Taken at the Falmouth Hotel
By Bixyl Shuftan
Your source of news about the people, places, things, and events across Second Life.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Scenes From The FCA (Creepy) Club Crawl
See the pictures in Events.
Linden "Creepy Crawl" Today
The Creepy Crawl inworld starts THIS Wednesday, October 31st at 10 am SLT, and you don't want to be left out in the dark! The full schedule is available below, and in the Destination Guide.
10 - 10:30 AM : Tagus, Tagus (110/152/30)
10:30 to 11:00 AM : Bay City Fairgrounds : North Channel (128/128/24)
11:00 to 11:30 AM : Vampyr Empire : Transylvania (85/125/30)
11:30 to 12 Noon : All Hallows at Moochie : Moochie (171/199/23)
12 Noon to 12:30 PM : Spookzilla Hunt : Lucky Star (169/137/22)
12:30 to 1PM : Octoberville : Pixeltrix (190/16/3801)
1 to 1:30 PM : At The Edge of Darkness : Butterfly Bay (198/165/22)
1:30 to 2 PM : Bad Katz Halloween : Community (78/148/24)
Read the blog post in full (here).
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Events This Week at the Sunweaver, Montecito Bay, and Furry Fashion Clubs
Club Cutlass: Halloween Night, Work Day, Movie Night
HV Haunted Manor/ Happy Vixen : Undead, Villains, Anything But Clothing, Dark/Halloween, Stripes vs Spots, Wizards and Lizards, Crazy/Big Hair, Cyberpunk, Fire/Bonfire Night, Working Out, TBA
Club Zero Gravity: TBA
Momtecito Bay: Taco Tuesday, Spooky Stories, Lem and Em Show, Surf's Up, After Dark, Metal Mass, Creepy vs Cute
Furry Fashion Lounge: Black, Horror, Monsters, Fantasy, Cybergoth, Metal, Scales vs Fur, Unholy Night
Read the schedules in SL Clubbin'
Announcement: Winners of the Luskwood/Trotsdale/Derpyland Birthday Contest
Congratulations to the winners of the "What Luskwood/Trotsdale/Derpland means to me" memories/birthday contest. Logging in I see 9,415L as the final amount to be divided between the winners. There were 7 winners/entrants so this gets divided 7 ways! Disbursement has gone out via "David Valnarius" (Midomaru Resident).
Each slot got 1345 disbursed
=Luskwood=
Jaycatt Nico, Zidaya Zenovka, Bigmoe Whitfield
=Trotsdale=
Zidaya Zenovka, NightTrotter, "Fluttershy" Earving1
=Derpyland=
"Dashy" Shippo849
DON'T FORGET THERE IS STILL THE HALLOWEEN SPOOKY STUFF WRITING CONTEST. Currently 1400L up for grabs.
Amehana Ishtari
Editor's Note: The Luskwood 15th Anniversary Party is still being planned, but no date has been set yet as far as we know.
Monday, October 29, 2018
Cartoon of the Day
From Halloween Town. It wasn't my intention for the picture to end up like he was on my foot, but it worked out.
By Bixyl Shuftan
Halloween Town
Read the story in Places.
Login Issues Yesterday
We are currently experiencing issues with log ins that is currently being investigated. Residents may experience log outs at this time. Please continue to check this blog for updates.
As of 9PM SL time (Midnight EST), these problems were still going on.
A Busy Weekend
Quite a bit happened this weekend. The Burn2 art and music festival ended this weekend with the high points being the Burning of "The Man" (pictured above) and the Temple Burn. The "Creepy Club Crawl" took place between four clubs over ten hours. Caledon had the "Screampunk Ball" and a Halloween party at the Goblin Cave. There was a "Be the Match" fundraiser for bone marrow testing and transplants. There was the Halloween Madness in the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, and more.
More on some of these events later.
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Announcement: This Week at the Senchai Libraries
SQUEEEEE! ONE OF OUR FAVORITE WEEKS OF THE YEAR!
We DO love October. Did we mention that? And here we are at Halloween Week - one of the most story-full weeks of the year.
Check out the stories and the storytellers at www.seanchailibrary.com
All events at Senchai Library at Holly Kai Park, unless otherwise noted
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/215/44/27
**SUNDAY, October 28th, at 1pm (2 hours): SPOOKIN' IT AT OCTOBERVILLE - Stories and Poems for the season at Octoberville: Shandon Corwyn, Finn & Caledonia, Live. If you are not already "Octoberville enabled, then come to the Library where you will be manually teleported to the story camp - BUT BE WARNED! Octoberville fills up very fast, so . . . consider arriving early!
