Agatha

Her story, and how she came to be....

Once upon a time, there was a bloke named Ouphrontis. He called himself this because it is Greek for ‘I don’t care’, and that’s basically what he was: a sad, miserable old git with no friends who only ever left the house to go to work or go shopping.  One day, while web surfing (being a saddo he did a lot of this), he was going through a Google image search (no, NOT for porn!) when he happened to stumble across a very interesting image. The picture in question related to something called 'Second Life', and involved the use of a strange currency referred to as L$.  Ouphrontis had never heard of either, and wondered what this could possibly be about.
Delving deeper into the vast information matrix of his beloved internet, Ouph quickly discovered that SL was in fact a version of 'The Simms' using real people instead of AI.  'Wow' he thought 'what an interesting concept.  Maybe I should take a closer look.'  And that is precisely what he proceeded to do. 

At the Avatar creation screen, he was confronted by a somewhat non-descript array of noobs.  The male ones in particular were horrendously uninspiring.  One female av however caught his eye: a wannabe juvenille-deliquent
looking type in t-shirt, jeans and a beanie hat.  Having spent many (long) hours being Lara Croft, Ouph was suddenly struck by an inspired and intriguing notion- 'Why not be a GIRL? After all, I'll probably delete the bloody thing after a couple of hours anyway.'

Agatha Macbeth: Yeah, like!
Ouphrontis: Be quiet Agatha, who's telling this, you or me?
Agatha Macbeth sulks
Ouphrontis: (Can't keep her nose out- typical woman!)

Anyway, where was I?  Ah yes....

Having chosen his Av, Ouph now needed a name.  He was struck by the resemblance of the Av to a girl he knew  in real life (and was actually rather fond of), whose initials were A.M.  Rather than using the girl's actual name (Angie) however, he preferred to employ a double word-pun of sorts (for this was the way his mind worked).  He knew  'Agatha' is greek for 'good girl' and that a gatha is a zoroastrian hymn, ergo: Agatha.  So far, so good.  The list of available second names beginning with M did not impress, however, and it took three (or was it four?) retries before up popped one Ouph simply could not turn down: his favourite Shakespeare play- Macbeth!
'Agatha Macbeth' thought Ouph, 'I like it!'  And so it was.

Agatha duly materialised with lots of other dickhea... er, noobs on some strange island where all the girls seemed to wear pink polka-dot dresses.  Weird.  After several days of fiddling around, getting used to the viewer, trying out chat, messing around with the appearances, she finally felt ready to take the plunge and hit the mainland.  She did so at a place called Hanja Welcome Area, and, skirting around the main area where everybody seemed to be swearing loudly at each other in voice, took off Northwards.  After a fairly lengthy flight, she arrived in a lovely garden surrounded by sakura blossoms called the 'Kuan Yin Terraces'  which seemed to have been built by someone named Storm Nordwind, and sat listening contentedly to the birdsong and reading the notecards that the nearby buildings gave to her.  'Wow' thought Agatha, 'I wonder if all SL is like this?'  After nosing around a while longer, and checking out an astronomocal observatory built by same aforementioned Mr Nordwind, she chanced to land upon the roof of a strange, multi-tiered pagoda-like structure in which a number of people were sitting.

The rest, as they say dear friends, is (PaB) history....

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An Alternative Play as Being

I discovered this little gem purely by accident as I was trawling the web. Evidently it has been translated from English into some other tongue (I would guess Portuguese because of the way it confuses 'hold' with 'have') and then back into English.  The result had me literally holding my sides in places...

12 March - Detox
 
That dark, at 1 Am, I, Pema, passed some clip by myself in the marquee, until Quel seemed.

    Quel Karillion: How-do-you-do Pema.
    Pema Pera: Hello Quel, how are you?
    Quel Karillion: I 'm good, you?
    Pema Pera: I 'm okay!
    Pema Pera: I 'm still in Japan for a couple of years, so it is 5 necropsy here, locally
    Pema Pera: I 've seen that you 've come to our Drama as Beingness type a few times, from the schmooze logs, but hold n't seen you earlierly, I believe
    Pema Pera: Nice to encounter personally, or at least `` in embodiment:: - )
    Quel Karillion: nope, first meeting with this embodiment: )
    Pema Pera: AH!
    Pema Pera pins are dropping
    Pema Pera: metta!
    Pema Pera: as your friend would state
    Quel Karillion: Yes: )
    Pema Pera:: - )

It all dawned...

    Quel Karillion: it 'll be a long flight: )
    Pema Pera: back to the USA you intend?
    Quel Karillion: To America anyways; )
    Pema Pera: yes, from any way: - )
    Pema Pera: Sol, given that you 're still comparatively new to PaB: - ), what are your believes so far?
    Quel Karillion: It Holds an interesting grouping: )
    Pema Pera: perchance you read on the wiki, three Sessions before, how I was playing the Lucifer 's exponent with regard to PaB
    Quel Karillion: Yes, I merely read that posting before log on.
    Pema Pera: what make you believe about all that?
    Quel Karillion comes upward space someway.
    Quel Karillion: It Holds an interesting attack to excogitate but... someway ca n't state much about it.

At this point in the conversation, after a brief silence, a piece of AI took upward the slack.

