Thanks to all who took part and to Fenchurch oh for organising the event
Category Archives: NCI General
New Furniture at Kuula!
Every now and then there are some small changes done to some of our campuses, and the most recent one is that we are getting some new furniture and decorations set up at Kuula!
The new furniture & decorations have been set up by our lovely Mousie (mouseplay resident) and so far people are really enjoying the updated new look and think they are a great improvement to the overall look and feel of Kuula.
We hope that everyone enjoys the new changes, and be sure to thank Mousie for all her hard work putting everything together and setting it up. It really does make things feel a lot more personal and cozy than the old set up, and to be honest I really want to curl up on one of those sofa’s with a little blanket and have a cat nap (unless Jeff beats me to it, at least!).
Remember to keep checking by to see any new changes that might be happening at our campuses, you never know what things we might secretly add while you aren’t looking!
NCI’s Campuses:
Remembering Kreechur
Last week we lost one of long term staff members, Kreechur.
Kree was involved with NCI for many years performing multiple roles. Whether it was a creating and maintaining the systems we use around our areas, helping in group chat and Kuula or assisting staff with various projects they were working on, Kree was often there to lend a hand to both new residents and staff. He’ll be greatly missed by many here as a friend and supporter of NCI.
Friends and colleagues gathered at the weekend to share memories and celebrate his life. A permanent memorial will be placed in the park in Kuula but if you wish to visit the area set up in NCIsland we’ll keep it out for a few weeks. Â http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/NCIsland/51/170/21
NCI New Years Party 2016!
Dancing and fun all evening!
Then came the prizes…and more fun!
Costume Contest Winners Are Announced…
- New Years Formal: We have a top winner with 3 votes.
- Ayla Wemyss has 1 votes and wins L$78.
- Athena0Marie Resident has 1 votes and wins L$78.
- pupwarm Resident has 2 votes and wins L$157.
- AnukManeewong1260 Resident has 1 votes and wins L$78.
- Laeluna Galuptra has 1 votes and wins L$78.
- Technus Grayman has 1 votes and wins L$78.
- Talia Malaspina has 1 votes and wins L$78.
- BrainFart Resident has 1 votes and wins L$78.
- Emilylo Mayako has 3 votes and wins L$235.
- Varian Altney has 1 votes and wins L$78.
- TaffyJones Resident has 1 votes and wins L$78.
Congratulations everyone!!
As the party pushed on through the night…finally…
**** Happy New Year!!! ****
NCI’s 10th Birthday Celebrations
 
How to look FABULOUS for free!
Welcome NCI readers! Today’s post is going to cover a subject near and dear to my heart – Freebies! Everyone knows that one of the biggest parts of Secondlife is the infinite ways we can customize our avatars. Just check out the Marketplace sometime and see all the different outfits, avatars, accessories and parts for sale. “But Rowan,” you say, “I’m on a budget!” Well honey, who isn’t?
For the best guide to freebies and cheapies in SL, head to your closest NCI campus and find this notecard in the Freebie Vendors. I’ve scoured the grid for the best quality freebies. Hair, makeup, clothing, avatars, even men’s stuff! Not sure if I’m telling the truth? Check out this outfit I put together in about 20 minutes of hopping around the landmarks in the notecard.
 My skin is from Mother Goose – Anne from one of the MANY lucky boards there http://maps.secondlife.com/
Shape is from External Appearance and was found at the FabFree HQ http://maps.secondlife.com/
Dress is by the generous Snowpaws! So many lucky boards and a whole wall of freebies! http://maps.secondlife.com/
Shoes and jewelry from Duh! Check out the group gifts and their regular prices are a steal! http://maps.secondlife.com/
Eyes are Mayfly and found again at the too cool FabFree HQ
Hair is from Tameless and is located at Free Dove http://maps.secondlife.com/
My pose is half of a freebie from Tuty’s who has a free AO on the Marketplace http://maps.secondlife.com/
See? It’s not hard to be beautiful on a budget.
Sat Nite Salsa Shenanigans
Every Saturday at 5pm SLT (Second Life Time, or PST) for one hour we let our hair down and shake our butts for the NCI! We put the fun in FUNdraiser let me tell you! We Dance & Donate, Mix & Mingle and have a great time.
