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Today, there were a number of exciting adventures which I will post up later. For now, I want to spontaneously write about something that just happened to me. I was in Bonafacio (the cyberpunk district) near the Morris Sandbox, and all of a sudden, time slowed. You know bullet time in the Matrix? Just like that. Except it was not so cool when I was trying to get from Point A to Point B (being the other end of the city). I promptly filed a bug report, as this was not just my imagination. Earlier in the day, other users recalled such experiences and they were likened to Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone or some sort of Bermuda Triangle. Although we weren't in Bermuda and the occurances seemed to happen far beyond the geometric radius of such a thing, it was good enough to describe the freakiness.

Not too long after, in the snow of Seefeld, I met Ferran Brodsky and Paca Hannibal, who happened to have quite a handy device nearby that dispensed skulls from a box levitating above the white terrain. It dropped them out slowly but surely, one every five seconds — sometimes two at a time with glitchy lag — and produced a punchy knock with each surface impact.

Moments earlier, I had come on this sim, exploring as usual (or unusual), and it had crashed. Exact reasons remain unknown but one thing that is known is that Ferran and Paca, as well as Nolan Nash, were having an intense gun battle for fun. Second Life froze shortly after, and the simulator had to be reloaded.

Fast forward in time, Ferran exclaimed that they were weirdos, and I said that I was one as well. "Better to be weird than boring", I chirped. We talked about how many multiples of skulls the box could dispense, and Paca chimed in that skulls could spawn skulls, making for one heck of a skeleton construction kit, I'm sure. Shortly after, much gunfire amongst the icy peaks resumed, and the cold air was steamed by the furious rounds of ammunition making their way across cyberspace. I walked into the stream of bullets with a hesitant thought and proceeded to be blasted all the way beneath a floating shoppe in nearby Anton (I believe it was). FUN!!!

I went back to the Welcome Area in Ahern and greeted Darkmoon Zephyr, who is a newbie — today's his first day on Second Life. A cheery welcome to you, Darkmoon!