 The Second Life ChroniclesIn 2020 I started playing a game called Second Life. You've probably heard of it.
 Day one So I get dumped into a place known as "Social Island" and I'm wandering around dressed like this, in the default female costume. I was even given a suitcase item I had to walk around with. One other thing to note is the default walk in this game looks extremely silly like you're a child stomping around. 
The sandbox. A linden-labs-run area that's just a flat plane of grass UP NEXT was to get myself a better avatar. We went to a sandbox, a place where any player can build anything they want with no restrictions (most areas have restrictions to stop players greifing) and this was my first taste of the potential of this game as I immediately built a load of huge shapes in the sky and flew around, and. Well we slowed things down at this point and just hung out in this place. it was pretty good I got equipped with some cool new items later on. We ended the day going to this video game themed server. Which I got pics of but not any pics of it on this particular day so use your imagination. The Blake Sea
I am now joined on my quest by another friend. Fellow Glorious Trainwrecks alumni TheCakeFlavor. I invited them to join me for the purposes of going exploring. Cake tended to find cool places to go much easier than I could.  Cake showed me this place and it's just a big ol ocean full of islands. You can get a free boat and sail around it. This ocean is BIG and full of detail- as all these islands are player-made and often have their houses on them. There's also cool places that are just there to be cool, like "Ahab's Haunt, a giant animal skeleton (that looks several generations out of date graphically, but that only adds to its appeal). There's also loads of points we'd stop our boats and go exploring one of these islands for ages.  Found these fibre-glass looking ships that fly around the blake sea as like a kind of "guided tour" thing. Obviously cause it's large the tour takes hours and doesn't show you that much of it.  Blake Sea comes highly recommended as it's like playing a really big detailed open-world game. It was made by multiple people so I can't really credit the creators Kowloon Kowloon is one of those areas that changes your life... We went there to do some shopping and I was immeditely taken in by the depth and detail. A city that felt alive- with houses players could live in and a bustling shopping city centre.  When we first came here, I followed my eye to a bar near the entrance. It was filled with models of people dining and drinking, and a newsletter that accompanied the kowloon server. In that bar, my eye then turned to a stairway, leading to a darkly-lit upstairs. Which lead to a dark door at the end of a corridor. The door was interactable in a way you could tell it wasn't an actual door but a teleporter. I clicked it, and was teleported to a strange place far above the town with an apartment and a load of lore that accompanied the server. There's a game in this server! There's a mystery to solve!  I haven't tried solving this mystery (partially cause it's all in japanese, which I can't read, YET)
That Time We Moved To Kowloon Rajahni's LEASE ran out on her own house and needed to move somewhere cheaper. I suggested kowloon. Perhaps half-jokingly.... And then we moved in. We lived in this grotty lil appartment. It didn't cost many lindens at all.  The house was pretty small. Unlike the old house it was in a general server rather than an adult server so there was no privacy for our conversations or anything. Also I did something cool here where I decided I wanted to upload one of my own models into the game- I decided on this rack of PS2 games from "Game For Myself 1" (a short unfinished game you've seen around) and put it in the game. Pretty cool right??? It was an honour to have a model I'd made just sitting around inside kowloon.  Fantasy Faire
hub area, "Fairelands Junction" by Saiyge Lotus this event runs every year. a bunch of servers pop up each by a different artist and they are beautiful. they're fucking beautiful and I don't know why this event and second life itself are so overlooked as places where this kind of shit happens. Each realm fits neatly into one "sim" (a square about a mile across each direction), and they're joined together in a loop. 
"Featherfall" by Kayle Matzerath me and cake went to fantasy faire in both 2020 and 2021 and I was sure to take as many photos as I possibly could because I knew it would shut soon, which is a shame.
"J'adoube" by Sharni Azalee 
"Isles of Tarrin" by Teager, Ketsui Naidoo and Monstaar This has a website which also shows the worlds in a lot more detail on pinterest. Feel free to look......... Other:
putting an object into the sandbox 
Looking Glass, another good-looking server 
Don't remember this place too well. Some kind of truck track where we drove around 
Hangars Liquides, a cyberpunk server |