Terpsichore Tuesday launches!

A grand time was had by all on Tuesday evening in Kingdom Park, as Radio Riel launched their new weekly series Terpsichore Tuesday live from the City of Enoch sim. Gabrielle Riel hosted the debut herself, and marked her third rez-day as well. About 60 attended during the 90-minute show and dance.

Radio Riel is a streaming music/program service in Second Life (and available on the Internet) with a public radio feel about it. Their playlist is vast and eclectic. It was launched in July 2007 in Caledon, and their following has spread.

Terpsichore Tuesday will run every Tuesday night from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Pacific time (SLT). The program will explore the wide variety of danceable music across time and space. Future installments will be presented by a rotation of staff presenters, and the City of Enoch is pleased to play host to the broadcasts and a weekly dance on the park grounds.

To receive Radio Riel in Second Life, set your parcel media stream to http://music.radioriel.org for the main stream 24/7. Terpsichore Tuesday will broadcast on the event stream, http://music2.radioriel.org.

To visit Kingdom Park for the dances at each live broadcast, the SLURL is http://slurl.com/secondlife/City%20of%20Enoch/68/172/26.

Come play with us!

We have several opportunities to play together coming up soon outside our beloved TE. If you have any questions, just ask!

Crarting Competition: Crarting is a team game where teams of three create a piece of art — or something — one prim at a time, each player adding a prim in rotation. Contest runs now through Monday at the north end of Western Avenue. Contact the Poets of Zarahemla (Ingeborg Apfelbaum, Mathoni Zuhrah, or Seth Troell) for more information.

En Garde Tournament: Val hosts another Premier Series event for the United En Garde group from 1 pm to about 4 pm on Saturday the 21st. The tourney is single-elimination, random pairings, open to all. Between 20 and 25 players are expected, including several of the world’s best. Entry is L$50; the prize fund is normally at least L$2500.

Neo-Realms Team Fishing League: Either the State, the Kingdom, or Val’s Recreation will be a sponsor of the third season of the Neo-Realms Team Fishing League. The sponsorship includes entry of two teams into the league. Val is expected to fish with Ingeborg Apfelbaum for one team; the other team is open. Team members need to be able to fish together three times a week for 30 minutes each time, but have a lot of freedom in picking times that work for them. The league supplies a special rod used only for league play and practice. Contact Val if you are interested.

Get Your Horses Ready: Val will be reopening her equestrian jumping course soon, probably a couple of hundred meters above the sky castle in another aerial arena.

In other news — Congratulations to Celestial ChristianMormon Kidd, Wisconsin Badger Rickroll Tungsten, Wild Blue Princess Fopper Iwish, and Master Builder Bart Baramm! If you want a title and you are a Baron or higher, let Her Majesty know what you want. Giviing out titles helps the kingdom to grow, as each new title comes with a five-acre grant of land.

Updates for titles and TE3K

Two new titles have been granted in the last couple of days: Little Prince Michalius Oppewall and Tru2HerOathsPrincess Arizona Noel. Those have been updated on the Our Team page, together with a couple of adds to the waiting list.

There is also an update on the TE3K page, as I start to organise my thoughts on colonies — a new feature that replaces the citizen stat in Federation TE.

Finally, I’ll get some more out on this later on but the POZ team are putting together another Crarting contest in the northwest corner of the City of Enoch sim. Crarting is a sculpture-building contest where three-member teams take turns in strict rotation adding one standard prim at a time (possibly including scripts and texturing) to a team sculpture. It’s a lot of fun and it will run next Friday to Monday, 20-23 March.

Nice party, long busy day

It was a very good day. Thank you to all who came out for any piece of our anniversary celebration, and to all who hosted.

We got off to a rough start. Val slept too long and the start of her fishing tourney was delayed, but nine fishers and a couple of hangers-on were there. SL had a rolling restart in the morning, and both Val and Kelly Chronowire among others got locked out with login issues, blowing up the concert in the park.

But the rest of the events went great. The POZ team had about 10 at the poetry reading (and game!), Myfi’s hosted a half dozen for Combat Cards, Val had a like number for Acrophilia, and at least 15 or so descended upon Barbara’s and Pear’s for a beach party, arcade games, and fireworks.

Four new titles were confirmed: Genealogist Princess Clarise Beaumont, Poet Princess Ingeborg Apfelbaum, Friend to All Di Lowenhart, and Sheriff Bun-Bun Zarahemla Jewell.

And a good time was had by all . . .

Titles and trivia

Three new titles have been granted: Royal Doughnut Maker Myfi Lundquist, Green Jello Princess Andromeda Luminos, and Long Cool Woman Kelly Chronowire.

Some time this evening I will be sending out an AoA Second Anniversary Trivia Quiz as part of the celebration. Everyone gets a little over 24 hours to answer the questions and return the notecard to me. Deadline is 8 pm SLT tomorrow evening. I will announce winners some time after 8:30 during the closing beach party and fireworks. There will be two prizes, one for persons who rezzed their first av less than a year ago and the other for those at least one year old.

