From Prisca Newall on April 28, in response to a youtuber making exaggerated claims about Second Life's Adult side, "This episode sets the record straight on the 'Horrifying Truth about the Metaverse,' by Virtual Venture, debunking the common misconceptions about Second Life."
It's a MAD World Halloween Bash Schloss Neufreistadt Dungeons Saturday, October 31, 2020 1:00 pm slt Creepy toons by DJ Qt Nightfire !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Channel your inner mad-scientist and join us for a fun time!
This Easter, from Mar14 through the week after Easter, the Sunweavers are holding their annual Easter egg hunt. 14 eggs wait for you to find them. Just wear the Easter basket you get from the chocolate bunny at the entrance, and touch the eggs as you find them. Then they appear in the basket. Simple, right?
oh yes -- simple. Except this year they are DRAGON eggs, and are hidden in the catacombs of SunWaterTwo.
But not to worry. This years' egg hunt doesn't have traps and monsters. This years... next year, who knows. But what good is a dungeon crawl without treasure?
There are two prizes. The first 3 people to find all 14 Easter eggs in the dungeons, win 1000L apeice. And anyone finding all of them, gets a special prize with a steampunk flair that you can't buy in any store (yet.)
The eggs are cleverly hidden. But they aren't unfindable. But of course, there are some rules:
* the eggs will never be underwater
* the eggs will never be outside the dungeons
* the eggs will never be inside something -- you can see it without
opening anything.
Basically they will all be where you can see them just standing there, walking about the catacombs.
From Draxtor Despress, streamed live on June 22, Draxtor looks at Loki Elliot's "Dungeons and Knightmares" tribute game - "Loki Eliot has outdone himself at SL13B = will we be able to solve the mysteries?" As this is unedited footage, there's almost an hour as Draxtor chats with people and takes several times to get through the game.
There's a number of great exhibits at the SL13B, but there were a couple I was looking forward to trying out. Loki Elliot, the head of the Second Life Goonies, can always be counted on having something interesting at a Second Life Birthday event. It was on a larger plot than most exhibits, but it has to be to hold all the detail.
Loki's exhibit was a game which was a tribute to the British TV show "Knightmare." In the TV show, a team of four youngsters would try to complete a quest in a computer-generated dungeon, one acting as the dungeoneer, who wore a helmet that covered his eyes, and three "guides" who observed their comrade in the simulated dungeon via a TV screen. The Second Life version was somewhat different in that you could see what your avatar was doing. But otherwise it held the spirit of the show.
The helmet was necessary as it provided a Heads-Up Display whenever entering a new area. The first puzzle was simple enough, but one needed the help of a fellow adventurer to get through it. After that come puzzles that need the player to guess the right answer, and challenges that require the player to do a bit of navigating. At least one more puzzle requires the help of another player. Following the finishing of the last room, the player gets a small prize.
You can see the first episode of the TV show (here). While not necessary to play the game, it does show a little about what it took in the late 80s and early 90s to make a virtual experience.
Elsewhere at the SL13B was "Mad Monster Mountain," an exhibit by the gaming area and group "Madpea," headed by Kiana Writer. Here, they had a haunted amusement park ride. For it to run properly, one had to give permissions to have your avatar acted upon. Then the car would take you in and take you through many chills and scares, at one point a doll-like voice singing "It's a mad world after all ... "
There's no prize here, other than simple scary fun.
Grease Coakes recently took a little time off his rounds on the Grid to take a look at a game: Torchlight 2. Taking place years after the events in the original game, the player character takes on a quest to stop a one-time hero gone bad. So how did Grease like the game?
Miyuki shows off her metal bikini. One gaming cliche that never seems to end despite all the jokes, is just how skimpy female armor is compared to the guys. In a fight even remotely realistic, it would be close to useless, especially to protecting vitals. Probably the only place I could imagine it's use would be for the female guards of a pervy villain's lair, one whom was more concerned with his desires than keeping out adventurers.
This Easter, from Mar14 through the week after Easter, the Sunweavers are holding their annual Easter egg hunt. 14 eggs wait for you to find them. Just wear the Easter basket you get from the chocolate bunny at the entrance, and touch the eggs as you find them. Then they appear in the basket. Simple, right?
