{"id":754,"date":"2011-04-08T20:41:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T19:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2012-03-23T18:36:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:36:39","slug":"fantasy-faire-2011-update-and-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Faire 2011 Update and Pics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I blame <a title=\"Torley\" href=\"http:\/\/music.torley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Torley<\/a> for this &#8230;I&#8217;m getting into taking photos in Second Life and enjoying it too much, even if the results aren&#8217;t great, it&#8217;s fun and a great way to record happenings in Second Life. Fantasy Faire 2011 is into day seven now, but day\u00a0six saw L$510,804 raised bringing the total amount raised to more than USD$14,700.<\/p>\n<p>Milestones from this year&#8217;s Fantasy Faire include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More money raised by day three this year than for the whole of Fantasy Faire 2010.<\/li>\n<li>By day six the total for all of last year&#8217;s relay season had been broken in terms of the Fantasy Faire team!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0aim this year is to raise USD$20,000 overall\u00a0and it&#8217;s looking like a wonderful effort by all so far.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today\u00a0I visited <a title=\"Forest Of Shadow SLURL\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Forest%20of%20Shadow\/129\/64\/22\" target=\"_blank\">The Forest of Shadow <\/a>and <a title=\"Nemo Revisited SLURL\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Nemo%20Revisited\/192\/130\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Nemo Revisited <\/a>sims, outside the Satyr Moon store, you find, not unsurprisingly, Satyrs.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Satyr by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23556228@N08\/5601168684\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5025\/5601168684_26b10fe58f.jpg?resize=351%2C500\" alt=\"Satyr\" width=\"351\" height=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this sim you also find the very impressive House of Rfyre, I&#8217;ve always liked the look of their items and the display at Fantasy Faire 2011 is no letdown.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"House of Rfyre Store by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23556228@N08\/5600585407\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5310\/5600585407_660b005bbd.jpg?resize=500%2C298\" alt=\"House of Rfyre Store\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"House of Rfyre Display by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23556228@N08\/5601170022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5030\/5601170022_8e1146d4f0.jpg?resize=500%2C456\" alt=\"House of Rfyre Display\" width=\"500\" height=\"456\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then it was off to Nemo Revisited and there&#8217;s a lot of eye candy here, so let&#8217;s start with Neptune himself, fundraising for Relay For Life despite looking like he&#8217;s about to attack someone with his giant fork.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Neptune by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23556228@N08\/5601168644\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5146\/5601168644_053af80fca.jpg?resize=368%2C500\" alt=\"Neptune\" width=\"368\" height=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to escape him you may want to take to the skies and fortunately there are a couple of modes of transport, one is a balloon:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Balloon by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23556228@N08\/5601169460\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5270\/5601169460_61bfec62df.jpg?resize=500%2C408\" alt=\"Balloon\" width=\"500\" height=\"408\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other a flying horse, although this one is just a statue unfortunately &#8230; I think, I didn&#8217;t try and ride it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flying Horse by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23556228@N08\/5601170108\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5224\/5601170108_c8ac307302.jpg?resize=500%2C471\" alt=\"Flying Horse\" width=\"500\" height=\"471\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sim itself is rather spectacular and pulls off that Steampunk theme extremely well.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nemo Revisted Sim by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23556228@N08\/5601169836\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5024\/5601169836_16394bc422.jpg?resize=500%2C298\" alt=\"Nemo Revisted Sim\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Xcentricity Store highlights this well but there are plenty of cycles, wheels and cogs rotating around to keep one occupied.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Xcentricity by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23556228@N08\/5600583703\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5029\/5600583703_c44cdec0c2.jpg?resize=500%2C358\" alt=\"Xcentricity\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some stores deal with Steampunk furniture and it&#8217;s easy to see why Steampunk was a clever theme for people to bring into Second Life.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Steampunk by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23556228@N08\/5601168476\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5026\/5601168476_5e98c3418f.jpg?resize=500%2C298\" alt=\"Steampunk\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even the floor of the sim exemplifies the Steampunk feel, I myself have not really got into steampunk, but I can see why it&#8217;s appealing. I also have to say that I haven&#8217;t found any sort of submarine type vehicles on the sim yet, so I didn&#8217;t manage to make my way to twenty thousand leagues under the sea!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nemofloor by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23556228@N08\/5600584545\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5264\/5600584545_1828c66904.jpg?resize=500%2C298\" alt=\"Nemofloor\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blame Torley for this &#8230;I&#8217;m getting into taking photos in Second Life and enjoying it too much, even if the results aren&#8217;t great, it&#8217;s fun and a great way to record happenings in Second Life. Fantasy Faire 2011 is into day seven now, but day\u00a0six saw L$510,804 raised bringing the total amount raised to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=754\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fantasy Faire 2011 Update and Pics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[375,3,14],"tags":[138,1022],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-ca","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}