To OOC or not to OOC, that is the Question

Yeppers, knew there was something missing.. do they make sexy safety glasses? /me can only remember the big clunky ones from science 101

You mean the big clunky ones aren't sexy? She should get some leather gloves as well. No sense in getting blisters.

I hope I'm not derailing too much here, I know how it upsets people, and I guess I could go try to figure it out myself. Say I have a predator tag and someone has a prey tag, how do I actually catch them? Do I click on them? run a tackle and headlock animation, is it all in RP? What effect does it have? Do they freeze in plae or is it like being caged or something?

I'm sorry if these are stupid questions.

Not stupid at all. You simply need to be beside them for a period of time. The period of time is dictated by the difficulty they've set. But it's not that easy to stay in close proximity to someone who's darting around the maze, so you have to be nimble fingered (the keyboard, you perv!).

When you catch them, they are frozen until you release. Meanwhile, you can click them to change their pose.

I probably should have started by saying the "tags" are actually transparent cylinders that encircle you and them. So when you click them, you're really clicking the cylinder.

Love.

Got it. That makes sense. I like adding an element of skill into it where you actually have to do something to capture them. It can be hard to keep up with someone when they want you too. I magine if they are trying to get away, it can be much more difficult.

And conversely, if you had to work hard to catch them, you're less likely to let them go easily...

Love.

As far as i recall from the last time i visited CARP, they have some sessions of what they call 'Strip Capture' where the clothes come off each time you are 'caught' until they are all gone and the victim is 'yours' for a period of time. You can state over your head in the tag if you are straight hetero or bi or same sex only orientated, and if you are ok with furry etc. and if you are Dom or Sub.

They have other sorts of sessions as well, not strip capture.

I think they also hire out the place for private functions and parties, so perhaps a Forum trip could take one of those sessions and set our own parameters if we didn't want to do D/s.


imogen

PS EDIT

Oh.. and for those people who come from other text-only places like IRC, you don't have to have pose balls to do stuff... a combination of words and imagination can get your capture doing anything you want, if you are both any good at it.

Meaning no disrespect to anyone, but may I interrupt the CARP thread to re-rail for a different perspective on the original topic?

For reasons which will be obvious in a moment, this is being written by an alt - a brand new, never to be seen again, alt.

The man behind this alt is nearly 80 years old, in poor health, limited mobility and little opportunity for interaction with young, vital, interesting people of good humor and both mental and physical energy. Unfortunately, the mind of this old codger sees himself as young, vital, interesting, energetic and not nearly the curmudgeon his RL family sees him to be. His usual avatar belies his RL self, and tries to fit the one he remembers.. More than a few of you know that avatar.

This is probably not the kind of role playing you mean by Type 3 - that, I equate with Gorian, for example. From my perspective, I'd equate Type 2 role-playing with what goes on in Caledon. By that I mean realistic people doing realistic things in a world they can no longer inhabit in RL. For this old man, then, an avatar you see as just another normal modern-day resident is type 2: a realistic person doing realistic things in a world he can no longer inhabit in RL.

Is this role-playing? Or is this realistic, but woefully out of date? Did I hear "delusional"? I hope not. What it is is therapeutic. And a lot more effective and cheaper than all the pills!

BTW, this brings up a question I have never seen addressed: Do you *ever*, and if so, under what circumstances, reveal the names of your alts so they can be associated with your main avatar?

Interesting thread.... I'm type 1, sometimes a bit of type 2.... Normally I don't do formal RP and when people ask me I say I "roleplay" at being a club owner LMAO.

I have no problem revealing my general location and even have it listed in my 1st Life section (which has taught me how few people thoroughly read profiles because I still get many "where are you from" questions).

But I met a person who became a friend... who not only refused to reveal any RL info including his location (nor timezone), he did not want me to tell him anything at all about MY RL... He didn't want any aspect of his fantasy ruined (even though we were at most, friendly acquaintances). Then started asking me more in-depth questions about SL, which I couldn't even fully answer, because it would mean some aspect of my RL might slip in there. In the end, I felt very hampered in having conversations with him.

So I will agree that type 1s and type 2/3s can clash!

I have some friends that introduced me to their alts... Some, I believe, did it to stay in touch even when they are roleplaying and the others as a way to share their SL history with me. The only time it was strange was when an alt introduced me to her main... someone I thought was as new as I was and who seemed to be 'growing' alongside me turned out to be an olbie...

Now, if you get alts to hide.. then never?

.d

I created an alt, Lynnette Weston, for the sole purpose of hanging out on Orientation Island to help newcomers. I have no problem with revealing her name and association with me...indeed, it makes her more effective, since she can pass residents on to me if they still need help after they reach the main grid.

Other alts? Do you have a need to know?

And...I think your use of SL is indeed therapeutic. I've met a few other old people, or people who are limited by disease or handicaps, using SL to lead a fuller life than they could in RL. More power to them, I say...and to you.

I think this whole post is absolutely awesome. It gives me renewed faith and belief in the value of SL (not that I needed it, but...). For all the complaining that goes on about the Lindens, they are almost freaking gods for being able to provide this sort of experience.

Delusional is a word I would *never* use.

Now, I'm an ALT, and I'll never reveal to whom.

Regards,
Love^H^H^H^HHate

LOL There's no need to, love.

Please note lower case on love.
Your secret is safe with me.

It gives me joy to think you have found vitality and fun in SL. That HAS to be hugely therapeutic. And I seriously doubt that, except for cultural referents that are generational, anyone could ever guess. Your "voice" is not that of an 80 year old. Perhaps, if we could ever divorce ourselves in RL from the visual and auditory aspects of age, elders "voices" would often be indistinguishable from any other adult's. I think of this a lot as my parents age and begin to encounter age discrimination.

