zenmondo | Whats going on?

Well Real Life has been pretty uneventful, except I forgot Conor had a doctor's appointment today (already rescheduled for tomorrow). So since my "first life" is boring, here is an update about my Second Life.

Things are going well in the romance department finally. I was very anxious for a while about it, that I was missing out on this big social dynamic to the game and not finding anyone. But things have turned around.

On my birthday, I went to this bar called the Blarney Stone in the Dublin sim. It was a small crowd, and they were having a pick-up line contest. After throwing out a couple pick up lines (points were awarded for each), I became inspired. I decided to do something I have never done in real life, I was going to pick someone up at the bar. My target was a lady named Aspasia. And I was inspired. I don't know where these lines came from. But in the end, I won the contest (someone gave me 100 Lindens for winning), and I managed to pick up Aspasia.

Since then Aspasia and I have seen each other every night and have had "dates". Our dates our filled with much talking, and we get along well. We hug and kiss, but she likes the hugs better, as she thinks the kiss animation is kind of cheesy, as the person being kissed raises their leg. Our second date was in Nara, which is run by

artmomz (Em). Em and Aspasia got along great, which is really good, as Em is my best friend in game. It was a fun date, even with Em chaperoning. She took us for a ride in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is always a treat. Since then, we have been showing each other places we like in Second Life. I ofcourse took her to my favorite sim, Amsterdam. She took me last night to a place, I forget the name, but it had a fantasy theme. It was really pretty, and peaceful.

Then there is Viku. I met Viku hanging out in Amsterdam. I haven't figured her out yet. Viku is actually an "alt" -- a second character she created to get away from the drama of her first character. Her first character is a Dom and has I-Don't-Know-How-Many slaves under her. She wanted to get away from that. We hit it off, and she took me shopping for a skin. In Second Life, your representation, your avatar is completely customizable. The stock skin you get makes you look like an action figure, not very detailed. So Viku thought my avatar was handsome enough, or would be once I got a real skin, so she took me shopping.
I was a little short, so she gave me 250 lindens to be able to spend all my money on a new skin. Then she took me dancing.

We went to this, club, but it was deserted. There was no music there, but we danced anyway "to the sound of our beating hearts". It was very intimate. She commented about how nice it was to be held by a man, as we slow danced. Her slaves on her other character are all female.

Then there was the time, she gave me a TP (a "tp" is an offer to teleport to where someone is). It ended up being in this sex-place, and she had managed to pick up two women subs, even though that is what I thought she was trying to get away from. She then proceeded to have sex with them in front of me. That was a little weird, and I'm not really sure what that was about really. I am kind of relieved that they didn't ask me to join in, as at the time I was still a SL "virgin" and didn't want to loose my cherry in a foursome in a public place. Though when she was done we did chat a little bit. I told her that I would like to see her, and she said that she would only want to see me casualy. (This was before I met Aspasia) "I'm not gonna marry you or anything," she said. Which is fine by me, I am not looking to get married.

There is also a hard time scheduling time with Viku, as we have a 7 hour time difference. I saw her last night, and it was a fun date. She had bought this flying machine called a hammerhead, and she took me flying. Then she let me take it out for a spin. I was awful at it. I don't know where we were, but we landed, and started exploring this place. It looked a bit like old roman ruins, with collumns and the like. We found a poseball, and found ourselves in a lovely embrace, up against this old collumn. It was very nice. Then Aspasia logged on! She had told me the night before that she probably couldn't log on until "late next week" so it was a bit of a surprise.

I knew I had to come clean to Aspasia about seeing Viku. And I wanted to tell Aspasia first because I liked her better. I knew Viku and I were just "casual" and don't have any claim on one another, but I didn't know what Aspasia's thoughts were. So I brought it up as delicatly as I could, and she was very cool about it. She doesn't want to be exclusive. She said she that the game was suppossed to be fun, and she didn't want to cut into my fun. I kind of take it to mean that I probably won't get past light romance with her, which would be fine, actually. When we first met, she bluntly told me that she saw SL as a game, and that things that happen in the game stay there. But as time goes on, stuff about real life is slipping into our relationship. We have such a connection, its kind of hard to keep strict boundries. I am taking things real slow with her, as I don't want to do anything that will make her uncomfortable. But we are becoming fast friends. Its very easy to talk with her.

