Cartoon of the Day: "Great Balls of Fire"

 

Taken at the Tsunami Club at Teddy Bear Beach at RFL Celebrate during the Hopefest. Nance Clowes told me about an event there, and Bow Shim was rocking away. At one point, someone requested "Great Balls of Fire." The musician obliged, with some special effects added. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

RFL Announcement: Teadybear Beach Concert

 Presented by Nance Clowes, Burners Without Borders, and RFL Team Shadows

Friday June 11, 5-11PM

Teddybear Beach at RFL Celebrate
 

RFL: The Sunbeamer Camp

 

The Hopefest has started, and the Relay sims are open to all on the Relay teams, not just those on build teams. And the Newser is now free to reveal the Sunbeamer camp at RFL Celebrate.The work was done by Cynthia Farshore, Shockwave Yareach, Snowbuns (Skylark Lefavre), and Rita Mariner.

As before, there is the Memorial Garden, located in the back. There are various personalities whom have died of cancer over the years from Humphey Bogart to Roger Moore to Don Adams, to Jim Varney. This year, noted talk show host Rush Limbaugh joins the list. And as always, there's a space for Artistic Fimicloud, a noted member of the Passionate Redheads (the precursor to the Sunbeamers).

What's different this year, "and now for something completely different," is "The Prince and The Spot Game." To play the game, get the bracelet from the giver at the front of the camp, then head to the starting point. What follows is an interactive tale of a prince whom finds a spot on his face that he hadn't noticed before. The plot has a Monty-Pythonesque tone to it. As you proceed, you make choices. Make the wrong choice however, and you won't so much as get a chance to say "not dead yet." 

As of the writing of this article, Team Sunbeamers has raised over 817,000 Linden dollars. Can they hit one million (and make a certain fox live up to a commitment)?

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

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RFL Reader Submitted: Flamingo Swim

From Melodie Jigsaw. Looks like one of the pink flamingos in the Fantasy Faire exhibit in RFL Celebrate was having a swim.

RFL Steelhead Camp Sneak Peek

On the Relay for Life Weekend Track, Team Steelhead, longtime friends of the Sunbeamer team, are once again their neighbors on RFL Celebrate. We can't reveal the whole thing yet, but were given the okay to reveal one little hint.

The Relay Weekend starts at 10AM SL time on Saturday July 15.

RFL Sunbeamer Camp Sneak Peek

The Sunbeamers aren't quite ready to completely reveal their campsite at RFL Celebrate for the Relay Weekend track just yet. But they are allowing sneak peeks. Rita took this picture of her while there. So what is it exactly? Have fun guessing for the next few days.

Relay Weekend Track Sims Laid Down

As the Second Life Birthday sims were enjoying their final days, the ones for the next big event inworld were being laid down: the Relay Weekend. Besides the American Cancer Society sim, twenty-eight sims make up the course.

 This number is less than in Relay Weekends in the past several years. Still enthusiasm for the event is high, and the various teams have been assigned campsites.

For Team Sunbeamers, this marks the first time the team has taken part in the Relay Weekend as a Platinum ranked team. At RFL Celebrate, their campsite sign was decorated with all five team plaques they had received over the season. As for the team build, Cynthia Farshore, Shockwave Yareach, and others are working on it.

The Relay Weekend takes place over a 24 hour period on Saturday July 15, and Sunday July 16.