Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Safari Heads Out Again!

 Yay and we're off once again on Safari this Wednesday at 12.00SLT as usual for a two hour trip! 
The familiar courtyard... the LMs and the drama llama await you
Yes, yet another ten week season of tours to places of interest on a variety of grids, some big some small. We will see all sorts once again this season, from the machines of Leonardo DaVinci, to fantastic sci fi spaces, and then also, there will be opportunities to improve your Mariner skills, your zombie-avoidance techniques, and to learn more about scripted objects, art, and the community of opensim... 
We will be celebrating a few milestones too, for example, in May the Safari celebrates ten years from that first trip that led to all these others. Wow where does the time go.
See you on Wednesday at the clubhouse, if you can make it...
HG Address:  HG.ossgrid.org:80:HG Safari

Saturday, April 20, 2024

HIE 2024 Starts !

Yesterday at 11am Pacific, the Hypergrid International Expo kicked off with three hours of music. The HIE expo regions are on Craft grid, you can get to them by coming to craft-world.org:8002:HIE Welcome and use the portals to get to HIE 2, HIE 3 and HIE 4, where all the fun takes place.

And what music! The divine Zoree Jupiter kicked things off with a truly beautiful set of Fado, the traditional portuguese songs of love, passion and of course, 'fado' or fate, destiny...

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Wyldwood Bayou Beckons!

Starfleet or shaman, medieval merchant or merman, it's that time again, and you're welcome to the Open Market Roleplay event on Wyldwood Bayou grid. There are two roleplay groups here, Ravenquest and Brigantia. Come along and learn about other RP groups in opensim, and help keep the roleplay community vibrant!

Organized by Contessa Lacombe and Fitheach Eun, this is a chance to share what you know and maybe dip your toe in roleplay. Not a recruitment drive so much as a way to better know what's available out there across the archipelago of grids and groups that actively tell stories in a dramatic immersive way. I asked Tessa how she got started.

Friday, March 29, 2024

Rock On

It's not the news that anyone wanted to hear, that 3rd Rock Grid will be closing its doors in May.  The longevity of the grid, and the circumstances that have led to its likely demise, make the news even more upsetting. But, I say, let's be positive. 
Write Plaza, da Vinci
Why be positive? First of all, because of all the wonderful places, events, and people of the grid who have given residents and visitors alike a dozen or more years of great memories. 

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Wolf Leaps Forward

 When a grid migrates its servers to a new rl location, it's often quite a tricky process. Just the words 'grid migration' have your average opensim resident shaking in their thigh length boots, admit it.
But that's not always the case... sometimes it can go as smooth as a silk, or the silky fur of a Wolf...
That was the case today, when Wolf Territories Grid announced they have moved their

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Littlefield Eleven

Littlefield Grid turns 11 years old as an independent grid and they're celebrating!
From Nasa to Firestorm, Littlefield Grid is celebrating the past and the future
There's a special Anniversary region on the grid where many of the grid's residents have set up displays that illustrate the range of builds that you can visit here. There's also a gallery that explains the history of Stonehaven, from the days of SL onwards.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Egg Static

Hunting easter eggs - it's your classic springtime activity, and once again Nani Ferguson and Ange Menges have been working on a delightful storybook build that, as usual, will be open right around the holiday weekend, and then gone for good. 
The build is, of course, not yet open - hey Easter isn't until the end of the month! 
This sneak peek gives you an idea of the charming style of the region, called Dhoglin, and located on OSGrid. 
The regular Safari tours are on a break, but there will be a special event for hunt lovers, at the usual time, 12 noon SLT or 9pm in Europe, on Wednesday 3 April, if you want to come and join in the fun!