Soooo ...

I'm guessing that if Eschatos had "regular readers" in the past, they have all given up on him by now. It's been nearly 3 months since there were predictable updates here. And it's not been pretty on the other end, let me tell you!

In his last missive, Eschatos was talking about a big new project that was taking up nearly all of his typist's time (which was why he hadn't been showing up much back then). Well, that FELL THROUGH. Yes, all these contracts were executed, a press event was held in NYC, lots of grip-and-grin ... then KABLOOEY! Total, unmitigated, picture-in-the-dictionary SNAFU. Two weeks into the deal, both sides were looking across the table and wondering where the money was.

Eschatos, being made of pixels, is fortunate to not usually have to deal with these sorts of things (although that reminds him that he owes rent on his apartment over in Broadway Live), but he can't understand how this whole thing progressed as far as it did without those involved in the negotiations getting around to the dollars (Linden or otherwise). It's CPU-boggling!

Anyway, this pretty much proved to be the coup de grâce for the company, which had been crawling towards a "promised payday" in April. Instead of a payday, there was having to give up the offices, sell the furniture, and skulk off to other zones to reel at the unrelenting string of bad luck that had manifested over the past six or so months. And Eschatos was very unhappy to discover his office (and massive colonnade) evaporated, along with our other SL stuff. Sucks to be us.





Anyway, Eschatos' typist had brought in a piece of business back when there still was a company to handle it ... it was a multi-platform project for WitchSchool International, which has web, video, social networking, classes, and Virtual Worlds aspects involved. Over the past couple of months, Eschatos has gone weeks of not being rezzed when his typist has been cranking code to get the WitchSchool.com site up and running. Eschatos has, however, played a significant role in getting the WSI SL HQ (the pic is of him sitting at the "welcome" desk) up and functioning.

The build features a downloadable library, a video collection, a classroom, extensive literature racks, and an outdoor multi-function space. While it's not "finished" finished, it's quite well along, and we're anticipating starting to do classes there in the next week or so ... so do go and check it out!

Eschatos' typist is integrating this blog in a site he's developing, so the odds are pretty good that you'll be seeing more frequent updates ... even though Eschatos (and his typist) are spending the majority of their hours looking for work. If you know of any opportunities out there for communication and/or management gigs that require a solid Virtual World background, please give us a shout, either here or on LinkedIn!

More later ...