Simploring 2017 (4) Saint Pete City

21 Jan 2017 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: , , , , ,

As I’m away for a few days of vacation I prepared just a few blog entries in advance. On Thursday, January 12th, I found time for some simploring. I did some revisits for places I’ve been before and that still exist. One downside of Second Life is, that you never know how long a sim will stay or if your visit is the last. I went to Saint Pete City, that I visited in November 2015 this first time (see here).

Jan 12th: My second visit to "Saint Pete City" (1)

Jan 12th: My second visit to “Saint Pete City” (1)

Saint Pete City is a very nice town, highly detailled, the shops and the cafés add a lot to it’s charme. And again I noticed the many bicycles. Most shops, houses and appartments are rented, so there seem to be a lively community here. I visited one of the free appartments to get an impression. It’s expensive to live here, but you get a return, living in a city instead of being in the suburbs. The waterfront of Saint Pete City has it’s own charme.

Jan 12th: My second visit to "Saint Pete City" (2) - a private home.

Jan 12th: My second visit to “Saint Pete City” (2) – a private home

Jan 12th: My second visit to "Saint Pete City" (3) - at the waterfront

Jan 12th: My second visit to “Saint Pete City” (3) – at the waterfront

Saint Pete City is owned by Neva Xenga (nevacrystall) and there’s a website you can visit for more information also about free appartments. Neva is also co-owing to (shopping) event places, Shiny Shabby Event and The Crossroads Event. I finish this short update with a quote from Neva’s Profile “..When u need the  wonders, noises and sweet delights of a magical city burried in stories and treasures waiting to be found, open the gates of St. Pete, i put my heart into it....”

You should have seen this lovely town. Thank you Neva!

Landmark to Saint Pete City
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sea%20Foam/63/170/24
Saint Pete City’s Website
https://nevaestates.com/

Simploring 2017 (3) God’s own county – The Yorkshire Dales

19 Jan 2017 1 Comment

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Saturday, January 14th, I went simploring. I followed a landmark that I found in someone’s profile and it turns out to be a real nice simploring tour. I went to The Yorkshire Dales. The LM description says about it: “The Yorkshire Dales are situated in the historic county of Yorkshire, UK. This beautiful rural countryside has been recreated for SL and is ideal for photos, time out and romance. Get a feel for Yorkshire heritage and enjoy the simple life.”20170114-the-yorkshire-dales_021
Upon your arrival you’ll get a notecard that introduces you to the creator, PinkRayne, her background growing up in UK and spending many hours with her family in the Yorkshire Dales, and in particular in Malhamdale. She brought some of it’s beauty to Second Life. “Malhamdale consists of a tiny village and vast amounts of stunning countryside including a cove, tarn and various waterfalls. I decided to build Malham village and Malham Cove for this project, the most dramatic features to be seen in Malham. The tiny, rustic village consists of little more than 2 pubs, a tearoom and a newsagents, and opposite this quaint little corner of the Dales is Malham Cove. Malham Cove is a dramatic, curved limestone formation. It was formed at the end of the ice age, 12,000 years ago, by a waterfall carrying meltwater.” (quote taken from the introductional notecard by PinkRayne).

January 14th: Arriving at "The Yorkshire Dales"

January 14th: Arriving at “The Yorkshire Dales”

January 14th: The Yorkshire Dales

January 14th: The Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales in SL is a small piece of rural UK, just a few houses, a cafe, a wind mill, agriculture, grazing horses, a high plateau with a waterfall and many places to sit be it to inhale the landscape, to dream or to cuddle. For couples there’s also a gazebo to dance. And that’s it what I did, I walked around looked for spots to take pictures, and I also just sat and gazed into the nature.20170114-the-yorkshire-dales_023

January 14th: "My" spot overlooking The Yorkshire Dales

January 14th: “My” spot overlooking the Yorkshire Dales

January 14th: Roaming through "The Yorkshire Dales"

January 14th: Roaming through “The Yorkshire Dales”

As it was quiet in SL for me, I listened to music and enjoyed. A great place to wind down. Something I have to share to Mistress Jenny.

