highsocietyhq

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"The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable."

ADMIN E here, writing one stupidly long love letter to the group ! so this is it, hshq has come to its end. this is a very bittersweet moment but it still feels oddly right. i would have loved to see hshq thrive indefinitely but once every story has been written out, there's not much to expand on. i'm laughing at the fact that we really closed on april fool's day: very poetic, don't you think ? when i think about hshq, i sort of imagine it as this sanctuary that has remained the same at its essence thorough the years. i joined the group as a high school freshman. back then i had bounced from group to group, always losing muse or the group closing before it had even properly even opened. little did i know i'd find myself adminning the group for almost a decade !!!! we've seen so many plotlines and characters, the level of writing in this group has always astonished me. some pieces of writing have even stuck with me and it's been amazing to see how much everyone has matured over the years. one-liners ended up getting forgotten, which was both a good and a bad thing: i liked how every reply had more substance but i was saddened by the fact that easy-going and quick back-and-forth interactions disappeared because of it. i've laughed at the silly threads, funny quips, and awkward interactions. i've genuinely shed a tear or two having read the most heart-breaking or self-loathing texts. i don't know if it's a good thing that i've become so invested in the fictional lives of these fictional royals but i really hope to read how their stories end. it almost feels like saying a goodbye to dear friends.

ADMIN J here, embarrassingly emotional to say goodbye ! when i first joined this group, teen wolf and reign fcs dominated the rpc. starters with no prose, bar the text on gigantic gifs, were horrifically rampant. and, on the opposite side of the spectrum, rarely would you ever see muns over the age of 19 ( imagine being old and writing about a silly little fictional royal ??? ). i never would have pictured that we'd still be here, all these years later, on the other side of it all. many of us weren't allowed to legally drink when we'd first joined, and now we're finishing up degrees and at our adult jobs ?? this makes me sick. it's so insane to think about how much we've all grown in our time with hshq. eve put it perfectly – it's been a sanctuary over so many years and it's brought me such joy to refresh my dash to keep up to date with my favourite otps – and the list is long. the rpc wasn't kind to my timezone, but you guys have made my late nights extremely worth it. from the wild events, to the crazy outfit posts, to angsty paras, and silly one-liners, you've kept me sat. it's been an absolute joy for us, over the past decade or so, to have built a world with such a rich history and complex characters – wiki pages for fictional characters ? i will never not be impressed by the sheer talent in this group. thank you for sharing your stories with us and letting us be a part of it.

ADMIN EVY here and i want to start by saying thank you. i know e and j have already said it but truly the predominant feeling when it comes to this group is gratitude. it was your dedication that kept hshq going for the better part of a decade ( and if you've been here since chambord, pretty much an entire one ). thank you for plotting, not only with me but with each other, this group is unique in a sense that even the tiniest of plotlines ties into a major web and could develop into either a huge dramatic outcome or one of the best inside jokes ever. lawn chairs still make me chuckle sometimes. opening the dash to me always felt like therapy, every single day it left me in awe of your creativity and talent, of the amazing group of writers we managed to collect over the years, the storylines you've created, developed and put into words in the most brilliant of ways. even the silly threads that would get us all opening our laptops at ungodly hours because someone created a funny joke and we all wanted to be a part of it. those are moments i'll remember fondly and actually feel heartbroken that they won't happen anymore. having been here for so long i feel like we didn't just create a little writing community or are a group of people with a hobby and an interest in common, this group really is a little family that i'll cherish forever, regardless if we'll stay in touch after this or not. for eight years you all and this space were a safe haven for us and each other, a lot of times reading your threads was the best part of my day, brought a smile to my face or made my heart ache. we were so invested in these characters that we felt how they felt and that's a product of your talent, your dedication and our bond to you and this group. i will forever be thankful to you all for being a part of this group and staying with us for so long and until now.

