One of the things I love about SL is shared drama. I don’t mean silly little ‘boyz with gunz’ orbiting noobs and crashing sims drama. No, I mean stories. Stories created and nurtured to take weeks to reach fruition and drag people into their wake. I mean role playing story arcs where you don’t have to be one of the players to feel involved and included. I’m trying to do that with my posts about The Island & Backpacking Burro and I think I’m sort of managing – I just wish I could make ’stuff’ to improve the quality of the sets, but I do what I can and I think folks enjoy it.

When it comes to crafting a whole tale and making it look stunning, the folks of Caledon and Babbage are way ahead of most others in SL, and they are certainly way beyond my scope. And I celebrate that. It’s good to see people using their talents to do it not just right, but brilliantly right and one great example of this has been the recent “Murder in Babbage” story written by Natacha Chernov over on her blog.

The actual story arc seems to have been the design of one Loki Elliot, who is obviously a man of some serious design flare, but the text and photos on Natacha’s blog are all hers and I urge you all to pop over and read it from the beginning. You won’t be disappointed.

Mind you, this means I have to change my The Island plot now as it was going to be spookily similar. It must be that the Dreams of Great Dread Cthulhu have been muttering and gibbering to both me and Loki recently…