I wrote this while sitting at home in the middle of the first blizzard of the season. Which probably explains why there is so much snow and ice in this story.
It’s a follow-up to my story “Jetpack.”
I’m not sure where it’s all going, but I have some ideas. If people like it, I’ll keep writing more.
Be warned. There’s no real ending to this one.
Just a beginning.
This past Sunday we made two excursions to a very special Christmas Festival on FrancoGrid.
The creative force behind the festival was Nani Ferguson, who also created the amazing Pandora region we visited in a previous tour.
This festival features a beautiful Christmas Village, free winter clothes, skiiing, ice skating, and a challenging Christmas Hunt full of freebies.
The festival will be open until Jan 19th, so be sure to check it out before it closes!
There are 3 full regions to explore (Winter, Pole Nord, and Noel), including a hidden underground chocolate maze full of surprises.
Read on for many photos and a full transcript of our discussions.
The map on the left is my first attempt to summarize all the different grids and regions we’ve visited with the Hypergrid Adventurers Club. It also shows the hypergrid routes we’ve taken in the course of our exploration.
I deliberately did not include things like coordinates and hypergrid addresses, since I wanted this map to be an overview and more of a conceptual outline.
We’ve been pretty busy, yes?
And there’s still so much more for us to explore.
Read on for help making your own maps, and learn about an exciting new project called HyperBase42.
For today’s meeting, we explored the region CERN on New World Grid.
In real life, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions.
The region CERN on New World Grid features detailed recreations of real life architecture at CERN as well self-guided tours of models of particle accelerators.
Read on for a full transcript and many photos of our adventure.
Today we took two tours of Vanish Seriath’s standalone grid “The Grey Inn Between.”
The Grey Inn was inspired by a story of “The Sandman” by Neil Gaiman, and it’s a magical place full of many beautiful creations. Vanish gives his work away freely on The Grey Inn, and his blog has many helpful tutorials and downloadable free content for use in Opensim.
Read on for many photos and a full transcript of our discussions!
In today’s two meetings we explored a recreation of the 1939 New York World’s Fair on ReactionGrid, featuring the iconic Trylon and Perisphere.
We also took a trip to LexGrey Barbosa’s new region on FrancoGrid, which he hosts from an OpenSim server in his home.
Read on for a full transcript and many photos.
In today’s two meetings we explored Metropolis Metaversum for the first time.
We met some of the citizens of Metropolis, visited a beautiful train station, looked at classic German architecture, and found some nice freebies along the way. We also learned that Nani Ferguson from FrancoGrid is creating a special scavenger hunt event for Christmas. Read on for a full transcript and many photos.
In today’s 2 meetings we spoke French with Babbler, met up with folks from FrancoGrid attending a Virtual Worlds Camp on ReactionGrid, revisited an accurate reconstruction of the Eiffel Tower based on real life architectural plans, and found many freebies at the “Ile aux Freebies.”
Read on for a full transcript and photos.
Today we took a Hypergrid jump tour from jokaydiaGRID to FrancoGrid.
We visited an accurately scaled reconstruction of the Eiffel Tower based on real life architectural plans, an avant-garde art installation, and a recreation of the world of Pandora from the movie Avatar.
Read on for a full transcript and lots of photos of our excursion. Many beautiful sights were seen on this adventure!
“Can we really go anywhere?”
“You name it. If it’s down here.”
Read on to learn how you can easily find the Hypergrid Address of any region on ReactionGrid’s public grid, and how you can share your own list if you have one.
Be Cunning and Full of Tricks 