[12:00 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Welcome to Safe Waters Foundation weekly aquatic support gathering. My name is Miranda. I will be leading today’s meeting.
Welcome new and old aquatics and friends!
[12:00 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: tala
[12:00 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Safe waters foundation (SWF) is a not-for-profit group supporting the development of harmony and safety for merfolk and aquatics of second life, we bring together designers, retailers, sims, merrow, mermen, mermaids, siren, aquatics and lovers of same.
[12:00 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: People seem to arrive late and depart early. Please don’t be offended but as leader I will try to keep the meeting going. We don’t repeat things for latecomers – a log is posted on our blog after the meeting. This is not a place for public debate – this is a helpful place. we all help each other slive an aquatic lifestyle.
[12:01 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Because we usually have good attendance – please take a moment to remove all extra attachments and huds. We’d like you to dress low lag. Big poofy hair and jewelry are big culprits, as are bubbles, script things, huds, and such. If we all cooperate, more merfolk can participate with less crashing. Thank you for your help with this.
[12:01 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: so how was yer week seafolk?
[12:01 PM] Fawn Cobalt: It was okay
[12:02 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: thats good then
[12:02 PM] Lily Lewellen: Been busy… making textures
[12:02 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): Not too bad. Getting back into SL after hiatus.
[12:02 PM] Lily Lewellen: ?
[12:02 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: nice ? for tails, accessories etc?
[12:02 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: welcome back ?
[12:02 PM] Lily Lewellen: For tails. I have one on.
[12:03 PM] Lily Lewellen: Getting a few ready to be boxed
[12:03 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: nice ?
[12:03 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): Anyone been by the Fair yet?
[12:03 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: I am officially on vay-cay
[12:04 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: not yet but maybe tomorrow before the funneral
[12:04 PM] Fawn Cobalt: I went by FF last night briefly but plan to go more this weekend
[12:04 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: hows teegle looking?
[12:04 PM] Peaches2U Camino: went and grabbed the mirror by Krature
[12:04 PM] Peaches2U Camino: did not find the teegle
[12:05 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: hrm
[12:05 PM] Peaches2U Camino: found teegle, just not new stuff
[12:05 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): Yuum Balaal is my favorite region so far.
[12:05 PM] Lily Lewellen: Their deer and spirit of the forest is cool
[12:06 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): I’m biased because I like the MILKBATH Caspian stag better
[12:06 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: think I found it The Wraithwoods http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Wraithwoods/155/129/76
[12:06 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: ooh I better move us on
[12:06 PM] Lily Lewellen: I will have to look at the Milkbath stag
[12:07 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Our priority today is support – we’re all here to help each other, cause we’re awesome like that.
[12:07 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay so the order is my introduction-done, introduce the new folks, sharing questions, ideas, and support to help each other-ie; tails, hair, bodies, AOs, requests, etc, then PSAs and promotion of events, sales or what ever else needs to be shared, then I close us out with our goals, maybe a group hug and picture.
So here we go!!
[12:07 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): https://www.flickr.com/photos/185448095@N04/54277041258/in/dateposted/
[12:07 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): Oop sorry Miranda~! I will focus XD
[12:08 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: that looks cool. kinda like the elk in the LOTR movie when the elf king rode it into battle
[12:08 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: no worries we can get back on track ?
[12:08 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Introductions
If you have brought someone new to this gathering, please introduce them now. If you are new and wish to introduce yourself please do so now.
just click on the podium to sit on it or sit were you are if thats just easier.
[12:08 PM] Lily Lewellen: Oh that is nice
[12:08 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: right?
[12:09 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: A very short sentence is all that is needed – for example: hi, I am (your name) and I discovered aquatics (brief description of how you found us) and what I love about being aquatic is (explain here).
[12:09 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: so any new folk? raise a hand, fin or tentacle
[12:09 PM] Miranda Barrowstone looks around
[12:10 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: i’ll take that as a no
[12:10 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Let’s move on to next part of this meeting.
Questions and support requests
Now – what general questions can we discuss here today? Where do our aquatics need help? If you wish to share here – please im me so that I can call on you.
