death of a sim and new land in babbage

So, Cala Mondrago sank, I feel bad for Miss Namori, and so let her keep the rent she tried refunding me.

I've now gone and bought another plot at babbage, and opened The Old Spears House.
Keeping with my regular deal with land, supporting RP, damage on, no flight, but it's slightly different in that I'm renting out rooms.  Already had one rented by one Miss Daxxian.
The rentals are cheap, 20L$ a week, for about 20 prims, but I'm mostly looking at the new arrivals to Babbage, help them settle a bit, my main rules, don't walk around the bar downstairs naked, and respect that there might be RP going on.

It's possibly the most mundane building I've made, a rickety old ouse with pipes all over one corner, and a room with a mythos circle on the floor and a tesla coil in the center of that.

I have also moved Dr. Dino's Tardis over the house, freeing more land at the factory.
Currently I'm trying something new there on the non-RP front, and allowing a friend to rent a skybox over the factory for her cyberpunk character's IC apartment, we'll see how it goes, she plays in Insilico, I've had some bad experiences there, so if any insillicans show up on my land insulting people, it might be the one time I have ever banned anyone, but I'm letting her have her skybox there as she's helped me alot with builds in the past.

Insilico looked interesting to be honest, and I actually do like the cyberpunk genre just as much as steampunk.  I had gone into Insilico last year intending to play a character , basically heavily scarred and on portable life support, more or less the cyberpunk version of my babbage persona, and immediatly had a woman claiming to be a GM there get nasty over my skin, they don't allow zombies or fantasy creatures, but my skin was less zombie, and more scarred, I was even wearing normal eyes and replaced my heart chamber with a tony stark style arc generator, wich apparantly was still too fantasy.  alright, I can always wear my one normal skin I  guess if scars are to fantasy, except the woman was getting downright insulting, words like 'retard' and 'fag' were used by her, aong with references to furries wich I didn't for the life of me understand what they had to do with anything.   I got pissed, started pointing out everything that made their 'hard science sim' as stupidly un-scientific as possible, and left, never to return for a year.

hence why I'm being careful, I already told ann under no circumstances was she to invite that woman.

I have started to slowely venture back, on my Dr. Dinosaur alt, after a conversaton with An, the woman apparantly is a GM, but a loud obnoxious one everyone either avoids or ignores, and much their 'anti-fantasy' guidelines are RP'd around by her and others.
So, as a time travelling Raptor/timelord hybrid.  Dr. D now can go to the future city of Insilico, with a holographic disguise to look human, and the Time Egg hidden.

seriously they can't hold it against him if his profile just claims he's a time travelling raptor afterall.




Not that I've done much with that end of RP, or any lately really.
After receiving notification that the budget at my museum job had not been approved, I had to get another job, sadly in retail, in the most half-assed company ever created.  As a result of their insane way of schedualing, it's cut into alot of my SL time, so I haven't had much chance to work out the warbot fights, or kick off any rp plots sadly.
This is only temporary however, as I intend on getting control of my schedual back, or a better job.

Another steampunk sim bites the dust

I had a small shop/lab in the Republic of Cala Mondrago, a morroccan/middle eastern steampunk sim owned by Miss Bianca Namori.  She had some good ideas, it was an original setting for steampunk, and was supportive of RP. I hadn't been inworld much lately due to a new job, that seems to enjoy springing an insane schedual on me, but that's a different topic, I've managed to onl really logg on once or twice this past week to pay tier, I had received a notice from the Cala Mondrago group that due to financial issues and the fact she wasn't really getting enough rentals, that she had been looking to downgrade it to a homestead sim.  I was willing to cut my prims to help, as were many other residents there, Tod I logged on to a notice that it was reclaimed by the real estate group.  TPing there, it's just an empty sandy sim now.  It's a sad thing when a good idea is killed flat (and I'm sure some of the naysayer's in Babbage will point to the RP friendly nature of it for it's demise, wether it's the case or not) and I actually liked the sim, it's the first one I went and rented space outside of Babbage.  (I did try once to rent in Armada, my other favorite place to visit, but it seemed overly complicated at the time and involved trying to contact people I rarely saw).
It was an original setting, and Miss Namori had some good ideas, such as her breedable horse aucion house, and breedable clockwork pets, and races (wich like most events right now, I've missed out on sadly)
the rent was low, the people were friendly, and it had a fantastic middle eastern/medditerranian flavor to it.
Hopefully it will return in some form or another, eitherway, it will be missed.

if anyone was interested in pictures or info about the past sim, here you go :
http://calamondrago.ning.com/