My friend has become a Bood Doll, help

I'm not sure what its all about. I am concerned for her. Please help me understand this. Thanks.

There is only one thing you need to understand. Your friend is an adult playing a game that she can leave any time she wants.

I think you mean "blood doll". Do a search for "bloodlines" in these forums.

Nah, attention to detail is completely irrelevant in these forums.

Pep (You would think that people might at least make an effort to get the title correct but . . . )

hot.

Thank you. I just would like to know details about it, I dont know anything about it except that its related to the whole vampire thing. I don't understand this, I am new to SL. I dont want people to take advantage of her.

To Everyone: Sorry about my typo in the title. Yes I mean Blood Doll.

If she's having fun, let her. If she's harassing people, let her know. If she's not having fun, suggest that she quit. (^_^)

Blood Doll is a submissive role in the Bloodlines game where she's basically placing herself in the position of a perpetual victim. It's all consensual and nobody can force her to do anything. (^_^)y

Jax, no one can do anything to anyone against their consent in SL. There are many games that people play in here. One of them is being genuinely concerned about friends to get into things they don't understand.

With time you will find, if you let yourself be open to it all, SL will free you from many inhibitions and prejudices and just discomforts. I had a similar convo the other day- we take so much for granted here that in RL would have given us pause.

Relax, live and let live- your friend chances are, is enjoying herself and exploring things she may have wondered about.

Welcome to SL- Enjoy

From what I have read in here about Bloodlines, it seems some people take advantage of others. Is this true? People call it a scheme. Some people are really against it.

Jax, the only way someone can be taken advantage of in Bloodlines is if (1) they don't want to play, and (2) they don't realize that they can simply ignore it if they don't want to play.

*IF* your friend doesn't want to play Bloodlines, she can just stop playing. She doesn't need to pay anyone anything, or buy any amulets. She can simply ignore everything having to do with the game. That's all. If other people are annoying her, she can ask them to stop, tell them she doesn't want to play, or stop hanging out with them.

There is a Bloodlines database which some people don't like being in (though again it's harmless) and there is a way to get off of it, but I don't know much about this - the material you read by your search here will probably help with that.

The most important thing is, if your friend doesn't want to participate, she doesn't have to - no one in Bloodlines can hurt her in any way if she simply doesn't play along. If she wants to play, though, there's no harm in that either, as long as she's not annoying other people who don't want to play.

How does she feel about it? If she is enjoying the RPing, and isn't bothering people with it, don't worry. You really can't be made t do anything in SL you don't want to.

One of my friends is a mouse with some pretty nice boobs that she shows off to the world. Sometimes she's 'Fully Xcite enabled' - you click anywhere near her and somebody's gonna have an orgasm.

Another was, last time we chatted, a dragon with a dildo strapped on going at it with a tentacle monster.

I'm just a catgirl that runs around naked trying to get people to touch her in improper ways... Sometimes I feel outdone.

Your friend sounds pretty tame. That, or I've got better trolling material than you, and you need to try harder.

She just likes being fed on by vamps. Nothing wrong with that.

Wayyyyyyy Hot.

To add to the above...

There are many sorts of roleplay in SL. Bloodlines is one fairly formalized type of vampire roleplay. Its main tool is the Bloodlines HUD, website, and data base that lets players keep score...how many victims have you bitten, how many other vampires are under your thrall, and so on.

A lot of non-players find it annoying, because some players hang out in crowded places and send unsolicited bite requests in an attempt to boost their score.

Being a Bloodlines player is a little like playing Dungeons and Dragons. If you're a D&D player, you might play, say, an elf. This does not make you REALLY turn into an elf. Nor does Bloodlines REALLY affect your avatar. You might choose to alter your av, to look more vampiric, or more, um, pale and anemic. But that's up to you.

As for vampire roleplay in general (not Bloodlines only), it's a type of Dominant/Submissive play. The submissive plays either a victim or a vampire of lesser power, under the control of another vampire. Vampires have a certain seductive thrill, for many people...witness the best selling novels by Ann Rice and others.

Hmmm...Gabriele, dear. Are you busy tonight?

The key problem with Bloodlines is that a part of the activity is taking their game to the grid at large and targeting people who aren't in the game for bite requests to increase their score. Within the bite request is an advertisement to join the game. To join the game, you have to buy their HUD/Meter that costs around L$500, or buy their “cures” that still all cost money. So, what’s really happening is that unknowing people are lead to assume that this game is something intrinsic to SL and possible a common expense to “Play this game”. (=_=)

But, if someone willfully decides to join the game on their own terms because they find it to be a fun distraction, I don’t think anybody can be against it. As long as they don’t go grid-hopping and spamming like the others. (^_^)y

I have a friend who I once saw in a bloody skin... It freaked me out a bit... but ya know, you gotta remember this is not real life. In real life, if your friend shows up all bloody, you got a problem. Here, people can express themselves however they want (well almost... don't get me started) and it is almost always harmless.

Still had it in my history:
http://shaynakorobase.blogspot.com/2009/04/art-of-vampire.html

- A bloodlines player calling others out for doing something like a pyramid scheme with it, if I understand it right.

Wow it just occurred to me that I missed the latest episode of True Blood. Darn

I'm a tad disappointed. I was hoping to learn what a Bood Doll was.

Hmmm...

Do I have to join bloodlines to sign up for this?

It does sound kinky.

Do remind your friend that at the top right of her screen is a little red button with a white x in it.

When she has had enough, she can click on it.

Maybe she's just enjoying herself. I reckon Jax ought to ask his friend to explain it to him and let -her- tell him what she sees in it all. Then he could discuss any concerns he might still have with her.

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Aes

I'm not "against it," in the sense that I would positively tell a friend not to do it; I would assume, unless I had good reason not to, that s/he was making an informed decision. And I'm sure that in the OP's case, and in the vast majority of others, those engaged know full well what they are doing, and can get out if and when they wish to.

I would however still be at least mildly *concerned* about a friend who got into something like this.

There is a tendency to oversimplify the idea of "consent" in SL (and possibly in RL, too) as though there were no forms of coercion other than physical ones. I've had friends who were emotionally blackmailed into doing things they really didn't want to in SL. And I've seen people afraid not to "go along" with things asked of them because they have unwisely given out too much RL information about themselves. In one case that I know of, a blackmail threat was carried through, with an incriminating e-mail sent to an unsuspecting (and subsequently VERY upset) RL wife.

Without for a moment suggesting that we need to "police" people's personal choices, I DO think we need a more sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of consent in SL, which goes a bit beyond the standard "everything is consensual in SL" response. RL isn't that simple; SL certainly isn't either.

What I guess I am saying is that I don't see the OP's concern as necessarily being out of place. I am not suggesting an "intervention" or anything dramatic, but I think "concern" (depending on the character of the potential victim) is entirely understandable. I'd suggest an open and frank (but by no means aggressive or hostile) discussion with the person in question.

MYOBB

Pep (The Nanny Society is bad enough in rl)