So, apparently Richard Garriott’s House™ has, among other rooms, a multi-million dollar secret underground bunker where fellow genius MMO designer extraordinaire Brad McQuaid has been hiding all this time.

When asked to comment on the closure of Tabula Rasa Mr Garriott was heard to hiss, flick his cape around his shoulders and laugh as he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

When the smoke cleared, an embarrassed Mr Garriott looked around sheepishly and was last seen running down a flight of stairs marked Richard Gariott’s Secret Genius Hideout for Geniuses™.

Questions as to whether Mark Jacobs will be joining the dynamic duo in their special sanctuary went unconfirmed, as were rumours that he was seen carrying a folder marked Richard Garriott’s Extraplanetary Emigration Plan™.