Reader Submitted: Game Review - Subnautica, Part Six

For the past few weeks, Rita Mariner has been doing reader submitted articles on the aquatic survival game Subnautica. In earlier chapters, she described getting started and then going out beyond your initial area. In this story, Rita describes what could be called the end of the middle part of the game, in which there's just one more kind of resource left to gather. Getting to it however means braving some dangers and some strategy.

Read Rita's reader submission in Other Grids, MMOs, and Games.

"Meet The Lindens" This Week At The SL15B Auditorium

For the past few years at the Second Life Birthday, the residents have had a chance to hear from the Lindens themselves. And this year, they can at the "Meet The Lindens" events in the Auditorium. From Monday to Friday 2-4PM SL time, Saffia Widdershins will be conducting interviews with various Lindens.

Monday: Xiola Linden
Tuesday: Keira and Patch Linden
Wednesday: Ebbe Linden (the CEO)
Thursday: Oz and Grumpity Liden
Friday: Brett Linden

The Auditorium is just north of https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL15B%20Enchant/25/119/23

RFL Team Sunbeamers Hit Sapphire Level

It was a great weekend for the Relay for Life in Second Life's Team Sunbeamers. Friday June 15 was the close of two "Bid Me" events run by the team, "Bid Me Foxy" in which Cynthia Farshore was putting her anthro goat avatar on the line, and "Bid Me Goat" in which Shockwave Yareach did the same with his wolf avatar. At Club Cutlass at 8PM following the party there, the amounts raised on the kiosks were made final, Rita announcing the results:

Beamers:  here are the results of the 2 BID MEs that ended tonight.

Cynthia Farshore:
Stay Goat:             12,900L
Go Foxy;                 24144L

She goes Foxy for 12 WEEKS!

Shockwave Yareach:
Stay Wolf:                 1050 L
Go Goat:                    24100 L

He goes Goat for 12 Weeks!

Cynthia took the change more or less in stride, when changing into a vixen having a chicken in her mouth, later saying, "Between the kiosk of Shocky and I, we racked up L$62,244." Shockwave posted on Facebook, "I was on the BidMe for Relay For Life. Every 2K$ put in, I'm a Goat for a week. I'm now gonna be a Goat for... 12 Weeks. Holy..."

The following day, Saturday June 16, was the Farshore Field Air Show. It was widely expected that the team would get to the coveted half million Linden dollar mark. And before the event was over, it did. The Sunbeamers passed 500,000 Lindens, and achieved Sapphire fundraising rank. For the second time this season, the team had achieved a rank they never had before.

The last time The Sunbeamers reached this amount of cash, I went in a female avatar for a week. But with me pantsless most of the time thanks to a previous Bid Me event,  I wasn't in the mood for something so drastic this time. So when one of my teammates was saying she'd go purple for two weeks if the team reached Sapphire, I offered to take one of them. But team captain Rita Mariner and teammates Dusk Griswold, and Skylark Lefavre also went purple that day.

So what next? There is a joint event with the Meli's Maniacs team being planned. And of course there is the Relay Weekend and the Sunbeamer camp build next month. For now, once again the "Little team that could" is taking pride that once again it's proved itself a top fundraiser among the Relay teams.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan

Press Day At The SL15B

The Second Life Fifteenth Birthday celebration grounds aren't open until Noon today. But some members of the Second Life media got a chance for an early peek. Gemma Cleanslate in the past had been a volunteer for SLB events. She returned on Press Day, Saturday June 16, for an early look at the exhibits and builds.

Read Gemma's article in Events.

SL15B Celebration Begins Today

After months of preparation, the Second Life Birthday celebration is finally about to start. For a little over a week, residents will get to enjoy various events, music and discussions, across twenty-four sims of stages, exhibits, and other builds.

And among the exhibits is that of the Second Life Newser. Presenting the SL Newser SL15B Tower, courtesy of Silvia Ametza and Aimee Louise Destiny (aimeelou.destiny). The crystal-shaped structure is fifteen stories high, one for each year of Second Life. There are a few pictures at the top of the Grid's first year, plus a parachute giver for those wanting to dive off the side. Come see our exhibit, and listen to the tunes of Farshore Radio at SL15B Spectacular (196/14/23)

For more information about events and times, check the SL15B blog : http://www.slcommunitycelebration.info/

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at the Happy Vixen. Two feral foxes come face to face with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken ... or is it? Just why would someone leave a bucket where wild animals could get it?

