Quiet weekend

Not much to tell about the last days due to RL-work. The few hours I was inworld I was busy sorting inventory (again). It's messing up soooooo fast! *sigh*

So, here's just some pics from the Tabor OOC dance on sunday, where we almost always are:

I got a new outfit from HUNG - a shop with really hot stuff! Just after the dance I realized, that the jockstrap was transparent and you could see everything through it. Oh well.. who cares?
My slaves wearing the T-backs from Jomo. *purrrrrs* Another nice shop with hot stuff. They attached invisible prims with OpenCollar-scripts to it, so I could leash them there with ropes. *purrrrs more*

I more and more like the OpenCollar and wonder, why I ever spent money on all the tokon-stuff from xCite!, which is always slow, if it works at all, and really highly scripted. Well, I still love my xCite!-stuff, of course, and tokon isn't too bad (in privacy, low lag regions), but there are so many nice collars and good other stuff from OpenCollar for free... Love it!

Time for an update

The new year is 18 days old and still just one entry. Oh my! But there's not so much to tell...

In Gorean RP (or the lack of it) the one or other thing annoying me... so we don't RP much and most of the time stick to ourselves, trying to enhance the RP at the Trading Post where we live in Tabor Tropics. Slowly we are building up some marketstalls for the Nutri Life System (NLS). I still think it would be a good system (though with a lot of deficits).. if people would just be interested to really use it as a Roleplay-chance instead of camping their AVs all day long on spawners and filling up crates after crates with goods nobody wants, because everyone else is doing exactly the same.

We are at least trying to encourage RP by building our own little items... handmade-baskets with fruits, little bags with black wine (coffee) and cacao powder, or this little bag for candies and a candy cane attached to the leg, which I just created this week:

Also planning to sell a new brand of black wine which we call "Kopi Urta", similar to the "Kopi Luwak". - Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, because it first has to pass the digestive tract of a little rodent ("luwak") that looks like this:

We call it tree-urt in Gor (urt = rat) and Endy saved one a while ago from the cold winter in Tabor. He set it into our patch of black wine and cacao bushes and fed it with berries. But one day, when we came back from travels, we had to notice, that it called it's whole family of tree-urts and they ate all the bushes and beans and left us only a lot of heaps of urt-poo....

... but in the poo, River found the almost undigested beans. He washed them and placed them on roasts to dry. So we will see, what comes out of that...

Hmmmm... what else? Tried a rescue-mission this week, but didn't get any hints IC (in character)... so as we are strict in that and not accept OOC-info by IMs and group-chat, we couldn't do much.

Went to some SIMs, as we wanted to RP trade, but most people are sitting in their houses (if present at all) and don't bother to look for the visitors. Okay... I have to admit, that we also not jump everytime, when someone enters the SIM. Sometimes too busy to cuddle or OOC to talk. But people passing by, not even bothering to say "hi!", either IC or OOC... that makes me always wonder. Even if they are busy with something else or OOC, it is a question of manners to say at least a greeting. That's a question of manners... but Gor seems to lack a lot of these.

There were some visitors last week, which were quite fun. I wished they would have stayed longer. They RPed in Tabor East... also came over to us two times... took over the bakery as our baker in Tabor was missing (now back... or not? Nobody knows)... and promptly were first accused of being griefers, because they just BEEN THERE, and then someone else called out in group chat, to stay away from Tabor East, because "those outlaws" are there. Interestingly it was exactly those people, who sit in their houses all day long, don't RP with anybody and have nothing better to do than to cam all over the cluster and spy other people's bedrooms. "We have visitors! Stay away! Lock your doors!" - Why please are people with such a mentality on Gorean RP-SIMs at all? - However, I found those visitors' blog and they are really funny, I think. A big loss, that they were not welcomed...

Oh, and the Dark Lord seems to be back! Yay! Most of the times fun to RP... I think, he was sneaking around our house, but this time unfortunately it was us (mea culpa!) who were OOC at that moment, because of some incident right before that, which made me a bit... uhm... upset.

So far about Gor. Apart from that... hm... got some nice Freebies at the kobalt-store. I love the sexy underwear there. There are some polo-shirts and some speedos:

Not sure, if they are still there. Just search for "kobalt" and take a look yourself. Mmmmmm, those bulges... love them!