Location: NCI Beach Sky Classroom (SLURL HERE) It’s M-rated FYI. Salsa in the Sky…
Every week there’s a new Always Optional Theme: Join the New Citizens Inc group to get your reminder notices, theme for the week and handy landmark and/or SLURL link.
Lemme show you how we got down this past Summer:
I flooded the Dance Flo’ for Splish Splash Salsa – what???
Great to see the merfolk coming out to have a splashin good time!
I really love water so the next theme just HAD to be Ice, Ice, Baby (Too Cold, Too Cold) – butofcourse LMAO
The Canadian Folks were in their element as we slipped and fell and hit our CHA CHA CHA moves as best we could.
And YES we did have Vanilla Ice representin. We kept him frozen in an ice block because well you know…
Dance Flo’ Bish likes to dress up for the weekly theme too! Her earmuffs, matching snow boots and sparkles were too much. Oh hey Bevvy – where you goin? ROFL
Come on out and party with us every Saturday! Broke? That’s ok! Bring yaself and a couple two three of ya pals on over anyway. Donate your Time, Energy and Awesomeness 🙂
The Gift Box is always in Full Effect with wacky prizes and operates on Mojo, so get it together! Experience Traffic Jam Salsa – practice makes perfect – the Panny Check and learn the art of the Glom.
See YOU on Saturday! IM Brace Coral for more info on this event and how you can help out the NCI. 100% of the funds raised go towards helping to pay our Instructors and Hosts.
CLICK HERE for the New Citizens Inc Classes/Events Schedule.
Friday Night Beach Party! Best in: Cowboys and Indians!
Cowboys and Indians?!? Yay!
Who doesn’t want to dress up in traditional cattle wrangler or native American garb? Whoohoo!
The Fourth-Place Winners: Andre, drp1098, Laeluna, Pablowill, Talia, and Technus!
The Third-Place Winners: Victor, LibranFire!
The Second-Place Winner: Chipp!
The First-Place Winners: Ginger and Mousie!
Dancing and Partying Into The Night! Have a great weekend!!
Friday Night Beach Party – Best In Patriotic!
Party Time! And in celebration of the United States’ Independence Day, the theme is Best In Patriotic! Whoohoo!!
So much fun and dancing, and they the votes are cast and the winners announced…
The 3rd place winners are:Â Ayla, Chad, Jenny, Andre, Talia and Rya!
The 2nd place winners are: Ginger, Technus, Laeluna, and Emilylo!
The 1st place winner is…Victor (guana)!!
Congratulations everyone!!
BUT WAIT! Just when the evening seems to be hitting its high point… we get fireworks!! Whoohoo!!
Happy Independence Day!!
Happy Beach Party!! Yay!!
Friday Night Beach Party – Under The Sea!
They swam and danced through the evening!
This week’s winners – “Best In Under The Sea”:
1st Place: Mousie
2nd Place: Ginger
3rd place: Laeluna, Technus, Ridge, Andre, and Lexi
4th place: Ayla, Sonya
Congratulations everyone!! See you next week!
The Beach Party happens every Friday, at 7:00pm SLT (Pacific), at NCI in region Fishermans Cove. Come and join in the fun!
All-Ages Blitz Build – Theme: “If I Were A Billionaire…..”
Welcome to the Blitz!
Hurry! The clock is running!!!
And with 40 prims and 40 minutes, the builders show us their creativity and skill…
And the winners are…
1st Place:Â Eyre
2nd Place:Â Leah
3rd Place:Â Christine
4th Place:Â Keres, Tech, and Zoom
5th Place:Â Elayne and Ridge
6th Place:Â Jorrdan
7th Place:Â Laeluna
Yay! Cash prizes!!! And congrats to everyone for having fun!
Friday Night Beach Party – Horror for Friday the 13th!
Nooooo!! Don’t be scared! Well maybe!!
The scariest of the scary were…
First place winner:Â Tarquin Evermore!
Second place winners:
- Christine
- Mousie
- Talia
- Nitrous
- Victor
- Faeron
And eleven others tied for third place! Whoohoo!
Congratulations everyone for prizes and for having fun!
Friday Night Beach Party – Best In Formal!
With Beverly looking like that…you KNOW it’s gonna be a good party!
And it was a great party!
The votes are cast and winners announced…
First place is Christine Grigorovich!!
Two tied for second place: Mousie and Leah!!
Twelve others shared the prizes and glory of third place! Whoohoo!!
Goodnight? It already has been good!