Landmark for “The Yorkshire Dales”
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rayne%20and%20PetitChat/109/215/2971

Simploring 2017 (2) – ragVR

17 Jan 2017 Leave a comment

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I picked a recommendation of Inara Pey again reading her post “ragVR: imagination and expression in Second Life“. ragVR is the portfolio sim of RAG (rag.randt), in RL the artist Richard A. Goldberg, an illustrator/Designer looking at SL as a source of inspiration and new experiences. He creates virtual objects and environments. ragVR was created to showcase a wide variety of things such as gachas, graphics, buildings, and vehicles.20170113-ragvr_030

Jan 13th: The airplane at ragVR

Jan 13th: The airplane at ragVR

You arrive just next to an airplane that is parked at the end of a runway, just before a steep cliff. If go go upstairs you see two kiosks. These kiosks deliver pertinent information about things in proximity to the kiosk. There’s an art deco elevator door and when you click the elevator buttom the elevator will come. There is no elevator panel, instead there’s an operator who will take you to the main level of ragVR. Walk through the main building to gain more information on RAG’s past, present and future.
The showroom you reach with the elevator contains RAG’s earliest work for SL, beginning with 2D illustrations up to creating a LEA sim in 2011 “Am I dreaming”. From the showroom a path leads out to the sim where you can see other examples of RAG’s work, like the flying pigs or the snowmen (both created for MadPea). RAG also contributed to a fundraise event of Feed-A-Smile (FAS) (a charitable organization for the children of Africa) with creating a stage/sim setting that you can see on your way through the sim. At the highest point there’s an observatory giving you a view at the zodiac signs. Outstanding is also the Ice Cream Alien, a submission of RAG to a creative challenge. If you click on the bottom of the cone a ladder slides out and you can enter and discover the inside.20170113-ragvr_031
Once you finished your round through the sim you’ll come back the showroom. But there’s more to see. On the ground level (where you arrived, you can also follow the runaway and furtheron a path that leads you around the sim. Here RAG plays with textures and light and you can get some extraordinairy pictures and views.20170113-ragvr_033
ragVR is for sure a great example of the possibilites of Second Life which still continue to facinate me, although I’m just a resident and my building knowledge is limited. According to Inara you can can contact RAG about projects and ideas and to discuss rates via IM, notecard or through e-mail (rag@ragmedia.com).
Thank you RAG for providing the ragVR to the public, although it is not fully completed yet – which is a good reason to return soon :-).
Landmark to ragVR:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Devils%20Moon/232/217/30
Inara Pey’s blog entry about ragVR:
https://modemworld.me/2017/01/13/ragvr-imagination-and-expression-in-second-life/

Simploring 2017 (1) – Silvermoon Fairey’s sims

10 Jan 2017 1 Comment

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For my first simploring tour 2017 I scrolled back in Inara Pey’s blog and decided to revisit “It’s a new Dawn”, that I visited in November 2015 (see here). I just followed Inara’s track with my first and now my 2nd visit. For a detailled description read Inara’s post “Returning to It’s A News Dawn in Second Life“.
It’s a new Dawn didn’t change much, at least I didn’t notice as many changes as Inara did and without reading back it looked just the same for me at the first glance. It is very peaceful place, rural, pastoral and wandering around and inhaling the nature is very relaxing. You’ll find many places to sit, to chat and to chill. Looking more in details I found many new views and spots, like the little roofed place by the sea or the hanging seat overlooking the sea and a part of the land. It’s a new Dawn is perfect to chill and to find peace.

Jan 8th: It's a new Dawn

Jan 8th: It’s a new Dawn

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Once I began simploring, I did the big tour visiting all the 4 places of Silvermoon Fairey. “A Painter’s link” for me is like an extension of It’s a new Dawn with a different style of buildings, maybe a bit more dedicated to the landscape and offering different opportunities for taking pictures. As opposed to It’s a new Dawn, there’s no agriculture. I found a particular spot to sit and dream, that fits perfect to Second life – Live your dream.

Jan 8th: A Painter's Link

Jan 8th: A Painter’s Link

Jan 8th: A Pianter's Link - Live your drean

Jan 8th: A Pianter’s Link – Live your drean

Located above A Painter’s Link is “50 Words for snow“, a magic mountain winter scene. Upon my arrival I felt like standing on my skis, like being on skiing holidays. Last but not least I visited also “December will be magic again“, the winter installation above “It’s a new Dawn”.20170108-a-painters-link-50-words-for-snow
There’s one element, one idea that is common in all 4 places, they are peaceful and being there was very relaxing and like diving into another, more quiet and peaceful world. At the landing point of It’s a New dawn, you’ll get a folder with all 4 LM’s and with a short note from Silvermoon Fairey recommending the best settings for your viewer for your visit. The notecard is signed with “love and peace, Silvermoon Fairey”. And in her Second Life profile Silvermoon describes herself as “A dreamer of pictures, lover of words, music is my drugs”. For me Silvermoon has expressed her feelings and ways in her sims very well. Thank you, Silvermoon Fairey!

