(I hope y'all don't mind a bit of extended prose, as I am quite fond of writing and sometimes am even good at it. But with the NDA how it is at the moment, you're the only ones I can share this kinda stuff with. So, well, enjoy...)
By now most folks passing by the Welcome Area have seen the stone statue of what looks like a grey Snoopy on all fours or something with the legend "SHEEPY" written underneath. Often times you'll find avs sitting on the stone sheep's back, and there was a nice teddy bear hanging out there tonight. And as with most strange works of art, a lot of questions are raised, such as "Who or what is Sheepy?" and "What is it doing here?" and "If orange juice was blue, would they still call it orange juice?" Well, I can answer some of these questions, I hope.
Sheepy came to life much like Frosty the Snowman, except I didn't have any coal or corncobs. He was created because someone in the Welcome Area remarked that it looked so much like a corral and what we really needed in there were farm animals. So off I went to create a sheep. Thing is, when I was done, it looked more like a dog, or maybe a pig, than a sheep, and the final product was eventually deemed a "sheep-dog" to alleviate future confusion. A name for this critter was also needed and after many valuable seconds of thought, the name "Sheepy" came into my head. I honestly have no idea how it got there. I mean, it's just so unexpected and all.
Sheepy sat around the Welcome Area for a while, not really doing much except for looking kinda cute. When I gave Sheepy physics, he promptly responded by falling over. So I picked him up and dropped him. Oof! went Sheepy, and he rolled over on his back. He was picked up and dropped several times for maximum comedy enjoyment, and then I got the bright idea to try and mess with his center of gravity. I wanted him to act like a cat and land on his feet when dropped.
I set his legs to Stone and the rest of him to Rubber, turned physics on and dropped him. The results were not what I expected. Sheepy fell into the ground, sank underground, and disappeared, never to be seen again.
This tragic loss, quite possibly the worst thing ever to happen to a strange mutant sheep-like-dog-thing, was felt by a couple of members of the Second Life community. Many theories were offered as to his disappearance, ranging from alien abduction to "a wizard did it" to "maybe he wanted to play with earthworms" but theories cannot bring a sheep-dog-thing back. So a monument was built in Sheepy's memory, the very monument you see today. It stands close to where the real sheep-dog-thing sank without a trace, and points eastward to face, uh, the sun. I think Sheepy liked the sun.
The monument has several intriguing properties, some of which you might be able to experience if you're lucky enough. For one, two people can sit comfortably on the statue, and it won't complain much. Casval and Kerstin have even been lucky enough to have done loop-the-loops on the statue while they were sitting on it, and they don't look the worse for the wear.
Secondly, the statue is more or less life-sized. This fact is only important to purists and historians fond of trivial details. Those pragmatists in the bunch who are asking "Well, why didn't you just create a new Sheepy since you obviously saved the object?" can pat themselves on the back for a job well done and a point well pointed out, and kindly move on to the next thread.
Third, the nose of the statue is a special magical nose which may or may not grant you a wish, depending on whether or not you've made a wish to begin with and whether or not you've paid the nose $1. I'd have set the price higher but then you'd really have been paying thru the nose for your wish.
And so the statue stands, awaiting the triumphant return of Sheepy or until we all get sick of it and I recycle it to use the money for something else. But who knows when the lovable critter will return in the, er, flesh? And what tales will it bring of far-off sims and strange constructions yet to be seen by us? Or will it continue to stand silently on the ground until it tips on its back? Only time will tell...
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