Welcome to S363-DarkBujuus‘ Summer Festival 2022!

Grab some drinks and snacks, enjoy the music and the scenic view of the sunset over Konoha Cliff – come, and celebrate our 5th year of playing together with us!

Over the years S363-DarkBijuus have been through a lot of change:

The group has seen quite a few merges with other groups since it was founded in early 2017, as servers had been merged and clustered together a couple or three times: S363-Jinchuurikis, S363-NightRaid, S393-Akatsuki, S366-Akatsuki, S318-Shadows, S372-ArcticMonkey – even after some back and forth, we all came together in the end.

Some people left the group to join others to become our rivals instead, or they stopped playing the game altogether, but quite a few new group mates joined us along the way as well and they were welcomed with arms wide open.

Group chat has always been mostly pretty laid-back, but sometimes there’s friendly banter, jokes but also deep conversation, too.

We saw quite a row of different, dedicated Leaders and Seniors join hands before S363-Masterr became our current Leader, and the heart and soul of our group defined itself anew as it adjusted to the ever changing dynamics.

Even the name changed from ‘Jinchuurikis’ to ‘DarkBijuus’ to make the new members from the merge with ‘Shadows’ feel more welcome.

Yet one thing never changed: the teamwork, the friendliness and readiness to help each other, which resulted in the deep-seated friendships we forged over the years, sometimes even true love...

In summer 2018 a few of our ‘core members’ had an irl group meeting, some just joined via voice call on discord because they couldn’t make the trip to celebrate with us.

For early 2019 we had been planning a second irl group meeting, but sadly the first lockdown foiled our plans…

Yet postponed is not abandoned, right?

On our group discord we don’t only relay event information or GNW related stuff, in winter 2020 and throughout 2021 some of us sometimes congregated in the evenings after daily events ended in Naruto Online for ‘game nights’, ‘movie nights’ or ‘reading sessions’ in voice chat, providing in dedicated channels with recommendations for music, games, good reads, movies to watch, or pictures of delicious food to tide over the global situation and stay connected even more-- even with some of the players who quit the game but never really left the group, neither on discord nor in game.

They are still part of DarkBijuus regardless of how long they have been offline.

And some even come back occasionally, log into their old accounts after months or even years just to say ‘hi’ and be welcomed by familiar or new, but friendly names alike.

Our Leader S363-Masterr, Senior S393-Venom and S309-Chocojaffa even joined this very group picture just to share this moment together, not even interested in the contest itself – simply here with us to spend time together and be part of this.

So here we are, in summer 2022, one of the two biggest/most active groups of this server, and still playing this game together and having fun, everyday, for the past 5 years -- Has it really been that long already? Half a decade! Imagine that.

Wow!

Isn’t that worth celebrating with us?

Story written, picture taken and edited by S363-AsukaIshimaru

Important annotation:

Should this entry win any prize, please split the reward equally between these group members who you can see present in the picture above, who provided their required information. Thank you kindly!

Server: UK S315-Stone Fist

IGN: VenomsQUEEN

UID: 200000097074070

Server: UK S363-Third Mizukage

IGN: AsukaIshimaru

UID: 200000099141120

Server: UK S372-Third Tsuchikage

IGN: Mask

UID: 200000099521007

Server: UK S396-Final Battle

IGN: Hisano

UID: 200000100450876