Elaur is Noobs

A pontificating Vash, a Vash Army buggy, a pain in the butt, literally, a Rick_Slick, a hotel, some newbies, 300tbux, some griefing, some out-griefing, elaur is noobs, some forcefields, and lack thereof, A Thumdar, jigawatts, a comforterpaperprintersyndrome, flanders, a tomato-red bald head, belly rubbing, tongue dancing, near nakedness, polygon people, penance. Weird night.

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Comfort and Joy

... And lots of loot! Merry Christmas everyone!

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Merry Christmas Elaur!

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Walking in a Winter Wonderland

My sister and I took a spin around Samsyn's Winter Wonderland, A.K.A. Frosty, with JoAnn to get into the Christmas spirit. Here are a few highlights of the journey. Click to enlarge.

That's my sister getting all cozy with the Gingerbread man.

JoAnn found this nice swan boat in the pond, but it refused to take her anywhere! So, I had to get out and push...

Is that not the coolest thing you've ever seen?! It's so cool, in fact, that it deserves another screenshot.

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Wishing Blinky a Merry Christmas

He has called two different islands his home, he has crossed a vast ocean of blue concrete, he's been raised high in the sky, placed within decorative pazes, he's even had poems written about him. He has been held in awe since the dawn of time. Well, nearly. You might say he's got more Jigawatts than anyone else. But yesterday, Elaur gave Blinky a whole new perspective on the world. Merry Christmas, Mister Blinky!!

Click the image below to see Blinky's "new perspective"

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Happy Avie-Versary Elaur!!

I came home today (technically yesterday) to find Elaur on my desktop screaming about this new 4-seater buggy. Moments later, there I was in-world, still wearing my Sacrificial Suit from the last blog entry, before E and Chaz even loaded on my screen, beholding this wonderful machine:

As a side note, Chaz rocks! So many new additions today (technically yesterday). 4-seater buggies, new stylemaker tops for men and women, fixed clipping issues on male stylemaker tops, a brand new 'toast emote, and a fixed 'jig emote!! Happy Avie-Versary Elaur indeed!!!

So, what better way to celebrate Elaur's two year Avie-Versary than to blind summon every last buddy currently online onto a tiny deck way up near Avie-Sacrifices? That's exactly what puddlefish and I convinced Elaur to do! Apparently, E rarely pulls this kind of stunt so everybody accepted the blind summons thinking something along the lines of: "Oh my gosh, Elaur is summoning me, it must be extremely important!" So, needless to say, a ton of people were gathered on that tiny little deck within a matter of seconds.

And mere moments later, that deck was pulled right out from beneath them. What, you thought we were going to hand out party hats and sing "Happy Birthday"?

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Priceless Sacrifice

Rugged all terrain boots with economical inso-late® thermal liner: 3,500 Therebucks.

Can't bust 'em® sacrificial pants, equipped with side and rear pockets: 2,000 Therebucks.

Rip-stop® sacrificial shirt, featuring elbow padding, thermal insulation, and patented whiplash protection technology: 2,300 Therebucks.

Grip-rite® gloves, including altimeter and Reel-Feel® thermometer: 1,500 Therebucks.

Cable knit Santa hat: 5,000 Therebucks.

Various belts, buckles, and straps: 1,200 Therebucks.

Putting yourself in harm's way so that sick children all across the world can learn to love Mario and Luigi as much as you did: Priceless.

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Child's Play Charity Event

BluegrassTIGGS helped set me up with an event for the Child's Play charity tonight. I offered to put myself in harm's way to benefit sick children all over the world! You can find Alex's forum post about the holiday fundraiser here. In brief, Child's Play (www.childsplaycharity.org) is a charity that works to provide games, toys, and videos to sick children in children's hospitals all over the world. 100% of all donations go directly to those hospitals! At the end of the fundraising period, the total donations from the There community, in Therebucks, will be converted to US Dollars and sent off to the charity. Additionally, Makena Technologies, together with the Maya Foundation (CEO Michael Wilson's foundation) will match the community's contribution up to $10,000!

My event was originally intended as a paintball sacrifice but, as it turns out, paintball is disabled on Comet Island so we had to improvise. Buggies work just as well for knocking an avie off of a platform. I suited up in my sacrificial uniform: rugged all terrain boots; can't bust 'em pants; rip-stop shirt; grip-rite gloves; various belts, buckles, and straps; and, of course, my cable knit santa hat, and I prepared myself for a long hour of avie bashing off of the highest peak in There: Avie Sacrifices.

We asked those who showed up to donate 5,000 Tbux to There_Gifts for the event and then we turned them loose in their buggies! I definitely had a--Tiggs! Can I finish my sentence please? Where was I. Ah yes. This event was a lot of fun. We had pretty good turnout, too, although I think most people were all charitied out since this was one of the last charity events being done for the fundraiser. Even so, Jasmin_Janea stopped by with KimberlyVictoria. Elaur also came with Sammy1000 a bit later. Sammy missed me the first time, but rammed me real good two more times after that. I guess that's payback for the There Winter Games huh? Buschman57 came by and even stood with me in the face of imminent danger a couple times up on my little ra--

OOF!
Ow, that one hurt. Hey, take it easy guys! This is supposed to be a--Nya nya you missed me!!You guys couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!Come on, stop trying to hit me and hit me!!Hey, I can see my house from here!

Big thanks to Tiggs for making this event possible! A thank you to everybody who came for their support and their donations to the fundraiser. And can't forget Buff, who wired his donation to me before the event because he couldn't make it. I still can't believe you passed up an opportunity to smash me into oblivion!

Can't touch this!

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G0D Returns!