Missed the Tabor Sunday Dance this week... :-( ... Due to some RL-events... well, some changes in the RL-job are coming, so I won't be able to spend so much time in SL anymore anyways, but at least I prolly will now have the one or other weekend off (or at least a saturday).

And I miss building! I still have sooooo many projects to finish. Maybe I should try to get at least the smaller ones ready and offer them at Marketplace? - My boys started their own offers at Marketplace and they are doing well with their builds.

For instance this lovely bird-bath from River:

 


.. or the as well lovely lanterne from Endy.

Well, that's it for today. I still will try to write more often. Promise! (that I try, not that I really do)

As I had mentioned: We are on the menstuff hunt. We just got 1/3 of all the gifts, so #1 - #50 are stored in my inventory, waiting to get opened. But apart from the hunt-gifts we also found some nice extra gifts. One at a shop called GIZZA Creations. When you join the group at the entrance, you can grap a lot of really nice gifts.

I took the time to take some pictures of the male gifts (there are gifts for women too...). I know... modelling for clothes shouldn't be with such distracting background, but I just had some fun in Ange's D.I.Y. Photostudio:

This is the "Blue Outfit" (.. I think. Though it's not much blue.)

The September gift

The June Gift

One of my Favorites: Blue Leather Outfit

The October Gift

(Don't like this so much; 

that explains my sad look 

although I'm sitting on Santa's lap)

The Valentine's Gift

(Love this one. Looks so cool 

and I extra changed my hairstyle for it back to how it was a year ago)

The Sweater Outfits

The May Gift

The Male Leather Jacket

(and yes, I accidently chosen the same pose as with another outfit)

The First Year Gift

(It had a strange tie with it which I took off.

Without it, it looks quite gentleman-like. Like it!)

The November Gift

P.S.: 12 hours after this post, Gizza decided to charge 250 L$ for joining the group. That's a bit disappointing IMO, on the other side understandable, as many people just join the group to grap the gifts and then leave it again. - However, once joined, you will receive a monthly gift. Decide yourself, if you think it's worth the 250 L$.

My boys - the builders

My lil sunshine River has his first build on marketplace. It's a cute Flying House, the perfect skybox. (Of course it's not really drivable... that would be a mass.) It's so lovely and I'm so proud of my building boys!

My lil moonbeam Endy will soon get his first build on Marketplace too, I hope. He's a promising talent and soon will get ahead of his Master.

Tea-Party

On Saturday I been to Tabor Highlands OOC dance. Theme was "Hat", so I dusted an old costume of which I have so many... and in all modesty, I have to say, it was the best costume there at all! But you know how it is with those contests... only depends on how many people you know to vote for you. I think one of the actually winners didn't even WEAR a hat (at least not on a bodypart where I could see it).

Anyways, here's a picture:

Hat: CatNip Mad Hatter 195 L$
Suit: Blackopal Designs 0 L$ (!) here and here

Busy building

Didn't mention for a while my new updates on the store. I got some packs with paintings, also available as single paintings. As I sell them for 10 L$ each, with is the price for uploading them, it's not really a profitable business thingens; it just made me angry, that some people try to sell uploaded pictures, often not even adjusted to the original or in low resolution or with ugly frames (most of the times all this together) for 100 L$ or what....

  (c) Finn Millar for Vice Poses

Finn Millar made a great picture for the promotion of a poseball-shop ("Vice Poses"). Showing my basement. I have to say: It really looks very atmospheric! Of Course Finn and Spencer are great artists.

Okay... now, let me see... what did I put up to MP in the last weeks? 

There was the blacksmith house I'd built for Corcyrus:

.....Another palm in a pot....

... my old store ....

... and a new version of the torvie house! Smaller than "The Merchant's House" and "The Poor Merchant's House", that's why I called it "The Merchant's Little Brother" :-) However, I abandoned alpha-windows and used sculpted windows this time, cause I'm annoyed by that alpha layer bug; so even as it is smaller, it uses some more prims.

And still lots of projects upcoming!

new house

Finally got the new house on marketplace which I had build for the tropics. Still about +/-153 projects to go...

A day at the market

This was last saturday at the market in Tabor (Fields). I just came home from RL-work and when I logged in I had to realize, that River had parked my AV (yeah, he has my password) in the middle of the marketstalls. Well, at least I wasn't naked! :-)

However, I more or less was forced to immediately RP, but it was fun. I cleaned up the chatlog, as there were a lot of communications/RPs crossing each other... 

