The Fantabulous Magic Ass Balloon!
I love the occasional absurdity that I come across when exploring Second Life, and this time I found it in my own inventory! It started when I visited the official Batman sim, Gotham City. It's pretty impressive - someone actually took the time to recreate the city, right down to Wayne Tower, the monorail, Gotham National Bank, etc... There's even Wayne Manor and a secret entrance to the Batcave underneath!
Apparently one of the new rules in Gotham is that it's an "official" role-playing simulator. So the owners have disabled stuff that wouldn't be there in Batman's world - like the ability to fly. You're only supposed to fly if your character (Superman, Silver Surfer, etc.) can fly, and even then you have to start flying outside the city and come into it. The other night I found myself in the middle of the city, stuck on the ground. So I figured since I couldn't fly, I'd find something in my inventory that could!
Way back when I first signed up, I somehow acquired a free airplane. I think I stumbled across a kind of Freebie Island or something... I still had the plane in my inventory, but I think that somewhere along the line, major wires got crossed. I built it on the street and instead of building a plane, it built a tiny planet (or perhaps it was a sun). The item right underneath the plane in my inventory is a mini solar system model, so my theory is that it grabbed the planet shape from that for some reason. But! It still had the properties of the plane. So I right-clicked and selected "fly." The result:
Yes, this thing attached itself to my ASS, my avatar went into an invisible bat-bike pose, and I zoomed off into the air! I was cracking up! The funniest thing is, this thing actually works. I could fly faster and higher than any avatar is allowed to. I found a "realistic" version of the Empire State Building and flew all the way to the top, well above where you're normally allowed to fly to.
Pretty cool... I wonder where me and my fantabulous magic ass balloon are going to go next? ;-)
Apparently one of the new rules in Gotham is that it's an "official" role-playing simulator. So the owners have disabled stuff that wouldn't be there in Batman's world - like the ability to fly. You're only supposed to fly if your character (Superman, Silver Surfer, etc.) can fly, and even then you have to start flying outside the city and come into it. The other night I found myself in the middle of the city, stuck on the ground. So I figured since I couldn't fly, I'd find something in my inventory that could!
Way back when I first signed up, I somehow acquired a free airplane. I think I stumbled across a kind of Freebie Island or something... I still had the plane in my inventory, but I think that somewhere along the line, major wires got crossed. I built it on the street and instead of building a plane, it built a tiny planet (or perhaps it was a sun). The item right underneath the plane in my inventory is a mini solar system model, so my theory is that it grabbed the planet shape from that for some reason. But! It still had the properties of the plane. So I right-clicked and selected "fly." The result:
Yes, this thing attached itself to my ASS, my avatar went into an invisible bat-bike pose, and I zoomed off into the air! I was cracking up! The funniest thing is, this thing actually works. I could fly faster and higher than any avatar is allowed to. I found a "realistic" version of the Empire State Building and flew all the way to the top, well above where you're normally allowed to fly to.
Pretty cool... I wonder where me and my fantabulous magic ass balloon are going to go next? ;-)