#hshqadmin

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HSHQ'S TIMELINE !

which of these mains do you guys remember ? highsocietyhq or haisocietyhq or vikrp or chambordrp... hshq has had many forms over the years !

chambordrp was originally created by admin m sometime around 2014 ? 2015 ? admin j joined the admin team and for a while the group set at chateau chambord, france was just one group among many #royal rp or #rich kids rp groups. chambordrp had to be closed due to low activity but pretty soon admin m opened it again and some of the oldest members rejoined. chambordrp was revamped into vikrp in 2016 ( ? ).

vikrp set in iceland lasted for 6ish months maybe before closing... and then reopening again. i don't remember properly. around this time i ( admin e ) was part of the admin team and admin evy joined the team a bit before vikrp was revamped into haisocietyhq. admin m had gone awol at this time.

haisocietyhq set in shangHAI was when things started to shift from petty drama to something a bit bigger. i think in shanghai we added monarchs ? or maybe that was already in vik, but anyways, in shanghai people actually applied for monarchs. i think dukes and duchesses were a new addition.

then we wanted to move from shanghai to 'a greek island'. but we had a problem: the constant url change was a problem. we couldn't change the url every time we moved, that would cause confusion in the tags. 'highsocietyhq' was already taken by a closed group. what a shame ! but then i figured i'd lose nothing by sending an im to the url's owner and hallelujah ! the owner actually saw the im and was kind enough to give the url to us !!!!! that was amazing. and random. so that's the story behind our url. in shanghai we had our first plot drop/event hybrid when there was an earthquake and i think the hotel suffered some damages.

the greek island plotline was pretty chill until it wasn't. the invasion was pretty wild and i was in summer 2018. when i think back on it, i think it's one our most successful events in terms of character development and engagement. people wrote a lot and it was insanely interactive.

oslo follower the greek island. i have to admit i don't remember much from the oslo period. the plotdrops that i wrote back then were surprisingly frequent though and it was cool that people were really into developing the major plotlines !

dubai followed oslo shortly after nye if i remember correctly. i don't remember the excuse for the move. it wasn't anything major. dubai was fun and different. the big city vibe was fun.

dubai lasted for 8 months and then, in september of 2019, came phuket ! phuket was a lot chiller. i remember us planning all sorts of shocking plot twists. one was a flood and a complete power failure. that never happened. one idea was having them get stranded on a cruise ship.

mar del plata still feels like a fever dream. we moved to mar del plata in august 2020. i swear i always forget we were there. the only thing i remember from this era is the hike/earthquake event. we wanted drama and since we had failed to deliver the flood/power failure/dramatic pd this was really needed !

in april 2021 came tokyo ! i personally enjoyed big city backdrops a lot more so i liked tokyo a lot. i also remember being very pleased with the grapics if i may say so myself. tokyo lasted for a long time and rae won the points game that allowed her to pick like 5 possible locations for a future location change.

i don't remember them all but on the list were regina and casablanca. and we planned to make the regina era really brief and it was supposed to be a quirky comedic era. but you know us ! we don't know how to keep up with a schedule lmao. i think the regina sidequest lasted from spring of '22 and ended in august '22 when we moved to spain for that long event.

the spain was supposed to be a month long thing that would end in an invasion. but the dash was fairly quiet, the admin team was busy af and it just wouldn't happen. the invasion, as you all probably remember, came a year late lmaoooo

we really hoped that the invasion would have been something akin to the one in 2019 but you know, times had changed, people didn't have 8 hours to spend on the computer. the invasion was still a fun extreme event and i'm so glad it succeeded as well as it did because there was room for failure.

after the invasion we finally made it to casablanca where we had planned to end up almost 1,5 years prior lmaoo

and now it's been almost 10 years of a silly little royals group and 8 years of hshq. i genuinely think it's so damn remarkable how far we've come especially considering how the average lifespan of an rp group is like some months. admining this group has been such a privilege !!! thank you !!!

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HSHQTASK059: FAREWELL !

it's time for our final task ! this one's an ooc task and it's just a trip down the memory lane. we have a few questions for everyone to answer:

when did you join ? what made you join ? what do you remember from the plotlines that were current at the time ? where were you in life when you joined and where are you now ?

which characters have you written over the years ?

what is your favourite plotline that you've been part of ?

what about other people's plotlines ?

who is your favourite character from the ones you've played ? why ? what made you love them ? what made them so fun to write ?

if you could relive a plotline, which would it be ?

is there a plotline that you'd edit now if you could ?

what's a plotline you wish you would have been able to finish before closing or just write more of ?

what is your favourite ooc memory ?

where can others find you if they want to get in touch ?

what else would you like to say ?