Link to Inara Peys post “Returning to It’s A News Dawn in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2017/01/01/returning-to-its-a-news-dawn-in-second-life/
Landmarks to Silvermoon Fairey’s sims
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lemon%20Beach/9/191/22
(It’s a new Dawn)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Salomon%20Beach/88/141/1010
(50 Words for Snow)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Salomon%20Beach/65/36/30
(A Painter’s Link)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lemon%20Beach/78/193/432
(December will be magic again)

Silent Island – Gags obligatory

06 Jan 2017 Leave a comment

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One of the sims we used to visit regularly was Silent Bondage Island. The Island was really pretty well build, had style and the little something. And it offered a lot of possiblities to get trapped or to store a slave or sub. Silent Bondage Island? Yes, because at it’s harbour, where you arrived, were boards demanding to keep subs and slaves leashed and always gagged. There always was sort of a love-hate relation between our Kitty and Adara Kattun, the owner and builder of Silent Bondage Island. Kitty seems to have even more than the legendary nine lives of a cat *winks*. Anyway all of a sudden for us, the island was gone about 2 months ago (or was it even shorter). But today, when I checked Adara’s profile picks, I found that she has rebuildt it, not as an ssland but as a skybox and it is still called Silent Island. We explored it on January 3rd, Mistress Jenny, slaves cecy, Flo and Adarra (our puppy slave is written with 2 “r”) and myself. Of course the slaves were gagged as the big board at the landing point requests it. There are many many elements reminding of the old island and taken from there, like the castle and the dungeon maze, the barn, the fountains, the boards and many more. Again, the layout is very smart and you wonder how much you can build within a little space. Chapeau, Adara!
Don’t miss out to add Silent Island to you regular visit list again. Get trapped or in trouble in any other way.

Jan 3rd at Silent Island: slave puppy Adarra, Diomita, slave cecy, slave Flo and Mistress Jenny

Jan 3rd at Silent Island: slave puppy Adarra, Diomita, slave cecy, slave Flo and Mistress Jenny

Landmark to Silend Island
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Coral%20Caye/252/99/1014

Yhorm – a fantasy world

02 Jan 2017 Leave a comment

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December 30th, 2016: Yhorm

December 30th, 2016: Yhorm

On Friday, December 30th, 2016, I went simploring again. Inara Pey’s article “Yhorm: a stunning new role-play location in Second Life” inspired me to visit Yhorm. Yhorm is a fantasy role play world and another stunning example of the possibilites of Second Life and of the creativity of it’s residents. Yharm was build by Stark Osterham and his Second Life partner, Cailin Beorn.
I’m not at all a fan of fantasy and have little to no knowledge about it, I don’t know anything about the Lord of Rings or Tolkien, but the pictures and the very detailed description of Yharm in Inara Pey’s blog post inspired me to take a look at Yharm, which will be opened for roleplay Mid of January 2017.

You arrive at a landing skybox where you can learn about the roles and the concept of the fantasy world. Instead of trying to understand the fantasy I just copied the explanations to provide them here.20161230-yhorm_023 20161230-yhorm
But how the heck do I get from the landing sky box to Yharm? I found no teleport pad and every try to reach the ground failed and brought me back to skybox. Finally another visitor helped me and later also Cailin told me. You need to click on the location lists of the maps in the skybox and grant the expierence request – et voila!
Yharm has two parts a huge city that raises into the sky with the Dark Chapel at its top. From there you can walk down through narrow passages, stairs and walkways. Inside it is a medieval world but the enormous extension into the sky is not medieval, it’s fantasy. I roamed a bit through the city and was overwhelmed by the impressions I got. A really very impressive building work that provides lots a opportunities to take pictures.20161230-yhorm_024
Yharm’s second part is Nurem Cavern. You can travel to it from the landing sky box. Another way to get there is to find the big huge court in the city with a deep hole at the center. If you dare to walk down you will reach Nurem Cavern. The Cavern looks like ruins of another big city, maybe a sunken former world. These two world connected build the setting for the fantasy roleplay.20161230-yhorm_025
I hope that Yhorm attracts a lot of roleplayers as I can see the effort and the passion that went into this sim. And there’s also a website that will support the play, see here.
And for all who don’t roleplay – just look at Yhorm, it is amazing!
Landmark to Yhorm (landing skybox)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/NeoShoda/129/131/1454
Inara Pey’s blog post:
https://modemworld.me/2016/12/29/yhorm-a-stunning-new-role-play-location-in-second-life/
Yhorm’s Website
http://neoshoda.enjin.com/