G0D has returned to There! HUZZAH! 'jig of glory! Netrider and I were the first to spot her as she returned to her cloud in Saja. JoAnn logged in moments after Net and I arrived at G0D's cloud, so I summoned her. I also summoned Ponder who, in turn, informed Francis who, in turn, informed Rickpa and soon we were all floating up there with G0D having a nice little chat. At first, Rickpa didn't believe G0D was actually listening to us. Nonbeliever!! As soon as he saw her BRB goggles disappear he was converted, though. I told G0D she should smite him anyways. Rickpa also made a few passing comments about G0D's posterior...

Net and I updated G0D on all the new stuff in There like pazes you can drop in space, skintone independent clothing, the new California island, and all about Prophet TheChaz's funzone and environmental sound additions! She was very excited! Net and I also determined that G0D's return to There was a sign that the new water we've been promised is coming soon! G0D will walk on the new water the day after the update is released! Huzzah! We also asked G0D to cleans There of all the evil that has surfaced while she was over at Second Life. I explained to her how avies now have the ability to nudge objects in any direction in their homes. Voodoo magic I tell you!!

Unfortunately, G0D didn't stay long. We watched as her BRB goggles went on and off during our extended conversations with her and as soon as we took off in Francis' hoverboat, she logged out! I do hope she returns again soon!

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Valhalla Revisited

In my fifth ever post up here on this blog, here, I included some screenshots I took of Valhalla during a Massive Hoverboat Flotilla. Valhalla is this monstrous collection of pazes put out by RedWings on random occasions. It has at least 20 pazes and 1,000 drops!! I had the opportunity to revisit Valhalla last night and, boy, is it awesome looking. So awesome looking, in fact, that giggles crashed nearly every time I attempted to snap a screenshot. The area was packed full of blinking lights, exploding fireworks, and bursting at the seams with colors of every sort! Using the latest available high-tech image re-creation photographic software, I have generated an approximation of the awesomeness I saw which was too powerful for screen capture programs to correctly process. I hope you enjoy the splendor as much as I did! Click to englarge:

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Disconnected Thoughts

What are you looking at?

Explain this to me again. What, exactly, is holding us up?

And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?

Lieutenant Dihtri, load forward tubes! Acquire target lock! Mister Chaz, divert all available power to the warp drive! Fire chicken torpedoes, full spread! Helm, come about, one five zero mark two. Engage engines, warp factor five!

Watch out Dihtri! That elf is about to smash your--

Oh! That'll leave a mark.(Did anybody else see Chaz just age thirty years?)

Ewwww gross!!

Shh shh! There she is! Duck! You think she spotted us? Ahh! My ears!

And in this corner, weighing in at 600x50 pixels, the amazing, the fabulous, the unstoppable, the incredibly ferocious JQ!! (Crowd goes wild) Tonight he faces his long time arch-rival, the terrible, the savage, Buff_God!!! 'cricket

And what have we learned, Titanic builders? A) [Lifeboat capacity] - [Number of passengers] better @#$% well be a positive number. B) NEVER call your boat "unsinkable".

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Nobody Does It Better

So, I was all set to write an elaborate blog entry tonight with dramatic plot twists and agonizingly long scientific analyses of pandimensional beings and rifts in the space-time continuum. I sat myself down, stretched my fingers, and prepared to wring every last creative detail from my mind when I stopped and asked myself "Why do I do this? Is it for my adoring public? For all of two people who actually read this blog? Do I come up with these absurd fictions out of some twisted sense of obligation to my unappreciative fellow Therians?"

Well, the truth is I enjoy humiliating you guys. And nobody does it better than yourselves:

Dougeee: "people tell me I run like a girl all the time"
Jon_Quixote: "Maybe it's those pink bunnies?"
Dougeee: "i like these. i traded my black ones for em"

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Two Years Old!

Last night, Elaur threw me a two year avie-versary party! Since the Aero Lounge wouldn't let her book the event early (There_Events forgot to pay rent... Bad There_Events, bad!) E booked it at Explorer's Club instead. I arrived a little early to help E set up and found the place already decked out for the party. There was food on the tables--pizza, corn, burgers--and E was dropping a quest based on some trivia questions I sent her about myself. She did an awesome job decorating! But I later found out that most of the decorations were left there by the previous person to host an event. Details, details. I owe E a big thanks for hosting my party! You rock! 'chicken 'chicken

MustangGirl was the first to arrive. It was nice chatting with her again, but she didn't stay too long. Dihtri arrived soon after and BluegrassTIGGS showed up briefly to sing "happy birthday" to me! Elaur even managed to summon Francis_7 and Rickpa to the party. Francis_7 brought his counterparts along for the ride, and and.. wait.. who's missing? There he is! Buff_God was a bit late but he came!

Dihtri showed off her recent nose job. It looks.. uh.. great, Dihtri.. no really! 'tu

Buff made (yes made!) two boards for me. In all honesty, I'm a bit partial to the freestyle version with its slick black vents. But the cruiser is a one of a kind! And, of course, you can never have enough boards!

E is making me turn my Geek shirt into a female version for my gift. Wait what? And she gave me this spiffy Polygon People outfit she designed:

And guess who showed up at 10:30 just like she promised!!

Julian's YahoOo senses began tingling and we could feel him breathing down our necks, so Leader didn't stay too long. But it was a nice birthday gift! Qgon showed up rather mysteriously immediately after Leader logged out. What's up with that? 'hmm...Psst.. see that guy Sylas eying us all suspiciously back there? Yeah, we thought he might have been... never mind. Silly, I know.

Once everybody had logged out for the night, qgon and I took a visit to mister lucky lucky 13 test avie and poked fun at him for his Hogan-style mustache thingy.

And then, before calling it a night myself, we jumped off Avie Sacrifices.

In style.

Thank you everybody who came to make my two year avie-versary a great party! And another huge thanks to E for making it happen!!

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