The Great Token Rush!

If you’ve been followin’ our stories, you should have a pretty decent idea about Buckley’s early life by now. Of course there’s plenty more to relate, and in due time, that will most certainly happen. But today we’ll talk more about The Great Token Rush that started a couple of years back. Yep, ain’t nothin’ that drives people to frenzy more than the prospect of makin’ enormous sums of money fer little or no work whatsoever. It’s Greed that runs this world, and the same goes fer the digital Wild West.

How The Great Token Rush started is somethin’ of a mystery - some say an unwittin’ hermit went out fer a walk one day and accidentally stumbled upon the biggest token deposit this side of North Dakota. Others say that a band of prospectors decided to head up country to try their luck and did in fact discover the riches they were seekin’. Whatever the truth, as soon as folks found out there was money to be made by prospectin’ and discoverin’ new tokens, well, they came out of the woodwork faster than hens fleein’ a wild coyote! Heck, when it first started, you could see lines of wagons crossing the desert practically every hour of every day!

Needless to say, outlaws also took the opportunity to hold up prospectors and relieve them of all their worldly belongings whenever they got the chance. And if any of the folks they were holdin’ up decided to cause a ruckus, well, the bandits would have no trouble relievin’ them of their lives as well! Word of advice - even if you’re one tough hombre like ol’ Buckley, pick and choose yer battles carefully. Outsmartin’ one or two inexperienced bandits ain’t too much trouble if you time things right, but standin’ up to a whole gang is nothin’ short of suicide!

In most cases, The Great Token Rush brought out the very worst in folks. Yep, friends and family would often turn on one another the moment money entered into the equation. Infightin’ would ensue, and soon whole groups of prospectors would be firin’ off rounds at one another like a bunch of crazed sidewinders with sunstroke!

One such incident was big enough that it became known as The Supreme Token Standoff - a hundred or so prospectors ended up shootin’ at each other in an attempt to stake their claim over a sizeable token deposit. Amazingly, nobody actually ended up gettin’ killed, but every single one of the prospectors involved were significantly injured. And the token deposit? Well, that ended up in the hands of the government - the authorities deemed the actions of the prospectors so reprehensible that they determined they should have their findings confiscated forthwith! Boy did those varmints feel remorseful after that…

It was actually after this event in particular that the government saw it fit to enact regulations to prevent such incidents from occurring again in the future (or at least lower the chances of anything happening again). At first folks didn’t pay much heed to the warnings, but before they knew it, bands of prospectors were havin’ to fill out all kinds of paperwork describin’ their intentions and modus operandi, at least in certain popular areas. This did put a bit of a damper on The Great Token Rush, but it did actually help to slow down the number of people makin’ moves to prospect and made folks think twice before turnin’ on one another.

Of course many folks didn’t like the government moseying in on their territory, and there are reports of bands of prospectors fightin’ with government soldiers - but in spite of rumors and hearsay, the government has never formally acknowledged any such incidents. And why would they? Keepin’ a lid on skirmishes against the State was an excellent way of ensuring nobody would feel emboldened to overthrow the current dispensation, and by simply downplayin’ such stories, no kind of insurrection has been attempted…not yet at least.

Some say The Great Token Rush ended a while back, but others argue that it ain’t over by a long shot. Prospectors ain’t as numerous as they were in the past, but whenever news of recently discovered token deposits surfaces, everyday law-abidin’ citizens are whipped up once more into a money-grubbin’ horde hellbent on puttin’ King Midas to shame! Until folks learn to quell their base desires, there’s a strong chance The Great Token Rush will never really come to an end!

Moral of this here story is: there are plenty of risks when it comes to earnin’ money. Take a leaf out of Buckley’s book - patience, dedication and conviction will get you to wherever you need to go. But if yer intentions are to make a quick buck in no time at all, then you need to accept the possible consequences that may follow. Sure, there’s a chance you may hit it big, but there’s an even bigger chance you’ll find yerself in quite the pickle! Gamblin’ is gamblin’, so if you love takin’ big risks, then pay no heed to what’s been said - but if yer more on the sensible side, then we implore you: take yer time and think carefully before makin’ potentially life-changin’ decisions!