Postcard from Second Life., originally uploaded by Vivian Oblivion.

I won using a Fantasy deck.

Happy Hallowe’en!

This isn’t very Fantasy-y nor yet futuristic, but instead looks like it needs a steampunk series.

Sid wins Custom and Demo!

Sidney Frederiksson put on a great show as she proceeded to mow down some very good fighter to emerge triumphant in both tournaments!  Congratulations!

Postcard from Second Life., originally uploaded by Vivian Oblivion.

Cal’s Friday event hasn’t settled down yet as far as time, but join us if you get wind of it!

Not an exciting picture, but when I take exciting pictures I always get killed.  Here tiny robot Os fights tiny panda Mich.  With just one little detail pending, the Tiny Combat Cards deck is soon to be released.  We shall need to have a Tiny tournament of some kind.

Tiny Doc leaping through the air, escaping from Michalius’s claws of doom (but not for long).

Postcard from Second Life., originally uploaded by Vivian Oblivion.

Lith fights Jake at Cal Darkfold’s second Combat Cards event at Ortakoy. Come along one Friday and do battle!

When my event listing disappeared I sent a notice cancelling the non-existent event – and immediately got fighters teleporting in just itching to slay me .   The event that wasn’t to be wound up taking place anyway. Thanks Mich, Cal, and Rich!

Combat Cards Event – 20 Sept 2009

I am trying to keep track of my event listing by publishing it here.  I’m not sure WHAT I did to make it disappear last time, but I’m going to keep tight hold on this slippery devil.

Cal Darkfold is holding Friday afternoon events on his land in Ortakoy.  Come over and fight!

Kat has been filming matches and putting them on The Spaceport’s YouTube channel.  Although there’s no commentary it’s interesting to see the gameplay. Have a look at The Spaceport website.

Doc and I decided ages ago that we’d do a robot series, and about two years ago I made the frame for it.  Doc had all kinds of exciting ideas for special robots-only effects, and we just wanted to bring the Fantasy series and Horror series up to a certain point before we did anything much for the Robot series.

Lately I’ve been making some images.  I have about seventeen so far, and have a few raw shots still to work on, but I would like more robot models.  The finished images remain “possibles” until actually made into a card, which is not a fast process – since balancing and variety in the effects need to be carefully considered and tested.

Here are a few from my pool of “possibles.”

It took forever, but finally I managed to clamber up from the deep pit of computer problems and re-enter the sparklingly daylit world of Second Life.   I am busy exaggerating my term of exile so that it can be recounted to maximum effect: “My computer was borked FOR ELEVEN YEARS…” *crowd gasps and draws away in horror* “…AND THREE MONTHS!”   *three women faint*

…not in a Combat Cards fight but due to computer problems.  I’ve been trapped outside Second Life – first when my puter broke last Friday and I had to wait to get it into the shop, then Monday – Thursday when it was gone, and now it’s back. Fixed it is not, however, but I hope a new video card will do the trick (whenever that will be).

/me stabs the stupid 8800 GTX.