Then there were this morning's adventures. When I was still very new. I went in search of some good looking hair for my avatar. I went from place to place searching, asking people along the way, if they knew of any good place to buy hair. I eventually got a landmark to a shop, and when I teleported there, there was someone else who was shopping, and I didn't know where to go. She said "follow me" and I did. I was still very new, and didn't know how to do a lot of things. So she helped me buy my hair and fit it. Then she asked if I wanted to see her house, and I said sure.

She showed me her house, which was beautiful, and then started showing me pose balls. At this time, I had never been on one. A poseball will either animate or pose your avatar. She had a bunch of paired poseballs, that animate two avatars together. She showed me this magic blanket that goes up into the sky, and generates these little themed paradises. With poseballs. And she had a good time showing them to me. Sheila was the first person I had posed with, the SL equivalent of physical affection. Naturally I developed a crush on her. But it was not meant to be, as she had a jealous husband. Its suppossed to be a big secret that she showed me some of the poseballs, as some of them were sexy. But we did it with our clothes on, so I was still a Second Life "virgin". So its been a couple weeks, and all we did was exchange a few IMs. Getting attention from Viku, then Aspasia helped me with my crush. Then this morning, when I logged in, SHE starts IM'ing ME.

She sent me a TP to go see a place she likes, called Apollo's Gardens I think. Its pretty big. But it has all these little out of the way places, with poseballs. So we explored this, and did much cuddling. It was very nice. The conversation steers towards sex. She is very into the sexual aspect of the game. In many ways Second Life is hyper-sexual. We discuss my brief second life sexual history, (which I will probably write about later but in short is one good experience with an escort and one awful experience with an escort(yes I paid for cyber sex)) and she is ... I don't know disapointed? that I payed for sex, when she tells me that plenty would give it away for free. Actually what she said, was "I would have fucked your brains out for free". But there is her jealous husband we have to think about. This is when she reveals to me her alt, who is not married. Her alt who was created just to explore sex in second life. SINseous Vixen, or just "Sin". So she leaves me there in Apollo's garden as she logs onto Sin. I wait quite a while, when she shows up, she says her other avatar has taken all of Sin's good stuff, so she went shopping real quick for some nice clothes and new hair "for me". Then she takes me to shop for pose balls. She buys me two as "housewarming presents" for my new apartment. By the time we get back to my place, it is getting time for me to log out, and pick up my wife from work. So we just warmed up and tried out one of my new poseballs infront of the fire with our clothes on.

Even with our clothes on, it was kind of hot, like a make out session, her legs wrapped around my hips. She really got into it. Then she said something to me that I have never heard in second life, and not heard in a long time in real life, "I want you". So hopefully, I will be seeing her tomorrow.

So thats my second-love-life.

In other news, I sold another script. A variation on the one I wrote for

artmomz. I recently took an apartment in a little Irish village. The owner wants to build a community of creative people there, and for some reason, I caught his attention. I have decided that my role in the community is "code poet" writing scripts for other people. One of the artists there sells stained glass. So I thought my script that changes the tranpserancy of windows would be a good application for her work. She had set up so her windows were user modifiable, but changing the transperancy was kind of tricky. My script now allows for it to be done automatically. She loves the script, and I customized it for her. She paid me 1000 Lindens for it. Which I think is a lot of money. But I see it more than her just buying a script, she is gonna use it in all her windows that she sells. So its more like an unlimited license. She will make the money back with the sales of her art in no time. I figure if I sold it in a script shop, it would be single-use no copy, no trade for L$300 - L$500 a pop. So she gets her money worth with just two or three uses.

I hope I meet other builders that need scripting so I can learn more stuff. Its hard for me to just code for coding's sake. I need a set goal, a project. So as I write more scripts, I will be learning more. And I am happiest when learning something new.

I need a userpic for Second Life posts I think...