Cartoon of The Day: 'Taured Musician

 

 

Taken at the Fantasy Faire. Being a centaur has obvious disadvantage: you need to eat more, it's hard to find cars, toilets, etc, you can use, most clothes you can use are breezy, etc. But if you're a musician with electric instruments, you can just hang the loudspeakers (and batteries) over your back. 

But all those long hours on stage, any musician will soon be feeling 'taured.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Fantasy Faire Centaur Parade

 

 

 There's still a few more days at the Fantasy Faire. While many events have passed, there are others taking place. On Wednesday May 3, the Centaur Parade took place. 

Inviting all the taurs to Glimmering Meadows for group pictures, followed by the annual Centaur Parade.

 

 

 Taur avatars are an uncommon sight to most in Second Life, but they can be found everyday in a few places, presumably mostly Fantasy-themed. The Fantasy Faire is the best time and place most of us get to see some. 

 

Glimmering Meadows is the sim of the Fairelands noted for having streams instead of roads. For those who don't like having their feet wet, there's (waterproof) paper boats one can take and sit in. 

Not everyone there was on four legs. There was also a mermaid there, feeling very much at home in the water, holding a souvenir from Patch Linden's 2022 Jail and Bail when his prison was a corrupted whale.

The taurs stood there and walked around some, chatting with each other and some others nearby. Then they would eventually move on to walk the sims.

The Fantasy Faire lasts until Sunday night May 7, at Midnight SL time.

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: Centaur Knight

 

 

 Taken at the Happy Vixyen

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

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
 

Cartoon of the Day

 

 Taken at the Happy Vixen

by Bixyl Shuftan

 

SL Video: "Project Bento Examples"

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On Monday, Draxtor Despress met up with some content creators in the Preview Grid, or Aditi Grid, to see what they had come up with using Project Bento, Linden Lab's latest project for improving Second Life avatars. Among those there was Inara Pey, whom later on her newsblog posted "a short piece I stitched together at the filming session." Note the flexible fingers on the Bento avatar, and the smooth walk of the rear legs of the centaur.

Source: Modem World.

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at "The Vinyl" club. Becky "Sha" Shaman sports a centaur look. There were no comments about having "two left feet" on the dance floor.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Xymbers' Avatar Reviews

Xymbers Slade is back with a few avatar reviews.In his most recent article, he writes about three that caught his attention: 5th Wolf's Wolf and Minotaur avatars, and KOT's centaur. So did he give them his five out of five, or did he think they needed some work.

Read Xymber's review in Design.