Saturday, January 12, 2008

Test Run

Well, I've done the first test run of my isolation suit today. I wanted to be able to roam SL while I'm isolated and I had to adjust the alerts.xml of my viewer to be able to tp around, because I didn't know if there's something I could do with the scripts of my suit to allow me to tp around SL. I wanted to strt my Banishment today, but a few last bugs had to be ironed out and I just wasn't unable to do much more than just a test run for a few hours. These first few hours were quite intense. Many of my friends tried to speak with me and were quite a bit annoyed with my little test. Of course, being isolated, I didn't notice much of their annoyance except of seeing many messages about blocked IMs by my viewer. Ali was the one who had to answer all the questions about her big sister going totally nuts now. ;) I can say now that the suit works perfect. Almost a bit too perfect for my taste. I can't hear, I can't talk, I can't rezz, I can't edit, I can see only the little bit Daris blindfold with Marines scripts allows me on it easiest setting, but I am able to tp around and frequent the sims I want. That's the best I can do to imitate the life of a Bane in SL with my limited capabilities. I just hope Marine finishes her Banishment Project soon and I'll be able to do try the real thing.
This was the end of my test runs and tomorrow will be the beginning of a new and interesting experience for me. A friend of mine offered herself as the one to take my keys during my isolation. Ali and I had a long phone call and we decided that my friend would be much better suited to take control of my isolation. Well, looks like it's getting serious for me tomorrow. I'm not really sure if I should say goodbye to my friends before going into Banishment for a few days. I'm kind of afraid that they'll be able to talk me out of it. Or is this just me being too scared to chat with them a last time before taking that final step into banishment? I'm not sure, at least, I'll have another night to think about my feelings.
I'm scared now, but also excited. I know there's no way back for me now. I've got to do this or I'll never know how it'll be for me. I'll keep you posted, during my banishment maybe even on a daily basis.
Oh, and by the way that's me in my Isolation Suit:

As you can see, I'm a vain person. I want to look good, even shunned and isolated. Well, I've figured, this is just my personal isolation suit and I can savor looking good while isolated as long as possible until Marine has finished her own Banesuit which will look much more like the one described in Erikas (Evil-Dolly)short-story. Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to try Marines Banesuit and I DO want her version to look like the one in the story, but as long as I just use my "light"-version of the suit, I can look good. I'd love to replace looking good with a custodian, but as long as I don't have one, I'll take whatever perks I can get. I'm using a KDC-catsuit and corset with Szentesha boots. The restraints are Marines Serious Shackles (the complete set), her gag, Daris blindfold with Marines scripts in it, Fairlight mittens and Lycia's inflatable latex ballhood, again with Marines scripts in it. I'm using the current 1.12 version of Marines scripts and items by the way. But as mentioned before, if you want to be able to tp around on your own, you'll have to edit the alerts.xml if you want to use the items in the 1.12 version without any fiddling.
So if you see me running around SL, don't be angry if you try to talk to me and I don't respond. I just can't hear you or chat with you. ;)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

great, I'm very interested in your blog. How you can see with dariens blindfold? I only can see black.

Hope to met you soon.

Greetings

Joaquin

Kathi Paine said...

Hi Joaquin. Thank you for your comment.
I've made a backup of Daris scripts in the blindfold, emptied it and put the scripts from Marines blindfold into it. You can see with it now, but there are different difficulty levels in it. On the easiest, that's the level I use atm, you can see just enough to run around without bumping into other people.
By the way, this is going to my first isolation in the suit, so I'm only doing this for four days. But, of course, there is the possibility of a longer isolation - maybe a week or 10 days. I've planned to do this, but I want to see how a shorter isolation affects me before I'll try that.
Sorry we couldn't meet before my isolation, Joaquin, but I'll IM you as soon as I'm out of my suit on tuesday evening.

Anonymous said...

Oh ... I understand. I hope Darien will add several transparnecy levels to her HUD soon.

Kathi Paine said...

Hello Joa,
I'm quite sure Darien won't do this because her blindfold is a sturdy leather blindfold. If you wear it, there simply is no chance to see through the leather. Marines blindfold is a scarf you wear over your eyes. Depending on the material of the scarf and how loose it's around your eyes it can be possible to see a bit through it. If you try to imitate RL with your SL toys, Marine can use different transparency settings, but that would be impossible for Darien. I just used Daris blindfold, because Marines scarf peeked out of my latexhood.

Kathi

Anonymous said...

I asked Darien, if it would be possible to add some slot in the HUD,
so that it seems that there comes some light through the joins.