Building A New Avatar

Hello dear readers it’s Chandra, with another tale of my travels through Second Life. Last time I told you about my first impressions. I also told you about having a first goal, that of building the sexiest version of me that I could cook up.

With this goal set, I went to work. Usually, I have a vision of how I want to look when creating an avatar for a game or virtual world.

In 3DXCHAT I noticed that many of the girls there were white and often checked at least one of the following boxes:

• Blonde
• Voluptuous

Of course, there is nothing wrong with that, but I do love to play against types. So imagined me as dark-skinned fit, and athletically built. I still wanted some curves to my body, but also look like a girl who worked out regularly.

So let’s see what I could do to make this vision a virtual reality. I started browsing the marketplace, visiting stores, and making a list of stuff I needed and wanted.

OMG Second Life is SOOO AMAZING!

With that many options, you can literary build any avatar you want.

But …

Yes, there is always a butt. In this case, not a nice one.

But I needed a lot of L$ to make my vision come real. After going through my list again, whittling it down to the necessary stuff like mesh head and body, shape, skin applier, hair, pussy, and a basic selection of clothes I still had a lot of L$ to pay.

Maybe I could do without the pussy. As far as I could tell most mesh bodies have a painted-on version, so I don’t look like a Barbie doll anymore. Still, even then I landed somewhere around 10K L$.

WOW!

That was a lot of cash.

In 3DXCHAT the clothing and customization options were very limited compared to Second Life, but also everything was free. I was not sure if I wanted to invest that amount of cash, without being sure I intended to stay in Second Life for a while.

So what’s a girl gonna do?

I pondered that decision for a while and then remembered Selena. Do you remember Selena? I talked with her on one of my first nights in Second Life, about upgrading my looks.

I dug around in my inventory and found the landmarks and notecards she had given me. I read them eagerly.

Apparently many designers gave away stuff for free, or at vastly reduced rates for promotional reasons, even mesh bodies and heads.

YAY I was saved.

A new plan started to form in my mind. Instead of building my avatar ala carte, I would give myself a limited budget and look at what I could find within that budget.

Maybe I could even build something along the lines I imagined, or I would get something else entirely. If I decided Second Life was worth a certain amount of investment I could always get back to my custom list.

I bet the result of my quest will surprise you, at least they surprised me.

First I started my research into mesh heads and bodies. FabFree is a very helpful resource if you want to experience Second Life on a budget. They have a whole section about free and promotional offers of heads and bodies.

Armed with this new information I went to work, eager to see, how I would look. I grabbed both the free Jenny and Valentina mesh bodies from Altamura here and here. I also went to Lucybody.

There you could win their Athena body in some kind of lottery called midnight madness. If enough people sign the board till a given date everyone wins the body.

The Genus Project gives out one of their heads once a month for free, but I just missed the date. Within a short time, I was the proud owner of three mesh bodies, two of which were full bodies, so they came with a head attached. Since I could not find a decent head I liked and could afford, I went with the Valentina body.

Valentina is a beautiful body. The only drawback for me was the HUD, which you can’t minimize. Since I could not find many clothes rigged for an Altamura body I needed to use the alphas a lot. Which lead to a ritual of attaching and detaching my HUD every time I changed my clothes.

Also, I did not find a way to save alpha settings, so I had to redo them with every change of clothes.

With time this turned out to be annoying, but at that moment I was happy to look beautiful. After that, I grabbed some free clothes and hair at Free Dove and at Freebie Galaxy. Then I found myself in a sandbox and build my avatar together. It took me some time, patience, and a lot of cursing, to get everything right.

Second Life is very complex and doesn’t really come with a user manual. Finally, I was done. Not exactly what I imagined but I finally looked good. I was happy, and exhausted, and went to sleep.

Meeting Caroline Takeda And Getting a Job as a Sex Worker

The next morning I logged on and figured I write a message to Jessica, telling her that I arrived in Second Life. After that I decided, why not and also wrote to Caroline Takeda, just telling her, I love her blog.

