When I entered Blue Mars for the very first time, the first person I met was a Fool on a hill, wearing gold tights and angel wings. I logged off thinking I’d imagined things, but the next night, the Fool was still there, only this time, he wore a crushed velvet robe, and a paper bag on his head.
He’d been standing on a rock in the Welcome Area, he told me, since the Welcome Area began.
“It’s a more of a perch,” he clarified. “I can see people arrive, interact, yet somehow stay unsullied.”
Why's he there? As it turns out, for fairly interesting reasons.
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