4 - Eyes Wide Shut - Role Play (EWS RP)

by Anonymous (edited by Penny London)

Score: 0= bad, 5=best
4 Design
4 Uniqueness
5 Animations
3 Crowded
3 Pervable
1 Staff
5 Ambient sound  (waves)
3 Music               
4 Going stag?  
5 Noobs                 
4  Lag        
TOTAL = 3.5 (I added .5 for Porthos, Athos, Aramis and D'Artagnon, four truly excellent men that I met here - and yes Penny knows your identities and will be happy to reveal them if you ask her nicely.)

Have you seen the movie Eyes Wide Shut?  If so, you probably hated it like everyone else.  That movie was a huge turkey in every way ... except one: the set.  Thankfully that is what this SL representation is inspired by!  The manicured grounds lead up to a lovely castle/mansion with small but adequate beach to one side. Inside there is a piano/living room, orgy room, lockable bedrooms, and BDSM stuff around.  It is a short and enjoyable exploration.  I wish there was more to do at this sim, it seems like there could be more done with the space, but so far so good.

The build is lovely and consistent throughout. You are given a cloak and mask when you join, and the group tag is careful to note that we are all anonymous strangers. When uncloaked the men are in very nice suits or tuxes, and the women in evening gowns. The animations are top notch. Now that they hired Manon to DJ the music doesn't suck, but the land stream can be really terrible at times.  There are regular events that include a "ritual" - the kissing ceremony from the film.  There are auctions and parties to draw a crowd as well - and if there are people here, they are going to get naked so you will probably hook up.  Also, EWS is all about voyeurism so the perving is reliably great then.  Also it caters to short orgys which can be fun if brief.

This brings me to the negatives.  If there is no event here it can be a ghost town, and when there is a "ritual" the lag is insane. Also, they do not tell you to turn off your name tags for the ritual - in fact you are lucky to get direction of any kind - so the rituals are very confusing and the whole point, sex with an anonymous stranger, is profoundly defeated.

I would give them points for trying, however when I excitedly participated in the ritual my oblidate opted to take me to an unrelated SL event instead of helping me break in the orgy room and then he poofed on me with no apology.  NICE!  The auction I participated in ended equally badly - at the last minute I was purchased by someone I never met, who never bothered to speak to me and was 4 hours late for our date.  When I TP'd in he told me to take off my dress because he "paid good money for my ass."  Lovely!

Sadly this was not the first time I was treated like a whore by a member of EWS.  This seems to be a prevalent attitude here.  So if you are into that, more power to ya. Take off your clothes and enjoy one of the fully loaded D/s chairs.

Conversely, I have met several amazing men here as well. These individuals are unique, educated, classy and wonderful lovers! They also have the morals of alley cats, but hey! It's not like I picked them up in the produce section at Safeway is it?  Some of that is to be expected at any adult sim, I have yet to figure out if it's worse at EWS or if they are just more honest about it here. Still you have to look hard and be more selective that you would think to find a real (read "respectful") man here, which is disappointing given the commitment to elegance.

As far as the women go, they are beautiful and sexually active but after that I have no clue.  I get the impression that the male:female ratio is stud heavy here or else I am just dazzled by all the masculine beauty and ignore the girls completely. I have met exactly one other friendly and outgoing woman here (Hi Piper!).  Of course, I'm a girl so....

Staff here is notably unhelpful, usually they don't answer when you IM or answer very very late and have a habit of abandoning you mid-conversation (and mid-dance!) with no explanation.

EWS RP costs 300L to join the group (about $1.50 USD) which makes it slightly less expensive than average. It is definitely worth it!

Tip:
Dress up and keep a very mellow attitude, you don't know which chocolate you're gonna pick.