She was online and replied thanking me for my interest in her work. I was surprised she invited me to her new home for some coffee.

The fangirl in me jumped around excitedly while I called a taxi. I was so curious to finally meet her. Caroline was just decorating her new home, one of the Stilt Houses from Linden Lab.

Nice! Curious that I am I took a look around. The house though mostly empty looked really good and I loved the view.

Caroline let me snoop around a bit before we sat down in her living room and chatted. We got along quite well and after a short while, she said. “The rest looks pretty great, but that hair won’t do.

You look like a cheap hooker from …” I don’t recall what she said exactly but I think it was a rundown region of her home city.

Then I remembered that I had been playing with the color change HUD of my hair and the last setting was a bubble gum pink. I blushed and stammered something, as suddenly I got a message that I had received an inventory offer and another.

Within a short while, I had gotten several hairstyles and pieces of clothing from Caroline. She explained, that she had full right to copy them and hand them, out so it was no trouble for her.

Still, I found the gesture very sweet and I was in heaven. More clothes for me to play and experiment with.

While we were chatting I tried out various hairstyles till I found one I liked. It should not have come as a surprise that our talk turned to sex, especially after I mentioned that I was friends with Jessica in 3DXCHAT.

We talked a bit about sexual preferences, adventures, and escapades. Actually, we were talking about my sexual preferences, adventures, and escapades. I was just too much in fangirl mode to notice. She even had me write out a few sexy emotes. I found this a fun game and was eager to show my skills in that area to Caroline.

I have a pretty relaxed attitude about sex. I did mention that I am curious and seldom turn down a chance for an adventure, right? So I do enjoy a good, steamy session of virtual sex.

Then suddenly out of the blue came the question: “Have you ever considered sex work?”

Wait!

Hold your horses for a moment.

Was I sitting in a job interview without realizing it?

I have been in Second Life for maybe a week. Caroline wasn’t considering hiring me?
Apparently, she was. So what did I tell her?

Of course, I played a prostitute in a role-play scene, which was sexy and fun. But is this considered as being a sex worker?

I told her about my role-playing experience and she suggested I give the real deal a try, offering me a job at Candy’s Hotel.

Did I want to be a sex worker?

Maybe I should have given it some thought. But why think, when you can jump head-first into the water? There was a new adventure presenting itself, so I took the opportunity and the job.

I was excited! I needed to put together some sexy outfits for work. Caroline offered to let me use her house for that. I happily took her up on that. Using a public sandbox to style yourself can get a bit stressy if you get regular IM’s along the lines of “Nice tits”

Finding My Style And The Tale Of The Creepy Furry

At night I came back to Caroline’s House and started working on my clothes. rezzing everything I had and playing around with it. It felt like I was in a Candysstore.

Boxes and articles of clothing littered the floor. I was grinning and humming along to some tunes I was hearing on my phone. Trying out various articles of clothing. It had been a warm day and so I had left the doors and windows open and a cool breeze caressed my naked skin.
Suddenly I heard a sniffing noise and something cool and slightly wet pushed between my buttocks.

WTF!

Whirling around I saw a strange-looking creature. He looked like a cross between a fox and a cat, but his fur was bright pink and he was sporting an erection. He bends down trying to sniff my pussy. Pushing him back I screamed at him to get the fuck out.

Ignoring me he moved around me trying to get his paws and nose on me mumbling something about needing one more to .. level up? I am really not sure.

After the first shock wore off I ran into him pushing him out on the terrace and off into the water, where he landed with a loud splash. I quickly ran back inside, closing the doors and drawing the curtains shut. Peeking outside I could see him swim away still mumbling.
Sadly, being surprised by the events I forgot to grab my phone and take a picture of my visitor.

After that shock I raided Caroline’s bar making myself a Gin Tonic, and trying to calm down before getting back to my clothes.

Here are a few outfits I created that night. How do I look? I admit my new look wasn’t anywhere near, what I initially imagined, quite to the contrary, but I love the new me