**MONDAY, October 29th at 7pm: John Brunner's THE INFINITIVE OF GO continues with Gyro Muggins.
**TUESDAY, October 30th
~ at 1pm & throughout the afternoon: Stranger Nightfire's Annual Halloween Party, featuring Stories & Music, up in Haunted Holly Kai
~ at 7pm: SPOOKY, in 100 WORDS with R. Crap Mariner (at the Library)
** WEDNESDAY, October 31st - HALLOWEEN
~ at 5pm & through the evening: Stranger Nightfire's Annual Halloween Party, featuring stories with Cale & Shandon @ 6pm, & Music, up in Haunted Holly Kai
~ at 7pm: Charles Stross' THE JENNIFER MORGUE continues with Corwyn Allen (at the Library)
** THURSDAY, November 1st: - Dia De Los Muertos
~ at 7pm - CLASSIC VINTAGE SPOOKINESS - Tales of Halloween with Shandon (Also in Kitely! Find teleport from the main Seanchai World grid.kitely.com:8002:SEANCHAI, in Kitely)
~ at 9pm - SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT, contemporary Sci-Fi-Fantasy with Finn Zeddmore.
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Press release : "24 hour Ride for Be The Match in Second Life This Weekend !
This weekend ( October 26 th and 27 th, 2018 ) the
Cobras MC is doing a 24 hour ride for Be The Match (
http://www.bethematch.org )
.
From Friday, October 26 th at 6 PM SLT untill Saturday,
October 27 th 6PM SLT , we will ride on different tracks during this
event.
More information about our event and Be The Match :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DEM BONES
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Be the Match is a bone marrow/cord blood registry that
not only helps people find matches, but helps donors with logistics
and expenses so that they can feel free to donate marrow.
PLEASE IF YOU ARE BETWEEN 22 AND 44 AND IN GOOD HEALTH,
JOIN THE BONE MARROW AND CORD BLOOD REGISTRY
It is easy, a simple swab in the cheek... go to the
website for a test kit to send back.
If you are NOT in this age group or in good health, you
can donate or volunteer from the following site as well. They need
your dollars and time to coordinate and care for donors as well as
those who are ill.
Be the one that can give a ride to the hospital or take
a donor to lunch.. Be the one that can put a couple dollars (even
$5.00 helps!) in the pot and get an instant email with 501 (c)
information back.. go to the Website..
BE THE MATCH TO SAVE A LIFE!
http://www.bethematchfoundation.org/goto/TeamBeTheMatchSL2018
To our free Test Kit page.. go here
http://join.bethematch.org/SecondLife
It costs about $100 to add each new member to the Be The
Match Registry. This is to cover the cost of tissue typing and
storage, as well as materials and administrative expenses.
If you are age 18–44, Be The Match covers the cost to
join for the people on SecondLife (during the campaign only! From
October 26th through November 5) through funds provided in part by
generous mission supporters.
If you are age 45–60, you will be required to make a
$100 payment to cover the cost to join.
The reason: Younger donors, ages 18–44, produce more
and higher-quality blood stem cells that lead to better transplant
outcomes. Transplant physicians request younger donors more than 95
percent of the time. Requiring individuals ages 45–60 to cover
their own cost to join helps Be The Match maintain the best registry
for patients and make the best use of its resources.
SL Coordinator = Wesley Regenbogen
MC Coordinator = Mightbe Shelter
Music Club Coordinator = Katsii Tennen
October 26-27th ~ 25 Rides in 24 Hours (motorcycles)
October 28th
October 31st, Halloween
November 3, Cobra Coil Ride N Hunt , Noon till 2pm
2pm Biker's Burlesque Brought to you by Royal Cabaret
Entertainers
3pm Tribute to Nickleback by Royal Cabaret Entertainers
Track list of the 24 hour ride :
"DEM BONES" Ride 25 Tracks in 24 Hours
raising awareness of Be the Match.. Cord Blood and Bone Marrow
Transplants. Information and gifts given out during rides and
after..Full Schedule for the 24 hour ride. Everyone will go home with
a new vehicle of some type whether you ride one or all 25 rides!
