Chapter . The Dive into the Deep End Continues
Carmen and I had both died and been rebooted.
Many moons had passed since my gender-bending fisherman experiment. During the intervening months I spent time in Eve Online, Gaia, EverQuest, and other virtual worlds. But Second Life attracted my inner anarchist. I decided to log back in, see if I could earn some money from the effort of spending time in there (which I knew would be considerable), watch how people were getting by, learn what I could about interactive forms of narrative, and investigate these avatar societies. Those were my motivations as an immigrant.
In the months that followed I became ...
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