A Little Free Time

I have been DJing a lot lately and loving every minute of it. But there are other things to do in SL and one of my favorites is exploring.

I used to believe that you could visit any very busy place and run into some interesting people either via local text chat or voice chat, but that's not so much the case anymore. Just a quick note on voice chat: Basically you can use a microphone to talk to people in your location in SL instead of typing. It's also much like Instant Messages. You can also carry on a conference call with voice chat so that a group of you can talk but do not need to be nearby each other inworld. So with voice chat turned on, but not my mic, I use search terms to find places to visit and hang out.

But lately I've found it's best to stay away from the PG rated places. It seems that the adult rating verification that one has to endure also screens out a lot of undesirables who do not want to make the extra effort to be rated as adult and thus being made able to visit practically anywhere in SL. So I tend to stick to the Mature or Adult rated places. Depending on what sort of conversation or event I'm looking for, I'll type in keywords like "friendly, tolerant, romantic, sexy, fun, explore", etc. Then I just compare the traffic rating (something assigned by Linden Labs to a particular location and updated every  day) to other results. If a place has a high traffic rating of 10,000 or more, then they usually have a nice sized crowd there. I've recently run into a place with a traffic rating higher than I've ever seen and that was nearly 100,000. I am so there!

Turns out it was a free sex and rape role-play place, which is fine. cat and I have lots of fun wandering around those places and checking out all the people and conversations. As it turns out though, most of the people here must have been in private conferences because not a word was being said that day. Which is fine too as it gives me a chance to check people out. There was a guy there whom I had to check out twice. His attire said it all. Free sex/role-play place, 24/7 orgy, there for one purpose only and that was sex. So if you could have anyone you found attractive in an orgy place and didn't have to worry about disease or unwanted pregnancy, what would you do on a Friday night/Saturday morning? This free sex place sounds like a good idea. But what would you wear if anything? This guy had on the perfect attire. Towel, slippers, coffee and for some reason, a cap. But where would you hang that pesky towel? He found the perfect spot. I even showed up the next day on a Sunday and he was still there. He must stay very busy all weekend.

My friend Gabby has found her man. He's actually an old man. This is their second time around. She's very very happy and that's what matters. Anyway, he knocked her up so she's SL pregnant. My views on SL pregnancy involve being able to do anything you want here because it's a virtual world, but please don't let your tummy talk to me, okay? You have to experience this to know what I'm talking about.

Dolls Of Death

I always look forward to Sunday nights at the Dolls Of Death. I DJ there and get to play heavy metal, rock and alternative rock. There is a "no play" list which restricts me from playing everything I'd like, and it keeps me from playing some requests too, but it's not a long list really.

Me, cat, Neva, her date and nearly the whole gang at DoD

This past Sunday was Breasts and Chests night. I guess we were supposed to show off our breasts and chests just like it touts. So I took my shirt off and alternately flexed my pectoral muscles for the hostess Kelle and the guests. Unfortunately, they were not impressed, but they did enjoy the music I played. It started out metal then hard rock and a little alternative then ended with rock.

But what was really cool about the whole event was the fact that my woman cat and my daughter Neva showed up. It's been way too long since we have all three been together so we had a wonderful time! I was informed that cat could only stay for a half hour due to RL commitments, but she managed to stretch it to a whole hour. And Neva looked stunningly attractive and even brought her own man along. The name escapes me now but cat assures me his looks are worthy of our daughter. So if he treats her right and she's happy, I'm a very happy Poppa.

Breasts and Chests night at Dolls of Death

I got some great tips that night from some great patrons. It was quite the party and so much fun! Lots of flirting and goofing around. Poor Kelle kept crashing but she kept coming back. I was mired down in my fair share of lag but so long as I didn't move my camera around too much, chat lag was at a minimum. Just a quick side note; chat lag is when you type something in the local chat window and the characters do not appear right away in local chat. It means the computer that is the server for that particular sim is bogged down and falling behind in its processing. It's a fairly common occurrence at busy night clubs.

But it was the end of the night was when I started having troubles. There was another guy there and we were flirting with all the girls. One of them suggested an orgy after the event. That sounded like a good idea to me since it's been so very long since being involved in one. So I tried moving my camera to the orgy room which is the next floor down from the club. Unfortunately, as soon as I moved my camera, it crashed my computer and crashed it hard. I locked up so badly that I had to hard-restart my computer. Fortunately, I was 3 minutes past the end of my DJing event. Unfortunately, I was unable to switch the music stream back to where it should be. By the time I was able to reboot and relog, Cinder, the owner of the sim, was able to let me know that he was able to reset the stream to where it needed to be. But so much time had passed that I guess they did not have the orgy afterwards. So I simply logged off. But what a great party that was!

It just goes to show, that you never know what's going to happen at any given party in SL.

