June 6, 2009 Saturday

I am just going to blog about various Second Life experiences in the last few days -- no particular order; just whatever hits me.

I have written a great deal -- not quite finished -- on a notecard called something along the lines of "Aileen's tips for getting lindens". It's quite fun to put all my suggestions together. I hope in the future it will help people.

My alt, Aileen Aquila (recall that I am Aileen Zessinthal), is starting to come into her own. She is going to town on the Storybook Gridhunt. She is going to take care of the Live Music attendance for me. She is probably going to be the one doing the hockey, VSN and Nascar stuff too. It's funny because I am talking about her in 3rd person, but it is me. I do feel different when I'm using her, though. And it is hilarious because she will send notes to me and I will send notes to her. As if it wasn't the same brain doing both. It's insane. But I kind of like the effect.

I couldn't help it. I paid for a cabin on the SS Galaxy (cruise ship) for four days. I toured the port we are docked at -- Rotterdam. It was okay. But it is a different dress up feel for me when I'm part of the cruise -- a little more elegant, silver spoon feel. The atrium is the best part of the ship. I probably will pay for a stateroom forever from now on for as long as I can afford it. If I can't, I won't.

I have continued to play Obscure Reality. I had a couple of misadventures learning how to use my DCS. And the werewolves scare the crap out of me! For a while I wasn't sure I could continue playing (I don't enjoy being frightened; some people think that is fun -- I don't) AT ALL. But I decided to get back on the horse so to speak, and I enjoyed myself intertwining in the story. I attended a funeral there. Visited a friend in the hospital (werewolf attack). Met a few more people. I'm still not sure if I can handle the emotion, but for now I'm hanging on. There was a new entrant that arrived wearing old clothes -- early 19th century maybe, aristocratic -- and we began an interesting possibility. But I haven't seen him since, not when I was on anyway. What I do like about OR is that there is always plenty of action -- quite a few people are always on the sim, the story moves along. I also can tell that they have a fun time together from the OOC chatter in the group chat. I guess in my mind I can't differentiate that the werewolves aren't real and it is a play; and also that I don't like failure (getting eaten). So I guess I will play a helpless, fearful Angel, ha ha.

I also started at a new roleplay sim called Avilion. It is Medieval/Fantasy and what I like about this is that there is no sexual play and the basic premise is that all races are brothers and sisters (although there are arena combat possibilities). I spent a little time there last night. We'll see. I had the hardest time figuring out a character, but I finally think I have one. I'll be a human, of course. I thought about transferring my character that I have for Elven Country (where there is a paucity of actual roleplay) to here so I could play it, but in Avilion I am a "Lady" which my character definitely is not. So I finally came up with a "Lady" I could live with. Ha ha.

Al-Andalus, a sim I love and hope to make my home, is merging with the Confederation of Democratic Sims. Now is the time for me to buy my land. So I went there believing it couldn't be that bad. But it was. A land space of only moderate prim is a 35 to 50 real USA dollar initial price and approximately 20 real dollar a month tier. (Could I apply my free 512 m to this? Probably not.) This takes my breath away. In the end, it is probably worth it because of the community. But the first thing that came to mind is, "I can't pay $50 for a cartoon!" Ha ha ha. So I still decided no at this time. But some things are changing in my RL finances, so maybe I will take the plunge (if there is still a house available) in the next little while.