Finally got the technical stuff working, can now sell complete outfits, individual items and scripted rigged mesh, in boxes and other delivery systems. You can find my offerings at several locations, to be revealed sometime soon. Meanwhile, enjoy the first pieces that made it up.
Leslie Ann posing before the just-completed Tibetan Retreat Chalets at Perrytown.
There are a total of 56 Tibetan Retreat Chalets available. They are just outside Gorby’s Place. The homes are spacious and useful for meditation and other Ashram practices. Prices depend on location and furnishings. Unfurnished homes start at an extra $10 per month above the basic support. If you cannot afford this, a home will be furnished anyway. Closest to Gorby’s Place, fully furnished, we ask an additional $50 per month support to cover the prim count loss to the region.
Leslie Ann waving on Sunrise Street in the newly completed Perrytown.
These are first-come, first-served. You get a name post outside your door to identify your home. Doors are lockable, but it’s advised you keep a teleport to the inside of your home, just in case you lose the key or the door doesn’t work, which happens when you don’t click exactly right, or an internet packet-loss occurs.
Leslie Ann Showcasing an Unfurnished Tibetan Retreat Chalet, just completed.
Interiors are very spacious and generous. You can see out through the one-way windows, but they’re visually blocked when viewed from outside. The fireplace keeps the home very cozy in wintertime.
After many dozens of hours on Avatar Physics and other Impossible Roads to Travel in Second Life, I came across a rather startling event. There was no one anywhere near me, in the depths of my workspace, yet I felt a presence, a definite presence. I was being Watched. We all know the feeling, and mostly it just isn’t so, but in this case, I knew it, without a doubt — yet there are no windows nearby, not that you could see through, anyhow. So…where was the Observer? It suddenly dawned upon me, and I chuckled with wry appreciation. My Avatar was winking at me, smiling, following my motion, and my hand was nowhere near the mouse or keyboard — what’s more, my computer is so 20th century that my screen isn’t even the touch n’ swipe kind. Yet it was undeniable. There she was, staring into my space, up close for the first time. Sure, from a distance, there had been some sightings, but this was really in yer face. I wondered if my Avatar could hear me, but was unable to determine yes or no. My guess is that we’d have to develop some sort of voice interface, not sure how that could be done or if it’d even have a chance of working. I went right to work to try to determine the exact “factors” that had opened the door to Look-Back, and was soon rewarded with very specific (and very spooky) results. It turns out that there are very specific things you can do to open that door for your Avatar to look directly through the screen into your world. I’ll introduce more about this at the upcoming In-Ashram Halloween Workshop!! Reserve your spot now!
See You At The Top!!!
gorby
Leslie-Ann in Pre-Halloween Witches’ Gear, at the “Soul Bakers” installation just in front of the Not-So-Secret Tibetan Mountaintop Temple — guess where???
Yep, they’re newly installed at the mountaintop near the Stasis Circle. You can’t miss it. What they’re for is when your Avatar has hit an achievement or an Initiation that you want to lock down at a First Stage Level (one step above organic human life), such as running an Orb to completion (ask what that means if you don’t know) or it could be that you got a job and want to set that in as a life-accomplishment. ASK before using, please, it makes a difference which color baker you employ for what purpose!
See You At The Top!!! As a matter of fact, that’s where I am now.
gorby
Leslie Ann presents the new Isiris Mausoleum installation at Old Town, 3200 metres — following is a transcript of the builder’s description of the Mausoleum:
THE MYTH WE CALL “DEATH” —
Isiris Mausoleum is more than a simple crypt, indeed it is a palace dedicated to the great beyond. It is designed to be an experiential journey through the afterlife based on ancient, medieval and even more contemporary myths. As you enter it you are greeted by traditional omens and symbols of passing to the other side. As you explore you will find traps, ghosts, and clues about your journey.
In the lowest level of Isiris Mausoleum you will encounter the Underworld where Charon will carry you on his boat along the River Styx to continue your journey to the higher levels.
Screenshot of Gorebagg achieving level 99 Measured against all competing Assassins in West Ladder. You will note that all other Assassins are at level 98 at this time. Gorebagg was the very first competitor at level 99, three seasons running!!! How you can tell that Gorebagg was the very first player at the 99 level is that there are no other assassins at level 99 at this time — the closest Assassin competitor is at level 98 — a close second, by the way.
Here’s Gorebagg, momentarily at the World Champion #1 Position. Note that almost all the nearby competitors are Paladins. Just try the same thing with an Assassin and see what brutal really can look like! Without the Pallys, there’d be no 99s on there at all, and LOH Obama really helped a lot toward the end, as did so many of my D2 buds.
But what is it really like to be a Level 99? The answer in a nutshell is: “I go where I am needed and I do what must be done.” When a Level 1 can do the job with bull-headed wrestling and weight-pushing, why not use a Level 1, and that’s my favorite player position, but we can’t always get what we want…oooh, that gives me an idea for a song.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby
Leslie-Ann conducts a London Bus Tour of the Higher Dimensions, Oct. 21, 2013.
