Monday, 21 May 2007
The first thing I saw when I landed in Second Life was a big billboard to Help Island. Naturally, I clicked on it. Figured out how to get around, did some exploring, grabbed some freebies, made a pretty grotesque attempt at customising my avatar, rezzed a sphere (already picking up the lingo) and called it 'Fing', because a standard default globe deserves no better name.
Later that day, after quitting SL, I followed a SLurl to Orientation Island (really can't remember how I first found that). In some ways this was a better introduction than Help Island, and the tutorials were certainly easier to find and follow. On the other hand, it wasn't clear where the boundaries were (yeah, the wet blue stuff round the edges, I know, but if you're flying? and new? I saw a giant blue office chair in the middle of the sea and had to investigate) and I ended up wandering round a bunch of empty Lindens' places, which was interesting but I did get totally lost. I fetched up in some homage to watermelons, grabbed the free textures and quit.
The textures are really not my taste but, hey, still free.
Anyhow, here I am in a place that I thought was Orientation Island at the time but in retrospect, possibly not so.
Labels: Newbies, Second Life
