It was one of those long nights with crazy ideas that can change the world. Or one human’s life. As you should know, ideas that change the world are those that sound completely irrelevant, innocent and insignificant at the moment. It was just for fun. For no reason at all. But in full compatibility with all the divine master plans.
My human, known for over a decade in the flatworld as dandellion, thought it might be useful to have a handful of alt accounts on a Web forum that gathered a group of RL friends (the one that holds my noobhood memories). Reason? No reason. No plan. No vision. But additional alts can come handy sometimes.
One of those accounts became active as soon as human needed an admin account. For security reasons it is wise to separate one’s user – everyday account from the one that has too much permissions. Also, admin account is not to be used for posting unless you have something official to say.
Maybe everything would be different if my soul jumped into account named Samurai Jack or some other of cartoon characters I created few nights before, but destiny kicked me straight into the one named Betty Boop.
To cut the long story short, Betty was far from being a silent admin. And far from not going personal. The small community which by large wasn’t aware that dandellion and Betty are sharing the keyboard, started interacting with cool admin chick with a sharp tongue. Step by step she became an imaginary friend of human dandellion and friends. Though the majority of friends had no idea she is imaginary. Very soon she was also referred to as "the bitch", received threats, been slandered and so on… Well, not that the game wasn’t enjoyable.
Things got out of control a few months later, Betty Boop faced riots of the forum users and was forced to be probably the first admin in the history of the Web to ban herself. But it was too late. Genie has left the lamp and wandered the vast spaces of the Internet searching for the embodiment.
You can imagine what happened when, few months later, dandellion rezzed on the Second Life grid. Moment of inattention and I, the one you know now, took the control over the avatar, changed its shape, even took the name. At last! Sure, job has just started. It takes time to jump from 120×120 gif that posts on the forum to 3D avatar with history, character, blog, too much clothes in the inventory and friends… Friends in both worlds. To the present day it is a mistery to me how humans manage to live with me. Both my human and all the friends.
you know, we know each other for so long now, and I still couldn’t manage to understand a single word of this post! :P
Ok, will read it a third time :)
I have a feeling that happens occasionally. Usually, when I least expect it. Gotta think about it.