I enjoyed it, and it was a good example for using the NLS. Of course I could buy a barrel of salt for 10 TS from someone who was just camping his AV at a spawner in one of the gathering patches. I see people offering goods way too cheap and without any prove or realistic reason how they got it IC. It's frustrating and annoying. And if it doesn't get better, we will give up on the NLS and only use it for our personal needs.

As you see: I'd paid 75 TS for a barrel of salt and I did it with joy, as it was fun to haggle and RP. I just wished, people would become insightful enough, that this is it all about! 

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Josh: "Greetings, Master. Klima is using new price, Master!"

Josh shouts "Master Franzi endorses Klima salt!" and points to Master at market stand.

The baker shouts: "Pies! Pies! We've got Larma, strawberry and cherry! Fresh chocolate cookies! Bread! Fresh baked by the loaf or just get a slice to tide you over until you can sit down to a meal!"

Josh shouts: "Salt to put on the bread! Bread tastes good with some extra salt!"

Josh whispers: "Don't push in line everybody, please, one at a time..."

Malex walks over to the gathered crowd to see the Klima-boy and his salt

Josh smiles to see Malex come up.

Franziskus Ninetails wakes up from his little... his DEEP nap behind the marketstalls, wondering how he came here and if his slaves have carried him on a cart to the market. He mumbles to himself "I never touch paga again!", but then looks around for some new barrels to fill his stocks.

Franziskus Ninetails blinks at the gatherd crowd of merchants and their slaves and nods to some.

Malex looks up at the barrel of salt not ever having seen so much and reaches up to taste it.

Franziskus Ninetails looks around and finds most marketstalls already empy. "Hmmm, seems trades were running good!". His eyes searching especially for barrels and salt as his stocks seemed to emptied the last days mysterioulsy.

Franziskus Ninetails recognizes the boy from Klima and smiles to him "Tal, boy. You came a long way from the desert!"

Josh: "Greetings, Master! Aye, but wouldn't miss market day!"

Franziskus Ninetails looks what the boy has to offer. He wets his little finger and dips it into the salt, then licks it. He nods "Hmmm, not bad! How much for the salt, boy?"

Josh: "Only 1 Copper, Master. Good price for salt dragged far from desert. Have a taste if you would like, Master!"

Franziskus Ninetails stretches his little finger out and smiles "Already had a taste. Klima is well known for his high quality of salt!"

Josh: "Salt is good for food, and for torturing prisoners too. Of course, not for torturing prisoners from Tabor... only for other places..."

Franziskus Ninetails frowns a bit... the price not bad for this region, but he keeps his pokerface. He scratches his head "Hmmmm...... a copper tarsk per barrel?" He shakes his head like a sleen and speaks slowly as if not sure "Weeeelllll... I don't know... hmmmmm..... What if I take 10 barrels? Do I get it cheaper?"

Josh: "10 barrels? Yes, Master, lets see now... " He goes through the scroll in his head... tries to remember instructions, just a slave so has to check instruction scroll... 'Hey, there a 10 for 8 deal on Master, 10 for the price of 8, special for Tabor Market!" He counts on his fingers.

Franziskus Ninetails from the corner of his eyes watches cautiously the hooded man near him. His hand rests on his pouch firmly. As he hears Josh's price he does some maths in his head and nods "Hmmm.. that sounds better. What if I take... hmmm... .100?"

Josh: "Argggg, Master, I didnt bring that many!!! It was just me on caravan route, and just me working almost to death in salt mine to mine this stuff. But I can tell Master Merchant if you are interested in big shipment. He can whip more slaves to death to get the salt out for you"

Franziskus Ninetails smiles understanding "Oh well... how many DID you bring then?"

Josh: "Lemme count, Master" He counts, then: "We got 28 left, Master. I can deliver them to you if you want to."

Franziskus Ninetails nods "Good... then lets say... 20? How much per barrel if I take 20?"

Josh: "Aye, Master, 20 at 20 per cent off.... so that's.... ermm... 80 Tarsks bits each, Master. You drive hard bargain, Master!", he says, admiring customer prowess.

Franziskus Ninetails frowns "Didn't you just say, 8 for for 10? So... there won't be a difference, if I take 10 or 20?"

The baker standing next to them: "What price for the rest so you don't have to haul all that heavy, heavy salt back home?"

