Shining Xzar

Star Ravenhurst: I JUST got nervous!  

Ms.Cal: hello Lucy,  Mal

Star Ravenhurst: Hugs Lucy! Thirza you may want to move. They will be landing on your head

Roffellos Kisses: she likes it

Star Ravenhurst: Welcome James, you may want to move. That thing will keep going off when you are near it

James Atlloud: A welcome message!  I feel very welcome. Do you recommend region environment or something else?

Tosha Tyran: wow, how lovely

Star Ravenhurst: Shared environment.  Some of the parcels have different EPP settings, so with Shared on, you will experience the changes in climate as we walk... Hi Marlon. Welcome. Hi Kelso. Hi Tosha

Lavia Lavine: Hello everyone.

Tosha Tyran: lovely place you have, really

Mal Burns: heya Star

Star Ravenhurst: Hi Mal. Thank you, Tosha, SO happy you made it

Lavia Lavine: Oh boy James found something to ride.

Star Ravenhurst: Angel!! Hugs! Welcome! Welcome Lifted! Everyone Please have SHARED ENVIRONMENT on And sound on. No media, so turn that off if you have it on... are we ready?

Forest Azure: we are

Alexey Kazarovic: Y

Star Ravenhurst: We will be taking a walk

Lavia Lavine: I  love walks

Star Ravenhurst: Follow me then!

Forest Azure: this way or that way?

Tosha Tyran: mean horse wont let me ride

Lavia Lavine: Oooooooh  bears!!

Roffellos Kisses: this is lovely ...nice work !!

Tosha Tyran: Lucy, your horse snorts into my ear and messes up my hairdo

Lucy Afarensis: sorry bout that

Star Ravenhurst: A few years ago I uploaded this thing called Battle Arean from Outworldz, and this past fall, I finally did something with it and built this pavillion. If people have a dispute, they come here to battle it out to the death

This very clever part of the build with a huge group of us crowding around the fighters gave a really effective cinematic feel to what is clearly a crucial part of Star's novel. It took a while for the textures to pop for me, and by the time they did, the group was moving on to the next spot. But even with just five or six of us in this space, it felt dramatic.

Lavia Lavine: Oh so that's what it represents.....cool.

Tosha Tyran: well, with arnold schwarzenegger I would fight too

James Atlloud: I love the 'god rays' from the sun

The we did stop for a photoshoot ! Yay! Meaning I can toss out the 50 photos of people's backs as they rapidly disappeared into the undergrowth. whew. Interestingly, this is the same area that you'll see in the background of Star's picture in this year's HG Safari Opensim calendar, which you can pick up at the Clubhouse any time.

Thirza Ember: wow you all look awesome... if somewhat spread out

Lavia Lavine: Why thank you.

lifted pixel: yeah with the sky we look badass

Star Ravenhurst: We still have a long walk

Torrential rain in the forest.

Marlon Wayne: my hair !

James Atlloud: OH I left my umbrella at home!

Alexey Kazarovic: ohhh rain!!! how did you?

Lavia Lavine: My hair is all wet

Star Ravenhurst: This is the house I am currently working on. Almost finished

Lavia Lavine: And it is an awesome house.

Thirza Ember: yikes i hit a patch of rubberbanding

Star Ravenhurst: I have been experiencing a bit of that lately too Thirza. I am sorry

lifted pixel: safari brings the lag with them

Tosha Tyran: a very cool house, star! wouldn't mind living in it... hey, it is prim made, not mesh! great!

Lavia Lavine: Star does mostly all prim builds

James Atlloud: Lovely statues too.

Thirza Ember: love the effect of the house in the rain but I will be billing you for my dry cleaning

Star Ravenhurst: Haha Thirza. Send it over

Kelso Uxlay: You should switch to wet cleaning

so many winding and picturesque paths!

Star Ravenhurst: OK to the mountains. We have now gone through two Forests

Lavia Lavine: over the river and through the woods.

Star Ravenhurst: I build most of my bridges. This is a low bridge so I made it a drawbridge, so boats can pass. So I need to adjust the timer on the script. But it works very well. 

Thirza Ember: wow that SKYYYYYYY

James Atlloud: Are we on a moon of the planet in the sky or is that a moon?

Jupiter Rowland: "That is no moon!"

Star Ravenhurst: There are rivers throughout, and the water all around the region can be sailed

Thirza Ember: so - question - does the sim inspire your writing, or only the writing inspire the sim?

Star Ravenhurst: Both, Thirza. 

Tosha Tyran: I really think it is an outstanding idea, build and write together!

Star Ravenhurst: Oh! Mal is trying to steal my ride!! Catch him!! I got that little ride when we visited the Groovyverse awhile back.

