After Hurricane Katrina, the operators of EverQuest II assured more than 13,000 members in the Gulf Coast region that their virtual property would be protected and preserved until they could resume playing.
So all this time, over ten thousand avatars have been literally…er…virtually…er…literally virtually stranded. Apparently, former FEMA Director Michael Brown admitted that he only today was told that characters have been gathering at the mouth of the dragon’s lair, searching for their lost players and waiting for wizards to come teleport them to another realm. In an interview of Brown today, newscaster Ted Koppel asked incredulously, “Don’t you guys log on? Don’t you IRC?”
In related news, the Bush administration demonstrated that it is not utterly clueless about the cyber dimension of the tragedy; the President recently issued an executive order allowing reconstruction workers to be paid with currency from Ultima Online. Political insiders speculate that the administration may tap the same resource to pay the expected $200+ billion in reconstruction costs.
Sorry. A little gallows humor there. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying…
