By Grease Coakes
One day Xavier Thiebaud, one of the owners of the A-List,
asked me to write out what I did in Second Life as a blog. Writing a blog constantly
would be taxing over time. Xavier had a point though that people may be
interested in what goes on in a furry’s doings on Second Life, especially one
who hops between human and furry hangouts and activities.
So I figured I’d write about a Saturday where I had a few
things lined up. For starters on a Saturday morning is brahma yoga class at 4 AM
SLT which is 7 AM my time east coast time. The morning class on Saturday is the
bajons or spiritual dancing with some meditation. I woke up on time and was
frustrated that my Guru Pramiil Magne wasn’t online.
Not that I can blame him he’s been busy with his job in real
life. Despite that my fellow classmates and I decided to meditate without him.
Aldaida said she liked my shirt with a picture of Watabou from dragon warrior
monsters 1. She called it an alien, but it’s really a tree spirit from the video
game. I was in meditation for a short while and I snapped out of it refreshed.
I stuck around though and I wanted to prepare a notecard for a tailsale later
in the day for IYC.
I explained about tail sales in an earlier article. I
talked with my friends after they got out of meditation for a bit. Celtic
wanted to talk about things in her real life so I stopped and listened. When
she logged off I warped to AX for a fave event I like to attend. I warped there
and left my avatar there as I went afk to grab some breakfast.
After grabbing a bowl of cereal and a soda, no one is at AX yet. Do I look at my notices and DJ Starfall is playing at IYC. I warp over and I
hear some awesome trance. Even at 5:30AM SL time, the dance floor is filled with
various avatars shaking their tails. Not a lot of them are talking though, so I IM the DJ Ohni Starfall and say a lot of them are afk or in IM/s. He agrees with
me. I let his trance relax me as I do my dailies for neopets. When it’s close
to 6AM SL time, I warp back to AX and see Dj Aurora Avila dance with one of her
friends Jamaris Pawpaw.
DJ Aurora, in my opinion, is the queen of video game music as she plays
a wide variety of video game remixes along with Asian music. She was the first
person I reported on for the SL Newser when Bixyl hired me back in January last
year. When anyone tips Aurora you’ll get a surprise if you haven’t been to her DJ
sets before. DJ Aurora starts her set and suddenly I get an IM.
Spencer Mactire asks “Wait, were you just holding fire?”
I say, “Yes that’s my chat AO. I have lots of them."
Spencer says “That’s cool…” He also says hi to the readers
when I tell him his comment is going in my article. I bring up a comment about
Iron Man versus Samus Aran (the woman bounty hunter you play as from Metroid)
Aurora has this to say as she’s a big fan of the Metroid series.
[06:09] Aurora Avila: But I know Samus, and Lord knows that
if she fights Iron Man, she'll be walking out with about half his modifications
customized into her suit, and with a shiny new Repulser Beam.
I think Tony Stark will have a bad day if he fights the
Metroid hunter.
Listening to Aurora’s video game tunes, I decide to play
Hubrid’s Hero heist. The worst game you can play in neopets if you want to earn
neopoints as quickly as possible as a full game takes a ½ hour or so. It is fun
to play in my opinion though, and I have a gold champion trophy in that game sitting on my
neopets user lookup as greasy711. Sadly I play a lousy game. But it’s not all
bad as I still hold the top score in rink runner of 534.
With expert mouse clicking while listening to Aurora’s music
I do much better at rink runner. I asked a lady in a wild crux avatar named Sonicblue
Dudek to slow dance with me. She says sure.
Over time the club fills up with various furries as I
multitask chatting with people in the club and playing various neopets games
earning neopoints. Fun is had by all while everyone hangs out listening to
Aurora’s music.
At the end of Aurora’s DJ set I start playing Extreme Herder
off neopets, and wanting faster music I warp over to Dance Island. When I
started my Grease Coakes account I used to go Tj Icey’s a lot for the club
music. Today it’s now Dance Island which features a bunch of DJ/s playing
various genres. Dance Island is known for a lot of gestures but it doesn’t
bother me as I’m used to Dance Island being an emote fest along with the music.
I click a
dance a ball as I say hi to Deirdre Masala who hangs out a lot there. I jam to
the trance being played by Bel Air and I start playing more Extreme Herder. My
highest score in extreme herder was 353 today which is a good score but not
high enough to reach the top scores. I see a notice at Book Island the sim
dedicated to books and promoting your own literary works. The event is Jackson Arthur
hosting a book discussion at 10am SLT. I leave Dance Island and wander around
Book Island instead.
