This foray into crypto wasn't going quite how I'd expected. It was only the first month, but I was not making money, just spending it. I had passed on the tigers, bears, birds, and clays were too rich for my blood. I wasn't intrigued by the frogs, and the Lions had just finished their mint. I still had never minted anything; I went to the marketplace and grabbed a paper-handed lion.
Paper handing is when someone mints and puts it on the market for less than the mint before the traits even come out. I saw a lion wearing a rugged leather jacket like Fonzi; he gripped in his teeth a football. Ahh, I thought, as a Detroit Lion! Maybe he would be extra valuable since he could be marketed with real-world potential. He also was 3D modeled, not flat. A new type of imaging. It looked clean. There were other lions on the market at the mint and above, but I didn't want to ape in like I did earlier; I just wanted to diversify.
I stepped into the chat. It was abuzz with activity. People were bragging about their lion, the traits, the colors, the future. Some people kept asking about the floor, but everything was being sold above mint; lots of yelling at the paper handlers who could make sure lions stayed valuable if they wouldn't list them so low in the first place. I, for one, was glad to sneak into the party.
My lion was a basic brown; he looked good, I thought. Strong. I went to the road map page and read all the ideas for what they would do with the lions. First, it was going to hold the lions. Ok, not a flipping project. Oh well, if I held the lion and bought a mate in December, I could get a free cub by spring. Interesting, make a lion family. I'm new enough to have the time to wait this out until February. I guess whoever minted my lion just didn't want that time commitment.
I showed my lion to the group. OOOO, Ahhhhhh! Great lion, but look at this one... and I started to see lions with halos, rainbow manes, gold bars, and gold keys in their mouth. Not just a crisp leather jacket and a football. Hmm, maybe I should pick up a few of the other traits. I could sell ones to flip and just keep one for family making. Decided, I went back into the marketplace.
I grabbed a sailor guy with gold in his mouth and a lion in a cap eating a bone.
Yes, these would do just fine. Nice colors, cheap to buy, and they aren't strange. Not a rainbow-haired lion in a Hawaiian shirt sucking a lollipop wrong, or some odd-colored lion with a monocle and biker helmet. I felt the traits should make sense. They didn't tell a story unless they made sense. I grabbed a basic origin concept from the road map. Lions had been in captivity and broke out. That explains the gold key. I should try to get a gold key lion. Lions had to fend for themselves in a world where looking anthropomorphic might be an issue. I started thinking about that.
Who were these lions, and how would they make it in a modern world? What if someone started to tell the stories of the NFT's from their perspective? What if that would be one way to level up in the discords? I was ready to enter the parallel world, and I am hoping you will enjoy it with me.
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