is there a hero somewhere, someone who appears and saves the day?

Mr. Dale Innis points out more evidence of the WoW Gateway.

Overheard in passing: Teeple Linden is now head of the G-Team instead of Jack? Can anyone verify this?

How'ver, I'd like to talk about something else entirely. To begin with, keep this location in mind, that's Edward's location for the Monday events. And this is the Radio Riel headquarters in Edison, where you're always welcome to hang out and listen. And likely there will be more mentioned up to and including the day of. But in the meantime:

Radio Riel is turning two!



(Do click for the larger version; it's lovely!)

So, here's the line-up so far (and all times SLT):

(no, I don't know why there's this big space, here)


(this is filler to test)

(no, I don't know why there's still a big space, here...)

Note: all events can be attended at the Clarendon, now, in New Babbage, Radio Riel's home away from home!

Midnight-1:00:00a	Magdalena Kamenev	Jazz/pop remixes
1:00:00-4:00:00a	Gabrielle Riel	Victorian/Edwardian Music
4:00:00-5:00:00a	Edward Pearse	Gothic Glory
5:00:00-6:00:00a	Edward Pearse	Scottish Sounds
6:00:00-7:00:00a	Edward Pearse	Mad Science music
7:00:00-8:00:00a	Gabrielle Riel	Steampunk
8:00:00-9:00:00a	Soliel Snook	Gen-X Tenors
9:00:00-10:00:00a	Diamanda Gustafson	Loudband/Folk
11:00:00-Noon	Gabrielle Riel	French Music of all Genres
Noon-1:00:00p	Soliel Snook	the amazing Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
1:00:00-2:00:00p	Elrik Merlin	the Early Music Show
2:00:00-3:00:00p	Elrik Merlin	Celtic Miscellanea
3:00:00-4:00:00p	Elrik Merlin	The Light Programme
4:00:00-5:00:00p	Otenth Paderborn	Scandinavian
5:00:00-6:00:00p	Gabrielle Riel	Modern Classical
6:00:00-7:00:00p	Gabrielle Riel	Modern American Classical
7:00:00-8:00:00p	Magdalena Kamenev	Nuevo Tango/Digital Cumbria
8:00:00-9:00:00p	Mitsu Figaro	Traditional Japanese
9:00:00-10:00:00p	Mitsu Figaro	J-pop/J-rock
10:00:00-11:00:00p	Mitsu Figaro	Techno from everywhere
11:00:00-Midnight	Magdalena Kamenev	Mash-Ups

Check back with individual Presenters closer to the day if you want to know if they're appearing in-world or not; and check on the RR blog for up-to-the-minute details!

This will play on our Main stream, I do believe; I don't think we have anything scheduled, event-wise, other than us! So tune in and help us celebrate!

you're wearing your anguish again

This is just breathtaking. Ms. Siyu Suen is selling the Odocoleinae antlers for a scant few more days, before taking this limited holiday release off the market.

You can find Ms. Suen's blog entry here, or simply port directly to her store in-world.

In other news...Last night, we 'waked' another part of Caledon history, Caledon Loch Avie, Duchess Eva Bellambi's home on the grid. Several dozen of us gathered to dance in the Conservatory and out on the snow-covered lawn, to share hope and memories, song and stories, and dance until the sun fell and misty dawn emerged.

There were tears and laughter, promises of good changes to come, as well as mourning the loss of the past, and the final announcement that Duchess Eva will be moving to Winterfell.



Dancing as day turned to dusk.



Her Lyonesse, the Vicereine, Kamilah Hauptmann, dancing as the music played.

Sadly, I have very few pictures; for over an hour of this gathering, there were so many people (we topped sixty at one point) dancing and sharing memories of Loch Avie's place in Caledon's history, that I had to turn all my graphics settings down to avoid crashing!



The Lyonesse chose, midway through the event, to don attire more suiting to her beladi movements; she contemplated (and then discarded) a rich scarlet number, a royal blue set, and finally arrived on the seasonally appropriate red and green set seen here.



The dancers en masse spin and dip in the menuet.



An overhead shot, as the Aurora Borealis comes in over Loch Avie.



Another overhead shot; snow falls as the evening draws to a close.

This makes three members of the Caledon peerage, by the way, that are moving from Caledon. We are now losing more than OpenSpace sims, with Linden Labs's stunningly short-sighted decision; we are losing the hearts and minds that make Caledon great.

The loss of touchstone points, for many, as well as the maritime sims; Caledon-that-was is passing, irrevocably. Will the flurry of new titles and new lands borne from such privation improve, or detract, from Caledon's future?

I can't properly answer that--yet--though I will say the direction Caledon is going, in some respects, is becoming a shocking one. There is more of mainland than of majesty, in these latter days.

But the loss of the peerage...Duchess Eva moves to Winterfell Anodyne; Duchess Gabrielle has already moved to Edison; Lord Bardhaven is in the process of relocating to Winterfell, as well. This can only be a bad thing, in my opinion. Am I the only one who sees this? Unfortunately, whether I am or not, the world will go as it will, and I am not a Linden to make these decisions.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
--William Shakespeare, The Tempest

The year turns, the new year rises, the old one passes away. If we carry anything from the past year, at least we retain our memories of glories and successes, the pageantry and charity that made Caledon great. Here's to Caledon remaining strong throughout the new year to come.

But I begin to have my doubts...