Holiday Shop & Hop Women's Gift Gowns And Outfits

 

The Christmas Shop and Hop is taking place. And Netera Landar dropped by to check it out. For today's article she looks at some of the women's gowns and outfits offered as gifts by the stores. So what did she find?

 

Read Netera's article in Fashion. 

For All Seasons, Hilly Haalan Knows What You Love

 

Thanks to Netera Landar, the long-neglected Fashion section of the Newser is getting a story. She dropped by Hilly Haalan, a store with a wide selection of womens' wear. So just what did she find?

 

Read Netara's article in Fashion. 

Cartoon of The Day: Flowery Outfit

 

 

 Taken at the Happy Vixen. Someone was sporting an outfit made to look like a poinsettia, a flower associated with Christmas. This was a punch line I couldn't "leaf" out either. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: "Tree-Mendous Outfit"

 

 

 Taken at Club Zero Gravity. Looks like someone decorated her outfit with some tree lighting. But yes, it does make for a "tree-mendous" look.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day

 

 

 Taken at "Tracks for Trenches." So what do you do if you spent over an hour putting an outfit together, and remember you wanted to be at a veterans event? Some people find a way.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of The Day: Victoria-Victorian

 

 

 Taken at Club Zero Gravity. With the variety of fashions in Second Life, sometimes you get some interesting contrasts next to one another, such as this lady wearing something skimpy next to someone in Victorian-era fashion. Eventually this punch line came to mind.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of The Day: It's A Habit

 

 

 Taken at the April 6 Moon Dance. Gil has a "habit" of being silly.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of The Day: Prison Jumpsuit For Eggs

 

 

 Taken at Club Cutlass' "Crime and Punishment" event. Lately even with inflation in mind, egg prices have gotten outrageously high. There's even reports of them being smuggled across the Canadian border. So it looks like people could soon very well end up in the "big house" for mishandling them.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day

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Taken in October 2020. I can't remember why he was wearing this, but I could think of some reasons.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

The 2021 SciFi Expo Quest

The 2021 Sci-Fi Expo is taking place. There are a number of things to see and do. Among the activities is a quest. Called "The Quest For Crystals" on one page in the Sci-Fi Expo blog, one can pick up the HUD at several places around the Expo sims. This includes New Eden (129/125/18) and Aperture (107/191/25).

There are two options when getting the Quest HUD. With the Basic version, you just get the HUD for 250L. But there's also a Deluxe version for 500L in which you get both the HUD and an outfit for the quest. When you buy the item, you add it to your avatar, and then click the bar that appears on the bottom of your viewer. You then get the Quest HUD, a "Holo Haley" wrist-mounted holographic assistant, and three sets of outfits: men, women, and dinkie. When you unpack an outfit box, you get several choices of mesh clothing. The outfit itself is pink, and comes with a small floating robot.

I should note that when I had on an avatar that was judged to be too high of a complexity by the local sim scanners, I wasn't able to get the HUD working. But with an older avatar, it worked. The HUD has a few buttons. Clicking the Objectives button for instance will remind you of what your immediate objective for the next part of the quest is. The Hint Button will provide you with a clue on what or where the next part of the quest is. There's also a bar that shows you how close you are to the next objective. If your target is far away, there's only a small red signal. If the bar is completely filled, your objective is within ten meters. 

The plot of the quest involves Earth trying to broker a peace between the various factions of the colony world of New Eden. But the global communication network is down, and one of the research assistants from Earth has gone missing with a data crystal with information the delegation needs to get things going. You're sent to look for her. But of course she isn't where you first go, just a clue to where she is. So what happens? Play the quest and find out. 

The quest lasts until the end of the Expo, which closes after Sunday October 17.
 
Bixyl Shuftan
 

Cartoon of the Day: "House Flippers"

 

Taken at the Second Life Renaissance Festival. Who knows why this guy was wearing just a wetsuit bottom and a pair of divers' flippers. But there was one other kind of "flipper" I could think of.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of The Day

From Book Island. This guy's outfit looks like a 60's "pie-dyed" job, though one can think of other reasons it got so colorful.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Announcement: Library Costume Contest - "Past Sins"

It's not Halloween but we don't need that to dress up. Today (March 7) starts Past Sins for our story. For the duration we will keep track of who shows up as their favorite character of the story the most nights attended! Winner will receive 1500L, generously ponied up by Illya Leonov. You have to be in the library so you can be seen though.

Does not have to be the same character every time.
Can use imagination on the OCs that no one has descriptions for and name yourself one.
There are a lot of characters in the "Past Sins" story, including monsters.
The main goal is to have fun.

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Trotsdale/22/156/25

Tales From Outside SL: Plagued Doctor at the Furry Con

While the following story doesn't have much to do with Second Life, it does involve a resident of our virtual world. JB Raccoon told the Newser about a friend of his, who wishes for now to be known as only "The Attendee," who went to a 'con in an unusual costume. For a couple days, all went well. Then he was stopped by one of the 'con staff who had objections to some props on the outfit that hadn't been a problem before with him and with others no one was raising issues.

Read the story in Extra.

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Club Cutlass

by Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Club Cutlass. Zorro Wuramunga was pretty determined to win the "Pink and Red" event the other day. A little too determined perhaps.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day: Mikati and the Chicken Costume

Taken at the SL Newser beach party at the Happy Vixen. At one point, Mikati Slade, the noted builder of the Second Life Birthday "Cake Stage" showed up, and she brought a couple friends.

I forgot what was really spoken, though she had a few giggles out of it.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Club Cutlass, Valkyrie Ice shows off her succubus' "assassin's outfit." Skimpy outfits for women fighters, armor and otherwise, has become quite a cliche in gaming. Perhaps it's the result of perverted designers. Or maybe, just maybe, such outfits actually do offer some practical advantages.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Burn2. Who knows what the reason was for why this guy wearing such a girly outfit, but it's fun to guess why. ;-)

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Netera's Coffee Shop. While furs sometimes go about just in shorts, well, when there are a number of avatars like yours, you need accessories to help stand out in the crowd. Makes more sense than someone with little body hair going shirtless in January.

By Bixyl Shuftan