Be careful out there...
So, there I was, chatting with my good friend Sue Stonebender (also here) about the intricacies of scripting within Second Life, when I innocently asked her if she could tell me, off the top of her head, of a nice quiet place for me to tp (teleport) to while we finished our IM chat.
(I asked, because while I was IM'ing with her, a half-naked woman walked up to me and started chatting me up. Turns out she was Dutch, and was just waking up. Apparently she had a place nearby and saw me standing there, in the middle of my lovely barren wasteland in Newman that I call home... decided to strike up a conversation, totally oblivious that she had neglected to put on any pants over her thong.)
Anyway, Sue thinks for a minute, and sends me a couple of landmarks. One is for the International Space Museum, which is cool, but a little too "out there" for my mood. Another is for a place called Tusk I think, in Jubata. (I say "I think," because I never quite ended up there.) Apparently it's quite nice, so I click the tp button and I'm whisked over there.
As I say, I never quite ended up where Sue was sending me. For some reason, as soon as I arrived, I started teleporting again. So I hit the Cancel button, and looked around. The first thing I saw was a pose ball that said, "Get spanked." Gulp.
The music stream started, and I kind of liked it, so I decided to stick around. I found a safe place to sit.
I asked Sue if she knew anything about "Get spanked," and she professed her innocence. Seems like a glitch in the teleporting thing or something.
So I started looking around. I saw all sorts of things you could click on that had titles I had never seen before. Things like "posture training," and "click for cuffs." Even "humiliation table."
So I decided to get the heck out of there.
The first thing I did was look for the door. There was a door, but I quickly realized that I was in a building that was actually suspended 700 feet above sea level. And the door wouldn't open. So the only way out was to teleport out. Sue suggested another of her landmarks, so I clicked the Teleport button. No go. Simply no response. As if I hadn't clicked.
I had read about places in Second Life where you could get into some trouble. But supposedly, you could always click the Go Home button on the map to teleport out of wherever you were, and get back to home base. So that's what I did. No go.
Seems I was stuck. The only thing to do would be to quit the client and then log back in. But that would be admitting defeat. And, by this point, I was becoming intrigued by the various displays in the room. Strange objects kept rezzing and derezzing every minute... so I decided to try some of them out, and I posted the pics to slpics.com, and here they are, courtesy of slpics.com's flickr gateway...
Comments