YAY! We've finally begun building - well...Tia is mostly since she's working on the cool stuff like furniture and sitballs - I'm just doing a wall, I mean how hard can that be right??
As you will see, my dear friends...a LOT.
Sooo...I begun the task at hand by merrily placing these sleek beauty's around the property. WEEEE, I thought, Giant prims and all! WOOT! Singing my Giant Prim Happy Song, I continued the job at hand until I reached one of the slopes near the waters edge. Never mind, I said to myself, I'll just bring up the land a little. I've done it before in 'The Place I Will Not Name - aka - TPIWNN' so I figured this should be a drop in the bucket.
Little did I know the bucket I was referring to was bottomless...
Like anyone with terraforming experience knows - it's a simple task. Right click land, Edit Terrian, blah blah, blah, etc. etc. - you smooth out the final result and POOF! You wipe away the sweat from your brow and congratulate yourself on a job well done.
BUT...the Terrain-Gods had other plans for me.
Holding my right hand steady at the lush land below my feet I steeled myself for the glory of terraforming. Suddenly I thought I heard a giggle, but instantly shrugged it off after glancing at my mini-map and seeing that I was alone. Steady, I said to myself, You've done this before, girl. Steady, slow and gentle....easy peasy...
After bringing up the first little pile of earth, my heart leapt with joy. YAYAYAYAY! my mind rejoiced, I'm doing it! DRACULE IS MIIIINE! A slightly maniacal grin spread across my face and I felt like a GOD!
Then...ever so quietly and without warning, like an icy breeze brushing against my cheek...my screen glitched and I blinked.
Once...twice...three times I blinked staring at what was in front of me on the screen. My mind struggled to understand what had just happened and try as it might - could not.
"Where am I?" I typed aloud. "Hellooo?" I typed again.
But no answer came...
Somehow during my god-like terrainian-lust episode, I ended up in complete and utter darkness - surrounded by an onyx blackness that could only come from the pits of Hell itself. Invisible demonic fingers kept me in my place and I floated there for what seemed like a lifetime. "WTF??" I shouted aloud within my ebony envelope. Then glancing up at the bar on the screen, I saw with horror that somehow I had ended up -900m UNDERGROUND!
"It's not possible!" my mind screamed on the verge of insanity, "This just can't be!" I fought with the impossibilty of what was happening to me and yet I couldn't deny that here I was, unable to move -900m below my beloved Dracule.
For a moment I considered that maybe - just maybe - there really were vampires living here already and they were totally pissed that I purchased their land and so they decided to bring me into their realm, on their terms, and that the next time anyone saw me 'Topside' they would inquire where I got my new skin from because they admired the two little crimson dots on my neck...
But no - no creatures of the night came out of the darkness after me...I was completely alone.
Unable to do anything else but cam around at even MORE darkness and of course - scream - I logged off, got a cigarette, poured a cup of coffee, and freaked the hell out while staring at my desktop.
Omg, I said calmly to myself while taking a long drag of my cigarette and a sip from my newly poured coffee, Sakai is SO gonna rip my little wish-I-had-better-skin-on-my-avi neck from my poor helpless body.
I resolved that there was nothing else I could do but confess, sooo, I logged into OLG and decided to walk bravely into the chat room and confront my death. Reaching my destination after a few painful clicks, I straightened my back, held my head high...and threw myself on the floor in front of Sakai with as much dignity as a roach confronting a human foot...
Expecting to be torn apart by wild dogs while chained helplessly to the chatroom walls if I just openly confessed my idiocity I decided to be cheerful. "Hi!" I typed, not sending a smilely face this time because I felt guilty since I only acting cheerful. When no greeting was returned, I stared in horror at the tiny picture of Sakai in his omnipotent pose...
Omg, my mind reeled, he KNOWS!
Ok ok, calm down. I said to myself, Go post your stupidity in the forum, maybe he'll take pity on you since you confessed your dumbass-ness to the world.
So without saying a word, I hurried from the chatroom to the forum. Where do I post it? I asked myself quickly scanning the main topics, UGH! There's no Idiots Confess Here forum!!
In total disgust, knowing that if I posted my confession in the wrong forum that there was a strong possibility that THAT would probably be the topic instead of my problem at hand - I decided to return to my previous roach-ao position.
*sigh*
So, with antennas tucked between my 5 legs (yes I know they have 6, but I lost one running to the forums) - I scurried into the chatroom.
And there to my amazement was a greeting from Sakai! "Hi Dreena, hows it going?" he asked me cheerfully and my heart skipped a beat. Is this a trick question? I thought, Did he already know and is waiting for me to confess? I mean come on! How's it going?? For goodsake, he KNOWS how it is going, that's why he's ASKING! He KNOWS I screwed up bigtime! OK? I DID it! Me! Me! No one else but ME! He's GOD, he sees everything! He saw me in the darkeness! He....
I confessed.
"There's somethin wrong with Dracule." I said meekly -complete with Sad-face. "I dunno what happened, I'm SUCH a dufus."
Silence
Steeling myself for the Wrath of Sakai - knowing full well that I deserved every lash from his code-wise fingers, I waited for the initial blow.
...but instead...
He laughed at me and moments later - he told me all was well again in the land of Dracule....
Breathing a sigh of relief, I thanked him profusely and if I could have pounched on him to give him a HUGE kiss on the cheek I would have - I said goodnight and left the chatroom.
Holding my antenna's high in the air, I felt the tingling from my leg beginning to grow back.
I was once again redeemed and a proud member of OpenLife - a place I love deeply and an awesome place to call 'Home'.