Dogpoop in the streets

Anaïs little shih-tzu, Nin, left us a present today. We were not really charmed by it. Bambi Devilbliss-Ghostwood and I tried to get the dog's owner to clean it up.

Anaïs: no no nin.. don't do that
            that is dirty
Tsai Cheng: you got to clean up the dogpoop anais
Anaïs: sigh
Bambi: ~♥~Giggles~♥~
            I think dogs are very cute but cleaning up after them is too much!
            Tsai, re you an admin here?
Tsai Cheng: yes, as the signs say
Anaïs: nin you are a rascal!
Bambi: Then are you going to leave that like that!
Tsai Cheng: she can clean it up
Bambi: But will she!
             It's gross!
Anaïs: yes, can i borrow your bag?
Tsai Cheng: eww
Bambi: No way!
             Get your own!

Bambi: Did he just eat it?
Anaïs: nin?
Bambi: titters
Anaïs: oh it went..
Bambi: Self-cleaning poop!
            Finally "AI" did something useful.

Meeting up with Barry

The other day Barry Lubezki walked into Street Whores. That was a nice surprise for me. My daughter seemed to like it even more: I guess she is a bit easily star-struck still.

Barry was the owner of Hooker Hotel, Cinema Q and some more land, until the places got hacked two weeks ago. I will keep the details out of this blog, but read the last chapter of this post on some tips to secure yourself.
What was particularly nasty, was not just that all his lands were abandoned and his builds destroyed by the hackers,  but that within 24 hours a profiteering person had setup a new place, named 'Hooker Hotel', with same land descriptions and business model and had a bot ready at Barry's old parcel to direct traffic to his spot. Similarly, the owner of a large Second Life beer brand also setup there in no time...

Some people have no morals.

That includes Linden Lab apparently, who allowed this opportunist to even set up a full region using the brand name that Barry Lubezki had established over the years in SL.

Real Hookers 

So you can imagine that Barry was not amused.

 

He visited though to rent an adboard for his new place, that is to replace Hooker Hotel: Real Hookers. Ngoc and I showed him the two adboards that we had already setup for him and we had a little chat.

Account security 

So yeah, this also gave us all a lesson in account security. Linden Lab already had a good community blogpost on this subject. I will link it here: https://community.secondlife.com/news/featured-news/your-account-your-world-keep-it-safe-r11193/

 

I am not going into depths on this subject, as I am no expert on it, but I do recommend everyone to:

 

- use a strong password

- setup Multi-Factor Authentication

- never click any links sent by someone you don't know (or preferably: none at all...)

- if someone points you to something, say on Second Life's Marketplace: go there yourself and look it up. Don't click the link. And don't just enter your password after clicking a link!

 

And really, just read that post that I did link. You can also do a search on the subject in your favroute search engine, if you don't trust my link. ;-) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two weeks of Halloween are over

 Wait, Halloween doesn't last two weeks, right? It's just one day? One night even...

It is, but of course, in Second Life, with people in multiple timezones, it will likely last 24 hours. Now imagine you have 2 places you work at within SL: a redlight district and a sex bar. Both organise a Halloween Party, both organise some events leading up to it. Those need to be planned in advance too.

So yes, Halloween takes two weeks or more. And that can be pretty exhausting. But then, you get a whole bunch of people decorating their places at Street Whores. You get this beautiful stage built by Mithrandriel Morningstar, enthousiastic DJ's and volunteers stepping up.

And that gives you party images that are reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch.

The madness is all worth it really.

The same happened at X-Sisters, where we had the 'Haunted Seduction' skull hunt, with Barflies going crazy to hire the staff and collect as many skulls as possible. Which also got me into quite some steamy sessions...

There was the kettle with the green, bubbling and odd-tasting Halloween Brew, that you would not dare drink any other time of the year..

The graveyard, where the barflies could rent a grave to place their collected skulls.

And of course, various sex locations, like here: The Crypt. Moist and spooky...

A fan wanted a selfie with me

Every day out on the street something unexpected may happen. Like this weekend, a fan hit me up while I was crawling the curbs, greeting some of the new girls that came in at Street Whores and so on.

Who am I to day no to such a fun request. I suggested I could bare the girls to make the selfie a bit more memorable for him. He didn't say no.

Got to love my fans. Apparently I am a celebrity. Thank you!

A hectic few weeks at Street Whores

I don't really know where to start. It has been a few weeks since I blogged, since so much happened at Street Whores. It is just not easy to write in an environment like this.

