I featured a couple of items from Second Moon in a previous post, I couldn’t help wanting to use them again with this dress also of theirs. It’s gorgeously reflective in the right light, such as at the Isle of Aquarius. Second Moon is an old store that’s making a comeback, having originally opened in 2007 but closed in 2013. Now it’s back with some lovely shiny stuff!
Outfit Credits:
Dress: Reflections – Moonlight Dress – Second Moon
It’s tricky to remember something that everyone in attendance will deny it taking place, but as they say “if there’s no pictures, it didn’t happen”. I fortunately do have pictures! This certainly was a challlenge though due to the sheer number of photos I’d taken. But I’d say that’s the sign of a good not-a-party-at-all, if you want to capture every moment.
The new girl has arrived at Flambois Academy of Magic and she’s already causing trouble. She has a black eye to show for it, but her opponent came off worse, meaning they got the blame and punishment for the fight.
She pours over the books in the library when anyone’s around, but the feet go up as promptly as they’ve left. It’s not that she’s a slacker, she just has inherited natural power, there’s just not much the books can teach her. Her problem is theory and lore tests, so she learns as much of that parrot-fashion to scrape through, she was admitted on the strengths of her practical skill after all.
Emerging from her forest homeland she enters the Oasis town to find it eerily empty, quiet of the hustle and bustle she might have found here normally. She wanders here and there, the stores still open and full of wares for purchase, but no customers as yet. No doubt they will arrive and shower the merchants with coin in the the near future. She hopes a merchant may show themselves, because she’s in need of somethig to cover up from the brighter sun than the shadows of the forest.
“According to legend, no visitor has ever voluntarily returned to their old life – but is it really possible?” (Quote from Region description)
Location: Lost to the Mysts of Time
Outfit Credits:
Skirt & Top: (<) 1313 Svge 23 Set – Distressed Rawr -1313 Mocking birld Lane
The mermaid loved to swim near the city where the path had been damaged. The magic that had held it in place above the water persisted, so the pieces were suspended in mid-fall below the waters surface. The glow of magic reflected so beautifully through the water it made for a lovely swim.
No-one is quite sure any more what caused the path to break, it must have been a considerable impact to be stronger than the magic, but then the path was only intended for the passage of humans and other land-dwellers. The common speculation is that a visiting giant had tried to cross, given the scale of a statue on the shore. Giants had not been seen in these parts of the Fairelands within living memory and the Fey lived very long lives.
Outfit Credits:
Tail Texture: TNNMermaid =Glowing Black= for Nemissa {BOM} – Tir Na Nog
Yesterday evening was a Roleplay storytelling session by The Children of Stories as part of their annual adventure. I copied down a couple of the stories to give a taster of their talents.
The Roleplay this year features a gathering of children from previous years stories that have all been mysteriously summoned to Flambois, collectively known as The Gathered and you can read more at the link below:
We gathered then as we gather now, to share stories. Strifeclaw told us about the greed of the Bard King, and the Unweaver’s evil. Dogstar told us about the Mouse and the Knight, a boy who was transformed so he could defeat a powerful Knight.
Some of us knew the legend of the Mouse treasure, but dismissed it as mythical, but with Dogstar’s tale, we were freshly motivated to find it!
[12:25:57] Ðæmøn (Daemon Davidson): The finding of it is a tale unto itself, but find it we did and broke the seal of greed with help from the charity of the gathered peoples of the Fairelands. I’m leaving out a lot of details here, to keep this tale brief.
[12:26:37] Dean Ravencrest (DeanRavencrest): yeh basicly Dogstars stories are probly relevant to whats happening [12:26:44] Ðæmøn (Daemon Davidson): Next we passed through a mirror to the Spring of Souls, to face the Death Knight. The same evil knight the mouse boy defeated.
The Knight was weary of undeath and lamented the evil choices he had made in life, but would not surrender his sword to us without a challenge. Again this deserves a tale all its own, but in the end we defeated the Death Knight and his army of wraiths and captured his sword.
[12:27:28] Ðæmøn (Daemon Davidson): We had a little run in with Morkus Dreg and the Pawlice, but… ahem… let’s not dwell on that.