Using my mini map I find a bunch of green dots and hear a man’s
voice over voice chat. So I join in and see a group of people sitting around
a round table. Looking at Arthur’s top hat makes me think of Simon Linden. He’s
one of the Lindens I met in SL and I found his teddy bear. He also asked about
moles in SL and Olivia Whitsend answered that moles are a group in SL headed by
the Lindens as a public works group.
Brokali, a blue alien, mentioned he was organizing 75 stories
about food. Over voice chat he was geeking out about vegetables. He said that
the definition of geeking was to be focused on a hobby or interest as their thing.
I said jokingly then I geek out about neopets. Olivia said her kids also play
neopets so I said my grey neopet will destroy their pets! Arthur said that
doesn’t sound good and I joked no it doesn’t ha-ha!
I discussed my children’s book with the group and how I had
to rework my book on lulu a few times to get it right. Also how I found an
artist to draw for the cover as Arthur was saying he didn’t want to work with
covers. A lot of the book discussion covered writing and ways to get
published.
When the event was over I was invited to another book Island event, but I declined saying I wanted to go IYC for their tail sale event at 12noon SLT. The sim had to restart but I warped back with ease. A while later IYC got their tail sale under way as I warped through a ball to a waiting area. I joined a separate group IYC tail 4 sale when I was accepted to be sold as a tail for IYC.
At 12 noon SLT things were still being sorted
out as everyone waited for the first tail to go up for sale. The tail sale got
a late start as Havok Muircastle wanted to grab more buyers into the sim and
kick off the afk avatars. At 12:30 SL time they finally got the tail sale
started as Havok spoke out the rules over Voice chat. One thing about tail
sales it take a long time as each tail being sold is stretched out being bid on
going once, twice, and then a third time.
When the event was over I was invited to another book Island event, but I declined saying I wanted to go IYC for their tail sale event at 12noon SLT. The sim had to restart but I warped back with ease. A while later IYC got their tail sale under way as I warped through a ball to a waiting area. I joined a separate group IYC tail 4 sale when I was accepted to be sold as a tail for IYC.
At 12 noon SLT things were still being sorted
out as everyone waited for the first tail to go up for sale. The tail sale got
a late start as Havok Muircastle wanted to grab more buyers into the sim and
kick off the afk avatars. At 12:30 SL time they finally got the tail sale
started as Havok spoke out the rules over Voice chat. One thing about tail
sales it take a long time as each tail being sold is stretched out being bid on
going once, twice, and then a third time.
Many furries ahead of me went for various amounts of Linden
of 3k or so. A majority of the sales were offering art work or adult services
like the article I wrote earlier on the AX tail sale. Atheu Blindside ahead of me was offering scripting and
building weapons was bought by TeiTei for 2,500. I went up next and I can’t
move! The sim screwed with my avatar so I could not sit on the podium to be sold. However amazingly, I had high bids and I was finally sold for 5k to Dragonheart.
I warped to a sim on my picks then back and I IMed Dragonheart about what she
wanted and she was interested in my writing ability. Then DragonHeart kept
going and bid on KJ, a girl furry for her artistic ability, for 32,000L!
Jenny of the Sunweavers asked for a DJ for Club Cutlass, so I volunteered. Rita
needed my DJ stream so I sent her the DJ information I bought from shoutcast. Then I checked my friends list and my Guru Pramiil Magne was
online! Cool. I was excited that he was able to come online for class as I enjoy
meditation class with him. I had an intense meditation but I quickly left class
to set up my DJ stream with Rita and Jenni of the Sunweavers.
I played a good balance of disco/70’s/60’s and what I usually
play for the Sunweavers crowd. I made a fair amount of tips as I played songs
like "Hotel California" by the Eagles and "American Pie" by Don McLean. I played a
few video game remixes and some House, but I also remembered the audience I was
playing for and played disco etc. But the last song I played was a video game
remix based upon the first Mega Man.
All in all it was a busy day for me as Grease Coakes in
Second Life. There’s many things to do
and experience here on the Grid. Don’t limit yourself to one club or one thing.
I guess that’s the moral of this article, if there is one, is just enjoy life and
do what you enjoy.
Grease Coakes
Grease Coakes
