Simploring 2018 (16) The Silent Mind

For my simploring tour February 11th I selected The Silent Mind from scoop.it SL Destinations, which is described as “a quiet, cozy place. Everyone is welcome to spend a nice time there, whether in romantic togetherness or just to enjoy the surroundings“. The Silent Mind is a (moderate) homestead sim owned and designed by Belfana.

The Silent Mind – a quiet, cozy place

The Silent Mind is a green island with some hills, a small beach, two ponds and one group of higher rocks with a waterfall. There’re not many houses, just one residential home, a house boat and the hut, where you land when visiting The Silent Mind.
Paths lead your way over the island. The atmosphere is really peaceful, the light is natural, the colours are inviting. When exploring you begin to dream. You will discover a few animals and some of them are from a fantasy world like the mermaid horses.

The Silent Mind – an overview

Along the way are many many places to sit and to mediate or to dance or just to be with your loved one. I’m sure that I didn’t see them all and I didn’t try them out all. In Belfana’s profile I found the poster for The Silent Mind “Celebrate Love”, a motto fitting very well to this sim.

Impressions of The Silent Mind (1) – Landing hut (upper left) / Love sign (upper right) / gazebo (lower left) / beach (lower right)

A bit outstanding is a little greenhouse that peeks out of the sea, I assume that the way to is flooded due to the high tide. From there as well as from a sandbank close by you have a lovely view on the island. Another point of interest is the gazebo, the right place to dance while having a nice view over the peaceful meadows and hills.

Impressions of The Silent Mind (1) – sea house (upper left) / mermaid horses (upper right) / house boat (lower left) / waterfalls (lower right)

I enjoyed a hour of exploring, taking pictures and enjoying the peace. What a nice place, perfect for a short time-out within Second Life alone or as a couple.

Impressions of The Silent Mind (3) – Diomita enjoying quiet moments – kink meets romantic

Thank you Belfana for sharing The Silent Mind publically.

Landmark to The Silent Mind
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dalaran/105/66/25

Diary 2018 (24) Feb 10th – The Tentacles

Friday Night, at our party, Starry (starbright Wingtips) told us again about her fun with tentacles. Starry is an active member at the Cage Club, which is an Adult Hub. She’s a member of the Freedom Continent staff. The Freedom continent is a group of over 10 adult sims that work together.

Starry’s tentacles at the wild Woods of Passion Bay

At Passion Bay adult meeting and learning center, Starry set up a little jungle with tentacles (there are over 20 of them!) and she invited us to have a look at it: “Long Ago a wizard opened an ancient portal to another place. The blast destroyed his tower and opened a gateway from which came tentacles. Tentacles have taken root around the ruins. Do you dare to explore this infested land?”.

February 10th: Diomita visiting Passion Bay and Starry’s tantacles together with Angelique

It was just a conincidence that when I landed at Passion Bay, I met Angelique. Hence we explored together and had fun. The tenacles are all very well scripted plants, that take control, tie you up, strip you and then…. well, I leave it to you to interpret the pictures. If you like having some fun, I can recommend the tentacles for sure.
You might also want to visit the Cage Club. The Cage Club now has a teleport network to help people transport to the Freedom Continent attractions quicker, so it is a good place to explore the Freedom Continent from.

Landmark to Passion Bay and to the tentacles
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Adult%20Hub%20SEX/165/152/34
Landmark to Cage Club
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Adult%20Hub%20BDSM/139/128/34

After my visit to Passion Bay, I picked up slave kelly at home and released her from her cage. I took her to Puerto Esclava where we stayed for about an hour. I had fun exposing slave kelly and she got quite some attention. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture.
I left her there leashed to a post.

February 10th: Diomita with Angelique at home

The night started quite nice. Angelique came home from attending a service and was dressed very decent in a Victorian coat. We went to the house and I noticed immediately that the floor was swept. Angelique told me that she did it. She just forgot the terrace cell – consequently she swept it in my presence then.
From meeting Angelique in the afteroon, I still had to tell her off for being bratty with me. Her sweeping did sooth me though and I was not too harsh, hence her punishment was just a light spanking.

