S(econd) L(ife) ash tray

There are many ways to attract customers in a mall and boost your turnover, for example you launch a contest and oblige people to buy your products if they want to participate.

SLASH is currently running such contest for the sexiest avatar.

In their mall you can see a large wall where contestants post their photos with Slash Outfits, there is even some photostudios in the place for free usage.

overview from outside
one of the photostudios

I first tried to enter the contest with an old pic that I took at Bear Infohub and that I love much, but it was removed one day after, which proves that they are checking the outfits.

my preferred
Therefore I had no choice but buy something in the mall to be able to participate.

I pitched on a bath suit not too expensive (some L250 if I remember correctly) and took a photo with my own photostudio.

used for the contest
obviously the best one
in the top 50

You are totally free not to vote for me.

Contest rules (excerpts)

SLASH! Contest instructions:

Voting:
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1. You can vote once a day
2. Vote for the nicest picture you see, do not vote for your friend, it is not a popularity contest but a beauty contest !
3. Voting for the nicest picture INCREASES your chance of winning the voter's prize. Voting for your friend decreases your chance !
4. Click on the picture you want to vote for.
5. Wait for a blue menu to appear, verify the text on the blue menu and click Yes if it is correct, No if it is not correct
6. Vote again if you clicked No in the previous step

Remarks:
* You are only allowed to add 1 photo to this contest
You will get this message if you try to enter a second photo to the contest. That is not allowed.
* This photo has already been added to this contest
Every picture has to be unique.

CONTEST RULES

These are non-negotiable rules of the contest, if you enter, it is on the strict understanding that you agree to them. We tried hard to make it as fair as possible for every HONEST contestant. We are sorry that we`ve been forced to tighten the contest rules in comparison with the 1st contest but it seems there is no other way to keep it fair for the majority of honest contestants and to avoid a popularity contest.

1. Contest Theme: Sexiest Avatar

1a. Voting system - Ben will give more detailed voting and technical information in a seperate message/notecard.

You can join the contest in the lobby of the SLASH! sim when it's opened. Many things will stay the same as the first contest, like voting via clicking on the pictures and the contest HUD etc.

In short, the voting system will be as follows:
- Every voter has one vote per day.
- Contestants can't vote for their own pictures.
- A panel of 8 judges will pick the 3 winners from the 50 contestants with highest number of votes.

1b. Prizes: 1st Place: L$50,000, 2nd Place: L$10,000, 3rd Place: L$10,000, Prize for the 2 VOTERS who match closest to the final winning girls win L$10,000 each! The panel of judges will choose a winner from last 100 joining the contest, to win L$10,000. Prizes in total: L$100.000.

2. Photos must show an Avatar wearing a Slash Outfit - NO face only shots please. The picture needs to show at least your face and torso. You can use the photostudios in the Lobby for free. Photoshopped backgrounds are ok, photoshopped avi's are not.

3. Any contestant found to be spamming, begging for votes from the SLASH! group/the people on the SLASH! sims, paying people to vote will be elimiated immediately with absolutely no discussion. The same for any other cheating to grab votes in a unfair way. This is a contest for the sexiest avatar - NOT a popularity contest!!

3a. Please respect the privacy and freedom of other users - using the group channel for any blabla, shouting around on the sim will exclude you from the contest. Nobody wants the chaos we had on some occasions in the 1st contest. Zero tolerance in this point and with any cheating behaviour! NO previous warnings, NO discussions! We will add a script soon that kicks EVERY writer in groupchannel automatically out.

4. Spending multiple hours at the contest wall will be eliminated by an automated script which will evict your avi after 2 hours.

5. The contest will end on midnight SL time on Friday 14th March. This will be followed by a prize-giving event on Sunday 16th March at 2pm SL time (11pm CET). If you are a winner and are unable to attend the prize-giving event for any reason whatsoever, your prize will move to the next person on the list and you LOSE your prize - absolutely no discussions about that too.

6. If successful in winning a prize, you will be required to be at the prize-giving event venue for rehearsals at least one hour before the event start.

