A night of revelry with a group of old friends and the return of DJ Anjoux Herbit to SL after two years away. We missed him!
I arrived early to find Anj warming up the stage:
Anj warming up the stage.
It wasn’t long before the music started and everyone started to arrive, in ones and twos the dancefloor began to fill up with familiar and new faces.
Our Host Tori
Ava finished the night at Durty Feckers and after some over consumption of Amber nectar she posed looking all flirty on the pool table with mischief (and Whisky) in her eyes. Alas she’s had too much and with all the dancing it was time to pass out. Her place felt far too far away though, so this conveniently located, felt-topped bed will do just fine!
Backpack: Legends Satchel ~ Lucky Explorer – Event item from Bloodlines – A whole load of complicated to get if you don’t alreay play their Legends gam. But if you do play, go HERE and wave your wand near the Summoning Station on the boat.
Ava entered the village and had a look around, inevitably it being an Irish village, there were two establishments, a pub an a pie shop.
The pub was conspicuously empty
The pub however was mysteriously quiet except for some rowdy tourists outside, A little exploration found a gypsy wagon, also empty.
An empty gypsy wagon
An old stone cross marked the edge of the village, beyond which she could see a tower bathed in green light, a path of glowing clover leaves leading the way.
Onward she went inside and looked in wonder upon the rainbow-drenched cauldron.
A rainbow-drenched caulron surrounded by glistening water
After several moments of wonder, she sees another small light coming from a small arched opeing in the wall.
An enchanting grove lies behind the tower
Beyond she found an enchanting candlelit grove. Perhaps the village resident have all been spirited away?
Come be enchanted by the lovely little village, Ireland.
(The pub did start to get a crowd at a later hour, so come for that too!)
I wore a rather unusual (for me) outfit to the SL Book Club a little while ago. Since a few people seemed to like it,I thought I’d re-shoot it to show the look off better.
Outfit Credits:
Breatplate: Novianna Tops by :[Petrichor]: from Cyberpunk 2020
Ava creeps around the lab looking for anything potentiality valuable she might be able to steal and sell at whatever place they all end up at after the evacuation. She finds an assortment of vials that look interesting and stuffs it into her bag. She had worn white in the absence of a lab coat so at first-glance she might be overlooked and the sheerness of it might distract those that gave a Second-look, that would give her at least a moment to escape.
Why she had bothered she wasn’t sure, everyone else will be in too much of a panic to care about a pilfering Scav.
She tries to be careful as she goes round, not to knock over any of the test tubes and vials on the work benches, since there had been protective masks hung outside which she’d donned out of self-preservation sense.
On the way out a terminal that has been left unlocked catches her eye. She looks around for a flash drive in one of the desks and finding one she sits and waits as a large directory labelled “Classified Projects” downloads.
I joined a group of Roleplayers taking part in a “Mineshaft rescue” organised roleplay at the Varuna Project on 6th of March.
I went along just to watch, OOC (Out of Character) to see what they were getting up to, since it was the first I’d been able to attend. I wish now I had joined in IC, since little did I know, it would have been my last opportunity to RP there.
This morning Friday 12th March,(technically Thursday night in SL), it was announced in the Varuna Project Discord server that the build would be closing and was going to be dismantled over the coming weekend.
As I mentioned in previous posts I’d rank this place up alongside Hangars Liquides and the Drune Cyberpunk builds in terms of quality and attention to detail. So it is such a shame to see it closing,but good things don’t last forever sadly.
If you have the time, I’d suggest dropping by to have a look at this masterpiece before it’s gone.
After seeing Isabelles fab post about Cyber Fair I thought it would be fun to do a little collaboration. So she invited me over and we had a nice little chat about what to do and tried stuff out until we got some great shots worked out. I absolutely love this one and had great fun taking it.
Isabelle: “We’re here to save the Galaxy…” Isabelles corresponding (Light-side?) post: Same moment, different view.
My Credits:
Bodysuit:INORI – Ziva CombatSuit – MainFrame 2021
Tattoo: Circuited Body (Black Red) by APOCOLYPTIC from Mainframe 2021
Choker:*z e r o i c h i * AG CHOKER – Cyber Fair 2021
What does a name mean? In short, more than I thought.