February 10th: Mistress Jenny, Diomita and Angelique at The Secret House (left) / with slave slut cecy at Puerto Esclava (right)

When Mistress Jenny came inworld and after we caught up, we went to The Secret House with Angelique. Our slut cecy joined us there. Together we moved on to Puerto esclava and had quite an entertaining time there. We left slave slut cecy there, right next to slave kelly.

Simploring 2018 (15) from Under the Sea by Cica Ghost

A couple of days ago, Cica Ghost contacted me and told me that she opened an exhibition in the lalalala Gallery Thistle. It is about her old fish and called “from Under the Sea”

“from Under the Sea” by Cica Ghost at lalalala Gallery Thistle

I went on a short simploring tour Friday, February 9th, to see it. When you arrive at the lalalala Gallery, you’ll find just one exhibtion room. There’s just a teaser, a poster for the exhibtion and a teleporter to the gallery itself, which is located in a skybox.

“from Under the Sea” by Cica Ghost at lalalala Gallery Thistle – some inhabitants from under the sea

As I didn’t know Cica’s “old” fish yet, this exhibition was new to me. The inhabitants from under the sea are alive but not under water. Each of them is unique and I enjoyed to see them. Some look really evil and – not surprising for me considering what I saw so far from Cica’s art – they seem to look at you. But overall it is a peaceful atmosphere.
You can buy the fish at the gallery for small money and take them home if you have a proper environment for them. I’m pretty sure that I will see some of them on my further simploring tours, now that I know how they look like.

Impressions of “from Under the Sea” by Cica Ghost at lalalala Gallery Thistle

The lalalala Gallery Thistle is owned and provided by lala Lightfoot. Thank you lala for providing your space for the art. And thank you Cica for another piece of art. I enjoyed my visit.

Landmark to lalalala Gallery Thistle
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Thistle/221/229/23 landmark to me.

Simploring 2018 (14) 50 cats by Cica Ghost

Cica sent me a notecard with a poster and a landmark of her newest installation “50 cats“. The name reveals exactly what you will see when you visit 50 cats.

50 cats by Cica Ghost – an overview

Cica’s cats live on a meagre rocky and almost round island. In the middle of the island is a plateau which is surrounded by a village consisting just of many similar houses. The village looks dead and not inhabited. There’s just one path, that leads from the landing point at one corner of the island to the green hill with the plateau in the center. No other paths, no shops, no trees, almost no vegetation.
The plateau itself is different. It is a large and mostly paved place, with some flowerbeds in the corners and even 2 trees. At 2 sides the place is fenced with varicoloured wooden boards. And there they are: exactly 50 cats.

Impressions of “50 cats by Cica Ghost”

The cats are tall but they don’t look scary at all. They seem to look sceptical at all visitors. None of them is smiling, most aren’t even cute in a classical sense. But every cat is different. A few of them lay on their back, a few sit, on cat is trying to catch butterflies. And thay all are looking at the visitors.
There are not only the 50 cats to see. You’ll find also some rabbits who live peacefully beside the cats. One of the fences is decorated with mice – how funny as the cats can’t eat them and have to look at them all the time, the other fence is decorated with one of Cica’s stick figures, a girl that holds a balloon.

As Inara, who posted about 50 cats on February 7th, I can’t find any fitting interpretation for me. 50 cats is a sim in Cica’s typical design that gives home for her cats. Not much is destracting the visitor, so the focus is studying the cats, comparing them, thinking about their intentions and moods. You can buy the every cat and they are not expensive.

I bought one instead of leaving at tip. This cat, I’ll call her Cica, sits now on the porch of our house at home (I reduced her size).

More impressions of “50 cats by Cica Ghost” – the lower right Picture Shows me with our new cat “Cica” at home

50 cats is another interesting installation of Cica Ghost. I like that Cica always creates something different, always something outstanding. Thank you, Cica! I enjoyed my visit very much.