James.Atlloud: oh help us, that dragon is above!

Lucy Afarensis rides the dragon! (photo by L Afarensis)

Elamanu Pastorelli: Hi all

Star Ravenhurst: Hi Elananu. Welcome

James Atlloud: Last week I suggest Tutz could help build roads for governor linden - maybe you can too!

Marlon Wayne: what size is this sim Star

Star Ravenhurst: This is a 4x4 region. It is parcelled into I lost count. Even the rivers are parcelled so I could name each one

lifted pixel: very organized

Alexey Kazarovic: :) nice idea

Star Ravenhurst: Somewhere around 15 or more parcels. I did a map with prims I laid down while it was still flat and before any terraforming

Tosha Tyran: yes, that seems necessary, if not you lose yourself building

James Atlloud: wow, parcelled rivers too!

Star Ravenhurst: This is the first time I parcelled the rivers too - I finally have built it to stay.

Tosha Tyran: why did you do that, if I may ask?

Forest Azure: so she could name them

lifted pixel: then the names will show in the viewer

Forest Azure: see? paid attention

James Atlloud: +1 Forest

Star Ravenhurst: *-* YeSS! *-*

Star Ravenhurst: and I also love having different environments. I imagine The Land Of Xzar as big as the planet, but I have only a 4x4 to fit it all in. I keep playing with them. The mountains were one of my biggest challenges

There are lots of sweet little valleys hidden across the build, and deep tracks that lead to them like this  small farmstead, and, further on, in a nearby valley, a fishing hole, where an old guy and his dog while away the hours. 

Yet another lane and another little patch of earth being farmed... 

Star Ravenhurst: I am going to make a bloody fortune with this crop!

Lavia Lavine: I need some of these greens for my joint pain.

Tosha Tyran: plenty of good smelling stuff here

Marlon Wayne: ooooh any to smoke

Jupiter Rowland: And Lifted is harvesting already.

Finally we were led up an almost invisible track to a strange feature in the landscape... an anomaly. With sound... quite otherworldly!

Star Ravenhurst: This blends in so well, you may miss it... If you can read the sign: and touch it, it has sound. Just something weird cause I had the script and texture and thought what can I do with it. So I dug a hole.

Lavia Lavine: I love the view

Impressive view, and still about 20 of us present on the region at the end of the Safari, which is perhaps some kind of a record. 

The final point of interest was this meditation area, a brand new bit of the build and a perfect way to end our trip. The temple-like building, shown here with a ruby red floor that changes color over time, is a special element

Star Ravenhurst: The only thing I have bought in OS, from Luna. I built the arches to go with it. There is room for more. There is something strange here if you look. A new project I have no idea where it is going

Forest Azure: you stood on my chakra, una... my cranial one

James Atlloud: I hate it when that happens

Thirza Ember: now you'll need a new one.

The meditation area, on the cliff walk.

Thirza Ember: so what is the best part of building all this for you Star? 

Star Ravenhurst: The best part is I am seeing my novel come to life in 3D and it helps inspire me

James Atlloud: such great stories to be had here

Lavia Lavine: Outstanding work and very unique

lifted pixel: this build is wonderful and MASSIVE

Mal Burns: Thanks Star

Tutz Zabelin: Thank you Star,, very good built all this :)

Tosha Tyran: with so much imagination, Star, that I can only dream about

Star Ravenhurst: Feel free to explore, There is so much more to see

Forest Azure: saved it under 'beautiful sims'

Lucy Afarensis: I will have to come back and visit the dragon I rode

Star Ravenhurst: Has anyone noticed the rocks yet? Behind the meditation circle

Can you see the eyes on the rock formation?

Lavia Lavine: I love the eyes in the rocks that is so very cool Star

James Atlloud: OH I see them now. wow...  some of the eyes follow me as I move!

Tosha Tyran: Star, this is a really wonderful region! full of imagination and one can appreciate the love of building at each corner

James Atlloud: a most excellent journey

Forest Azure: /me's eyes follow james as he moves

Lucy Afarensis: It has been fun

lifted pixel: Thank you for making the metaverse! This was a treat, thank you!

Roffellos Kisses: this was really good thank you Star ..for all your hard work

Angelic Kisses: THanks for the tour, Star!  it's beautiful here!

Thirza Ember: looking forward to roff's photos!

Jupiter Rowland: Night everyone!

Marlon Wayne: ty Star  for showing us  this great build

Star Ravenhurst: I appreciate each and every one of you for coming. See you all next week!

The elegantly winged Star Ravenhurst with Alexey, Lucy, Beth, and Lavia Lavine

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