7. You will be required to wear a SLASH! costume that we supply at the event and to be available for publicity photos.

8. Rules may change without further notice when unexpected things happens.

Contest Manager: Sudidi Surya
Technical Manager: Ben Turas
In charge for this contest: Dig Dollinger

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969)

Slave auction at House Nishi

BDSM is really something very strange to me.




Maybe because I am claustrophobic...?

Tonight there is a slave auction at House Nishi, good opportunity to have a look at the topic.

The Mistress Alyssia is waiting with her pet lidia.

I can see in Alyssia's profile: My pet, lidia. A pet for whom words cannot describe how special she is to me. Without her there is no reason for SL to exist.

And in the pet one: this pet is owned and collared by Mistress Alyssia xxx.

Clients are waiting, lying down cosily on soft lounge chairs.

The auction is starting with the first bids.

The slave is my friend Sine.

To make bids higher and higher, clothes have to be lesser and lesser.

And biddings are pushed up steadily.

Rising and rising...

The slave is reluctant to strip.

Good strikes on her thighs will do it.

Now you can easily see that Sine is completely naked.

Some tricks (on the tits) are necessary to help the assistance bidding higher.

Now the bidding is coming to an end.

Sold!!

Sine is submitting to her new Master.

Apparently she is happy...

Before leaving the place I decide to make some money.




I am not as claustrophobic as I thought.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US )

Maybe Abraham Lincoln was the instigator of BDSM, just a guess...

Inside the Maze of Eroticism

My friend Cindy is a great entrepreneur, always busy, she loves erecting amuzement resorts and shopping centers.

One day she told me she was creating a labyrinthe for lovers that would surprise more than a couple of bored men.

And you know how men can easily be bored...

And sometimes boring...

So after returning from my business trip in Switzerland, coming from this cold and rainy place conduced me to the idea of visiting a warmer space.

And here I am, gazing at the entrance of the Erotic Sculpture.

Approaching the threshold I can see some trace of moisture on the walls.

I am very well welcome and feel suddenly much better.

The door is narrow but the inner walls are soft and I can enter without difficulty.

Inside it is strange, many, many lips are kissing my feet.

A steamy breeze is exhaling from all these reddish mouths.

I am not alone...

As I do not want to disturb, I go to the next room.

I wanted a warm place, I am not deceived.

It is not warm, it is rather pretty hot here, and I feel drops of sweat running along my cheeks.

Balls are on the floor, maybe waiting for a kick?

Looks kinda stadium or football pitch.

Funny devices are scattered across the place.

I am curious and can't help trying one.

Not very comfortable indeed...

I guess the game is to catch the blue ball with the teeth, I will try another day.

Another appliance looks like a scanner.

Am I in a medical center?

Where is the doctor? I want a doctor!

At last something that takes me back to my childhood.

I always loved swings, they rock!

And I love rocking and rolling in the air.

I can even practise rings.









I didn't know I was so good at gymnastics.

I also play bowling on my knees.

There are no skittles, I assume that they have not yet arrived.

Perhaps a problem in the supply chain...?

I try to find more balls.

On all fours it's better to catch them.

Something is burning my ass.

This place is really hot and balls are stinging my hands.

I look back and I am startled, it is a wild fire that was cooking my butts.

Now I want the fireman, I don't think the doctor could help here.

Blue balls are lurking around me, I would like them to spit their water to freshen me up a little.

Again four-footed I keep on searching my blue balls.





The more I find, the greatest the score I guess.

The game can also be played in the air.

Levitation has always been a dream that comes now to reality.

Some pink balls are spread over the place to spice the match.

Now I am playing basket blue ball.

I can hear groaning every time the ball hits the floor.

Objets inanimés avez-vous donc une âme?

Tired of playing with these wailing balls I enter the next room.

How dreadful!

I see a mouse trotting on the floor!

A guttural scream escapes from my throat.

And now a spider creeping on the wall!

I can't bear these nasty bugs and I shriek with even greater intensity.

Well, when a mouse brushes my leg and a spider droops before my eyes, here is the result...

Finally I have called this place the screaming room.

But we can also find some tender moments with the invisible (wo?)man.

Sometimes I expect the ball to transform in something I could use in some way.

This pink ball is very tempting, but I am still waiting when I write these lines.

Next time I will come with my own balls, already transformed.

My lunch is still in my stomach, my belly is aching, I should drink an Aqua Seltzer.

When I exit the site to go to the drugstore, I can better see where I was.

It is a House of Worship.

There are columns and statues of Goddesses of Love.

Some nooks are difficult to describe.

You'd better come and see with your own eyes.

A sort of huge worm try to swallow me on my way out.

Yuk-yuk!

Second yuk-yuk in this blog, find the other one.

Before leaving definitely the place I admire the big streetlights hanging from the ceiling.

As it is daytime I cannot see them illuminating the lieu.

I recommend you this location where you can have some fun with your best friends.

The owner of the place is Chill3 Mills.

The creator of the decor and costumes is Talena Giha.

Good job Talena, one day I will have to pay you a visit at your shop in Digital Zion.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha, Indian philosopher & religious leader (563 BC-483 BC)

Nightmare in the cave of the naughty worms

On Wednesday night I have been trying to upload the images for two hours, nothing...grrrrr...

I am in Poland on business trip on Thursday and Friday, I will try again this weekend.

Blogger is painful now, but it seems that SL is not in better shape...

OK, I go to bed, nothing more to do now.

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Now it's Saturday morning 00:19 AM, I have just arrived from my trip with more than three hours of delay because I missed the transfer in Munchen...

I want to see if I can upload my images, phew, it works!

I have finished to upload the 14 picks at 1:49AM.

Anne, I hope you enjoyed the text without the images, now try the images without the text and next time you blend the whole stuff.

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Last night I had a dream.

Well, a dream...

After my adventures in the castle of Elven Valley with my friend San (another day I will tell you) I thought I was finished with the funny side of Second Life, but you know what, we can never be finished with the funny side of Second Life...

I directly jumped from the dark place where I was wandering around to the mouth (can we name that a mouth...?) of something that I would call a worm, but of course you are free to call it the name you fancy, a mollusk, a termite, a republican senator, whatever you want, anyway it was an inhospitable host who didn't send me any invitation to any party.

As I seemed to be content with my situation (maybe winces of pain are comprehended here as great satisfaction...) my introductory greeter sent me to a friend he had in this place.

Since I was still enjoying the moment with my harrowing attitude, I was handed over to another strange bug hanging down from the ceiling.

Another animal (did I say animal...?) put on my face sort of oxygen mask, I was perhaps dreaming in a plane that was crashing down to earth...

I think that one creature had mercy upon me and tried to feed me with its tentacle.

Yuk-yuk!

Not my cup of tea.

Another one attempted to do with me things that the moral virtue usually condemns.

But I must admit that for a brief second my discomfort was alleviated.

A (too) short while further I was aspirated in a kind of slimy spring that obviously wanted to show me its pleasant profoundness.

I also experimented the washing machine of the locality.

Some fresh water all over the face is really invigorating.

The oven was quite inadvisable and I didn't really appreciate the visit.

Hopefully, Alysa came to my rescue, like the cavalry, with her weird but efficient weapons.

The beasts were defeated and they disbanded.

Poor Alysa! She didn't know she had entered a den.

We both actually realized when we were outside.

And we finished the journey shooting the breeze in the mall of my friend Chill3, where you can live the same enthralling experience in the Breeding Lab.

Alysa: i'm going to kill you

You: lol

You: you don't like the mazes?

Alysa: noooooo

You: /kiss alysa

!MultiTool-Hello-v5 - Hug/kiss/goto/etc (right forearm): You have offered to kiss Alysa.

Alysa: i dont like confined spaces

!MultiTool-Hello-v5 - Hug/kiss/goto/etc (right forearm): Alysa has declined your kiss.

You: come here in my arms

You: /kiss alysa

!MultiTool-Hello-v5 - Hug/kiss/goto/etc (right forearm): You have offered to kiss Alysa.

Sofian gives Alysa a big kiss.

You: feel better?

Alysa: no

You: you don't like this kind of place?

You: are you still alive?

Alysa: no its weird

Alysa: lol

Alysa: sry checkin my food

etc.

That's all folks.

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.
Tori Amos, (American Singer)