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edit- 11/14/13: LOOK AT ME. WE DID IT!!!!! Thanks to an absolutely heart-melting influx of donations from several of the most amazing Gaians there are, I was able to pull together more than enough Blue Stripers to make my very own, fresh and new *drumroll please* MUTHA GUPPA MASK!!!!!!!!!! Here's a list of these incredible people, who came together to give this Gaian the greatest gift of all ( :3 )... Lady Hellraiser (250,000 gold), Valenas (8 Blue Striper), xX_hamstertears_Xx (62 Blue Striper), and then indispensible sent a trade with 525 Blue Stripers, which happened to be the lucky result of an immensely Godlike person named Luccessi overhearing indi and Valenas talking about my quest! This influx all happened within a few hours, and I am always always ALWAYS going to be amazed at how this awesome mask came together for me, thanks to all of you. <3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
I have screeeeeeenshots of me making the Mask!
Annnnnnd here is my thank you speech as posted on page 2866:
Ohhh, gosh... Where to begin?
I guess I'll start by saying that there is NO WAY AT ALL I would have gotten the Mutha Guppa Mask without the help of my many amazing friends, old and new, whose support and donations have been absolutely incredibly out-of-this-world since I reacquainted myself with Gaia and took up my quest again this past May. I have so many to thank, (in no particular order)...
Valenas. you have been around since I've been back around and are extremely generous and faithful. That you changed your quest to be dedicated to helping mine is something I'll never be able to fathom the pure angelicness of. I truly appreciate how much you've worked just to help a girl get a wacky fish mask.
Indispensable, I feel like we're still new friends, but it's surely been over a couple of months by now, haha ~ Well, you gave me your Mutha Guppa that you yourself actually caught... That was one of the most amazing moments of my Gaia life. And then the sheer quantity of Blue Stripers you've given me is just insane. Let's not forget how expensive large and rare fish are! We've become really great friends, I think, and you've more than helped me realize what is honestly one of my oldest Gaia dreams.
xX_hamstertears_Xx, you've been around even back when I was only on Gaia for a few weeks at a time in a two-year (or so) period helping me out with this quest and right up until the very end! The amount of Bass and Stripers (and gold) you've given me is immense and your contribution to my quest has been just enormous; the modesty that came with your frequent donations was always met with my wide eyed amazement, for sure.
Draconic Oni... You gave me a Mutha Guppa and a million gold. I still cannot believe that! That's insane. Like, really insane. Unfathomable, even! You are insanely amazing and an awesome person and... Gosh, was that just a few days ago? It definitely ranks as one of the very best in my long time on Gaia! Thank you for your unbelievable contribution and bless you ~
Allenas, I know you're a busybusy Gaiagirlfren right now, but the days that you dropped hundreds of Blue Stripers upon my quest many many times within a short period, completely buying out the Marketplace more than once are still fresh and tremendously appreciated in my memory, as they always will be, my dear.
cori_chama, my other Mutha Guppa donater! And I didn't even know you at all! That donation blew my eyes and my mind wiiiiide open and even if we're each off in different parts of Gaia doing our own things now, you will always be a mega Gaian hero of mine!
Minion`, what a guy! You've always been there with the seriously MEGA gold donations which always blew my mind, and the times you added fish to the recipe left me simply stunned.
mimsy, you are a powerhouse and just an insanely awesome girl. Your jaw-droppingly generous donations of Blue Stripers always struck me like a bolt of lightning that makes me misty-eyed.
Luccessi, I've never even seen you! But apparently you saw indi and Val talking about my quest and decided to give me the 500+ Stripers that I needed to be able to craft my mask!! You are insanely generous and awesome and... just amazing!!!
CaliginousCloud, my Striper-supplier guy ~ You kept coming back with huge wads of fish for me even though we didn't know each other at all! Each time I got a new trade request from you, I felt like... someone playing roulette who kept winning all in a row, haha!
And there were so many others with donations... All big donations, mind you, as the Blue Striper is not only valuable, it is also not abundantly available! And the bumping, my god, the bumping!! Thank you, friends and, heck, friendly strangers... machic, Lady Hellraiser, nu2me, Eien Ryuu, Brizy Bee, Just A Hufflepuff, Shiblets, Sweetkitty, Zhaonan, MysticAir, arcitcwolf_blue, Pandelic DJ, Wickle, TheDarkestPleasure, shiblets, Taihomi, My Hairy Bells... You're all amazing. So very amazing!!!