Josh: "Well, how about 70 each then, Master? Great end of day special!". He checks the scroll and thinks he can get away with this and not be beaten half to death for low price.

Franziskus Ninetails nods "That sounds better. But I have a good day... so... I'll give you 15 KT for the 20 barrels. Don't want a nice boy like you be whipped for bringing less coins home then expected!"

Josh: "Whew! Thank you, Master!"

Franziskus Ninetails: "AND... I'll give you some of the cherry candy my boys made"

Josh: "Whoah!! Candy too! Thank you, Master!" He picks up the salt and loads it for the master.

Franziskus Ninetails takes his pouch and starts to count the coins on the board of the marketstall.

Josh opens eyes wide as the master takes out coins. He wipes his brow relieved to be coming home with some bons. He smiles very gratefuly to the master for the sale, and for the candy too.

Franziskus Ninetails places three cherry candies to the coins for the long way home.

The baker waits for the deal to complete.

Josh pops a candy in his mouth and keeps on loading. He loads more and more of salt lightening the burden for trip home to desert. He hefts 2 more salts, one after the other, sweating but not as much as in hot desert mine. He looks at the master , thinks he must be wealthy man to have so many coins for market day. He cheers as last salt is loaded.

[Took so long to buy 20 barrels one after the other]

Josh: "Thank you, Master, for buying salt"

Franziskus Ninetails smiles as the slave puts it all over to the cart "My boys will carry it later home."

Josh: "If you need more salt or iron ore, Klima can supply"

Franziskus Ninetails rubs his belly "Hmmm, shopping made me hungry. Where do I find something to eat?"

Josh: "Theres some bread over there, Master"

The baker: "Boy, how much salt do you have left and at what price? And what else do you have to offer?"

Josh: "Master, I only have a few salts left, but there are more I can get very soon if you would like. - Let me count... 8 salts left, Master"

The baker nods.....

Meanwhile Franziskus Ninetails: "Bread? Hmmm..... ". He looks around for the baker and for the butcher. "I'd be in the mood for an urt on a stick. But I don't think they have a delicacy like that here?" He looks around and raises his voice asking "Who's the baker?"

Alex: "I don't think the butcher is here, Master, haven't seen him. My Master buys supplies, but I can help you." He waits to see what the Master wanted to buy.

Franziskus Ninetails smiles down to the long haired boy "You are the baker's slave? Hmmm... I think I saw you the other day in the taverne"

Alex: "Yes, I'm the baker's slave, Master"

Franziskus Ninetails looks at the offered goods and point to the one on the top "Is that chocolate cookies?"

Alex: "Yes, it is, Master"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Hmmm, how much are they?"

Alex looks over to the baker who's still at the stall with the salt: "How much for the cookies my master?"

The baker: "10 TS"

Alex: "10 TS for cookies"

Franziskus Ninetails smiles "Oh, that's cheap. They are fresh, aren't they?`"

Alex: "Yes, they are"

The baker now coming over: "A sample cookie for you, sir!"

Franziskus Ninetails takes the cookie from the man and smiles "Ah, you are the baker then? Thank you!"

Alex: "My Master is the one to price them"

Franziskus Ninetails bites into the cookie and chews it slowly, then nods "Mmmmmm..... very well. Of course..." He swallows and smiles ".... it would be even better if you use the 'Torpical Gold' for it!"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Well, pack 10 of it, I'll bring some to my boys too, to taste the cookies"

Alex grabs a paper bag and puts ten cookies in it then hands it to the Master "Here you go Master."

Franziskus Ninetails to the baker: "I'd be glad to visit you to negotiate about cacao-pouder, Baker!"

The baker: "It's too early to tell. I need to see how much I sell each week"

Franziskus Ninetails takes one of the cookies he just bought from the pack and starts to eat it. He points with the half cookie to Daneil "Isn''t that Daneil over there? I have to talk to him!"

River blinks as he hears his master's voice.

River: "My master!"

Josh: "Brother River, I havent seen you in a long time!"

River: "Greetings, brother"

Alex: "Greetings"

Franziskus Ninetails pats his boy's head "I bought some salt. Josh put it on the wagon already, mine"

River: "Yes, my master"

Franziskus Ninetails reaches the package with the cookies to his boy "Here! Take a cookie, my lil sunshine!"

