Neverland – Calas Galadhon Halloween

13 Oct 2016 Leave a comment

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

One of the highlights of a simploring year are Calas Galadhon’s seasonal sims. This years sim for Halloween is called Neverland and can be found in the SL destination guide where you find the following description of it: “With the beginning of its 7th year, Calas Galadhon creators Ty Tenk & Truck Meredith share their 2016 Halloween build Neverland. In the spirit of the season with the creator’s unique mix of beauty and terror, this enchanting build provides many opportunities for haunting exploration and fun for every Peter Pan & Wendy. The magical boat tour with its overview of the build is a must! “
Well, exactly Neverland consists of two sims, one homestead and one full sim. You land at “The Pirates Cavern” where the road to neverland begins and the boat tour departs. As you land in the homestead part, the number of visitors is limited to 20 avatars. The goal is to find your way to “The Neverland Pavilion” were live music performances are held during October. I started with the boat tour, which was quite impressive and took about 40 minutes. You not only get an overview over Neverland doing the boat tour, you can already see from above what you shall explore later, like “The Portal”.

October 9th: Starting the Neverland boat tour

October 9th: Starting the Neverland boat tour

Neverland, at least what I saw during the boat tour, was not at all what I expected it to be. I saw lovely colourful flowers, lots of green, lets of water, rocks, lanterns and lights, a flying sailing ship, algae, water falls – just beautiful fantasy but not what you’d expect from an Halloween Installation, no graveyards, no ghosts, no fog ..(I admit I saw several skeletons and crocodiles)

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (1)

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (1)

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (1)

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (2)

As with other boat or sledge or carriage tours I made visiting Calas Galadhon sims, the boat tour is just at the beginning and in the end a real boat tour. Soon the gondola begins to fly and then you see Neverland from above. As you can see from the pictures above, Neverland is just a must see regarding it’s beauty and strong colours, simply wonderful! There’s also some wit scattered inbetween and I’m sure that I didn’t see all of it. I saw Pinocchio standing on a rock and I saw Mickey Mouse floating on the water, funny.

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (3) - floating Mickey Mouse

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (3) – floating Mickey Mouse

I also saw some beings that were a bit scary at least, not as a single being but in a crowd, for sure others know these beings, something between a rat, a mouse and a pig, there were hundreds of them gathering and I could see them from the boat. Are they dangerous?

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (4) - scary beings

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (4) – scary beings

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (5) - "The Portal" seen from the boat tour

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (5) – “The Portal” seen from the boat tour

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (6) - a look from above

October 9th: Impressions of the Neverland boat tour (6) – a look from above

At the end of the boat tour I got the following directions:
Neverland Tour: We hope your enjoyed the tour. Now it’s time to explore on foot. Sign posts and torches will light your way. Look for the Journey Cloths (Pirate Flag) which will take you to unique locations not accessed by walking. Find your way to THE PORTAL in the Ruins to take you to the Neverland Pavilion where this month’s live music performances will be held. Farewell. Be Safe!

So as soon as I find the time for it, I will return to Neverland and continue exploring, then on foot …. to be continued ….

Landmark to Neverland
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ESGAROTH/37/52/21
Neverland in SL Destination guide
http://secondlife.com/destination/neverland
Neverland in Inara Pey’s blog
https://modemworld.me/2016/10/02/visiting-spooky-neverland-in-second-life/

The Scary Season

10 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

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

Each Season has it’s own attractions. This time of the year is not only the year’s last loveliest smile, it’s also preparing for Halloween. And Halloween is something particular in Second Life. Almost every sim is decorated for Halloween, pumpkins and other decorations are set out. And whole sims are created just for this time of the year.
For me Inara’s blog seems to be an endless source of exploring proposals. This time it brought me to Ironwood Hills. You can read her description of Ironwood Hills in the Living in a modemworld blog, her post is titeled “Amidst the Ironwood Hills in Second Life“.