I don't think I left anyone out... As you can see, there are a lot of you! And so many selfless, "no no I insist!" donations... I will never ever forget how very kind you all have been to me, all for this crazy but also ridiculously awesome fish mask that I have wanted ever since I first saw it was a thing back in 2005. I may quest for other items, but the Mutha Guppa Mask has been one of my very few holy grail Gaia items. And now I have it, thanks to all of you. Thank you. I love you all!
I didn't complete my quest for the Mutha Guppa Mask thanks to the help of all of these people... We completed it together.
I guess I'll start by saying that there is NO WAY AT ALL I would have gotten the Mutha Guppa Mask without the help of my many amazing friends, old and new, whose support and donations have been absolutely incredibly out-of-this-world since I reacquainted myself with Gaia and took up my quest again this past May. I have so many to thank, (in no particular order)...
Valenas. you have been around since I've been back around and are extremely generous and faithful. That you changed your quest to be dedicated to helping mine is something I'll never be able to fathom the pure angelicness of. I truly appreciate how much you've worked just to help a girl get a wacky fish mask.
Indispensable, I feel like we're still new friends, but it's surely been over a couple of months by now, haha ~ Well, you gave me your Mutha Guppa that you yourself actually caught... That was one of the most amazing moments of my Gaia life. And then the sheer quantity of Blue Stripers you've given me is just insane. Let's not forget how expensive large and rare fish are! We've become really great friends, I think, and you've more than helped me realize what is honestly one of my oldest Gaia dreams.
xX_hamstertears_Xx, you've been around even back when I was only on Gaia for a few weeks at a time in a two-year (or so) period helping me out with this quest and right up until the very end! The amount of Bass and Stripers (and gold) you've given me is immense and your contribution to my quest has been just enormous; the modesty that came with your frequent donations was always met with my wide eyed amazement, for sure.
Draconic Oni... You gave me a Mutha Guppa and a million gold. I still cannot believe that! That's insane. Like, really insane. Unfathomable, even! You are insanely amazing and an awesome person and... Gosh, was that just a few days ago? It definitely ranks as one of the very best in my long time on Gaia! Thank you for your unbelievable contribution and bless you ~
Allenas, I know you're a busybusy Gaiagirlfren right now, but the days that you dropped hundreds of Blue Stripers upon my quest many many times within a short period, completely buying out the Marketplace more than once are still fresh and tremendously appreciated in my memory, as they always will be, my dear.
cori_chama, my other Mutha Guppa donater! And I didn't even know you at all! That donation blew my eyes and my mind wiiiiide open and even if we're each off in different parts of Gaia doing our own things now, you will always be a mega Gaian hero of mine!
Minion`, what a guy! You've always been there with the seriously MEGA gold donations which always blew my mind, and the times you added fish to the recipe left me simply stunned.
mimsy, you are a powerhouse and just an insanely awesome girl. Your jaw-droppingly generous donations of Blue Stripers always struck me like a bolt of lightning that makes me misty-eyed.
Luccessi, I've never even seen you! But apparently you saw indi and Val talking about my quest and decided to give me the 500+ Stripers that I needed to be able to craft my mask!! You are insanely generous and awesome and... just amazing!!!
CaliginousCloud, my Striper-supplier guy ~ You kept coming back with huge wads of fish for me even though we didn't know each other at all! Each time I got a new trade request from you, I felt like... someone playing roulette who kept winning all in a row, haha!
And there were so many others with donations... All big donations, mind you, as the Blue Striper is not only valuable, it is also not abundantly available! And the bumping, my god, the bumping!! Thank you, friends and, heck, friendly strangers... machic, Lady Hellraiser, nu2me, Eien Ryuu, Brizy Bee, Just A Hufflepuff, Shiblets, Sweetkitty, Zhaonan, MysticAir, arcitcwolf_blue, Pandelic DJ, Wickle, TheDarkestPleasure, shiblets, Taihomi, My Hairy Bells... You're all amazing. So very amazing!!!
I don't think I left anyone out... As you can see, there are a lot of you! And so many selfless, "no no I insist!" donations... I will never ever forget how very kind you all have been to me, all for this crazy but also ridiculously awesome fish mask that I have wanted ever since I first saw it was a thing back in 2005. I may quest for other items, but the Mutha Guppa Mask has been one of my very few holy grail Gaia items. And now I have it, thanks to all of you. Thank you. I love you all!
I didn't complete my quest for the Mutha Guppa Mask thanks to the help of all of these people... We completed it together.
