I thought I’d start the new year with an introduction to a place that I’ve been intending to blog about for a while, but haven’t got round to, at least until now. I was introduced to it by Saffia Widdershins of PrimPerfect magazine (thanks, Saffia!).
I’ve never played any of the Myst series of computer games, but I’ve seen plenty of screen-shots from it, and once played through part of a demo, so I’m quite familiar with famously attractive look of it.
Unsurprisingly, there have been attempts to recreate that look in Second Life (the creators of Myst themselves did, but only temporarily). This site, Arcana Nuevo, owned and created by Angelica Zuma, is one of the most successful that I’ve seen.
When you teleport in, you land at the telehub beside the shop (where you can buy furniture in the same style as the main building). Walking through the shop and out the other side, you come to the steps that lead up to the imposing entrance:
From here you walk through a corridor beneath a waterfall, leading into the main bulk of the castle. There is plenty to see and explore, and I’ve put together a Snapzilla photo album of some of the scenic views (see the links at the bottom of the post).
One notable highlight, at least for me, is the small ‘office’ that you find at one end of a corridor near the entrance. Apparently this is based directly on one of the locations in Myst:
The castle is definitely one of the places in Second Life that deserves to be visited.
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January 2, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Eppie Hock
Hi Pyter, Happy New Year !!!! Ah!! Arcana Nuevo!! I still have to go and visit!! Thanks for reminding me!! And you beat me to it writing about it!!
. Great write up! And do continue finding new cool places to visit!!!
January 2, 2008 at 7:53 pm
pyter
Yes, you must visit it — there’s lots more to see!
January 4, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Harper
I am actively investigating this. If Gehn has emerged from his paginated prison and is active upon the Grid, steps must be taken to neutralize him. Atrus must be informed!!
January 7, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Arcana Nuevo — Gehn May Have Emerged! « Around the Grid with Harper
[...] Pyter, my informant, had kindly supplied a teleport landmark. I used it as an initial landing, but chose to leave quickly from that location, in case visitors were expected…. Flying about the island, I encountered nobody for some time. Then I spotted a house built on a grand scale indeed. Its architecture was strangely, eerily familiar — until I realized that it could only have been built by the descendants of the D’ni, with their penchant for spectacular-sized buildings and strange devices at strange points. I quickly shot an image as evidence of my visit, even as I reflected that something else seemed very familiar about what I was seeing…. [...]