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Mysterious island east of northern continent?

Delta Czukor
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Join date: 30 Dec 2004
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11-25-2005 17:16
It doesn't show up on the inworld map, but you can see it on the secondlife.com map.

Any clue as to what it is? Or if it's just a glitch? I'm sure I'm not the only one that's noticed this.
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blaze Spinnaker
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11-25-2005 17:18
Rausch, Offline.
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Burke Prefect
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Join date: 29 Oct 2004
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11-25-2005 17:22
Looking at the present in-world map, it is visible and labled "Rausch (Offline)" CLicking it does not resolve a valif location and there is no one visible.
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Delta Czukor
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11-25-2005 17:24
Ah. Well... what the heck is Rausch doing there then? I thought it was in a completely different place.
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Schwanson Schlegel
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11-25-2005 17:24
FIC island.
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Oz Spade
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11-25-2005 17:32
It's been there since the 1.7 map came into the client.

There are about 10 or more islands on the map that look similar to that Rausch one, offline and with objects in them in the old 1.6 map style, type in "Neverland" in the region thing. :)

There are also some weird artifacts on the map that appear to be... uh... weird... theres one that's dialaganal from the sandboxes attached to the grid (newcomb I think), it looks like a giant black box.

There is also a sim or two that looks permanently fuzzy.

Not sure what causes all these weird things to be popping up, but they're all over now.
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squall Murakami
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Join date: 5 Sep 2005
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11-25-2005 21:40
COMING SOON: glitches and hacks like in the .hack// series lol...

After That: Pluging your brain directly into the game!!
Eggy Lippmann
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11-26-2005 03:26
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Torley Linden
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11-26-2005 04:21
From: squall Murakami
COMING SOON: glitches and hacks like in the .hack// series lol...

After That: Pluging your brain directly into the game!!


I can say I like that reference. :)
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Bond Harrington
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Join date: 15 May 2005
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11-26-2005 09:51
From: Delta Czukor
Ah. Well... what the heck is Rausch doing there then? I thought it was in a completely different place.


It is. Sandox (combat) Rausch is still where it is since forming the combat regions. I have no idea why another sim called Rausch is doing there.

I also don't think it was there when SL switched over to 1.7. I think it popped up when the latest batch of the northern continent sims got put up. I hadn't seen it appear before then, otherwise people would've been asking this earlier, as the northern continent has been getting quite populated.
Kami Harbinger
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Join date: 4 Oct 2005
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11-28-2005 01:53
I travelled to one of these sims in a Cubey Terra plane to check it out, and found it was full of corrupted textures with giant ASCII characters on them. Then I saw a small girl av named "Aura" fly by--no last name, and she wasn't visible on the mini-map!

What's going on?
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Lanea Jewel
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Join date: 25 Jul 2005
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11-28-2005 02:23
Perhaps she is one of the 9 sisters leading to Avalon ? ;)
Maeve Morgan
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11-28-2005 07:52
From: Kami Harbinger
I travelled to one of these sims in a Cubey Terra plane to check it out, and found it was full of corrupted textures with giant ASCII characters on them. Then I saw a small girl av named "Aura" fly by--no last name, and she wasn't visible on the mini-map!

What's going on?



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