Imagine - a Safari Finale

Medora Chevalier: if anyone cannot listen in voice in English please let me know - I will post the key points in chat

Thirza Ember: yes please, post key points in chat, Medora

Alazi Sautereau: it is so exciting to see all the different Virtual Worlds

Medora Chevalier: Alazi is welcoming you, sim is built by zimp. The Imaginals have been performing for 10 years, we welcome our virtual wanderers, we are going on a walking tour with many stories, stay to see our performance space at the end, and join a couple of dances, enable voice, set environment to midday, set draw distance to the highest you can manage, and LOD to 3 or more, and candles show the path.

James Atlloud: Can I ride this candle throughout the tour?

At first, it seemed as if the sim was based on real people, but gradually it became evident that the history being recounted was a fiction, like a sort of RP plot.

Aphra.Hendrix: Hello ! Happy to see you all, i was busy and did not see the time

Forest Azure: /me waves

Alazi Sautereau: We are in Voice, Welcome to those just arriving

Thirza Ember: hi those who finally made it

Medora Chevalier: - Ancient stone circle on Brood Mare Hill - Dates back to Neolithic times - First excavated by Sir Alfred Higginbottom with the help of local fishermen - Found a ritual burial of a family with gold jewellery & their horses with gold harness pendants  - Traditionally  always keep horses here - Celebrate the turning of the seasons with the equinoxes and solstices.

Medora shared one of her poems with this, in the magic circle, as she did in several other places. The poems are quite long, so in each case, only the first few lines are quoted, so you get the gist of it.

Medora Chevalier: "Bare feet treading on cool grasses,  Step by step and hand in hand.  High above the full moon passes,  Carries wish from land to land.    Up ahead the dark stones tower,  While  generations come and go.  Each soul builds and binds the power,  For the crucial time they know..."

 James Atlloud: lovely, thank you

We alking now, to Dragon's Cave

Alazi Sautereau: Follow the Red Hat, Zimp and the candles!

I can't lie, I was really tired of traipsing, after the 10 mile hike around the ship, so I just TP'd where the people were. Turned out to be an intriguing cave! We all gathered around to hear this part of the fiction.

Medora Chevalier: - As you can see, the name Dragons' Cave is a misnomer. as we stand in an empty cave  - Legend has it that the power of the stone circle above arises through the rocks from dragon energies in the cave below - Sir Alfred's wife, Lady Clementina, on hearing the legend, insisted on visiting the cave alone - She was found fainted in the cave and swore she had seen a dragon - Sir Alfred described it as a" typical hysterical woman's fit of the vapors"  - He said "Let's leave dragons to the imaginings of children"

Tosha Tyran: what a wonderful story...

Alan Scot: watch out for the invisible dragons

James Atlloud: i see dragonz!

Francisco Koolhoven: oooh dragons!

Tina Bey: ooooh

Forest Azure: /me hides behind tosha

Luna Lunaria: We LUVS dragons

Medora Chevalier: - The Isles have been the home of many mystics  We can see a ruined chapel in the waters of the lake  - High on the hill we will see a ruined abbey. It is said that those who sleep in the Little Tower experience extraordinary dreams  - The dragon ancient energies are transformed through dream into powerful visions

Medora read another poem, just a taste of it here.

Medora Chevalier: I am the Voice of Unborn Futures,  I am the Voice of Wiser Pasts,   I am the Wind stirring the Waters,  I am the Shadows the Sun casts.   I am the Glinting on Ocean ripples,  I am the Voices in Deep Seas,  I am the Fish that darts and shimmers,  In forests that the sea kelp weaves..."

Lyr Lobo: Lovely

Tosha Tyran: so beautiful

Medora Chevalier: please follow zimp and the candles

Medora Chevalier: "The Mill of Dreams" Madame Katrine Dereves took over the WaterMill on the death of her husband in war. She had always known that the waters were special - From when the black swans had arrived and 3 of them had lived together in harmony - When she lost her husband she walked across the isles many times - Tired she had fallen asleep in the Little Tower- True to its title the Little Tower of Dreams had given her creative vision - She found that the WaterMill could mill dreams into existence. - Visitors come to picnic & take home a jar of freshly milled dreams

Tosha Tyran: a jar of milled dreams ... that is wonderful

Alan.Scot: my favorite is icedreams

Medora Chevalier: I hope you take some beautiful dreams home with you. we will walk to the northern cliffs and then the villa

Medora Chevalier: welcome to the villa

Luna Lunaria: Lovely architecture

Alan Scot: soothing music

Medora Chevalier: its a pretty place where we spend a lot of time relaxing

Alazi Sautereau: we do spend a lot of time here

Francisco Koolhoven: breathtaking

James Atlloud: wonderful music cues!

