Where Eagles Dare

 Our second stop on this final Safari of the season was on Kitely, to see a build by Karima Hoisan and Dale Innes. A few problems, because Kitely blocks a whole lot of the smaller grids, which is a shame. It's also a shame that Karima's regions are some of the few on Kitely that are readily accessible to hypergrid art-lovers and explorers, but we make the most of the Hoisan-Innes generosity, talent, and style.

Karima Hoisan and Dale Innis

Star Ravenhurst: Hi Karima and Dale. Finally rezzed
James Atlloud: Hello
Karima Hoisan: Welcome to The Mountain, please take a nc, it has LMs of some places here

The group gradually arriving on Kitely

Thirza Ember: Karima we just need time to arrive and rez, we are not all here yet, and one or two of us are never all there... like myself
James Atlloud: some are signing the Kitely waiver... lol
Karima Hoisan: ohh boy haha
Dale Innis: haha no rush
Star Ravenhurst: I often have to go to the Welcome Center first on Kitely. Then I can go to where I want to go
Nara Nook: Neo tried welcome, think he is trying a different avatar on another grid now
Thirza Ember: on Kitely, it's a pain in the butt... if there is nobody on the sim, then you have to begin on Welcome, but if there are people on the region and the sim is spooled up, you can jump direct
Star Ravenhurst: There have been a few issues getting here lately
Nara Nook: Neo made it
Neo Nook: Weird, looks like Kitely does not like my home grid
Dale Innis: Glad you made it!
Star Ravenhurst: YAY!

Safari Gets Steamy

Lampi, Marlon, Tutz and Karsten

Mys Tigerpaw: thank you for all the clothes Lampi... it is all thanks to Lampi :0)

Marlon Wayne -> en: only karsten looks looooool as always 

Karsten Runningbear: oh i can change :)

Lampithaler Artist -> en: A warm welcome everyone, it’s great to see you. 

Karsten Runningbear: Hello all are welcome

Francisco Koolhoven: Hi everyone

Dings Digital: steampunk insects

Tutz Zabelin: Welcome everyone to  Steampunk sim at Pangea grid. I am always very happy when Safari comes to Pangea . The last time we met was on my The Waterfall Swamp sim. I am happy about the comments I received then, and I am grateful for them.

Dings Digital: it was a great sim

Super Bloom

Ten giant gameboys, sitting in a row... 

it's a blast from the past for anyone who remembers these iconic plastic boxes offering endless fun. It's located on Arcade Plaza, on winxtropia grid, you'll find the HG Address at the end of the post. The region is online 24/7 unless it's briefly off for maintenance reasons.

The vintage console is to die for, and will bring back memories of schoolyards and long car trips, but it's also modded for our hyperverse... look round the back and you can see the game cartridge: this is Primmy's Adventure, brought to you by 'GameGirl', of course... 

Bloom Peters: Primmy is a cube prim scripted by me but, in the game's backstory,  I am long gone. Primmy's task in the game is to destroy the bad code blocks - the 'enemies'. Basically, she has to defend Opensim from bad coders. Every level is a grid that she visits.  She has to correct all the errors in the region. When she dies, the whole sim crashes with syntax errors all over the screen.

Dolma's Garden

 Our second stop this week, after the traditional Halloween hunt with Ange and Nani, we headed off to a small grid by Dolma Dollinger. Dressed in red and looking a little like a superheroine, Dolma  were on hand to meet us, with friend Kiriko Kiama.

Dolma and Kiriko

Dolma Dollinger: Welcome everyone!
Nara Nook: Thirza is rounding everyone up

Kiriko Kiama: herding cats
Thirza Ember: i have bad internet tonight, apologies when I'm slow, about 4 more were still coming when I left osgrid

Lavia LLavine: I love these swans!!! They're beautiful
Forest Azure : /me wonders if these swans are as protective as rl swans
Dolma Dollinger: You get very wet if you try the swans. They are from Zweet Zurroundingz
Kiriko Kiama: that's probably the dutchiest name ever

Yamato

 Ange Menges: Welcome to Yamato and Happy Halloween everyone! Take your time to visit the region. Note that it has two levels: a ground level where you are currently located and an underwater level. The two deserve that you go for a ride. As usual, We have prepared a quest for you. If you want to do it, get a hud by clicking on the character next to me and wear it. Then follow the instructions.

This statue in the main plaza is where you get the HUD which you may want to edit depending on the screen you're using, so that the photo it shows are big enough to see, but don't blot out too much of your screen. Find the place in the photo, go real close (10m close) and that will set off the script which will give you your next clue and a new place to search for. 

The transition from underwater to the land made the game even more challenging and rich, and it's quite hard to not get distracted by all the lovely mesh to be found here. 

At Home with the Hopsons

Taarna Welles: now we get to the fun part

Taarna Welles

Most people in Opensim have heard of the Dutch creator of inworld goodies, Taarna Welles. Her home grid, Bubblesz, is one of those special places where original content, freebies and art come together in a harmonious whole. If you haven't been to LaBaronnie and Savvy, you're missing a little bit of OS heaven and history. 

The Hogwarts-inspired landing point on Bubblesz grid

Beyond making clothes and accessories for men and women, Taarna has always enjoyed creating landscapes. wander into the woods of Savvy and you'll see that - visit close by Hidden Leaves and the adventure continues. More recently, in the past year or two, Taarna has been working on a new region, Domadun. It's inspired by Harry Potter, the films and also the video game. You can tell how much Taarna is intrigued by the HP look when you get to the Bubblesz Welcome sim, where the portals that take you to the grid's different sims are themed around the game of Quidditch. 

Fashion Show

Belze and Chubby Cherub have their own grid called Chubelz. The grid name combines their two first names  and yes, it did take me like 2 years to figure that one out. 

Belze and Chubby at the Halloween themed Chubelz Modenschau region

Part of Opensim's vast and highly creative archipelago of fairly small, semi-private grids, Chubelz is one of those places that is already on your HG asset-searching radar for a while, and if not - then about time! On their grid's welcome area you can find everything from tattoos to eyes, shoes, jewels, and formal wear, making it a 'must LM' for anyone looking to get some great content for free. They regularly advertise their latest releases on Opensimworld - it's often stuff that will bring a smile to your face, and outfits and accessories themed for the time of year or special holidays.

It's Halloween season, which is the perfect time to have a Fashion Show or Modenschau with a Gothic theme. It's been brewing for a while...

Belze Cherub: We had the idea for a long time and have now implemented it

The fashion show will be on Saturday October 25 and it starts at 7pm Berlin time (that translates to 10am SLT) has its own dedicated sim which will be open to the public from 8am SLT so we'll all have plenty of time to get there before the fun begins, and completely rez. 

Remember that these events always get a crazy number of avatars, so being fashionably late is probably not a great idea - the early bird gets to see the outfits.