We had a huge reopening party at Street Whores and a couple of times during those 4 hours the region was completely full. So we considered that a big success. There were 2 DJ sets, one lucky visitor even had sex with our second DJ on stage...

We had a few nice locations open in our revived region: Lucky's Garage Bar being one of them.

Another venue we are slowly filling up with DJ events is 'The Underground', a discotheque below street level, accessible through an underground (or subway if you are American, Metro if French) entrance.

Fiver's famous Bar No.5 is back in the street too. It is great to see my old neighbour back, this time with a derelict/burnt down version of the bar she used to have opposite my old house in Bordello Alley. It was completely jampacked this sunday and everyone was drunk.

And of course I had lots to do myself...

So yes, let's meet up at Street Whores!

 

The end of Street Whores after 14 years

Yesterday was friday the 13th. I am not supersticious, but who would have guessed that near 8AM SL time on that day my items from Streetwhores would all be returned to me by the Linden who is responsible for land clearances...

And as I walked in, still in a bikini, as I came from the X-Sisters Bear Bar, I just saw an empty field. It can be hard to swallow, to see your home in Second Life for 14 years vanish like that. I am still not sure what I would want to write about it right now.

And, seen from the other side, still empty for many years, but existing, the place where I worked a couple of weeks before I found Street Whores and moved in there: Whore-Inn. Strange.

A person who knew what to write about the end of Street Whores is Jess, the owner of X-Sisters, she dedicated a blog to it. I will link it here:

Street Whores in Second Life | How Neglect Destroyed the Top Red-Light Sim

 

 

 

Boxing Orgy on 7 September

The coming weekend we have a 'Boxing Orgy' upcoming at X-Sisters. What is that about? What will the evening be like?

 

The boxing orgy will take place on Saturday 7 September, starting at 12PM (that is noon) SLT. At our new boxing arena. A previous one was held last year and it was all about boxing matches and lots of sex. The latter part I understand, for the first I am badly in need of some exercise, as my boxing practice with Whotter showed...

I didn't spend all of my time on the floor though. A walk towards the teleporter brought me to our boxing arena, so I could explore the grounds for the Boxing Orgy a bit in advance.

The entrance area is from a spot with some city background. There is a hamburger joint too. And when you enter there is this large arena, lots of seating. And in the middle of it a ring, where all of the action is going to take place.

A chat with Chandra (who also knocked me out in practice) taught me that the Boxing Orgy will start with a series of boxing matches between the X-Girls, that the audience can bet on. Then later on it will be a lot of hot sex. The previous edition lasted over 4 hours. Some of my colleagues could hardly stand on their legs the next day, so I was told...

I sure like to be a part of it the coming saturday. Are you coming as well?

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rum%20Cay/134/213/24

A day at the beach with the X-Sisters

 

 
It was about time the cold winter weather stopped here, but yeah, how do you do that? Get away to somewhere warm: X-Sisters Sex Bar for instance. They have a new home location and they are spending a lot of time on the beach the past 2 weeks now. So it was about time Whotter and I enjoyed the summer heat, if only for a day.

You don't have to say that twice to Whotter: he loves water, especially when he thinks it offers him access to his favourite food. Don't think I need to spell out the 'fish-word' for you...

It was not long before X-girls Ebony (to the left) and Fox joined me at the beach bar. They warned me that things could get crazy there. Any moment, it's unpredictable.

Whotter didn't care: he found something to do pretty quick. There was this nice tour balloon and he went up in it, ignoring all the safety instructions one would normally receive for such a thing.

And after that he ran straight for something he had spotted from the skies: the waterslide!

Whotter just showed that even without sex, booze and drugs a lot of fun can be had at X-Sisters.

Of course, the inevitable happened:he walked up to the bar and asked: "Titanic"
Jess, X-Sisters owner was naive enough to start a conversation on how cool it'd be to rezz a Titanic on her region. All the Titanic talk of course meant Whotter just had to produce his recorder and play us his much-feared rendition of 'Theme from Titanic', a song that's already awful enough if someone else is playing it...
As soon as he was done I confiscated the recorder. Then one of the barflies spotted me and it turned out I was one of the attractions of the place myself.

X-Sisters has a 'Wall of Fame', which implies having completed a certain number of challenges in and around the bar. One of them had to be completed in the DJ booth, further down the beach, he explained. Behind the DJ table was a little cabin with records and a couch.

