Elderglen Freebies from the Lab

Without going into details about The Lab's plans for new communities aimed at premium accounts (Web), let me tell you about the freebies I found in one of them: Elderglen (SLurl). This pic shows my pixy alt hammering away to make a horseshoe, one of a couple items you can get FREE just for using the animated activity. Alternately, you might be given a sword when you stand up. Elsewhere in the telehub Welcome Area, head to the Apothecary to grab a Fairy Collection Jar. Wear it and wander around outside to chase fairies. When you get one, a cute anim plays, a fairy appears in the jar, and you are given a pair of wings. Several styles are available, at least seven by my count. All around the sim inside the various buildings you can grab other freebies like spellbooks, staffs, musical instruments, crystals, bowls, candles, various foods, and more. Exploring is a lot of fun, even the outhouses.

Free Stargates

Stargates: You've seen them on television, if only in adverts, and you've seen them around Second Life^®. But I found a place where you can get several styles of them free: The Subnova Citadel (SLurl). Pay the vendor (pictured) $L1 and your payment will be refunded while a package is prepared for delivery. I met a Gate Traveller at Shiny Girl (SLurl) and he showed me how the gates work. Watching it was really cool. It appeared to work just like the one on the TV show, but when you click the center of the SL one (after activation) it opens the Map so you can teleport to the new place. It would be helpful to know where you are going and to do that you'd have to get more in depth with the Stargate culture in-world, but just remember this to have some fun: type /d random in chat and the gate will activate and choose another gate at random.

XStreet SL Freebies

With brick-n-mortar stores having stuffed the shelves with Christmas merchandise before Halloween was over, I thought that I would have seen more such treats featured on Xstreet SL's freebies page (Web). But a quick look this morning showed only one recent item: Imagine! Creations: Ice-Dancing Snowman (Web). Not that I'm complaining. This is a nice looking, though animated for rotation only, decoration. You can bet I ordered one :)

Otherwise I found but one freebie that interested me today, and that was a nice gown from Madison's Creations (Web). Sometimes during the Holidays I have to put on a dress of some sort and this looks wonderfully wintery.

Fyrefly Spaceship

New at Hug☆Mart (SLurl) is the Fyrefly, inspired by the Firefly-class space ship seen in on the TV show Firefly (Web) and the movie Serenity (Web). This highly detailed and complete, fully flyable vehicle sells for L$3450 but has a feature list to make any geek drool.

All the ship's areas seen on the show are in this craft, including crew quarters, med bay, cargo bay, and common areas. It even comes with a flyable "mule" for travels outside the ship.

So why is a non-freebie showing up on the blog? No one said the group is only about free stuff. If you have any great shopping tips, product recommendations, or favorite shops, drop me a note card in-world and I'll get it featured here (or at least do my best).