After two years of exploring the grid I have seen and been subjected to lot of bizarre behavior. Digging into the archives of my mind I can remember my rezz. It didn't take me long to get out of the safety of Orientation Island and onto to the mean streets of second life. I was fortunate enough to meet a man(who now that I recall probably wanted to screw a noob) that so generously gave my first Linden, 500 in fact. SCORE! I quickly got the hell out of there before it became to weird and headed out to do my ultra favorite past time, SHOPPING! My first pair of prim shoes came from Sascha Ogg's store. I remember walking in and two lady avatars were in live chat talking about how Ms. Ogg was a fake, a rip off, a pirate! I recall plenty of other avys in the building and had noticed one thing,and have always, no one said anything to agree or disagree with what they were saying. So, Having that newbie-ness in me I walked right up and asked who they were talking about. One of the lady avys quickly said Ms. Ogg had stolen from "only the best designers in SL", at the time. WHATEVER! I resumed my shopping. I bought a pair of black pumps and when it came for me to figure out the box it was all over. I went back up to the lady avys and told them "She must really be a crook! All I got is a box!??" -sigh- The lady avy told me "If that's all you got you better let her know." After about 20 minutes I figured out how to find the owners information and proceeded to write an eloquent IM to Ms. Ogg, explaining the details of my trouble and heartache and how I needed a refund. Ms. Ogg so graciously got back to me,a day later, and explained the box was not just a box but held the contents I had purchased and explained the process of rezzing. WHAT??? Now the two lady avys looked as though they had sometime behind them but instead of offering more information to a newcomer, continued with a dumb-ass convo in the middle of the chicks own store. WTF??? As you can see in this story there are many things awfully wrong with the behavior that some tend to give off, and still its prevalent if not worse!!
Fast Forward 14 months. After about 6 months on the grid, I had met people and done things which were not totally me and subjected myself to tons of NOOB abuse, I took a break. A long one ,a 14 month one. ha ha. When I connected again last October(2008) I was still in the same condition, poor shape,bad skin and just overall perplexed. I couldn't get a job in this condition. So I did the next best thing. Using about 10 USD, I reinvented Slowly Bury. Talk about a transformation! Pretty soon people were talking to me, I had jobs and couldn't go ANYWHERE without some random avy dude, some times lady(dude?), hitting on me. My Second Life was starting over again. Now if only I could reinvent my 1st Life self for 10 bucks! In my 5 months back I have done a number of things, again some in not to proud of (SL marriage), but that is a whole other topic. Theses days I host,at a very classy joint, model and do my own photography. My SL is seemly perfect, payment info on file,nice apartment in the sky and just utterly sexy. Still some things bug the shit out of me like behaviors and high prices. Yes I will say it! Most of the shit is ugly and over priced and I plan saying something. Also, Avys watch what you say you also will be on candid camera. =) Sound fun... good.
-Slowly Bury
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