Archive for 'Back Stories'

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Shuless – Episode Four

I left her in the dust of my tp by Iona Nikolaidis [20:04] This girl comes up, says hi, and then offers friendship.[20:04] Iona Nikolaidis: Oh, did that just happen to you?[20:04] I left her in the dust of my tp.[20:04] Iona Nikolaidis: haha![20:05] Iona Nikolaidis: That’s awesome[20:05] Iona Nikolaidis: You broke her avie heart![20:05] [...]

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Shuless – Episode Three

Music, Poetry and Tasteful Vulgarity by Iona Nikolaidis I am not a novelist. I am not even a creative person. When I tell a story at a party, and I do, it has a logical beginning, middle, end. Prologue, Epilogue. There is an order to things. People need to be able to follow the lines. [...]

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Shuless – Episode Two

Iona finds a home by Iona Nikolaidis When I created Iona as my avatar in Second Life, I only had a vague idea of the effort and real work required to explore the metaverse. So, after leaving Orientation Island (for you non-Second Lifers, Orientation Island is where you go to learn a few basic things [...]

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Shuless – Episode One

How It Began by Iona Nikolaidis Hello, dear reader. My name is Iona Nikolaidis. I am an avatar in Second Life, and this is the story of how I came to meet a fellow avatar named Alexandra Shu. This blog is an effort to get her out of my head. This is not my choice, [...]

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Remembering Djduerer Zou

by Pixeleen Mistral, Sports desk I met Djduerer Zou as he was trying to sort out how to sail a Flying Tako sailboat in Sanchon – and having a rough time of it. I’d been racing sailboats in Second Life for a while, and I spent some time showing DJ some of the tricks – [...]

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LEVELING UP LINDENZ

By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist More missing Lindens : ( Mournfully, I moped around Sutherland, steeling myself for that lonely, chilly vigil out on the Sea of Omidyar once again. Looking to the darkening synthetic skies and the overlarge angry sun, I felt my heart sink. I needed some other strategy. Uri had whispered, “Don’t think [...]

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My Transformation

True story of how hermaphrodite hyena turns humans into furres via intercourse![An exclusive first hand account of how human avatars are turned into furries. Names have been changed to protect the yiffilicious from the officious. If you are (i) at work or (ii) under 18 or (iii) easily offended by things like yiffing STOP READING [...]

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Second Life Back Stories: The City of Lost Angels

[All the fanfare about Second Life and virtual worlds more generally has to do with the builds and the things you can capture with Fraps and screenshots. But in my view that isn't where the action is. The builds and textures and skins and clothes are just eye candy designed to facilitate the creation of [...]

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