Bellisseria Gaming Club

 
By Bixyl Shuftan

Not too long ago, I heard about a place in the Linden Home continent where people could go play a game, the "Bellisseria Gaming Club." It is located in one of the homes in the Zwischen. The home itself is owned by Sophia Falta, who also founded the club. Dulcinea Andretti is the manager.

The Bellisseria Gaming Club is open to Belli residents and beyond, of all ages and species. Various games available, from 1 to 8 at one table. Hearts, Greedy, Hand & Foot, Cheesy 3D, Chess, Mahjong, Yacht 5, Game of UR, Reversi, Mancala, etc.

Dropping by, from the outside it looked much like any other two story conventional Linden Home, a blue coat of paint and an address "75220" on the porch, save for a sign next to the door "Bellisseria Gaming Club." Straight ahead inside, there's a group joiner next to the stairwell. The ground floor has three games: Cheesy, Hand & Foot, and Greedy. The room with the Greedy games has two tables, plus a sign explaining the rules. There's also a coffee table where one can get a cup of the caffinated beverage. Second floor has Hearts, Skippo, and a room with three games, Ur, Reversi, and Mancala.

Taking a look in the back, there were a few more games. I found a chess set, and a table to play Majong, as well as a comical-looking game of Hangman. Less easy to see, next to the swimming pool was a small game of Bubble Pop, and on the steps was "Tournament Tic Tac Toe." There was also some children's games such as hopstoch, a see-saw, and a merry-go-round.

If one wants to go by sheer volume of them, there's many more at Montecito Bay's Firecracker Arcade and the Boardgame Beach area. But for a Bellisseria home, the place does have a lot of games.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Zwischen/79/228/34

Correction. Originally, Dulcinea Andretti was described as the house owner. This has been corrected.

Bixyl Shuftan
 

Basilique Town and Performing Arts Company

By Wesley Regenbogen

Basilique Town is a small Italian city recreated within Second Life! The town was created and decorated in January 2013 by Canary Beck and Harvey Crabsticks. The place is nicely decorated and you really have the feeling that you are in the real life Italian city Basilique. It’s really amazing how they actually recreated the whole town.

 I found the music a nice touch. In the chapel and Bathouse, 1930s tunes are played. House music is played at the modern bar. There are both parties in the Baththouse for members, and DJs performing for crowds at the Modern. There are also chat salons where a dozen members discuss a planned topic for over 2 hours.

Then there is the Basilique Performing Arts Company. Their performances are over for the year, though there are future productions coming in 2015. But up to September 21, they were doing performances of a Second Life version of "Paradise Lost," and "Romeo and Juliet 2.0"

This sweeping story features 43 characters, took over 1000 hours of development and a budget of more than L$250,000 to produce. You will come away saying that this is one of the most amazing things you have seen in Second Life. Don’t miss this unbelievable opportunity. Book now. Tickets are available on the Second Life Marketplace. Second Life’s most ambitious performing arts company presents an adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Following their “masterful adaptation” of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, The Basilique Performing Arts Company returns to tell the story of humankind’s original sin. Choreographed and set to the fourteen movements of Mozart’s Requiem, this is the story of humankind’s creation by God, temptation by Satan, and expulsion from Paradise.

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In my personal opinion, it’s a nice town that has been recreated within the Second Life environment. This is a very nice place that you can visit if you want to relax a bit and just have a look around.

If you want to know more about this place you can find more information on and also about events, you can also find more information about Canary Beck and Baslilque Town on these links :

about.me/canarybeck

http://canarybeck.com/ (Blog)

https://www.facebook.com/canary.beck (Facebook)

https://twitter.com/canarybeck (Twitter)

http://bit.ly/X7NOxJ (YouTube)

http://bit.ly/QS0bwd (Google+)

http://bit.ly/RnK8pZ (Flickr)

http://soundcloud.com/canary-beck (SoundCloud)

https://my.secondlife.com/canary.beck

 

Wesley Regenbogen