This is a very difficult entry to write...

Alisa Falconvale -- my partner in Second Life and InWorldz, and for whom both the InWorldz region and the pre-fab business is named -- has left Virtuality. She had no choice: personal finances, exacerbated by the general state of the economy and local conditions where she lives, forced her to disconnect her Internet service. She'd seen it coming for a long time, and she hung on as long as she could... but finally, the evening came when we began the sobering task of transferring everything possible from her (and her alt, Migisi Diavolo) to me.

It was very much like I imagine preparing for one's own organic death might be.

I'm hoping it was just bitterness talking, when she said that she wouldn't be back to InWorldz (and probably not SL, either), even after she gets back on her monetary feet and can reconnect to the Web. Even so, she was repeatedly adamant that I dissolve the partnership (she used the word "divorce") and get on with my virtual life.

One thing that did not happen during the transfer of ownership: All of her builds for sale at our showroom in the sky in InWorldz are still hers, and the payments will be going into an account whose owner will not return to collect (or use to buy textures for more building). I'm unsure, right now, what the best course is regarding that...

Ali was a much more prolific builder than I have been, and some of her works have been quite popular. I personally believe the denizens of InWorldz should still have the opportunity to own them. So, for the next little while, I'm going to leave everything just as it is.  The region -- and the business -- will always be named Falconvale, in remembrance.

Otherwise, I can only wish that the same beneficial lightning which struck me last December, and saved my sorry pixel ass from the same fate, finds her... and soon.

Good luck, and be well, Ali. <3

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