Medora Chevalier: - The Villa is guesthouse for the artists & musicians who visit the chateau - They prepare for an evening of music, dance or poetry by breakfasting late on the terrace  - The more adventurous will climb up to the ruined abbey - They hope their hostess is right to say her lions are completely tame - Some will explore the tunnels from the beach, surprised to find cool drinks

Alazi Sautereau: cool drinks with spirits..

Luna Lunaria: must have spirits

Medora Chevalier: on to the fisherman's cottage. The fisherman, Jean Baptiste and his sons, fish the placid seas of the isles & are avid gardeners. Sometimes they host the painters and writers who visit the isles  - Their collection of books include many inspired by the sea views. He is the second husband of the miller, Katrine - Katrine refuses to sleep in the cottage  - She says that the sea lapping the cliffs brings her the sound of the church bells under the water - The bells of the lost city of Ys. This music is Ys by the Breton musician Alan Stivell - about the lost city

Luna Lunaria: Humbletim!

Thirza Ember: nice to see so many familiar faces on this final safari of the season!

Forest Azure: oh! this the last one?

Luna Lunaria: I didn't want to miss the last one

Medora Chevalier: - Countess Abrielle Guilane entertains in her chateau during spring and summer  - She is a keen amateur gardener, developing new plant hybrids in her conservatory - She happily gave refuge to Sir Alfred & Lady Clementine after a terrifying storm hit their sailing voyage - Abrielle & Clementine enjoyed many hours of reading & conversation - While Sir Alfred enjoyed a peaceful glass of wine on the lawn - An artists' salon sprang up as the Countess hosts painters, composers and poets  - Her evening salons entice many to sail their little boats to the isles.

Thirza Ember: is James sitting on a candle?

Tosha Tyran: yepp

Medora Chevalier: its a new form of pogo stick

James Atlloud: keepin' nice n' toasty up here

Medora Chevalier: The Creative Dance Foundation exists with thanks to the generosity of heiress Peggy Guggenheim whose continuing support  helps to  this Foundation to nurture  new creative dance talent and performance. - Once  a celebrated dancer herself she was inspired by the beautiful Isadora Duncan, whose  dancing is distinguished by Complete Freedom, helping to free ballet from its conservative restrictions. Isadora is a  revolutionary woman of the time.  a free spirited Bohemian , dancing for High Society throughout American and Europe.  It is that Society which often visits the Foundation and enjoys the delights of the whole Region with gayous partying into the small hours. - Isadora's remaining dance group -the Isadorables - spend their summers relaxing here and are performing their free dance expression got ud to the music of Narcissus and Mother.

Thirza Ember: whispers: how did Ard get in the group??? although, I think he is a natural

Ard Rhys: lol

Star.Ravenhurst: This is so beautiful and original

Frank Gresham:                          ҉❥•APPLAUSE•❥•҉

Francisco Koolhoven: you have a lovely place here

Thirza Ember: so can we ask questions? curious about how you like opensim compared to SL, and are you based more here or there?

Tosha Tyran: Medora, you seem to be quite a stable crew... have you worked together for a long time?

Our time was up and people were returning to their other activities and obligations, but, the Imaginal group wanted to show us their dancing stage

Luna Lunaria: Okies RL work calls me back. Great to see everyone :-)

Roffellos Kisses: what a really magical place

Angelic.Kisses: thank you for the lovely tour

Thirza Ember: voice keeps cutting out, so...have they gone somewhere else?

Ziggy Cagney: i did not get a note card

Lucy Afarensis: I heard a cough

Thirza Ember: lol

Alazi Sautereau: Tp tp Yellow Submarine,, at the bottom at the notecard

Angelic Kisses: `yes, something about a yellow submarine

Thirza Ember: i got no notecard, i have no idea sorry

Alazi Sautereau: I will tp you there

Yara Eild: I did not understand this correctly. Do you also do shows or theater performances here?

Alazi Sautereau: Yes we do we are taking you to our Performance space now

Yara Eild: Are there also aids here like the spot on in SL?

Thirza Ember: i think so yes

Yara Eild: I have never seen this before, I dance and perform a little in SL

Thirza Ember: oh maybe you can join with them here in opensim! 

Yara Eild: I still have to do in SL :-)

James Atlloud: tim looks so comfortable

Angelic Kisses: lol   I was thinking that too, James.

James Atlloud: I really like the rotating stage. I've been a bad participant and cammed below the stage, which also shows amazing work!

Safarians Mal, Lyr, and Yara got to join in the dance with the Imaginals group, which was great fun to watch.

Francisco Koolhoven: Applause!

Tosha Tyran: fantastic!  thank you Medora and all the others as well

Ard Rhys: /me applauds

Thirza Ember: bye Safari people, see you next season !

Zimp, Medora, and Alazi, our hosts.

Safari is over for this season. If you would like to host a Safari later this year, please read this page on the Safari blog, it gives tips on our the trips work and (even more important) what doesn't work so well, in six frequently asked questions. Spaces are filling up in our calendar, so get in touch soon so we can save you a date! 

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