SL for Nowt

A: When it’s a roomlight.

(Just a quickie before I tuck myself into bed *g* I forgot to post this last week, and a quick look through my Photobucket album reminded me about it.)

I spotted this lovely lady at Artilleri last week. Actually, let me amend that. I spotted this unearthly glow at Artilleri last week. After dismissing the daft  notion that aliens had landed, I cammed around and noticed the glow was moving. A moment after that, it came into full view and I realised it was a facelight. The brightest, most blinding facelight I have ever seen.

I set the world to midnight, and this lady… lit up the entire store. I kid you not: these screenshots were taken at midnight:

Now, I have no intention of embarrassing anyone in this blog (nobody that doesn’t deserve it, anyway *wicked grin*) but I’m posting these to show that ladies… please check that your facelights aren’t so darn bright they completely obscure your face! I’m sure this female av had a lovely face, but I simply couldn’t see it!

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Cherlindrea blogged at FabFree in SL this lovely little freebie open-heart choker, available at the Magi Take store on Jonetsu Island:

So I wandered over there to grab it, then took a look around. Oh my word, what a lovely little shop, with a great selection of good-quality basics, and all incredibly cheap! I spent a total of 32L there, and came out with my metaphorical shopping bags heaving with stuff.

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Guys, let’s talk cock.

Yes, I’m shameless, but so are you. What’s the point of being a man in a world full of women (or other men, depending on your preference) if you look down at your naked, digital self and see no naked, digital bits dangling there?

Got one of those freebie knobs in a massive box o’ stuff yet? Tried it on? Almost poked someone’s eye out with that enormous orange whanger?

Mmhm. Not too great, is it? I’ve lost count of the number of n00b guys I’ve seen wandering around with the Standard Enormous Orange Newbie Cock poking outta their pants. It ain’t nice, boys. It really ain’t nice. Oh, it’s hilarious, I grant you. Never fails to make me point at the screen and giggle like an idiot with my girlfriends in IM, but oh boy you do look silly…

So, you’re new, you’re trying to live on the cheap in this digital world, but you’re really missing your digital bits. And while Xcite! is great if you want the bells and whistles (and all the associated icky stuff and clicky stuff that it lets you - and others! - do) you don’t really want a cock that talks to you and your partner of choice. And you certainly don’t want to be paying 700L$ or so for that talking knob.

So where do you go?

OK, I think I have the solution. I’ve spoken to a couple of my in-world guy friends, and they’ve told me to send you lot to Midnight Lotus. Just to the left of you, when the world has rezzed, you’ll see a small box on the floor. Floating above it is the tempting text: “Touch me for a free cock”. Now there’s an offer you don’t hear every day, so getcher free knob, go somewhere private, and try it on.

I know, I know. It’s got a tattoo on it, and that tattoo is a lovely shade of purple. But guys? That just shows how big ‘n’ tough ‘n’ manly you are, to get a tat there! It’s also a great ad for Midnight Lotus, who - let’s face it - have just given you what is actually a very well-made, and more importantly, realistic prim penis (in three skintones, no less).

OK, I threw Mar into her male shape and skin again and attached her new prim bits, just so I could take a screenshot. Nonono, you won’t get the whole thing, because Photobucket would remove it before you could say, “Hey, I want one of those!” But I took a real close-up of the tat, so you could see it. It’s at the very top of the cock, and isn’t actually all that bad:

Unfortunately, as the notecard says, technical support is not available for your free cock. *tries to keep a straight face*

Oh, I almost forgot the most important thing. Yeah, it’s not a bad size, too ;-)

And while we’re here, shall we have a vote for the Worst Newbie Cock in SL? Anyone seen a really godawful one?

Husky GFX! have placed a pack of free hair inside the entrance of their mainstore at Tarnotopia. The small box is on top of another box, and the style is called ‘dirty biker hair’. It comes in two colours: black and light. Personally, I prefer light, but since both are freebies one can’t complain! The notecard in the box states the hair is not made by Husky, but the store is simply offering it because so many people have asked about it. Just behind that box, closer to the entrance, you’ll see a free unisex tattoo called Fenrirwolf.

