The SLife of Claud

December 9, 2008 at 4:29 am · Filed under Stories, The Slife of Claud and tagged: Claudius Fouroux, Newbie, Second Life, Stories, The Slife of Claud

Second life for me was a chance, an email I would have normally ignored from a friend who worked at Intel regarding their new sim launch coupled with the fact that I was recovering from a horrible accident at that time. The people who are part of my second life have definitely been an influence in the past one year.

A little more than a year has passed since I started my Second Life. The highlights and lowlights can be best described as mundane. I have touched upon most things which an average user does, apart from getting into a full blown relationship/partnership, creating something worthwhile or contributing to the community at large. Let me share the journey in phases.

The Newbie Phase (My first 3 months)

This has been by far the most interesting phase in my second life.  Unlike most, I was lucky enough from the beginning. Someone (a cute pervert from the Queen’s land) introduced me to all the basics, most of which would have taken a newbie a lot more time to learn than I did. He taught me the skills of photography and using the camera features although he was more interested in using the same skill for ‘looking up skirts’ as he so eloquently put. A month down the steep learning curve, I was skin shopping, discovering the world of making myself look better, and I chanced upon a girl who was the prettiest one I had met. She was standing in front of Naughty Designs with her ex husband and another friend of theirs whom I later discovered was famous for his bearded potbelly avatar with a unique sense of style and a penchant for impromptu dances in the middle of streets.

Berta and Cat, the girl and the ex – hubby were kind enough to give me pointers on how to fix my yeti like beefed up avatar and why having muscles in SL wasn’t the ‘cool’ thing.  She took me shopping to quite a few stores and through her, I met a lot of the so called fashionistas of SL.

The remaining part of the newbie phase involved networking, creating a flickr website, adding people I thought were the “happening” peeps along with sending random IMs to anyone whom I took fancy to, not withstanding that they were “famous” and busy as I’ve now discovered. The social scene in SL, particularly that of fashion caught my attention having discovered that a nobody in real fashion like me could very well make an impression at least in second life. I started attending parties, joining/getting invited to exclusive fashion groups, meeting more people, improving my PS skills, dating the best of SL, the works. The modus operandi was simple. Mingle with the best, be part of the “happening” crowd. I was a man with a plan. Enter Phase two. (to be continued…)

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