Cartoon of The Day: Mushroom Hat

 

 Taken at the Fantasy Faire. Someone had on a mushroom hat. Why this particularly odd-looking headwear? I could think of one reason. And no, it wasn't "using mushrooms to expand one's thinking."

 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Star Wars RFL Event At Rockin' Robin

 

On Monday May 4, Rockin' Robin was the scene of a fundraiser concert. The event was advertised as going on all day, and being May the Fourth, the theme was Star Wars.

 

We are dancing on the moon all day today (Monday, May 4th), for 24 hours at an event hosted by Team Bobbi Sue. Dress in anything space-related (Star Wars, Star Trek, astronauts, aliens) or casual. Singers today: Austin Moores at 5 pm, and Wolfie Moonshadow at 6 pm. There are also 10 raffles with some amazing prizes valued up to L$15,000!  

 

Yours truly dropped by when Austin Moores was singing, sporting an Emperor Palpatine avatar, at one point doubting the Star Wars villain probably couldn't sing a note.

 

 Backing up The Emperor Austin were dancers Netera Landar and Talia Sunsong.

 

It's not yet known to the Newser how much was raised by Team Bobby Sue, but at the end of the set, the total on both kiosks on the stage was close to a hundred thousand Linden dollars. Much had also been raised in the motorcycle and other prize raffles. 

 

 May the Fourth Be With You,

 

Bixyl Shuftan (with two pictures from Netera)

Breaking News: Patch Linden Leaving Linden Lab

 

A few hours ago as of the writing of this article, Linden Lab announced it was  "reorganizing its Product Operations and Customer Success divisions." As part of this "reorganizing," a familiar face will be leaving Linden Lab: Patch Linden.

 

As part of that reorganization, Senior VP Product Operations, Customer Success, & Trust & Safety Eric Nix will be departing the company. Eric (known to the Second Life community as Patch Linden) has been a valued member of the Linden Lab team for almost 20 years, playing an important role in the ongoing evolution and growth of Second Life.

“Eric has made meaningful contributions to Second Life over the course of his tenure,” said Brad Oberwager, CEO and Executive Chairman of Linden Lab. “We thank him for his dedication, leadership, and the impact he’s had on both our product and our community, and we wish him the very best in his next chapter.”
 

More on the story later. 

 

Source: Linden Lab

 

Hat Tip: Eric Mondrain

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

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

 

Here's what's going on at the Sunweaver, Montecito Bay, Furry Fashion, Urban Furry, and Scorn clubs.

Club Cutlass: Vietnam Era Rock, Wild West, 1940s/WW2

Happy Vixen: DJ Scratch, DJ Mallit, TBA, DJ Khyra

Club Zero Gravity: Snowy - Uniforms

 

Bouncing Bunny Beach Club:  DJ Snowy - On The Farm

Xanadu: DJ Jesse 

 

Montecito Bay:  CAYA, After Dark

Club Scorn: Th 8-12, Sat 2-12

 

Furry Fashion: Candy, TBA, Red

 

Urban Furry :  DJ Charlee, DJ Emma, DJ Emma

 

Read the schedules in SL Clubbin'

  

Happy Star Wars Day

 

It's May the Fourth, also know as Star Wars Day : "May the Fourth be with you." Going about the Fantasy Faire, someone was going about in Mandalorian armor with a "Baby Yoda"/ Grogu beside him. So the fan holiday is alive and well inworld.

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

SLEA - The Quiet Between Worlds

 

The Second Life Endowment for the Arts (SLEA) gets a number of art exhibits and exhibitions. Recently Netera Landar stopped by a particularly exceptional one. Located in SLEA8 and created by a team led by Nemesis and Nyx Marville, it has several levels where one can enjoy the music, remember those you lost, or simply spend some time alone to let your mind relax. 

 

Read Netera's article in  Design. 

Reader Submitted Picture: Zindra's New Roads And Lands

 

 

Taken at West Heimer in Zindra by Zada Bury. Last month it was mentioned Zindra would soon be expanded. Looks like it's started. 