Rising Sun's 3rd Anniversary

That's right. House of the Rising Sun just had its 3rd anniversary. I wrote about them last post. I love working there and the place and people of course, but I had not realized I had been hanging out there off and on for more than 3  years? I can remember when Lark told me about the place and we went there. It was in some sort of castle lower level. Alobar was there and Lark introduced me to him. The contest at that time was "purple" so I had like, a purple shirt on or something. Anyway, Alo was in purple too and on the other side of the castle, out of the 20 meter "ear-shot" range were pole dancers. The DJ was Lilac I'm pretty sure. She loved purple. Still does. I had a blast the short time I was there.

Later on, Lark took me to show me the club she was building for Alo and HRS. It was pretty basic but the textures really made it unique and it evolved over the years and was a great place. Alo used to have shops just outside of the (at that time) new club and I used to rent one there as my alt, Nugget. I used to attend at least two of the events per week too. I remember all sorts of people showing up there too and needless to say, that often made for a fair amount of drama. So around that time I sort of eased on out of the place, picking up shop and moving on for a while. I did a club of my own for a while (one of 6) and that kept me plenty busy. That fell through in a rather fast fashion and I pursued making clothing and items and stuff. Lark would keep me informed as to what was going on with the place from time to time. Then I remember a 1 year anniversary. I went to that and it was a blast! I think that was the time, or was it the 2nd, that I was asked to provide my lighthouse, which at that time I had been working on, as a gift for prize winning patrons. It was a full day of blues and prizes and partying. At that time, Lark was in the habit of making themed sets for the events. She made a New Orleans street set for this one. Quite detailed and very authentic.

After that she would often build themed sets for HRS over the years. I remember helping her with a Harry Potter set one time. At that time I had never seen a Harry Potter movie nor read any of the books, so I had no idea why my texture had to state Platform 9-3/4. Why not 9.75? Stuff like that. Then I was asked to make a steam punk themed setting for one weekend of events there. That was one of the trickiest things I ever did in SL. I worked more with scripts then than I ever had. I learned just enough to be dangerous, but it got the job done. The largest relief was when I was able to come and take it back into inventory. It seems everyone enjoyed it though and that's what it's all about.

So that was all as my alt Nugget. In the past year or so, I have been trending toward being Otto because of this latest try at running a club. Must be my 6th try? Anyway, I opened a shopping mall there, a huge one, that Nugget put his stuff and his affiliate vending stuff there too. Lark made a club for me and it was impressive. I opened up and used my entire sim for an "Adult Playground" which was mostly BDSM themed. I had a cuddle forest, castle with RLV (Restrained Life Viewer), BDSM palm trees on a nude beach, an underwater ballroom, a huge shopping mall and of course the club. That went on for quite some time but less than a year. If you read way back in this blog, you will see what it was like back then. But I also was a member of my brother Kaboom's group which let me broadcast events on their rather growing and large group.

So at that time, Alobar expanded and acquired some more property and put up Crimson Nights. There was a good sized pool and party area skybox there that was not getting used. I was goaded by Lark to throw parties there and I was all about helping Alo's traffic build and of course I was all about throwing parties that didn't cost me anything so I started having Kaboom's group show up at parties I would throw on Crimson Nights. It was basically a weekly demon party. Lots and lots of Kaboom's group would show up. I'd DJ and graciously accept tips and that was about it for a while until Alo put down a castle and RLV area on the ground of Crimson Nights. So we started having the parties in the castle. There were dance poles, animations and game there so it was perfect for parties! That went on for quite a while until I started throwing parties at my Cherry Street more frequently and I lost the ability to broadcast notices on Kaboom's group. An oversight I'm sure.

Alobar and his woman sami could come and visit my Cherry Street once in a while and even threw parties there themselves a couple of times. But my club was destined to fail without regular help. Sure, I had Emi who was wonderful! But I needed regular DJs too and I just couldn't hang onto any. Any DJ that works solely for tips is going to want a good sized crowd there and quite frankly, sometimes nobody would show up and I could not do the whole thing myself. Perhaps one day I will assemble a staff and give it another go. We'll see.

About that time, Alo moved and built a new place with Lark's help. It was awesome and it's constantly evolving but basically, it's House of the Rising Sun with Crimson Nights right next door. Great place to visit and hang out too, even when they were not having events. It got so popular that even Linden Labs chose it as one of their Editor's Picks places to visit for over a week. It shows up at the very top of searches too. So when the group announced they were looking for DJs, I just had to fill out the app. After all, my club had failed and I did have a night free on my schedule. They hired me immediately and I began DJing on Friday nights at 6pm SLT. What a blast! Some nights do not produce very good tips at all but others do. I'll gladly take the bad with the good in this case. The events do not cost me anything, so long as I don't play that wicked sploder of theirs.

So their 3rd anniversary came up and went quickly and without hardly any notice. I was going through my inventory looking for photos I have taken of the various evolutions of the Rising Sun to put into a rotating picture frame or better yet, a clickable picture frame to hand out to the people who give me DJing tips. But I don't have many pictures at all. I'll have to see if anyone else has any they'd like to see in there.

So be sure to come down and visit House of the Rising Sun once in a while even if there is no event going on there. It's an exciting place to hang out and explore. Look for me there on Tuesday and Friday nights too.