RFL 2011 – About The Track

Whereas Linden Lab won’t give me a press pass, other people rather foolishly will! Therefore I have had a sneak peek at the Relay For Life sims, with the opening ceremony tomorrow and Linden Lab advertising this worthy cause it’s a good time to take a look at the track and the events in general. Jezebel Bailey is currently writing a blog about the general info so we’ll see who blogs first!

Now the best place to start is the welcome centre and I say this because there is so much going on, to get there inworld follow this SLURL:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/RELAY%20FOR%20LIFE/97/136/22

I decided to take a look at the track, if you’re wondering what that is, here are the rules of the road:

*** The Track – Rules of the Road ***

The track is the circulatory system of our relay experience. It is both a means to get from cool place to cool place and the main focus of many relayer’s participation as they dedicate their time to walking laps and honoring those that survive and those they have lost.  Please remember these things as we ask for the following rules to be adhered to:

1)  The track is one way. Please follow the arrows as you make your way around the track.

2)  There are two lanes, please stay to the right if you are moving at a normal walk speed to allow faster traffic to pass on the left.

3) If you need to go AFK or stop to chat with someone along the way, please move off the track to avoid being run into.

4) No Vehicles.  This is to minimize the  phsyics effect on the regions and the frustration by walkers of being hit by a vehicle.

5) NO “pets” that are not worn attachments (dogs, cats, whatever that follow you or have random motion).

6)  HAVE FUN!!!

You may want to use some tools whilst on the track:

Then you may want to take note of the track station where you’ll see information about sponsors, getting started using the track etc.

Walking around the track I noticed some Goreans calling people over to say they had something for them to do … then I realised they were from the Goreans For Life Team who are participating in this event:

So without much further ado it was on to the track itself:

Now there will be times when you’re walking around the track, if you choose to participate, that the sims will get busy, they will get laggy and they will get full. Fortunately there are warning signs when you are walking around and come to a region crossing, with information on whether it’s safe to continue:

However it’s not just a track to walk around, there are builds on these sims and one that not at all surprisingly caught my attention was The October Alchemy Build, in particular the statue:

I’ll be taking more looks and posting more blogs about RFL and the events but I should point out how badly music has been ruined, there I was looking around when “Locomotion” came on and I found myself singing “Do The Shell Promotion” … hmm that was a good ad campaign but worse followed when Melanie’s “Brand New Key” came on and I found myself singing “I’ve got a brand new combine harvester“… The Wurzels have a lot to answer for!

Anyway, stay tuned for more RFL event information, possibly from Jezebel as I’m likely to get drunk and kill things in Dire Maul this evening!