User blog comment:TheSlicer/ANNOUNCEMENT/@comment-1221909-20110527092125

I knew the day would come. Your starting to make me feel melancholic! DAMN YOU for that! XD

I always knew the day would come, and I've been trying to enjoy the lessening amount of time I've been able to have with you. However, the revelation is that the day is coming for all of us. There will be a time where all of us must go, and all our accounts will stay here to collect dust.

And the Gigas Magna Storyline?! That's a mind- blowingly, staggeringly, unimaginably, super-mega massively, enormous thing to inherit. I can only hope I can lead it off in the direction that you intended.

You will be missed my friend, and perhaps not to the extent you know. You are arguably the wiki's most infamous, hard-working, and committed member. So many times in the past, I have felt my efforts to the wiki have been pale and hollow compared to the direction you've taken it in. You've kept it alive. You are an aspect of the very core and fundamentals that build up the heart of this wiki, so when the day comes that you leave us, a part of CBW dies as well.

You have breathed life into the wiki when it was nearing death. You saved it from collapse and almost single-handely brought it out of an actual decline and masterminded the introduction and welcoming of new members to expand and preserve this site. You have unified it in times of terrible anarchy, given its articles and documents uniform and direction, cleaned it out of spam and more, and that is something not even I can manage. For so long, you have been

I could compare you to Mata Nui himself, not for his occasionally exaggerated levels of great power, but for his purpose. For most of your time as an Administrator and a B'crat, you controlled every aspect of the universe and aspect of our domain, from maintaining the gravity of every situation, to ensuring the wiki stays brilliant and alive. You made sure that all the elements of CBW were stable.

So many projects that you have done have benefitted the wiki, and for that I give you my most sincerest salute. In fact, I'll even tip my fez to you. I really do. You have been one of my most dearest and oldest friends on this wiki, and I don't know where I'd be without you. In fact I can, I'd be an antisocial hermit on this wiki and definitely not an administrator, let alone a bureaucrat. I have so much to owe you. You have been so inspirational to me, and I have so much respect for you that it wouldn't even fit on a graph.

But I bid you luck in the real world, because that's where it counts. I hope you become someone great, and I have little to no doubt that you will become an actual writer. Your skill, grace, and fluidness with writing is unbelievable, and you are perhaps the greatest writer in our history (the wiki's, not actual history XD). I bid you luck on your zombie novel, and I'll wait for it to come on FanFiction or some similar site, though know this. When in doubt, know that even in times where you feel alone and pressured, know that there are a couple hundreds of dusty, old users, who you don't truly know and will have probably forgotten about, bid you their blessing for your entire life, and even though we may not be there in your struggles, know that we will have said that we will always be there to support you. You have big shoes to fill for the other B'crats, and a massive legacy that makes everyone else's look puny. But always know, that in one form or another, there will always be something worth living for. Things greater than BIONICLE, this wiki, and a loveable bunch of eccentric users who you don't properly know.

The only thing I regret is that I will have to think up a much greater and more emotional speech for when you actually leave, which will be quite an effort for me XD

And when you go, one story ends for you. And a new one begins. A new chapter, even a (pardon the pun) New Beginning (non-subtle reference here XD). And I shall say, goodbye, Sir. It has been a great honour and privilege knowing you. In honour of the greatest Slicer of them all. And in the words of Mata Nui: "All journey's must come to an end, but this time, there is a new beginning as well. There will be challenges to face and enemies to fight, but I know you will overcome ... Let unity, duty and destiny be your guides ... Farewell."

And I seem to have lost track of this speech, I'm not sure where it is going, but I know where it started and I know its meaning and purpose, and that's what I want you to remember. I may continue to babble and ramble on about how the wiki will miss you and so on, but I won't.

Your life is your own, always has been, always will be, and you should live it to the very full, to the point where I want you to explode with joy and happiness and wish the moment will never leave.

When the day comes, slice. I will salute you again.

Now, onto more important matters. Has anyone seen my fez? I believe it was stolen by a rather annoying, Fez-taking minority.