A winter’s Magical Mystery in Second Life

27 Dec 2016 1 Comment

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I visited this gem on December 23rd. It is just amazing. From the very first moment I was swept away into this wonderful world with it’s nothern lights, snowflakes and little stars. The whole atmosphere made me slowing down and relax. I enjoyed my visit very much. In the afternoon, I took Mistress Jenny to Magical Mystery and made the picture for our christmas card 2016 there.

December 23rd: My visit to Magical Mytery (1)

December 23rd: My visit to Magical Mytery (1)

December 23rd: My visit to Magical Mytery (2)

December 23rd: My visit to Magical Mytery (2)

December 23rd: My visit to Magical Mytery (3)

December 23rd: My visit to Magical Mytery (3)

Christmas 2016: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Magical Mystery

Christmas 2016: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Magical Mystery

Thank you Inara for this advice. Many thanks to the creators (Kaelyn Alecto, LuaneMeo and Gorba McMahon) and to Joonie Jatho for providing it to us all!

Inara Pey's avatarInara Pey: Living in a Modemworld

Magical Mystery, Folk Town; Inara Pey, December 2016, on FlickrMagical Mystery, Folk Town – click any image for full size

“Magic and Mystery await around every corner,” Joonie Jatho says of her Homestead region, itself called Magical Mystery. “Come explore and see if you can find all the enchanted, secret places!”

It’s an enticing invitation, and one well worth taking the time to accept. Designed on Joonie’s behalf by the combined talents of Kaelyn Alecto (responsible for  It All Starts With a Smile (which I last visited here), LuaneMeo (who designed Luane’s World – see here – with Kaelyn, and most recently opened Luane’s Magic World – see here), and Gorba McMahon, Magical Mystery presents visitors with a lot to see and discover.

Magical Mystery, Folk Town; Inara Pey, December 2016, on FlickrMagical Mystery, Folk Town

This is a rugged landscape, icy and cold – but it has a warm heart waiting to be found by those who seek its secrets. Tall shoulders of rock…

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Calas Galadhon’s 2016 Holiday Sim

26 Dec 2016 Leave a comment

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It has become a tradition to visit Calas Galadhon’s holiday sim and I had this on my things to do list for a while but I couldn’t go there as my script weight was too high and I didn’t want to ask Mistress to remove them. Hence the visit had to wait until Christmas eve, when Mistress Jenny and I met online. Kitty has visited a few hours before and has send this picture from her visit as a teaser to us.

December 24th: Kitty at Calas Galadhon's 2016 Holiday Sim

December 24th: Kitty at Calas Galadhon’s 2016 Holiday Sim

December 24th: Calas Galadhon's 2016 Holiday Sim - The landing point

December 24th: Calas Galadhon’s 2016 Holiday Sim – The landing point

When I came online December 24th in the afternoon, Mistress Jenny wasn’t yet online so I went ahead and pre-explored. The entrance to Calas Galadhon’s holiday sim is already spectacular. You arrive on a large icy plateau that you have to cross to enter a christmas maze that offers a lot of amazing light effects, presents to grab and fun just walking through it. At the end of the maze you reach the portal that leads to the holiday sim.20161224-calas-galadhons-2016-holiday-sim_018 Mistess Jenny and I enjoyed the sleigh tour, we cuddled, we talked, and relaxed looking around into this winter wonderland. And we also remembered all the tours we had in the years before (it is already the 8th (!) holiday installation). Of course there is a lot more to do at the holiday sim. There are small white ornaments in the snow, that indicate an interactive pose close by which you can use for photography. Or you can do ice skating or take a ballon ride, our just visit the Christmas pavillion.20161224-calas-galadhons-2016-holiday-sim_019