Ironwood Hills (1)

Ironwood Hills (1)

Although not designed exclusively for Halloween, it’s the right time to visit Ironwood Hills. I strongly recommend that you follow the instructions that you’ll get when entering the sim. Turn “Advance Lighting” on (in Firestorm hit alt-p and check the first checkbox in the Light tab). You will also get a flashlight offered when you enter the sim. Wear it! WOW … it’s foggy, steam rises from the gullies and the flashlight beam adds to the overall scary scenery. Unfortunately my graphic card came to it’s limits when I also turned avatar shadows on in the phototools (alt-p, 2nd tab). But I managed to take at least some pictures before crashing.

I went to Ironwood Hills several times, the first time together with sklavin, slave Flo and slave Ashley. In one part it is heavily raining and there are the rests of a parish fair with a carrousel and a big weel. It is raining cats and dogs and so heavy that you literally walk through a sea. And the flashlight makes the scenery sort of unreal.

Ironwood Hills (2) - with slavin, slave Flo and slave Ashley

Ironwood Hills (2) – with slavin, slave Flo and slave Ashley

My second visit was with Jenny and slave Flo and we had a real good time there and took lots of pictures. When you explore Ironwood Hills, be aware that sometimes you’ll see girl in a skirt full of blood stains sometimes and all of a sudden, scary! And this girl will appear not only once, she is really haunting you wherever you go.

Ironwood Hills (3) - the girl with the skirt full of blood stains secretly watching us

Ironwood Hills (3) – the girl with the skirt full of blood stains secretly watching us

Ironwood Hills (4) - Jenny at the big wheel

Ironwood Hills (4) – Jenny at the big Wheel

Ironwood Hills (5) - slave Flo nearly looses his flashlight when the girl appeared in her flashlight beam

Ironwood Hills (5) – slave Flo nearly looses his flashlight when the girl appeared in her flashlight beam

Ironwood Hills (6) - Jenny and the scarecrow

Ironwood Hills (6) – Jenny and the scarecrow

Ironwood Hills is sort of obligatory for those who like the scary season and for those who love taking pictures in SL in a particular environment. To finish this blog post, here’s the best picture I took at Ironwood Hills (at least I think it’s a really good one). Enjoy your visit!

Ironowwd Hills (7) - the girl on the bridge

Ironwood Hills (7) – the girl on the bridge

Related link in Inara Pey’s Living in a Modemworld blog:
http://modemworld.me/2015/10/03/amidst-the-ironwood-hills-in-second-life/

Landmark Ironwood Hills:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Yardley%20Manor/107/247/30

Happy Halloween

31 Oct 2014 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , ,

And when it is Halloween the Eurobrats will celebrate it. And in particular when Halloween is on a Friday – then it has to be a Halloween Party. So Jenny prepared the beach disco and changed it into a Halloween setting. Thank you for your work (but I know you loved doing that). Anyway and despite the many places that might party tomorrow night, we do hope that you stop by inworld and dance with us (as every Friday the party starts at 9 PM GMT / 1 PM SL time).

Our beach disco decorated for Halloween 2014

Our beach disco decorated for Halloween 2014

Of course you can come in disguise (you mustn’t). I myself selected my costume already and our niece Angelique selected hers too. I took this picture of Angelique and me last night.

Angelique and Diomita getting ready for Halloween

Angelique and Diomita getting ready for Halloween

 

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Something else: Dont’s forget to visit Maurer’s Gallery (TP pad to the gallery is right at the landing point). Rona’s Fall exhibit still is up with no admission fee until November 11th. Rona is just in a creative phase and for Halloween she made this picture:

"So_near"_by_Rona Potter

“So near” by Rona Potter

 

Happy Halloween!

The Haunted Halloween Tour

25 Oct 2014 1 Comment

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

As Halloween is getting closer we treid out some temporary installations. The Halloween tour is really good, very well made and lots of fun. As it will be gone soon, don’t miss the tour. It is worth your time!!
Thank you Inara for sharing!