The Fairelands Quest: "The Pilgrim's Forest"

 

Among the things to do at the Fantasy Faire to do is The Fairelands Quest.  Part story, part game, one  gets prizes for completing parts as one progresses, and gets a large amount at the end. The theme is year is "The Pilgrim's Forest." 

The Bard Queen has good news. Possibly great news. A cache of soul-seeds has been found.

The ancient seeds could be the key to creating a powerful force against the Unweaver. But who can know if they’ve held their magic after so many years? That can only be discovered if Fairelanders – as many as possible – are willing to take on a pilgrimage to bless the seed, prepare it for planting, and solve the riddle of the ritual that will awaken a hallowed forest.

And so the Bard Queen asks, “Will you take a seed and try?”

To play the quest you need the HUD. You get it at one of the various HUD vendors across the Fairelands sims. The ones at Fairelands Junction is at (148/161/19). If the sim is busy, try one of the others such as Moonfleet Bay (133/154/76). The vendor with the Basic Hud needs 250 Linden dollars. If you want the Deluxe HUD, which also has an outfit you can do the quest in, that takes 350 Lindens. 

 

 Once you have the HUD giver, you find it in your inventory, click on it and select "add." It, in the form of the Faire symbol, will appear in your hand. Click on it, and a folder will appear with the contents in your inventory.

 

 

The Deluxe HUD package  has Fantasy-themed outfits for men and women, and human/furry and tinies,

 

After "click and add" on the HUD and "Hero," your companion in this quest, you visit the Bard Queen in Fairelands Junction to start it.  If you have trouble finding her, head to 209 108 95

 

 You then head to Willowton Cuthbert to see the first shrine. Once you do, you get a message from Hero, asking for you to meet up with her. 

 

You then head to Kalliaaya to meet up with Hero.

 

 You then visit the shrines across the Fairelands. After that comes the next step. 

 

Have fun questing,

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Cartoon of The Day: Schrodinger's Cat

 

 Taken at Fantasy Faire's Lilfest. This half a cat avatar reminded me of the theory of Schrodinger's Cat, that if there's a cat in a box with a 50-50 chance of dying before it's opened, it exists in a half dead and half live state. Well, this guy was half but alive.

 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

 

FF Announcement: Basement Kitties of Doom Jail and Bail. Tomorrow Sunday May 3, 10:30 AM

 

 

AKA "Clover Dezno and the Tinies"

 

"The BKODs always return to the scene of crime, case in point: the Fairelands. This time it is not joos, no. It is not aliems. Oh, no. It is technology! They have been littering the Fairelanders’ pockets with illicit phones of ill-repute that lie about your user history. It is all lies, I tell you! You can’t prove a thing! …I mean that for all this dangerous virus-driven slander Clover Dezno and the Basement Kittehs of DOOM have been caged under lock and key and only you can prevent forest fires! No wait. Virus-infected slanderous claims about your user history, that’s the one. The courtroom music provided by DJ Gem Sunkiller, come be the jury and vote in the RFL kiosks!"

 

Sunday, May 3rd, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM SLT on the Golden Hour

 

SL VIdeo: "Da Basement Underground - Fantasy Faire 2026"

 

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 From Nitwacket on April 27, The "Basement Kitties of Doom" playing music at the Fantasy Faire. 

 

EOTB: Applications Being Accepted For SL23B Shop & Hop

 

For merchants wanting to take part in the Second Life Birthday Shop and Hop event, good news. Yesterday on April 30, Linden Lab announced it was accepting applications for the shopping event. 

 

For those interested, business owners wanting to be part of the event need to fill out an application on Google Docs (here). The SLB Shop and Hop will last for the duration of The Birthday, Thursday, June 18 thru Sunday, July 19. The setup itself will be from Friday June 5 to Monday June 8. Merchants are required to have all items in their store discounted by at least 20 percent, and have at least one available as a gift to anyone, or a gift certificate worth at least 299L, reguardless if they're in the store group or not. Politics is to be avoided, and items not for sale at the store cannot be advertised. 

