Second Second Life

If you're like most people, I guess, you joined Second Life, played around for a few months until one day you didn't log in… and that day became two, and then a week. Next thing you know, it's been 4 months and you can't remember your password. So, you go through the brouhaha to get it back and you log-in again.

But wait, you have to update your viewer. Once that is downloaded and installed, your heart beating with anticipation of what you will see in a place in which you haven't been in such a long time, you log-in.

Uh oh, wherever you logged out last time is something completely different than that club you were always visiting. So there you are, logging into SL for the first time in months and someone is yelling at you to get out. Everything is gray because nothing has rezzed yet and you're wondering what the hell is going on. Then all of a sudden, you see that you've materialized in someone's living room during an orgy. Oops. You scramble through your landmarks to get out of there quickly, but every LM you try just bounces you back to the poor guy's house because all of your landmarks go to places that aren't there anymore. It's about this time that someone at the 'party' gets their combat stuff attached and orbits you.

There you are, floating over who knows where with nowhere to go.

Re-log.

This time, you think ahead and type in the name of a mainland parcel (you have no idea how you remember it) and you are able to get back in without any poly-coitus interruptus. You start systematically going through your landmarks. Nope, that one doesn't work. Nope, that one is now a goth club. Nope, that one sends you to that guys house again. Oops.

Orbit.

Re-log

One of these landmarks has to still be there. Surely not everything in SL is so transitory. Let's try this one. Yeah, Hard Alley is still there! Whoohoo! When all else crumbles and changes all around you, Hard Alley is the foundation on which you can always believe. Now that you have a moment (not long though. Noob IMs asking you to touch their freenis soon start flooding in), you click on 'Search' to find a nice quiet place to relax and begin your SL experience anew. Ahh, a garden. That sounds peaceful.

TP

Finally. Now you look through your friends list. No one is online. Curious, you look at the info on several mutual groups you have with your friends to see the last time they logged on. This one hasn't been on in a month. This one hasn't been on in two months. All of a sudden, one of them logs in and you IM 'Hey, long time no see!' and they respond with 'I'm just here paying tier' and then they immediately log out. Okay then.

It's about this time that you realize your garden is really a forest and this is some sort of RP sim. You get this idea b/c there is a werewolf pushing you around. You use your only working TP and head back to Hard Alley where you are attacked by a 6ft tall penis.

You log-out.