GO TO EYES WIDE SHUT RP

2 - FMD (Fuck Me Daddy)

by Run Chan

Score: 0= bad, 5=best
4 Design                 (landing spot is far below the club's standards)
3 Uniqueness
5 Animations
4 Crowded
3 Pervable
0 Staff
2 Ambient sound  (none - but when the cinema streams you can hear the moaning)
2 Music                 ("We Play It All" http://108.61.73.118:8032 181FM, the name says it all)
1 Going stag?        (it is a nice, but short, exploration)
1 Noobs                 
2  Lag        
TOTAL = 2

So there is this place called "Fuck Me Daddy". Yeah. Nice name. Up to yesterday they had a nice advert image showing said Daddy sporting a giant cock and a perv face, surrounded by his supposed daughters. The full set of images is on display in the corridor bringing you to the club’s entrance. Tasteful? Lots.

Right, but how does it look? Quite fine I have to admit. The landing is in a sleazy square room with adverts and all, but once you walk through the corridor with Daddy and his girls looking at you the excellent build quality is revealed. Still it’s a square room but the atmosphere and lighting are just fine and the furniture is high quality. Stools at the bar have nice animations allowing a near-to-real tease to others sitting there - nobody use them though, i guess it’s too sophisticated for the present attendance (details below).

 The bar and empty stools

A clever nook for socializing

  

Animations in general are of the best quality. Virtually everything is animated, and there are appealing options emphasis on looking at another couple’s play to get aroused. No stiff, average animations here, everything is quite nice to look at. Table dances aren’t of the best quality but oh well.

For those not ready to play in public, there are a couple of rooms on the back of the stage which I didn’t use but really enjoyed since they're among the best I’ve found - great look, furniture and lighting. I don’t know about animations but I assume they must be of the same quality as in the main room.

Science fiction theme for the passage from the stage to the rooms

The beautiful Red Room, with a scary theme.

The pink and silver room, sweet and girly.

The movie theatre has many categorized videos, of different quality but are easy to watch in general. As it often happens with movie theatres in SL, when a movie is playing the audio will be spread over the whole club, which can be embarrassing at times.

Lately there’s been an image twist of sorts truthfully. The ad picture has been replaced by something classier (and quite anonymous), and rules made much stricter mostly on a couple of subjects:

1. No child avatar / ageplay / blah blah

2. No newbie looking avatars

Not sure the outcome has been quite as expected.  I wonder what they have in mind when they settle very strict rules about ageplay and avatar look and then keep that name. I’m not sure coherence is in fashion but common sense should suggest a limit to blatant contradiction. And no, I’m not ready to take it as a joke. Are you?

In SL age is usually figured by avatar height. In fact, I’ve stood there totally unnoticed a number of times in the past, while after the new rules were enforced it took just a couple of visits for me to be booted out of the club. Since I still had to shoot a couple of photos for this review I thought I’d send my old friend Sissi, who’s a good photographer and happened to be online. She isn’t curvy, just like me, but she is at least one foot taller making her over seven feet tall. Guess what? She was asked to leave as well, for looking like a child!  Now I must say Sissi, though unusual looking, is unquestionably adult…but hey!  Here are the photos, you decide!

 

Child No.1 - Myself seconds before I was ejected.

 

Child No.2 - Sissi. It’s very easy to see how tall she is.

OK so what is the immediate result? The club gets full of mega-lolas and fatass equipped girls dressed sluttily, very unlikely to be mistaken as children by even such narrow-minded staff. Men are average looking at best and quite average behaving, as a direct consequence. With this behaviour encouraged without the hassle of selecting the girls and giving them money for their work?  It feels like a random brothel in there. If that’s what they want they kinda achieved it, but I’m not going to back it up to be sure.

The beautiful stage build and a good example of a non-child avatar.

So, the place is fine looking and all, but attendance isn’t now quite what our blog readers would like to find. Sexually self-conscious people are replaced by ever-horny dolls and emotivelly challenged macho-men. Many are noobs and immature so interesting conversations happen very seldom. Though they don’t harassers you outright, refusing a sexual advance will often bring a resentful silence which is very off-putting. . 

More interesting people and myself are going to meet somewhere else for sure.

Tips: 
1. TP your date directly into one of the sweet back rooms.
2.  If you are female, Lola and Fatass up and keep your expectations low!

GO TO FUCK ME DADDY