And now... IT'S PAYBACK TIME! emotion_dowant
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edit- 11/13/13: Purchased Mutha Guppas #8 and #9 from the MP, currently only about 500 Blue Stripers away from the Mask!! EDIT THA EDIT: the ever so sweet nu2me just gave me 15 Blue Stripers in light of this news!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! <33333333333
edit- 11/6/13: WOW. First of all, the joy I felt when I logged on today to find a donation of 100 Blue Stripers from the insanely vigilant expert fisherwoman indispensable was immense! Thank you so much! You are always so awesome to me. emotion_hug heart heart heart
Just a little while later, I received a donation of a... Mutha Guppa. Oh, along with a million gold. From Draconic Oni, who is an MPTer I have always thought to myself was really awesome whenever I saw her post; well, take that correctly presumed awesomeness and multiply it by MUTHA GUPPA TO THE MILLION GOLD POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it! Thank you thank you thank you so freaking much, Oni!! You are an Incredigaian, one for the legendary tomes! WOW AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!edit- 10/31/13: HAPPY HALLOWEEN NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's been a while since I've updated... I've been immersed in the Halloween event; got to level 7 for the Easter Bunny, and thusly most of the items and achievements that come with it. Amazingly, I made the leaderboard for the event! See!
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f218/blueberrypez/h2k13leaderboard.jpg
I even got some freebie sketch art from eridanos!
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f218/blueberrypez/eridanoshalloween2k13freebieteamebsketchfinal.jpg
Awesome things, huh? emotion_awesome And even just today, I got yet another Blue Striper/Brown Bass donation from the ever-everything Valenas! <333 Thank you so much -yet againnnnnnn- ~ <33333
This update is long. It's gonna get longer.
I want to give many many MANY special thanks to my good friend indispensable. For some reason, she has been absolutely showering me with gifts... well, since we met, but especially in the last few weeks! Even when I have doubts, she always manages to make me take her incredible donations, which are mostly gifted so I can't turn them down. ;3 It is absolutely thanks to her that I was able to get so far in this Halloween event with her copious potion presents, including two Temporary Boss Mode boosters. Thank you, Ms. indi, for some of the most fun I've ever had on Gaia. It was even more fun with a friend like you to share it with. <3 I hope I can sometime return the insane generosity in a way that you'll really like. :3
And so... The Mutha Guppa quest marches on into the holiday season...
edit- 10/14/13: First of all, the awesome Wickle randomly donated (more random donations!) to me a Blue Striper, 2 each of A and F Bait, 18 D Bait, and 13,335 gold!! How amazing is that? ;-; Thank you so much! Next, I relocated some of the older info from my Donaters, Updates, and Bumpers/Links posts here; I keep worrying about the posts getting too long since I update so often and having some of that info get cut off forever! Lastly... I WAS ABLE TO MAKE MY SIXTH MUTHA GUPPA!!!! THANKS TO ALL OF YOUR DONATIONS!!!!! YAY!
edit- 10/13/13: TWO MORE RANDOM DONATIONS, WHAT IS GOING ON IN AKIRA-LAND?!?!? First, I got 150,000 gold plus three Blue Stripers from TheDarkestPleasure; Whoa!! <33 And then I got 11,000 gold from Astrid Serra! ;~; THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! YOU BOTH RULE IN SPECIAL WAYS, FOR SURE. <33333
edit- 10/11/13: A COLOSSAL AND COLOSSALLY AWESOME DONATION FROM THE AMAZING COLOSSUS OF COOLNESS AND GENEROSITY of 14 Blue Stripers and 250,000 gold from thread mainstay Minion`!!! Why do you rock so hard, dude?! <3333 Not to mention a surprise donation of 300 gold from yet another friendly stranger named Grand GreenLuntian. Thanks so much!
edit- 10/7/13: An outta nowhere donation from the incredible strager-friend, MysticAir of 27 Blue Stripers and *hng* 100,000 gold!!! ;-; You are incredible! *o* <333
edit- 10/3/13: The increasingly amazing and kind fish-dealing fiend CaliginousCloud has given me yet another thirty Blue Stripers!! THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!
And 79 from indispensable!! AHHHHHHH! <333333
edit- 10/1/13: Dear Lanzer, I never thought this would happen to me, but...
