Linden Research, Inc. to Be Acquired

Blatantly stealing the headline from the Linden Lab website.

Short version. The parent of Second Life and Tilia, Linden Research Inc., will be bought by two investors, Randy Waterfield and Brad Oberwager.

Please read the original publication and let it sink in.

Reading Inara's blog it looks like these two are Good (tm) people.

So, what will they do?

First lets see what it will mean to us, the residents of Second Life?

Short and simple, nothing!

From here on remember, I have no documentation! I am 100% guessing!!

It's not like we see Mitch Kapor banging on doors all around Second Life so there is no reason to expect any different from Randy and Brad.

Linden Research Inc. is the investment vehicle for Linden Lab. That is why most of us have never heard of it. When Philip Rosedale wanted to start Second Life he walked door to door to find investors. He found a few and with that capital he could buy stuffs and rent a poor peoples apartment on Linden Street, San Francisco.

Of the original investors, I think there were five, Mitch Kapor is the one best known. (There was a Judy?) Philip had some cash with him coming from RealNetworks. The capital was combined and legal things were documented.

It's a private company. The capital was divided into owner shares and based on that the investors would receive a percentage of the profit. The shares can not be freely traded, if an investor wanted to un-invest the only way to do that is to sell the shares back to Linden Research Inc.

When profits began to flow in and the break even point was passed the employees received, besides pay, shares in the company. These shares are more limited as the investment shares. They pay out, but don't give any voting rights.

Linden Research Inc. (the money) appoints the Board of Directors of Linden Lab. These define the strategy, check accounting and appoint the CEO.

The value of the company roughly can be divided,

5% Offices

10% Hardware

15% IP rights (protected software)

70% Clients and goodwill

Add to that the value of the potential of Tilia.

Who owns the stock

80% original investors

20% (former) employees

How well is Second Life doing? There are two answers to that.

1/ The investors are making profit, they have received more as their original investment.

2/ Second Life is no longer the money maker as it used to be. Income has dropped significantly but is stable the last few years. It is making good profits.

So why then sell off to two investors?

The answer could be as simple as. A few of the original investors want their stock converted to money.

Problem is, the (book) value of Linden Research is so high that the other investors can't match that and can't (or don't want to) increase their investment. Getting a normal loan from a bank would not be a good idea.

Another, more exciting, answer could be. There are plans to do something that costs a lot of money. For instance, set up an owned cloud.

There is a risk that Randy and Brad will be doing the hedge fund thing. However, when you look at the (assumed) distribution of value, there isn't much that can be sold off and rented back (since that is what the hedge funds do, and then let it die).

Sure it's possible to sell up the competencies (IP) of running Second Life and Tilia. But that would create competition reducing the value.

Sell off Second Life as a whole would be possible. But that would scare away clients and goodwill. Nobody wants an ad during log-in or while exploring the world. Nobody wants their userdata to be exploited by some sugar mountain.

Sell off the servers, well, that will happen when our bunny knows how to tweak things and puts us all in the cloud. The servers could be rented out to Amazon and become part of the AWS cloud, or be sold to them. It's just a bunch of machines with cables around them.

What will be sold to Randy and Brad? Not sure. I find it hard to believe that all original investors will hand over their stock. Philip selling off his stake in his brainchild? No way. Can they get their hands on the stock owned by (ex) employees? Unlikely.

I have to assume that Randy and Brad will get a majority stake in Linden Research because of the word acquired and the regulatory things. They will not get complete ownership, as is reflected by the board of directors that doesn't change except that Randy and Brad will be part of it. If they had full ownership they could/ should push them out.

They key words in the publication are "to help Linden Lab achieve new heights in distribution, scale, and quality while remaining true to the original vision, creativity, and community that makes Second Life unique and special" also "continue growth and expansion".

I am sure things will change. I find it unlikely that those changes would hurt the community. It could be possible that a localized Second Life could spring up, only for one language/country on a localized, faster, cloud. Would create competition and would break up the communities but it could be a specialized world, for education, museum or training ground separate from Second Life but controlled by Linden Lab, from a distance.

From my point of view, no time to call it quits. I'm not selling of my lands.

Randy and Brad will get an account. Be Lindens, and we, as a community, will make sure they will only do good for us. We are the value of Second Life, that won't change.

Reporter Vick Forcella

20200710

Epilogue

If you talk about Bellisseria the discussion often moves towards mainland and the (lack of) attention it receives from Linden Lab.
After a number of discussions about this it becomes time to say it out loud.

