Ah, as it continues, Damanios Thetan made an incredibly-textured Myst-inspired telescope. I hunted it down from the original Snapzilla posting and its nocturnal sibling, and soon found myself at ground level at the Damani complex @?Kamba (185, 225) . This is the problem, you see, with listing coordinates with only X and Y values. Would it really be so much trouble to add a third coord to the minimap? (You can check it via a scripted attachment or the About Second Life window, little-known fact, but otherwise it's not very apparent.) I soon found the teleporter though, and more cajones erupted: there's a current bug that may make you invisible after using a local area teleporter, and soon, Damanios and his partner luminye were looking for me and telling me to sit!

I did, and conversation?continued. We covered a good range of topics, and Damanios showed me the palace he was building. I mused that historical museums haven't really been done in SL yet –?sort of a classic Victorian dinosaur-and-discoveries show in the Royal Society spirit?is what I'm looking for. We also touched on our interest in having a games room made, with working shuffleboard — as he explained, "The only way you can make stuff a little reliable at the moment… is to make it BIG, then physics works quite well." — which explains why he has so many goodies in his Inventory, prepared to pounce on Havok 2, SpeedTree, and other big leaps in the gridverse. Until that time…?we waxed enthused about our passion for movies, including Equilibrium and Blade Runner, and talked about the weather too. luminye is the supportive muse who inspires this inventor in search of new starlight.

You may be wondering what is that sleek, diamondbacked outfit I am wearing. It's a latex suit by Kyrah Abattoir, an inventor of cuious mechanisms herself who has her Kyrah Design Concept fortress in the snowy reaches of Livigno (217, 156) . She got in touch with me on the Forums the other day, and a watermelon variant was birthed, so I have her to thank for this.

The timepiece I've been toting is the new Francis Chung watch under her Wet Ikon design line, called a ChronometriX (the last X isn't supposed to be capitalized I think but oh well). The JPEG compression on that pic is awful so I'll have to unveil more detailed shots soon.