You are welcome to ride just one, any, or all of the 25
rides.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
SATURDAY OCTOBER 27
7 AM
Closing ceremony after the Mario Cart Race. This special
bike given out to those FINISHING all 25 Rides along with trophies
and a couple gag gifties :)
Please have lots of fun, enjoy the ride. When you come
back to these tracks tip them well. They might even allow us to come
back next year :).. See you at the ride!
MORE Be the Match Events to follow.. look for them!
(Sim owners and ride coordinators are allowed to ban
people if needed. We are here to have fun. No hate.)
Wesley Regenbogen
Wesley Regenbogen
Burn2 "Man Burn" Today, A Look at "Lost in Space"
The Man: Burning Man-Time Machine (151/109/24)
The Temple: Burning Man-Dont Panic (161/39/24)
One of the most fun exhibits that I came across was the "Lost in Space" one. Made by Lillithslair (Lillith LoneRaven) and located at Electric Sheep (186/72/24), stepping inside, clicking in "Mission Control," one can take a trip to Earth orbit, or perhaps to the outer solar system, or maybe to a crystal world where you can take home a few samples for a souvenir.
Bixyl Shuftan
Friday, October 26, 2018
Cartoon of the Day: Creeper Peeper
Taken at a Caledon Halloween party. It's been stated someone becomes a ghost if they have unfinished business. So if a guy has an unsatisfactory love life, might he as a spirit haunt places where they can watch the girls like they never could before?
By Bixyl Shuftan
Scenes From Burn2
See the pictures in Events.
Benefit Concert At Veterans Isle Raises Over 135,000 Lindens
We are sponsoring our monthly benefit for Homes For Our Troops tonight. Waya Snowpaw has already kicked it off. Up next is Amforte Clarity at 5 PM! Come on out …support this great cause and have a great hour of music!
As the performers were on stage, people in the crowd put cash in house-shaped kiosks on either side of the stage. Last on stage was guitarist Reggie Sunset, whom sung until about 9PM SL time. By that time, 135,840 Linden dollars had been raised."Thank you everyone for coming out and supporting HFOTS! We appreciate you all. And Mr Frets! Thank you!"
The mission of Homes For Our Troops is, "To build and donate specially adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured post-9/11 Veterans, to enable them to rebuild their lives." The charity has been given a four-star rating by Charity Navigator. To learn more, go to https://www.hfotusa.org/
Bixyl Shuftan
Annoucement: Halloween Dance At The Goblin Cave
Come join the party On Oct. 27th from 6-8PM SLT for a Halloween Dance at the Goblin Cave. The music will play across the whole sim of Caledon Downs so one can explore the sim and still be entertained.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Downs/104/89/32
Duchy Cynthia Farshore and Star cordially invites you to Caledon Downs and Star Estates, Tamrannoch for a sim and a quarter full of Halloween fun going on now. There are many, many horrors and hunts with prizes. Star Estates has a cube hunt and Duchy Cynthia has on Caledon Downs has a Pumpkin hunt with 5 little pumpkins to be hunted down for different prizes. One can even shoot spooks at a shooting gallery. Lots to explore and see.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Downs/190/253/23
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20II/192/69/23
Announcement: Halloween Madness in the CDS
Halloween Madness
Spooky Party and Seance
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Witches fly by the moon's dim light, / Werewolves will howl into the night, / Join us if you dare / For a night that’s sure to scare! Seance and Party!
Join us if you dare...
Sunday October 28, 2018
Noon - 2 pm SLT
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Neufreistadt/127/199/161
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Town Hall With Oz, Patch, and Grumpity Linden on November 15
About two months following their Town Hall event with CEO Ebbe Altberg/Ebbe Linden, Linden Lab will be having another. On the official Second Life blog a few days ago, it was announced that there would be a Town Hall event on Thursday November 15. It will take place 10 AM to 11 AM SL time. Speaking will be Oz Linden (who is called Linden Lab's "Director of Product"), Grumpity Linden (Senior Director of Engineering), and Patch Linden (Senior Director of Product Operations).
Collectively, these three have over 28 (!) years of experience working on Second Life and work closely with all the Second Life teams to continue to improve this platform that we’ve all come to love.
They are some of the biggest stakeholders in the direction of the product development roadmap each year, and know the product inside and out!
People with questions they would like answered by these three are invited to post them in the Town Hall Meeting forum thread, and do so before November 9. The Lab will chose which of these questions to answer during the event.
