Castles in the Air

I know it's been a while since I've blogged here. With one thing or another, I haven't been doing much in SL lately. I did manage to make some tops for mers who are tired of the usual shell bras (besides the fact that they chafe so), and I've been redoing the landscaping at my home high above Arianti. I decided to go for the uprooted "Halajula Mountain" look (what? You haven't seen Avatar?) I've even added a waterfall plunging into the void:


Now if I can just find some dragons to hover around the cliffs, I'll be all set. I wonder what Grendel's Children has these days?

Ghosts of the Blake Sea

The Blake Sea is haunted!


That's the only explanation I can come up with for the avs that are always there, in the same spot, no matter what time of the day or night it is. The three or four I've checked don't have anything -- or at least very little -- in their profiles.


What's even more mysterious are the green dots on the map (at least on my map), again never moving, that don't have anyone at that location.


Haunted, I tell you!

Do you want to date my avatar?

Wrath Paine posted a wonderful music video by The Guild. The Guild, in case you haven't stumbled upon them yet, is a series of sitcom episodes about online gamers and their foibles both inworld and in real life. Check them out: you'll recognize a lot of people you know, and probably yourself as well.

How to begin?

It's been over a month since I was "born" into Second Life, the offshot of an avatar who wanted to explore the wild and fantastic sides of Second Life, but who also wanted to keep a "clean" public image in the process. Rather silly, and a bit cowardly, if you ask me. Still, I owe my existence to that hypocracy, so I won't complain. If my Primary wants to blow US$9.95 to bring me to life, I'm all for it.

I was given the name "Mare" because of my fascination with becoming a mermaid: Mare being Latin for "sea". By the way, the correct pronouncation is "MAH-ray", like "Mary" with a softer "a" sound. Not "Mair", please. Any resemblence to a female horse is purely coincidental, and a bit resented by yours truely.

Besides being a merperson, I also have outfits as an angel (both light and dark). I recently bought a set of scripted wings at Material Squirrel Wings. They flap, droop and stiffen, and have Excite compatabilidy (although I wouldn't know what to do with that, of course...). I'm a little disappointed that they don't extend fully, but I imagine there are technical limitations preventing that. I also have a lot of freebie fairy butterfly wings for when the fae mood takes me.

Besides enjoying assuming the aspects of the finned and winged creatures of fantasy, I have to confess that I also am drawn to the Darker Side at times. I'm talking about ropes, chains, cages, and frightening spiky devices. This isn't something that my Primary here or in RL wants to admit publicly. So you may find me occasionally hanging around, as it were, in places like Heaven & Hell (the biggest dungeon complex I know of in SL). I'll be in cuffs, maybe a bit of letther, and not much else (that narrows it down LOL).

So on with the blog. I have a month's worth of things to talk about, so the forcast is for a flurry of posts over the next few days, followed by scattered rantings and periods of quiet neglect. Stay tuned for the fun.