The baker to Franzi: "Thank you for your purchase! Safe paths! Alex, I need to see to an errand again, I'll be back soon"

Franziskus Ninetails looks down to his boy "Do we have some samples left of the Tropical Gold, my lil sunshine?"

River: "I think so, my master. Let me check"

Franziskus Ninetails: "You could give the baker one to test it with the chocolate cookies"

River: "I have four tropical gold samples left, my master". He nibbles his cookie happily, now his stomach feels better he is hungry.

Franziskus Ninetails nods to his slave "Give one to...." - he looks at the long haired slave "... what's your name, baker's slave?"

River mumbles "fank u mu mafter,"

Alex: "They call me alex"

Franziskus Ninetails nods and turns to his boy again "... give a sample to Alex, so his Master can test his next cookies with our Tropical Gold"

River smiles and hands the boy a sample.

Alex: "Thank you. I'm sure he will apreciate it"

River whispers: "It makes nice milk"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Do we have bread at home, mine?"

River "I think we could do with some, my master. I haven't baked in a few days as i have been harvesting."

Franziskus Ninetails searches in his pouch and reaches two copper tarsk to his boy "Buy some bread and a pie, mine. I have to talk to Daneil now!"

River: "Yes, my master"

Franziskus Ninetails as he is searching for the coins finds another candy sticking to his finger. He holds it to Alex' lips "Uhm... here.. for you"

Alex: "Thank you, master"

River examines the bread deciding which his master would prefer. He sees the pie. "hmmmm pie...". He drools.

Franziskus Ninetails sneaks up behind Daneil and slaps his shoulder, surprising him "Daneil! Greetings to you"

Daneil: "Greetings"

Franziskus Ninetails: "I heard you are growing sul and sa-tarna, is that right?"

Daneil: "Yes"

Franziskus Ninetails notices Chance in the crowd and winks to him before he turns his attention back to Daneil: " Do you have a brewer too? For some reason my stocks of sa-tarna and sul-paga are emptying.. uhm.. .mysteriously all the time."

River hands the boy the coins and carries the bread and pie over to his master.

Franziskus Ninetails: "I would order some barrels... but I don't know, if you brew yourself or sell your grains and suls to a brewer?"

Daneil: "I just grow and sell"

River puts the bread and pie with the rest of his belongings and picks up his lute again, really wishing his brother was there as he prefers to dance than play.

Daneil: "I don't know a brewer"

Franziskus Ninetails scratches his head "Well, to whom do you sell then? Only to the baker?"

Daneil: "Who ever wants to buy"

River starts to play his lute again hoping to bring customers to his master's stall.

Franziskus Ninetails shrugs and leaves "Well then... I'll find one. Thank you anyways"

Daneil: "No problem"

[Okay... no idea about THAT convo....]

Franziskus Ninetails turns to the next marketstall, noticing Mike again "Ah, Tal again, Mike. Your fingers are better from cutting all the olives?" As he doesn't get an answer he frowns "Hmmm, boy must have fallen asleep..."

River: "My master, I put it with the rest of our stuff"

Franziskus Ninetails nods over his shoulder to his slave, then takes the bottle of Kalana-wine from the next marketstall and smells at it "Mmm, rich smell... warm... "

Franziskus Ninetails mumbles "Who's the vintner of this wine?" and reads the label

Chance hears Franzi and grins over "It is Master Will"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Hmmm, Will Galuptra... " He looks around then down to Chance "And where is he? I want to buy two or three bottles"

Franziskus Ninetails: "I still got stocks from Kalana Fjord, but it's.. hmmm... well, wine for... common people. This one looks... a bit more precious.. for my private use"

Chance looks to him "Master, I carry his pouch for putting coins in. He walked back to his house for a moment"

Franziskus Ninetails reads the price "Hmmm... 25 copper bits? That's... not expensive at all"

River places more bags of blackwine on display smiling to himself.

Chance looks at him intently "Master, it is very good wine!"

Franziskus Ninetails places a copper tarsk on the counter and grabs four bottles, looking around for his boy to hand them to him

River notices his master looking for him and quickly finishes filling more bags and runs to join him.

River: "Forgive me, my master, I was restocking"

Chance grins at River "Good sales today, brother?"

River: "Aye brother, sold all the tabor soft only two bags left"

River sees the master finish with josh and runs over to see if he can attract him to his stall.

Chance snickers.

River: "Samples! Free samples!" To Bearded: "Master try my master's samples?"

