To: Three Rings From: Eos

EoS Surprises Three Rings
So, many of you are wondering why I made this topic, or what troll thing I came up with, but fear not my fellow forum posters, stalkers, and trolls I am just here to share with everyone the surprise EoS planned for Three Rings.
Story Behind it
One day, a bunch of us were on mumble talking about silly things, and suddenly Rep and myself were like it would be pretty awesome to send Three Rings some flowers and cake just to full out surprise them. We all laughed about it for hours being like oh the look on their faces would be epic they be so surprised. Omg it would totally be a first for themÖ So, after we all calmed down, I proposed the idea of us actually doing this and we all decided to see who will chip in what.
Echo of Silence Picture
So, one day Cobalt decided to make a picture of some of the members in Eos, but without knowing what would come out of this he showed this picture to all of in Eos, and we fell in love. Honestly I wanted to take the Eos picture to the bathroom with me. Cobalt, agreed on some funds to create an unfinished picture of Eos. This picture will always be unfinshied due to the fact that Eos is always growing, and we are always forcing Cobalt to add more members to the picture. The reason, why Eos trusted Cobalt with this tremendous task is because Cobalt is one of our most loyal, artistic and well pedo members. Honestly, looking back at asking him to draw this picture for Eos I do not regret it at all because his art work always manages to make me very jealous of the skills I do not have.
Eos Picture
More of Cobby's Work
Thanks again Cobalt for your amazing artwork <3
Collecting Funds
So, we asked around the guild for a few days to see how much we could collect for this cake, since Rep and I were ready to throw-down for this delicious cake, but we wanted to make sure everyone else was ready to throw down with us. Only makes sense, since we did not want to be the only two. So we figure we would need well over 100 dollars for this cake. I did some background searching on how many people the cake would be for, the appetite of the staff, and well letís say I basically hired a personal investigator (lol). So, the cake money got put together our final budget ended up being A LOT more than needed. Repartee, Moonsoon, Jade-Rabbit, Aedium, Choobski, Dogrock, and myself ended up throwing some cash into this operation. Letís just say the story gets better.
The Search for Three Rings Cake
Well, we asked the guild their thoughts on what type of cake we should send them. When I say what type I mean should it be a jelly king cake etc. (Not the flavor). Some ideas:
- Vanna and Royal Jelly hugging each other — Avenged
- Giant Mewkat
- Giant Royal Jelly
- Bush
- Snipe
- Vanna
- Love Puppy
- Eos cake
- Three Rings (Giant cake with three Rings meaning three simple rings)
- Lumber
- Skelley jumping up
- Trojan
- Trojan Head
- Sexual cakes — Njthug
- Eury I Love You cake
- and many more...
But, we all sat-down looked at our fund, and looked at how realistic we can be since well asking a cake maker you will never meet in person to draw a cake from basically a picture we will be sending them is pretty hard to sell. We all agreed on a Love Puppy shooting out three hearts saying EoS.
Finding an Artist aka Cake Boss aka Master Cake Maker
So, this is one of the most annoying things we had to do. Repartee and I sat down, and googled up some bakeries close to the Three Rings Offices. To our surprise, we found many bakeries in the area, which seemed positive. We went through a few of their websites, and looked at portfolios of their past work. Rep and I picked about 7 bakeries out of about 30 of them. Our first choice was this one bakery, but they were a bit pricey. Nothing we couldn't afford; it ended up just for them to deliver this cake it would of cost us more than the cake itself. They kindly declined our business due to them being overbooked already, and refusing to deliver the cake due to the distance. We asked, a few other bakeries in the area, but we heard the same story wedding season, and well they weren't so excited I guess to make us a cake.
Rep and myself found this one bakery we figure we give it a shot, so I call in and a lovely lady picks up the phone (her voice was pretty sexy *I hope her husband doesn't beat me up*) So, we started talking about this cake I told her I will be paying for this cake with credit card, but along with this cake we would like some custom cookies made as well, and when I told her the address, she was all wait, can you repeat the address for me again, and so I did. She, started to well stop talking, and freeze up for a few seconds, and asked if you don't mind me asking who should this cake be addressed to, and I said Nick. She then asked if this was a cake for Three Rings, and I was a bit dazzled about how she knew this, but said yes, it will be a cake for Three Rings. Well, then she said, may you tell me how you want this cake to look like, and I sent her over the image over e-mail, and well she was very happy with the image. We got to talking, and it turned out I was talking to the one the only Jes. Now many of you may not know Jes, but she is Ian's wife, and well this astonishing lady is very well gifted in cooking. She was the one who made many of the cakes which are Three Rings related (1 year cake, Ice Queen cake, and many more). So after we talked I was very happy.Wwe talked for about a few hours she was very excited about what EoS was planning for Three Rings and well she is the reason this cake came out so well.
