Now that was a Rez Day Party!

December 26, 2006, YHN (in RL) was down with a fever and camped out on the couch in the study downstairs, trying not to make the members of his household sick. He had NPR on, where Mr. Cory Doctrow was being interviewed on NPR. Mr. Doctrow was going on about the wonders of this brave new virtual medium, Second Life. Then he said the words that changed everything for YHN: "It's free by the way..." Being bored out of his wits, YHN decided to give it a try. The rest, as they say, is history of sorts.

Last night, at Lady Bellambi's High on the Skye platform we celebrated the third anniversary of that event. How long ago it seems now! How many virtual miles have I trod since that evening! And yet, here we all are.. years later. We packed the plat with friends and friends of friends and friendly acquaintances and dire enemies and we all managed to have a great time anyway!

The Theme was "Santas and Shotguns"
Dress was casual, with an emphasis on post-Yuletide seedy.. so there was an abundance of santa hats, naughty elfs, and reindeer horns on display!

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The boys in the backroom (Mr. Huszar and Mr. Murakami) had come up with a cunning macguffin for the event. It was a Christmas tree that spat out flying, explodable reindeer, each with 100 hit points. Using any SL weapon that fired a projectile, you could knock them out of the sky. The evening would demonstrate how broadly the phrase "Any SL Weapon that can fire a projectile" can be! A fusilade of bullets, buckshot, minie balls, musket balls, teddy bears, pumpkins, watermelons, chickens, and couches (yes, couches) were fired into the air over High in the Skye, knocking out reindeer so much we had enough to feed venison stew to the poor twelve times over (albeit they should check for shot first)

Ms. Frequency Picnic was in rare form last night, playing a very diverse set-- Terpsichore herself must have inspired her selections!

Thank you for throwing this event, Lady Bellambi, and thank you to the many attendees. I do think we outdid ourselves this year!

A blessedly brief magick lantern show!