From Laura:
Atlantis... and Once Upon a Time
it was only around the end of Lively that i met Malon and Belavar,who have been great friends to me ever since. It's thanks to them that I ever made it to Second Life: without their help and their teachings it would have been impossible for my poor av to survive in that world - let alone to enjoy it! You all know them well, because they are both active members of the community; they are both sensitive, imaginative, funny, and playful - but they are not at all alike!
For Malon, virtual reality is just fun - a way to play, explore and meet people from all over the world. I think this journey he's making through America and Europe is a sort of "pilgrimage" to find the real people behind those cute avatars - and "confirm" their friendship.
Bel is very different. He's a dreamer, and to him VR is a way to create new worlds of which HE is the Lord and establishes the rules- to make his dreams come true and share them. He is gifted with an extremely bright mind, but he's also completely crazy
, and has brought a touch of madness into my very rational life, which i don't regret, because it's been great fun, even though it has sometimes been hard not to lose rational control and not to get involved too much in those dream worlds!
The three of us were together in Belavar's magnificent "Party" room when lively suddenly ceased to exist (I had, by then, left both the human and the cat form to become a bear).
And then... a miracle! Someone had devised a way to get into the lively servers again... and so we were in.... Malon had already emigrated to SL, but Bel and I stayed on... and I spent, oh, so much time in those two rooms with this cute, funny, crazy little bear...
Atlantis was my favourite. It was a dreamworld, filled with the strangest things and creatures that could be found in inventory... A sunny place in Nowhereland.
I also liked very much the "Once Upon a Time" room - and it was such an emotion when Rossen recreated the shell in IMVU! Actually there were more than one room with that shell... I never knew how many, because Bel kept changing and modifying them all the time. And sometimes there were even two Bels...
And so we stayed on, the last two sentinels of a world that had ceased to exist. It was like being suspended in a bubble of soap somewhere - or nowhere - between heaven and earth. It felt absolutely unreal. It was fantastic.
It was magic.
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... and this was going to be the end in my original plan... but on second thoughts, I decided to write an epilogue...
....coming soon....
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