Saturday, November 25, 2023

The Daqtheion Empire

By light, we see light
It's a little bit Alice Through the Looking Glass, a touch Whovian, a smidgen Minecraft, and plenty Mobian; it will find worlds unique to your mind and echo them back to you, with interesting sidelights. But of course, whatever allusions fly, this is  the Daqtheion Empire, and the mindworm of Knight Knox, the creator of Phos, a region of crystals and cubes, space and sounds, towers and tunnels and teleports and trees.
If you want to fall in love all over again with Opensim, then take a trip to Mobius and visit this region; this is no game, it's an expression of art, on an imperial scale, in the magnificent opensim style of immense space coupled with total freedom of movement. HG Address, as always, at the end of the post... You make your own adventure.
Worlds colliding. Opposites attract. The black and white, cleancut sphere is falling into the overheated moon next door... it's a feature not a bug, we're all just falling, or falling apart. Just like RL. 
Time to explore. 
The squared-off ground makes you remember that in your heart you're partly Mobian, and that not far away, other more familiar sims lie in the eternal virtual sea. But here, it's all about that magical slightly cynical space where fun can never be commodified or rushed. Turn up the sound, and a touch of vaporwave will reach out and caress your mind. 

Knight Knox - or Amoz Ing if you want to connect on Opensimworld - has made a place that neither asks or answers questions, placing you in the pure bliss of the uninterrogated moment. Any path is as good as another and the vast hall in the base of the central tower is populated with teleport rings that are as mesmeric as their destinations.
Various biomes await, with everything from hidden glistening caves...
... to little mushroom houses in a green forest as cute and calm as can be, under that dramatic sky. Looking for more than fungal accommodation? Check out the remarkably loaded treehouse or the great grey castle - here there is something for everyone.
But wait, there's more. You don't have to walk or even tp around the vast Phos landscape. Also because you kind of get lost in the looping if you stand anywhere near one of these spinning TP rings with the music on, and forget what you were going to do.
So why not fly?  A vehicle awaits, as easy as saying the word Rez and you can zoom about the build to your heart's content (and your ability to avoid crashing, of course... For some of us, that's about 30 seconds tops.)
Wherever you end up on this giant build that reaches way up thousands of meters above the sea, you'll never get lost, there's always a handy TP to bring you back to the Hub Tower, ready for the next part of the adventure. 
Comfortable bewilderment in bounty. And all of it alive, bright, inviting, just enough jeopardy in the air to be appealing to the senses. No two experiences can ever be the same here. And in all this, the sounds are remixed, reverberating, echoing and expanding familiar notes to the point where time seems to bend back upon itself.
We haven't even mentioned the racetrack, or the Froze Zone, the Moon Ark, or the floating islands, and on and on... 
I guess you just need to go see for yourself.
HG Address main.mobiusgrid.us:80:Phos

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