Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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5pm est, 2pm SLT is the bussiest I've seen this place ever, in terms of people being here. There appears to be about 16 people in the main area, 20 people on the island and 9 people grouped together, Tepic Harlequin among them.

Several are flipping pancakes?

There are a few Babbage Urchins, 2 Evil Geniuses, a New Babbage Engineer, and Antiquity Lord and 2 ungrouped people in the collection.
they are just chilling in the street. One wears many bags and packs on his back, saying something about "Homeless"

why does it always run so slowly? it freezes itself along with my web browser. i hear the tink. seconds later i see i have once again been logged out of second life.

i need 400 or 500 lindens to buy a deadpool avatar.

I log back in. They are gone. I see a much larger mass of people by a pier. I go towards them. It has only been about 5 minutes. I have been kicked off AGAIN.
They do have a pretty impressive thing going on underneath the water though.
It is 5:27 and I try to log in again. I may not until at least 5:31:18, according to the login screen.


Pancake race?? There seems to be this even going on.
There are many gathered around a finish line. They too talk about lag. A few say hi to me. One yells ITHACA!
Actually, it was a starting line. off they go! after some trouble starting (someone was not in hearing distance to yell go.
It's not a long track, as its a pancake race, i believe they had to keep flipping pancakes in their pans while running.

Theres about 2 dozen people here, not all competing, but most.

More Babbage

I can hear someone talk. Now sing. now two people talk.
Meercat Manor. And Organ is playing, it hurt their eardrums.
I can not see anyone. It is 1:30am EST on a weekday.
They cough. and again.
Where are you??
They begin to sing again.
I finally saw a train car moving. It hit me.

It became night time.
I saw one other person from a distance, he moved down the street before he could render properly.

The city seems much more alive today than in the past, even though there is still no one here. That i can see.

I found giant submarines! similar to nuclear ones, probably steam powered though...
Mace of Olaf-Class Supergunboat. Command is restricted.
When I move a few hundred feet over to the subs, the woman's voice fades away. When I go back towards the train tracks, it returns. I go to the end of the stop, the voice stops, move back and it's back. It's a small area, but I am closing in.

Man does this virtual world run slow.

She seems to be upset with the music she sings to.

I can't even turn without lagging my ass off.

This computer is too good for Second Life to operate like this.......

Ah a classic, flying into an area while not really controlling what you're doing, only to have the area finally load, and you're trapped in an attic.

I can hear bursts of steam.

I found her! Canolli Capalini i believe is the name. Er no. but maybe the mermaid next to the organ. Someone hear pictures being taken, so i left.

Sweetheart - siren Galicia
and
Cookie Monster - Rucker McKinney they are the ones talking. In a cylinder by the organ with the mermaid. AH they leave the room. I follow with the camera. I am across the street in another building. They are quite random. More talk of meercats. You know, that thing that hung out with the pig in Timon and Pumba. she hates spiders.

Second Life logged me out of the world. That was rather rude of it. What gives.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Newspapers and trash floating above the ground in wind.

Dialouge with Tepic Harlequin

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Park%20Communication/138/98/29

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Conversation.


