much.
Stephen Brough, my co-gm, for kicking the stuffing out of me when I was slow in writing for our game. “It’s” always a pleasure.
Every one of our players from Stop That, It’s Silly, for selecting our game, and for having what looked to be an exceedingly silly time.
All the people who I had the chance to roleplay with. Specifically:
Prema - both The Bell and Asterix.
TK Cram - Dianetix vs Bombastix, one of my favourite moments.
Vivian - Happy Larry & Harry times!
Dave Agnew - “Old Seb” vs "Jackie Boy"
Fraser Peat - Jia vs Huo.
You helped make the story for each of my characters. The list goes on, I would need to list every player I ever spoke to, so you all have my thanks.
And a massive thanks to all who appreciated my roleplay enough to vote for me, I am humbled and honoured by the accolades.
Finally, thanks to everyone who will be involved with Chimera 2012. I’ll be there.
I’m too brain-dead to be original, but I’d like to echo all the sentiments expressed above. Thanks to everyone who helped contribute to making Chimera 2011 a success.
Every year for 4 years Anna pours her soul into this Juggernaugt. It consumes her. And poops her our covered in AWESOME!
Thanks Anna.
Thanks game organisers. Special thanks to the Gordian Knot team. Well done!
Thanks players.
Thanks cooks.
We are all covered in awesome!
O.o
indeed I must thank all of you guys (generic) that made the weekend just so full of awesomesauce that I will be buzzing for a very long time. the memories i have will continue to echo throughout my life eveytime i see people stepping up toa challenge, being helpful, kind and supportive to others and whenever i encounter people able to relax and have a laugh at themselves.
You are all gold. You are the stuff of dreams. Keep on shining.
hopefully I will see most of you at Teonn
I have to say special thanks to Walter and Norman, you guys are simply Fab. without your impressive improv skills to bounce off, I would never have been able to get so deeply into the stories and characters I played. your command and finesse with emotional responses and cutting wit were to me the blades that cut me free from RL and set me adrift in the game. huzzah
lolz just read what i wrote and cringed at the melodrama. newbie much ADrian? guess so.
caio for now .
Obelix
What they said! ^
Other people have already said what I wanted to say with such eloquence that all I can do is second their sentiments. Thank you to everyone who made Chimera 2011 awesome. :mrgreen:
Thank you to the Organisers, the helpers, the cooks and all the GMs who have stressed and planned and given up their own time. Chimera has become one of the must go to events for me, and that comes down to the work you guys do.
Thanks to all my Auckland friends who make coming up so enjoyable. And to the new people from Auckland I met. A big thanks to those awesome people who helped us out by crewing at Knightshade and Russell for GMing with me.
Finally a big thank you to the Wellington crowd and my cabin mates. Having a laugh, helping each other out with gear and makeup. We tend to come up in a pack, and it’s a bit of an adventure. While this year we didn’t all come up or leave at the same time, there were 17 people who came through Wellington and I’m really like the interaction between the different cities lately.
I concurr with all the thank you’s above (Hannah I think you said it particularly beautifully).
I just also wanted to thank my Co-GMs for The Gordian Knot, it was thoroughly enjoyable working with all of you (even if it was just the last few stressful months) and I am glad I was roped into doing it. The world we created was so rich its sad to leave it behind. I also wanted to thank all our Players for making the game so vibrant (the costumes were out of this world, rather appropriate don’t you think ), and making our plots and characters come to life. Its always so satisfying seeing snippets of backstory come out in play (because GMing a game that size, snippets are all you really get to witness).
This was definately my favourite Chimera thus far, so thank you to everyone who made it so!
Thanks for all who played in the KiL Quest III adventure, The Hunt for the Necromancer. Players you were great, Crew - a big thank you - I couldn’t have done it without you. 
Big Ups for the GMs of The Bell, Chak’ta Peace Accord, Knightshade, and Forgotten gods! Awesome! 8)
And what can I say about The Gordian Knot… epic! :mrgreen: