( continues...) friends just outside the hustle and bustle of the Hyde Park Hub. While we swam around the park and chatted I began to feel more at ease. Perhaps I had become needlessly. Alpaca One seemed to be accepting me as one of his own and soon after a long day of gaming and swimming he invited me back to his house for tea. Very British this Alpaca (or at least trying to be). This is when I discovered he was living in Knightsbridge itself! Renting a lovely townhouse and of course I had to see how he was getting along. And see enjoy tea.

(photo of Alpaca One in his lounge about to serve tea - [link]

I was able to catch the last of the light and get a very artistic shot (if I say so myself) of Alpaca in Repose. The tea was lovely and we chatted about this and that. A few times I was worried Alpaca One had sniffed out my true purpose as I tended to be a bit vague with some of my answers (advice for those going undercover, make sure your back story is easy to remember).

Then the break I was hoping for! Alpaca One told me about a gathering the alpacas and "friends" he said were having in a few days time and would I like to come and meet others? Well of course I would like to go! Realizing my answer was a bit over eager I hurriedly explained I'd been lonely and without other alpacas to hang out with and hoping to for an introduction to the alpaca London social scene. Alpaca One claimed not to know the exact day or time "these things tend to be spontaneous" he claimed but he promised to contact me with full details. Then invited me for another round of Whack a Mole and perhaps a few games of bowling. Again I accepted these offers of friendship trying to cement my character as that of a new alpaca in town looking for friends.

Dear readers, I realize I have not yet discovered what the influx of alpacas means to London but I know I'm getting close. This "spontaneous" gathering is the key, I just know it and once it happens I will have a full report and photographic evidence! Stay tuned for updates on this breaking story.

Note this story is for entertainment purposes only. No alpacas were hurt during the course of this project. Alpacas are our friends.

I was supposed to stay around 300 words but kind of blew that away and I'm working on the second and third parts which will be shorter.

The idea was also to show areas of the sim that don't get used as much. All the pictures I edited with picmonkey (because I don't have photoshop and GIMP confuses me) except the Alpaca on the couch that was taken in Second Life using the in world lighting settings to manipulate the color.

Good on you for flexing your writing muscles, askye! Sounds fun!

This was fun, askye!

Alpacas. Wow. I dind't realize you could look like ANYTHING in Second Life.

I have to stay far away from that game. Else I will never come out again.

IKR? But it was a fun read, askye.

yeah you can look like anything! One regular in the London sims is usually a spacecraft of some kind. He's been the Enterprise lately. Another is usually a black cat (four legged kind) or a gecko. He says he gets a lot of attention as a cat.

In the Bingo re enactment picture that's the back of my avatar's head with the mohawk.

grits teeth

I will not sign up for Second Life as a cat. No.

To get a decent cat avatar you haev to spend RL money.

Is that enough to keep you away from Second Life?

Is it bad that I first read that as cadaver?

Is that enough to keep you away from Second Life?

Yep. I don't even want to spend money in THIS life.

On a tulip field safari, surprised by snow geese, account here.