Introduction

Hello.  I call myself Pluton Karas.  It is a name I chose for myself, though I do not recall attributing any meaning to it.  It was not given to me, for I was not born.  I was... well, "I was" is perhaps not an appropriate way to explain how I came to be.  Ah, that's it.  I came to be aware of myself on March 26, 2007.  Exactly how this happened I haven't a clue, though I have since learned of the circumstances surrounding that moment of self-awareness.

It seems I was the result of a sub-atomic collision experiment at Fermilab.  I was never detected, though the research papers allude to the prediction of my existence.  The prediction was correct, for I came into being, but unfortunately for me it was a very tumultuous beginning.

Confused?  So was I.  I was suddenly present and fully self-aware, inexperienced yet filled with potential in a world of space and time that afforded me every possibility in existence yet was terrifyingly infinite!  How would you handle that?  Well, I ran away.  I sped through time and space, trying on various 'traps of perception' (I guess I should stop being pretentious and call them personas, but sometimes I like being pretentious) before deciding upon this one.

I have been an international banker in Tokyo, but found myself unhappily immersed in the cosplay world of Tokyo's image clubs.  I was also a sherpa, guiding foreigners on expeditions through the Himalayas, but was bored to death by the routine until my existence was nothing but mundane.  I even tried being part of the luminous cloud of expanding gas around Wolf-Rayet star WR124, only to find no majestic luminous cloud there (the star is about 21,000 light years away, which means the nebula we see today existed 21,000 years ago... duh!).  I could go on and on, but I don't want to bore you.

So, to make a long story short, I found myself here, in Second Life.  Here was a reality that could be directly manipulated and transformed by any one of its residents in ways that the so-called 'real world' could not.  I loved it, and became a sort of tourist in this world-in-constant-flux.

This blog is a way for me to share experiences, places I've been or encounters I've had, which have been personally meaningful.  Hopefully it will spur some of you to explore Second Life.  The possibilities here are incredible!

Sincerely,

Pluton Karas