[12:28:01] Ðæmøn (Daemon Davidson): There was a journey to another of the Fairelands, an encounter with some annoying ravens, made all the more annoying since Ravens and Magpies are kin. There was a green dragon of corruption that proved to be an illusion of the Bard King’s doing.
[12:28:46] Ðæmøn (Daemon Davidson): Finally, with the artifacts of all four elements gathered, we placed them in position to breach the final seal. But again, we needed the assistance of the people of the Fairelands, whose combined charity and compassion powered the runes to finally break the seal.
[12:29:18] Ðæmøn (Daemon Davidson): The treasure we uncovered was not gold or silver, but rather a sickly boy, the long lost Guardian of Fire. Trapped deep underground, surrounded by water, he was on the verge of death.
12:29:55] Ðæmøn (Daemon Davidson) leans into the next part
12:30:14] Ðæmøn (Daemon Davidson): He died just after we got him out of the chamber, but even as we were comprehending the tragedy, something astounding happened.
His body erupted in flames and floated into the air. Before our eyes, Cale was transformed from the wasted body of a sickly child to an Immortal Phoenix!
[12:30:29] Tepic Harlequin: blimey! [12:30:31] Fen (Fenrue): \o/ [12:30:34] Brinley Taliesin (BrinleyTaliesin): golly [12:30:37] Feilong Natas (NatasIfris): hmm phoenix boys are cute too [12:30:37] Star Porter (StarPorter): Ohhhhhhh, Cale! Wow! [12:30:41] Strifeclaw (Strifeclaws) blinks [12:30:49] Feilong Natas (NatasIfris): phoenix even better than every treasure [12:30:56] Dean Ravencrest (DeanRavencrest): yeh it was pretty gobsmaking if I’m honest
12:31:01] Ðæmøn (Daemon Davidson): And that is how we Magpies, every one of us thieves, learned that some treasures are more valuable than gold.
[12:31:10] Trodden S. Miles (Trodden Miles) nods [12:31:15] Kie Heartsong: nods in approval
[12:31:18] Ðæmøn (Daemon Davidson): But gold is still shiny, just sayin’
[12:48:01] NettleLarke: You all can call me Rabbit, if you like, and I’ve a story to tell. Some may find it intriguing, some may miss the point, and some may find their own meaning in it. I’m still trying to puzzle out the meaning of it myself. Who wants to hear it?
12:49:31] NettleLarke: Alright then! Be warned…..it involves dark places and dark things, but only just. Or maybe they’re the very center of it! It depends on what you see in it.
[12:51:14] NettleLarke pulls a ball from her pocket and begins rolling it in her hands as she speaks. “Once upon a time, a long time ago when the stars were young and the world was new….that’s how you begin a tale, isn’t it? Once upon a time, a long time ago when the stars were young and the world was new….a creature dwelt in the bowels of the world, of all worlds. She was a creature of many names, but today, I will call her by the name I know her: Hastele of the Dark Waters….”
[12:53:25] NettleLarke: “Nearly as old as creation, Hastele has power beyond imagining, the power to change, the power of chaos, the power to, one day, possible unmake all things and start them anew, or so the tales say.. But we all know how reliable tales are….
But as a thing with power, true power, over the centuries many came to her seeking favors, trying to make deals. “My brother is ill and we haven’t the means to heal him, perhaps you can?”” Rabbit continues, the ball ever in motion, seeming still in the air as her hands move around it. “And often she would oblige, in her own way. Heal the brother while inflicting similar disease on the supplicant, perhaps, or healing them by giving them a new body, that of a great stag, so he might bound off into the woods and be hunted.”
[12:54:02] NettleLarke: Hastele was cruel in her gifts, is cruel in them.
But then one day…..
….one boy approached here in the deep places. A strange lad, tall and wiry, and mischievous and dark.
[12:54:28] NettleLarke: “What do you seek?” she asked him.
“A great favor” he replied.
12:54:47] NettleLarke: “Indeed? Greater than a kingdom?”
“Yes, greater than a kingdom.”
“Greater than wealth, than power, than glory?”