Landmark to 50 cats by Cica Ghost
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pillow%20Rock/30/42/28
Inara Pey’s blogpost “50 cats in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2018/02/07/50-cats-in-second-life/

Diary 2018 (21) and simploring 2018 (13) Feb 5nd – Club Fem

When I came inworld Monday, February 5th, in the afternoon, Mistress was at our house with slave kelly, who served her as a footrest. She had licked her boots before. We took the slave to Lochme and and had her at our feet while we caught up with news. Before we left, slave kelly was fixed into a tiny cage where she can suffer for us until she’s picked up again.

February 5th at Lochme: Mistress Jenny, Diomita and slave kelly

At night, Mistress Jenny was prevented getting online again. My night started really slowly and I hang around at Heavy Bondage Club for a while as no slaves were inworld. After a while I decided to make a little kinkploring tour and I visited Club Fem. Club Fem is “A place for females Straight, Bisexual or Lesbian. Hangout with us either dancing in the club, Lazing around in our gardens, special moments with a loved one, or visit the hidden dungeon.” (taken from the landmark’s description)

exploring Club Fem – the Manor

Club Fem is owned by Kel (kellyshackles). Upon my landing at the club, which is in a skybox at 2000m height, two subs greeted me and offered a tour and help, but I decided to explore on my own. slave Flo came inworld and joined me during my tour. The place offers quite some opportunities for play and for being social.
The Manor is one of the main play area and has many well equipped rooms for a broad variety of kinks. the other main builidng is the club, a large place to dance and to party. Unfortunately I found no board announcing the next party. But there’s more to see: a maze, a photostudio, some stores, a garden, a pool, a coffee house and at the ground level is a beach.
The Club Fem group has more than 300 members and there’s also a board at the landing point where you can see who of the staff is online. I enjoyed our short kinkploring tour and we might find the time to visit this club again one day. Thank you Kel (kellyshackles) for providing the club.

exploring Club Fem: the Club at the end ot the shopping street (upper left) / the maze (upper right) / the photostudio (lower left) / at the landing point (lower right)

After leaving the Club Fem I took slave Flo to Lochme, where we looked after slave kelly. Angelique joined us there and we spent quite some time at Lochme watching and teasing slave kelly, who once again peed into her cage (she seems to love that *winks*). To prevent any other accident, i asked Angelique to change and to wear her lovely pink dress with the plastic panties.

February 5th: Diomita and Angelique with slave kelly at Lochme

Diomita and Angelique with slave kelly and her admirer at Lochme (left) / Diomita at home storing slave kelly and slave Bella (right)

Time flew by again. Someone, who had visited slave kelly lately while she was stored at Lochme, joined us as well and admired slave kelly in the tiny cage. But it was time to go home, where I also met slave Bella shorty and slave kelly admirer came by as well and watched me storing the slaves at home. What started as a quiet night had become a varied and busy night.

Landmark to Club Fem
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shadow%20Creek/72/19/2001

Simploring 2018 (12) Neverfar

For my simploring tour February 1st, I selected Neverfar from the Destination guide. The name rang a bell, and yes, I read about Neverfar in Inara’s blog a couple of day’s before “Neverfar in Second Life“.
Neverfar was created and is owned by inertia (caridee.sparta), who is also offering her building skills to do design sims for customers. Hence Neverfar is also kind of a showcase. inertia says about it: “The Neverfar Project specializes in bringing my signature shabby vintage style to your space with amazing landscapes and sceneries. My our meticulous attention to detail and only the best in Second Life decor and landscaping items, i’ll bring your dream to life from a single room to a full sim uniquely designed by me.

Impressions of Neverfar (1)

Neverfar consists of 3 islands. The main island is public and there’s a lot to discover. The little village, obviously we’re somewhere in Asia, offers a lot of little details to discover. The rest of the main island is also inhabited and fun to explore. There’re many cosy places which offer nice views – a pardise for photographers. Time seems to stand still a bit in Neverfar and the “shabby vintage style” adds a particular charm. When you’re in the little village you will most probably meet a flying robot, which is harmless but a reminder that time didn’t stand still *winks*. I wonder what’s the robots’ assignment? Anyway it is funny!