Discussion of Cake
Well, Jes and I sat-down and had a talk about this cake and I told her we just want a love puppy, a few custom cookies (Boswicks Bush, Impostocube, and Mewkat), but the design is all up to you. I did not want to well give her many rules, since sheís an artist and I find it [poopy] to deny them perfection. We agreed on small little things such as the cake flavor etc, but the design was all up to Jes. She did not use our drawing just the concept of what we envisioned, but, if I can be honest with all of you, this cake is nothing like what we envisioned it honestly looks more like what we dreamed it would look like.
The Cake and Cookies
Spiral Knights Love Puppy Custom Cake: Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate buttermilk cake with Strawberry mousseline. Three hearts to say ìEcho of Silenceî. Laminated guild picture to be placed on top of box. Custom Spiral Knights cookies: Imposto Cube, Mewkat Helm, Green Bush, others TBD by baker.
^Copy and pasted that from the cake contract.
Pictures
Work-in-Progress:
Body of Cake
Love Puppy Head
Love Puppy Head #2
Cookies:
Eos Cookies
Custom Cookies
Custom Cookies
Final Look at the Cake before Three Rings Gets it:
SPRINGS
Eos Love
Kaboom
Cake at Offices
Nick Eats
Three Rings Staff Pictures (I know guys they are very sexy...no wonder they aren't single):
Cake with most of the staff
The one and only Blackhat aka Ian aka THE MAN
Girl look at that body aka Sexy Nick
A wild Boswick Appears
Cookies n Cake + Eos Pic:
^What he put as a caption:
BUG REPORT SUBMITTED: Love Puppy spawned on floating island. Can't reach loot after I killed him
^Special thanks to the staff for allowing me to post these pictures =)
Special Thanks
Now, I have to be honest none of this would of been possible without Jes. She is the reason this cake idea became possible. Rep and I would have found a baker to make this custom cake, but we wouldn't of found the best baker possible. What, Jes creates everyday at work isn't something simple she creates art. I am very glad, I had an opportunity to work with her and she had a fun time creating this cake along with these cookies.
Special thanks to:
Repartee and Provibear — For helping me out a lot with this project with finding bakeries and just helping me coordinate this all out.
Dogrock — For going to Cali and eating at a few bakeries n giving us reviews =) thxs fatty
Aedium — For being very generous and donating to this cake fund without knowing a lot about it. Thanks for trusting us broski.
Moonsoon — For having to always match the amount of cash I throw in. Love you broski for well being a dam PIMP.
Jade-Rabbit — Well, none of us forced you to help out at all, and honestly we felt bad since you were pretty new to Eos still, but you really wished to help out by funding this project as well. Thanks again for being Eos, and for your cash <3.
Choobski — Mr. Skeet Skeet. Thanks for throwing in what you could for this cake man, and we know you found out late, but you were ready to help out right on the spot thanks again.
Cobalt — Dude special thanks for you, Cobby, you made one of the best Spiral Knights artwork for EoS. I know how much you hated it at times, but thanks a lot man I know itís a drawing that will never be finished, but you came up big in doing that drawing of EoS man glad it worked out well.
Njthug — Thanking myself for a job well-done.
All of EoS — Thank you for being EoS honestly, without you guys none of this would have been possible. EoS is one of the oldest guilds in the game, and because all of you we haven't died, or gone inactive for 1 month plus. You guys are the reason why all of us are here today laughing n celebrating that we sent Three Rings a DAM CAKE in the mail. People might think we are crazy, but we [wewting] did it.
To Three Rings
Now, I know you guys are wondering why the hell we actually sent you a cake, but I know I can come up with many reasons, so I will list a few for you guys:
- We are EoS, We do what we want!!
- You guys do so much for us not only EoS, but all of the players in Spiral Knights. Honestly, this game is one of the best online games I ever played, and the reason why itís so great is because all of you guys putting countless hours into developing a great product for us to enjoy.
- We wanted to (Öwell kinda) be those crazy stalkers duh.
- We figure this will put us in your good graces to make Boswick officially Eos.
- Provibear made us she is vicious bear <3.

