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Tens of millions of viewers around the globe watch live as we go all out for glory in the World Championship of sword-and-sorcery. The others in my crew are Qrysta, a dual-wielding sword dancer, and Grell, the best damn Orc you’ll ever see with a battleaxe. In Real Life, I’m a retired teacher, and hard-core gamer; but in-game, I’m Daxx, an apex-level battlemage / healer. I built his avatar to be young and heroic – well, why would I want him to look like dull old me?
The virtual crowd in the arena goes wild as we win – but before our triumph can sink in, I’m hurtling off and away from the cheers, and my crew, and my actual living room on a wild ride to… somewhere very else indeed. Where I land all alone, in the middle of a wilderness of trees and hills and mountains, my only gear a crappy, noob-level sword and buckler.
And I’m not who I was IRL anymore.
I’m Daxx.
For real.
And I can hear wolves.

Wherever this rock is, it isn’t Planet Earth. It’s an instance of something like it, but not Earth as we knew it. Somewhere Earth-like, where we can survive, and feel it’s all familiar enough, even when it’s wildly different. 

Wherever this rock is, it isn’t Planet Earth.
It’s an instance of something like it, but not Earth as we knew it.
Somewhere Earth-like, where we can survive, and feel it’s all familiar enough,
even when it’s wildly different.

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RICHARD SPARKS

One morning in 1979 I got a call from an understandably excited Rowan Atkinson.

            “John Cleese just called. He’s asked me to be in his new charity show – and can I do the Schoolmaster?”

            Er, yes.

            I’d written it the previous year, for a revue at the Hampstead Theatre (Rowan with Elspeth Walker and Peter Wilson). John and his co-producer, Martin Lewis, had seen it; and a year later, Rowan and I were backstage at Her Majesty’s Theatre, meeting John and other members of the cast of The Secret Policeman’s Ball.

Richard Sparks wrote the Schoolmaster sketch, which Rowan Atkinson performed in The Secret Policeman’s Ball (co-produced by John Cleese). Years of TV scriptwriting followed, for shows such as Not the Nine o’clock News, The Famous Five, The Flying Kiwi, The Optimist and The Worst of Hollywood. He moved with his family to Los Angeles

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