I last posted about moving my blog to a new domain name to match my new SL username. So that kinda did happen and kinda didn’t.
I won’t bore you with the details, but after plenty of hair pulling I ended up with a duplicate site on the new address. I started to change other little things, my Displayed name on Twitter and Flickr for example. Then it came to my SL Display Name, and I couldn’t do it.
I don’t mean a technical issue, it just didn’t feel right. I’ve used the Ava Delaney name in SL for 8 years come the end of this month, it’s part of who I am now.
It was dropped from my Username last year because I thought “AvaDelaney Bloodrose” would have sounded a bit odd. I really wanted rid of the “Resident” last name though, so thank you Linden Lab for making that possible.
While I was inspired by a book character, my version of Ava has grown far beyond that now. I’ve made the name my own and it feels part of my avatar persona. A rather stress-inducing but fortunately not excessively costly exercise to discover this revelation, but I think worth it.
So I’m sticking with the Delaney name and this blog is staying right where it is.
How much value do you put in your Avatars name? I’d be interested to hear.
Last year I went to the Cyberpunk shopping event for the first time and bought a few nice things, that I’m still wearing and some featured in a recent post.
Cyber Fair 2021 is opening tomorrow (4th March) and I’m really looking forward to it!
I thought I’d do a post featuring as many of the items from last year as possible, before I go on another shopping spree!
At the end of my last post about Golgothica I mentioned returning to check out the chapel and the windmill. Well..I’ve done that and wow there was so much I missed out!
First I had a glance inside the suspected tavern, lovely little place, more on that later..first the chapel.
You have to head down the side of the tavern that lets you reach a bridge across to the rather spooky-looking place.
Crooked headstones are all around as you enter, a brief glance at a few before finding the entrance to the building at the near end.
Entering the Chapel the roof as fallen in which lets in beautiful shafts of light, making it feel quite serene.
Heading back the way I came between the houses I come across what would appear to be the front entrance to the tavern and take a better look. It’s small but ideally cozy for a small community to socialize in the warm together.
I come to the front of the tavern
Very cozy, just what you need with all the horrors outside.
Carrying on through the town I come across some wagons, it appears there are gypsies are in town, or is it maybe a permanent arrangement?
In the distance I’m expecting to see the windmill that I’d seen from walls of the castle on my last visit, but no. What I see instead is the entrance pillars of a stone circle!
I hasten along and something else catches my eye beyond the stones on the coast side, which is the appropriate place for a Wickerman.
The reason I’m so excited? One of my favourite films is The Wickerman (1973 original obviously,not that crap remake that doesn’t even deserve the name from 2006.)
I re-enter the stone circle to try out the ritual animations the altar there has to offer, before heading out the far side in search of the windmill.
Nice ritual pose
Lots of detailed props
A Sense of forboding
When I found it though it was a little bit of a shock inside. It’s suitably atmospheric, with some great props, enough to give me an uneasy feeling to get out.
Atmospheric props
The fact you can’t avoid stepping inside a circle might bother some people.
I’m no stranger to folks putting pentagrams upside down and stuff, they think it’s cool and scary (this is no criticism of the place,but of a stereotype portrayed in films), it’s fitting for a build like this and plays to the horror movie stereotype well. I stepped into the windmill and realised I’d inadvertently stepped right into the middle of a chalked circle on the floor. Something never to be taken lightly, so I made a prompt exit.
As I emerge I see a large statue of a werewolf attacking its victim. This feels a little out of place for some reason, not seeing any other references to such so far. Passing the statue I step into the light of a fire, in the middle of the gypsy camp from the opposite side.
Statue of a werewolf with it’s prey
I enter the camp and it feels very cozy
While I look around I again realise I’m in the middle of something, this time a massive pentagram. Not so worrying as a circle, provided its oriented correctly and I didn’t get any bad vibes off this one.
There’s also some fun things in the tents, including a gypsy dance one..
After my trekking around I felt in need of a brief rest so I headed to the windswept beach and walked for a short distance before I found a cozy campfire and a lovely view of the sea.