To see the post in it's entirety: Click Here.
Trion Worlds Acquired By Gamigo, 75% Layoffs Follow
On Monday October 22, Trion Worlds, a game developer and publisher, was bought by Gamigo. Trion currently is behind five games: Atlas Reactor, Trove (a Minecraft spinoff), Rift, Defiance, and Archeage. On their website, Gamigo called themselves a "leading publisher" of "various Free2Play MMORPGs and MMOGs," many of them browser-based games.In the Rift forums, one director posted, "...We can confirm that there has been a transaction involving Trion Worlds and its games. While many of the names and faces you’ve come to know in our studios will remain on through this transition, others will not be making the journey. To those who are leaving us, we are forever grateful for your incredible work and contributions over the years. We’d like to assure our communities that the games will continue on in capable hands moving forward, as everyone involved is aiming to make this transition as smooth as possible for you. We will have more information to reveal as soon as we possibly can. ..."
What followed in the Rift forums were many sad comments, and well-wishes for those whom had been laid off. While a few expressed optimism for the future of the game, more often there were predictions the game only had a few years left in "maintenance mode" with few to no updates.
According to an article by Gamasutra, "roughly 25 employees remain at each" of Trion's two studios. With the company having once employed 200 people, fifty are now left. Earlier, it was reported only 25 employees were left in total. A look at Archeage's forum shows that the release of an update that was almost finished has been delayed. There had been some earlier signs of trouble for the company, such as fifteen people laid off in July. With only 25% of it's staff remaining, it is unclear what the future is for updates that are far from complete, or if any more will be made for the forseable future.
Sources: Rifts forums, Archeage forums, Gamasutra, Rock Paper Shotgun, MMORPG.com, Massively Overpowered
Bixyl Shuftan
Reminder: FCA Furry Halloween Club Crawl Tomorrow
12-2pm
Club Zero Gravity - https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunweaver%20Space/129/249/3597
2-4pm
The Happy Vixen (Haunted Manor) - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Purrfection%20Estates/126/175/2004
4-6pm
Urban Furry - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mystic%20Timberland/164/239/2701
6-8pm
Club Cutlass - https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunweaver%20Bay/114/117/757
8-10pm
Club Zero Gravity - https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunweaver%20Space/129/249/3597
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Interview With Cynthia Farshore.
Read Deaflegacy's interview in People.
Akino Beach's Halloween Sim and Deepwood Manor
Read Gemma's article in Places
Announcement: Join Us For The Eighth Annual ScreamPunk Ball
When all the world has gone to sleep,
the horrors from the shadows creep.
A banshee wails a mournful tune
as demons dance beneath the moon.
The shadows stir, no more at rest;
a sudden terror grips your chest.
Gothic ghouls rise from the ground,
to slink after a black hellhound.
Skeletons march from silent tombs
to fill the night with clacking bones.
Victorian vampires dressed in lace
move through the streets with deadly grace.
"Where fare ye, denizens of the night?
Where are ye bound with such delight?"
A zombie turns, one blazing eye
transfixing you - the end seems nigh.
He grins at you with Death's own smile
and says "Come dance with us a while!
Are ye brave enough to heed the call?
Come join us... at the ScreamPunk Ball!”
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Listen up, all you Gothic Ghouls, Steampunk Skeletons, Victorian Vampires, and Maniacally Mad Scientists! Join us in the Haunted Ballroom in Caledon Mayfair on Friday, October 26th for the Eighth Annual ScreamPunk Ball!!!
Halloween costumes with a steampunk twist are encouraged (as are steampunk outfits with a Halloween twist); fun and laughter (and the occasional scream) are mandatory. Halloween music will be on in the grove all day long, so come by to explore and soak up the atmosphere.
