Richard Garriott and Eric Anderson At the Space Needle

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I spotted this tweet on one of my many and varied Twitter search columns in TweetDeck this morning

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Chairman of Space Adventures, this guy.

Which led to this picture:

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And yes, he is still wearing the serpent necklace, it seems.

No word on where Lord British’s blushing bride is, though.

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3 Responses

  1. Sanctimonia says:
    August 2, 2011 at 2:21 am

    Didn’t his mother make that for him? I need to read The Official Book of Ultima again it seems. RG looks like a vampire pimp in that pic. Dig the pink shirt.

    • WtF Dragon says:
      August 2, 2011 at 2:24 am

      Yes, his mother did make the pendant for him. She’s quite the talented craftworker, I’m told. Or…was? I do not know if she is still with us.

  2. Xyzzy says:
    August 8, 2011 at 4:34 am

    Not quite, according to the interview in Scott Addams’ Official Book of Ultima (v1) p32, 33:

    “When I was 11 or so,” he says, “my mother…was going through a silversmithing phase. …The bad guys in this [Doc Savage film] were natives who all had this snake painted on their chests. It looked somewhat like this shape. … She helped me work it out on paper, and I got out my little silver saw and cut this little guy out of silver.”

    Then again, interviews usually have at least a few details that aren’t quite right, or that fluctuate with the person’s memory over time, so could be either way.