Dumpling020108

Following in Lumpy Mumfuzz's footsteps, I went to Ron Paul (RON PAUL http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ron%20Paul/141/109/51) and saw the Metaverse TV set-up. I am beginning to think that I simply end up on Second Life during a time of day when no one, in any hemisphere, is on the grid.



Lots of avatars were encountered and spoken to, but no reply was made. I did find a building for the Second Life News Paper, which gave me a link to it's web page (http://www.sl-newspaper.com/mains.htm), however, there was no one in the building to talk to.

I found the store where you can get a 'free' television which continually broadcasts Metaverse's channel. I also explored other parts of the grid which were, from what I could tell, still part of the Metaverse parcel.

The first place I visited after Ron Paul was Sununu (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sununu/190/53/31) a shopping area whose biggest client was a clothing store called OMG. There were many AFK models who were sitting in OMG wearing the clothes and textures for sale in return for a quarter-hourly L$ wage. All of the avatars seen in the pictures are real avatars who are AFK.



Sununu also had the store of Barbarella Bade - who sells some pretty wicked psychedaelic textures. Her store also contained a link to her [|web presence], where she displays some of her amazing glass-art textures. I would like to revisit this location and possible track down Barbarella to talk to her about her business - though she is in an out-of-the-way corner of 2L, she has some pretty amazing product and I would like to see how she does.



After Sununu I teleported to Maddux, also apparently part of the Metaverse parcel. A very similar crowd of automated and afk avatars were in the Maddux area, probably to draw interested avatars like Garbage Dumpling to the furniture store. Their product and their architecture was very nice.



Near Maddux was another part of the grid called Jillette(http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jillette/126/142/32). Here is a place where my avatar can feel at home - head shops, reggae music blaring through the speakers, and usable drug paraphenalia.

Yes, my avatar smokes the ganj - it's a free grid, ain't it?



I would like to revisit Jillette to see if the renters of these shops are actually making any money. Interesting to see that the 'donation' trick you see at many 2L commercial areas to get people to give money without recieving any product in return is portrayed as actual begging here. Yes, I dropped a L$ in the rasta's cup. Jah be praised.



Also of interest was a game where you could bet any amount of L$ (between 10L$ and 300L$) in a '[|money wheel]' type casino game, where a winner would be determined by whoever might have guessed the result of a random number generator - it is basically a lottery with a larger house-take. All of the avatars here were also AFK.



Above Jillette I found Teller (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Teller/141/120/92). This appears to be Multiverse's raceway at which they might broadcast races in 2L - there also appears to be area for a live audience.



I decided to leave Multiverse's area and on a random click ended up at the vestibule to a medieval role-play world called Aglarond (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aglarond/146/100/92), which gave me some free medieval clothing. I was not in the mood to follow their strict R-P policy today, however, this is another place that I would not mind returning to. 2L is pretty cool - I can pretend to be a Fremen on Arrakis in the morning and then role-play a fantasy knight in Aglarond in the afternoon. Now if only I could find a way not to have to work and attend classes....

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