Sunday, November 8, 2009

Pioneering in Second Life

While looking for an event for the upcoming VSTE face to face conference I fell upon a role play territory that looks like a lot of fun. There are several adjacent sims with this western theme. They all adhere to the same rules. Primarily everyone must be in costume as a pioneer, native American, or western US animal (on all fours).

There is an orientation area where one can read all the rules so as not to offend the proprietors and role players. You can participate or wear a tag that identifies you as an observer.

When I first visited I met Alphawolf99735 Wijaya, a native American male, who was very friendly and welcomed me. He gave me the name of a sim owner who he said does a great job of presenting to groups, Doggie Jigsaw, a collie.

Doggie Jigsaw put me in touch with Mieze89 Braveheart, a native woman, who will help us with orientation to  SL, the sim, whatever we need, and she is gathering male and female transferable costumes for us. Her idea is that all the newbies should wear the same outfit so they are easily identifiable. Teachers love to dress up so I am sure most of our group will want to dress in clothes they have or find for the occasion.