When: Friday, October 26th at 7:00 p.m. SLT
Where: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Mayfair/157/108/23
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Events This Week at the Sunweaver, Montecito Bay, and Furry Fashion Clubs
Here's what's going on at the Sunweaver and Montecito Bay clubs and the Furry Fashion Lounge. And remember, Club Zero Gravity, Club Cutlass, and the HV Haunted Mansion will be taking part in the "Club Crawl" event on FridayClub Cutlass: Best in 'I and J.' , Halloween 1 (Club Crawl), Closed for Goblin Bay
Happy Vixen's Haunted Manor: Lingerie, Halloween Treats, Fishnets, Wings, Zombies and Hunters, Vampires, Creepy vs Cute (Club Crawl), Circus, Best in Black, Hollywood, Best in Red, TBA
Club Zero Gravity: Best in Red, TBA, Goth/Vampires
Momtecito Bay: Taco Tuesday, Musical Expedition, Lem and Em Show, Monster Mash, After Dark, Ghosts and Ghouls, Curated Session Six
Furry Fashion Lounge: Wings, Red and Black, Pajamas, Angels and Demons, Black Parade, CAYA/Jarbu Release, SPooky, Unholy Night
Read the schedules in SL Clubbin'
SL Video: "Giant Snail Races: Oktoberfest"
(Click here if the video fails to play)
From September 22, RacerX Gullwing and the Giant Snail Racers have their "Oktoberfest" race.
The first race was won by Fionafei, with BrianTopp second and Lobbie Riggles third. In the second race, BrianTopp won, with Fionafei second, and Aldin Cortes third.
Announcement: Caledon's Candlelight Ball
Moonlight, darkness, falling water,
Haunted dreams the gothic daughter
Candles float in spooky glory
Ghost cats fly, but tell no story
Mist is rising, can you see?
Do the crystals glow for thee?
Let the lantern light the way
Dance tonight, let come what may.
Come celebrate a Candlelight Ball with the Gold Dragon as we dance in a lovely gothic setting: spooky, elegant, and fun. Let's dress up a little, but in costume or not, all are welcome.
Suggested attire: Victorian, Gothic, Formal, Halloween
Wed., Oct. 24th. Music begins at 6:30 SLT.
With all the black in the setting, the Gold Dragon advises you to set your viewer on Midday, or some other daylight hour. Midnight is too dark to really enjoy the build.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20On%20Sea/166/28/858
Monday, October 22, 2018
Bayou Chat Noir's Cat People Halloween Hunt
Read Klaus' story in Design.
Caledon Down's And Star Estates Halloween Haunts
Read the story in Places.
Update on the CDS Election
Since Han's withdraw from the election, two people so far have declared for the Chancellorship: Drewski Northman and 恭子 Kyoko (Samara Barzane). With two candidates, this means a race and campaign for the CDS next month.
CDS Citizens, those who own property on the community estate sims, have until 12 Noon SL time on October 31 to declare their intention to run for an office. The campaigns officially start November 3, and the polls open at Noon SL time on Nov 10, and close a week later on Noon SL time Nov 17.Source: Han Held's Wordpress
Bixyl Shuftan
Press Release: "Scare Me Silly" Oct 19-27 For Team Diabetes
The 3rd Annual Scare Me Silly event returns in support of Team Diabetes of Second Life! This event, is the first fundraising event for Team Diabetes of Second Life and features two hunts, live performers, dj’s, an art show, shopping, and lots of tricks and treats!Team Diabetes of Second Life is an official and authorized team of The American Diabetes Association. The mission of Team Diabetes of Second Life is to raise awareness, tolerance, and funds for diabetes in the virtual world of Second Life. According to the World Health Organization (2016): 422 million adults in the world have diabetes and 1.5 million deaths are directly attributed to diabetes each year.
Participating merchants include: oYo Breedables ,RP Roped Passions , Couture Chapeau , SK Kiva Studios Boutique, Xpllicit Designs , Firelight, Spyaralle, Team Diabetes of SL Merchandise Store, Park Place Home, Pixelancer, Esoterica Threads Clothing , Redangel Designs, LC Fashion, Closer to the Heart Creations , Fjordian Slip, BRYNE, Rush Love Your Look, Tayren's Fantasy Fashions , Feyline Fashions , MMP Muircastle Motors & Parts, Stone Soup, De Baza, Twitchy's Dragonsmeld, GypsyRose Botanical, The Chrone's Garden, Mara's Mysteries , TRS Designs , Just Ordinary, Bento Alive , Khargo Halloween, Cosmos Boutique, Lunar Seasonal Designs, Chiffon, Tylar's Treasures, @AdReNaLiZeD@, Kushi Textures & Mesh, *DBS* Designs By Soosy, Littlefangs, POM, Kittycat's Creations , Sweet E's Designs, Image Essentials, Fae Fantasy Creations, Roosters n cHix, The Art of Talitha Alice, The Pumpkin Head, & Halloween Delights.
