Scene stealin' avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties, as captured by Cyberloom

I'm just lovin' Cyberloom's pics of the party people at NPIRL's Halloween fetes. She is also the author of a thoughtful and well-written blog about her virtual life experiences. Thanks for sending these in, Cyberloom!


Avatar creator Yoa Ogee switched his look so many times that we could devote a full spread just to him. I'm not even going to hazard a guess about the meaning behind this avatar


Bryn Oh was magnificent in this avatar, topped off with Hern Worsley's glowy headdress


Fire was a big theme at both of our parties, but only Aebleskiver Thibidaud's avatar had flamed wings that I know of


The friendliest and most helpful avatar I know, Jurin Juran merged Rush Gastel's glowy avatar with another, to uber-cute effect


Komuso Tokugawa always reads The Star when he's preparing to do a set, as photographed by Cyberloom

See also:
* The setting for NPIRL's Halloween parties: Plasma Co. Mining Colony
* The exotic and fun avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties
* Just press play: The rocking-est avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties, as seen by Tezcatlipoca Bisiani
* The incredible avatars at the NPIRL Halloween parties: "Take Two" by Skycat Ranger
* Trinity Outlander's double-takes at the NPIRL Halloween parties

The incredible avatars at the NPIRL Halloween Parties: "Take Two" provided by Skycat Ranger

Skycat Ranger is one of my fave photographers in Second Life®. Her work with brushes and filters simply rocks. Just look at some of Skycat's captures taken at the NPIRL Halloween parties!


Skycat showed up at the party with a huge mallet and looking like a jester. She got straight to work taking pic after great pic. This one captures a moment at Tuna Oddfellow's hallucinogenic Tunaverse show


Here's another of Skycat's views of Tuna Oddfellow's special NPIRL edition of his Tunaverse show at both of our parties


Madcow Cosmos morphed into many avatars all night and photographs of him poured in. He was one of the ten creators of Plasma Co. Mining Colony, too! I think you'll agree that this shot by Skycat gets 5 stars


Jurin Juran surprised me the day before Halloween by gifting me with this incredible avatar by Rush Gastel which I modified a tad


As with so many of the pics taken at the parties, I had a hard time figuring out who was who. In this shot by Skycat and from left to right, I recognize Scarp Godenot, Jurin Juran and Sidewinder Linden. But who was Alice and who was the faerie?


No one, and I do mean no one, can rock da house better than Komuso Tokugawa and his live boogie blues. From left to right, Skycat's shot includes: Komuso, Sasun Steinbeck, Bryn Oh and Eshi Otawara

See also:
* Trinity Outlander's double-takes at the NPIRL Halloween parties
* Scene stealin' avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties, as captured by Cyberloom
* Just press play: The rocking-est avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties, as seen by Tezcatlipca Bisiani
* The exotic and fun avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties
* The setting for NPIRL's Halloween parties: Plasma Co. Mining Colony

The exotic and fun avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties

NPIRL's All Hallows Eve parties: Two of 'em; nine hours all told.
The guests: Not Possible IRL and Impossible IRL group members, and friends.
Location: Undisclosed until the last minute... the gleaming but abandoned Plasma Co. Mining Colony. Four sims provided by Rezzable and built out by a crack team of ten of the best builders and scripters on the grid. Read more about it here.
Our rock stars: Alexi Ayers, Anakin Gallacher, Cube Republic, Komuso Tokugawa, thomtrance O'toole, Tuna Oddfellow. Thank you!

Because so many of the avatars spotted at NPIRL's Halloween parties are not typically worn by our friends, we may have identified someone incorrectly. If you spot an error, please let us know and we'll fix it, asap.

The evening party began with a cocktail hour and Anakin Gallacher's live deep bliss sax tunes. Folks had time to rez each other and their new surroundings and take a ride on each of the two different roller coaster rides.


Browsing through my pics, I was unable to determine who the typist behind this avatar was, but we do know that he was wearing Pandora Wrigglesworth's Clockwork Automaton brain and skin


Hotspur O'Toole mimed his greeting


Jurin Juran and Eshi Otawara arrived at the same time


Photon Pink was responsible for making many of the cool sculpties at Plasma City

Meanwhile, on one of the dance floor areas...


Anakin Gallacher belted out a full set and a half, and his live music was streamed on all four sims


LittleToe Bartlett's avatar was so 'tweet!


Renown avatar creator Yoa Ogee wore a new and different avatar about every five minutes! And no, those aren't ants beneath him


Sasun Steinbeck was blinding in a modified version of Starax's Fallen Angel sculpture


Eln Alter arrived potted. Did you pick up her limited-time-only freebie witch avatar? To the left, Skycat Ranger as a jester was talking awesome pics which we'll be posting soon


Tom Bukowski got flowery

Coming up: Fabulous avatar pics sent in by talented photographers Cyberloom, Rowan Masala, Skycat Ranger, Tezcatlipoca Bisiani and Trinity Outlander...

