Just lately I have been taking a large role in a RolePlay sim, and I've been playing characters as well as crafting storylines for it.
I am talking about Gaslight Extreme - and in particular Elysian Island. The owner had an interesting idea for entertaining members - putting on plays. These are sort of halfway between theatre and roleplay - we create a basic plot and story, but the actors mostly make up their own lines.
It's an evolving concept, and we are still discussing to what extent the audience can participate. We try to encourage audience participation, but that cannot always be practical. What for instance, occurs if a character is secretly meeting with a co-conspirator? It is part of the play, so the audience needs to see it, but what if someone in the audience feels it is their duty to inform other characters what is going on behind their back? what if the audience want to intervene? that is unrealistic and throws the whole plot out the window.
Basically, we are trying to create a whole new form of roleplay experience - complex plots with deep storylines that raise the art of RP to a new level.
There are still many problems and obstacles - availability of personnel not being the least.
Monday, 27 August 2012
A New Chapter
Myrddin's Emporium has entered a new chapter in the wake of Sensual StoneWorks closure.
Unlike many of the well established businesses in SL that have recently closed, SSW still exists - but without a sim. the group is still active, and Merry has opened a store at the Showcase area of Supreme Beast. Anyone who bought SSW statues more than a year ago and hasnt had them upgraded yet can get a free repair kit from MarketPlace. As many people are still discovering, Linden Labs goofed by making an lsl command obsolete - which suddenly meant thousands of scripts no longer worked - something Merry and Minx fixed straight away, but there was no way of contacting all the former purchasers.
SSW still has a stall at Yggdrassil, and Grendels Children also has a new store at Yggdrassil - just behind Orochi and round the corner from my new store. Actually there are two Myrddin's Emporium stalls at Yggdrassil at the moment. feel free to play on the Baphomet statue.
I also have a very well positioned shop at the new sim for BFA - very close to the camp fire, so a nice posoition there. the new BFA sim is better than the old place, and incidentally has a lot of SSW statues in it..
I also have a stall at Lots of Fun, and another at Supreme Beast, so i'm becoming a bit more ubiquitous. As I have more Adult rated stores, I have started to display the SSW associate venders that Merry gave me, so you can buy a lot of their products from my shops too.
Other news is i have just finished a new product - something that is generating quite a bit of excitement, and getting a lot of laughs. What can be funnier than a barrel of monkeys? Well how about a barrel of horny monkeys?
I am also working on a few more projects that are almost done, so stay tuned.
Unlike many of the well established businesses in SL that have recently closed, SSW still exists - but without a sim. the group is still active, and Merry has opened a store at the Showcase area of Supreme Beast. Anyone who bought SSW statues more than a year ago and hasnt had them upgraded yet can get a free repair kit from MarketPlace. As many people are still discovering, Linden Labs goofed by making an lsl command obsolete - which suddenly meant thousands of scripts no longer worked - something Merry and Minx fixed straight away, but there was no way of contacting all the former purchasers.
SSW still has a stall at Yggdrassil, and Grendels Children also has a new store at Yggdrassil - just behind Orochi and round the corner from my new store. Actually there are two Myrddin's Emporium stalls at Yggdrassil at the moment. feel free to play on the Baphomet statue.
I also have a very well positioned shop at the new sim for BFA - very close to the camp fire, so a nice posoition there. the new BFA sim is better than the old place, and incidentally has a lot of SSW statues in it..
I also have a stall at Lots of Fun, and another at Supreme Beast, so i'm becoming a bit more ubiquitous. As I have more Adult rated stores, I have started to display the SSW associate venders that Merry gave me, so you can buy a lot of their products from my shops too.
Other news is i have just finished a new product - something that is generating quite a bit of excitement, and getting a lot of laughs. What can be funnier than a barrel of monkeys? Well how about a barrel of horny monkeys?
I am also working on a few more projects that are almost done, so stay tuned.
Monday, 13 August 2012
End of an Era
End of an Era
Sensual StoneWorks, the birthplace and long time home of Erolit is no more! Well, the sim is no more, Sensual StoneWorks as an entity still exists. Merry still sells SSW statues at Supreme Beast Showcase area on Beast Island, and most of SSW's products can be bought at MarketPlace. Also, the main group (Sensual StoneWorks Updates is still active, and last month the Associate Venders were re-introduced.