 

This year, the Shop and Hop sims will be in two areas, one General-rated, and one Adult-rated. So those wanting to be in the Adult area can request it. Those wishing to be part of the General-Audience area need to keep their items and decor fit for the sim rating.  

 

Applications for the Shop and Hop need to be turned in earlier than other SLB applications, by Sunday May 10. Volunteers, Exhibitors and Entertainers need to turn theirs in by May 18. 

 

For more information, read the official blog post here.

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Press Release: HFOT May 2026 Benefit

 

Frets Nirvana, longtime supporter and contact for Homes For Our Troops in Second Life in conjunction with the US Military Veterans Group, announces the 2026 May benefit  Homes for Our Troops benefit in Second Life.   The benefit will be held on MMay 3, 2026 from 1PM - 4 PM SLT at Veteran’s Isle.    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Veterans%20Isle/176/58/3501.

Frets Nirvana states:  “HFOT is a privately funded 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization building specially adapted, mortgage-free homes nationwide for the most severely injured Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of these Veterans are multiple amputees, paraplegic, quadriplegic or have suffered severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).  Since its inception in 2004, nearly 90 cents of every dollar spent by Homes for Our Troop has gone to directly support Veterans. DURING THAT TIME HFOT HAS BUILT 433 SPECIALLY ADAPTED HOMES NATIONWIDE FOR EXTREMELY INJURED VETERANS.” 


This HFOT benefit concert will feature the following DJ’s and artists from 1 PM- 4 PM May 3, 2026:


DJ Sam Carter 1 PM
Anj Gustafson  2 PM
Jak Bnimbl 3 PM


Sponsored by Frets Nirvana and the U.S. Military Veteran’s Group of Second Life.  To learn more about Homes for Our Troops visit https://www.hfotusa.org

 

Reader Submitted: Anzac Day Veterans Concert

 

As real-life news centers around the Strait of Hormuz, in 1915 attention was on another straits, the Strait of Gallipoli, also known as the Dardanelles. The Western Allies in World War One wanted to capture it as control of the waterway would better allow them to send supplies to their ally Russia. And on April 25, thousands of Australian and New Zealand soldiers, the Anzac Corps, stormed the shores. But the defenders were well dug in, and the result was a battle that lasted for months and resulted in the Anzac Corps suffering over ten thousand dead before the order was given to retreat. Considered Australia and New Zealand's "baptism by fire," April 25 would later be made Anzac Day, which commemorates the Australian and New Zeeland soldiers who died in the campaign and all servicemen and women of both countries who died in all wars and conflicts. Here in Second Life, there was an Anzac Day event, a fundraiser concert to raise money for veterans. Among those attending were Charlotte Williams, who would send the Newser an article. 

 

Read Charlotte's reader submission in Events.  

 

SL Video: " Fantasy Faire 2026 in Second Life, annual walk through every region"

 

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 From Pryda Parx Studio on April 26, "This is my 2026 annual walk through every region of Fantasy Faire in Second Life. There were 20 regions this year. There were lots of shiny things, like the puddles in the library, taking advantage of PBR. Dragons of course, a huge kitsune and a huge stone elf. This is the 9th year I have filmed a walk through every region, starting in 2018. The others can be sen on my YouTube PlayList: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/P... The timeline: 0:00:00 - Heian 0:08:09 - Stoneveil Crossing 0:13:58 - Fairelands Junction 0:29:11 - Kallissya 0:34:08 - Lost Pages 0:39:17 - Achroma 0:44:46 - Lost Pages 0:48:33 - The Golden Hour 0:55:02 - Untamed Ink 1:00:59 - Reservoir Zero 1:05:15 - Vervaine Moors 1:10:08 - Melloona 1:14:11 - Ben Tom Roi 1:19:07 - Moonfleet Bay 1:31:34 - Canny Valley 1:35:35 - Willowton Cuthbert 1:39:02 - Requiem 1:48:37 - Amon Galadrann 1:59:59 - Ebonfall Aetherium 2:08:18 - Aventurine Promenade 2:15:31 - UlimHyl 2:24:28 - Heian"