Linden Lab has stopped caring for the mainland.

In the olden days, not so long ago, moles were working on improving the mainland in various ways.

They dived into the deep seas to plant weeds and set free fish. They set out routes and build an infra-structure increasing the value of the attached land. Regions appeared at places where SL sailing was difficult.

What's that with mainland?

Mainland *is* Second Life!

Mainland makes from Second Life a World! A world to explore and discover. It gives dimension, width and length. It allows people to own part of the world by buying a plot of land. It is a place to meet random people. 

Mainland can be explored, by boat, car or airplane. Try doing that on a sim.

Linden Lab and the moles used to improve things. fill a void, make it better. Make it worth exploring.

The emptiness of mainland is probably because Linden Lab has forgotten about it. They want the BIG spenders that want an expensive sim and if you can't afford a sim you have to go to Bellisseria, the poor peoples refuge.

It appears as if Linden Lab wants people to move out of mainland and move them to Bellisseria, since that is what is happening. Mainland becomes more and more a wasteland. Empty. Home for grievers.

I bet there are hundreds of completely empty mainland regions. Completely empty. Not a single prim.
Empty is empty is dead.

Long time ago at a beach I knew well, there suddenly were beach chairs, a surfboard, and a cooler with drinks. Oh, and a rezzone. Just like that. Nobody asked for it but it was suddenly there. Making that beach alive.

Editor Vick Forcella

Mainland is loved by so many, except by Linden Lab and I am so sad about that.

It is even so that some fear to talk about this. They feel forced to cheer and applaud the moles and Linden Lab.Fear to express critique about mainland.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against Bellisseria, I love it. But mainland is ignored and forgotten by the moles and Linden Lab. Those that claim that Bellisseria is mainland, try and buy land at Bellisseria and build a house there.

Now that I have this heavy load of my chest, thank you for reading the Bay City Post.
Send your love towards your reporters that made it possible, Thomas, Dakota, Qie and Marianne. Some love for me would be nice too. Thank you.

Editor Vick Forcella

20200708

Epilogue

Second Life is a hide-out for many people escaping from Real Life. That is today more true then ever as the world seeks new ways to be social yet keep a safe distance.

For many this world is as essential as breathing, locked inside for various reasons. (limbs, oxygen, liver, sugar etc)

Due to lack of funding people are loosing their land and houses, residents fall off this world because their home has vanished, they no longer feel at home.

I can not express how sad this is.

I hope that the ones that leave can find a new way of living without this world. I also hope that Linden Lab is being lenient towards the ones that have problems gathering the required funds.

This is not the time to ban hammer the pesky poor people.

One of the wealthiest cities in the world, New York, is digging mass graves for the poor, coffins stacked three high in trenches as long as a football field.

Strange world we live in.

You all be safe!!!

Editor Vick Forcella

200406

History: The Road To Bay City Part 2: Enter The Residents

(....continuation from part 1)

Part 2: Enter the residents

Eventually, LindenWorld was to be no more. By December of 2002 or so, Linden Lab was lining up investors to take their idea to a new level. 

The project was re-branded as "Second Life."

As an aside: for a brief moment, "Second Life" could have ended up named "Sansara." Robin Linden suggested the name for this early virtual world, but "Second Life" apparently won out. Of course, now Linden Lab produces a second virtual world of a very similar name -- but I digress!

In the earliest months of 2003, Second Life begun to allow beta residents into the world. Steller Sunshine, who rezzed into existence on the 13th of March, 2002, is widely considered the first Resident of Second Life, and she was followed by many others who got to choose from a select list of last names when cresting their digital persona: Apple, Jones, Sandgrain, Bach, Smith, Leviathan, and more.

One of those early beta participants was Wednesday Grimm.

Wednesday's Second Life rezday is 9 January, 2003 -- nearly a year after Steller's avatar touched digital terra firma, but still well before the end of Second Life's beta in June of 2003.

Working in the Tehama region, Wednesday banded together with many other beta participants on a sizeable project: the first cooperative "themed" build in Second Life.

That build would be Lindenberg.

(Lindenberg, pictured in January 2003, primarily consisting only of its roads and fences at this point)

The name was chosen by its residents, a play on words from the German airship, the Hindenburg, because the city -- much like the airship -- "goes down in flames every night." It's unclear if the name was also a deliberate reference to Linden City from the beta, or simply following what may seem an obvious theme.

Nevertheless, the idea of a grand city was hatched and formed within the Tehama region, not far from a Linden-created path that may have travelled through a handful of those original 16 regions.