[0:21] Tepic Harlequin: dang... blocked off!
[0:21] Rynn Tiratzo: oh noes
[0:21] Tepic Harlequin: you stuck down here too?
[0:21] Rynn Tiratzo: i think so
[0:21] Tepic Harlequin: i fell through a hole in the pavement...
[0:21] Rynn Tiratzo: just fell through a minute ago
[0:21] Tepic Harlequin: think there is a way up over to the south... follow me, we gotta swim!
[0:22] Rynn Tiratzo: ugh
[0:22] Tepic Harlequin: yep! this way! :-)
[0:23] Rynn Tiratzo: cool
[0:23] Tepic Harlequin: errrmmm.... are you a lizard man?
[0:23] Rynn Tiratzo: some sort of metal dragon
[0:23] Tepic Harlequin: oh... that's ok then we been warned about lizardmen :-)
[0:24] Rynn Tiratzo: :0
[0:24] Tepic Harlequin: upo here...
[0:24] Tepic Harlequin: this is the Town Hall...
[0:24] Rynn Tiratzo: ahh
[0:24] Tepic Harlequin: door is over here...
[0:25] Tepic Harlequin: errr... could i take a picture of us, to show to people so they don't think you are a loizardman?
[0:25] Rynn Tiratzo: sure
[0:25] Tepic Harlequin: thanks :0 hang on a sec...
[0:26] Tepic Harlequin: thank you :-)
[0:26] Tepic Harlequin: are you just visiting?
[0:26] Rynn Tiratzo: thanks for getting me outta the water
[0:26] Rynn Tiratzo: yep
[0:26] Rynn Tiratzo: researching island for class
[0:26] Rynn Tiratzo: its neat
[0:26] Tepic Harlequin: there are holes in quite a few pavements...
[0:27] Tepic Harlequin: New Babbage is an old and established city, have you read the Ning?
[0:27] Rynn Tiratzo: i have not
[0:27] Tepic Harlequin: http://newbabbage.ning.com/
[0:27] Rynn Tiratzo: oooh thank you
[0:27] Tepic Harlequin: there is a lot of information and background there
[0:28] Tepic Harlequin: it's a StreamPunk themed set of sims
[0:28] Rynn Tiratzo: :)
[0:28] Tepic Harlequin: and we have some well established builders, all following the theme, as well as a lot of role players
[0:29] Tepic Harlequin: there are also at least two clockwork dragons ;-)
[0:29] Rynn Tiratzo: pretty cool
[0:29] Rynn Tiratzo: !
[0:29] Tepic Harlequin: i'm an urchin, and there is a very strong urchin community, who play a full part in the life of the city
[0:30] Rynn Tiratzo: You're the second person i've seen here. didn't talk to the other one
[0:30] Tepic Harlequin: there are other SteamPunk sims, such as Steelhead, which is more based in the American West than Victorian Britain
[0:30] Rynn Tiratzo: that was days ago
[0:31] Tepic Harlequin: oh.... this time of day is fairly quiet, in about eight to twelve hours time there will be more people around... the CocoJava Cafe is a good place to meet people...
[0:32] Rynn Tiratzo: ah alright thanks. yeah that was at like 5am second life time. total dead zone
[0:32] Rynn Tiratzo: 8oclock class on the east coast
[0:32] Tepic Harlequin: Ceejay Writer, CocoaJava Cafe, Academy of Industry (114, 60, 109)

[0:33] Tepic Harlequin: hehhe sl is sooo big, that 40k to 70k people can vanish very easily!
[0:33] Rynn Tiratzo: mhmm!
[0:34] Tepic Harlequin: it might be worth going to one of the enents listed on the Ning, you will certainly meet more people, and most are very friendly
[0:34] Tepic Harlequin: *events
[0:34] Rynn Tiratzo: i will defintly look into that
[0:34] Tepic Harlequin: oh dang! just seen the time! rl needs me!
[0:34] Tepic Harlequin: have fun, and i hope your research goes well..
[0:34] Rynn Tiratzo: lol yeah i should get some sleep. class in like 4.5 hours
[0:34] Tepic Harlequin: night!
[0:34] Rynn Tiratzo: thank you very much
[0:34] Rynn Tiratzo: g'night

New Babbage 2

When I map there, I end up underneath the water.

There is a recreation of the Eiffel Tower.
By it is a store/dance room.
They have expensive shirtless?
Dance Machine

Bedlam in Babbage
Feb. 13th

The water is a canal type thing running along the streets and connected to the ocean.

There is an opera house, free to use and explore with streaming opera music

Stone staircases.

They sell pirate clothing.

You can explore much of the area while underground.
I fell through some land into the water underneath and flew around against the ceiling of the ground.

Met a furry named Tepic Harlequin. Foxxy tail

http://newbabbage.ning.com/

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

New Babbage

It is a Steampunk themed island.
Very small, but the areas around are of similar in name. (It is like downtown, or village and what not.)
There's a few vehicles, none of which I can use. - A boat, a submarine, an airboat/blimp I can't even reach.
There is a piece of train track.
The place is pretty well organized in terms of layout.
Parallel and perpendicular roads.
There's factories. -- much industry.
Smelting, conveyor belt.
I saw one person once in a deep red dress walking along a path. She walked into a carriage/trailer type thing.
There is snow on the ground at the moment and pieces of ice floating in the water.