See also:
* The setting for NPIRL's Halloween parties: Plasma Co. Mining Colony
* The incredible avatars at the NPIRL Halloween parties: "Take Two" by Skycat Ranger
* Just press play: The rocking-est avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties, as seen by Tezcatlipca Bisiani
* Scene stealin' avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties, as captured by Cyberloom
* Trinity Outlander's double-takes at the NPIRL Halloween parties

The setting for NPIRL's Halloween parties: Plasma Co. Mining Colony - The future that never was

And so it came to pass that the strangest and most exotic creatures of the metaverse descended upon the gleaming but abandoned ruins of the Plasma Co. Mining Colony in deep space to observe the ancient festival of Halloween. The members of the Not Possible IRL and Impossible IRL groups gather but once a year for such a fete.



Rarely seen outside of adventure comic books and mythical chronicles, the guests were - each of them - one-of-a-kind, all gorgeous and imagined in their own way, convening to shake a leg or an appendage or two or ten to the rocking-est tunes out there.

No one knows with any certainty what happened to the original inhabitants of Plasma City. Kitsune Kyomoon, credited with the re-discovery and its supervision today had this to say: "We are attempting to rebuild Plasma City to discover what went wrong, while hoping not to make the same mistakes ourselves."

The Plasma Co. crew:
Cube Republic - Structures, scenery
Glyph Graves - Structures, sculpties, sound
Judi Newall - PR, publicity
Kitsune Kyomoon - Project coordinator
Lorin Tone - Sound guru, structures, scenery
Madcow Cosmos - Structures, scenery, avatars
Miki Gymnast - Scripting, structures, scenery
Photon Pink - Sculptie guru, scenery
Seifert Surface - Structures, space consultant
Ordinal Malaprop - Rocket ride between worlds
Four sims provided by Rezzable Productions



"We do know that the Plasma Co. Mining Colony is the source of plasma, the energy source which fuels the city. After mining out our original operations on a smaller asteroid, we moved the mining operations to a much larger asteroid in a more remote section of space. Here, we have formed a community of miners, engineers, pirates, merchants, scientists, farmers, fugitives and space scum. We believe that, after abandoning the original mining operations, the former base was overrun with unknown creatures... drifting life-forms from across the galaxy," Kitsune continued.



Discover the Plasma Co. Mining Colony:

Many thanks to Rezzable Productions for unleashing the Plasma Co. crew on four full sims to create the future that never was.

* Miki Gymnast's Asteroid Coaster - teleport directly from here
* Roller Coaster # 2 - teleport directly from here



* Visit... inside of... it (brainwigs... ewwww) - teleport directly from here



So many great guests and their avatars! Such good music.


The parties may be over... but there is always next year!

Coming up... dozens of pics of the craziest, coolest avatars on the grid that night.

See also:
* The incredible avatars at the NPIRL Halloween parties: "Take Two" by Skycat Ranger
* Just press play: The rocking-est avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties, as seen by Tezcatlipca Bisiani
* The exotic and fun avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties
* Scene stealin' avatars at NPIRL's Halloween parties, as captured by Cyberloom
* Trinity Outlander's double-takes at the NPIRL Halloween parties

The prettiest party, evah!

Talk about visually arresting...

The little girl in me did somersaults when I saw siestabril Nitely's pics of the scrumptious birthday party she hosted for her best friend in Real Life, sakufrat2525 Kurka.

siesta shared that these delicious outfits are confections by "wonderful creators" eyeco Noel, and that the festivities unfolded at Agharta, "a beautiful sim," owned by friends of hers (teleport directly from here).

Do you suppose they served pink lemonade?

Party envy: Extreme NPIRL Rules of Conduct

NPIRL'er artoo Magneto continues to horribly disabuse me of the notion that I might be hip. A few days ago I shared the following with the NPIRL clan...

~tp to THIS! instant cool by artoo~
I'm writing this blurb while sitting on the uber hip, uber tech anyMOTION sim... this is artoo Magneto's world, a mix of NPIRL with a hint of Teletubbie chic (don't let this put you off!)...


Toys and architecture with a James Bond-ish sensibility and brio.

Music varies from luscious Billie Holiday grooves to broadcasts direct from DJ Deep Mix Moscow Radio

Epicea Eilde hangs here...

and... well... I am wondering if I'm hip enough/cool enough to pull this off...

This is a place you will want to wander around *completely.* Don't miss the Trash Palace shop even...


Merchandise selection is a blast. Amidst the items for purchase there's artwork everywhere... just cause... like this VisualWall by Dave Attenborou.

This place is not yet finished... a few weeks away from completion. AM Radio... thanks for introducing us to artoo :D BTW, you guys, if you can persuade artoo to give you a ride on his speed boat... you will be in for some serious SL fun.
SLURL: artoo, anyMOTION
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Then yesterday, artoo put me in my place again (coolness factor: left-of-zero) when he tp'ed me in to a party at the residence of the rezzidents. There's no butler or bot here to announce your arrival. Rather, you are transported (and here I apologize for how dark this pic is) via a bubble down a slot...

I cannot even offer you a slurl or landmark because...

It was here that I found artoo Magneto. He wasn't dancing. He and his friend were... um... I'm searching for the word... beaming?

Artoo glides...

Meanwhile, up in the air, there was another NPIRL'er, AM Radio, (shown here on the right) taking a break I guess, from making the astonishingly beautiful things that we so admire.

The thing of it is... this isn't about grandstanding. It just seems to come naturally to them, and it is fun to see.

Note to self: Rethink the boundaries of everything you do.