Month: February 2019

Not a ton of things to update this time around.

The land stuff for my Ten Year Plan is slooooowly moving forward at bored government functionary speed… The right of way has been settled, as well as the road leading to it, and none of the ‘neighbors’ had an issue with it. So there are now two flags demarking where the gate will eventually be, and in another few weeks I’ll have the paperwork so that I can start on the utilities.

In other news, I’m still playing around in RoE even though two of our party of ten have already fallen.

One was for not really fitting the theme, which as someone who has run a dozen RP sims I can understand the admin request. The character wasn’t really ‘sci-fi’ — right down to the elvish name, and the admin that took then player aside to see if they could fit theme a bit better was actually really nice about it… But the player didn’t take it well and rage-quit.

The second was for somehow having access to the admin section of the sim’s forums, and then going to an admin with ‘look what I know’ — and then being banhammered for it.

The rest of us though are still progressing with our plans to be a cross between the Mafia and the Illuminati.

Myself and a few friends are back in “Remnants of Earth”, a roleplay sim in Second Life that takes place in a fictional future version of our solar system where alien races and humans – both natural and genetically engineered – vie over the scraps of a long-abandoned Earth.

And this is, of course, an opportunity for me to make things in 3D.

The “Monte Cristo” is one-part lounge and one-part secret base for a mysterious group known as ‘Zenith’.

Last night I dipped a toe back into “Remnants of Earth” aka “RoE” on Second Life.

I left that setting about six months ago due to how the administration handles the place, and the fact I was in a pure combat faction because everyone I know in SL was too — but I’m not an endless combat sort of person and it was frustrating.

Since then everyone else has bailed on the setting as well — for the admin reasons. There have been a few false starts on getting our own setting running again, but as of yet not much traction.

During this I’ve poked around a few other RP sims, and if I’m allowed there due to my avatar choice the settings usually leave a lot to be desired… And I wind up back at square one.

I have my own sim which I usually use for my own settings, but I let an old acquaintance use it and it’s mostly turned into yet another adult-rated heavy-petting sim — just like the other 20,000 adult sims in SL. So I don’t spend much time there either. That stuff just isn’t my scene.

Sooo, it’s back to RoE — at least for a bit.

Right as I was departing RoE they were amidst a big update to their RP and dice rules. So upon my return I’ve not only had a chance to re-do my character a bit (free respec!) but I’m also having to re-figure everything out… RoE is remarkably complicated and generally user-hostile as far as systems are concerned, so there’s a learning cliff to conquer.

My character was still in the database, so I still have my inventory and my amassed wealth — which is handy as I need to sell all of my magical paraphernalia and replace it with ‘speech craft’ stuff.

See, the magic stuff in RoE was comical at best when I last played, but in the intervening six months it’s gotten downright ridiculous. So I’ve re-styled Valinye as a semi-famous recording artist and given her a selection of the new Speech Craft skills, which makes her more of a support character — and that suits me just fine.

I’ll probably write up the new back story today between work-related things here at work today. It’ll be good to get in some writing.