[12:11 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: if you have any pressing questions about merfolking in sl now is a great time to ask.
[12:11 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: and what we don’t know, we can ask
[12:11 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: anyone?
[12:11 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Buellar? Buellar?
[12:12 PM] Lily Lewellen: nope
[12:12 PM] Lily Lewellen: XD
[12:12 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): OH
[12:12 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: ooh Cece?
[12:12 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: sup?
[12:12 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): More of an unsolicited helpful thing about AOs
[12:12 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: always welcome
[12:12 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: shoot
[12:13 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): A lot of people were asking in chat yesterday. Because everyone always wonders about mer dances…
[12:13 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): Sorry I’m gonna copypaste from a notice I typed up
[12:13 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): Have you been on the fence about trying the OMY Universal Mermaid Tail AO with dances from OMY?
Well, they’re actually having a 50% off sale until the 27th!
NEW OMY Landmark: OMY http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/OMY/119/91/28
[12:14 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: I think we need more faster ones I play a lot of metal
[12:14 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): Basically
[12:14 PM] Peaches2U Camino: second that Miranda!
[12:14 PM] Lily Lewellen: Used it yesterday for a dance and it works great with the bento tails. ^^
[12:14 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: hrm sounds like a promotion but ok
[12:14 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): They have a mer AO thing that’s an addon and you can use it with other AOs and dances for humans
[12:15 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: so this tail does it work with old ones like mine?
[12:15 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): I mean, I have no stock in their brand. I just got a group notice about the sale
[12:15 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): And it’s way cheaper than Tala
[12:15 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: ooooh ok i thought it was yours lol
[12:15 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): Nooooooo
[12:15 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): lol
[12:16 PM] Lily Lewellen: I don’t think it works with leg bone tails.
[12:16 PM] Lily Lewellen: haven’t tried it
[12:16 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): So it has high animation priority and basically it animated the bento tail bones. It isn’t for 5J.
[12:16 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: oh okay
[12:17 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: just to be clear I’m considered a leg bone? i’m not up to date on the termology
[12:17 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): 5J uses leg bones
[12:18 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): “5 joint”
[12:18 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: ok so I’m still old school then
[12:18 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: I’ll give it a look later
[12:19 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: anyone else have anything to add?
[12:19 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay on to the next part then
[12:20 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Quick reminders/announcements
Ad boards are awesome because they can help newer merfolk and aquatics find places to swim. If you need mer traffic, please consider renting an ad board.
[12:20 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Perks include helping the group and being allowed to post ads in the group chat twice per week. Add in the fact that anyone can ask for the stick and that is great exposure.
[12:20 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: You might also consider being a hang out.
Be sure to visit the safe waters foundation web site and event calendar at https://swfsl.com/
please also remember to contact Kris Meng if you have an event you want on the calender
[12:21 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: and now…
Public service announcements
Now we allow a limited time for publicity. Who has something fun to share? A store, new sim, event, or news? If you wish to share here – please im me so that I can call on you.
[12:21 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: When you are called on (and given our invisible talking stick) please swim up to this podium (so people can see you to im if needed) and share (very briefly and preferable in two or three sentences typed in advance as our meeting time is limited)
[12:21 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): ?
[12:22 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: so would anyone like the stick?
[12:22 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: I hate going first
[12:22 PM] Peaches2U Camino: I nominate Cecily^^
[12:23 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): What I do? lol
[12:23 PM] Lily Lewellen: XD
[12:23 PM] Peaches2U Camino: i have a question for you
[12:23 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): I have an answer?
[12:23 PM] Peaches2U Camino: how much is that ao/tail? now
[12:23 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: only one way to find out
[12:23 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): (And also hi Peaches I’ve missed you~!)
[12:24 PM] Peaches2U Camino: huggles 😀
[12:24 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): OK so I don’t have it written, but I think it was 300-350L for the OMY Mer HUD and half off for another day
[12:25 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Yaaaaaaaay, good to know!!!!!!!
