A dance to remember Rachael

Today marks a year since Rachael Ezvalt, my old friend at Street Whores, passed away. We had a little dance last night to commemorate her. At her Memorial Garden at X-Sisters.

 

 

Winter, her partner, came too. She always had beautifully crafted avatars. This time she was a blue dragon, a new shape for us. We looked a bit through the messages left over the past year and made ourselves ready for the dance. Most friends walked in soon after us.

 

 DJ Zach played the set, mostly consisting of songs that Rachael once played herself as DJ or requested. He also included some from her SoundCloud. Some of us wondered who would count the fish in the fishtank, a job Rachael would have reserved for the new trainees at X-Sisters... Whotter volunteered, but we told him he would not be allowed to count fish.

And of course, the boxbot heads returned once again...

 

Whotter Moved out

 

I brought a client to my room and much to my surprise, found whotter sitting in front of my bed. That wasn't very convenient: no one expects an otter in the room when they hire a prostitute. They may fear getting bitten and so. We don't want that... So I sent him off.

Whotter didn't like the idea either it seemed. He hit me up afterwards and expressed his need for more privacy. So I decided to help him find a nice place for himself. But not too far away: family sticks together, after all.
It didn't take me long to find him this nice bungalow tent he could setup on the roof.

It even provided him with the most fantastic view down over the alley and the streets beyond. I think Whotter will really enjoy his new room here on the roof.

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

 

 

 

Street Whores was repossessed

 This morning I logged in, still dressed in bikini, to my home location, or at least I thought I was, only to find myself out on a Linden Road looking at a banline. My home was obviously behind that.

It's a sad sight, but I somehow expected it to happen sooner or later now. Lately I have been paying my rent by the week, ever since Street Whores had been repossessed a previous time on 22 May. I hadn't blogged about that occasion.
I may talk about the details later, but this is basically a case of serious neglect by the place's new owners, who took over from Suzi Ah last year.
This is just what happens if you fail to pay for your tier. Let's hope someone will be able to revive or rebuild the place somehow.

 After the sad news, I decided to go over to X-Sisters and sit there at the beach bar for a drink, or two, or three. We even allowed Whotter to play 'Theme from Titanic' on his recorder...