Participating artists include: Bellissa Dion, Eucalyptus Carroll, Glasz DeCuir, Eleseren Brianna, ilyra chardin, talligurl, Kapaan, Neoma Vasilia, Myra Wildmist, Jamee Sandalwood, Sheba Blitz, HADIYA DRAPER, Ladmilla, Marcel Mosswood, Veruca Tammas, & IsarValdetaro Resident.
About The American Diabetes Association:
The American Diabetes Association’s mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. The American Diabetes Association leads the fight against the deadly consequences of diabetes and fights for those affected by diabetes by funding research to prevent, cure, and manage diabetes.
The American Diabetes Association delivers services to hundreds of communities and provides objective and credible information and resources about diabetes.
Free resources are available in English and Spanish at http://www.diabetes.org and 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2382).
SLURL: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Water%20Haven/148/143/22
For More Information:
https://www.teamdiabetessl.org/scare-me-silly
Team Diabetes of Second Life’s American Diabetes Association Page:
http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR?px=11304578&fr_id=12466&pg=personal
Team Diabetes of Second Life’s Website:
www.teamdiabetessl.org
American Diabetes Association Page:
www.diabetes.org
International Diabetes Federation Page:
http://www.idf.org/membership/meet-our-members
Announcement: This Week at the Senchai Libraries
IT'S A NEW WEEK, AND "IT'S ALIIIIIIIVE!
FRANKENSTEIN is here, as are so many other great stories this week, and the first of our visits to Octoberville. Heck Fire! We DO love October.
Check out the stories and the storytellers at www.seanchailibrary.com
All events at Senchai Library at Holly Kai Park, unless otherwise noted
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/215/44/27
**MONDAY, October 22nd at 7pm: John Brunner's THE INFINITIVE OF GO continues with Gyro Muggins.
**TUESDAY, October 23rd at 7pm: THE HOUSE WITH THE CLOCK IN ITS WALLS concludes with Faerie Maven-
Pralou
** WEDNESDAY, October 24th at 7pm: Charles Stross' THE JENNIFER MORGUE continues with Corwyn Allen
** THURSDAY, October 25th, at 7pm - WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT - Tales of Halloween with Shandon Loring at
Octoberville - teleport from the Library (Also in Kitely! Find teleport from the main Seanchai World
grid.kitely.com:8002:SEANCHAI, in Kitely)
NEXT SUNDAY - SPOOKY STORIES AT OCTOBERVILLE!
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Burn2 Begins
On Friday October 19, the Burn2 event started. The largest annual art and music festival in Second Life, it is based on the Burning Man festival which takes place in the summer. The event will go on until October 28, though the builds will likely be up for a little longer. This year's theme is "I, Robot."
As usual, the center build is "The Man," a man-shaped structure of wood that will be burned near the end. Often a towering figure, or on a tall base, this year's Man is a smaller one on a large wide base. Elsewhere is "The Temple," which resembled a firey oven.
With the theme "I, Robot," artists were invited to make exhibits with robots as a theme. Some expressed hopes or fears of a world filled with intelligent robots. Others were simply amusing.
And besides the exhibits there were events by DJs in which people danced to the music. The festival will last a while, but not forever. Be sure to drop by before October 28.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-%20Deep%20Hole/115/86/24
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Update on "The Search For Magellan"
Taking a look at the rules for the updated "Linden Realms" game, I was unsure about whether or not accounts that hadn't bought or sold Lindens, such as alts, could collect Linden dollars from finishing "The Search For Magellan" quest for finding the pieces for the amulet. "You must have a payment method on record with Linden Lab, and you must have used it at least once," the rules stated. Well, in the case of alts, it seems the answer is they can. I finished the quest, brought back the pieces of the amulet, and got a small Linden dollar reward for my efforts.
Bixyl Shuftan
Jaycatt and Frogg at Key West
Last week, I dropped by a performance in Key West by Jaycatt and Frogg. After over a decade, the musical duo who make numerous live performances in Second Life are still going at it, Frogg on his guitar, and Jaycatt behind the piano.
The one big change is that it looks like Frogg has put aside the old amphibian avatar he used to have. Jaycatt is still feline, though. Besides Key West, they perform at other places, such as Luskwood.