Wednesday Grimm was dubbed the mayor of Tehama.

(Lindenberg in February 2003)

The city consisted of a "U" shaped main road, complete with concrete sidewalks and green lampposts. Fairly simple businesses lined the road, owned and operated by many other early beta residents. A newspaper was created, the Lindenberg Times, edited by ramon Kothari and then available at Tehama (220, 117).

While an innovative concept, Lindeberg wasn't without its issues. Perhaps related to the aforementioned fire issues, many complained about the use of rockets around the city, while others wished for the city to be a "no fly zone" to prevent the use of jet packs.

Both were popular in these early, pre "Second Life Server 1.0" times, as both the Lab and its Residents worked with particle effects for the first time, tested physics, and – as one could not yet directly teleport to a location -- used modes of travel such as jet packs.

This all added to the biggest issue in Lindenberg, however, and the one that would eventually lead to its destruction: lag. Ever the issue, in those early days, numerous prims and avatars concentrated in a small area -- for example, a densely-populated city -- could bring a region to a standstill.

Even just 4-5 avatars in one place could bring the area to a crawl.

A month into Lindenberg, and it was already being called a "ghost town" due to lag issues. Some sought to change the layout, adding a central park or pond, setting it up across a "four corner" layout, or even making a "new Lindenberg" as an indoor shopping mall or other form.

Lindenberg didn't last much longer, a short-lived but important part of Second Life's early history, and the first real "city" in those days.

Many parts of Lindenberg ended up boxed and provided at the YaDnI Monde's old "Junkyard," itself now long gone. There are, however, a few other remnants you can spot.

Hunting around Tehama, you can still see the last remnants of that early Linden path that connected the Tehama region to other early areas, such as the Newbie corral in Natoma. It's visible in the above photo in the upper left hand side of the image. You'll see it inworld at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tehama/117/98/23.
Be gentle, those prims date back to January 2003.

(A main road in Lindenberg. Many items in this photo were formerly available at YaDnI's Junkyard, including the yellow Bannister, the street lamp, and the sidewalk.)

Finally, look close in that photo at the street lamps along the road: Built by Richard Linden, those lamps would later be revised and used to adorn the streets of the Shermerville suburbs just Northeast of Bay City: perhaps a last final nod to Lindenburg still inworld today.

In Part III, we'll talk about the early Linden "themed community" project, and how one early city changed Second Life forever *while* creating the very "Blue" print for what Bay City would be.

Reporter/ Historian Marianne Mccann

191007

History: The Road To Bay City Part 1: The Rig

Part I: The Rig

Bay City did not appear out of nowhere, and the roots behind the formation of our little corner of the mainland run deep into the core of Second Life itself. In this series, I want to give you some of the history behind the city by the bay, and the predecessors that led to its existence.

Linden Lab -- really called Linden Research, Inc. -- didn't initially set out to be a company known for virtual worlds. Initially they were busy studying haptics, or methods of providing physical feedback to people using virtual objects.

To learn more about such, this fledgling company then located on Linden Street in San Francisco, created "The Rig," a virtual space that could be navigated around in. Thing is, the virtual space contained in the rig was actually kind of fun.

Before too long, the rig -- and more importantly, the software on it -- started to take further form, eventually morphing into a virtual world of its own. This initial prototype was known as LindenWorld.

LindenWorld had a lot of similarities to what we know now as Second Life, as well as many unusual differences. Terraforming was not the simple tools of today, but was done using actual grenades to blow up parts of the land. An ecosystem existed of rudimentary birds and snake-like "Ators" that roamed the land, reproducing and eating. Avatars were also simple, created out of primitive shapes.

As things developed, it begun to look more like the world we know today. While the ators and birds faded into history, the world started to form. Those early "Primitars" were swapped out for a simple avatar mesh that still lives under the bodies of today. We gained better building and terrain forming tools even as we lost the reactive water of those early days.

Meanwhile, in the heart of LindenWorld was a city, which sat in what is now the Natoma region.

Linden City

Learning Center City

The city was developed in part to test the then very new rendering engine behind LindenWorld, and see how well it could manage a fairly dense environment. The city, with a central park featuring a fountain, a learning center, and a city hall, had no specific name, but was known as Linden Town or Linden City by some of the few on hand.

Linden City is seen in the photo above at night in what may be one of the first snapshots ever taken by a Resident. Steller Sunshine took this shot on her first day inworld, and she was the first non-Linden to visit the grid. Note Peter Linden hovering to the left in the image, as well as the central tower seen in most pictures of Linden City.