More bloke-bits (not those kinds of bloke bits! Sheesh!) and a free girl’s hair, too, behind the cut…

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I’ve been workin’ my butt off all day, putting together a newbie kit of my own. I’ve hoiked around some of the cheapest full-perm stores (Chromex is the best I’ve found) and snagged a ton of stuff very cheaply. One thing I’ve found, though:

Resell and full-perm stores are a heaven for blingtards. Seriously, WHY does every damn pair of boots and shoes there have to look like an explosion in a De Beers store? If it ain’t that, then they have eight-inch whore heels and are made from plastic, latex, or other fetish materials. I’ve found great everything-else, from jeans to dresses, eyes to skins and shapes. There are fewer nice tops around, but some of the tops of dresses (the ones with not-so-great skirts) will serve pretty well. But shoes? Gah. Bling, whore, bling, whore… Oh, and don’t even get me started on the clip-clop shoes that announce one’s arrival as though one is a bloody carthorse…

And yeah, I’ve had my eye on the guy’s stuff, and believe me that’s even worse. If you don’t aspire to be P. Diddy (or whatever it is he calls himself these days) you might as well forget it when it comes to resell/full perm. ‘Playa’ blingy belt buckles, Gangsta AOs, huge white fur jackets with Ming the Merciless collars, and knuckleduster rings with more sovereigns and diamond-encrusted words on them than the average male has knuckles. Mind you, the kind of guy that would wear that godawful stuff probably needs that many diamonds (nice, hard stones, those) on his knuckleduster rings, because all that dragging on the floor would erode any other material.

Okay, okay. Bitch mode off. *sigh*

There *is* a lot of great stuff out there for free. Hell, I blog about it here almost every day. But the thing about a newbie kit is that it’s designed to be opened there and then, everything tried on, and the n00b looks banished before you go whizzing around the grid. And while I can fill a notecard with LMs and advice to go to TESLA for their great Elise 2 shoes, or to Maitreya for their fab slinky stillettoes, the point is: the newbie wants to stop looking like a newbie as soon as possible!

Oh well, notecards and LMs it is. I have two good freebie shoes for the girls: the ones you see in almost every starter kit, plus some fun stuff like workboots and clogs. For the rest, I will put in a notecard with LMs and instructions on where to get the good freebies around the grid.

And there won’t be any bling in sight…

Since Mar’s been in-world, I’ve noticed (and picked up) a fair few newbie kits: boxes filled with everything a newbie might need to get themselves looking less like a n00b. They usually contain at least one shape, one skin, one set of hair, one pair of eyes, one AO of sorts, one pair of shoes/boots, and a few items of clothing. Some contain a lot more than that, and some are better than others, or geared more toward one style than others.

Today I’m going to review the Raven Noobie Kit, from Sn@tch.

I love Sn@tch’s clothing line: lots of punky, grungy, trashy items, and owner Ivey Deschanel is insanely fun. Her Subscribe-O-Matic notecards always have me giggling. What else can you do but cackle when you read something like:

DJ Angelus is playing hot slinky smex music for you and I’m in the basement as usual peeking up your skirts. So leave the glitch pants at HOME!

The Raven Noobie Kit can be found, together with a load of other great freebies, at Sn@tch, in Pulse. The Noobie Kit is on the ground floor, near to the customer service desk, along with a few other free items (no, you don’t get a TV with the TV Freebie of the Week, but you do get some… interesting items *g*) and a lucky chair that’s generously set to change every 5 minutes and also includes the beloved ‘?’ for those whose letter never seems to come up. The rest of the freebie stuff (including an insanely massive 1000-item clearout box) is on the second floor.

Getcher Goth on, and follow me behind the cut…

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OK, itty-bitty market stall, sweet itty-bitty market stall, but hey… we’ve all gotta start somewhere!

I’ve set out my teensy collection of things in the Baileya Market, which was a part of my rental deal for Mar’s home. I’m still waiting for the rental box to be removed (the owner told me to just set out my prims and the box would be removed) but I can has sales presence? Why yes, I can!

