Kidnapped By Elves

The Elven Isle Of Telrunya

So there I was, wandering around Second Life, minding my own business when an Elf leaped out of the bushes and ordered me to stop. I decided to do what I always do when I encounter Elves, never trust them! Unfortunately this Elf was far more cunning than I expected.

He invited me to a party, fed me copious amounts of food and a strange liquid. Initially everything was fine, I felt rather merry and many more Elves arrived. We danced, they sang, I forgot my suspicions and then awoke, my memory mysteriously erased.

Where am I?” I pondered.

Azeroth, land of people with yellow exclamation marks above their head“, came the reply, from someone who identified as a Rogue.

Noooooo” I cried, “This can’t be happening, how will I ever get home?

Hearthstone?” suggested the Rogue. Unfortunately that just returned me to a strange location with lots of odd looking characters.

Still waiting!!!

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Visiting The Elven Isle Of Telrunya

The Elven Isle Of Telrunya

This was a risky visit, to say the least. Dwarfins are not usually too friendly with Elven folk but I had been reassured by the good folk behind the Second Life destination guide that I would be granted safe passage for my visit.

Palace

Everyone is welcome I was told, but when you’ve been brought up to never trust elves then you still step forth with some trepidation. However I can report that my visit was a safe and peaceful one, which is why I’m able to relay the tale of my visit to you.

Boat

The Elven Isle Of Telrunya is, I must admit, picturesque. Elves have this thing about water and boats which I’ve never quite come to terms with but they do make for a tranquil way to visit a location.

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Elf Clan Ship Sails To Inworldz

ElvenMyst, the sim owned by Elf Clan will be closing on November 23rd as the clan head to Inworldz full time, the full story is detailed here. There are a few points to note, first of all not all Elves are leaving Second Life, indeed my chief Elf has just poked me telling me I need to update the covenant on a sim. Secondly not all of Elf Clan are Elves!

The blog post by Wafinder Wishbringer is a harsh one, a tale of frustration, woe and cold harsh realities about running costs, Inworldz is cheaper, a lot cheaper and for some people it may seem like the better option, for me I still think Linden Lab are heading in the right direction under Rodvik but I have been to Inworldz where Lady Sakai tries to get me to rent land, one of the reasons I haven’t so far is because I’m at my limit with how much Im prepared to invest financially as well as time wise, days aren’t long enough but one day I will rent a plot from Lady Sakai, if she lets me! I’m sure we can come to some sort of arrangement. I’m a fan of virtual worlds so the more the merrier is fine by me.

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Elf Clan Say Yes!

Elves! Bloody Elves, they’re not quite as bad as Hobbits, Hobbits are devious little buggers but Elves refuse to come over to the darkside of Elfdom and embrace Drowism. However, in my last post I discussed the issues surrounding Elf Clan in Second Life and suggested that if I were them, I’d accept the offer being made by Linden Lab.

Then I surveyed the sky, decided it might rain and put my coat on for the journey to Villa Park. Whilst there I witnessed an absolutely awful game of football and returned home for find out that Elf Clan have indeed said yes to Linden Lab’s offer! Oh and as an aside, one word of advice to Elf Clan, the name of CEO is Rod Humble!

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Tier and Loathing

Elf Clan, a popular Second Life group with over 2,000 members announced that they would be ceasing operations in Second Life on May 18th and that a sim called Elvenmyst would be closing on this date due to billing difficulties. I’m surprised we haven’t seen more of these sort of announcements as the billing issues with Linden Lab are becoming absurd, one of my tenants hasn’t been able to buy Linden Dollars for a while now and these issues have been acknowledged by Linden Lab in this blog post.

However there are deeper issues behind the Elf Clan unhappiness, the openspace fiasco, of which I was an extremely vocal critic and still believe that you don’t treat customers the way Linden Lab did back then. LL employed great spin to try and deflect the decision back on customers who had been abusing resources, but first of all the abuse was pointed out to LL during the explosion, secondly people reported that they had asked LL for permission to use those sims in that fashion and LL had apparently agreed, the only warning against Openspace misuse had been that you would not get support for performance issues on your sim if it was found that you weren’t using them as suggested, nowhere did they state you could not use them for purposes other than open waterways and forests, who on earth was going to put an open waterway or forest in the middle of nowhere?

However that’s all ancient history, the puzzling thing about the Elf Clan issue now is their response to Linden Lab’s response. Rod Humble got wind of the billing issues via Twitter, billing contacted the person responsible for paying tier and it turns out they’ve been offered two months worth of free tier, as posted here, and Elf Clan are still stamping their feet.

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