The city was erased not long from when LindenWorld became Second Life, replaced by Newbie Corral (our first welcome area), a store named Avatar Central, and the only remaining portion of that first city: the statue of Man that once lived in a square behind City Hall.

City

You can still visit that statue, now living on a hill near Natoma's Ivory Tower of Prims. It remains one of the oldest pieces of content in Second Life, still here long after the rest of the city vanished.

In Part II, we'll explore what happened when early Residents decided to form the very first city in Second Life.

Reporter Historian Marianne McCann

190902

Bay City Post, Edition 77

Just like the previous edition of the Bay City Post this edition is packed full of news.

Second Life 16th Birthday (SL16B)

The celebrations will go on till July the 8th so there isn't much time left to give it a visit and explore.

There are so many blogs that are reporting about SL16B that we can't compete, all we can do is show you some highlights.

As hinted in the last edition new Linden Homes are presented. The theme is Caravanning and Trailers. It looks lovely! My guess it that they will be placed in the in-lands of Bellisseria. Get sun-cream and bug-spray.

Highlights,

SL16B Bay City

Images of the Bay City Exhibit

SL16B Bellisseria

Thomas Hooker reports about the Bellisseria Pavilion

SL16B Rocket City

The Rocket City Pavilion visited by Vick.

Happy birthday Second Life!

Bay City Historic Pavilion Avoids Demolition

Toxic Taco causes problems (again), Roc steps in.

Police and Fire Blotter

Thomas Hooker reports the activities of the Police and Fire dept.

Michael, Emperor of Bay City?

It is only true when the Mayori (tinm) approves

Bay City Cruisin'

Dakota Schwade goes to the Center of our Fine City

Curiously Consistent

Qie Niangau is getting touchy, but that's a thing of perspective

Discovery of Black Hole

Astronomy at it's finest, only in Bay City

Epilogue

Health and Safety Statement

This edition is made without added sugar and fat. It is free of lactose and aluminium salts.

It is safe to read. Trust me, I am an expert.

Editor Vick Forcella

190701

Linden Lab has just send out a mailing announcing Tilia and the future position it will take, and where we stand. The discovery of Tilia was make by someone you could know. You can read about that in Inara Pey her blog. Tilia was expected to arrive and it's nothing to worry about. The same things are done in the same way by the same people at the same company. Just under a new name that is a bit detached from Second Life. Tilia is the Latin name for Linden tree.

Epilogue

Second Life has been changed, tweaked and modified many times in the last 16 years. It is the only profitable virtual world there is.

Changes are always needed. Some turn out good, some less good. A balancing act. It is important that our provider, the provider of our addiction, is perceived as stable, predictable and reliable.

The investment goes both ways. We invest in Second Life, Linden Lab invests in their staff and equipment. Together we have a shared interest and we all want to protect that.

Now we, silly users, are not stable, reliable and predictable, unless you take the big numbers and draw a graph from that. Then users become very predictable.

Predictable is not to announce fundamental changes, undo parts of that change. Leave people almost no choice in increasing their investment. Tell them that more fundamental changes are coming and not tell them what, when and why.

Will those changes be good for me? What did I just invest in? What will my money be worth in a year, or two? Was I just successfully blackmailed?

Making things less welcome for new users is not very clever. Sure they are a pain but they are the future. While the old move into houseboats as their second home, let the new taste the old place once, for a month or two (with Payment Info On File). Be nice to new users!

If my provider becomes unstable, unpredictable and unreliable I don't want to invest a year or more. I want to invest on a day to day basis.

It must have been a hiccup. Vacation, the heatwave and so. Being corp. is a tough job, you have to be perceived as stable, reliable and predictable. That's tough.

(the above is my personal opinion, it does not represent the opinion of the citizens of Bay City)

Also, fix mount G'al and the Feed!

Now rush out and enjoy SL16B while you can!

Thank you Roc, TJ, Qie, Dakota, Georgiana and Marianne! You, and Bay City make this newspaper what it is.

Editor Vick Forcella

190701

Bay City Post, Edition 76

The preparations for the 16th birthday of Second Life (SL16B) are well on the way. I have received privileged access to the regions in a mysterious way (i.e. I have no idea why I received an invitation). I can report that our Fine City will have a prominent place and will feature an amazing presentation.

On a few regions there could be something Bellisseria related. Unfortunately my keyboard will seize to function if I write about it now, so I won't. Get sun-cream and bug-spray is all I can say.

