This is something like noobhood memories. It is all written during my first inworld days on local forum. While I was typing post after post, most of my friends there were keeping their ears shut in the fear of possible addiction. Now we all see that was a wise thing to do. It starts on October the 17th, 2006. 22:47

Oct 17th 23:41 It seems like I am on the road to addiction.

Oct 18th 03:38 I am standing in the middle of the welcome area, half naked. I wear a green T-shirt, pretty nice one. I cannot find a way to wear my pants ROFL. Panties I haven't even try to wear. Some people are around. The length of my hair is changing spontaneously.

04:07 OK, somehow I made myself decent. T-shirt changed itself to something I wouldn't wear not even for the Duran Duran concert. Especially not for Duran Duran…. Soon enough, I found myself in some red light district. What a surprise…. Genitals with seven animations costs 1300L$. By default we all here look like Barbies and Kens. That is quite uncomfortable since half of my time I spend without pants… Problem is, I don't have money at all. Zero. I could make them, while I am still in red light district, by prostituting myself. But how to do that without genitals? :) I will log out now.

Oct 21st 20:06 This is a stripper club with some posters that advertize cybersex. They pay 1L$ for each five minutes spent there which makes it a great place for hanging around, trying new wardrobe, DIY plastic surgery (that is, changing the shape of my body and hair, make-up practicing…). Most of the people around are noobs so one can get some useful info and learn something new. Nice jazz is playing.

Oct 22nd 16:05 In my research of the world and chasing of money to buy some genitals and pretty clothes (so I can involve in virtual prostitution) I found one interesting and quite inspirative job. At this very moment I am sitting in a torturing machine for 3L$/10min. Crew around is not bad at all. A punk rocker with doberman and mohawk better than mine and a girl with weird skirt. We are chatting a bit. From time to time somebody come to see us. It is some place specialized for dark arts and that sort of things. Later I'll walk around a bit, just to put my joints back to normal.

16:25 After these couple of days I have 39L$. Most of it I got in that jazz stripper bar. I picked up some from the trees but not much. I also got some from gambling. At this moment torturing machine owes me 21L$. I have a pile of clothes and cheap jewelry. It is all the free stuff which is mostly crap. Except that hovercraft which I don't know how to drive.

Oct 31st 23:29 This thing is really addictive. It is interesting even when it is boring and when you don't have an idea what are you doing there. After two weeks (if I got it right that is 63 days here) dandellion Kimban is bored because everything to be seen has been seen. The end of tourism. If the game makes no sense then the player has to make the aim and the rules (yes, I am getting high on eXistenZ). And so the game begins to live….

23:45 I got some idiot stalker on my neck.

23:53 I am experimenting with the way I look. All the people who look good are rarely humanoids. And even if they are humanoids they are overdone. They are either gals looking more than good or model boys, or they wear marvels of weapons or sci-fi…. or they have wings. You wouldn't believe how wings are popular.  

Nov 2nd 10:53 Problem starts when I log out. Brain stays there for a while and floats like a ghost. And I am not the only one. I have talked to people. I could run a clinic for treating second life addiction. Of course, it had to be inworld. I could make a fortune of L$. Some residents don't like even to mention RL. It breaks their conception. Others try to mimic RL to the extent. WC costs 250L$!!! Who needs a toilet in the world where you don't neither eat nor shit? To be honest, we are drinking. A lot. 

20:59 Nobody knows who is where for real. I met a girl who has RL fiance and SL boyfriend. No, RL fiance is not behind the keyboard of the SL boyfriend. Parallel lives. It is more and more like playing with the barbie doll…. which got out of control. 

Nov 3rd 09:27 The world can be divided in three groups of people. First goes to shopping until death. Second is in unstoppable chase after anything related to sex, from flirting to pornography. Third manufactures all that, from the furniture to the sex. Worst of all is that malls are so fucking boring. They all look alike. Everything you can find there is all the same shit over and over again. 

Nov 30th 01:48 Holy shit, the world has gone to hell. They did some bigger maintenance. Something went wrong so the world wasn't available longer than usual. And download of the new version of software is mandatory. And then, we all run in at the same time. First on downloading, then into the world. Now logged in:13600. And each of us is cashing all the content from the scratch. Nothing works.

Related posts:

• When I Was A Teenage Whore (13)
• Getting Older (9)
• Why This Babe Goes Clubbing? (8)
• The Problem Of Retention In Second Life (17)
• The Game Of Second Life (13)