What a great idea. Has Three Rings responded? Not to this post, but to the actual cake delivery?

This is the coolest thing anyone has ever done for our team, thanks so much :)

Yes, we're all enjoying it right now, so very good.

Nick did you eat the first slice???
IGN The-Thor

When you guys told me about this I laughed and thought it was the nicest idea ever. Good work Coby, Rep, Moon, Dog, Jade, Choob, NJ, and everyone else involved. The work and time was totally worth it!
Also, Bush cookie was the most awesome, so we get Boswick right? #demlegs #teamchoobswoon
Becca

I guess the cake isn't a lie? looks good guys

Although some of us were to broke to help pay for the actual cake. We were there in spirit and the cake idea pitches.
Now I hope you enjoy devastating that cake the way we love slaughtering them in game.
#EoS4Lyfe
#DemLegs
#Hashtag

Thank you OOO for making a game that I still love over a year later. Thank you for sticking with it and not letting the trash talk on the forums get you down. Cheers to the first 15 of Spiral Knights and to many, many more!
I would also like to express extreme gratitude to Nj for letting me participate in this even though I was not informed of this plan until its later stages.
Thank you to all my guild mates, you guys really mean a lot to me.

That is just about one of the sweetest things I've ever heard <3 I can't say I haven't thought about sending OOO tokens of love before, but I never thought of something that awesome and I obviously never actually did anything. Maybe you guys will start an awesome trend or something =) And on top of the gesture and effort and adorable story, it's wonderful to see a guild work together like that =) My own guild is basically just me, and sometimes my husband (who doesn't play anymore), haha. Basically, how awesome! I saw the SK tweets in my phone inbox and rushed to the forums to hopefully find some background, hehe, and after reading this, I am even more impressed.
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Nick did you eat the first slice???
IGN The-Thor

Oh and, just in case any one wants to see the picture I've drawn, up close or something.
It's right here https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32069310/EoS19.png
NJ y u forget to link it.

Wow this plan progressed so much since it was first thought of and I love the outcome. I'm so very glad that I reside in EoS; who can compare? (Actually there's a guild called Three Rings..) /Dance

that is just so impressive all around. thanks for doing that and sharing the story with us.

Btw Guys this is what Cobalt said on our mumble today:
[1:37 PM] (Channel) Cobby: KAT COOKIE
[1:37 PM] (Channel) Cobby: DO WANT
[1:38 PM] (Channel) Cobby: lol what if nick chokes and dies eating the cookie with EoS on it
[1:38 PM] (Channel) Regulus: cobalt
[1:38 PM] (Channel) Regulus: lol

As delicious as the food is, my favorite part is the illustration, actually. Thanks, Echo(s) of Silence(s)!

