New Things at Blacklist

I came across this Russian Roulette game, and had to track it down for the bar at Blacklist. It seems just the kind of game for the crowds we attract. Here you see Hyang and I playing a round, as Alysa watches on, nervously.

Alysa and I rebuilt the bar. It looks much like the old one, so I have no photos. A few minor changes, and fixes that make the camera behave better inside the building. We had to rebuild from scratch, because we couldn't edit the one we had. Still, it was only a few hours work, and the results are satisfying.

Also new at the Blacklist: Aside from our Sunday events with Artillo, we now have a Punk Hop with new blood: new host Lynn, and new DJ Keliana. They did a great job last Saturday, and I'm looking forward to future events with them. Check out Blacklist on Saturday and Sunday nights for a good time.

Also, this week, Hyang has scheduled a couple of ad-hoc events, for Thursday and Friday with DJ Balp. These are for 1PM SLT. So come on down!

Stay tuned for more event information. Things are picking up at Blacklist. More events, more people and more fun.

See you there.

End of Holidays

The Holidays are over. We've cleaned up the decorations at Blacklist and freed up about 500 prims. I left the snowmen you see here for an extra day, for Lisa to see. She saw. They're gone. They were the snowmen that people loved to hate, as they were quite good at throwing snowballs at passing avatars.

Now, as long as we don't get an Easer Bunny throwing eggs, we're in the clear... hmmm....

The Garden of Exiles

Okay... it's been a while since my last post.

I blame it on the Jolly Old Fat Man. You know how it is... feeling you need to compete with his gift-giving.... you spend the entire holiday season shopping, and stressing about shopping. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Despite the shopping rush, I know I did.

The last couple days, I've been working on something new.

It started when I looked from the deck of my skybox, and saw... nothing! Nothing, where Alysa's home should have been. All sorts of things passed through my mind, as to what sort of holiday tragedy could have claimed her home... perhaps a holiday fire started in the Christmas tree? It happens all the time, you know.

I looked on the map and saw a green dot below. I thought, perhaps, she was strolling through the charred remains of her tiny skybox, ashes floating down on her like dirty snowflakes. I jumped over my railing in a single bound, and floated down to the ground. There was no smoke, no ash. Alysa was not looking, teary-eyed at the burned ruins of a skybox.

No...

She was planting trees.

I asked her, surprised, where her skybox was. She said, matter-of-factly, "I deleted it, of course, to make room for the garden!"

So I started to help, a bit. Before long, we had filled her 512 parcel, and she bought the adjoining parcel - which also filled quickly. I bought a third parcel, and we joined them into group-owned land, so we could use all the prims for the garden.

It started from a small garden and it grew... it has two sides, light and cheery, and dark and dreary. Cuddle-spots are all around. There is a waterfall, a pond, a cave.... and the most comfortable hammock in all of Second Life.

Since we are both involved with Blacklist, and since this is on adjoining land in Shaitan, we decided to call it, "The Garden of Exiles."

We'll be installing teleports in Blacklist soon.

Come check out The Garden of Exiles. But please, don't feed the squirrel.

Unscheduled Maintenance

Catching up with old friends

I logged in yesterday, and saw my old friend Livie on radar, in Blacklist. I so rarely get to some of my old hangouts, that I sometimes forget about the friends I used to see there. Livie was out of Second Life for a while, and I've not found the time to track her down and tie her up for a chat, recently - though she's been back for a while, now! ^.~

It was nice to chat at Blacklist, for a bit... then we ported to Misp for a quick ride on some quads. It was only an hour... I'll have to work on the tying her down part, if I want more ;)

Since she hates pouncing so much, I found an alternative... which she doesn't seem to mind.

/nuzzle Livie


:D

Silent Noir

I just came across this new sim: Silent.

It's a "noir" sim. Done almost completely in black and white. I haven't had a chance to explore it, fully. I only had a half hour before real life took me away.

I invited Hyang to come have a look with me, knowing she likes to explore interesting places - and this place has such a unique look. Amazingly, amateur Second Life explorer that I am, I found this place before she did.

The pic above is un-retouched. It is the raw capture from Second Life, only resized. It seems eerie to wander around this sim, all in black and white.

Check it out. It's very cool.

Dirty Snowmen

Ok... it's bad enough that the snowmen of Blacklist have taken over in Shaitan, but now they've been seen cavorting with a snowman at the Palace. And from the looks of it, we may have some kind of dangerous hybrid on our hands before long.

So, watch out, citizens of Shaitan, and citizens of Digeut... there could be more cold trouble headed your way.