Chance waves to Rowan "Bazi for sale here, brother"

River: "The finest blackwine in tabor!"

Bearded of Tabor looks around trying to find some wines and hears chance.

River: "Free samples!"

Bearded of Tabor: "Bazi tea?"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Tal, Scribe"

Bearded of Tabor: "Tal Franzi.... It looks like you have a good market here today again"

River makes himself look busy, making sure that the store is tidy.

Bearded of Tabor spies some grapes.

Franziskus Ninetails smiles "Not mine, but..." - He looks over his shoulder with a warm smile at his slave, then turns his attentiong back to Bearded "... my boy seems to enjoy it"

Bearded of Tabor sighs realising the crate is empty.

Bearded of Tabor: "The boys do seem to enjoy the market... I am not sure if this is where chance gets some of his candies..."

Chance: "Master, I have beetles for sale!" perks up.

Franziskus Ninetails shouts over to Mike "VISIT US THE NEXT DAYS, MIKE. WE'D NEED SUGAR SOON!"

Mike shouts back: "Yes, master!"

Franziskus Ninetails mumbles "That slave seems to work too hard. He seems so tired"

River louder "SAMPLES! FREE SAMPLES OF THE FINEST BLACK WINE IN TABOR!" Chance: "Whose slave is he, master?"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Mike? He's Dragonlord's, I think"

River puts his lute on the ground and picks up his flute.

Bearded of Tabor buys some wine and some BAzi tea.

Josh in a distance: "How much is the blackwine, brother?"

River: "We have a special offer, brother"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Well, I have to see how my boy is doing... Excuse me!" ((talking of blackwine.. I need coffee....))

River points to the board "3.60 KT for a pack of 12 portions. Special offer for today"

River plays his flute softly .. losing himself in the music as he always does.

Josh sees sign about cacao powder and forgets blackwine.

River kicks a bag of tropical gold to josh seeing him looking at it with eager eyes, he winks as he plays.

Franziskus Ninetails rests a bit on the barrels on the cart, listening to his slave playing the lute and humming some melody to it.

Josh sees cacaobeans..."ermmm... brother... Food is so boring in desert. I think baker... if we had a baker, would love some cacaopowder". He thinks of cookies iliek the one he had a ilttle while ago.

Josh looks to cacaopower. "Master, may I be allowed to get some cacaopowder for Klima?"

River picks up his finger cymbles and then begins to dance to the sound.

Franziskus Ninetails smiles at the desert-boy "Do you have bosks in your oasis?"

Bearded of Tabor watches the boy dance in the corner.

Josh: "Aye, Master, we do. They aren't very happy but they are there"

Franziskus Ninetails nods "You can put some pouder into milk. Delicious!"

River moves his body to the sound of the bells, enticing the master's to watch him.

Josh: "Oh, yes. Sounds great Master! May I go ahead and get some now, to take back to desert?"

Franziskus Ninetails: "How much cacaopouder do we have left mine?", he asks his dancing boy, trying to catch his attention

Josh as he finds the sample River kicked to him: "Oh, thank you, brother. I didn't see you handing me that"

River smiles.

Josh: "I'm a little dazed from all the business"

River wriggles his cute behind as he dances ... his lips moisted by his tongue.

Josh looks to River: "Brother, was that the 3 copper bag?"

Franziskus Ninetails as his slave doesn't answer him, slaps his butt as he walks by to take a look himself.

River eeps.

Josh: "Rrrivvvveeerrrrr!"

River: "Aye, brother"

Josh: "thanks, brother"

River: "But that was a free sample for you"

Josh: "Oh, I was going to pay from klima sales, brother"

River: "For three coins you get a bag of ten portions"

River: "Oh no, brother.. that was for your master"

Franziskus Ninetails frowns as he opens the empty crate, looks to Josh with a sad face "Sorry, it seems it's all sold out"

Josh: "Oh, thank you, brother." He looks to see if he has something for River's Master too...

Josh whispers to River: "Does your Master like cherry candy, River?"

River: "Brother, if your master wishes to place an order, I can get it to you for tomorrow."

Josh: "I wish I knew where to find my Master to ask him!"

Josh hands his supply of cherry candy to River for his Master and for River too, thanking them for great day."

River looks to his master.

Franziskus Ninetails frowns as he sees Josh handing the cherry candies he just gave him a while ago now offers to River. "You don't like cherry candies, boy?"

