113 - White steads

Dim Sum meows at the creature towering above her, and the horse exhales noisily at her. She tilts her head curiously.... Hmmm, these things purr too....


There are actually three horses, but this is a better composition. I found the link to this sim while browsing Flickr last night, but I lost the page and I can't find it again. Anyway, this doesn't really look like a vampire place, except maybe for the little cemetery across the water. But I haven't really explored much, and I'm right by the landing point here. So I'll know more in the next few days.

And, with these many white horses around, the knight in shining armor must be nearby.... Oh, wait, Dim Sum is not a damsel in distress. Wrong fairy tale....

location: Gehena Vampire Clan

Technical notes

windlight: [TOR] DUSK - Siennarel (modified)

112 - Herbs on the window sill

Dim Sum meows at the cat on the windowsill. Her name is Mamie, she said, and, no, the herbs don't taste that good. The tulips are promising though.


I think Mamie is a relative of the grey-haired librarian. This spot is actually in a narrow alley so I couldn't zoom back too far.

location: 1920s Berlin

Technical notes

windlight: Phototools- Cloud Credit Light (modified)

111 - Poor orphan Friedrich

Dim Sum meows at the forlorn boy with the dirty face and keeps him company after all the kids have left the school.


Earlier, I was at a hotel restaurant, where a trio of musicians (not grasshoppers) were playing. I was still deciding on the windlight and only took one test photo when I had to go. They were gone when I logged back in, so I had to find a new subject.

Friedrich didn't respond to my OOC IM. Probably because his avie is just parked or he really doesn't speak like his profile says. So I hope he's okay with being the most popular orphan boy in Dim Sum Land.

While I was at the hotel restaurant, someone (Crispin Sturges) threw Dim Sum a string of sausages. A string of sausages! If this happens too often, she's gonna have to go on a diet.  ;D

Oh, oh, she could share it with poor Friedrich, except she already ate it all. *burp*

model: Friedrich Zepp
location: 1920s Berlin

Technical notes

windlight: Phototools- Thalia Light 01 (modified)

110 - Piano on the second floor

Dim Sum watches the vehicle in the window as it goes around and around and around.... "How much is that car i-in the window? Beep, beep."


Typically, apartment buildings don't work in SL. Why would you want to live so close to other people who could overhear everything you say. So, they are mostly empty. But in a roleplay sim, it works. And this building is well decorated inside as well. In fact, many of the buildings in this sim look lived in.

So, I couldn't resist peeking in after discovering this apartment building with big windows. And the rooms are fully furnished! How delightful!

location: 1920s Berlin

Technical notes

windlight: Phototools- Dorm Light 01 (modified)

109 - B 6236

Dim Sum looks around at the bustling city she stumbled into after accidentally hitching a ride on the wrong train. The first thing she wonders about is what the city food tastes like.


I've been to the 1920s Berlin a long long time ago. (No, not during the 1920s, silly. I'm not that old!) It was still in the mainland somewhere up in the sky. It's in a full private sim now.

Even during my first visit, I was already impressed with the project, and Jo Yardley has expanded it even more. How steadfastly she sticks to the theme is very admirable, so you get a truly immersive historical experience. She has staff (bots?) that stand in as intriguing characters -- a woman sweeping the sidewalk, a young boy with cotton candy, a train ticket agent asleep at the ticket window.

Well, during my visit, maybe I'll learn a few more words besides "Gehsundheit" and "Danke". (That poster on the left says "public telephone". Google said so.)

location: 1920s Berlin

Technical notes

windlight: Phototools- Lo  Gun Light (barely modified)

While I was browsing through the windlights, this one struck me. It's kinda surreal, but I love the happy colors, and I thought, "Why not?" :)

108 - Steampunk hovercraft

Dim Sum climbed into a half-bubble, thinking that the chairs looked nice and comfortable. Then she heard a whirr as it lifted up in the air.... "Not again!" she thought.


More color this time and a bit more scifi-y. I derendered a bigger steampunk vehicle and a few things.

location: Avedon Park

Technical notes

windlight: Incongruent Truths (modified)
water: Default

107 - Why is she crying?

Dim Sum: Why did you make her cry?
Bunny: I didn't.
Dim Sum: Then why is she crying?
Bunny: She was that way when I got here.
Dim Sum: Maybe you dug up the carrots in her garden.
Bunny: Maybe you scratched her furniture.
Dim Sum: Maybe you stole the eggs from her basket.
Bunny: Maybe you ate her pet mouse.
Girl: Maybe because I'm half buried in the ground!


:D

location: Avedon Park

Technical notes

windlight: Phototools- Lo Light 03 (modified)