4 - The Abbey

by Run Chan

Score: 0= bad, 5=best
5 Design
5 Uniqueness
3 Animations
1 Crowded
1 Pervable
3 Staff
3 Ambient sound
5 Music                   (peppy punk/gothic/80s http://lin1.san.fast-serv.com:9844/ - Darmy is a great DJ and exclusive to The Abbey so join the group!)
4 Going stag?
-  Noobs                  (more here than other places, and more greifers, but still OK)
4   Lag  


TOTAL: 4


Hello! Here’s the newest Intrepid Reporter this blog is kindly hosting, my name is Run! I’ll spend a couple of words about my tone which will probably be quite different from that of Penny, maybe because I’m a lot younger in SL, not yet 2 YO in fact, and I do feel like I’m less experienced in RL as well, I don’t know, maybe just different paths…? Additionally my look is very different from that of Penny, and I think this is affecting interaction in the kind of sims we’re investigating. Furthermore, I’m not English mother tongue, but you guessed that already, didn’t you? Duh.

So I will start with “The Abbey,” a land I’m very fond of as it was one of the first Adult lands I visited. I was told it had underwent quite some changes at the time, but I only saw it like it now appears, a big, beautifully built abbey on a hill, surrounded by a market. Landmark profile makes it a shemales hangout, but this is quite reductive.

Quality building is everywhere. Not only the abbey, the market as well bears no sign of the usual lame builds most markets are made of.  It looks like the peasants’ wooden village at the foot of the mighty Abbey. Products sold however are as in-your-face as they could possibly be, you will find all kind of shameless things and not all are well built or, so to say, pleasant to look at.

Lately the land was empty every time I visited, and this is a real shame! Not only because empty lands are always sad, especially when they are so beautiful, but because one of the land’s real attractions is the kind of people hanging out there. There are no explicit rules entering the land (a real relief) and beings you can find there span from gothic dolls to blue/red skinned women with red devilish male attributes, fantasy characters, furries, altere mistresses. And shemales of course. Each one distinctly elegant no matter how unconventional.

As a newbie I was quite scared of them and shy, but they have always been very supportive, quiet, and intelligent (though explicit and determined). I was told stories and often weirdly cuddled or gracefully entertained. I wonder where they all are right now? Is it just a question of time-zone?

The Abbey's cross-shaped centre/meeting point is a stage of sorts, with good quality poles and chairs all-round. Chair animations have changed lately and this is why they got an overall 3 score, old ones were much better, in fact they were worth a visit for all the funny, erotic and romantic solutions they offered. If I’m in the mood for showing off a little on a pole with a friend anyhow, most of the time I still end up at The Abbey.

Exploring the place can take time, everything is interesting and there are lots of things especially in the apsidal area, which hosts a club advertising activities. A visit to the Choir Loft up above is mandatory (well I like when I can reach high places by stairs in SL), and so is a visit to the beautiful underground dungeon if you can find the entrance. A tad of a Donnie Darko theme is present here and there - I was told the tore down side of the Abbey featured once a detached jet motor. Now it’s been replaced by a menacing monster cat squashing and eating newbies.

Tell me if you're going - I'll join you! (No, really!)

TIP:
1. Go! Now!
2. Bring a date

GO THE THE ABBEY