Vol. 1 Issue No. 2
New Wonderland
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From the Editor’s Desk:
I’m back with the second issue and as you can see it has a totally different look and feel. I’ve been working hard to put something together that is more visually appealing. In this issue I take you along to two other role play areas worth visiting. This time we travel to Bleach Reborn, a role play sim based on the anime television series Bleach. Our second visit is to New Wonderland, a role play sim based on the Alice in Wonderland story. Stay tuned for more issues of SLRP as I travel around the different role play sims I think are worth a look.
Salvatore Otoro
Bleach Reborn is a role play sim based on the animeaction television series Bleach. Bleach is about Ichigo Kurosaki, a good-hearted 15 year old high-school student who carries the undesired ability to see spirits. Others in his family (two sisters and his father) carry this ability to some extent as well. One evening, he encounters Rukia Kuchiki; a Shinigami, or Death God. It is her job to usher lost spirits to Soul Society, and to also eliminate those which cross over from the Hollow World.
Visit their website at http://bleachreborn.com or the sim at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bleach Reborn/114/248/468
New Wonderland
Welcome to New Wonderland, a new role play sim based on the Alice in Wonderland, though it takes place two generations later. In this sim, the Queen of Hearts has been dethroned, Alice was a figurehead that helped bring about the changes and aided the Wonderlanders, the residents of this place, in a greater understanding of their imaginations. She has since returned to the world above, much by accident, and rumors are she left a child in Wonderland, though no one knows for sure. In the words of sim owner Bellemy Ellisson: In the years since Alice's disappearance Wonderland has grown and changed. The world is brighter, more imaginative and seems to have taken on a life of its own. The world thrives as its people do. But now Wonderland has endured what no one thought was possible. A successor to the Queen of Hearts has arrived with her own card soldiers and taken back over her ancestral palace. Suddenly the families of the other card suits have come out of anonymity and are joining her court and the refrain of "Off with her head!" is once again heard throughout the land. Now Wonderlanders wonder how to respond. How do they fight with no Alice to lead them? Welcome to New Wonderland. The world is still topsy turvy and it waits for you.
Upon arrival at the sim, I was greeted by Bellemy, her builder, Surya Shan, and one of her administrators, Elle Zelin. Bellemy gave me a background of what is to be a very interesting, colorful, and imaginative role play sim. Whatever time I spent in the sim is very little for all it has to offer and discover. I was blown away by the contrast in colors, their brilliance, and the sheer beauty of it all. I can best describe this sim as simply a shock to your senses. The beauty, the colors, and the imagination behind it are sure to entice you to visit and return many more times. The idea behind the sim came from several contributors. Elle wanted a place that would be about dreams while Bellemy is a huge Alice in Wonderland fan. With those ideas in mind, Surya went to work to create something that is not only a cross between both ideas, but much more than it as well. Bellemy and Surya have plans for the future as well. She announced, “my builder and I are going into custom sim and even homestead design built to order. The man's a building genius.� I could not agree more.
You can visit the sim at http://slurl.com/secondlife/ Silence/188/6/27