Mark in your agenda June 20th! Then SL16B will open with a massive lagfest. The regions can be visited till July 8th. There will be events, live music and freebees.

Be sure to visit Bay City at SL16B!

Our high quality reporting (so I tell myself) has triggered the start of several Bellisseria related websites.

To mention,

The Bellisserian. A newspaper aimed at the community of Bellisseria. It includes news, events, places to visit, interviews and a special section "Ask Zoya".

Bellisseria Happenings. This website is to list all events in Bellisseria.

Bellisseria Community. This website has several interesting lists related to Bellisseria.

Somehow everything related to Bellisseria involves pickles. Why?

Do people know that the astray there belongs to Magellan Linden? (The one and only)

While I am writing this the amount of Bellisseria related groups must have increased. Use search to list them.

If you have your vacation home there, please subscribe to the websites so you can get the latest news and events. They are doing a great job. We hope that Bellisseria is able to build a community that is comparable to Bay City.

We will not lend them our Mayori (tinm)!

You must have experienced this. (should)

You save up for months to buy the latest car.

Suddenly you receive a link to go to The Arcade.

Not knowing what that is you follow the link.

You are poor.

You start saving up again.

If you don't know this, you noob, let me give you the following link. The Arcade.I challenge you to follow it!

More info can be found the website.

You have till June 30th to loose your hard earned wealth.

Eleven years of Bay City didn't go unnoticed. An amazing parade and event that bound the whole of Second Life. 

The amount of participants and visitors was really impressive.

Our reporters have all recovered from the Bay City Anniversary and have gathered for you the latest information around our Fine City.

On the web, just read top-down till the epilogue.

In-World follow the links below.

In this edition,

Police and Fire Blotter

Thomas Hooker reports the activities of the Police and Fire dept.

Georgiana's Closet

Georgiana visits Sonatta Morales

"SET a spell" To Save Some Scripts

Qie Niangau piles the seats.

Molewatch

Marianne McCann searches the critters.

Bay City Cruisin'

Dakota Schwade needs pampering and goes to Handa

Mole Man Has A Name

We discover the name of the mole man

This Month In History

Marianne McCann dives into the archives

Epilogue

Last period there was one breaking publication.

Bay City turned 11!

Previous edition

Happy reading!

Editor Vick Forcella

190602

Our landlord has giveth +512sqm and Bellisseria.

Our landlord will taketh a price increase of 26% ... 37.5% for Premium membership.

(you can lock-in a year of the old price, please read the link below)

Also, if you are fortunate enough to make money in SL, the cost of converting L$ to US$ and pay out to RL will increase 100% (from 2,5% to 5%, no caps).

A full sim will see a price reduction of 8%.

Read more about this on the SL Blog.

Our landlord replied to itself with a forum post.

Our landlord presents this as something good (tm).

Best I don't comment on this.

<insert image with fires>

Epilogue

Our landlord still has not fixed Mount G'al. When you jump in you will live a high age as a Golem covered in lava.

The consequence is that our attempts to fix SL, by jumping in, has no lasting effect. It will remain wonky.

Our landlord still hasn't fixed the feed, aka, webprofiles, aka my.secondlife.com.

The feed was amazing. You could share and post images with location. With that you could discover new and amazing places. You could follow unique personalities, become friends with them.

I have found many friends using the feed.

Without the feed I am 100% sure I would have fallen off Second Life.

I would not have become citizen of Bay City.

I would not be here as editor of the Bay City Post.

Due to continuing brokenness of the feed people have vanished from it. Others rarely post and share experiences. Even I have reduced my Feed time.

If you post you'd have to check whether or not the post has arrived. If it doesn't you'd have to post again. Sometimes you'll find that the first post was delayed and you end up with two identical posts or with no posts at all.
Often you can not log-in.

The alternative, Twitter, is utterly depressing and impossible to follow.

Now that our landlord has found new fortunes it must now be able to fix the feed once and for all. And fix Mount G'al so we can contribute even more to the survival of our world.

This month there is much to see, much to do. Enjoy!

Thank you ! TJ, Qie, Dakota, Georgiana, Marianne, Roc and Bay City for this edition!

Happy Birthday Second Life.

Editor Vick Forcella

190602

Group Sacrifice Inside Mount G'al

For some time now out world doesn't work the way it is intended. Crossing regions, the feed and other things are failing often lately.

Marianne McCann has identified a probable cause about a week ago. We must honour and feed Mount G'al!