He said he especially liked my tattoo, so I made sure he got a good look at it, while completing his challenge.

After all the workout, it was time for me to clean up. What better way would there be than in the ocean? So I went to the waterslide myself to conclude a hot day at the beach.

Playing Basic Instinct

What to do when you are sitting on the bar (no not IN, ON the bar) and waiting for your barflies to come in?

Buy a fly swatter? No, not a good idea if the flies are your source of income.

Oh yes, I can go through my animations and see if I can make some photos.

Hey! I can play Sharon Stone like this...

(the following is called 'sensitive content', by Prudes, Americans, and therefore, Google)

A new part of town

So I was walking around with Whotter when we ran into this big wall. We tried to walk around it, but there seemed to be no end to it.

 

On minimap I noticed 2 familiar names though: one was Boo, one of the new owners of Street Whores, the other Jess, who owns X-Sisters Sex Bar and the small bar she runs in our little town.

Fortunately, in Second Life, we can all fly, even if it is disabled in parcel settings. So Whotter and I went out to explore and found a new set of streets. Most of the buildings seemed to be just empty shells still, but a short talk with Boo (well, rather: shouting through some walls) learnt us that she and Jess were building on an area that Jess would be renting.

 

We found Jess around a street corner. She was still building on the new Street Whores bar for X-Sisters. So we went in for a little chat. She explained she was doing the bar here and some additional buildings. To attract a new audience for both places.

It seemed there was a lot of building still to be done, so we will visit the place later again to see how it has become. Meanwhile, you can take a sneak peek for yourself already of course: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hoogenach/188/130/65

We have a fan

While I was talking with a man on the streets, TJ hit me up in IM and showed me a link to his photo album on Flickr. It seems Whotter and I have a fan...

TJ made this shot of Whotter and his keytar, part of my son's rockstar aspirations, as seen from through my legs. TJ hit us up on the streets a while later and we would visit SL20B, the 20th Second Life birthday celebrations.

 

As TJ stated: "Whotter is my favourite author!"

Fish, again. But Whotter likes to have a fan. Thanks to TJ for the lovely photos.

Saint Valentine's Day at Momma Kita's stage

Saint Valentine's Day will be fun again at Street Whores. When I walked in this morning I saw Momma Kita's stage, that has stuck around since the holidays, sprinkled with rose leafs and there was a bunch of girls dancing on it.

There will be a party with DJ Clau tonight at 1PM SL Time. (Yes, that is tonight for me, as I am not based on the west coast of the USA) The party will be until 3PM. Of course at: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hoogenach/91/184/66

Whotter has been having his share of fun already: Annie has given him a bucket, which is similar tot he beer bucket at No.5 Bar, but gives out dried fish if you buy them for him. Some of the girls have already tried to recycle dried fish in the bins at the bar. To their surprise, fish recycling didn't work...

 

Dancing around the Christmas tree

For the holidays, Momma Kita and Annie had prepared a nice dancing stage, at a square at Street Whores. And this time it didn't look like something that should be inside a building, but it was a piece of actual square decoration. Usually it doesn't make much sense to me to dance in the street, but because of it's looks, I decided to give it a go.

Whotter soon discovered it too, playing on his new musical instrument, a keytar... No one even tried to flee the scene or stop him to play, so I suppose he is making progress. One friendly neighbour even got him an entire bucket of fish.

It seems to be a great team: Kita decorates and Annie scripts. The owners want to keep the stage and adapt it to the seasons, I heard. Let's see how it evolves.

An Adult Oktoberfest for Second Life

 

 

When you teleport (or walk, but who does that?) in at the region where I live and work in Second Life, you will now see a huge tent, for our Oktoberfest. Whotter actually discovered it well before I did, but that is no surprise: unfortunately, drinking has become a new hobby of his. I guess that's the downside of him being an author...
But we both got our traditional dress ready: a dirndl for me and lederhosen for him.

 

The beer is supplied by Fiver of No.5 Bar, the highly succesful cafe in our street. Our street whores who for a large part do nothing else than drinking these days, can recycle the empty mugs too, in the container in the alley behind the bar.

The mugs are going to become a collector's item, she said. I am not so sure: given the amount of glass I had to clean up at my front door, Whotter drank at least 120 pints so far. Should I be concerned?

Of course, not everyone is drinking. Werner, for instance, picked up rollerskating and could be found circling the dancefloor on them. I am not sure that will be safe when all the drunk people show up at one of the music events that will take place in our tent.