[12:25 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: ah
[12:26 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: tails would be a good thing to promote
[12:26 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: any one wish to share?
[12:27 PM] Fawn Cobalt raises her hand
[12:27 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: fawn the stick is yours
[12:28 PM] Fawn Cobalt: Thanks, Miranda. I just wanted to say that i think that there is some mermaid event or dance right after this meeting at 1 pm SLT. I don’t know anything about it, but it was announced not long ago in SWF group chat
[12:28 PM] Fawn Cobalt: If anyone knows anything and wants to share….
[12:29 PM] Lily Lewellen: Me
[12:29 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: lily yer up
[12:29 PM] Lily Lewellen: ~Tala~
[12:29 PM] Lily Lewellen: everyone, I do have a shop in Fantasy Faire located in Lavendell, Limited edition tail texture for the Odyssey is up and 100% of the sale for that one goes for RFL.
[12:30 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): ?????
[12:30 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: nice ?
[12:30 PM] Lily Lewellen: Lavendell http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lavendell/167/2/6
[12:30 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): To accompany that, Odyssey very quietly got more sizes and new rig updates. That’s a thing~ but I’m working on a script update and will be updating again within the next couple weeks.
[12:30 PM] Lily Lewellen: I’m trying to get a few new textures done at the moment too
[12:30 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: good onya
[12:30 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): So please support Lily’s FF work!
[12:30 PM] Lily Lewellen: ^^
[12:31 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay anyone else before I grab the stick?
[12:31 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay then
[12:31 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Tala I’m Miranda and I come from Antiquity.
we have 16 sims to swim through, homes available, shopping spaces, mer spots, and active groups.
[12:32 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: We are totally inclusive, kids, mers, furs, landers all welcome and as always, we’re LGBT+ friendly. in todays climate we can all use friends
[12:32 PM] Peaches2U Camino: woooot
[12:32 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: tala Cuge
[12:33 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: we do allow Mertoplessness underwater, cause you know they’re just boobs. just don’t flash the humans. they’ll get nosebleeds and nose bleeds attract sharks.
[12:33 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: more paper work for dad and he hates overtime
[12:33 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: we’re a light rp place. we’re doing a cool thing where you can write up an rp and suggest it. Antiquity Battle Dock http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Antiquity%20Battle%20Dock/38/119/2
[12:34 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: we have a system called TCS. its a craft/trade/rp system that allows you to trade goods with other mers or landers. You can harvest and create things.
[12:34 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: we also have shops and houses to rent here,
Antiquity Bexar http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Antiquity%20Bexar/178/107/2
So if you have any questions, or need lms please shoot me an im. Persu em ?
[12:34 PM] Cecily ????ère (Love Witch): ??
[12:35 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: I think I saw what your talking about Fawn, theres a xanadu party
[12:35 PM] Fawn Cobalt: yes, that is what I saw
[12:35 PM] Fawn Cobalt: 1 pm to 2 pm (SLT): Mermaid Dance & Light Show – Mermaids of Mariana
[12:35 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Winward Islands http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Winward%20Islands/146/85/2
[12:36 PM] Lily Lewellen: They have a mer dance ball, use the OMY with it. ^^
[12:36 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: i can’t go but the rest of ya enjoy
[12:36 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: nice
[12:37 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: ooh I see a peachling
[12:37 PM] Miranda Barrowstone waves to the wee squirt
[12:37 PM] Miranda Barrowstone waves to the other wee squirt
[12:38 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay so is there any new business?
[12:38 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: shall we adjourn, maybe let you get ready for the day?
[12:39 PM] Lily Lewellen: ^^
[12:39 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay then ?
[12:39 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: This meeting is now adjourned. Remember our SWF goals:
- to assist those considering an underwater life
- to increase awareness in the general public that there is an underwater option
- to make mer resources (events, projects, groups, retailers, sims, designers) visible and easily accessible
- to assist, as possible, with the viability of mer resources so they may continue to be available to the community
- to promote the conservation of rl oceans, lakes and waterways and the nature that relies on them
Now go mingle and explore! Thanks for joining us this day!!