For that she called out everybody she knows, even more, to join her in a special, lethal, ceremony. Following are some images and a transcript of Marianne her words. It might be shocking for some (viewer discretion is advised).

A large group of people is gathered inside Mount G'al (because LL still hasn't fixed the lethality of Mount G'al despite my ticket).

Marianne McCann (alive)

In awe we see Marianne dressed in a ceremonial cloak and a burning, smoking, hat on her head.

[12:00] Marianne McCann shouts: My friends, we live in dark times.

[12:00] Marianne McCann shouts: We are gathered this day, atop Mt G'al to do our solemn duty.

[12:00] Marianne McCann shouts: As it was written in the days of Phil, by esteemed explorer Magellan Linden, sacrifices must be made regularly at Mt G'al, lest the Grid face Her wrath.

[12:01] Marianne McCann shouts: The nearby infohub, and New Citizens Incorporated have supplied and prepared fresh noobs for years for this very purpose.

[12:01] Marianne McCann shouts: We live in a time where a great gridquake has seen the continent of Bellisaria rise from beneath the void sea, delivering the promise of new life -- and new noobs -- upon the grid.

[12:01] Marianne McCann shouts: The Great Volcano Goddess, G'al hungers in anticipation — and she rages, finding her fiery stomach, so far, empty.

[12:01] Marianne McCann shakes her arms to highlight her point

The volcano rumbles, the earth beneath our feet trembles.

[12:02] Marianne McCann: Our teleports fail, our region crossings are brutish, and we often find ourselves lost to the grid when we log in.

[12:02] Marianne McCann shouts: Some of us even end up logged out, for no reason, just a few minutes after we enter the world.

[12:03] Marianne McCann shouts: Even now, as we meet this day, the Second Life feeds fail us, leaving us unable to share this glorious moment.

[12:03] Marianne McCann shouts: The skies appear darker, and the stars themselves are like black hole suns.

The volcano rumbles louder, we almost fall due to the trembling.

Tish (Laetizia Coronet) calls out, from her helicopter far above, not to jump and drink tea.

[12:03] Marianne McCann shouts: The Enhancement of our environment is making it difficult to enjoy the wind in our light.

[12:04] Marianne McCann shouts: Today, we meet for the Greater Good!

[12:04] Marianne McCann: The Greater Good!

The group chants loudly "The Greater Good!", "The Greater Good!", "The Greater Good!"

[12:04] Marianne McCann shouts: To each of you assembled here today, I must call upon you to make the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the Grid -- and take a flying leap!

As in trance we see Marianne jump into the lava....and vanish.... many follow....

[12:05] Marianne McCann left chat range.

[12:05] Vick Forcella: Oh my

[12:05] Robin Sojourner left chat range.

[12:05] Second Life: You died and have been teleported to your home location

[12:05] Second Life: Teleport completed from Mahulu

[12:05] Silvia Hooker (SilviaHedley) left chat range.

Radar

[12:05] T. J. Hooker (ThomasHooker) left chat range.

[12:05] Karin (Karin Sixpence) left chat range.

[12:05] Nivaya Barbosa left chat range.

[12:05] Evola Courtois left chat range.

[12:05] Yeya Zuta left chat range.

[12:05] Anne McMinnar left chat range.

[12:05] Gemma Morland (Gemma Bodenhall) left chat range.

[12:05] Sylvia Templeton Broek (Sylvia Tamalyn) left chat range.

[12:05] Kennylex Luckless left chat range.

[12:05] Vian Magic left chat range.

[12:05] Ik9. (Irishk9 Aeon) left chat range.

[12:05] Dakota Schwade left chat range.

[12:05] Solo Anatra left chat range.

[12:05] Frankie Lindman left chat range.

Solo Anatra made another sacrifice. She went to the Toxic Taco.

For a more complete transcript you can visit Sylvia Tamalyn her Flickr page.

Now that so many have given Mount G'al the ultimate sacrifice we can expect our world to become normal again soon.

Edit to add number one

Check out the sacrifice of Belle Mistwallow.  Jumping into a volcano can be art.

Edit to add number two

Tish (Laetizia Coronet) while hovering, in great danger, above Mount G'al made the following tweet:

"Taking huge risks, the SNG Military Police tried to stop members of the G'al sect from jumping into Mount G'al. Sadly, they blindly followed cult leader Marianne McCann to their death"

Tish attempting to save cult members

 

Reporter Vick Forcella

Images Solo Anatra, Sylvia Tamalyn, Yeya Zuta, Laetizia Coronet, Vick Forcella

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