#hshqtask #hshqtask059 #we almost made it to 60 tasks #what a shame

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HSHQTASK058: THE FINAL CHAPTER

it's time to write an ending to your character's story ! what happens to them when the program finished ? did they become something great ? did they learn from their mistakes ? did they start a family or accomplish something noteworthy ? who did they become ? post your stories under the #hshqtask058 tag on OUR CLOSING DAY ( later in march but u can write the task beforehand ) !

#feel free to post these now !!!

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☾ ° › THE EVENT HAS FINISHED !

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☾ ° ›  THE STRONGEST OF ALL WARRIORS ARE THESE TWO — TIME AND PATIENCE.

It's September 2029, not every fire has been put out, but it is clear that the world has reached a new era of peace. To celebrate this hard-earned peace the leaders of the worlds have traveled all the way to Berlin. While the whole world has changed, certain things have remained exactly the same: it's the same compositions for waltzing, it's the same old pattern a gala follows, it's the same air of opulence that surrounds the glimmering dresses and jewels. History never stops repeating itself, and how long it takes before the smiles fall off the faces of leaders, is only a matter of time.

☾ ° ›  GRUDGES ARE FOR THOSE WHO INSIST THEY ARE OWED SOMETHING; FORGIVENESS, HOWEVER, IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE SUBSTANCIAL ENOUGH TO MOVE ON.

This celebration is for those who did not give up. This celebration is for those who had the strength to see something good waiting in the future. This celebration is for those who never failed to believe in the good of humanity. This celebration is for those who were willing to bury the hatchet. Peace is not accomplished by chance, it will not simply come into existence — and it most certainly will not survive the test of time if no one is willing to tend to it.

☾ ° › GEOGRAPHY HAS MADE US NEIGHBOURS, HISTORY HAS MADE US FRIENDS ,ECONOMICS HAS MADE US PARTNERS, AND NECESSITY HAS MADE US ALLIES.

Event: International Day of Peace Celebration Date: 21st of September, 2029 Dresscode: White tie, tiaras Location: Charlottenburg palace, Berlin, Germany

ooc details can be found under the cut

this event will commence on the 14th of march and ends on the 31st of march !

MAKE SURE you're ready to post the 58th task by the end of the event ! we have our final task waiting for publicization but it will be an easy task and an ooc as well <3

HIJACKING is allowed on threads from open starters and HIGHLY encouraged ! LAST CHANCE TO BE CRAZY

tag any event-related posts (including outfits, starters, moodboards) under #hshqevent046— please don’t use the #hshqevent tag ! you guys should already know this <3

you don't have to put other threads on hold, in case you really want to write something specific before we close but we hope that the event setting will get some love !

be bittersweet!!!!!! we want to be SAAAAD!!!!!! MAKE SURE YOU TIE LOOSE ENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BE CHAOTIC !

#hshqevent #hshqevent046

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HSHQTASK058: THE FINAL CHAPTER

it's time to write an ending to your character's story ! what happens to them when the program finished ? did they become something great ? did they learn from their mistakes ? did they start a family or accomplish something noteworthy ? who did they become ? post your stories under the #hshqtask058 tag on OUR CLOSING DAY ( later in march but u can write the task beforehand ) !

#hshqtask #hshqtask058

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unfortunately it's not the first of april and this is not a joke:

we will be closing hshq.

it's been a long time coming and we think everyone can agree that the group's just not working anymore. fear not though ! we're not going out without a bang !!!! OUR FINAL EVENT will be held in a month and it will last for two weeks ! you can vote for the start time in the comments. the options are:

23rd of feb

26th of feb

1 of march

4th of march

our final event will be " world peace gala 2029 ". ( a tiara event btw ). before that you have time to figure out where your character is in five years, write out the threads that you've always wanted to write but haven't had the chance to write yet ( skip to the good stuff, just use dates as titles or smth so everyone can follow the timeline ).

starting from now YOU CAN WRITE OLD CHARACTERS as well without having to apply for them. go wild <3 and all of the OLD MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT OFFICIAL MEMBERS ATM BUT ARE LURKING, you're welcome to write with everyone without applying ! let's just have fun for the last time and write the most nostalgic & bittersweet shit we've ever written <3

luv, j, e & evy

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—— @llvkas

&&. announcing his royal highness, ( lukas stefan verhaegen d'alviella ), the ( 28 ) year old ( crown prince ) of ( belgium ). he is often confused with ( drew starkey ). some say that he is ( cynical and sly ), but he is actually ( astute and incisive ). ( OOC: LINA / 25 / GMT / SHE & HER )

