So… I’m shaking. Here comes a wall of text:

In my profile I told my SS that Mass Effect is my favorite game series of all time. Before sending the package, my Santa kept messaging me about how awesome the gift will be.

And he wasn’t kidding.

I was in for a surprise of the year. After he had sent the package, he gave me link to a youtube video as a teaser. The video had Mark Meer (Commander Shepard!!) wishing me a very merry Christmas. I must have watched that about 50 times already.

Today I got a notification from my post office that a package is ready to pick up. It was big. I was grinning whole way back home waiting to open it. I was so excited I didn’t even take pictures of the gifts before I opened them! (I borrowed a picture which u/whitecloud197 had posted of them in r/secretsanta before sending!)

There was many of them. I started with a little red envelope, that had super cute polar bear Christmas card…. from BioWare!! My most awesome santa had contacted them and Mark Meer, and they had joined in the gift! I was pretty much freaking out at that point! I started ripping open all the packages.

There were two books: Mass Effect: Ascension and Dragon Age: The Calling, an Anthem t-shirt, Mass Effect original soundtrack, two Coffee Crisp bars and four video games: Mass Effect: Andromeda & Dragon Age: Inquisition signed by the BioWare employees, Star Wars Battlefront and Need for Speed Payback. There were also many prints: two of them were from Mike Sass, an amazing artist who has painted several illustrations for Magic: the Gathering, Hearthstone and BioWare. The rest were from Mark Meer featuring his different roles in BioWare’s games, all signed by him (including a card from him)! Biggest gift contained a BioWare backpack that had Dragon Age plushies inside!

My santa had also added photos of him with Mark and where he was visiting BioWare’s main office in Edmonton (for proof)! He had also written a letter for me about how he had made the magic happen.

I just want to thank you all!! Mark, you made my night when I got the Christmas wishes from you! At first, I couldn’t believe it was real! Mike Sass: I love the prints you gave me! I’m ashamed to say I didn’t recognize your name at first, but now when I went to your website, I realized I’ve seen so many of the art you’ve made in different games, especially those you have made for BioWare and Hearthstone! Everyone at BioWare Edmonton: keep on making quality games! You guys rock and you made this fangirl extremely happy with how generous you were with the gifts!

And of course, u/whitecloud197, thank you. You are super awesome for making this all happen.

Happy holidays and have a great new year! <3