Last night I dipped a toe back into “Remnants of Earth” aka “RoE” on Second Life.
I left that setting about six months ago due to how the administration handles the place, and the fact I was in a pure combat faction because everyone I know in SL was too — but I’m not an endless combat sort of person and it was frustrating.
Since then everyone else has bailed on the setting as well — for the admin reasons. There have been a few false starts on getting our own setting running again, but as of yet not much traction.
During this I’ve poked around a few other RP sims, and if I’m allowed there due to my avatar choice the settings usually leave a lot to be desired… And I wind up back at square one.
I have my own sim which I usually use for my own settings, but I let an old acquaintance use it and it’s mostly turned into yet another adult-rated heavy-petting sim — just like the other 20,000 adult sims in SL. So I don’t spend much time there either. That stuff just isn’t my scene.
Sooo, it’s back to RoE — at least for a bit.
Right as I was departing RoE they were amidst a big update to their RP and dice rules. So upon my return I’ve not only had a chance to re-do my character a bit (free respec!) but I’m also having to re-figure everything out… RoE is remarkably complicated and generally user-hostile as far as systems are concerned, so there’s a learning cliff to conquer.
My character was still in the database, so I still have my inventory and my amassed wealth — which is handy as I need to sell all of my magical paraphernalia and replace it with ‘speech craft’ stuff.
See, the magic stuff in RoE was comical at best when I last played, but in the intervening six months it’s gotten downright ridiculous. So I’ve re-styled Valinye as a semi-famous recording artist and given her a selection of the new Speech Craft skills, which makes her more of a support character — and that suits me just fine.
I’ll probably write up the new back story today between work-related things here at work today. It’ll be good to get in some writing.