All I get is a picture of a cake.... Money well spent >: 3
Well i don't really have much to say so umm.... Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow

Wweh I wish I could have been able to help! That cake and those cookies look deliciousss. Good job, you guys and also Jes <3

Wow, good job making this happen EoS.

This is why I love EoS. My only regret of my study abroad trip in Italy is that I wasn't around for any of this, or else I would've thrown in on it in a heartbeat as well. That being said, the EoS cookies are currently my background on my computer's desktop, and that this is easily one of the best things I've heard anyone do in this game.
Props to everyone who rallied on getting this together, a huge thanks to Jes who (once again) managed to put me in awe of her work and excruciating attention to detail, and a big thank you to OOO for everything you all do. We love you guys.

Anyways, Nice EoS!
And thanks to OOO for making such an amazing game, you guys deserve stuff like this and more.

I've always known that EoS... was well... one of the most awesome guilds in all of SK history. But damn, I'm really amazed, especially about the story with Jes. Thank you EoS for giving OOO what they deserve, but didn't get (until now) :3

I love all the effort put into but those special cookies are great.

I was blown away, thanks for this amazing surprise EoS!

That picture of Boswick behind the bush is pure gold man.
Also cutting and eating that cake must have been complicated.
Nicely done guys. I wish I could have collaborated but I've been sort of busy.

Omg, I didn't hear about this until recently but I laughed so much at the idea--only Nj and Rep could come up with such craziness--and it's incredible that you guys all chipped in to make it work! The pictures of the cake and cookies look absolutely sublime! Congrats to Nj, Repartee, Dog, Provi, Aedium, Moon, Choob, Jade, Cobalt and the rest of EoS for making this happen. Hands down, best guild and I am so humbled to be a part of it.
Thank you to OOO for doing such a phenomenal job with this game. I'm not a gamer really, but I absolutely adore everything Spiral Knights offers. The community and the gaming experience are absolutely out of this world. Keep up the fantastic work, guys! ♥

That picture of Boswick
What a sexy beast.

IDEA
THAT
I
EVER
SEEN
Congratz, EoS.
I think Nick & Company is very happy now ... xD

Seriously, this is the first time a forum thread got me all emotionally happy. You all are wonderful people for doing this! It really shows the developers how greatly you appreciate them and all they have to deal with in the forums with the complaining and whining.
I enjoyed reading your awesome little story, Nj. All of it was just lovely <3
People should make more forums like this.
Great job to all of you in Echo of Silence that participated in this gift!

That cake would've been tastier if Kitty was part of EoS... ¬¬
You're loss Echo of Silence. I bet Gwen said things about me ~

I've been so outdone! This puts my B(re)a(d) Roarmulus Twin to shame.
Awesome job, EoS and Jes!

Dear Three rings development team,
I know I might get on the forums and cause a ruckus or ruckuses, but there is something I really want to say. Thanks again for a great game and social experience OOO.
Starting this month it will have been one year since I met my girlfriend here on Spiral Knights. We met in Echo of Silence while I was in a relatively tough time in my life. I made some great friends, had wonderful conversations and made some crazy moments with everyone in this game/mumble.
I love Providence and everything about her. We've delved depths, beaten baddies, searched for stuff, destroyed deconstruction levels, eviscerated evils, and smashed skellies together through the months in this game. I know that if you hadn't put this game into development I would never have met her and had such an amazingly satisfying relationship.
Thank you for everything.
Sincerely,
Repartee

So i decided that i had enough of guildhall and to get some fresh air(AH) when BOOM a love puppy shows up in our guildhall and i missed it : c
Don't Stop Me Now I'm having such a good time

That cake looks amazing
there's just one thing i'd change
I think it goes without saying