At the end of our sleigh tour we got this: “Calas Cuddle Sleigh: We hope you enjoyed the sleigh ride this year.  Our wish is that we have brought to your heart a bit of the warmth, peace and joy that we at Calas Galadhon Park strive to express at this special time of year!  Merry Christmas!  Ty & Truck”
Thank you Ty Tenk (tymus.tenk) and Truck Meredith for this present to all of us!
Landmark to Calas Galadhon’s holiday sim
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EREBOR/193/154/3591

Alki’s North Pole

20 Dec 2016 Leave a comment

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December 18th: Diomita at Alki's North Pole

December 18th: Diomita at Alki’s North Pole

In May 2016 I visited Alki and wrote about my visit “My first visit to Alki“. Sunday, December 18th, I read about Alki’s Noth Pole in Inara’s blog “A trip to Alki’s North Pole in Second Life” and of course I had to take a look. Alki’s North Pole is a seasonal addition to Alki and it is just cute! It will be open for visitors until end of December. Don’t miss this opportunity to take pictures or for ice skating or for sitting with a bear. I had some Winter fun exploring. Thank you Alana Onyett and Zoidyn Kytori – and thank you Inara for the suggestion.20161218-alkis-north-pole_009

Later that Sunday night, I took slave Flo and my niece Angelique to Alki’s North Pole and while slave Flo added to the sesonal Spirit with her antlers, Angelique and I were throwing snowballs and bulid a snowman, just having fun …

December 18th at Alki's North Pole: Angelique, Diomita and slave Flo

December 18th at Alki’s North Pole: Angelique, Diomita and slave Flo

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Landmark to Alki’s North Pole
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Alki/112/124/1529
Inara Pey’s blog about Alki’s North Pole
https://modemworld.me/2016/12/13/a-trip-to-alkis-north-pole-in-second-life/

Black Milk – The Black Embassy

18 Dec 2016 Leave a comment

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Mistress Jenny was on a short vacation, Thursday December 15th. The day before she gave me a landmark and asked me to visit it, if I find the time for it. The LM is named “Black Milk” and I looked up the LM’s description “Black Embassy, Black Supremacy, white Slave, cuckold, Bulls, D/s, Bdsm, Slave, Mistress, Master, race, humiliation“. That doesn’t sound like a place a white woman should go to and I asked Mistress about it. She told me that I can stay outside at the landing point and use my camera if I don’t dare going in. The sim rules would deny any white to enter dressed. Well, I found the time to go there, actually already Thursday late afternoon. To make matters worse, Mistress Jenny insisted that I keep my cuffs on and I couldn’t take the keys, so that added to being a white female *sighs*

December,15th - Diomita visting Black Milk: The landing area

December,15th – Diomita visting Black Milk: The landing area

December,15th - Diomita visting Black Milk: All Whites Must be nude on Embassy Grounds!

December,15th – Diomita visting Black Milk: All Whites Must be nude on Embassy Grounds!

The landing point of Black Milk is the entrance to the area of the Black Embassy. All White and non-blacks have to enter on the left side, the blacks on the right side. There is a club “Swirl” where whites are allowed to go dressed, but that’s it. On the ground of the Black Embassy the rules require whites to be naked and to follow the rules of black supremacy. At the entrance you also get a notecard with some basics that I will quote here in parts:
“On the Embassy grounds, all non Blacks must be nude regardless of if they are group members or not.
Furniture is off limits to all whites, unless engaged with a Superior
Always speak and act respectfully to all  Black dominants
Do not use the word ‘OK’  or  ‘Sure’,  when speaking to a dominant – always  be  respectful.   use “Yes Miss” or “Yes Sir”.
Black Embassy Chains (BEC) slaves will never address a non-Black as ‘Sir’ or ‘Miss’, those titles are reserved for the Superior race.”
I think you got the overall spirit.20161215-black-milk_02120161215-black-milk_022As it was quiet and none was around I dared to walk in just a little bit to take a picture. Naughty as I am I took one picture of me, dressed clearly submissive and with my cuffs just next to the sign demanding me being naked. Then I quickly walked back to the landing point and explored the ground with my cam. It became full as soon as one black Mistress showed up, the Co-owner of the Black Embassy, Mistress Willenov. I was able to take some pictures of her surrounded by several white slaves and this might give you an impression of the play here.
I myself have a little weakness for interracial play. It can spice any play. Mistress Jenny knows about this weakness and she shares it to some degree and I think she enjoyed peeking at the Black Embassy as I did. It’s worth a visit as it seems.
Landmark to Black Milk
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Haven%20VI/74/72/21

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