Destination & Freebies: The Spirit of Arcadia 6 Flotsam

You will be warned at the beginning that "Flotsam", number 6 of the Spirit of Arcadia regions on Sanctuary Grid and a Freeport Township will be very laggy.

"Flotsam" is a small village build above the sea and all the buildings are build on wooden stakes which keep the village off the water surface.

I started my journey through the city plank roads on the western border of the region, the landing point of "Floatsam", and tried to circle it counterclockwise. And the first I encountered was a shipyard which one can copy/ take as an entire object of 50 prims.

Next to the shipyard one will find the "Voodoo Mart". An exotic building of wood and straw. There you will find all kind of magical items but also some more earthly stuff.

In the neighborhood of the Mart, a Chinese has settled and opened the the "McSushi" Restaurant.

Opposite of the "McSushi", the "Flotsam Courthouse" is the place for the Law and Order in the village.

The school for the "Floatsam" pupils is build on a higher level in the village and to be reached via wooden stairs. Looks like they wanted to keep the children of the entrance of the pub next beside. Looking at the chalkboard I am surprised about the lesson held for the kids.

After the school, I visited the mentioned pub called "The Pirates Hideaway Inn" which is kinda a pub and a trading place in one and pretty cramped (therfore I could not make a photo from the inside)

"The White Whale", a capsized ship's hull on ground, caught in the arms of a lignified octopus, offers all kind of specialities. I recommend the marinated herring strawberry tard.

Being a bit off my track, I went back to the court and from there North to "Stan's Second Hand Coffin Shop". The wooden boxes there are in a good shape and very well-priced.

A must visit for everyone who is missing an eye, a leg or some other parts of the body is the "Palace of Prothetics". Wonderful carved wooden legs and artistic painted blue eyes are waiting on a new owner. But I couldn't find a new set of teeth.

Oh I almost missed out "Napoleon Blownapart's" Dynamite and Gunpowder Shop, between The Palace and Stan's Coffins....

and in the opposite of Napoleon's, you find "Barnacle Bob's Bait Shope".

A small plank way leads to "Mastraiser's and Son Ship Suppliers".

Behind that you find the Tattoo Studio and Barber Shop of "Blind Pew"

If you are in the need of some money for a nice tattoo to pay, look inside the "Colonial Bank of Flotsam" and if you are carrying a gun, never mind, the staff in there are used to that.

Back on the Main Plank Road you will find "Pretty Polly's Pet Shop" and if you buy two Parrots, you get the second one free.

At the end of the road on the right side another Chinese has settled and opened a Laundry and a bath with next day service.

Around the corner to the left one can have a good drink at the "Ye Groggery". A nice place to have a good talk with some good or not so good old friends or trying to ride the whale.

Climbing up the stairs to the adjacent building of the Groggery you visit the Bakery "Pireyna" offering some excellent dry and rock-hard hardtack. A gusto.

What else is to be mentioned ?
The "Blake Sea Trading Company",

"Woodworms Fine Piraticle Furnishings",

The very small "Steamwheel Ferry"

or the dangerous looking 'sharky' submarine ?

I think, I got it all at "Floatsam", and if I have missed something out, who cares. You will find it anyway when you visit this fantastic piece of Arcadia's Fantasies. Well done to keep this here and a big thanks to Virtual Christine who, I guess, put this all together.



Destination:
Sanctuary Grid, Region The Spirit of Arcadia 6
sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 6

Opening of Laureen Persephone's Freebie Mall

The "Hyperzette" already reported about "Actos", a region on Dorena's World Grid owned and managed by Laureen Persephone. The review already introduced the Freebie Mall on "Actos".
See this link
http://the-hyperzette.blogspot.de/2014/12/shopping-actos-i.html.

Now we will celebrate the official opening of the mall

Lureen's Freebie World

Opening Party January 10th, 2015

20:00 CET, 11 am pst

Dorena's World Grid

Region Actos

The Party will take place in the Music Hall on Actos

with

DJ Anachron

Destination:

Dorena's World Grid, Region Actos

dorenas-world.de:8002:actos

Destination: Luminaria

I got the information late, almost too late, but there is a chance to get there and admire the fine work made by Camryn Darkstone, Ada Wong and Walter Balazic.
I am talking  about the "Festival of Lights", region "Luminaria" on the Grid.

Luminaria - Festival of Lights for Twelfth Night

For the traditional Festival of Lights on the Twelfth Night of Christmas, January 5, Littlefield Grid has created Luminaria, named after the little candle lanterns used for this festival to create paths to light the way for the Magic.
It is not a holiday region, but a silver-white mystical midwinter fantasy. It features a sparkling display of stars and lights, along with romantic ice dancing and ice skating (free skates and warm winter clothing provided). Visitors have called it "an enchanted land", "a gorgeous surprise" and "magical" .The region will be available until January 12th and all are welcome.
There is no reason for me to add any words to the aforesaid, but to give some impressions of what you await:

You better hurry up to breathe the air and the atmosphere of this enchanted and magical build region.
The region will stay until January 12th.
Tipping my hat to the creators.

