One of the things I spend a lot of time on in Second Life are hunts. Grid-wide, store, sim – if it’s some kind of a hunt, Jaily Bailey and I are there with bells on. We wear our low lag clothes and hair, work together and hunt, hunt, hunt.
I’ve met amazing people on hunts and found great stores. I’ve battled the lag monster, crashed or teleported under buildings instead of in them. Hunt gifts range from the amazing, to the ordinary and finally, to the “holy hell what the hell were they thinking and why would anyone want that” categories.
There are stores like Nushru that I really love. Landing there always makes me smile because I land in a Monet-like field of flowers, the hunt gifts are not impossible to find and there are always pretty dresses to ooh and ah over. Stores like that just make me smile and want to come back.
My friends and I are currently working on a few hunts. There is the Cinderella’s Slipper Hunt, the Slice of Summer, a Shopping Bag hunt, Passions and a few others. We’re busy girls.
I was working on Cinderella and things were going great till I hit a rough patch. The sim we were on (not giving the name because the hunt is still going on and I don’t want to ruin it for anyone) was beyond laggy and moving was a chore. To top it off, we couldn’t find the slipper to save our lives. The hint was “Hello mari Malaspina, Uh, “Woody” bird is happy to see you.” Well we searched and searched and we did find a wooden bird but couldn’t find that darned slipper. I also fell off a wall about five times and walked into them even more. Call me Grace – in SL I am as clumsy as in real life only without the bruises and scrapes. Thank God for my indestructible second skin.
I crashed twice in the process and was getting really annoyed when I noticed that the wooden bird had a REALLY large penis. I mean it was BIG. I started wondering, “why the hell does a bird have a penis?” and I clicked on it. Yeah, I know – I’m a naughty wench. So I click the penis and it says it’s the Cinderella’s slipper. IT DID NOT LOOK ANYTHING LIKE A SHOE!! Nor did it look like any of the other shoes I’d seen in the hunt. Nope it was obviously meant to be disguised as a penis, especially when coupled with the hint “Woody bird is happy to see you”. I’m not easily offended, in fact I would have found it hilarious if it had not been so intentionally misleading.
Well Woody, glad you were happy to see me, even happier that I found the penis, er shoe and yeah baby, I’m going to the ball!
**since the writing of this post, the sim owner (an awesome person with a great sense of humor) moved from the laggy sim and is happily designing fun clothes that look great on.
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Mari Malaspina is a writer, an SL junkie, fashionista, SL sculpture lover and finder of cool sims. She is co-publisher of Slinkmag and is known to Tweet a lot under her RL name as well as for Slinkmag. She's always looking for cool and fun things to write about and buys more virtual goods than she should. Watch out asset server!