A journey from Flickr to a blog post about Sanctuary CCS Dark Role Play Comminity’s Exhibit at SL11B aided me on a voyage of discovery at SL11B thanks to Bambi Chicque of BamPu Legacies of SecondLife.
This is an exhibit from a roleplaying community, an adult roleplaying community at that but they prove that it’s perfectly feasible to advertise on General rated sim because the content on display, the notecards, the information is all general rated.
There’s a rather nifty story too that explains the background to the roleplay. I’m a fan of roleplaying in Second Life and one of the reasons for that is that roleplaying in Second Life can be quite open ended, but that is seen by others as an annoyance. The team behind Sanctuary explain this :
Roleplay in SL is different from video games because there is NO concept of winning or losing. The goal of roleplay is to tell a story, and whether your character is the winner or loser can be equally fun. Your character in CCS is not you, but a separate person you have created within the roleplay world. Keeping this in mind can help separate yourself from your character, and help you keep having fun even when bad things are happening to your character. That’s what dark RP is all about.
Maybe one day virtual worlds will have roleplay that is guided by the creators in a more tightly knit fashion, but for now this works for Second Life and plenty of people enjoy it.
Sanctuary is not a new venture, they recently celebrated their fourth birthday and they have an impressive website to boot.
The build at SL11B is quite eye catching, well it was for me but then again I like this sort of fantasy scenery. The thing with roleplay in Second Life is that it’s not always going to suit your tastes, even if on the outside it looks like your sort of thing, tread carefully. However the other side of this coin is that there is plenty of roleplay in Second Life, so you can take your time finding that right place.
The Sanctuary team are certainly informative and aren’t shy to point out that they are on an adult sim, so adult themes may appear. This is a far better approach than letting people find that out later.
Obviously because I’m a fan of roleplay I’m somewhat biased, but this is a nice exhibit and worth a peek, that’s for sure.
SLURL to Exhibit : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL11B%20Wonderous/76/146/22