(P.S.: I am not quite sure if it would act against any tradition. But for my opinion I think it would be worth to keep the region up longer then January 12th.;-))



Destination:
Littlefield Grid, Region Luminaria
lfgrid.com:8002:luminaria

Destination: Creanovale Part 2

After my first posting about the Creanovale Grid, Dabici Straulino wrote me little note about the grid and the objects you will find on it. It is important to be mentioned and so the "Hyperzette" will publish it:
'............
This brought me to some urgent things though. Our 2 SIMS were on OSGRID before.  When the grid crashed in August, I did not have any recent OARs or IARs,
After 2 months waiting for OSgrid to come back, we decided to move to the status of having our own private grid - starting with what our hosting provider could recover from our 2 SIMS using his Cache.
A large proportion of the SIM state were recover, we do not have access to assets though, even for my own creations. Everything that is kept in assets, eg. materials (textures), information on creators, last owners and owner, and perms settings of those objects recoverd from Cache may have wrong settings or wrong credits
Since we have Creanovale, I try to recapture the original versions and did replace already some of the items, many though came from OSGrid regions or from places I can't remember.
I do believe in the need to respect creators and also their creations.'


So, if you may find objects with wrong labels, Dabici would appreciated to be informed about it to set things right.
Thank You

Remember, the last time I was on Creanovale Grid, I had to end my story on the top floor of a building. And that is where I will start the second part of the story. So lets get back to the spot.

The top floor is the welcome area and tries to give an answer to the question "What is Creativity ?"
A board with a slide show presentation may give some answers, but can produce the base of discussion or lead to new questions.
I like the sentence Piirto said in 2004 and can be read on one of the slides:

'Creativity is fashionable these days. Everyone uses the word. Yet creativity is confusing.' 

And don't forget to click on the "Light of Creativity" in the back and read the public chat.

A teleporter to the right of the board will bring you down to the next floor, which is empty for the moment. Dabici told me on some earlier visits, Creanovale is under heavy constructions and one of the aims is to set up a Communication Center for Creative People ( I hope I got that right now, don't want to know about Dabici's creativity, if she is mad at me ;-)).
From this floor a circular stairway brings one down to the next lower floors, which are still waiting to be filled. So it is just the top floor yet, which gives some info.
From this building, I went across the square to the next building passing a big board with a note to creators written in English and French, which states contentual what you can read in the quote I have published at the beginning.

The building, I am heading towards, is the "Rhodes Creativity Factory" founded in 1961.
I assume that this building is a replica of a real building, due to the fact of the date of the founding.
Some colored spheres, I could see through the big windows, arouse my attention and I went in.

The spheres are part of an installation, one can explore the Rhodes 4 P's of Creativity, which are Press (Climate or Environment), Person, Process, Product. A teleporter in front will send you into the first of the blue, red and green colored spheres. In there you find a lounge chair to relax, a side table with a night light and a teleporter to the next sphere. There is not much more then to relax, at least I did not find anything else one can do there.

Being back on the floor of the factory hall, I set my attention to the opposite wall. There you will find a diagram structure build in steampunk style, showing you the interconnection within an organizational culture and climate.
Without a description of what you see there, a layman like me is lost. Lots of boxes with catchphrases and interconnections don't give me a clue.
But the interested will find a hint in the lower right corner, where a label says that this is build from a climate model, described in Isaksen, Dorval and Trefflinger in 2011.
I google the names and found "The History of Creative Problem Solving" and "Creative approaches to problem solving". You got the idea now

Puh, some heavy load inside this building and I left back to the square to take a little breather. When I got my breath back, I took the city street to the other buildings which most are waiting on their interior at the moment.

Crossing another weir at a channel I arrived in a new quarter of the village, build in an old industrial style. And for sure it kept my interest.

Inside a side building on the ground floor one will find a Billard Cafe with a seating, an old musicbox and an even so old coffee percolator. But the main piece of interior is the big pool table.The gentleman in side is too much in the game so not very communicative at all.

A chair close to the window will bring you up on the first floor into an office. I like the note board where you can leave small notes by clicking on the paper pad blocks, write a note, than click on the board and it sticks onto it. There are already some "To do" stickers on the board. And that is the moment to introduce Dabici's partner Kelso Uxlay, who is the creator and scripter of the board and as involved in Creanovale as Dabici herself.

On this visit I have found lots of information and interesting places, though this part of Creanovale is still under construction. I am very excited to see the development of it. Anyway if you think that this would be it on my review you are mistaken.
I will show you more of this in my next part of the review about "Creanovale".



Destination:
Creanovale Grid, Region Crea Areas Rhodes Creativity Factory and Bistro Pool Lounge
hg.creanovale.ca:8052:Crea

Jumping to the Regions of "The Spirit of Arcadia 1 to 9"

When I reviewed about the regions "The Spirit of Arcadia" I made a big mistake in settle those regions on Craft World. For the visitor getting the Notecard "Sanctuary Museum Guide" on Monte Gordo Slum City Region it apparently looks that the regions are on the Craft World Grid, but they aren't.
The right addresses for "The Spirit of Arcadia 1 to 9 is

sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 1

where the number at the end can be a number from 1 to 9, according to where you want to go.

I have to apologize for any inconvenience.
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Here are the right addresses

Privateer Space:
sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 1

The Abyss:
sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 2

Keep it Simple:
sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 3

Jules Verne:
sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 4

The Sea of Aley:
sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 5

Flotsam:
sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 6

Festering Cesspools of Greed and Corruption:
sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 7

La Bodega:
sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 8

Nemo's Underwater Lab:
sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:the spirit of arcadia 9