#hshqfollow

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HSHQTASK057: NEW YEAR, NEW ME

a lot of plotlines have finished / characters disappeared etc. do you still love your old character but feel a bit stuck with them because everything around them has disappeared ? why not do a revamp ! pick a new country or edit the backstory, delete something, add something, change the fc if you're bored ! breathe some life into the character so you can participate in all sorts of drama with them ! no better time for it than the present ( nye event ). if you decide to revamp a character, post the updates under the tag #HSHQTASK057 !

#hshqtask #hshqtask057

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☾ ° › THE EVENT HAS NOW BEGUN !

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—— @dvrias

&&. announcing her royal highness, ( daria hohenzollern-sigmaringen ), the ( 31 ) year old ( princess ) of ( romania ). she is often confused with ( anntonia porsild ). some say that she is ( superficial & haughty ), but she is actually ( impassioned & enigmatic ). ( OOC: serre ) 

—— @maiziere

&&. announcing her grace, ( noémïe maizière ), the ( 32 ) year old ( former duchess ) of ( alsace ). she is often confused with ( jasmine tookes ). some say that she is ( sanctimonious & reticent ), but she is actually ( perspicacious & pragmatic ). ( OOC: evy )

—— @ycnnick

&&. announcing his grace, ( yannick stößner - hanover ), the ( 55 ) year old ( grand duke ) of ( hanover ). he is often confused with ( keanu reeves ). some say that he is ( blunt & misanthropic ), but he is actually ( persuasive & astute ). ( OOC: diana, again )

#hshqfollow

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☾ ° ›  GOODBYE 2023

there is only one good way to welcome the new year and that is partying like there is no tomorrow ! the royals have been invited to bratislava by the esterházy-koháry family. the party will be held at the bratislava castle, of course. the guests are welcome to stay at the castle as well for the duration of their trip. the guests should expect the usual: champagne, food, champagne, music, champagne, dancing, champagne... and more champagne !

☾ ° ›  AND WELCOME 2024

Event: New Year's Eve Date: 31st of December Dresscode: cocktail Location: Bratislava, Slovakia

ooc details can be found under the cut

This event will commence on the 28th of december and ends on the 10th of january !

HIJACKING is allowed on threads from open starters and HIGHLY encouraged !

Tag any event-related posts (including outfits, starters, moodboards) under #hshqevent045— please don’t use the #hshqevent tag !

Please put your other threads on hold for the duration of the event !

BE CHAOTIC !

#hshqevent #hshqevent045

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@aalayncs

@ti-wonge

@ingrds

@alessandrxs

@robbiestuart

@wicbkc

@arturcii

@vcrcnc

@vitvliyv

#honestly this is less bad that i expected #great work coming back to life everyone <3 #hshqunfollow

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—— @blazcj

&&. announcing his royal highness, ( blažej lél esterházy-koháry ), the ( 27 ) year old ( prince ) of ( slovakia ). he is often confused with ( paul mescal ). some say that he is ( sensitive & explosive ) but he is actually ( compassionate & insightful ). ( ooc: admin e )

#hi

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☾ ° › EVENT PROMPTS !

disclaimer: these are v godmoddy, if they seem too ooc, adjust the prompt a bit ! the person listed first writes the starter !

@fannicroy & @matildcs: get stuck on a ski lift together for half an hour

@sylvianes & @arayamahidol: sylvie twists an ankle on the slopes and araya decides to help a girl out

@mariisolss & @giorxcci: marisol accidentally skis into giovanni, breaking his left ski

@ticixno & @nataliademarquis: ticiano means to throw a snowball at a tree, accidentally hits the back of natalia’s head

@roxanadclcon & @aribraganca: accidentally end up on a black slope that’s black for a reason

@jclvni & @hrhmancns: jelani tries to rent a snowboard but the language barrier is too great so manon and her fluent french save the day

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like this post by tomorrow 12 pm GMT, and you'll be paired with someone and given a prompt for the mini event <3