By Bixyl Shuftan

Announcement: This Week at the Senchai Libraries

SUMMER'S COMING - THE SEASHORE AND MORE!
We can almost officially declare that it's here.  Summer's a coming with lots of great plans for outstanding tales.  We've got another stellar line up this week, including a guest session featuring images and thoughts from the seashore with friend Ktahdn Vesuvino. Join us this week in #secondlife, and on our properties in #kitely, live in voice.

Check out the stories and the storytellers at www.seanchailibrary.com

All times slt, stories in Voice.

--------->> COMING THIS WEEK:
Senchai Library at Holly Kai Park
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/215/44/27

All stories told in open voice. All times SL/PT
   
**SUNDAY,  June 17th
   ~ at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street: join Corwyn, Kayden, and Cale as they continue (1887) A STUDY IN SCARLET. Part Two of Four today.
   ~ 6pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME: Mrs. Piggle Wiggle concludes, live at the Golden Horseshoe at Magicland

**MONDAY, June 18th at 7pm: Larry Niven's PROTECTOR continues with Gyro Muggins

**TUESDAY, June 19th at 7pm:  More from Craig Johnson's SHERIFF LONGMIRE TALES with Kayden Oconnell

** WEDNESDAY, June 20th at 7pm:  WRITTEN IN THE SAND: Images and Thoughts from the Seashore with Ktadhn Vesusino.

** THURSDAY, June 21st at 7pm - H. G. Wells THE INVISIBLE MAN Part 1 with Shandon Loring (also presented in Kitelyhop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29)

COMING NEXT WEEK: Go For Poe! 

Three great sessions featuring the woods of Edgar Allan Poe, presented by Seanchai Library at LEA 18: "Edgar Allan Poe's "The Philosophy of Furniture" 

SL Video: "Feels Good To Be BAD"

(Click here to see the video)

From Nydia Tungsten on June 9, "I know it's been a while, life can be such a PAIN sometimes (laughter). We shot this in the 'Planet Serenity' in Second Life, I hope you enjoy the models and the dancing."

Relay Poem

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning
So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep

Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there
Runaway train never comin' back
Runaway train tearin' up the track
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same.... GO RELAY

Sara Llewellyn (Sarandel Llewellyn)

Scenes From The Relay: The "Club Crawl" and "Bid Me Mesh"

On Friday June 8 and Saturday, the Relay for Life's Team Harmony for Hope hosted a "Club Crawl" to raise funds for the participating teams. Their second one in two years, two of the participating four clubs were from the Sunbeamers team, the Happy Vixen beach club and Club Cutlass. The following day was another noteworthy event, Team Relay Rocker's "Bid Me Mesh." The objective of this event was to give a new look to "Second Life's last surviving newbie avatar." So how did the events do? Both did very well.

Read more in Events.

Sneak Peek: The Newser SL15B Exhibit

Some last minute work on the SL15B exhibit for the Newser before the sims were temporarily closed to builders on Thursday at Noon. Yours truly had the idea of putting up some pictures from across Second Life history on the fifteen floors of the tower, one for each year. Unfortunately, I ran past the prim limit, and had to take some down. Oh well, I should be able to keep a few up.

The sims open Sunday at noon. So be there at the Second Life Fifteenth Birthday celebration.