You guys rock... And you beat me to something I wanted to do for a while, but lack of money T-T
That being said, I FULLY support this. Like, Three Rings? You have made a game (That I feel) does not attempt to leech money out of players at every corner, is not insta-grind, Actually listens, and has a plan for the future. That's more then I can say about almost any Online game out there, never mind that it's an MMO.
Oh yeah, and... I really like being able to actually do things, 'ya know? It actually matters where you click, with what, and YOU(The player) Decide if you want to get hit. There is more player to game interaction then most other games ever... I REALLY love it. I want to see more of this game, because I love to see it grow. I hope this cake, inspired by you, and made from your Loyal Knights, helps to encourage and Promote general happiness amongst yourselves ^-^
Also, I really want to eat your cake... Y-Y
just think: it might drop a True Love Locket: Cake

No lie, I spent 4 hours this morning studying to our guild song again.

That's just bittersweet :<
Would have donated too, but Nj stopped talking to me *cries*
All kidding away, great work, I'm honestly amazed.

This is incredible!
Looks really good too!
Three rings deserved it for all the work they put into our gaming experience, though the game has it's flaws, no game is perfect:o
Thanks again OOO for the time and effort :)
that cake is well deserved! ....I'd like a cookie though...

This is the coolest and nicest thing I've seen in a long time, kudos to Echo of Silence for thinking of this great idea, then working together to make it happen. You people at OOO definitely deserve something like this and more. You spend so much of your time making this game amazing, so having people ranking on the few flaws in the game isn't what you deserve. I have been playing this game for exactly a year today (:D) and I absolutely love it. If I could, I would definitely try to do something like this for you all!
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I have been totally floored by this entire event, including the telling (Love the part with finding Jes). Echo of Silence, you guys rock big time.
Seriously, this shows you just how much the players of this game appreciate the work OOO has put into it, and what kind of awesome community they can be. It just makes me smile seeing all of this, and it warms my heart seeing how the developer interact with their community back; I honestly haven't seen something like this in any other game (Although I haven't played many MMO's, so that might be one thing). Heck, if I had known about this myself, I would have certainly donated
Love 'ya all OOO, and keep up the great work.

I think this is one cake I wouldn't have any guilt about eating because it's actually more cake than cream/filler! It looks delicious!
But omg, Nj, even though you told me about it on Mumble, I'm still having a hard time digesting the fact that you and EoS went through with the plan! You guys really went out of your way to show your appreciation as a customer O_O Can we say that this is true customer appreciation? And the story about how you found Ian's wife and how it was purely coincedental was amazing. Awesome, amazing, hilarious, and full of win!
And hey! If you let me I wouldn't have a problem with helping pay for the cake too, just because I'm Canadian... *pouts*

This was a great way to thank OOO for the work they put into the game.
The cake and cookies look awesome and the picture that Cobalt drew is really cool as well.
Marquito salutes Jes and Eos.

The guild making SK history...
If only you guys made a BAB cake to go with....
Nvm, don't think they'd appreciate that.

I am amazed by your guys' generosity. This is so spectacular! I certainly wish that us other SKers would have the courage and funding to do something like this in the future!
The one thing I do appreciate this is that we are all being reminded of all the things we appreciate not just about Three Rings, but the developers and staff that make it up the way it is. They aren't just workers, they are people too - as seen by the fact that they also have families of their own. They deserve appreciation, and I truly am grateful that EoS was able to represent all of us by giving such a generous and kind gift.
To Three Rings...thank you. I think that Njthug accurately put it when he made sure to acknowledge his friends and co-workers, because you all have made a game in which we are able to meet with people we never have to truly meet in real life to enjoy the company of, for which I am truly grateful. I mean, yes - there is always the danger of online "issues and difficulties" that we all must be aware of for our personal security, because those things can be very bad if allowed to occur - but I can genuinely say that I have recieved a lot of great support from my new friends on SK. The work you all have put into this game has been wonderful, and you have made a magnificent game. I look forward to more of your guys' efforts in the future with both this game and other projects! ^_^
Eos forever <3
Sorry I couldn't help out guys.