“Greater than all those things.”
[12:55:52] NettleLarke: “And at this, Hastele leaned forward, intrigued.
“Greater than godhood itself?”
“Greater than that” the boy replied.”
12:56:16] NettleLarke: And the deep-dweller, she of the dark waters considered this for some time, unable to imagine what this upstart could possibly be asking for.
“Ask it.”
[12:57:22] NettleLarke: “And the boy answered “I ask….for your friendship.”
12:58:46] NettleLarke: And Hastele, dark thing for dark waters, dweller of the shadows, thought this over for a time and slowly, for the first time in creation, she smiled a smile, not of malice, not of irony, but a true smile…..and she granted it.
[12:58:59] NettleLarke bobs a curtsey and wheels, stepping away.
Standing guard on the street corner she tries to get used to the weight of the swords. She’s trained with them, she’s competent in using them, but wearing them for an extened period of time? Her hips were getting sore. She draws them and gives them a twirl, she’s not meant to draw them unless she’s actually going to use them, but she needs to ease the weight for a moment. How did she end up here? She always thought she’d end up going to the House of Testament, she liked books and history! But oh no, no such luck. When she came of age she took the Test and it said Strife! So she’d done the training, got the House protective tattoos and gear. She really shouldn’t complain, being responsibilbe for the citizens safety was something to be proud of, but why did the swords have to be so damn heavy!
Before the Faire opened, I created a range of outfits based around the descriptions provided by the World Builders. Some of these I interpreted ok, but others I got totally wrong! Here at Giggenwhirl I interpreted “With hinged wing they flap and propeller they swirl..” as some kind of robots or something steampunk…nope! Come visit and you’ll see what it actually refers to.
Anyway this whimsical little outfit I put together for Woo Hoo Bay seems to fit right in here instead.
The dress HUD allows for a few levels of transparency of the dress and the thong underneath.
There was a note in the box saying “wear as bare as you dare” but this is Fantasy Faire, so I had to stick to the PG options. All the items featured are in the merchants 100% Donation vendors, meaning that all the money from that transaction goes to the American Cancer Society.
Outfit Credits:
Dress & body jewellery: Princess of Olympus – Jazabelle
Hair: Hair F227 RFL pack – KMH
Necklace: Fae Queen’s Lock – TOASTED
Back Tattoo:Soul Wing s-FULL Phoenix 60% – ~Flying Horse Head Studios~
Fantasy Faire 2023 is open! After what seemed like an Age the Fairelands have revealed themselves from the Mists once again. Since the opening of the Faire is at Noon (SLT) when the Sun reaches the highest point in the sky, I thought a lovely set of Tattoos called “Sun” seemed very appropriate! This set of tattoos can be worn as Full body or in individual parts, the face having options for both EvoX and Classic heads. I twinned it with the skimpiest thing I could find in the Blogger room to show as much of it as possible.
You can get into the Faire from Fairelands Junction. (Direct store slurls will be added when availale)
Outfit Credits:
Tattoos: Sun Tattoo Full (Evo X head) – *Find The Fish*
All around the World there are Second Life Creators beavering away, they have a Deadline. In just under 7 days, Fantasy Faire 2023 will open to the public.
They’re making last minute tweaks, taking product photos, packaging stuff up and of course not panicking.
The room in which you see me and my little flaming friend here is the Fantasy Faire Blogger Room. Right now it’s very quiet, but in a few days, all those boxes on the walls will begin to be filled with all those Creators hard work. That’s so that I and (getting on for nearly 100) other bloggers can show you all the wonderful stuff they’ve made in aid of Relay For Life.
Which is of course to entice you all come to the Faire and buy it all!
Fantasy Faire is the highlight of the Second Life calendar for me and many involved with it. It runs this year from 20th April til 7th May and is a fundraising event for the American Cancer Society.
Outfit Credits:
Corset: Customised version of Corset (may be available during Faire)
Sigil Tattoos: Created from images provided by Walton Wainright
For anyone wondering, I wasn’t given any special early access to the Blogger room. It’s just always in the same place (outside the Fairelands) and I still have the Landmark from previous years.
