Kaboom, zombies, caves, killing, etc.

Your avatar can be killed. That's right! If you are on a virtual land parcel who's configuration allows for  you to be killed, you can die. The setting is configurable by the land owner, so the land can also be made perfectly safe. But what's the fun in that? I always set my land up so that you can be killed. What happens to you when you die virtually? Not much really. You are sent to your home position. The same place you login to when you start SL, just as if you are starting over. Not a big deal really but there's no mistaking that you have died. It makes for some great gaming.

Brother Kaboom and Ariel

I have some guns, rocket launchers, grenades and yes, a tactical nuclear missile. It can be set to Harmless, Push or kill. It will clear an entire sim which makes it difficult to use. Some people would consider it griefing. So I have to refrain from using it now that I share a sim with 3 other owners. But I can still use my assault rifle.

I was invited to a hunt and kill event by brother Kaboom. I think he refers to himself as Handsome Devil now but honestly, he's not very handsome, so I'll just keep calling him Kaboom. Anyway, he has a zombie rezzer and the zombies are quite intelligent. They move fast once they have set their sights on you. They can even jump pretty high! Plus there were people there. BilliJo, Kaboom and Lexi. All 3 of them worth opponents. I was killed countless times but I'm pretty sure I killed more than was killed. First of all, the zombies got me because I was lurking below in the new tunnel system. It's like a maze down there.

So I eventually moved up into the castle proper and began stalking humans. At least I did not need to shoot their heads off before scoring a kill. Yeah, the zombies are pretty hard to kill. At first it was just BJ and me. She did good at first but I was able to see a pattern in her actions and predict most of her next moves. After a while she had had enough and left, but she was a good opponent for the first hour. Then I targeted Kaboom. But I found out later he was having slow rez problems so I left him alone for a while.

Lexi was there the whole time but she had told me she was going to sit out the hunt, yet somehow, someone kept killing me. I finally found out it was her and this huge chain gun of hers. So I started targeting her and could find patterns with her actions too. It started to get kind of one-sided with me killing her lots until she decided to use shields and magic. Shields and magic? Really? Yep. She taunted me with, "you can't kill me now! Go ahead, try!" Well, what fun is that? And she was right, I could not kill her anymore and she was someone tossing me around and killing me from remote locations. So the last time she killed me and I was sent home, I began shopping for a shield and offensive HUD.

One very cool thing about SL is that if a resident of SL has created something, it's most likely available on the Marketplace. The Marketplace is an online shop for everything in SL. You can use handy search terms or search categories and sub-categories to find something you are looking for. You would be surprised the stuff you run into. Anyway, I was looking for shields. I found some but they were very expensive. Something of the order of L$4000. But something kept nagging at the back of my mind. A very long time ago, I ran into a woman in SL who had been in SL a very long time, very nearly from the beginning. She brought me to a shop that had a Mysti-Tool HUD. It was expensive, I remember that. She told me that's all I'd ever need. Well, okay. I have used it for years as a radar and flight assistant. It does lots more though. I thought I saw an Offensive button in the extensive menu one time. Sure enough, a quick look at the Mysti-Tool menu brought up an Offensive button. Upon pressing it, it gave me the option to Trap, Immobilize, Push or Kill anyone in a 100 meter radius. Seriously? I had this capability all these years and only now realize it? Guess I should have read the owner's manual years ago.

DJing at House of the Rising Sun

So after returning to Kaboom's castle and trying out my newly realized capabilities, I had Lexi IMing me, "no fair" in just a matter of minutes. Screw her magic, I have Mysti-Tool! Muuuahahahahaaaa.... So needless to say, the hunt and kill event was no longer much of a challenge, so I moved on.

Quality Time With cat

For the past 3 Friday nights, cat has been able to logon and be with me when I DJ at House of the Rising Sun. This is special because for one, its just nice to be with her. For another, she helps make sure I do not miss anything pertinent in local chat as DJing can be distracting. And finally, she's not normally able to logon Friday nights due to RL commitments. So it's been really nice and makes the events there much more enjoyable. After my set we usually try to linger a bit and listen to Alobar's set but in the end we cannot control ourselves and take off to some other location for a different sort of dance.

A nice visit at Archer's Place

And directly due to the fact that I'm no longer promoting or running my own club, I have enough free time to socialize and hang out with my friends. One of the rare male friends I have is Archer. He has a very nice parcel he has fixed up and I was over there visiting with him for hours one night after cat left for RL. We talk mostly muscle cars and rock and roll. He's from Europe and knows I'm close to Detroit, Rock City and Motor Capital, and he loves both. He's got a very nice place to hang out at.