If you’re really heavily into The Seduction Path, you won’t have much time for Ashram Work, if you get there at all. The Seduction Path is a very busy path, with all sorts of day-calendar and night-calendar appointments — they’re called “Assignations” in movies about the French courtiers and their carryings-on.
Relationship maintenance takes a lot of effort and energy, but if you manage to remain in a stable relationship, you’ll be able to take a few minutes for your Ashram Work. Remember that you can do this work in your bathrobe, slippers and shower-cap on your laptop in the middle of a lockdown, quarantine or stay-at-home sheltering order from the governor.
You’ll be able to enter the Ashram — soon you will be able to go online through your eyeglasses or wristwatch, and not long after that, you’ll be able to browse the internet with that fantastic new Galaxian Internet Implant Device that enables your brain to assemble full-blown tactile hallucinatory shopping malls and never-ending reverberating mental infomercials, with no external gear necessary — it’s all in the head.
If you’ve got a few minutes on your hands, and you’re near a laptop or a desktop computer or an iPad or iPhone, and you happen to have already downloaded and installed the second-life engine, you might consider working on your Personal Evolutionary Potential right now, this very second as is.
Here’s how you can do that very thing right this second:
Leslie Ann on way to dance class, October 21,2013, 3:33 a.m.
What is Life on the Relationship-Go-Round? Well, these days, without a church to enforce marriage, relationships, at least in the Western World, are tenuous at best. Most folks today have chain-relationships, or “serial marriages”, one after another. Boy Meets Girl. Boy and Girl Are Separated. Boy and Girl Get Together Again would be the Hollywood Ending, but the fact is that there are more single moms today than ever before, and that’s becoming the Newborn Baby Industry Standard. The question every girl must ask herself about every potential date is, and must be: “Is this the man with whom I want my children to spend their weekends?” What on Earth drives this relationship craze? To anticipate your next guess, I’ll tell you now that it isn’t sex. It also isn’t drugs. Nor is it anything else you’d be likely to guess. For the correct answer, click the “continue reading” button.
If there are any Official Secrets to Music, these are they:
1. Tell a Story — this simply means any story about the simple nursery song that you’ve selected for this exercise (such as “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, or “Jack & Jill” or “Sing a Song of Sixpence” — any story will do, including that there isn’t one, ie; a rambling exploration of random notes and measures. Usually it means a story, pure & simple, describing the song’s major points, such as the fact that the farmer lived in a dell, had a wife, many chicks, ducks, geese, horses, cattle, swine, and a couple of wild and crazy dogs with a penchant for handouts. A story like that generally begins with a beginning, goes on a while in the middle, and stops at the end. The MIDDLE part is generally about the obstruction, the pain, the misery or the angst of it all. A typical song story is “my baby done left me”, whether you hear it in blues, folk, pop, ballad, country-western, jazz or classical, it’s always about relationships of one kind or another. That’d be human/human (read as: “human over human”) and bottle/human and a whole chain of seductions that read more or less the same. The story is told verbally before the instrument is sounded. The STORY should NOT take more than 1 minute to tell, especially the “Boy Meets Girl, Girl Gets Drownded, Boy Gets Hanged sort of murder-ballad you’ll find commonly in folk music.
Just a comment on the Shutdown Showdown from Lord Vish… uh, I mean “Ol’ GoreBagg”:
It’s not just the Republicans — everyone is standing their ground, in essence, playing “Chicken” — where you run two jalopy type hot-rod cars at each other, until one turns aside — with our money, our work-lives and our homes and families. The game of “Chicken” always ends badly. Remember Sal Mineo and Steve McQueen in Rebel Without a Cause? The cars always go over the cliff, and at some point somewhere along the line, somebody doesn’t make it out the door in time, and this time it’s America that failed to jump and is going to go over the cliff. It’s already too late to avoid extreme calamity to the lower and middle classes — of course leaving the rich Senators unscathed and actually financially a bit ahead, because they are in a position to dominate and profit from market downturns, besides outright selling “short”. It’s far too late to bring back national prosperity and pride, but there should be just enough time to bring the bastards responsible for the destruction of the United States to a fair trial by 10 or more of their peers, with a few million alternate jurors standing in the wings. The thing is, Senators can’t be prosecuted for Congressional Malpractice, and that’s what should happen but of course, won’t. The very, very rich always get away with it, didn’t you know? The reason I posted this the night before the deadline is that even with a settlement, the damage is done.
Point of interest; a classic historical factoid from the past — President Truman met with a half dozen nuclear scientists, trying to decide whether to set off, ie; “test”, a nuclear weapon back in 1945, at Alamagordo, New Mexico, before dropping two more on Nagasaki and Hiroshima… President Truman asked if it were true that there was a possibility that the explosion could set off a chain reaction, incinerating the entire planet. Nobody knew what a bomb like that could actually do. The six scientists responded as one with the now-classic answer: “Mr. President, we’re willing to take that chance!”
Personally, it’s no skin off my blue back, I’m immortal and I’m merely a casual visitor, checking in to see if everything’s running right, and by golly, it is! From where I live, it’s all terribly amusing. I hope you’re enjoying this section of history as much as I do. It’s my hobby.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby