Ambrosia Dance Club

If you are looking to test your luck you need to head on over to our siser club GRIND and check out the lastest craze that is sweeping the Second Life Grid. Byngo Bonus is similar to the Bingo that you know and love in real life with aan added new skill factor that makes it TOS compliant for Second Life. The greatest thing about Bonus Byngo is that it is networked across the grid and hosted on outside servers separate from SL so that as many as 400 cards could be out for any given time. This creates the potential for gigantic jackpots.

A recent winner at the GRIND just pocketed 29000 Lindens, which is no small potatoes. That represents 110 US dollars at current exchange rates, which is enough to get most people’s heart rates going!

Gameplay could not be any easier. After you arrive in the sim just pick out a lucky chair and have a seat. Touch the main board in front of the room and watch as a card appears in front of you. Pay attention as the countdown begins because as each number is called out you will need to tap the corresponding number that appears on your card. But pay close attention, because if you become distracted you could miss crossing off a number in the alloted time and lose out.

The skill element of the game comes in to play when a Bonus Byngo marker appears. There are 5 per game essentially acting as a joker and you must place them strategically. The winners of the game are awarded lindens for completion of one though 4 lines and for a full card.

Additionally,each Sunday is a special round of Bingo that you must qualify for that has prizes up to 20000 Lindens. Speaking of large prizes, there is a Bingo Superpot up for grabs that is awarded to the player that completes a bingo card in 50 rounds or less. Recently that pot has been as high as 800,000 Lindens which translates into almost $3,000 US Dollars at the current exchange rates. There is also a sim wide put that runs concurrently that pays off a progressive amount for filling in a card in 55 rounds or less!

Make sure you come to THE GRIND to check out this exciting new way to kill some time and brain cells and deplete your linden account faster than you can say Bingo!

Just follow this SLurl to find the amazing freshly decorated and sumptuous new BINGO parlor located in the sky above the GRIND.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Grind/165/169/650

Text and Pictures by Dailyn Holfe

T Town, created by Tya Fallingbridge (who some of us girls know better as the designer of Pixel Mode), is without a shadow of a doubt, my favourite sim in Second Life. It is the single most inspirational, reflective and peaceful place I’ve found.

From the moment you enter it, classical piano music fills your ears and immediately calms you. You can wander through fields of golden wheat, explore the many abandoned shacks littered around the fields, explore the crashed airplane, or simply sit and have a picnic or fish.

T Town is inspired by events in Tya’s real life all bought together in one creative canvas in SL, and represents the beauty that exists in the world, the unlimited creative freedom within Second Life, and how people and music can inspire you.

Take a moment to experience lifes simple pleasures, and give T Town a visit when you’re in need of peace and quiet or listen to Clair Du Lune and look at the pictures of this amazing sim.

Be sure to visit and see if you agree!

The Holidays are so hectic and it’s nice to get away and take a bit of a vacation. Todays’ travels take us to Wyoming. Now Wyoming at this time of year is a bit chilly. It’s much more enjoyable to visit it in the warmer summer months unless you are an avid snowmobiler or ice salesman. But thanks to Second Life we can visit it whenever we please and not have to wear snowshoes.

Enter the sim, cross a lush field of prairie grass and you can almost hear the grasshoppers as you wade through a sea of living prims and arrive at the Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone. Out front the most famous geyser in the world belches forth water particles as if on a script. Wait, it is on a script.

Walk into the lodge and be presented with a faithful replica of the actual interior . It’s a little devoid of furniture which is a shame. A few rocking chairs would have been a nice touch to make it more true to the original. They did include a piano however. Perhaps there is a prim shortage.

My favourite part of the Sim is hopping on the train and visiting other parts of Wyoming as well. You can ride with a bunch of friends or be the Engineer and feed coal to the steam engine.

On the other side of the sim I scaled the Devil’s Tower which you might remember from the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind“. Richard Dreyfuss made a scale model out of mashed potatoes. Imagine if he had access to Second Life.

I finish off my day in Wyoming with a rodeo show. I have been to rodeos before but I was never a participlant. Just from riding the prim version I don’t believe i ever want to be. I think my hair flew off at the 4 second mark!

This is a beautiful peaceful sim in which to relax, hang out by the Green River and generally chill. The actual name of the sim is Wyoming Entrepreneur and as far as i can make out is an educational sim created under the aegis of the University of Wyoming to support business in Second Life and includes a conference center with a with multimedia presentation. But this in no way detracts from the beauty of the sim as you can see by the photographs. I highly recommend a visit to Wyoming by all Ambrosians.

Here is your ride.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wyoming%20Entrepreneur/30/135/24

Today’s random map teleport finds us in “Nigeria in Africa” Sim. Upon Landing you find yourself in the middle of colorful flowers under Palm trees with parched earth beneath your feet and a few colorful indigenous creatures scampering about. So far so good!

There is indigenous music coming over my speakers. The Lyrics sound kind of like this – “Objiwa Collo Bagoombo Alla mE ala woo ollo koo” – with a lot of drums accompanying it and syncopated beats. It will either totally put you in the mood for your safari or will drive you completely bonkers and make you want to plunge knitting needles into your eardrums. I just turned it a bit lower.

Holy Creepy Crawlers – Its a termite mound with lots and lots of – well actually I think they are ants but i suppose that was all they could find and close enough. They actually crawl around and an aardvark comes and licks them up. It is a bit mesmerising. I spent several minutes staring at this scene. They just keep on coming!

There are friendly elephants to ride around while listening to “Objiwa Collo Bagoombo Alla mE ala woo ollo koo” – OMG I have to turn this down more.

There is a great store called Cacao where you can get native clothing and accoutrements to feel right at home whilst listening to the maddening beats of my favourite song “Objiwa Collo Bagoombo Alla mE ala woo ollo koo” Then its off to the local village where people dwell in cylindrical domiciles and and cook around open fires whilst braiding one another’s hair.

This is the perfect place to come down with Dengue Fever! You can even rent one of the Cylinders to live in if you ever decide to go native. Oh, a new song is on – “Bosongo Onijawa Deyoo Anima Patitoo Bagumba.” Perfect to wash my clothes to. So many activities here in Nigeria!

And when your busy day is done you can just sack out and chill to the beat. I found this hammock next to the Nigerian Ocean to be perfect for lazing in the sun listening to music from Itunes. I can only handle so much “Bosongo Onijawa Deyoo Anima Patitoo Bagumba.”

I highly recommend an African Safari to all Ambrosians!

Here is your Jeep ride.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Saminaka/27/16/27