Disguises!

Our Mines of Falun adventure continues, with the latest installment finding Emerson and Petra in disguise as "Victor Mornington" and geologist "Doctor von Hoopla," respectively.

The Mines of Falun

It's that time again!  Emerson has set us all out on a new adventure, this time to the northern mining town of Falun to look for enough gold to save our public house, The Gangplank.  Nothing is ever easy though.  An evil doctor and his wicked Morlock "daughter" are hot on our trail, and it's a race to see whether we can somehow manage to foil his designs for world domination as well as save our bar from a takeover by Victor Mornington!

Valentine's Day

A certain Mr. Lighthouse surprised me this year with a box of chocolates and some sparkling sentiments. I am still smiling.

In adding the image above, I found a picture from Valentine's Day last year.  I was at a party in Mondrago, and Emerson joined me later for a dance.  (In the background are Ahnyanka Delphin, Tau Hallard, and that delightfully peculiar couple, Phaedra Underby and Brother Dominic Lapis.)

Speaking of candy and Phaedra, my assumption is that she didn't make the chocolates Emerson gave me...

Armada Breakaway

(Cross-posted to my photo blog.  I've been considering how to handle updating my blogs, actually.  I'm inclined to cross-post since more people look at this blog than my photo blog, but I also want people to not have to weed through everything else I post...or not as the case may be for the last few months.)

The Armada Breakaway sim, unique in the Steamlands and perhaps all of SL, will be going away this coming Sunday.  I am assured, however, that the Scoundrel Fleet will continue in exile in a small location that they've secured on Blake Sea.  Huzzah! 

In order to commemorate Vernden Jervil's time as the Commander of the Fleet and Armada Breakaway, I offered to make a portrait of him there before the entire thing goes up in flames.  (Pirates love to burn, and there is a longstanding Armada tradition of torching any build that is being removed from the sim.  How spectacular it will be to see the entire sim alight!)

Go-Devil Canal Race!

Here I am, with a stale blog.  Let's see if I can't do something about that.  I think I've missed the window for discussing Christmas, which was enormous fun, but there is plenty of fun just around the corner.

The Gangplank is sponsoring a Go-Devil Canal Race this Saturday, January 26th.  The frozen canals make a fabulous track for Go-Deviling, and a race is something I've been thinking about since last winter when Kimika Ying introduced her fabulous vehicles.  We've made the arrangements with Tenk, have a course picked out, and now just need to mark the route on Saturday morning.

Saturday is going to be a busy day.  At 11 am SLT, the Second Life Giant Snail Race will take place in New Babbage.  The course for that race shouldn't interfere with our canal race, and it is apparently a great honor for the city to be hosting the snail race.  Great news for New Babbage!  At 1 pm SLT, we will be kicking off our Go-Devil race, with a party at the Gangplank afterward until 3 pm.  From 6 pm until 9 pm SLT, the annual Founder's Day Black and White Soot Ball will be happening at the Piermont, an event I am loathe to miss.  From 7 pm until whenever is a grand finale bash in End of Armada Breakaway Party, celebrating the sim before it goes away on Sunday (I'll discuss in a separate post).

All in all it promises to be a busy one, and I'm pondering whether I can somehow manage to make it to all of them...