SL Video: "Sucker"
(Click here if the video fails to play)
From Nitwacket in March 2008, "Three residents of the Virtual World, Second Life - located in Japan, Germany and the USA. Song by Vampira Kanno - recorded with Apple Garageband. Machinima by NITWACKET - Pyewacket Bellman & Niten Altamura captured in Second Life - edited in Apple iMovie0,"
Friday, October 19, 2018
Eye on the Blog: Wishlist, Share Options in Marketplace
The "Add to Wishlist" option is in the lower right corner. To view your own wishlist, go to https://marketplace.secondlife.com/wishlist . You can also add an item to your favorites to show to others later. To get to your favorites page, head to : https://marketplace.secondlife.com/favorites . You can also follow a certain merchant by adding them to your favorites on their store page, and return to the page quickly by going to your favorite stores page : https://marketplace.secondlife.com/favorite_stores . You can also "Like" an item for Facebook (this feature may not be brand new), and there's a button to quickly share the item on social media.
More on the Marketplace update here: https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/2431-your-favorite-marketplace-update-the-wishing-edition/
Hat Tip: Matoazma Kazyanenko
Bixyl Shuftan
Singularity Viewer Developer Calling For Patreon Support
Siana Gearz, the head of the Singularity team, recently made a page on Patreon, a membership platform site that allows content creators to receive funding from supporters, or patrons. Apparently, her financial situation has gone downhill, saying, "the project has been extremely draining in part because it left me bankrupt." So she had created the Patreon page to "gauge interest to continue Singularity Viewer ... if people are willing to pay, it changes things. You can also pledge here if you choose to support me in new endeavours, which are likely to be 3D printing related, probably firmware development."
So far (as of the writing of this article), Siana has a total of six patrons pledging $23 a month, including five "Singularitians" whom want her to concentrate on improving the viewer. More information can be readon her Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/sianagearz .
Hat tip: Mook Wheeler
Bixyl Shuftan
Press Release: "Frankenstein" Comes to Holly Kai Park
Second Life – On Sunday, October 21st at 2pm slt, Fantasy Faire Radio and Seanchai Library will present Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," specially adapted for radio and live performance in six voices, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the novel's original publication. The two-hour performance will take place live at this year's iteration of "Haunted Holly Kai" high above the Blake Sea based Art Park, and will benefit Relay for Life. Da5id Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Zander Greene, Shandon Loring, Elrik Merlin, and Caledonia Skytower will come together to present the script adapted by Skytower and Abbot from Shelley's original novel. The performance, running just under two hours, will be live on stream at "Haunted Holly Kai: featuring Frankenstein" and simultaneously broadcast on Fantasy Faire Radio. Residents can teleport to the performance from the Park's Information Center. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/205/120/22
The novel, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" was written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a human-like creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment while still a student at University in Ingolstadt. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
Famously Mary, her lover and future husband Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story while staying at Byron's rented home, Villa Diodati, near the shores of Lake Geneva. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the novel's story. It has had a considerable influence in literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films and plays.
In 1931, Universal Pictures released "Frankenstein: The Man Who Made The Monster" directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the Creature (now "Monster"). The screenplay was based on Peggy Webling's stage play "Frankenstein" which was loosely based on Shelley's novel. It is here that the Frankenstein as the green-skinned, bolt-headed, mad scientist experiment-gone-wrong took shape, forming the popular culture version that pervaded the 20th century.
"Haunted Holly Kai: featuring Frankenstein" will pay tribute to both the original novel and its film adaptations with an outdoor amphitheater for the novel's presentation and other planned events, and a towering castle featuring a mad scientist lab created by Stranger Nightfire. Residents are encouraged to explore both the castle and the outdoor areas. This year's "Haunted Holly Kai" will open October 21st and remain open through Halloween.
About Fantasy Faire Radio
Since 2014, Fantasy Faire Radio has been a special event station, sponsored by Radio Riel in its role as Media Partner in Fantasy Faire, the annual celebration of fantasy art, writing, design and creativity that raises money every year in the virtual world of Second Life for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life, supporting cancer research, caregivers and cancer sufferers all over the world. In 2017, FFR began broadcasting 24/7, as a full‐time Internet radio service. Listeners can tune in by opening https://radioriel.org in their internet browser and choosing Fantasy Faire Radio in the left hand sidebar, by opening http://fantasy.radioriel.org in a network audio player.
About the Seanchai Library
Seanchai Library (Shawn-a-kee, which means "Storyteller" in Irish.) was founded in March of 2008 in Second Life. The program remains dedicated to promoting the power of stories to transform and inspire through live voice presentations: "We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life and other virtual worlds." http://irelandslstory.blogspot.com/