Bixyl Shuftan

Relay Events This Weekend

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FRIDAY - 06/15/18
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EVENT:  Relay for Christ Trivia Party
HOSTED BY:  Relay for Christ
TIME:  2:00pm - 4:00pm
LOCATION:     http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Alua/171/124/28


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SATURDAY - 06/16/18
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EVENT:  The 5th Annual RFL Team Sunbeamer Air Show Fly-in
HOSTED BY:  Sunbeamers
TIME:  8:00am - 6:00pm
LOCATION:     http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunlight%20Bay/128/128/2   


EVENT:  Mynx Disney Parade
HOSTED BY:  Inspired Dreamwalkers
TIME:  1:00pm-2:00am
LOCATION:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SkyBeam%20Stowaway/174/92/1220






EVENT:  Bitty Bumper Car and Boat Race
HOSTED BY:  Team Shadow
TIME:  1:00pm-5:00pm
LOCATION: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Thorklin/103/139/1027


EVENT:  Mom's Formal Ball
HOSTED BY:  Circle Of Life
TIME:  3:00pm-5:00am
LOCATION:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Farhaven/86/61/28


EVENT:  Live Singers. Rhapsody and LostSinger
HOSTED BY:  Bonanza Country RFL TEAM
TIME:  6:00pm - 8:00pm
LOCATION:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Saphire/237/230/23


EVENT:  Weekly Theme Dance: Day of the Seafarer
HOSTED BY:  Mieville Steampunks
TIME:  6:00pm - 8:00pm
LOCATION:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mieville%20Dickens/71/141/2501


EVENT:  Game Night
HOSTED BY:  Heroes Helping Heroes
TIME:  6:00pm - 8:00pm
LOCATION:  https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Excelsior/57/117/1534

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EVENT:  Fennux Auction RFL Panel
HOSTED BY:  Fantasy Breedables Fight Against Cancer Team
TIME:  4:00pm-6:00pm
LOCATION:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Jirina/84/77/3202    

Announcement: This Week At The Science Circle: Catalysis in Wonderland 2"

"Catalysis in Wonderland 2: An SL presentation of classic transition-metal chemistry"
By Dr. Mike J. Shaw

Saturday June 17
10 AM SL time

"Organic chemistry follows certain rules. Starting in the 1950’s, we began to find ways that transition metals (e.g. chromium, iron, nickel, rhodium, gold and many others) could bend the rules of classic organic chemistry and facilitate chemical transformations which would otherwise be onerous. One example of the utility of transition metals as applied to organic chemistry is in catalysis, i.e. the transformation of starting materials into products through an easy-to-traverse sequence of steps. Today, catalysts mediate a wide range of reactions, from improving the quality of air (e.g. catalytic converters) to the production of plastics, medicines and other chemical transformations. This talk is a continuation of our discussion of catalysis where we will review the basics of “organometallic” catalysis reactions such as “oxidative addition”, “insertion”, and reductive elimination. These steps allow a metal complex to catalyze a reaction without itself being changed. These principles will be illustrated through lecture and scripted objects. The talk will discuss in detail the issues of “handedness” and how a catalyst can imprint its “handedness” on the final product."

For more information: Click Here.  

The Science Circle (61/127/32) 

Press Release: Fifth Annual Relay For Life Farshore Field Air Show Fly-in

Team Sunbeamers welcomes you to the 5th Annual RFL Sunbeamer Air Show Fly-in.


The Sunbeamers team welcomes you to the 5th Annual Farshore Field Steampunk Air Show Fly-in this Saturday the 16th of June between the hours of 8AM to 4PM SLT. There will be planes on display with information about them. Some Pilots will be on hand to give rides and flight demonstrations or you can just BYOAP [Bring Your Own AirPlane] and stunt around yourself.

During the show there will be a number of activities to participate in. These activities we ask for a donation to the Relay For Life kiosk located at each. These include being shot out of a cannon straight up to about 300 Meters where a provided parachute gently brings you back down. You keep the special RFL 2018 textured parachute for free. Then you can help cool each other by taking turns dunking your partner in a nice cool dunk tank, that is instead of a beanbag you fire a German 88mm shell into its target!! How often do you get to shoot such an historical gun?  There will be other activities so come explore as well as many fun spots around the sim.