Impressions of Neverfar (2) – note the fying robot and and Cica’s animated stick figure

On the other public island you climb up the lighthouse for a spectacluar view or visit the residentail home there. You’ll need to swim or fly to get there. The third island is private and you should respect that.
Inara mentioned Cica Ghost’s animated stick figures. And I saw them, at least a pair of them on bicycles. What a nice surprise 🙂

Impressions of Neverfar (3)

I enjoyed my short visit to Neverfar. Thank you inertia for sharing it with the public! And I like the expression “shabby vintage style”, as it describes pretty well the overal setting of Neverfar.

Landmark to Neverfar
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Neverfar/153/174/26
Inara Pey’s blog post “Neverfar in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2018/01/25/neverfar-in-second-life/

Simploring 2018 (11) Flying Coyote River

Following Inara’s blog post “Flying Coyote River in Second Life“, I visited Flying Coyote River on Saturday, January 27th. The full sim is owned and designed by Lila Rose (masha.eilde). In her profile I found this description about Flying Coyote River: “People keep asking me, “what’s it for”? And after thinking about it, all I can say is, “what ever you want it for.” Folks are welcome. Hanging out is welcome. RP is very welcome. Nothing formal or managed or prescriptive. Just don’t mind me if I’m moving things around.

Flying Coyote River – an overview

It is really hard or maybe impossible to find a clear purpose of Flying Coyote River. There seems to be no plan nor a fixed theme. The landing point is it the center of the sim on an island in the middle of the river that devides the sim into two pieces. From here you can start exploring. Scattered all over the sim are houses, huts and places to live. Some are easy to find, some are hidden (like a cave). But all are furnished and look inhabited. You find ruins (also used for living), art, a broken and a working lighthouse, an old train, that is covered with plants, a huge broken doll (you might recognize it, I don’t) or a broken crashed airplane.

Impressions of Flying Coyote River (1): landing point (upper left) / the pool (upper right) / the broken doll (lower left and right)

Impressions of Flying Coyote River (2): an inhabited hut from outside (upper left) / from inside (upper right) / the caroussel (lower left) / inside of the lighthouse (lower right)

Exploring Flying Coyote River is really fun. You walk over suspension bridges, ladders and steep rocks always looking for something new to discover. Although there’re so many living places, you feel like being in a wilderness. Plants have grown over ruins and taken back territory. I took many pictures, that may give you an impression what to expect when you go discovering yourself.

Impressions of Flying Coyote River (3): broken and working lighthouse (upper left) / broken crashed plane (upper right) / train waggon (lower left) / train wreck (lower right)

Flying Coyote River is an adult sim. But I didn’t find much adult stuff. Maybe some of the furniture includes adult animations. Just in the lighthouse I found some Shibari racks, but that’s it. There might be more, left to discover for another visit.

Impressions of Flying Coyote River (4): the tower (upper left and right) / the piano (lower left) / view from the lighthouse (lower right)

Thank you Lila Rose for providing Flying Coyote River to the public. It is really a different place offering so much to explore!

Inara Pey’s blog entry “Flying Coyote River in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2018/01/26/flying-coyote-river-in-second-life/
Landmark to Flying Coyote River
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flying%20Coyote/131/130/26

Simploring 2018 (10) Green story (II)

After I published my simploring report about Green story on January 23rd (read here) I got a message from Annie Oh (anniebrightstar), who runs scoop.it (link is listed on the sidebar under Other links: scoop.it SL Destinations or read here). She told me that I missed a part of Green story, a part that isn’t green either but wet, and gave me a landmark to it: Green story II

You can reach Green story II either by this landmark or by a teleport hub that is close to the lighthouse of Green story but not easy to find particularly at night. This time I had still daylight and found it.

Impressions of Green Story II (1) – upper left pictures show the tp board at Green story

Green story II is in a skybox about 3.500 m above the sandbank of Green story. And it is really wet! The environment is set to night and there are many lights, light effects and fireflies – and reflections of the rain and puddles. Again Green story II is a fantasy world, a conglomerate of cosy huts and spots, of ruins and art. You really can get lost in thoughts when wandering through the rain or when you sit down and just admire the light effects. I recommend to switch the music on, it’s a radio program with piano music (at least during my visit). There are no nothern lights but the moon shines through the clouds and provides a mystic atmosphere.

