After my very brief attempt to build something on Governor Linden’s island, I find the idea of building anything on my own in SL highly disturbing and impossible. I clicked on an advertising billboard that teleported me to Wabi’s Moon, where I will get to see beautiful, ready-built homes and environments (no building and hours of labour on the mouse, yeah!).
The house was nice, and the environment was cool too. But that wasn’t the highlight of my trip to Wabi’s (who’s actually Wabisabi Matahari and he / she was represented by a pretty hot-looking female avatar).
Other than scuba diving and whale-watching, I was pleasantly surprised to find a “Star Trek Museum of Culture” on the island, and I was equally amused with the sparring virtual Winyan Warriors.
At this point, my Second Life was interrupted by my other life, upon my return to the screen again I find myself in a totally different place where I was bumped into, and ran over by some sort of vehicle – a couple of times too.
Slightly confused and bewildered, I replied to Wabisabi IM only to find out that she booted me out. Apparently I was inactive and I wasn’t responding to her IMs hence, the booting, and she’s got no idea where she had booted me to. That wasn’t very cool, but she was quite apologetic about the boot, she may have suspected that I am a bot.
Since we’re already in conversation, I thought I could enquire about the affordability of a virtual home, which Wabisabi reveals that she sells her houses from L$4000 + a monthly L$7000, which works out to approximately S$ 560 for the first year, and S$ 540 for every year after. Are you willing to pay S$5,500 to own a virtual bungalow for 10 years? And the answer is nope, not for me for sure.
Perhaps to make up for the “boot”, Wabisabi also let me in on the availability of free homes in SL (naturally, the word “free” got me a little excited).
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