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Elves!
by Miravoir Psaltry Elf Clan leader Wayfinder Wishbringer Many have seen them, pointy-eared and with an otherworldly beauty, but so little is known about them, these elves. What are they like? What is their focus and what are their goals? How are they like the other subcultures in SL? I gathered together a few of [...]
Full StoryBash and Crash on Unreal:SL’s Opening Night
Bedazzle’s much-anticipated Unreal:SL kicked off its weekend-long opening festivities last night with a crowded dance party that had everyone in attendance kicking up their heels — so much so that the sim crashed before the party was much more than an hour old.
Full StoryCousin Vincenzo’s Looking Glass War
In the hall of mirrors that is the SL mafia scene, alliegances come and go quickly and deception and betrayal are the order of the day. Vincenzo Gillespie worked for Vincent Stravinsky who in turn was in business with underworld power couple Gina Fatale and Marsellus Wallace. Vincenzo says he was hired to hit Cinda [...]
Full StoryLand Ho!
(Image stolen from secondlife.com) A new world (or at least a new sim or three) has apparently been discovered north of the SL grid.
Full StoryExtinct Native American Tribe Finds Second Wind
by Neal Stewart Duuya Herbst, taking the tribe to SL “The tribes are taking over the world [...] Tribes are agendas. Aesthetics. Ethos. Traditions. Ways of getting things done. They’re competitive. They may not all be based on time-zones. There are knitting Tribes and vampire fan-fiction Tribes and Christian rock tribes, but they’ve always existed.”– [...]
Full StoryDiary of a Second Life Noob, part 2
by Montserrat Snakeankle [In Montserrat's last entry, posted many many SL moons ago, we found her coping with inadequate hardware and a failed attempt to enter SL. In this post, after a $2K upgrade, Montserrat gets back on the horse that threw her.]
Full StoryRising from the Ashes: The SimCast Gaming System
by Matthias Zander Many remember the splitting of ways that the SimCast development team suffered in November of last year, and the call for an open-source gaming system that followed. This was all caused by the departure of the project’s head programmer, Azelda Garcia. Like the mythical phoenix, however, the project has risen from the [...]
Full StoryHellsing Hath no Fury Like Jenna Scorned
Jenna Fairplay: dethroned dwell queen, but still queen of negs given In a story that has it all — adult clubs, jealousy, specious abuse reporting, alleged Linden favoratism, and Arab-American tensions — it appears that dethroned dwell queen Jenna Fairplay has successfully organized an abuse reporting campaign against rival club owner Hellsing King (owner of [...]
Full StoryThis is a Nipple Free Zone
Tony at Clickable Culture reports that the Lindens are cracking down on Stormy Roentgen’s sculptures in PG areas because they have… …n-n-n-nipples! Even STONE NIPPLES! — clearly the most offensive kind. Stormy is reportedly now supplying nipple free statues.
Full StoryOh Mentor, My Mentor
by Neal Stewart Haney Linden fields an inquiry “Wow, a Linden!”, exclaims an excitable avatar in Welcome Area South 4. Haney Linden is a key officer in the Instructor, Live Help and Second Life Mentor groups. She has just teleported to the area and is greeted – like all Lindens – in much the same [...]
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