I stepped into Second Life ignorant of everything going on. A man jumped
into my box offering to help me. He led me around the freebie place
taking me where they had avatar’s shapes and skins. He proceeded to tell
me how to take my clothes off. To someone that had never been on a
computer game let alone one as complicated as SL it was slow going. Then
he started trying to talk me out of my password… Okay, I am not a genius,
but it is basic common sense to not give out your password. He started
Caps Locking in my pm and in open calling me an idiot and demanding my
password. ‘Would you like some help?’ appeared. This big, scary
looking guy was standing there to the side of the side of the Texan.
‘Yes, yes I would.’ And so I met Snake.
Snake took me to another SIM introduced me to other female avatars, and then
asked me the most basic question I’ve heard on SL asked to a noob. “Do you want
to be a vampire?” Here this big man is offering me instant friends, help
to making a decent looking avatar, and a tour guide through SL. Of
course, I agreed. I’m computer stupid. He spent the next several
hours showing me the basic step of ‘accept’ and ‘drag out of your inventory to
the ground’. Yeah, it took several hours. Once I finally got the
concept it was more exciting. They fixed up the avatar to be one of the
prettiest things I’d ever seen. Snake stood to the side with his back turned
the whole time… Yeah foolish me didn’t get the concept at first just because an
avatar isn’t looking at you doesn’t mean they can’t see you. I thought he
was very gentlemanly, even a bit sweet. I wasn’t worried so much about
finding a man then, so forget the concept of crushing, because that definitely
was not the case.
Snake and his partner, (we’ll call her Amy), then proceeded to take me to my
first club. It was a completely different environment or atmosphere for
me. Overwhelming more than anything, being around all these people that
knew exactly what they were doing and me, I was just proud to have figured out
how to cover my pixel boobs. They were taking me on my first ‘hunt’. They
explained the basics of using a vampire HUD, taught me to dance, then began to
move around the floor scanning people. I had no clue what to do and here
this big avatar was telling me ‘hunt’. Amy, whom I felt was more
approachable, told me to jump in some man’s box and just start talking.
This was my next great discovery. In real life you don’t just walk up and
start conversing, people think you are nuts. In Second Life, they talk
back and most people are just glad they aren’t the ones to have to start the
conversation. I talked to many people that night, Snake and Amy left, but
I was still enjoying the fact of the basic things I had learned. I didn’t
worry so much about scans or hunts, just basic profile perving and learning
what different people did and how they did it. So it was Snake who
introduced me to basic SL and that’s where our adventures together began.
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