My daughter Ari and her man Hell Hound are into VAW (Virtual Attitude Wrestling) wrestling. So after a long courtship, and when it became time for them to wed, of course it's going to be an exciting production at one of the many wrestling venues in SL. But first, there were a few events to watch. Three wrestling matches in the ring before the wedding of Hell Hound and Ari.
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| In attendance left to righ, cat Olu, Neva and Chica |
I'd never been to a wrestling event in SL so this was all new to me. When we first arrived, the place was so laggy that it took several minutes to be able to sit in the audience. Olu was there and informed me that there were 50 people on the sim. Well that explains the lag! But after a while, we were all able to sit. Olu, Neva and Chica and I all sat together. Chica left a seat open next to me for cat to occupy when she showed up. But as it turned out, the wedding was relocated. Good thing too because at that point my computer locked up and closed the SL viewer. So I relogged to my last location and was offered teleport to the new location, which was much less laggy by the way, from Neva. Refreshing. So our party and a bunch of the regular wrestling audience all had fun with the seats. The way they work is that you simply sit in them, but it's not all that simple. You do not necessarily sit where you click. After you sit you are allowed the choice of adjusting your sit or swapping sits. If you swap, you end up anywhere in the row of about 8 seats. Whatever happened to pose balls? With pose balls, you knew which seat you were going to end up in, the seat with the pose ball on it! It was pretty simple. I can understand wanting to hide pose balls but if you cannot control where and how you sit, what is the point? But finally, after lots of laughing at the ridiculousness of trying to manage the audience seating, we got settled.
At that moment, two things happened. I was offered teleport by Hell Hound to get setup back stage and cat logged on. I waited for her to rez so that I could say hello before tping backstage. I met up with Hell Hound back there and we worked on the gadget that would allow me to walk Ari down the isle to the altar. I also met up with Ari's daughter (my granddaughter) Arianna. Not to be confused with her mother Ari having pretty much the same name. Anywayz....
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| The vows |
There were three wrestling matches before the wedding. It was sort of fun to watch the wrestlers in their costumes and performing their animated moves. Just like RL, the winner of the match is decided ahead of time, but it's still fun to watch. But the best part was the two announcers. They sat off of the side of the ring and were in local voice chat with the whole place. Because my voice chat radius is restricted to 20 meters from my camera's position, I had to cam over by them to listen. They were lively and funny and reminded me of Cheech and Chong. I wish I could remember their names. You should check them out sometime if you ever get a chance. Just search for VAW group inworld and go from there.
Then there was the wedding. After the last match, the ropes came down from the ring and the altar and decorations were setup immediately. I moved the isle walking gadget in place as Hell Hound and the minister took their places. And there was Ari next to me, in a gown that I must say was breathtaking. I saw the picture of it that Ari passed to me a while back, but that picture did not do the dress justice. Maybe it was made better because Ari was wearing it? Yeah, I bet that's it.
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| Chica, Neva, cat, Arianna, Ari, HellHound, Me and Olu |
I walked her down the isle and gave her away. I took my place off to the side with Arianna who was the flower girl and had gone on down the isle before us. I kept her close to me and it's a good thing too, because after the vows and the presentation, Raiders Redstar jumped out from the shadows and clobbered Hell Hound with a wooden bat. He scooped up Ari and ran off with her! The crowd went wild! Hell Hound quickly recovered and chased off after his new bride, eventually finding them and freeing her from Raiders' keep. His motives are still unknown to me at this time.
Afterwards, we went to Cherry Street club to have a nice reception. There was dancing and pictures taken and a good time had by all. After that, cat showed me a new floating dock she put in the water behind the house. We did much more than just float. The perfect end to an amazing evening.
