Virtual World Wanderings with Cindy & Ki: New Kama

New Kama is a grid of it's very own. Proudly owned by Ki and myself. On 29th July 2010 we rezzed there as complete noobs, with nothing in our inventory and 4 blobs of green, one for each sim. It was daunting to say the least. Basically starting from scratch with a default avatar and nothing else. It is no secret I followed my heart and not my head because giving up a sim in Second Life that we had lovingly landscaped and lived on for over a year, along with friends, the marketplace, the ability to just shop and decorate and landscape was not easy. Not to mention the fact that when Ki first tried to tell me about wanting a new grid, I thought he was breaking up with me not asking me to try it with him. I can still hear him now "daft cow". So we had to learn fast (that is the royal "we"). Ki had to learn fast, I just kind of sulked a bit for a couple of weeks while I worried that this was the end of "us".

It wasn't. It was actually the best thing that could have happened to us. It cemented "us" as a team and we did learn fast. Ki quickly was able to create and upload terrain files so that the 4 blobs became 4 sims - empty ones but at least we had some ground to walk on. Discovering how to hypergrid to other grids meant I could do something and bring back some items that creators had kindly donated to people for free and so within a week or so we had fairly decent looking avatars, clothes and some trees and plants. Once I found a couple of dances then some of my fears started to fade.

One of the first things Ki learnt was animating and he made us some cuddles. He knew this was important to me, I am big on cuddles and prior to that I would make him log into Second Life last thing each night because we have never gone to bed without a goodnight hug. It inspired me to take some building classes and I was over the moon when I made my first cuddle rug using an MLPv2. No more late night grid swap!

So now, as today, New Kama celebrates it's 3rd birthday we have 4 ever changing sims as Ki masters new skills and we update everything we have, especially with mesh. We can't believe we have been there 3 years and we honestly believe it will never be finished but we look around at what we have created from nothing with only the cost of our server host (which incidentally is ridiculously cheap in comparison to SL) it is the best thing we ever could have done. A haven of peace and calm away from Second Life with all its drama and spending of L$.

Thank you Ki for giving me the perfect place to live our virtual lives. I enjoy my time spent in Second Life with my friends but happiest when I can come home to New Kama and you.