Friday Night Beach Party – Best In Uniforms!
As usual, dozens attended the beach party! Most came in awesome costumes! Here are some in no particular order…
Finally when the votes were tallied..
- Tying for first place were Mousie and Christine!!
- Tying for second place were Victor, Technus, and Talia!
- Nine others tied for third place!
Congratulations, everyone! Fun and prizes!
See you next week!
New Advertising Experience
The long awaited new advertising experience is live across all three of the NCI campuses! The new boards are static and can be rented for as little as $50L a week. These new ad boards are instantly rentable and don’t need to be set up by an AdNode staff member.
Even the first night they were live, we already had some renters! All the boards are placed at highly visible areas in each campus.
Come check out this new advertising experience at any of the NCI campus
–Rowan Carroll
NCI SL10B cool places
NCI will be attending the Second Life 10th Birthday celebrations this year. Our location for the event is here:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL10B%20Stupendous/226/219/22We’ll list cool places as we find them by updating this blog post
Pictures from the opening
First week exploring
The Cornfield
SL10B Auditorium
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL10B%20Astonish/64/15/24
Lin’s Gallery
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL10B%20Stupendous/54/189/22
Classy Souvenirs of SL
 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL10B%20Stupendous/54/189/22
Linden gift vendor
 Nitwacket “It Started With a Cube”
Pod Tours
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Patch Linden
 The Tightrope of Our Affection
 Invasion of The Space Dinosaurs
Mt G’al
TGIF Machinima
Here’s the latest machinima by Pyewacket with highlights from our TGIF parties. Thanks Pye 🙂
SL8B
This week saw the opening of the annual event to celebrate the anniversary of SL opening. After some initial exploring here are some links to areas I enjoyed. More will be added as they’re found
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Impressive/105/227/22 – Virtual Popcorn by Pyewacket Bellman
SL8B megahunt – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Magnificent/226/235/22
rainbow bubble ride, Peter Pan and man in the moon http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Captivate/148/12/21
Phoenix Wave – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Captivate/155/103/22
Cake Walk – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Captivate/103/108/21
Houdini – http://maps.secondlife.com/
secondlife/SL8B%20Captivate/59/239/22
Bay city – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Exhilarate/148/157/22
Pod tours – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Exhilarate/254/134/22
From a single prim.. Cool growing statue – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Magnificent/52/190/22
Bubble tree – Portals to unlimited Imagination http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Magnificent/97/223/22
Cult of the flying pig temple – Lollygagger Lane http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Magnificent/114/153/22
Beyond Time (Gramma and Kaine) – http://maps.seco
ndlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Magnificent/195/77/22
fun storybook and scary ogre video – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Pizzazz/158/101/21
egg timer sculpture – Junk Sands of Creation – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Pizzazz/196/141/21
looking for a lost illusion – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Pizzazz/195/190/22
Big Ben- http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Pizzazz/152/232/91
Sword in the stone – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Pizzazz/191/238/22
Transgender lounge- http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Pizzazz/94/157/23
Seven levels of interactive fun. keep going up !! – Emphatic Eccentricia – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Fascinate/143/238/42
Wiches and Wizardry – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Fascinate/65/230/24
Giant snail racing – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Spellbound/235/15/21
Giant brain – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Spellbound/206/78/21
The Owl and the Pussycat – * very nice build – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Spellbound/104/62/22
soaring with magic – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Spellbound/111/140/22
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Dazzle/43/234/22 – 1920s Berlin
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Spectacular/159/62/22 – Through The Looking Glass Stained Glass done right
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Dazzle/116/163/22 – Magimorphosis (By the creators of Grendel’s)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Spectacular/219/226/21 – Sky Sculptures Gallery- fun poses
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Dazzle/143/99/21 – Sandcastle Studios
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Astonish/203/109/68 -Â Reach for the stars
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Astonish/194/179/21 – Phoenix Firestorm
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Astonish/193/220/22 – Illusionation
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Astonish/160/221/22 – Cats
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Astonish/104/234/33 – Invisible
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL8B%20Spectacular/159/62/22
NCI 6th Birthday Machina
Pyewacket Bellman has again produced one of her wonderful Machina’s for our recent birthday party.
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morning all
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 It has been quite some time since we last shared a cup of coffee. However,  it will be even a longer time till we can share the next one. I have been busy getting things ready to move.