Has anyone else experienced a grid border breach today?

COWELL, SANSARA
The massive failure at the Lindens' Grid Power Distributor today caused a number of region borders to auto-shutdown.


The Stinson region just north of Cowell... borders closed.

At around 1:00pm SLT, power was disrupted to the Grid and folks were either stuck in regions, unable to enter others or were completely unable to enter the Second Life world as a whole. Normally grid borders will close in the event of a power failure as a precaution.

Today, I witnessed an actual grid border breach in Cowell, just east of the lighthouse.


The Cordova Sandbox, Bethel in the Vehicle regions, Georgean, Stinson & Omidyar all went offline simultaneously.

Quite a few regions went offline around Cowell simultaneously and the void border along the southern edge of Cowell destabilized causing a void flare to breach the Lindens' Grid. It obliterated part of Champie Jack's building and carved a trench through the middle of the jetty.


Champie's building was a direct hit.

The breach looked a bit like a wormhole forming when a stargate makes a connection to another gate. The Lighthouse is now cut-off from the rest of the village. Some remnants from Champie's building are scattered along the sea floor, but much of the western end of the building simply vanished.


A new channel cuts through the jetty in the Cowell Village.

My mom, Valdora Grayson, alerted me that a similar breach had occurred in Nova Albion. This one emanated from the south as well and took out the western base of the Grignano Arch, causing a collapse of the remaining structure. Just the eastern foundation and a portion of the arch remain.



Temporary force fields have been setup at both locations to strengthen the grid borders until more permanent repairs can be made. Residents are encouraged to erect force fields at grid boundaries that border voids as a precaution.

You may be on your own for the next 48-72 hours. It may be possible to archive your builds with inventory backup tools that have recently become available. Take all precautions.

There have been no reports of injuries or fatalities, thank G'al! This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

force field?

Beware the Martians!!!

BM strikes its first volley at SL.

What will SL do in retaliation?

/me suspects Magellan was left at the controls and, well, who knew Scotch was a conductor?

Sounds like an awesome void flare. Why am I never around when the void breaches the Grid? It's so not fair! I want to see the fireworks too! (No, I don't have any more of a clue what all this is about than you do although it reads like a report filtered through Stargate: SG1 or Stargate: Atlantis RP. If Google would properly search for G'al we might actually discover the source of the OP's perspective. )

"........it's the end of the world as we know it....and I feel fine....."



Uh...wait no......it was the orange mojitos I had tonight.....nevermind.......


Border breach.....hmmmmm......aint nobody bordering my breaches without dinner and a movie first!!.......

Saw some similiar activity in Heterocera near the Temple Of The Moth.

As a precaution, temporary force fields have been installed at the breach locations in Cowell and Grignano. I'm using some old gini device prototypes to generate the fields, to hopefully strengthen those grid borders along the voids. The gini's field emitters can generate a rather large field for a few days. Hopefully the Lindens will have things under control by then. I'd rather not depend on these old devices too much, I'll like to come up with a more permanent solution.

I saw something awful in Zindra.

No sign at my estate in Islandia North of void breach, but we are surrounded by void sims. No forcefield generators at our disposal. Going to Caledon to confer with the tech mages for an updated defense strategy.

Hold back the void.

To be fair, Zindra already looked awful before the grid crash though.

I watched as the sim next to ours disappeared. Got a pic hehehe then about 1/2 hour later it came back.

G'al was an ancient volcano god worshiped by the Di-Ingue Baughtians. Some folks still attribute good and bad fortune to whatever side of the sea bed he happened to get up from that day.

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http://www.slmaps.com/dingbat.htm

http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Volcano_Island_Sims

Well that explains why Google was no help. Thanks.

For those of us sans force field and who are having trouble teleporting, I found an unusual effect tonight and possibly a solution.

I was out shopping, but got stuck in a crowded grid and couldn't TP out to my skybox. I pulled it up on the big map by right clicking the landmark (instead of using TP Home) to see if the sim was down. I noticed on the big map that, although the landmark was supposed to be for an elevation of 800 meters, the map showed 0 for the Z coordinate. It had gotten the X and Y correct, but dropped the Z. When I manually keyed in the 800 on the map I was able to TP home.

It might be worth looking at the big map if you are stuck tonight.

Interesting point, Rafe. Have Blue Martians infiltrated Linden Lab to commit sabotage? I should think that they would be at a disadvantage since they can't create content as easily as we do. At least as far as I know from what I've read. No, my gut says it's not that.

Excellent tip, Weston! That's like jiggling the key in the lock or hitting the side of the jukebox to get one's song to play.

Seems to be a connection. What are the Ginnie readings in the Voids Sal? Anything like you have seen in the upsurdge of BC or Naut?

don't know about Linden Lab, but, for certain, the forums and inworld as well...

What happened, Jannae?

Stinson is back and now Davenport is offline. Osprey Therian flew to the Cowell scene and had just been to visit the Grignano area. She thought she better not tarry there as she hasn't had the best luck with that portion of Nova Albion. The Grid has always been a bit weak there and it seems to affect her in a rather unique way.



Champie came to Cowell in his helicopter to survey the damage from the air. He had to detour north of Davenport and fly in from the forest. Loki Pico and Ilianexsi Sojourner stopped by when they saw the group notice I sent out.



Ilia was taken aback at the degree of damage to the jetty and Champie's build. We speculated for a bit on what could be causing these new disruptions.

Osprey and I make time for a quick jump into Mount G'al in the Mahulu region. Definitely a leap of faith.

We beseech thee, G'al, have mercy upon us this day.
Accept our sacrifice.

*shakes her fist at LL for not fixing Mt G'al so we have to control-shift-H*

To paraphrase Michael Linden, "there's not much call for fixing volcanos" Oh, if only he knew what terrible troubles can be unleashed when G'al does not get fed!