Sensual StoneWorks was a popular sim for many years, but a decline in visitors and a drop in sales finally made a thriving sim into a loss making money pit, and like many well established sims, they were forced to call it a day. This is not the first iconic Sim to have closed just lately, and probably wont be the last - I think 2012 will go down as a black year for Second Life. I think the lesson for everyone is if you have a favourite sim - visit it as often as you can, spend Lindies when you can afford it, and when you see a donation bucket at a sim you like - tip a few L$, because if you dont support them, they will vanish.
I was heartbroken to be honest - I had a nice store next to Orochi, and another one next to Zebranna, and between them they managed to net me a lot of customers. I currently have a Myrddin's Emporium at the mall on ~Beast Island (near the party area), another at Lot's of Fun on Somani, and a store not too far from Orochi at Yggdrassil.
Erolit will continue - I shall be holding meetings on my little patch at Blaidd Drwg, and of course I shall continue to teach building classes. For a few months now I have been working as teacher and builder at Elysian Island Gaslight Extreme (a popular BDSM / Slave roleplay club), where i have been teaching basic and intermediate building skills, sculpting, and making animations & poses.
I sometimes get involved in the roleplay too. We put on freeform plays that are a sort of ad-hoc theatre. initially my role was to make props and buildings, but i've also penned a few storylines. This is a pretty natural extension to the erotic literature, which I am seeing as the potential future for Second Life. We all know how popular 50 Shades of Grey has become, and virtual worlds are a way to bring erotic literature to life.
I am trying to find new ways to tell my stories. putting a card reader in a prim book is a little bit mainstream and my storytelling plant has proven to be a popular item. the next stage is to make smaller versions for people who do not have room for a large perverse triffid.
Unfortunately, due to increased hours at work, having to find a new site for Myrddin's Emporium, and doing a lot at Gaslight Extreme, I missed the deadline for applications to this year's Steam Hunt. I had intended to enter the Twisted hunt this year too - but that will have to wait another year.
However, Cummere Mayo is running a Tentacle Addicts hunt in December, and i will not be missing out on that. As many of my former students and customers know, tentacles are my specialty.
Sensual StoneWorks, the birthplace and long time home of Erolit is no more! Well, the sim is no more, Sensual StoneWorks as an entity still exists. Merry still sells SSW statues at Supreme Beast Showcase area on Beast Island, and most of SSW's products can be bought at MarketPlace. Also, the main group (Sensual StoneWorks Updates is still active, and last month the Associate Venders were re-introduced.
Sensual StoneWorks was a popular sim for many years, but a decline in visitors and a drop in sales finally made a thriving sim into a loss making money pit, and like many well established sims, they were forced to call it a day. This is not the first iconic Sim to have closed just lately, and probably wont be the last - I think 2012 will go down as a black year for Second Life. I think the lesson for everyone is if you have a favourite sim - visit it as often as you can, spend Lindies when you can afford it, and when you see a donation bucket at a sim you like - tip a few L$, because if you dont support them, they will vanish.
I was heartbroken to be honest - I had a nice store next to Orochi, and another one next to Zebranna, and between them they managed to net me a lot of customers. I currently have a Myrddin's Emporium at the mall on ~Beast Island (near the party area), another at Lot's of Fun on Somani, and a store not too far from Orochi at Yggdrassil.
Erolit will continue - I shall be holding meetings on my little patch at Blaidd Drwg, and of course I shall continue to teach building classes. For a few months now I have been working as teacher and builder at Elysian Island Gaslight Extreme (a popular BDSM / Slave roleplay club), where i have been teaching basic and intermediate building skills, sculpting, and making animations & poses.
I sometimes get involved in the roleplay too. We put on freeform plays that are a sort of ad-hoc theatre. initially my role was to make props and buildings, but i've also penned a few storylines. This is a pretty natural extension to the erotic literature, which I am seeing as the potential future for Second Life. We all know how popular 50 Shades of Grey has become, and virtual worlds are a way to bring erotic literature to life.
I am trying to find new ways to tell my stories. putting a card reader in a prim book is a little bit mainstream and my storytelling plant has proven to be a popular item. the next stage is to make smaller versions for people who do not have room for a large perverse triffid.
Unfortunately, due to increased hours at work, having to find a new site for Myrddin's Emporium, and doing a lot at Gaslight Extreme, I missed the deadline for applications to this year's Steam Hunt. I had intended to enter the Twisted hunt this year too - but that will have to wait another year.
However, Cummere Mayo is running a Tentacle Addicts hunt in December, and i will not be missing out on that. As many of my former students and customers know, tentacles are my specialty.
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