The number of people who "play" a younger version of themselves is, I think, quite high in SL. I hesitate to call it roleplay ... if you're playing a younger but still adult version of yourself, perhaps it is a 4th category.

I have an alt who works at a shop, and everyone else who works there knows she's my alt, and has met us both, because I do advertising for the shop. I may have other alt(s). Or I may not.

What is an alt? What if you have an aged account, yet usually log on and experience SL through the "eyes" of a younger avi linked to your account?

When Jannae is online, she is Jannae, and she is me.

My avatar Imogen Saltair is roughly half the age of the person behind the keyboard. I do that because even though i am not 80 or in poor health, my health isn't at the stage of young and vital but, like you Anonymous, my mind IS! Apart from some (i hope) wisdom and some (i hope) experience, I love playing the role through my avatar of a young, energetic, sexual and attractive woman, traits that i feel at the age of 51 are slipping slowly away from me, mostly downwards

And when i am 80, i hope SL is still here and my hands are still able to type and my brain is still able to deal with the technology and i am still able to strut my stuff

My World.. my imagination.. my fantasy... Put me in Category 4 too

Imogen

An alt is a different AV you log in under for a different experience -- in other words, one thaht has a different gender, or different playstyle, a whole different set of friends, etc. It's a way of having more than one Second Life.

Delusional? not unless we all are. Therapeutic I believe also for the vast majority of us.
I echo Imogen's thoughts, being somewhere between you both in physical age. Physical I say because as our avatars we all reattain (or attain?) that vital prime of life. I don't believe we need a category four. I think it's nicely included in Victorria's cat 2; 'another me'.

I brought three RL friends to SL, my fiancee who lives a distance away, another lady I also met in the Starship Titanic and a biker buddy of mine from my even earlier days. Whilst all met and knew Bilbo from day one, my later alt revealed herself to them for differing reasons, to Morgaine for honesty, to Arwen for friendship and Gruntos for protection; not hers but to ensure and promise no deceit. She was never about deceit, or lying but to learn and explore. She's been a very intuitive and eye-opening experience, inwards and outwards. We nearly had to kill her off, but we're past an anguishing time.

Whether your son winds up in SL or not, IM me in-world and I'll give you a free set of my flying surfboards, complete with ocean surf noises. A surfer dude avatar deserves them.

A couple of things:

1. Someone asked if you could order your captive in CARP to do *anything*. The answer is yes, certainly. Anything can role-played. It works like this:

Captor: Bring me my comfy slippers, slave!
Captive: /me goes and fetches the slippers and carefully fits them on NN's feet.
Captor: Now balance this banana on your head.
Captive: /me attempts to balance the banana, but it keeps falling off.

The only limit is your imagination.

2. About Anonymous's post. I agree with the comments that were made to this. There are also a number of cases of SL providing the means for severely disabled people to live out things they cannot ever do in RL. All praise to LL for making this possible. You won't see it in Sony Home, etc.

Your on! I was messing with a fine set of FREE boots I was so kindly directed to at Angry Monkey by someone who saw my post here, but which had one component no copy/no modify so I couldn't get it out of the box. I had to copy/modify one of the other items to get it to work, then I started thinking it wouldn't be so hard to make my OWN surf board! I was thinking it was just to carry around with me, much less a flying one, so I'll give you a holler when I get home from work.

I'm having a lot of fun exploring, trying to come up with a theme for my avatar beyond my beach bum, and trying to decide how lost I want to become in SL. I've started learning how to look at the profiles and that's been a big help. But the new player help is limited for me because I wouldn't exactly call myself a new gamer, I'm just new to THIS one. But I have to agree, the flying bit, and the unlimited customizability is liberating. Most virtual worlds make you sweat (literally, in Entropia Project) to start with, while I appreciate working hard to accomplish something, sometimes it's nice just to bypass all that struggle and just enjoy the (virtual) world.

I've been out of the loop the past couple of days building my new PC, I've been on an antiquated PIII server box that was all I had when my P4 blew up about a month ago, I was trying to get it fixed but I finally gave up and started from scratch (blew the mobo, fixed that, but I'm pretty sure the CPU and RAM went too). I got so wired it kept me up most of the night twiddling then I was worthless to go to work so I called in sick.

I had a bit of a problem trying to get my RAID array to come back up so I wouldn't have to reinstall Windows, but apparently WinXP repair only works if you haven't applied any service packs plus I'd installed Office 2007 which replaced a bunch of dll's and so I got a bunch of errors complaining about missing and corrupt dlls which sounded like they were from outlook. In the end I had to reinstall over the old WinXP, no great loss as I was just happy to recover the contents of the RAID array. Yeah, yeah I know, I should back stuff up. 80GB of MP3's ain't easy to back up, though.

BTW, to the poster who asked about the age frame for Teen Second Life: 13-17

EDIT: About a year ago, I decided I was neglecting my musical talents, having played drums in high school, doing the garage band bit and playing guitar since then. One aspect of SL that is particularly intriguing is the streaming music feature, and how I might be able to produce some of my own music now that I've gotten my chops back. I don't really have time for a band, although I'm pushing my brother into playing bass (which isn't going so swell, stage fright methinks). I've been heavily into the blues and have been picking up (no pun intended) fingerpicking and just this past weekend figured out how slide guitar is played using finger picks.

The next time Philip Wycliffe (my alt) is on Orientation Island, I'll look for Lynnette so I can stop by and say hello.