I never thought I could delete a founder's account, let alone sell one. I remember in the first year after the beta, founder's accounts with the little flag symbols on the profile were golden -- I think they fetched as much as $400 on ebay. I'd love to get the records from that period. I wouldn't have dreamed of selling my founder's account -- it was just too precious -- I was a beta tester with a Charter account and had earned my founder's flag!. My sim in Blazing Falls, Tisroc (MayHeLive4Ever), was outstanding. (None of these silly forced last names like in SL in TSO, we're like Mongolians). Tisroc's name was taken, of course, from C.S. Lewis' Narnian Chronicle A Horse And His Boy. He had many extraordinary adventures in TSO, much of which cannot be told.
In the early days of Blazing Falls when the lots were just filling up the list, he easily got to the top 10 by placing his lot in "offbeat" all the way to the edge of the world, and creating "Tashbaan," a kind of restaurant/torture chamber/dance hall which had "the heads of mine enemies" swinging from the posts (well, ok, the pinyata) and "the blood of mine enemies pouring from the champagne fountains" (well, alright, so it was the punch bowl, come on, work with me on this). Entering the lot, you would have a fire cracker shot at you, then you'd be enticed to have dinner in the middle of the pool for free (remember when that meant something) -- and then Tis would pull the ladder out from under you. One visitor liked all of this so much, she gave Tis 10,000 simoleons upon recreating.
"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence," said Tis' profile cryptically -- and in fact some UNSCAM teams found signs of chemical weapons labs hidden back in Tisroc's awesome marble baths. On the top of the roof was a cafe full of Plotting Intellectuals, who frequently ended up in the champagne fountains below. God, it was fun. For a time, Tisroc was even inducted into some kind of role-playing hall of fame -- and the hilarious thing was, they thought he was role-playing har har!
For laffs, Tis would sometimes show up on a skilling lot and announce that he was Fusian, and an adherent of Fusism. With his swarthy complexion, odd-sounding lot-name, and profile about the Desert Reign of 1000 Years, a lot of girls thought he was some kind of terrorist. Ack, assumptions! "You know, you shouldn't kill people in the name of your religion," some of these ladies would tell me earnestly, without a clue in their curly blonde Sim heads that Fusism was a fake religion made up of parts of Sufism and God-knows-what-else.
Company protocol dictates that some of the best parts of Tisroc's TSO adventures be kept in secrecy, but let me say that he had one hell of a ride. It's hard to know exactly how he ended up on the auction block -- knowing of Dyerbrook's ardent hatred of all things related to slavery. Maybe it had to do with buying land in SL and having to figure out how the hell to pay the tier fees. Maybe it was how the game got deadly boring, and Tis had 50-plus skills to lock, and he only was up to like 25 in logic, and frankly, didn't envision himself as a cookie-eater.
Tisroc was the proud possessor of a rare white Simmy which itself was the subject of an interesting saga...but it's time to say goodbye! Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The First Book of Tisroc came to an end last week on ebay when he was opened up for bidding at $200...and had not a nibble or a watcher for 7 days. His owner marked him down to $85 finally with a hopeful "buy it now" for $100...and had to let him go for a paltry $92.00. The new owner appeared very pleased and said he was going to keep running Tis -- he has 734 days on him and his second anniversary gift would be coming in any day.
I think of the many nights in beta that Tis pounded the pinyatas, making obscene amounts of money on that temporary exploit...only to see it all evaporate in the Cruel Infidel Wipe Wind. He had to start from scratch and rebuild so many times...once he made a temporary sojourn to Dragon's Cove and resolved to live only on punch and pinyata coins and the contributions of visitors. Tisroc once had a harem, even. Well, it only had 2 women in it, but still...Tis' last act in Book I was to break through the walls of his fabulous house, a gift from a major architect, and swim as if he had never known the desert...
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