Going About The Fantasy Faire, And Grid Issues

 

 Yours truly has been exploring some of the Fantasy Faire. Faireland Junction by itself had much to see. 

 

 

 And some people took the opportunity to don a great fantasy look.

 

 

 The Fairchylde is where the daily dance parties are, a rainbow walkway leading to it from the pier. 

 

 I dropped by a set being done by Baine Finch, with people in all kinds of avies dancing away.

 

 But when it was time for the Children of Stories roleplay at 1PM SL time, The Squires of Garland, in which the return of the Golden Hour area is being investigated, along with a huge zigurat. But there was a problem. Linden Lab was working on problems with the Grid, and many avatars wouldn't rezz, or appear partially gray, and some objects wouldn't fully rezz.

 

Investigating - We are undergoing inventory maintenance on April 25th 2026 at 12:40 PM Pacific Time. Please be advised that in-world inventory access, Login activity, rezzing objects, displaying avatars, and loading times may be temporarily impacted during maintenance. Our engineers are working on resolving this issue as soon as possible.

 

 Troubles would continue to 5PM SL time, when some people told me they were starting to clear up.

 

Check the schedule for events today here : https://fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com/calendar/ , or just walk about and enjoy the scenery, and shopping. 

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

Reader Submitted Picture: "See you next year Cowboy!"

 

 From IshtarAngel Micheline, A pic of the Fairchylde at the Fantasy Faire campsite at RFL Celebrate, "Send off picture for this season. Had the perfect angle. Had to take it. See you next year Cowboy!!!"

 

Reader Submitted: Ceri at The Fairchylde

 

 

 From Sunaswami Omiramayatha (Xhebhrautas Chakrabarti), who took a picture of giantess Ceri Quixote at the Fantasy Faire next to the Fairchylde, "I captured the most wonderful picture of Ceri."

 

Scenes From The Fairelands

 

 

 Quite a bit has been happening in the Fairelands. At the party ship Fairchylde, there were a number of people DJing. This included Fuzzball Ortega of the Steelhead Salmons, whom is most noted at the Relay for his huge hairpiece, usually known as "The Hair." But while DJing this time, he was without it, "We are NOT crashing Fantasy Faire with The Hair."

 

 

The Fairchyle wasn't the only place for music events. In "The Golden Hour," there was a viking-themed DJ event, with Obic Malaprop playing.

 

 At one point, Oblic commented, "Alright if you all don't start hitting that kiosk I may have to resort to terrible puns." The response was immediate, "NO PUNS!" "Nuuuuh!!!! Not puns!!!! Feed the kiosk, Quick!" "No not the puns! Haha!" Oblic grinned, "And I so wanted to tell the one about the viking cannibal ....he had a Swede-tooth." Ten minutes later, "Whelp time for a pun... Did you hear about the viking who hit his thumb with a hammer and bit his tongue? ......it was Thor." The audience reacted, "Oh dear (laughter)" "Ouch!" "Ba'doom'tish!" "(cries)"

I also dropped by a Jail and Bail featuring the people behind the Teegle horses, "We don't really understand the charges against us, but here we are. Something about customs regulations and an accusation of bribery? You've got to help us get out of this mess! " 

 

Some horses were put up for auction. A few went for over 50,000 Linden dollars.

 

 

 The Children of Stories Roleplay is also continuing, fuller details to come.

That's all on the Faire for now, stay tune for more.

 

Update: The FF Quest is now live, at least part one is. Details to come. 

Bixyl Shuftan

Scenes From The Fantasy Faire

 

 

 There's quite a bit going on at the Fantasy Faire. At the Fairchylde, I saw four people holding up "Winter is Coming" signs. Were they "Game of Thrones" fans, or perhaps a hint of what is to come?

 

 There's usually a giant avatar somewhere at the Faire. One night, I saw her dancing next to the Fairchyle.

Not all of the action I saw was at the party ship. The "Children of Stories" roleplay is going on, this year, the tale is "The Desert Foxes." A quest to try and find a hidden library in hopes of finding a cure for Desert Fever led them to a mysterious door ...

The hidden library was found. But to the disappointment of the group, the books were all blank, and the guardian had lost it's memory, including of what happened. So the search continued. 

