Well, yesterday morning I had taken three lives before I’d finished my morning coffee. It made me feel a bit like playing the Ride of the Valkyries and talking about the smell of napalm, but I resisted …

Of course, not -really- really killed! Just those hateful Culiseta monsters in Darklife, silly. I was glad, I seem to be able to just about kill one now without having to run back and get healed several times. I just need to be careful to make sure I have my telepathy helmet on and run away about two minutes -before- it looks as though I need to … on account of the lag you see.

The morning was good, but my later venture wasn’t so successful at all, and I do believe I may have even lost most of my EXP points yet again. I think I need to declare the sim a ‘no-go’ area when it’s like that, for my own safety and the safety of those around me (and definitely those within earshot. My poor neighbour! And my poor dawgie!).

Instead I spent time playing with ‘mouse moves sun’, foisting clothes upon Bartje, trying to get in touch with someone who is taking photos for my other ‘job’ (she actually did log in, but by then i was having a terrible time lagging and crashing so never got to talk to her. Must must must do that tonight cuz i need to get the store up and running) and then ummm oh yes, maybe a little more Darklife later on.

It was Phil and Doomsie’s fault though .. they enticed me! Couldn’t do much to help Doomsie get her points up so we can all team up because she was having a lagfest also. I did bump into Hugo, who used to work with me, and we chatted briefly. I am not sure if he liked DL all that much, or maybe he got fed up with me crashing and went home

Oh yes, and when I had arrived, there were nuclear missiles all over the place, making ominous ticking-bomb type noises. Quelle excitement! They vanished though, probably because of the auto return And when I sneaked back later on I met a poor, poor guy i felt so sorry for. He had just found DL and just started. He’d eagerly worked his way up to Level 5 and saved all his gold and was doing so well .. and the sim went down! He lost everything. He was reset right back to zero again … awwwww! I have no idea if it was related to the griefer attacks that had been going on today, or whether it was an unannounced grid restart or what, but the more guy was distraught! I hope it doesn’t put him off

I have a sneaking suspicion that this game-within-a-game may be bringing out violent tendencies in me … snippet from an MSN conversation with Z:

Z: … so you can worry bout killin bugs on the sl game thing again:)
R: woooot! lol
Z: LMAO
R: them mozzies is gonna DIE tonight!
R: *looks all ferocious*
Z: LMAO poor things aren’t gonna know what hit em!
R: lmao they will .. i’m gonna make them scream my name before i plunge my dagger into their filthy hearts!
Z: *backs away slowly*

Hmmm, perhaps it’s just as well I’m going on holiday (offline! *shriek*) in a couple of weeks!