Impressions of Green Story II (2)

Don’t cry when the sun is gone,
because the tears won’t let
you see the stars.
In my heart lies a memory
to tell the stars above.
I’ll never forgt meeting you here,
our love is like the wind,
I can’t see it — but I can feel it

is written on a wall just above one of the many cosy spots.

Impressions of Green Story II (3)

Green story II is a place for lovers, very romantic. There’re also several spots to dance. It’s another place to dream and to mediate, to live in your fantasy. Thank you, Dior (rich.canis) for sharing Green story and Green story II with the public. I enjoyed my second visit as much as my first!

Landmark to Green story II
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Green%20story/193/87/3426
Landmark to Green story
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Green%20story/194/133/23

Simploring 2018 (9) Ivy Falls

Once again I selected my destination for a simploring tour following Inara Pey’s blog “Ivy Falls in Second Life“. Ivy Falls is a full sim, built by Kere Delcon and Rekka Berchot, it’s group owned, the group founded by Rekka, hence I assume Ivy Falls is onwed by her or by her and Kere. Ivy Falls is a stricly adult sim. It consists of two parts, one public part and a private part, the latter being separated from the public part by a pond. You can only reach it taking a boat or now during Winter by walking over the frozen pond. Please respect privacy and don’t go there.

Ivy Falls overview and gliders at the landing point

The public part is very picturesque and predestinated for those who have a passion for taking pictures (like me). You’ll find many spots with a great view or where you can cuddle, sit or mediate. There’s a lot to discover.

Teleporter tour exploring Ivy Falls (1): Gliders (upper left) / Bar (upper right) / Beach (lower left and right)

The landmark to Ivy Falls leads you to the top of a rock from which you have a good view over the sim. you can either take the teleport system to travel around or you use the glider up there and begin your exploring with flight around. I did both :-).

Teleporter tour exploring Ivy Falls (1): Campsite (upper left) / Sauna (upper right) / Bath house (lower left) / Boat pier (lower right)

The center of the public part is a small village with a lighthouse, a bar, a cafe, a gallery, and a barbershop, a bit aside of the center a bathhouse and a gym. On the other side of the village’s pier there’s a big beach with some beach houses. And if you take a walk outside of the village to the other side you can find a campsite and a sauna.

Ivy Falls bar and dungeon

Besides that I enjoyed the views and the love for details, with which Ivy Falls is built, the nature and the great views, I also focussed on the adult part of Ivy Falls, that is not only based on potential nudity at the beach during summer. But the adult part isn’t obvious on a first glance. Most prominent is the dungeon, which is in the backrooms of the bar. The bar itself is very nice and cosy, and of course I also liked the dungeon, which is really classic and offers enough opportunites for play.

Exploring Ivy Falls: Bath house (upper leaft) / Gallery (upper right) / kinky wardrobe (lower left) / old chapel (lower middle) / Barber shop (lower right)

But the dungeon isn’t the only kinky element. At one house I found a wardrobe which is just a hidden rack and naught me tried it out. I didn’t test, but I assume that the gym offeres some spots for play as well as the bath house might do. Looking for adult fun you should also try out the furniture of the many cosy spots. All of them offer not only cuddling animations but also adult poses and animations.

Impressions from my visit to Ivy Falls

Overall Ivy Falls has something on stock for everybody, be it kinky or not. For example the glider or roaming around with a boat, enjoying the nature or a coffee in the center of Ivy Falls. It’s beautiful and perfectly set for Winter right now. I intend to have a look at it in Summer or autumn again. I enjoyed my visit. Many thanks to Rekka and Kere for sharing the sim with the public.