Incidentally, that event has now sprawled across the entire east end of Bountiful Terrace with both Barbara Collazo and Pear Dumpling hosting. The fireworks will be visible from almost anyplace on the sim, and probably beyond.

Progressive party proposal

A group of us were chatting in the middle of the night as we were terrorforming Pear Dumpling’s place and getting new residents Clowey Greenwood and Barbara Collazo settled. In the course of it all Barbara hit on exactly the theme for Tuesday’s event — a progressive party, modeled after RL progressive dinners. Have different hosts set up different stuff at different sites and scheduled times through the day. Join when you want, leave when you want, come back when you want.

I propose the following schedule. Note that many slots are open; volunteers are sought. I would like to see us try something every two hours, but NOT two-hour long events! Use your imaginations.

• 4:30 am – Neo-Realms fishing tournament, part of the official tour. It’s beginner mode event rod, so you can use any rod you want and no bait and have an even shot. No fee, L$600 in prizes plus standard NR rewards and trophies. Val’s Fishing Camp, host Valentine Janus.
• 6:30 am – Impromptu concert. Gather round the bell tower as Kelly Chronowire premieres an original anthem on the carillon and plays other favourites. Bring your own playable music instruments if you have them for informal sharing and jamming afterward. Kingdom Park, no host.
• 8:30 am -
• 10:30 am -
• 12:30 pm – Poetry reading and workshop. Poets of Zarahemla Reading Room (#1 1/2 Pioneer Parkway), host Ingeborg Apfelbaum.
• 2:30 pm – Combat Cards teaching session and tournament using free demo decks. No fee, top finishers get free cards toward building your own decks. Myfi’s (#2 Pioneer Parkway), host Myfi Lundquist.
• 4:30 pm -
• 6:30 pm – Acrophilia party game, come learn to play. Have fun creating acronyms based on generated letters: LDS might become Lucky Danish Singers or Large Doughnuts Served, for example. Very social, usually lots of laughs. Bring L$40 to L$100; money circulates every round with every player who enters each round getting something (or a lot) back. Kingdom Park, host Valentine Janus.
• 8:30 pm – Beach party and fireworks! At the big treehouse between Bountiful Terrace and Kirtland Road, host Barbara Collazo.

If a DJ wants to pick up a block for a dance at the park feel free; contact Val to discuss terms. I will work with hosts to move things around for a dance Also, I’d like to see one of our Procyon Games aficionados host a Frootcake or Can’t Stop (or both) session at the game room. I can do it but help would be great.

Except for the fishing tournament all times are flexible for the next day or two while we line things up. Thanks once more for all you do for the community!

(NOTE: Updated on Saturday morning 7 March 2009.)

Event planning — and you can help!

If the sims of New Deseret are going to prosper, one important thing we will need is more events on the calendar. Thank you to those who voted in my mini-poll a couple of weeks back.

I would like to see at least one scheduled event on the sims every day except Sunday. It’s an ambitious goal, but in my view a very desirable one. And when I say event that includes all kinds of events. Dances, concerts, classes, tournaments, both regular and one-off.

It’s also a goal I will not accomplish alone. This is where the “you can help” of the title comes in.

I want to establish a pool of people who can host events. Weekly hosts are nice, but one-off and substitute hosts are wonderful too. Specific needs include, in a rough order of priority:

• DJs for a variety of music formats.
• Hosts for the party games at Angell Park, Acrophilia and/or Take It Easy. (I will train you.)
• Teachers for Second Life skills. Basic building classes in particular are always in demand.
• Presenters or organisers for diverse topics both RL and SL, including Church-related topics.
• Experienced players of two- and multi-player games on the sims to show newcomers how to play.
• Fishing hosts for Neo-Realms and/or 7Seas local events. (I will train you.)

Once I know who can help and what they might be willing to help with, it will be easier to get things hopping. As we have more opportunities to gather together, both kingdom and community will grow!

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Val

Events — kingdom, community, and otherwise

New Deseret has a lot of places to do cool things, and I’d like to organise some. Here’s a quick poll focusing on the many multi-player games installed on the City of Enoch sim. What would you like to do? I’ll be happy to teach people and set times to bring us together more often (and beyond TE for those of us who play TE!).

Choose as many as you like, and thanks in advance for voting!

Val

Santa trader has visited us

The annual Santa trader visited us for the first time in the early afternoon (SLT) on Christmas Eve. If last year is a guide, he could be back up to twice more before Christmas draws to a close. Keep your eyes open!

We are now a kingdom!

On Saturday, 13 December 2008, at 6:53 pm SLT, Valentine Janus ascended the throne as Queen of New Deseret.  A modest celebration took place at the group parcel in City of Enoch, in the shadow of the new campanile.  About 20 people were in attendance, including most of the princes and princesses of the new kingdom and visiting dignitaries from two other kingdoms.  A good time was had by all.