Josh: "Oh no!". He blushes deeply. "I thought it was some I had from before"

River: "Oh, thank you, brother", he says accepting the candy, "I will share with my brother if I might"

Josh smacks red: "Master, I love the candy, thats why it was such a good gift to give to thank you for today... oh, well, I will find something somehow to show appreciation"

Franziskus Ninetails grins "Endy made a lot of them. He made it all himself!", smiling proudly.

River stops dancing and kneels before his master.

Franziskus Ninetails: "Maybe we should make more and sell them to the baker?", looks over his shoulder to the baker's boy.

Josh: "Time to get back to desert now"

River's face flushed and his blood coursing through his veins with excitement.

Franziskus Ninetails: "Before the cherries we brought from Kalana get bad"

River: "Yes, my master. I went serching for a bee hive so we could have some honey, master, but I couldnt find one."

Josh packs up cart and empty sacks, and also cacao powder

Franziskus Ninetails nods to Josh "Safe paths. It's a long way you have back, Josh"

Josh: "Safe paths, Master"

River: "Safe paths, brother, it was good to see you again"

Josh: "Aye, but I can stop along the way too"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Tell your Master, I'm always buying salt, when the price is good"

Josh: "Good to see you too, River, hope to see you soon. Safe paths, Masters. Be well, brothers"

River: "Should I load the wagon, my master?" He begins to gather up his master's goods and puts them on the wagon along with his master's purchases for the day.

Franziskus Ninetails: "Well, it's getting dark, my lil sunshine. Time to get back home"

Franziskus Ninetails smiles at Will "Ah, Tal, Will. Didn't see you. I bought some bottles of your wine. Looking forward to taste it. I see you are tasting the chocolate cookies. They are fine, but I think they will be even better with our newest cacao breed 'Tropical gold'!"

Will nods to Chance "Yes, see to it, boy." Then looks to Franzi and smiles to the man: "Greetings, Franzi! Thank you! I did get some of your blackwine and cocoa as well, I am hoping mine will learn to cook with the cocoa"

Franziskus Ninetails: "I hope the baker comes to order some"

Franziskus Ninetails smiles "If nothing else helps... chocolate milk is easy to make"

Will glances at the baker's boy, "I haven't met this new baker, but surely he will have need"

Will chuckles looking to River, "That one suggested that as well... I favor the wine more than the sweets in my drink, but some cookies around the house would be welcome"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Did you ever try to brew paga and sul-paga besides making wine, Will? I shortly talked to Daneil who grows the grains and suls, but he didn't know a brewer... I had brought stome stocks from the north where I lived, but mysteriously it was all sold out at night"

Will looks thoughtful and shakes his head, "No, I keep mine busy enough as it is I think... but I may lend Daneil the use of one to get the process started... I don't know if our brewer has been tending her shop or not lately", glancing to Chance with a raised brow.

Franziskus Ninetails nods "Well, if you hear of a brewer, let me know, please"

Will nods to him, "I will... perhaps we might go and see the matter with these others or see what is developing with it"

Chance pulls the wagon to the stall and begins to carefull load the bottles, stuffing hay between them to prevent breakage.

Franziskus Ninetails: "Well, it's getting dark. We should take our way back. Be well and safe paths, Will"

Will smiles warmly, "Safe paths to you and yours Franzi"

Chance: "Safe paths, master!"

Franziskus Ninetails nods to Chance with a smile and secretely tosses him a a cherry candy on his the wagon as he passes by.

River "Safe paths, master", he river says softly, and hurries after his master, pulling the wagon behind him.

Chance grins and snatches the candy up "Thank you!"

Franziskus Ninetails helps his boy lifting the whole cart into the boat, then tosses some copper bits to the ferryman to bring them quickly over to the tropics.

River: "Thank you, my master. We had a good day, my master"

[Taking the ferry back to the tropics]

Too busy to breath

Okay, it's been a while since I wrote here and it will take another while until I got time again. It all started with selling a house... and then offering help adjusting it... and then making suggestions about the SIM-design... and one thing let to another.. soooooo.... I'm building a Gorean SIM. And building lots, lots, lots of new houses for it. *ooomph* This up there was the last one I'm working on. Will sell them laters, single and as set. But that will be more work then.. *sighs*

Sooooo, I'm neglecting everything at the moment - my boys, friends, fun, RL.... On the one side I love building and at least a part of Tidra (the temple-ruins) are coming back to life, on the other side I wished the progress would be faster.

