I Like Your Tattoos

11 W 81st Street . September 22, 2007 . 9:19 pm .

My Second Life adventures have given me a good number of interesting friends thus far. Five days ago I met Iruma Kamachi at Japan Resort. Iruma Kamachi had a lot of tattoos and was wearing a diving helmet. It was late at night and I had had a couple of pathetic conversations elsewhere that evening. To my surprise though Japan Resort was a beautiful hill, by the water and full of cherry blossom trees.

I sat on a bench to people-watch. There were 5 or 6 others sitting around me in complete silence ("camping" I was told.) It got awkward but Iruma suddenly came out of the blue to say hello. He was very friendly and full of energy which, given the circumstances, I appreciated. He was from Portugal and our conversation evolved so naturally that soon my mute bench mate, Ng Auer, asked us to join in.

We talked a lot about Second Life and how it broadens our view about ourselves. He told me that 25,000 Linden dollars equal about 60 euros. He explained that people usually build things from scratch and sell them to make money. Iruma himself had created some of his tattoos which had already been bought for up to 100 Linden dollars a piece.

I said "I like your tattoos..." and he gave me one for free.

Most importantly though, Iruma and Ng told me for the first time about Freebie Planet. I could not believe I knew nothing of the place and suddenly understood many a thing - like my boring outfit! (Boring but now that I lost it though I miss it terribly.)

I suddenly had no time to lose, thanked them both and immediately teleported myself on a shopping spree.

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