now I'm all messed up, and it feels like the first time

I was at the Wandering Star, and the DJ was having a bit of trouble, getting the stream going. This one is unanonymized, simply because we refer to him so often.

[12:22] Verdant Homewood: things settling down now...
[12:22] Verdant Homewood: just need to think of what to play....

[12:22] Safar Fiertze: you alright now Verd? Need me to refill your glass, light your pipe, fix a bowl of crips?
[12:23] Verdant Homewood: all of the above Saf :))
[12:24] Safar Fiertze: ^-^
[12:24] Safar Fiertze: I guess I'll brb
[12:24] Jewell (fallenaurora.jewell): hehe
[12:24] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Also, how do you DO that with your spine

I'm not kidding. He was doing this:



How...why...HOW...

[12:24] Eio Tuqiri: back
[12:24] Jewell (fallenaurora.jewell): rofl
[12:24] Jewell (fallenaurora.jewell): wb
[12:25] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): That looks SO uncomfortable
[12:25] Jewell (fallenaurora.jewell): rrofl
[12:25] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): WHY
[12:26] Jewell (fallenaurora.jewell): you are freaking out folks hehe

Just a tad.



Keep in mind, his torso was rotating around, his legs were pretty much just stuck in place.

[12:26] Jewell (fallenaurora.jewell): hi Lou
[12:26] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I think I'm losing oxygen to my brainmeats, I'm laughing so hard
[12:26] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Hi Lou!
[12:26] Lou Cypher (888lucifer888): greetings Everyone
[12:26] Jewell (fallenaurora.jewell): giggles
[12:26] Eio Tuqiri: brainmeats lol
[12:27] Eio Tuqiri: Hi Lou
[12:27] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I mean...in a way...it IS impressive

In a very dire way.

[12:27] Vivix3n (ainanna): Hi Luci
[12:27] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And of course he's playing a song that says "I open myself to extreme possibilities"
[12:27] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): TAKING THAT TO HEART, I SEE

[12:28] Verdant Homewood: Hey Lou and Anka!
[12:28] Rory Torrance (rory.torrance): is verdant having a stroke?
[12:28] SilenceKnight: back
[12:28] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I don't know!

Well, if it was a stroke, it was just a digital one.

[12:28] Rory Torrance (rory.torrance): ya look away for a minute...
[12:28] Lou Cypher (888lucifer888): Hello Safar, Robin, Verdant, Jewell, Silent, Eio, Lia, Rat, Emilly and Vivi
[12:28] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I KNOW
[12:28] SilenceKnight: greetings Lo
[12:28] SilenceKnight: u
[12:28] robin helsinki (r0bin.helsinki): hi lou [12:28] Rat Xue: verd lookin gud from my pov
[12:29] Rory Torrance (rory.torrance): he's okay now
[12:29] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): plz Verd. plz stop opening yourself to extreme possibilities.
[12:29] Safar Fiertze: dancing's a bit borked again for me. He had a moment of normalcy
[12:29] Verdant Homewood: I
[12:29] Eio Tuqiri: Verd is looking a little uh sideways
[12:29] Verdant Homewood: Can't
[12:29] Verdant Homewood: help
[12:29] Verdant Homewood: myself
[12:29] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) whispers: Well, then it's just me, and I am KEEPING THESE PICTURES

[12:29] Safar Fiertze: which was almost scary
[12:29] robin helsinki (r0bin.helsinki): looks ok to me
[12:30] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay, this is official better than a ritual I went to a couple months back, where the priestess invoked Dionysus and none of the poseball sets would work after :D

[12:30] Safar Fiertze: haha
[12:30] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And that was high comedy
[12:30] Safar Fiertze: I'll bet
[12:31] SilenceKnight: Dionysus doesn't like poseballs...interesting
[12:32] Eio Tuqiri: heh heh
[12:32] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Yeah, who knew?
[12:32] SilenceKnight: this is the 21st century

The man is amazing, though--despite the spine breaking and the technological glitching, he still played on, and played wonderful tunes for us to share. So it wasn't all bad.

Even if I died laughing.

I found something interesting and we should discover it together

So, today was the grand reopening of the SLEA sim (or sims), after a long hiatus. I wasn't there for all of it, which I'm sure my processor is grateful for, because towards the end, the particles came out by the bushelful. Artists.



Now, amusingly, I didn't take any pictures until SaveMe Oh arrived, and the reason she's named is that she brought most of the particle effects. Also, she arrived and promptly died on the dance floor, a huge Pfizer-branded syringe through her chest and "HAPPY 2021" spelled out in bright green coronavirus orbs.

That was an entrance.



Someone said, "Oh, are we doing shots now?" And...this was next.



And then the effects really kicked up.



It got crazy for a bit, there. Somewhere in all that glow is a gigantic ribcage that would make Godzilla's chest seem small.



And then the 60's arrived.



And it kept going...



With a brief detour through strawberries and a yellow submarine:



...and finally, ending in a field of sunflowers:



While the DJ played The Golden Sun Rises Upon The World Again, by Fovea Hex. Appropriate:



Not badly celebrated, all in all.

It will be fascinating to see what they do from here.