Diomita Maurer’s Blog

The series about Eurobrats Headquarter @ Mount Everest so far invited you to a tour on our islands. What we didn’t mention so far is our “Mount Everest”. How can a sim be named Mount Everest and have no mountain? Our mountain is not the highest mountain in SL, nor it is really hard to climb on it. But we have a mountain and I will not describe where it is.
We have 2 skyboxes up in the skies over our headquarter. One is Jenny’s and my retreat, the skybox we got from our family to enjoy our honeymoon and which we kept throughout all storms we experienced in our SL. It is open for the family just by invitation. The other skybox is the Hotel California. You can get there with the Eurobrat Teleporter Network.

The hotel CA has also a long history for us. Originally it was build as a low prim large skybox to provide space for a private prison. It has had 3 floors with high security cells and the rlv-restrictions made it to a place where you can get to but not get out. It had a dungeon area to enjoy the prisoners. Our slaveboy Santana stayed months in the hotel, months where he found his place, months that coined his SL.
“Last thing I remember, I was running for the door / I had to find the passage back to the place I was before / ‘Relax,’ said the night man, we are programmed to receive. / You can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave!”
When Goddess moved to Yasminia, we relocated the hotel to a separate floor in big castle which was the centre piece of the first layout of Yasminia. We kept the skybox itself at our place in Rivers Rock but reduced the number of “guest rooms”. We removed a floor and installed a photostudio which provides enough tools for our hobby of taking pictures. You can also mix RL and SL pictures.

There’s still a floor with 2 guest rooms so we do have a lonely place for rebelling subs to find back their position, there’s still a throne and enough space to rezz toys. And there’s still enough room to hide a kidnapee safe and securely. And when I enter the hotel many memories of the hotel and it’s guests come alive.

With this entry the series about Eurobrats Headquarter @ Mount Everest ends. Please enjoy your visit or stay on our island. Be sure – we enjoy it! Love from Diomita and Jenny Maurer.

Somewhere in RL is a run down chapel that inspired one of our friends, Danii Szydlowska,  to build a replica of it for SL. There’s a link to her blog under the links section. Danii built it and for a couple of years had no place to build it or to see its glory. So she donated it as a gift as we had made a hillside that needed a centre piece. When we first saw it we had the spontaneous idea to add some toys and a cell inside to keep someone. You can imagine that we do have already someone in mind. Thus the name was born: The Keep.

Danii, being a scripter, began to develop this thought and as an add-on she scripted the chapel for rlv-users. So when rlv-users wear their relay they can have a particular experience inside the chapel as it is dark and foggy inside providing a mysterious atmosphere to the scene. And there might be more restrictions so that visitors do behave appropriate to the place. We will not reveal more now.. go and explore.

When you arrive at Eurobrats Headquarter and stand in front of the orientation map and turn to the left you’ll see the campfire down at the beach in the Southwest of Mount Everest. It is easy to locate as the Eurobrat flag waves above it.
The campfire is our meeting place. The place is surrounded by palm trees and the familiar roar of the surf plays like background music while you sit and enjoy.
The campfire is where we chit-chat or have banters. It’s where we relax with friends. There’s a raft in the water by the campfire. When I have a rare moment of quietness I love to lay on it and let my mind wander. And when Jenny comes online and sees me there she joins me. It’s just a raft to lay and enjoy alone or together.

One hint about the flagpole. You’ll get the menu to use is as a dancepole when you click on it’s very base. And isn’t it very much enjoyable to have a sub dancing for you while you sit, chat and enjoy?

We had a busy time after the loss of our home. But as often seen before it turned out to be a great positive change. I persoanlly had considered buying a homestead several times and as our landlord stepped out of business giving our sim to “Dweeb” we already began to discuss a full sim, a homestead or another quartersim for us and our friends. We talked about performance and limits. A full sim would be great and would have a great performance and be quite lagfree but expensive. And even if we get enough renters or friends to share with us, would it spoil our fun in SL as we’d have to care about renters and about our budget? But renting ourself another 1/4 sim? Will we get into the same darn trouble with another landlord? Would we like to be threatened by being evicted because of nothing again? What about a homestead which is only residential and designed for up to 20 people online at a time? Will the performance be high enough?
Then all went much quicker than we imagined. And facts did accelerate our decision for a homested. In the meanwhile we can say that performance is well enough so far. Rezzing objects is strange as the object doesn’t appear immediately but with an time lag of about 2 to 5 seconds. We also had some bad days with lots of lag and even a total black-out of the whole sim for over 1 hour. But that day was bad in whole SL so it was not related to our sim. Anyway the decision is made. We moved. And now after developing the terrain, after our friends moved in and after a lot of exciting and truly enjoyable and satisfying work … now is the time to write about our new home. It’s time to save the initial layout for our diary. It’s time to present the new Eurobrats Headquarter at Mount Everest.

Our homestead consists of three islands which are connected by bridges. One island (Virgin Islands) belongs to our friends Virgo and Tyra. One islands (The Albatros) belongs to our friend Claven. And one island belongs to the Eurobrats.

The layout of Eurobrat Headquarter Island is shown in the orientation map below. It is the same map that you’ll see upon your arrival on our island. A teleporter system provides quick traveling (by the way a transportation system like this could solve a lot of problems in RL *grins). Or , even better, explore on foot. The main spots to visit are: Campfire, Beach disco, Sub’s Shangri-La, Headquarters, the “Keep”, the games and our Hotel CA (still located in a skybox). You’re invited to explore on your own but be aware of traps.

After this overview we will publish an short entry about each point of interest in the upcoming week(s). So stay tuned.