back into fall

So Dr. D's largly ignored bid to take over Babbage has ended, Arnold and some urchins pretty much wising up to what her was doing (and the rest, I'm making it out to be a 'They Live' scenario, you all were under mind control, you just didn't know it!) It was the usual at first, most of Babbage doing their best to ignore it, and saying very little about it so the ones interested in RP might not know as any of Dr. D's blogs on the site get buried in RFL posts instead. But close to the end, it really picked up, Arnold, Gilly, Viv, Felicia, Heliosense, and Sonnerstien did a good job, some of it even extended into mondrago. But the airship crashed with the villian possibly dead, the urchins and cat saved the day, as the hypno eyes all went dead. and noone's the wiser. Meanwhile the RL end of things, I've gotten the real job I was hoping for, and start monday. Nothing too exciting, it's a call center for state insurance, but I'll be making a real wage once again, and have a normal schedual, so no more sacrificing my late nights and weekends for a store. And by the end of october I plan on moving out to better space, with enough space I can live and work on my own stuff comfortably. The people who had contacted me to photoshop their pictures flaked on me, as i had a feeling they would, but otherwise things on the RL end have looked up. Gizzy also apparantly is returning to Sl, she'd been off and on on an alt that I knew of, but had IM'd she wanted to bring Gizzy back soon, the last time Gizzy was active, was just before Cala Mondrago was shut down, when I had put her in charge of my shop and research center there (she wanted a change of pace and liked the setting.) I have sort of gotten myself involved in a bit of a big load though. Since the past few zombie weeks in babbage had been handled by Victor mcMorning, and given the short term memories of SL, this timelord's been pretty much considered the zombie guy. And I sound whiney when I point out, OOC of course, that I had let loose the original infection. So after a comment on the site about zombie innoculations and how the best way to prevent it was to lock up McMorning, I spoke up, and after hearing how he didn't really want to do it this year again, or last year either, had sent a message to Tenk, the mayor of babbage offering to come back and let loose another zombie plauge. Had an idea for possibly infected sealife to climb out of the vernian ala Gyo, as it was apparant that there had been some burnout last year, and it's essentially been the same plot a couple times now, had even worked out how it happened when I don't have a physical lab in town and won't for at least another month. Until Tenk mentioned Morloks, now I'm working out how to make the avi, make freebee avis, and how exactly to pull off Morloks, on top of the new job starting, and looking for a new place RL, so...heading to Marekesh Mondrago for Footman's vacation may wait a bit. I've also seen some more dedicated RP sims I knew of, close down. Dark Eden, a W40k RP sim I'd gone to visit once or twice to hang out with a rouge trader friend there, apparantly dissappeared, no word what happened or why. The sim was the only w40k RP dedicated sim I had ever found on my travels, (most ended up just combat arenas with plywood blocks and space marines with giant afro's or furry heads gestulating) It took some liberties with canon, but I do myself with the background for my dark eldar army (they had female space marines, AND female orks). I had intended to start a character there based off my inquisitor character, but had become wrapped up in RP in a few sims at the time, so never did. There's few w40k themed RP sims in SL, though a ton of avatars. the dark eldar faction apparantly moved to a new sim called Commoraugh, but visiting, it feels like a generic dark fantasy sim that's mixed in dark elda and tau with it's fae and mermaids. And Legacies closed down. I never got around to visiting, and frankly never really knew it as anything but another vampire sim (wich i dont have as much interest in. I had been contacted by someone there, looking for a dedicated steampunk RP sim for her and her group. I'm not sure if any of them settled in Babbage, but I let them know, it's a nice collection of sims, there is a population of roleplayers, but it's definatly not dedicated to RP and be prepared to have to RP around people. That's when I worked out it wasn't just vampires, and now kind of wish I had checked it out . There is a relatively new sim, Serenity Falls, that uses the same system, and is apparantly an offshoot of Legacies. I've gone a couple times and likely will post IC blogs ofter zombie week in babbage is over. but i have to say it's close to what I'd been looking for myself. Dedicated RP without being too strict and anal retentive, ala Warren Town and Rivit Town were, Open to all sorts of character concepts, even the magical ones that babbage kind of shies away from, the meter is pretty interesting, with a large amount of skills, and an emphasis on dice rolling rather than just clicking things (combat's the 'hold a mouse button down and move style', but player's fighting each other is RP'd out more, so that's not too bad, and th NPC monsters are apparantly affected by any bullet). It's a pocket dimension held stable by a demoness from legacies, where many of the refugees have gone. They have travel back and forth via portals, and leave it pretty open to whatever background your character is, you come from historical london, where demons and fae don't exist, you'll still fit, you come from babbage with mad science and the demon and fae's do exist, you'll fit, you come from Miskatonic, you'll still fit. I have not seen many furries yet, though i hve met fae and a possessed doll. The only downside I can say, is i don't see as much steampunk outside a building and an airship in the northern part, Torn oak, it's more flat victorian with lots of fantasy elements. Once things in RL and Sl slow down I'll be checking it out more