Landmark to Ivy Falls
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ivy%20Falls/105/98/54
Inara Pey’s blog post “Ivy Falls in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2018/01/16/ivy-falls-in-second-life/

Simploring 2018 (8) Gem Preiz’ Sapiens

I discovered Gem Preiz’ artful work in Second Life last year and had some posts about the exhibitions and installations that I visited (No Frontiers, 5 years of Fractals, Chaos). Gem Preiz works with fractals, his pictures are based on math, but although the forms are duplicated what you see is a picture and you’re not able to to see the logic behind it. Often his work has a touch of science fiction. When I got the invitation to visit Gem’s newest installation at LEA 29, Sapiens, I went there a few hours before it opened offcially.

Gem Preiz’ Sapiens – Exhibition board (upper left) / at the landing Point (upper right) / inside the grid cube (lower)

You land in a hallway that could be part of a spaceship, some fog rises from below. There’re boards on both sides of the hallways and you can grab information about Gem and a notecard about the installation Sapiens. Gem describes his intentions and thoughts about Sapiens in the notecard (grab one). The boards also recommend the appropriate settings for your viewer for the best experience of Sapiens. I strongly recommend to switch the music on. At the end of the hallway is a cube, which is used as a TP to the installation itself.

Gem Preiz’ Sapiens – in the hallways / inside of the grid cube

Sapiens is a cube, a grid of 4 x 4 hallways and you land somewhere inside of an hallway. The cube hoovers in the endlessness of space. The hallways do look all the same, like at the landing they appear to be part of a huge spaceship. You get more or less lost in them, it’s a labyrinth, a maze. Gem describes the grid cube as a “limited universe, locked like a prison”. The “maze of interconnected passages is similar to a brain where the thoughts turn in a loop without any solution”.
You can travel between the 4 levels using elevator platforms that are on some crossings and which move up and down steadily. At the corners of the hallways you can peek out into the inner structure of the grid cube and again you’re lost, you find no mark, just endless repeating structures.

At the sides of the hallways of Sapiens Gem presents in total 40 fractals which he categorized into the themes: technology, maze, darkness, confinement.

Gem Preiz’ Sapiens -examples of the exhibted fractals

While I explored I met Inara Pey. I follow her blog “Living in a modemworld” for some years now and I often follow her exploring tours when I go simploring. It was the first time that I met her inworld and we had a very nice chat. And I had the opportunity to thank her in perosn for her great work for the community. Inara was just visiting like myself and just working on her blog post about Sapiens, which was published a few hours later (“A journey into Sapiens in Second Life“). As Inara has a passion for science fiction and space flight, Sapiens was for sure a highlight for her. Inara also told me, that Gem plans to expand the installation End of February, hence a reason for me to return.

Gem Preiz’ Sapiens – more impressions / Inara and Diomita (upper left)

Back to Sapiens. If you look out for details on the sides of the hallways besides the 40 pictures, you can find “Exits”, actually I saw 2 of them. They allow you to explore the inner structure of grid cube into which you peek from inside. You need to fly as there’re no hallways, otherwise you’ll fall down. The hovering objects, Gem calls them shuttles, are phamtom and thus colliding with them is harmless. I flew a bit around and although it looks huge at the first glance, you quickly discover your limitations. You can’t get out, I got a real prison feeling there and returned inside.

There’s another exit. In the hallways you find big black hands every once in a while. First I thought they might direct you way, but they don’t. Either by accident or by systematically walking every hallways on each level you will find a spot with many of these black hands. They seem to have caught a golden statue, a human, who cowers under them. Clicking the golden statue brings you to the end of the exhibtion, which is on a extra platform, from where you can also return to the start. You can also see all 40 exhibited pictures once again in a catalogue. Above the platform sits is a huge golden statue (the homo sapiens sapiens?) holding the grid cube in it’s hand, looking at it lost in thoughts.

Gem Preiz’ Sapiens – the golden homo sapiens sapiens

Sapiens is a great combination of a 3D installation with a gallery presenting Gem’s fractal art. Both fit together perfectly. It is a journey into the inexplainable space inside of our brains, that can be like space flight into the endless room. And I like and admire the fractals. Thank you for another great experience in Second Life, Gem!

Landmark to Gem Preiz’ Sapiens
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA29/96/128/27
Inara Pey’s blog post A journey into Sapiens in Second Life
https://modemworld.me/2018/01/10/a-journey-into-sapiens-in-second-life/

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