I was donated a Mutha Guppa by the insanely insane crazy craziness of amazingly generous and stupendous cori chama!!! She is SO nice and sweet and has made me so happy! I can't believe it, but I'm halfway to my Mask! THANK YOU SO MUCH CORI!!!!!!!!!!!!
edit- 9/26/13: The kind and humble CaliginousCloud has given me another 30 Blue Stripers!! He's too amazing!! *O*
edit- 9/22/13: My loved friend indispensable gave me 55 Blue Stripers! My incredible stranger CaliginousCloud gave me 31 Blue Stripers! What is going on in this crazy world?? I guess people just want me to have a big fish on my head! Thank you millions, both. <333
edit- 9/16/13: Many thanks to the always lovely Sweetkitty for keeping me knee-deep in bait with her donation of 10 Grade D and 5 Grade A Fish Bait pluuuuuuuuuuus 2000 gold! x3
Also today, many many thank yous and hugs to Zhaonan for his huge donation of 16 Grade A and 24 Grade D Baits!! YOU ROCK! 4laugh
And finally, at the meek twilight hour, a total stranger to me by the name of Pandelic DJ very humbly donated a Blue Striper to my quest. You are a shining Gaian. <3
edit- 9/14/13: Another absolutely insane donation from my hero Valenas ~ 9 Brown Bass and 163 Blue Stripers!! Thank you soooo much. <33333333333333333edit- 9/13/13: 37 Blue Stripers from indispensable... wah. Love. heart
edit- 9/9/13: Hamstertears, Hamstertears, I love me some Hamstertears!!! <3 My perennial pal just donated an unbelievable 101 Blue Stripers to me!! What in the world? x3 THANK YOU SO MUCH AS ALWAYS! And thanks to her I was able to make my fourth Mutha Guppa! I... am at a loss. I don't know where I would be in this quest without my friends. <33333
edit- 9/8/13: Speaking of indispensable... Thanks to her, I am 179 Blue Stripers and a whole Mutha Guppa closer to the legendary mask! Yes, that's right- She donated her Mutha Guppa to me! And it's not just any rare fish, no; indispensable actually caught this one herself and has been taking great care of it in her inventory for some time, and now she is entrusting her to me, for some crazy reason or number of reasons, not the least of which is that she's just plain absolutely incredible and mythically generous. I know that in the end, Gaia is all just pixels, but there are people behind those pixels, and I think I might actually l-l-l-like her a lot. :'D So hey, you!! Go post in her brand new and awesome quest thread, give it a <3 and give her all of your Butterflies! It's here- http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/charity-quests//t.87845541/ Oh, and indispensable also gifted me a Starlight Redemption.
Later that day, the insanely awesome Just A Hufflepuff donated an incredible 86 more Blue Stripers!! I'm glad I had at least few fish that you need for your Bass'terd Mask. :3
edit- 8/25/13: Copied from the post I made in my thread ~
Okay, so I have to make a post for donations I've received in the last few days because they and the two Gaians who gave them are unspeakably amazing- I constantly have no idea why people want to help me out so much, but I am extremely, extremely grateful ~
Valenas gave me 9 Brown Bass along with (what) FIFTY SIX Blue Stripers. ;-; And if that wasn't enough, Val just gave me another EIGHTY Blue Stripers. ;_____; Just... thank you for thinking so much of me to dedicate all of your questing self to me getting that zany fish mask, thank you.
And then, now here's a story- Valenas tipped me off to a user named indispensable who might be trading Stripers for Butterflies. I sought her out and commented that I'd be up for such a trade when I got some Butterflies... And she donates 100 Blue Stripers to me. o__o I can't believe it. You rock so much, new friend. x3 heart edit- 8/20/13: The incredible-just-because-she-is-who-she-is mimsy donated a huuuge 34 Blue Stripers to me, which was just enough for me to trade in for my second Mutha Guppa! I'm 1/5th of the way there! Love you, mimsy ~ <3333
edit- 8/10/13: Shiblets gave me three Blue Stripers!!! THANK YOU!! <333edit- 8/6/13: I started the very next day with another amazing Brizy Bee donation of Red Guppy, Black Pebbo Feeder, 6 Grade D Fish Bait, 20 Grade A Fish Bait, Sticky Paddle, 7 Insurance Policy, 8 Fishing Net, 10 Overseer' s Worm, 4 Sea Plankton, 2 Overseer' s Trident, 3 Cup Of Salt Water, and Sacrificial Clam... !!! Girl, you rule hard! Later that day, I received another 165 Blue Stripers from Allenas the utterly incomparable and incomprehensibly astounding Allenas. Thank you. ;-;
edit- 8/5/13: After a #$#^&(% unbeLIEVAble donation of 360 MORE Blue Stripers from Allenas... I have my first Mutha Guppa!!!!! See?
http://tinyurl.com/mmwsbz3
Thank you so much, everyone... I'm more than 1/10th of the way there!! I also reconfigured the first post slightly and made an additional section in the Donaters post. :3~
edit- 8/3/13: What did I do to deserve someone like Allenas (aka Allajandra)? She just gave me 74 Blue Stripers. o_o If you see her, tip all of her posts, draw her art, give her expensive Watermeat gifts... She deserves all the love on Gaia!!
