The Alphaville Herald

Return of the Snail

by Happy Trails, slick private detective Now something had to be done about this french cooking school, and I was just the snail to do it.  I opened an office over on 5th street and hired Escargot as my receptionist.  Happy Trails, Private Detective.  Yeah, that’s me…gumshoe…private dick. I began by hitting every dive and [...]

Shuless – Episode Eight

The Dimension of Sound by Iona Nikolaidis Alexandra Shu: Did you say you are going to do the voice thing?Iona Nikolaidis: Yeah, I am gonna do itIona Nikolaidis: so I can whisper in your earAlexandra Shu: and I can moan in yours.Iona Nikolaidis: oooohAlexandra Shu: hehe!Iona Nikolaidis: hehe!Alexandra Shu: wow. I wonder how that would [...]

Remnant Imperium Rising Privately — To Avoid Copybot

by Vegna Fouroux Overlord LawrenceJoseph Roffo says SL war community would be better off with more combat and less politics Deadlock. I think that pretty much sums up SL combat at the moment. Noob armies are the only forces that are fighting the more established armies (the later shunning each other with claims of cheating, [...]

Red Light Center Exposed — Part 3: Unhitched

Red Light Center leather clad dommes, furries hard to findThe Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life by Jessica Holyoke, virtual world explorer I know everyone has been dying to find out more about the kinkier side of things in Red Light Center. Believe me, so do I. Tracking down the kinkier side of things in [...]

Musings from a Gorean Feminist: Gor is so Stupid

by Jessica Holyoke Readers and people on the street have asked me about how I can reconcile calling myself a feminist and taking part in Gor.  One reader came out and asked how I could condone and engage in rampant rape.   This article is not about that, but sets the tone for later articles.  This [...]

A Snail’s Tale

by Happy Trails – survivalist snail There are 10,000 ugly snails in the big sim.  I’m one of them- they call me Trails.  This is my story. I was out one night, minding my own business; hanging with my best girl, Escargot.  Pretty little french snail.  I’ve been working on her a long time, and [...]

Shuless – Episode Seven

Smart Chicks are Hawt by Iona Nikolaidis So meeting Alex and getting hit on by her was a welcome, welcome development in Iona’s SL. It gave Iona a reason to go into SL beyond going into the Brew, playing “So who’s a man?” and harassing Newbs in sex Sims. When Alex told me she was [...]

Shuless – Episode Six

Cyrano by Iona Nikolaidis Alex and Iona were involved for a few weeks before the idea of pulling back the curtain came up. Other avatars I had met in SL asked me for photos of “myself” before I met Alex. I brushed them aside, telling them some variation of “Second Life and Real Life are [...]

Shuless – Episode Five

On the Day That We Were Born by Iona Nikolaidis [21:02] Iona Nikolaidis: I have a little photo album[21:02] Iona Nikolaidis: hold on[21:02] hehe…a butt shot![21:02] Iona Nikolaidis: yeah![21:02] Iona Nikolaidis: I am Annie fucking Leibovitz[21:04] Colona castle….hmmm….one of those sex dungeons?[21:04] Iona Nikolaidis: yeah![21:04] That we used to frequent?[21:04] Iona Nikolaidis: That was the [...]

Sex and the SL Mermaid