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Taken at Firestorm's Halloween Party

By Bixyl Shuftan

Be the Ninja! The Nexus Core System RP Sim

For those looking for a new place to game, Grey Lupindo took a look at a combat roleplay sim: The Nexus Core System RP sim, owned by BioBlaze Payne and Silicon Plunket. Led by a team of builders and roleplayers with years of experience in Second Life, the group behind the game and sim numbers in the thousands. Gray took a look at both the beautifully designed village and countryside, in addition to the game taking place there. This included getting her hands dirty with whacking a few troublesome critters.

See Grey's adventures in Design.

"Naruto" Roleplay, Kohona Villiage in Shinobi to Close After "Nearly 5 Years"

About two years ago for Second Life Newspaper, I wrote about the Naruto roleplay at the Kohona "Hidden Leaf" Village in the Shinobi sim. It was an RP with a sizeable group, where they could practice combat in and out of the game, or just hang out in places on neutral ground. There was also a large martial arts shopping area that catered to both those in and out of the area.

Recently I heard the Roleplay and Konoha were finally coming to a close, shown in a notecard passed to me.

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TO all Konohanians. Konoha has a very proud and inventive mass of villagers, friends, lovers, dreamers, etc. For most of us, we have seen this Village go from amazing, to bad, to good, to worse, etc. This village has been open for nearly 5 years, and in SL time, that seems like a century. We think its time for a change in scenery.

With this being said, we are no longer, and probably never again going to do a RP based around Naruto, And Konoha will shut its doors soon, we will give you guys a few days (3 max) to end or stop your RP's that you have left unfinished, if you do. But you can transfer your Characters to the new RP if wanting too.

Please be understanding of this, we know you all have worked quite hard and have pushed to make it through the ranks here. It's just ... we'll we're tired of the same old same old for what seems like a century.

If you can look past this sudden ending of the village, you are more than welcome to stay for the next RP venture that we will offer.

Best regards,

The Administrative Team. Lisa Jester, Takiro Ushimawa, Obione Magic, Brittany Wildcat.

PS: PLEASE Do not yell or scream at us about this matter. We know some of you will be entirely pissed, and have every right to be. Yelling at us will not make a difference, we have already made up our minds, and have been planning this for a matter of months. If you choose to yell at any of us, then you might be subjected to temporary ban, or in serious cases, permanently banned.

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Taking a look at the sim, construction on the new setting has just begun. It appears to be an urban setting of some kind, though most of the work has yet to be done.

Bixyl Shuftan

Ninja Combat System Developer Working on “First True Second Life MMO System”

How would you like to be part of a community of ninjas? You could run combat missions, or if you feel you’re better at building things for your teammates than fighting you can do that too. Bioblaze Payne’s upcoming NCS2 promises to offer some crafting features one would find only in a Massive Online Multiplayer outside Second Life. His new Iwagakure Village also offers much as a new roleplay setting.

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