From 4PM till 6PM SLT there will be an after flights dance and activities in The Goblin Cave located on the hill over looking the field. No theme dressing needed, no contest, just socializing and relaxing after a hard day of flying.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunlight%20Bay/128/128/2

Rated G during event

Happy Flag Day

It's Flag Day in the United States. Doing a search inworld, I came across a place with a lot of them, and for free. They're at the World Peace Flag Garden in Odaesan (81/151/42). I found many dozens of flags, not just of the USA and Canada, but also state and provincial ones, and flags from around the world from major nations to numerous tiny ones. The place is next to Thor's Oak Christian Men's Center.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odaesan/81/151/42

Bixyl Shuftan

SL15B Sneak Peek: At The Holodeck

Somewhere hidden in the grounds of the SLB public buildings is a holodeck, like the one found in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and it's spinnoffs. A few questions come to mind, such as if one uses a rest room here, do the contents get disintegrated. And this being Second Life, would a holodeck here be a holodeck in a holodeck?

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at the Happy Vixen, with thanks to Lia (Female Winslet).

By Bixyl Shuftan

First Weekly Summertime Fireworks of The Year at Livingtree

On Saturday June 9 at 8PM SL time, a summertime tradition resumed in Second Life after a break if several months: Marianne McCann's weekly fireworks show. During the summertime, Marianne likes to light up a pyrotechnic display at "Kick the Can" in the Livingtree sim every Saturday. And now, it was time to begin once more.

Marianne told those in her friends list the news a new moments before the show, and a number teleported over. The crowd "Ooooo"ed and "Ahhhhh"ed as the dark skies lit up and filled with color. DJ GoSpeed Racer provided the music for the event, though the sounds of the firecrackers going off could occasionally partially muffle the music. Much of the crowd came from Bay City, though Livingtree is apparently far away from it (one could be fooled just by looking at the people instead of the map).

Not everything went according to plan, though. At one point some of the pyrotechnics were going off not in the air, but on the ground. And the watching crowd ended up in the muddle of the light show.

Before long, GoSpeed was playing her ending theme, "Man or Astroman." And the fireworks came to a close, and least for another week. Those who missed this first show can make plans to head to Livingtree next Saturday night.

Bixyl Shuftan

Announcement: RFL Live Benefit Concert Wed at 11AM SL Time

Team Meli's Maniacs and Team ACTS will have an event starring Miss Longtail Wednesday at 11am SLT. The event will be held at Clubs Amarantha.  Both teams would love to see you attend this event.  Miss Longtail is just wonderful and can belt out all of our favorite tunes.

Amarantha (25,151,1500)

Announcement: "Health Care Delivery In The 21st Century: What Do We Want; How Do We Get It?"

A presentation, open to the public, led by Robert K. Smoldt, Chief Administrative Officer Emeritus of Mayo Clinic

Thursday, June 14, 2018
6:15 am  PDT
Mayo Clinic conference center, Mayo Clinic island

Presented in English Voice.

As the opening session of the World Congress for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (WCBIP), this presentation is open to the public (in Second Life). Mr. Smoldt retired from Mayo Clinic after a long career in Planning and Administration, and serving as Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for several years. Mr Smoldt currently teaches at Arizona State University, and is very engaged in Healthcare Delivery and Policy.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mayo%20Clinic/34/195/28

Events This Week at the Sunweaver, Montecito Bay, and Furry Fashion Clubs

It's a week full of events at the Sunweaver and Montecito Bay clubs and the Furry Fashion Lounge

Club Cutlass: Best in 'M,' Sports Night, Stripes/Spots

The Happy Vixen: Steampunk, Dragons, Wings, TBA, Horror Spoof, Candy Colors, (closed for airshow), Videogames and MMOs, Bunnies and Foxes, CAYA

Club Zero Gravity:Best in Neon, Best in Formal

Momtecito Bay: Taco Tuesday, 8-Bit Adventure, After Dark,

Furry Fashion Lounge: Fantasy, Robots, Space, Toys and Plushies, Cyber, Cartoons, Beach Party, Geeks and Nerds

Read the schedules in SL Clubbin'.

Updated 4:45 PM

SL15B Sneak Peek: Bathroom Humor

Going about the SL15B grounds, eventually, one will feel the call of nature. But going to the bathroom, there was no toilet paper. Only three sea shells. Sea shells? How are sea shells going to help someone in the bathroom?

For those who don't get the joke, Click Here.

Addition: The SLB volunteers have been a little more cautious about people posting sneak peeks this year, so we got the okay for this and one other for before the weekend.

Bixyl Shuftan