Andddd, at the time of writing this, I'm informed that there.com is closed for an hour. It seems, like everything else in the world, there's always one time or another where the 24/7 rule isn't quite so!
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First off I landed (luckily) back in rental land. As I expected my last little gems had been retrieved from my collection, so I was left with two empty vehicle slots to loan! I pondered a little while conveniently having seating in the form of mushrooms, in homage to like little Miss Muffett sitting on her tuffett. Alas, no curds and whey.
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I found a bike with fancy decoration, but then I turned around and found something much
bigger, and much better!
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A massive 5 seater vehicle in the form of a dragon! It was huge! You can see that I, as driver, sat on its thin neck. Then the rest of it's body had two front and then two back seats for a family affair to all ride together.
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One cool effect I liked was that most of the vehicles I've driven give off some sort of flame or energy thingy from the back, a bit like the blast on Batman's Batmobile. The dragon was unique in that it cleverly used it's flames to come from it's mouth, in a real dragon styley (if you can say real dragon style cos dragons don't exist!)
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One other thing I noticed was that, unaware, you gain great altitude with the dragon. And it moves at quite a good rate so I was able to cover quite a bit of land. A testament to it's abilities to fly high, the geography below me after a certain time fogged up, as the computer couldn't keep up with showing the terrain below, simply due to there being so much to show!
On switching views I was able to see where I was in the world. At one point I even came across a huge volcanic crater. At this point, I had expectations of hot molten lava, brewing and bubbling away.
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But no, that was a bit too much to expect. Instead, someone had stuck a race course! Typical.
A few minutes later I found an isolated building to set myself down. It was a beach type hut thing, but compared with the others I've seen, it was nicely designed.
The first thing that attracted me, and that always seems to attract, was the pool!
It was very well designed. The mapping effect of the water and the way it imitates sunlight hitting it, in particular sealed my vote of approval. The added touch of a sun brolly and then hoop to sit in, even the angle at which it let you slouch - very nicely done. I think you can vote for favourite buildings in there, maybe I'll follow that opportunity up!
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(As a side, I've been in quite a few other pools in there over the weeks. This one below seemingly decided it was the perfect time to have a thunder storm as I sat in. What's funny is that you all sit there fully clothed - no one bats an eyelid!)
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Back on track, inside the beach hut, they had the novel idea of offering what looked like pints of Guinness. Looking close up they didn't use that brand, but the imagery used was enough to paint a picture of the ale on offer! Made me smile anyway. Furthermore, they had quite a few musical instruments, much like the UN club I found. They always look good for a quick pic opportunity!
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Lastly for my current excursion, I went to the popular place, DUDA Village. Now instantly as of saying this, I can see the 'sad' flags raising up, but at 1am GMT, I was barraged with error messages telling me I wasn't permitted entry here, and that there were too many people. Too many to even show on screen it appears.
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So now to my previous endeavours. I came across a really nice, what looked like stately home. I didn't give it chance to load the textures, (time is precious in the virtual world!) but soon enough it looked like the owners came trotting outside (to see me?!) So I plucked up and started a conversation. And what did they do? Nothing! They turned their backs and ignored me! Seems virtual manners for go those two.
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Online gaming is a big thing console wise. Maybe not so much in there. On another random ramble, I discovered a card play house. You can sit down, chat and then play spades, blackjack or all other card games in general. Only problem is, you need others to play with. And I was clearly a billy no mates that day, because nobody pulled up a chair and joined me at the table!
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And so to finish, the model of the day went to somebody who'd built a skeleton! I found him near the pirate ship, so maybe this was the sea farers spot, what with the treasure chest opposite. The scattered bone shards around the floor too. He looked a bit evil, what with his hands clawing out for something. All that's needed there now, is a parrot!
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