Well, at least I found out this (new?) function in the phoenix viewer. Never recognized it before (not sure if it was there before!?). It's so cool and saves me hours and hours of work. But I will talk about this later (so... in about 3-4 months *meh*).

And I found that new texture-organizer which is just awesome!!! Everything I missed in the freebie-organizers. Sondra, the SIM-owner, gifted it to me and I bounced happily for about an hour as I figured out all it's functions. Not alone that it is loading textures into the content much easier and faster then the freebies, it can also show sculpties (and give you the prim) out of sculpt-maps, you can search by name (another thing I miss in the freebies, as I have for instance "doors" some under "metal", others under "wood" etc), it finds and deletes duplicates, you can move textures within the organizer from one category to another, you can set permissions who can use it, you can pack textures from a category and copy it as folder into your inventory, and... and... and... When I (ever) am done with the SIM, this will help me a lots to organize (and reduce) my inventory. *Yay!*

Okies! Back to work! Just wanted to say hi!

Mehz likez....

... my new logo
(mainly made by my boy River and of course - for the picture of the original seal - by my boy Mick):

... and my new (first) shop (totally made by mehz):

House Spencer

Okay, "House Spencer" is finished also. I'm not sure, if many people would buy a house with basement, but as it is ready anyways... So, here it is:

House Finn

And another house is ready! - Now this was kinda funny. I mentioned our friends Finn & Spencer before (check them out if you need customized poses or portraits... or both). Now they moved to Gor (Tabor Fields) and bought the merchant house from me. But Tabor Fields is southern style whereas the merchant house is northern/viking style. Sooooo they asked me for a retexturing to match the other buildings (*clears his throat at this point and bites his tongue*) on that SIM. And out came "House Spencer" (will follow later).

Chance - one of the owners of Tabor - liked it so much, that he bought it (the prototype of "House Spencer") and a no-basement version too. So here is: HOUSE FINN.

The more I worked on it, the more I liked it. Furnished and with some paintings on the wall it looks lovely inside too. I'm going to build some other variations of it (as well as of the Northern type), including a stable. So lots to do!

Oh, and it's really time for an inworld shop soon! Working on that also....

Busy business

We hadn't used our earth-parcel much in the last months except for the building-plattform. Somehow the house felt too big and I couldn't get into the mood to furnish and decorate it. Now things changed! We got a smaller main house, Juz & Joshie got a tiki over the waves, and Endy finally moved in with us with his own house, all matching together (same creator: Bee Caudron, who really does a good work in tiki-/beach-houses).

So now the main house is furnished and decorated, and I also changed the garden behind the house.... And now we all like it so much that we don't want to leave (for our Gorean house) at all!

Here are just some quick snapshots:

Talking of Gorean houses: The Merchant house without basement is ready and on marketplace! Though marketplace sucks a bit... only because of the word "Gorean" in the description, it automatically sets it to "mature" content. Strange, strange, strange!

Well, planning on my own lil shop anyways, so that potential customers can rezz the builds on a platform to take a look at it. Not that I would have to sell yet soooo much (silly me is always giving his stuff away for FREE! dang!)

The Merchant's House

Sold some stuff on marketplace this week and didn't hear any complains (yet), so I think it's doing well. --- Soooooo... many people said how much they like our house in Kalana Fjord and were they could buy it too; they were quite surprised, as I told them, I built it myself. Now I made a version of it for friends of mine and as I was about that I thought "Well, why not sell it on marketplace". So here it is:

 

P.S.: Will add another version without the basement soon!

P.P.S:: Price is atm down to 999 L$

P.P.P.S.: Marketplace continues to categorize it as "Moderate" instead of "General". When I want to change it, it says "Successfully updated, but the text in the keywords field forced a change in the maturity level". That's strange, as the keywords are: "Gor, Gorean, Keller, cellar, basement, medieval, Torvaldsland, Torvie, Viking, house, merchant, home," - Now WTF in these words justifies a change in the maturity level???

basement sales

Finally got all the items I had on XStreet back on marketplace. Today I finished boxing the basement which was ready long ago. Sometimes I wonder if it's really worth the effort to put that all on marketplace, cause it costs more time to advertize it then to build it! :-) *hehe* (Well, not really, but sometimes it feels like that!)