New Appointments

Thank you to everyone who responded about the manager position at the Bronze. We have decided to expand the responsibilities to include all the entertainment events in Sunnydale. Heather Martynov has accepted the role of Sim Events Manager and Elmo Moomintoog has accepted the role of Sim Events Assistant Manager. Heather and Elmo generously contribute their talents to the Sim and always do their best to make everyone feel welcome and have fun at Sunnydale. Thank you both for accepting the new roles. Please join us to welcome them.

Sunnydale on SL Pics

Everyone and their dog is getting into SLPics.com. It's a fantastic site as you can post the pictures directly from SL right into their site.
Go check what the residents of Sunnydale-SL have been taking pics of, or publish some yourself!
http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/Default.aspx?Search=sunnydale

Summer is coming - how will that influence things?

I wonder if the summer months will prompt a fall in the amount of visitors to SD or a rise? It's hard to know as every month for this, the first year of SD, is a learning process. We have nothing to base it on - no figures for traffic to plan advertising and marketing of the sim on or periodic data on trends. It does give the freedom to try lots of different things and find out what works. With that in mind, I was considering the other day how good it would be to create a role-playing sim owners group - a place to gather and discuss the development of RP sims, share knowledge and help to advance RP in Second Life. Maybe I've created myself a job ;)

Web-site rebuild

Since our launch in december the Sunnydale-SL island has been rebuilt and changed along the way. However, we haven't changed the Sunnydale-SL website since last year. In the spirit of the spring season i'll be rebuilding it. I am not satisfied with the overall design and navigation on the site, and I know for a fact that Jude really wants the the 'what's on' page to be improved too, so I'll be starting with those.

My overall goal is to make it lighter, brighter and more clean in design. Other aims are to offer more "fun" content and get a forum up and running. I am going to be taking inspiration from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics from Dark Horse rather than from the TV series. I would like to also have this influence the actual structure of the site as well as just the design. We will keep you posted on it's progress as it happens.

-Mysteryn11-

Sunnydale-SL Roleplaying workshops.

The roleplaying workshops will be starting in Sunnydale-SL this month. The first four themes will be:

1. Emoting

2. DCS2.31 combat system – Getting started & basic combat /capture

3. DCS2.31 combat system – Special abilities & using the website

4. Developing character, creating RP storylines & using groups

Role Play Chapter: The Demon K'arnyth

10th April 2008


The Sunnydale vampires have summoned the demon K’arnyth (pron: kay-arnath) to Sunnydale to aid them in their goal to dismantle the champions for good in Sunnydale. The Watchers’ Council believes that K’arnyth may have the power to possess and enjoys creating chaos and disarray. No one is sure where the demon is, or who he has in his thrall.

OOC: We are continuing this RP Chapter until sunday. Let me know if you feel your character has something special to offer.

Role-play workshops

Since we started the sim back in November last year, we've had many requests for workshops. Usually these requests are for workshops to help get noobies up and running in the sim, but also to focus on more advanced aspects of roleplay. A quick search on the Second Life website events page was enough to make us realise that this is an area which has not been catered for.

We're going to start running regular workshops this month. We'll be beginning with focusing on getting everyone involved and up to the same standard in the sim. The first few will be the absolute basics: emoting, DCS combat, creating groups, & using group chat. The following workshops will then begin to focus on more advanced topics.

We'll be looking forward to seeing you there!
Myst