edit- 8/2/13: The always incredibly amazing Valenas is now questing... for me. http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/charity-quests/ninja-questing-yellow-guppies-brown-bass-blue-stripers/t.49235875/ I have no words. ;-; <3 Love you, ninja.
edit- 7/31/13: Allenas (just Allajandra the other day) did the same thing in my last update, but gave me THIRTY THREE Blue Stripers instead~~!! ;_________; YOU'RE SO NICE, OMG. THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! heart
edit- 7/29/13: My new friendpal Allajandra LITERALLY BOUGHT EVERY BLUE STRIPER ON THE MARKETPLACE AT THE TIME AND GAVE THEM ALL TO ME. WHAAAAAAAAAAT????? How incredible is she?! O: Incredible as watermeat. :watermeat: <3333 THANK YOU!!!
edit- 7/19/13: Let me just say that it seems like every day or at least every other day, I am updating this post with news of which of my many amazing Gaian friends donated a whole buttload of fish and Blue Stripers to me... I really and truly thank you all and marvel at your generosity and selflessness in helping me with my quest. I promise you, I will be there in no time thanks to you guys. <3 That said, todays incredible donations: 18 Blue Stripers from the long-missed xX_hamstertears_Xx!!!! heart And 15 Blue Stripers and 5 Brown Bass from Valenas! heart Thank you both so so much! Also, I got gifted an amazing WATER MEAT from my new officially friendslisty friend Allajandra!! #spreadthemeat2013 !!!
edit- 7/16/13: Wowza! Another donation from another awesome friendly friend! Thank you so much Brizy Bee for your fish-slappin' donation of *takes deep breath* 2 Yellow Guppy, 3 Green Seedkin, 2 Black Pebbo Feeder, 2 Orange Guppy, 1 Blue Seedkin, 1 Red Guppy, 7 Grade A Fish Bait, 9 Old Can, 12 Old Boot, 6 Big Old Tire, 13 Sentinel's Worm, and 51 Portal Shard! omg. <33
edit- 7/15/13: STUFF! First off, the amazing and generous Eien Ryuu (new fishin' buddy!) donated his so-far fishings of 5 Yellow Guppy, 1 Brown Bass, and a whippin' EIGHT Blue Stripers from his quest for the Angelic Rod!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! =DDDDDD Fishing itself has also been kind to Aki as I've caught eight Blue Stripers myself in the last two days- I am proud! x) ALSO ALSO ALSOOOOO I got a pink link for 10,000 gold.... !!!!! o ___O MUTHA GUPPAS HERE I COME!!!
edit- 7/10/13: TWO MORE MAJOR FISH DONATIONS FROM SOME OF AKI'S FAVORITE PEOPLLLLLLEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! 11 Blue Stripers from the fabulous machic, and 16 Blue Stripers and 14 Brown Bass from the always-fishing-for-me-seemingly Valenas!! THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONTINUED AWESOMENESSES!!!!
edit- 6/25/13: Valenas. 25 Yellow Guppy, 3 Brown Bass, 2 Blue Striper. Ahhhhh. heart
edit- 6/13/13: Valenas fished for and donated to me 3 Blue Stripers and 10 Brown Bass! I feel all warm and tingly inside. :'D
edit- 6/7/13: Haven't updated this in a while! Anyway, I am really really BACK!!!! and the insanely amazing mimsy donated a whoppering THIRTY Blue Stripers to me... ! Unbelievable generosity right here!!
edit- 10/3/12: xX_hamstertears_Xx Donated a WHOPPING 22 Blue Stripers to aid in my quest... ! That's a lot of valuable fish! Oh, and she also made this AMAZINGLY BAD@$$ art of me going on my quest! My next quest will be how to thank her...! <3<3<3<3<3
edit- 9/30/12: I... updated and cleaned up my thread. o_o
edit- 3/10/11: xX_hamstertears_Xx donated a Blue Striper that she fished for and caught a ton of Guppies to make just for me! :'D Probably the sweetest donation evah! <333
~INCREDIBLE donation of 100,000 gold from the awesome Lhinx!! *___* That's a lotta Stripers!
edit- 3/7/11: Hyper-cool avatar art from Albireo Cygni, just from me posting in the MPT! :'D Thanks so much! <3
edit- 3/6/11: QUEST. UPDATED.
edit- 3/6/11: I never even said I got the Nitemare Scarf here. neutral Well, it was in very early December that my years long quest finally came to an end!
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