K-8 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} consciousobject) wrote,@ 2009-09-19 00:42:00 |
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New Second Life Adventures: Restrained Life
So my friend asks me if I want to see this "evil tube." It looks to me more like the sort of plastic display tube you might store a collectable doll in, only larger. Once inside, I discover that the Restrained Life Viewer (RLV) makes things much more interesting. Not only am I not able to budge (I can only move my camera), but I also don't have access to my inventory and many other functions, including IM. If someone tries to IM me, instead I get a message telling me it was blocked. If I try to IM them back, they get the same. I can read and speak in local chat, but cannot see who is saying what.
I couldn't spend very long in there this morning, as I had to get to work. My friend set it for an hour, but I didn't see what the point was, I'd only be around for 20 minutes.
Much later in the evening I log back in. My friend isn't online, but lo and behold I discover...the timer picks up from right where it left off. Here I thought it continued to run while I was logged off.
This would've been pretty boring, and I would've just surfed the net while the timer ran down, but then another friend IMed me. I have to admit, it was pretty exciting having this friend trying really really hard to communicate with me, and having no idea where or how I might be stuck. If she could teleport to me, then we could chat...but my ability to send teleports is also inaccessible, and she had no way to find me. It turns out that sending notecards to a person works as a cheat, so she was able to communicate with me, but I couldn't send notecards in return (not being able to access inventory). This resulted in a hilarious conversation of yes or no questions, with my being told to send one blocked message for "yes," and two blocked messages for "no."
BTW, do any of you fellow SecondLifers recognize the robot skin in the image above? I'm trying to remember who made it, and where others might be able to get it.
So my friend asks me if I want to see this "evil tube." It looks to me more like the sort of plastic display tube you might store a collectable doll in, only larger. Once inside, I discover that the Restrained Life Viewer (RLV) makes things much more interesting. Not only am I not able to budge (I can only move my camera), but I also don't have access to my inventory and many other functions, including IM. If someone tries to IM me, instead I get a message telling me it was blocked. If I try to IM them back, they get the same. I can read and speak in local chat, but cannot see who is saying what.
I couldn't spend very long in there this morning, as I had to get to work. My friend set it for an hour, but I didn't see what the point was, I'd only be around for 20 minutes.
Much later in the evening I log back in. My friend isn't online, but lo and behold I discover...the timer picks up from right where it left off. Here I thought it continued to run while I was logged off.
This would've been pretty boring, and I would've just surfed the net while the timer ran down, but then another friend IMed me. I have to admit, it was pretty exciting having this friend trying really really hard to communicate with me, and having no idea where or how I might be stuck. If she could teleport to me, then we could chat...but my ability to send teleports is also inaccessible, and she had no way to find me. It turns out that sending notecards to a person works as a cheat, so she was able to communicate with me, but I couldn't send notecards in return (not being able to access inventory). This resulted in a hilarious conversation of yes or no questions, with my being told to send one blocked message for "yes," and two blocked messages for "no."
BTW, do any of you fellow SecondLifers recognize the robot skin in the image above? I'm trying to remember who made it, and where others might be able to get it.
