The Worm Hole
by Alphaville Herald on 26/08/08 at 8:01 am
Lab’s experiment creates hole in space-time continuum – sends residents to alpine sim twilight zone
[While ex-Linden staffer happy-news Hamlet Au reports a new peak concurrency of 67,335 players (up 906 players from last March), the incredible risks Linden Lab is taking to expand the world become clear in this report from Metallicoe Gears. - the Editrix]
by Metallicoe Gears
Sunday night, (I’m in UK), at 6:17pm SL time, it seems some residents of Second Life, including me, were part of a Linden experiment gone horribly wrong.
There I was, minding my own business roaming the mainland when I got a bit bored and decided to go home. I opened up my map, clicked go home. It loads.
But instead of arriving at my wonderful sky apartment, I was teleported to a courtyard outside approximately three houses, surrounded by snowy landscape and silence – the sound of loneliness. But wait, others started arriving, 1, 7, 20. I was beginning to think that everybody who was trying to get home, ended up here.
snow cabins became an involuntary home to approximately 30 residents – in the middle of nowhere
I hung around a bit, listening to the distressing sounds of residents swearing at Linden Lab, and new residents being teleported in crying out ‘This isn’t my home! Who are you!’ As I tried to calm the situation down by saying its probably a Linden error, the troubled residents were coming to conclusions. One worried man cried ‘Its the end of the world! Goodbye’. Although none payed any attention to him, as it was hard to pick up the message amongst all the complaints and the growing number of people around asking how they got here.
the number grew, and the tension rose
So while to tension grew, I tried so desperately to figure it out. I teleported home again. Oh, I’m back at the abandoned lodge. I looked around. Yet still the number grew – as did the lag – and then I crashed.
‘Please click quit to log out of Second Life, or continue to look at existing IM and chat’.
So I logged out, and went to bed.
So here I am, back on the grid again, and I decided to look at my pictures, and interview one of the residents caught in the worm hole. Were they logged out too? What did they think? I started my quest for an answer.
note: the resident I spoke with asked that her real SL name not be used.
Metallicoe Gears: So Miss Fauxbell, what happened to you at approximately 6:17pm yesterday?
Miss Fauxbell: Oh the home thing? Yes that was confusing. I was at my boyfriends house, and it was time for me to go, so I teleported home. The next thing I knew, I was at some alpine centre in the middle of nowhere! Everybody was panicking, and I thought it was the end of Second Life?
Metallicoe Gears: Did you crash like me after a minute or two?
Miss Fauxbell: Yes, I did, and it seems everybody else did too. I suspect Linden just *CENSORED* up again!
I agree with Fauxbell’s conclusion. Linden Labs must have just pressed the wrong button, or a mouse got into the servers or something. Either way, I’m afraid this will remain as one of those unsolved cases of Second Life – ‘The Wormhole’.
Anon
Aug 26th, 2008
This is nothing new. Happend to me 3 or 4 times in the last few months.
Archie
Aug 26th, 2008
It was a Linden Time-share scam!
Bastardos!!!
lol
Aug 26th, 2008
It’s okay, SLH. No one cares if you swear on the internet, especially since no one who is sane will read you.
Antubis
Aug 26th, 2008
Your reading them aren’t you?
Eye Korobase
Aug 26th, 2008
I have had this actually happen to me at least 2 other times before hand. One time I ended up in some forest, lost for about a few hours then I just said “F it” and logged off. The Second Time I was in some desert with nothing around but sand and desert plants.
mootykips
Aug 26th, 2008
Snow Mountain Syndrome.
Be wary of espers!
lawl
Aug 26th, 2008
Shut up Eye.
pickles
Aug 27th, 2008
I’ve wound up at Governor Linden’s mansion once, and at the help island more than once.
Anybody who has been in SL longer than a few months understands. The lab fucks up A LOT.
Lasldw
Aug 27th, 2008
What about that guy who managed to hack SL’s ”God summon” power ?
I heard around 30 residents got banned after being summoned to the Linden Island.
Murphy Alderson
Aug 28th, 2008
Oh, I hate that. The other day I was trying to log in, and ended up, instead of at my home location, stark naked in a PG sim…AGAIN!!! I hate it when that happens.
Corona Anatine
Aug 28th, 2008
especially since no one who is sane will read you.
three thoughts
define sane?
is reading a determinant of insanity or does reading make you insane
are all sane people illiterate
Codeine.
Aug 31st, 2009
Codeine and heroin.
Codeine.