Weiflower: After just a few minutes of virtual floating, your new avatar friend says she wants earplugs

Harbin ethnography:


After just a few minutes of virtual floating, your new avatar friend says she wants earplugs, because, in real life, water in her ears give her problems. You tell her that there are ear plugs available in the virtual Harbin Market, across the valley in Stonefront Lodge in Mainside area, and ask her if she'd like to fly there, before proceeding with her virtual Watsu. You add her as a Second Life friend, and she accepts, so that you'll be able to see one another, when you're both online, in case you get separated while flying there. She says yes, partly she's interested in becoming familiar with all of virtual Harbin. And from the middle of the Harbin Domes' upper pool in the middle of the Watsu, you both fly up, not naked, and she follows you across the valley through the virtual air, to the Water Way sculpture path, between Stonefront Lodge and the Azalea guest rooms, where you both land unceremoniously with a splat' among the trees there. You walk down the winding path and enter the Market, find the ear plugs, and you pay Linden dollars at the cash register, since she doesn't have any yet. To purchase Linden dollars, you enter your actual credit card number in a Linden Lab Second Life web page, and, in exchange, Linden dollars are put into your Second Life account. With these you can purchase Second Life builds and creations, which residents build, including, for example, clothes and fashions, real estate, virtual islands, houses, and art. After getting her ear plugs you fly back to the virtual Harbin Domes' upper pool, to continue the water shiatsu. Back in the virtual water with Rose Rising, things seem more harmonious.












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/03/weiflower-after-just-few-minutes-of.html - March 30, 2010)