Invisible in SL

I just logged out of Second Life for the fourth time (I think) this evening, each of which was spent as invisible, with the exception of my hair, my watch, my shoes and my eyelashes. These are worn as 'prim' attachments, which usually answer to another set of physical laws in the realm of SL, no matter how hard creators of these objects strive for realistic simulations.

I 'own' land and a house in SL, although 'house' is not what others of its type are referred to. It's actually what is known as a skybox which would seem self-explanatory if it weren't so surreal. Mine is stuck up in the air at roughly 770 meters in altitude, something that happened soon after I unpacked it while trying to see how high it could go. It's a little cramped and not nearly as warm and exotic as the Fijian house on stilts I had two weeks ago, nor as welcoming and whimsical as the petite stone cottage with all its yard pets (think frogs, fish, turtles, birds) which was my first house, but I love this skybox. In order to get down to my land on the ground, which I do often to spy on my neighbors (more about them in later posts) I have to teleport, which is fun for a geek like me, and more-than-vaguely reminiscent of 'Star-Trek'.

It would seem obvious to the uninitiated that a skybox would provide the utmost in privacy, or at least as much as is possible in a virtual world, but I have a few stories to tell (again, in later editions) which will disprove that assumption. Suffice it to say that you haven't lived until you've been proselytized to while nude by some stranger who moments before wanted nothing more than to jump your avatar bones. I'm very proud with how well I was able to maintain my composure with that one.