Today and tomorrow, Tuesday June 11 and Wednesday June 12, are the last days the sims of the Relay Track will remain up. So be sure to check the sights. There were four that caught my attention.
RFL Celebrate has a designer build by Archer Mactavish. This "Alice in Wonderland" style adventure will have you going down the rabbit hole, coming across some information about cancer, and more.
In RFL Journey, there's an amusement park with activities designed and made by Nancy Clowes. This includes a "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots"-inspired game. You can get a copy on sale for 300L with the cash going to the Relay.
For fans of the recently concluded "Game of Thrones" fantasy drama on TV, there's a camp by "Game of Thrones Cooperative Reborn." This adventure has a quest one can go on.
These are just four of the places in the Relay sims. So by all means don't limit your viewing to them, as there are many more worth taking the time to explore.
Go Relay!
Addition: The "Flood Party" will be sometime tomorrow or Thursday. After that, there will be a few more team events, such as the Royal Ascot horse race by Team ACTS. The Relay Season ends Sunday June 23 with the Relay Wrap-Up at 10 AM.
Last month, the longtime running fantasy drama "Game of Thrones" concluded after eight seasons. To those not familiar with the show, it had a darker and grittier feel than traditional fantasy stories, one person calling it a cross of "The Sopranos" and Middle Earth, due to the political intrigue in the stories. While many longtime fans disliked the final season, Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 55% rating compared to the 97% to 91% of the previous seven, there's no denying it's mass appeal over the years as well as it's impact on popular culture.
As it turns out, the writer of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" books the series was based on, George R.R. Martin, made an appearance in Second Life in May 2007. This was before the first season of the show had aired. Martin, whom was in an avatar based on his character Tyrion, was there to talk about his upcoming book "Dreamsongs," which was a collection of earlier works of his. The visit inworld was part of his campaign to publicize the work. But he also read an excerpt of the still unpublished fifth book of his "Ice and Fire" series, "A Dance With Dragons." The audience was a mix of human and nonhuman avatars, which Martin called a "strange-looking crowd." On his blog, he would call Second Life, "... well, sort of like World of Warcraft without the axes, swords, and monsters. Our world, kinda sorta, virtually. ... I've never done a reading with monsters in the audience before, at least not the sort you could tell my looking at 'em"
Besides part of the hour-long event appearing in a Youtube (there was another, but it was lost), there's a transcript of it on "The Citadel," a fan website of the show and stories. It's notable that "Dance of Dragons" wouldn't be published until July 2011, almost four years after the event. Someone remarked in the comments of the video, "So he has time to ponce about in sh***y online games to a motley
assortment of furries and losers, but not write the damn book he was
supposed to finish years ago?"
Martin talked some about writing, saying J.R. Tolkien was an inspiration of his. He also compared writing a novel to a cross-country trip. You know where you started, you know where you'll probably end, but you don't know where you'll be stopping for the night, and you might be taking detours here and there, "a lot of the fine details I discovered in the course of the writing."
There was also some discussion of the upcoming show on HBO, Martin saying the producers would be faithful to the books. There were some things spoken that looking back look funny or otherwise ironic, "I know it's taking longer than I thought, but I'm working on it guys,
that's what I can say, I'm working on it. I'm going to have to stay
ahead of David and Dan, it would be awfully embarrassing if the
television series caught up with the book."
Martin still has yet to finish the final (planned) two novels of the series. As to what Martin thought of the ending of the TV series, you can read it here.
The Fantasy Fair has been a big thing this week. But it wasn't the only Relay event this week. On Wednesday April 25, Relay for Life Team "Game of Thrones" held a fundraiser event. Called "The Hairy Bear and Maiden Fair," there were a number of prim bears around that occasionally growled.
There were also a number of games around, such as a wack-a-mole spinnoff "Wack A Pirate." And there was lots of dancing to music.
Following the event, the team announced, "We want to give a special thank you to everyone that came out to the GOT COOP TEAM event HAIRY BEAR AND MAIDEN FAIR We raised 22400 lindens in two hours. Way to go everyone. You are all assume thank you so much."
Come and join us for this OOC GOT RFL event all are invited to attend this medieval faire. DJ Regan spinning the tunes, dance, games merriment come one come all! Join us as we chase off this horrible disease cancer from out lives! Help us to gain the momentum to make things better. Join the Hairy Bear and Maiden Faire on Wednesday April 25th 6pm-8:30pm
Entries: Drop off Cake between 8 am and 11 am on May 17th
Voting will be May 19th all day and May 20th 9am- 3pm, 2018
20 Entries Maximum will be allowed:
Registration form must be return by May 1st, 2018
Dance Party Sunday: 9am-6pm
Winners announced during Sunday's Dance Party.
All cakes must be removed from sim by 6:30 pm on Sunday May 20th, 2018
Public can come to vote anytime during the contest.
The contest is this:
Each team or individual will design a cake that represents the concept of RELAY, a theme central to Relay for Life. There is a prim limit of 25 prims per cake. Each team or individual can only enter one cake into the contest.
A table number will be assign to each team/individual once registration form is receive.
Cakes must be original work, no store bought. It is up to the team/individual that enters the contest what rights will be on the cakes. Please remember if you keep it full perm people can copy the item. We suggest that you make the cake so no one can copy it while on display.
Judging: Judging will be done by the voting public. They will choose who they think best represents the concept of RELAY. Voting boxes will be at each table.
Teams/individuals will be allowed to include a texture for their cakes with the title of their cake and their team name etc. This will be next to each table.
** This Event Is On A Sim Rated: A (Adult) the sim rating will be change for this event for Moderate for the day of the dance.
No nudity, no children on an adult sim event (this is not only ACS rules but Linden rules), no sexual activity. **
RFL Celebrate has a designer build by Archer Mactavish. This "Alice in Wonderland" style adventure will have you going down the rabbit hole, coming across some information about cancer, and more. 