Inara Pey's avatarInara Pey: Living in a Modemworld

The Haunted Halloween Tour, launched with the October Premium Membership offer The Haunted Halloween Tour, launched with the October Premium Membership offer (click images for full size)

Launched alongside the October 2014 Premium Membership offer, but available to all SL users, is the Haunted Halloween Tour, he latest offering from the Lab to feature Experience Keys, and one that appears to be specifically geared towards the Oculus Rift.

The tour can be accessed via the Lab’s Portal Park – simply go through the gate marked “Halloween” following your arrival. The path will lead yo to the access point, with gateways available for those with and those without an Oculus headset (the latter obviously requiring the Oculus Rift project viewer).

Whichever one you take (the actual tours are more-or-less the same), the first time you do so, you’ll be required to grant the experience the right to carry out certain actions on your avatar (perhaps most noticeably in this case…

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Eurobrats Halloween 2013

31 Oct 2013 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Halloween in Second Life is an event for several weeks. Everyone begins to decorate their sims, stores have special Halloween offers, and there’re a lot Halloween parties. The Eurobrats also celebrate Halloween – at our Friday night party. This year Jenny did a great job decorating our beach disco for Halloween. She even hired a music band of skeletons to support our dj Virgo. The decoration, the fog and the whole scenery did attract some ghosts too. Thank you, Jenny!

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Here are some more impressions. We had a lot of fun and great music as always. Enjoy the pictures.

Virgo and her music band of skeletons

Virgo and her music band of skeletons

Tyra the beast

Tyra the beast

Zombie Jenny and Diomita the witch

Zombie Jenny and Diomita the witch

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And two more picks from Halloween itself …. what a lovely crowd… Claven, Argi, Flo, Virgo, Nirva, Sarah, Fae, Erica, Baroness, Jenny, Angel, Tyra, Kitty and myself …..

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Virgo, Jenny the skeleton, Diomita and Tyra at Halloween

Virgo, Jenny the skeleton, Diomita and Tyra at Halloween

Nirvana, Sarah, Argi and Fae at Halloween

Nirvana, Sarah, Argi and Fae at Halloween

Claven and Kitty

Claven and Kitty

Our Halloween and anniversary party

27 Oct 2012 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in about Dio, about family members, anniversary blog entries, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Last night we celebrated Jenny’s and mine 4th wedding anniversary and we had our party as every Friday. According to the time of the year – Halloween. Jenny decoarated our beach disco with pumkins, scarecrows, ghosts, fogs and other decos and funny things. And we had some really great costumes worth to be documented here. So here is a selection of the pictures which i took. Thank you all for joining our party. Love from Dio & Jen.




It’s a bit spooky – for sure…

11 Nov 2010 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: ,

But it is a lot more than that: If you like well-done sims, this one is a must.
Voltek’s haunted house is a packed with all the right details to give it a highly realistic feel.

As you walk up through the main gate towards the heavy entrance door, you can almost sense the moist odor of moss growing on the walkway’s cobble stones and along the heavy, hand-hewn blocks of basalt that form the house’s outside walls. Once inside, your seem to hear the floor boards creak and your nose picks up that distinct smell which you can only find in buildings that are very old. But it is not appauling. Rather, it seems inviting, making you feel very comfortable, offering a sense of deep-rootedness and of being at home. Maybe it is for this reason that the house has some permanent, very old and very spooky guests. But you got to hurry if you still want to see all this.

It is a pitty but word has it that Voltek will soon take the house down (let’s face it: Halloween is over…). If you have the chance, go pay this place a visit while it’s still there.. “…muuahahahaa!”

This report was written again by our slaveboy Santana. Voltek gave permission to publish this report and the landmark. Thank you, hun!
You’ll find the Halloween installation of Voltek Atansoff hopefully until November 20th with the following URL
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cape%20Able/186/212/23
PS.: Please set your environment to midnight and turn the music on to get the full expierence

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