One Day: How Much More Real Can It Get?
Yesterday I was paid 300 rays for work I had done for others on Red Light Center. 300 rays is enough to cover one month of membership on the game so it was a profitable day. What had I done? I earned 200 rays making posters for one of my friends. She owns two dance clubs and holds daily events. She does not have the time to make posters so she pays me to do so. It is work anyone can do. There are hundreds of clubs on Red Light Center and every day two or three dozens events are held. If you can crop, re-size and add text to an image most likely you could earn several hundred rays a month as a graphic designer as I do.
Seka — popular porn star of the 1970s and 1980s
I also got paid for some deco work I had down. I did the work for Seka. Yes, if that name is familiar to you ‘that Seka.’ She owns several businesses on Red Light Center including a street she wanted down over in with a New Orleans look and flavor. I spent about ten hours doing the work and got paid a total of five hundred rays.
She had been in no hurry on the project and we had spread it out over a few weeks but with the rays I earned working for her plus the graphic work I did I had two months of Red Light Center covered. Her payment on this day was simply the final installment of our arrangement.
Deco is not easy. But it is a learn-able skill and few are willing to put in the effort to learn. Finding deco work is very easy once you have made some friends, started networking and get known as someone who does deco. Most of the rays I earn on the game I earn doing deco. (FYI: I have been on the game for one year now and in the first year I earned about $2500 on the game and spent only $20. So I am making about $200 a month and my investment has been less than $2 a month.)
Last night I went to a party. Two friends of mine had gotten married earlier in the day. In real life? No. It was a virtual reality wedding. But I had dated the guy for a while. I know him well. The marriage is real to him and I feel it was real to the bride also. At the reception party a raffle was being held. Most raffles on the game are 50/50 where the house keeps half. Because it was a special occasion, the club owners decided to forego their split and have it be a winner take all.
If I had won, I would have won 1160 rays. That is almost $80. I had spent four dollars on the tickets so it would have been a nice return. I did not win, but someone did. Had she spent just a single ray and bought just one ticket? Or had they bought ten chances like me for thirty rays? Don’t know. But I as sure she was quite pleased to be the winner. I know one guy who does nothing else but travel around to parties and enter raffles. He has done very well for himself as nothing more that someone who parties and parties and parties.
Passing of a Friend
I also learned yesterday while on the game that a friend of mine from the game had died. We were working together at a strip club/brothel shortly after I first got on the game and she took exception to me one day and booted me out of the club. The owner decided to ban me from the club as it seemed best to her. Later Lady_Tricks and I became friends and she often apologized for the ‘boot.’ I will miss her.
As it turned out at the party, the first guy to ever fuck me for rays showed up and we had a pleasant conversation. A transgender friend of mine also came to the party. She was attending a gender convention in Seattle and had spent the week with family, coming out to some for the first time. I do not know of the friendship and support she found on Red Light Center embolden her to come out to her family or attend the convention, but it had to be good for her to know that if it had gone bad there were many on the game who would have been there to comfort her.
I hear talk at time that Red Light Center is just a game. While this was an uncommonly eventful day, it was not an unusual day on Red Light Center. Life happens on Red Light Center much as it happens in real life. Some days stand out more than others. And this day seemed to have it all. Old friendships rediscovered, the passing of a friend, the wedding of two friends, rays earned, rays spent.