User:Camwood777/RoaLS

 Recountings of a Lost Soul ''The tale of a hormonal teenager moderating a wiki for a game where plants battle the undead. A tale of mischief, serious business, tragedy, absurdity, and most of all, probably a lot of stupidity. Go back to my main profile here. Last updated: April 5th, 2017''

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and been widely regarded as a bad move. But furthermore, I was made... Somehow. I don't even know, truth be told. Like, yeah, birds and bees. All that. But of all the cells to win that race, I don't know how I did that. But let's skip ahead a few years. Specifically, 13 of them. One whole baker's dozen. That's called 2014, children. It is then, our story actually begins.

A beginning
It was... a very basic start. On Halloween 2014, it was very stormy outside in the Indiana weather. Bad weather for trick or treating, worse when I went out as a skeleton... which needed makeup. But, I had my Kindle Fire. And they had a special offer for Halloween 2014. For that day, the full version of Plants vs. Zombies Android, was free. You'd normally pay money. But for that day, and never again, it was free. So naturally, I hop on and get the game since I've wanted to play it for years. And surprise, I really like it.

But anyway, my first mainspace edit I ever made, was on November 8th, 2014. My first edit-edit was a comment the day before, so let's just ignore that. It was on Ice Level, and it had various touch-ups to the article. I shortly went on to sprinkle in some improvements to Potato Mine, and an image for the Tree of Wisdom, but then... silence. I slowly forgot about the wiki.

...Or did I?

The lurkening (2014-2016)
For years, I had lurked the wiki. I loved it! I never edited it, for some reason, but reading all this info had me intrigued. I might randomly pop in but never in a meaningful way. With, one exception... The one time Birdpool yelled at someone's grammar despite them mourning their dog passing, I legitimately joined in on calling him out.

I don't even know how he felt about that. Some random guy walked in who made his first edit a year ago, and almost never showed up since, and then yelled at him for not having empathy. And that same random guy would become staff someday...

February 2016
Then, on February 5th, something happened. I just... started editing. That's... literally it.

It started small. Litchi, Sea Anemone, Starfish Fruit... But then it went on. Prehistoric Ages. My profile page. Diamond Spikeweed, Fire Gourd, Rotobaga, Garlic... It just kept going on and on.

For some reason, I just... started editing. I forget why at this point, though part of me wants to say it was the badge system. Just knowing I was able to help the wiki grow with little achievements made me really feel useful; something I desperately lacked throughout 2016.

And it wasn't just February 5th. For some reason? I kept going. February 6th. 7th. 8th. I lost track somewhere down the line, but they were almost daily.

Caffeinated
On March 18th, I went nuts trying to get the "100 edits in 1 day" badge. I was staying up until 4AM to get it.

I was... not sane after the fact. But I did eventually get it.

Unused
On March 19th, however, I went ahead and proposed the first version of my first, and to be honest, what I felt was my best addition for a long time; the Unused template. You can see its voting thread here.

To Rollback!
Finally, on March 31st, 2016, I was successfully promoted to be a rollback. Thread for that is here. I was grateful, although I don't think I showed that well. Dang social anxiety.

With that, March came to a close...

April 2016
Despite April being, well, my birth month, nothing much really happened on April 2016...