When I’d visited the Ministry of Motion sim a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t tell my friends about something that was a little bit shocking but quite funny at the time. I’d taken Hibiscus over there and she thought it was a laugh, then I took Drax over and asked him to sit on the giant apple and see what happens. Soon as he sat, he started to topple through the air and fell into the giant kitchen blender that was there. It’s quite a gory sight all the blood spurts out of the blender and you can see your avatars arms and legs disappearing!
He landed safely back next to me on the platform, but his arms and legs and three hearts (yes three!!) landed all around him and other bits and pieces of grisly looking meat too!
This is all the invention of Nomasha Syaka and very cleverly done!! All in one piece, Drax later came over to my apartment in SL Chelsea as he hadn’t seen some of the changes I had made for a while. I got a lovely painting from an artist who was selling his stuff in the Rose Theatre, his pictures are moving works of art and little stars twinkle on it and vapour rises from the sphere in front of the girl in the picture, I’m glad I bought it, I really like it and Drax did too. I logged off and came back later.
It was the opening of the Jazz club in SL Chelsea last night and real life held me up from getting there for a while. I arrived to see Hibiscus, Ed and Drax all on line and as I rezzed I saw Hib and Ed log off at the same time, then going over to the Jazz club I spotted Drax at the piano there.
He was plainly away from the keyboard of his computer, so I went and sat on the stall too to wait for him to come back and chat, but alas he never did, he just timed out and I was left all alone, my friends deserting me, are they trying to tell me something? Perhaps I put too many of them through the blender!!!
Posted by Janey Bracken 
I reach the end of the week with a bit of a ‘phew!!’ You would never guess that metaverse reporting could bring such mayhem and debate. People’s feelings run high, even in virtual worlds, and it’s kinda nice that they feel so strongly that they defend their corners so well. It was all over the new SL London sim, Soho! a long awaited for opening, and my excitement of what was to be there and what sort of people would bring a different slant to this new area. I go out and try to capture the mood of whatever is happening, good or bad, it’s no good having a blog newspaper that butters everyone up all the time even if things need to be sorted out, it’s not only boring, it’s unethical and false. But I hit a few tender spots with people this week because I reported things the way I saw them and I stand by what I said without demeaning the the people involved in any way. They are doing a great job, and as with all new things, teething problems will be sorted out and I’m sure they will make a great success of the sim. Anyway if you want to read about my stick of dynamite virtual reporting, it’s at 
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A Griefer Pushes His Luck And Possessions Get Lost
August 12, 2009Goodness knows what possesses some blokes, griefers that is, especially the pervy ones! Well I suppose we do know, it’s the ability to try to shock, I suppose, because they are inadequate in some way and can’t form a normal real life relationship. I’d had a bit of a problem the other day as my furniture from my office in SL Kensington had been returned to my inventory, not all of it, just eight pieces, the rest were missing completely!! Of course the missing bits included the expensive chairs I had bought with the good poses!! Apparently they had changed the group title for the sim and neighbours met a similar fate. Poor Brie who lives next door is on holiday and had only just decorated her house before she left, but all her stuff is gone too, I’m not sure when she is back, but I hope she gets all her personal items returned! I was a bit tired that evening, but couldn’t leave it as it was, so started to make the desks and bits that I could do.
I noticed on the radar someone called Edward, who was heading my way, as I was busy building. next thing this tiny jet black featureless figure ran into the office next to me. I greeted him saying Hello Edward, but Pervy Ed just made a lewd suggestion, well you could see he was going to grief from the pathetic little av he had created. With a sigh, I carried on building as Pervy Ed thought he would bash into me as he didn’t get the shocked response he was looking for. I just ignored him as I had ‘movelock’ in play so his bumps and pushes were lost along with his lewd comments. I did see him changing his av a bit, trying to put an attachment on, poor little devil couldn’t even do that right!! He gave up then and vanished into the street.
The next day I went to the Underground Club and who should walk through the door, but Pervy Ed, not with his dark little av this time, but with a normal looking male dressed av. He had the cheek to stand in the doorway addressing everyone as to whether they could give him any free stuff, I spoke to him in front of the crowd and asked him if he had got fed up with griefing. He didn’t even remember me, or made out he didn’t. He IM’d me and I showed him a copy of what he had said to me the day before, he tried to laugh it off and didn’t answer when I asked him why he would do that to women. I struck a chord though when I said he must be perverted, as he gave up talking then.
That wasn’t the end of Pervy Ed, when I stood in my apartment yesterday he suddenly was flying around the building, I would imagine once again looking for lone females to insult and shock. When he appeared at my window, as I was the only one in the buildings, I asked him if he wanted an abuse report this time, to which he just said ‘no’. With that he seemed to fly off along my balcony and I have no idea if he was trying to get in, but he did, and found himself standing inside my front door. ‘Get out’ I said and opened the door, he did get out and vanished without a word. Poor Pervy Ed, I still have the transcript of what he said to me, he is pushing his luck playing around in the same area, but we will wait and see what he does next……..