Some Newbies...
May. 5th, 2009 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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secondlife...are actually decent folks.
I noticed someone lurking on my property while I was there but idle. He tried to use my sailboat and I saw the "You're not the owner" message in chat. So I went outside and asked him if I could help.
He said (in broken English, his native language was German) he was new, and lost, and looking for places where there were people, and he'd been flying around the mainland and saw my dot on the map.
I gave him a few landmarks for places like the Shelter and the NCI. As an afterthought, I gave him a freebie sailboat too, taught him how to find it in his inventory, how to rez it and how to use the Edit window to move it to the water when he rezzed it on the dock by mistake. He picked up my instructions really well, and loved the boat, and I gave him a few pieces of advice about sailing, and sailed with him for a little while before I lost track of him.
Half an hour later he sailed back again, just to say thank you and how much he'd enjoyed the evening, he sat with me and we chatted some more, and off he went.
Now I feel all fuzzywarm and happy, just had to share.
(And, actually, am seriously considering being a Mentor of some kind. I know the official program isn't accepting new applicants but I'm sure there are other places).
I noticed someone lurking on my property while I was there but idle. He tried to use my sailboat and I saw the "You're not the owner" message in chat. So I went outside and asked him if I could help.
He said (in broken English, his native language was German) he was new, and lost, and looking for places where there were people, and he'd been flying around the mainland and saw my dot on the map.
I gave him a few landmarks for places like the Shelter and the NCI. As an afterthought, I gave him a freebie sailboat too, taught him how to find it in his inventory, how to rez it and how to use the Edit window to move it to the water when he rezzed it on the dock by mistake. He picked up my instructions really well, and loved the boat, and I gave him a few pieces of advice about sailing, and sailed with him for a little while before I lost track of him.
Half an hour later he sailed back again, just to say thank you and how much he'd enjoyed the evening, he sat with me and we chatted some more, and off he went.
Now I feel all fuzzywarm and happy, just had to share.
(And, actually, am seriously considering being a Mentor of some kind. I know the official program isn't accepting new applicants but I'm sure there are other places).
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Date: 2009-05-06 09:49 am (UTC)I spent most of my online time last night hanging out at The Shelter, and actually did end up helping a couple of people there too. I'd forgotten how much fun the Shelter is.