Stay tuned for more scenes of the Faire.

Bixyl Shuftan

RFL Announcement: DJ Mattie At The Fairchylde, Today at 4PM

 

Mattie grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. Having lived near Branson and spending a lot of time there seeing shows and also having family who performed for Silver Dollar City, shi was raised on country music, blues, bluegrass, and classic rock. Shi still has a great passion for these genres, country being her favorite. Music has always gotten hir though some of the worst times in hir life, and now shi loves to share some of these wonderful tunes with folks here in SL as a Tiger-Striped, 9 Tailed Fox!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sipala/75/169/88

 

Goings On At The Fairelands

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Quite a bit has happened to the Fairelands, much of it deserving of articles all of their own. Among them was this year's Children of Stories' roleplay, "The Sniffer Moles of the Hunros Mine." With Loki Eliot having designed the sim, the roleplay's plot was that a group of child miners of magical energy at an elven mine suddenly found their livelyhood threatened by both the magic growing thin, an unknown saboteur, and the town mayor's response to the thinning magic. After several says of roleplay with numerous twists and turns, events came to a head on Saturday April 30 in an event that raised 1.3 million Lindens, Loki posting a video on Twitter. One can read the roleplay's day by day happenings (here). 

Wednesday May 4 was the Centaur Parade. While the majority of these six-limbed folk were from the Centauria community,  there were others present. In the meet-up before the parade. When they gathered in the Necturn Moon sim before the walk, there were over sixty in the seem. Needless to say, many of my pictures had a considerable amount of gray, and I crashed just before the walk started.

Wildstar Beaumont took a few other pictures of his own: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildstar_b/albums/72177720298648596

Later on Wednesday from 5 to 7PM, Team Sunbeamer's own DJ Mattie played the tunes at the Fairechylde, the flying boat over the Effervescent Cleffs sim. Mattie played a combination of pop and country tunes. Some of these had some deeper meanings to the Relay such as "Braid Her Hair" and "Clouds."

Mattie's set raised almost 41,000 Linden dollars.

Also, the second part of the Fairelands Quest is up.

The Fairelands Quest team is so grateful to each of you for your kindness and patience. And we're delighted to tell you that Part 2 is now open.

Two recommendations: First, don't all pile into Clouded Mountains at once :)  Finish what you're doing, maybe do something else, then start part 2. The region will be there. Second, because there's been a delay, you might like to remind yourself where the story left off. You can see the second video by clicking History on your HUD and choosing

That's about it for now from the Fairelands. Sunday May 8 is the last day. After that, the sims disappear into the mists once more.

Bixyl Shuftan
 

More "May The Fourth Be With You"

 

Wednesday May 4 had it's share of Star Wars jokes, "May the Fourth Be With You." And yours truly was in with the humor by sporting this specialized stormtrooper armor. Made by Satch Flan, it was a limited edition I got at a Luskwood Star Wars event several years ago.

At DJ Mattie's set at the Fairechylde that evening (see above), at one point someone got into a "Scoutwalker." Thankfully it didn't dance and step on anyone. Guess that would be "Revenge of the Fifth."

Bixyl Shuftan
 

Fantasy Faire Opens

 

After weeks, months for some, the Fantasy Faire has opened. The twenty two sims opened up just after Noon SL time today.

 The Fairelands have returned from the Mists; twenty fantasy worlds forming a circle of lands, a chain of people across the many realms. Welcome home, Fairelanders!

Fairelands Junction is the main entrance to the sim, though people can enter at any sim. There, I found plenty of people, some taking a while to fully rezz. 

At the Junction, there were a number of heralds there to assist those new to the Faire, identifiable by their lanterns.

The sims offer much picturesque scenery to explore. 

Sometimes the other people exploring with you can be scenery in themselves. 

Besides enjoying the scenery, and shopping at the stores and stalls, there are the roleplays, and there's the parties. One can often find avatars of all kinds whooping it up at the FaireChylde. Later in the Faire, there's the Fairelands Quest, of which playing it will get you some prizes.

The Faire runs to Sunday May 8. So don't miss out on this great event.

The Fantasy Faire is a Relay for Life fundraiser, one of the major events in the Relay season.

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fairelands%20Junction/131/135/68

Bixyl Shuftan