Here’s Mar, surveying her little domain:

The area’s not that great, to be honest: low traffic, and a lot of people on the ban list, so I suspect it gets a few griefers, but since it’s at Coney Island of the Mind, and is full of funfair-type stuff, I guess that’s to be expected. Hopefully soon I can rent a small store in a better area, but while I have so few thing to sell, a big store just isn’t worth it!

To get to the stall, you’ll probably have to take the TP twice (yes, it’s one of those areas that sets you down at a landing point). Either that, or follow the red beam, or… when you land, head North toward the boardwalk, keeping the wooden pier on your left. Once on the boardwalk, immediately turn right, and Del Mar is the second stall on the ground floor on your left, between the voting machine and the ‘new listings at Ravenglass’ sign.

Here’s the SLurl: Del Mar 

I also created a group (search for Del Mar Updates) and nagged a friend to join it, because eek - L$100 to create a group, and it’ll be disbanded if nobody else joins within 48 hours?! I’ll be using it mainly to update in-world about new blog posts and new items for the store as I add them, and also the occasional freebie. Right now, since there should be at least one freebie and an intro post in my new group, I’ve put my garden-in-a-box in there. And yes, I managed to make a typo on my very first group notice… *facepalms*

*mops brow*

Whew! I’ve been working on this damn castle skybox for about three days now, and it’s finally finished. A total of 73 prims, counting the door, and I am so incredibly pleased with it.

I’ve also got the two-storey, 29-prim Tudor house all ready to go, and I’ve put together a free garden-in-a-box kit, containing loads of freebies: the best trees, plants, flowers, planters, etc, plus seating, a mailbox, a fountain, and birdsong sound effects. All were freebies that I’ve found elsewhere. A couple of them I modified (the fountain was originally an urn planter, plus a particle water sprinkler, but I put them together, re-textured them and they made a great little fountain) but it’s a nice little selection.

Finally, something that makes me giggle every time I think of it: My D.I.Y. Hedge Kit. Yup, make your own hedges. I’ve uploaded two hedge textures, and put them into a box with a smooth cube sculpt map, and a sample hedge.

Piccies behind the cut.

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Guys, get over to Truth’s store in Sweet Sorrow. They currently have a fatpack of 72 colours in this great, sexy style called Danny, for just 1L$.

Ladies, there’s something for you, too. Two more dollarbies: Deanne and Danny 2, also both in fatpacks. And, as before, the guy’s styles usually work just as well on the girls!

Also in the sim, if you hunt around a bit, Fuse has a sweet little flower ring freebie on their new items display, just inside the door, and Sand Shack Surf Co. have three dollarbies set out on the steps: a bag containing a halter top, a pair of denim bermuda shorts, and a tintable polo, and two little wrapped presents, containing a graphic tee and a pair of messy artist shorts. There’s also a ‘coming soon’ ad in front of one of the empty stores, for Kookla, and beside it is a dollarbie box containing several nice tops.

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Got 19L to spare? How about getting some hair with it? How about getting a mind-boggling 2648 hairstyles for those 19L? No, I’m not kidding, no it’s not a scam, and most importantly, no they’re no crap. They are the dollarbies on offer at ETD. (Incidentally, I’m tagging this post as both dollarbie and freebie, because good grief, people, one dollar isn’t breaking the bank, even for a newbie…)

I swear, I counted them right. There are 16 style packs, each containing 161 colours each (yes, 161! You’ve got no excuses for saying your hair doesn’t match your outfit!) and three style packs, each containing 24 colours.

Also on the dollarbie wall are three fatpacks of clothing, each featuring eight colours: corduroy pants, multistripe dresses, and a cute sleep shorts and tank set. And as if that wasn’t enough, turn left a little to find some amazing shoes and ankle boots, all very reasonably priced at 25L each.

This is Mar’s current look:

It’s all ETD, save the jewellery. The choker is the Everyday Stone Choker (amber) by Opium, available in the jewellery section at The Free Dove. And the bracelet is the Copper Bracelet by Hellcat designs, available at the FabFree store. Both are freebies.

Behind the cut I’m going to show off just one colour of each of the ETD hairstyles, plus take a closer look at Mar’s new outfit. Come take a look, because if you can’t spare just 19L for these barnets, then there’s no hope for ya! *g*

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