The Alphaville Herald

Frankenschnail: The Final Chapter

Chapter III by Happy Trails [confused readers may wish to refer to episodes 1 and 2] snailmonster From Oozeff Von Frankenschnail’s personal diary: …My beautiful creature…so long I have spent in his creation! Now all is lost!  I write to you in this cave with my future sister-in-law, Escargot, both prisoners of the creature. Poor [...]

LL Hopes For Nipple Free 5th Birthday Celebration

Artfox Daviau protests with statue double mascectomy — machine guns escape un-harmed by Kris Dibou LL lays down the law – these plywood nipples are banned! I was visiting with Australian artist and writer Artfox Daviau on Sanctuary Bay the other day.  Although Art is best known for his Wildwaves product, you will find his [...]

Frankenschnail chapter II

by Happy Trails The lab was a wreck. Someone or something had smashed anything breakable and a few things that weren’t. This was quite an interesting laboratory Oozeff had built. I had never been down here before, and the first thing I noticed was the large gurney in the middle of the room. There were [...]

Frankenschnail

Chapter I- Dr. Frankenschnail by Happy Trails I’ve had a lot of cases in the big sim, but there is still one that makes me wake in the night in a cold sweat.  It’s time I told the story, for my own sanity. We snails have our own med school here in town; a good [...]

Silence of the Sims

By Kris Dibou, Poet I sit inside my pixeled house made of tortured prims; With headphones off I stare and hear the silence of the sims. I think about the path I took when I was new and green; The lives I’ve touched as carelessly as if I’d never been. Would the joy we felt [...]

Revenge of the Snail

by Happy Trails, slick private eye As a snail, I get stepped on a lot.  Usually it’s some noob who doesn’t look where they’re going.  And yes, I’ve been in a lot of sticky situations.  Escagot is quite a dame, though.  She stands by me no matter what and doesn’t criticize me for all my [...]

Intellectual Property: A Tiny Affair

Who owns the rights to pictures of Tiny avatars? by Kris Dibou an example of the disputed illustrations As I was working on a story for the Herald (regarding a fellow who was writing a children’s book on heart health) including illustrations make from screenshots of Tiny avatars in Second Life, I received this note [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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