    PaB Attender Maestro: I 've been touched by somebody I make n't recognise.
    Pema Pera:: - )
    Quel Karillion: maybe essay touching the recorder?
    Quel Karillion: that ruby cone
    Pema Pera: words are slippery...
    Pema Pera: I see a black cone...
    Pema Pera: midmost of the table?
    Quel Karillion: little crimson cone with 10896 above it
    Pema Pera: or the little reddish one?
    Pema Pera: aha
    PaB Hearer Maestro: I 've been touched by a PaB defender.
    Pema Pera: Ah, it enquire me what it should make
    Pema Pera: start/cancel/ignore
    Pema Pera: Wol 's Hearer Maestro
    Pema Pera: great!
    Pema Pera: Reminds me of `` His Maestro 's Voice ''
    Quel Karillion grins.
    Pema Pera: ( old record company with ikon of dog recognise voice of maestro on phonograph )
    Quel Karillion: Ah, merriment thought: )
    Quel Karillion: ( you could assay selecting the start, possibly, even though it Holds late )
    PaB Attender Maestro: I 've been touched by a PaB shielder.
    PaB Auditor Maestro: Recording holds commenced!
    Pema Pera: okay, I commenced it.
    Pema Pera: Should it hold recognise me as a shielder?
    Quel Karillion: I can give you the URL
    Quel Karillion: yes
    Pema Pera: I wear the ticket `` raiser '' instead than Pab defender
    Pema Pera: is that the job?
    Quel Karillion: it Holds the same grouping
    Pema Pera: I maked that since I care the word `` grower '' that was before there were `` defenders '' we holded the grouping for the PaB land direction, and `` raiser '' holded a nice treble significance, cultivating the land and PaB
    Pema Pera: so that Holds OK to wear but why banged so not acknowledge me, you conceive?

More tech talking.

    Quel Karillion: but it maked?
    Quel Karillion: it maked n't rez the attenders though... OH goodly, Wol 's got more work to make: )
    Pema Pera: I am glad that he and you are positioning suchly clip in it, thank you a good deal!
    Pema Pera: I saw the confab of last hebdomad with Adelene is she working with you and Wol excessively?
    Quel Karillion: Yes, I 'm not sure exactly how Wol and Adelene are dissever the work but they 're both working on the LSL portion
    Pema Pera: great! So is it the three of you so, or are others regarded?
    Quel Karillion: which looks to be the more complex component of the system... at least equally far as recording is touched
    Pema Pera: so the three of you are presently the whole labor force?
    Quel Karillion: Yes, looks like no-one else is making things.
    Quel Karillion: at least I hold n't heard of anyone else: )
    Pema Pera: For joint codification penning, three may be nearly the maximum to work goodly...
    Quel Karillion: possibly, yes
    Pema Pera: unless you are skilled in interrupting upwardly things into modular parts
    Pema Pera: but hard to make that in an exploration stage
    Quel Karillion: although, it Holds one codebase for me and Wol and Adelene are working on another
    Quel Karillion: modularized by force: )
    Pema Pera:: - )
    Quel Karillion: my component is PHP... although that is not my first choice if I could select loosely.
    Pema Pera: ah!
    Pema Pera: you only pass to cognise more about it that the others?
    Quel Karillion: Wol makes n't cognize it she states and I hold n't enquire Adelene.
    Pema Pera: When it Holds working, I desire that Wol will get a rather talk or presentation about it
    Pema Pera: the Kira Coffeehouse would be a perfect spot to make so
    Pema Pera: I for one would love to larn about the logic
    Quel Karillion: How-do-you-do Umbriel: )
    Pema Pera: Howdy Umbriel!
    Quel Karillion: not much logic in my constituent so far: )
    Umbriel Levenque: Peace and Love
    Pema Pera: metta.
    Umbriel Levenque:: - )
    Pema Pera:: )

Umbriel joined us, which reminded me of our earlier session, about a day ago.

    Pema Pera: Ah, I only got another thought, colligated to the session at 7 americium yesterday, 3 Sessions ago
    Pema Pera: where you were present excessively, Umbriel
    Pema Pera: and me playing the Beelzebub urge
    Faenik is a hirsute black ball with eyes and ears.
    Umbriel Levenque: yes I was. proceeding I say?
    Pema Pera: ( I simply layed it au fait the wiki, under http://playasbeing.wik.is/Chat_Logs/..._this_Being%3f
    Umbriel Levenque: reading
    Pema Pera: not yet, but we could now
    Pema Pera: or we could speak about it, many options!
    Umbriel Levenque:: - ) yes many options
    Umbriel Levenque: delight keep what you two were discourse before I joined in ( reading the log atmosphere )
    Pema Pera: I simply got this thought that perhaps the most important interrogation would not be `` what hold you acquired about Existence '' or even `` about yourself '' in and of itself but instead something like - how holds your belief in normal world altered?
    Pema Pera: ( we were making tech talking )
    Pema Pera: So alternatively of taking `` Beingness '' or whatever type of pattern as a `` belief '' take the manner we ordinarily look at the cosmos as a `` belief ''
    Umbriel Levenque: yes it Holds a good enquiry Pema
    Pema Pera: and inquire whether our `` belief '' therein unusual sect named `` ordinary world trusters '' holds modified
    Pema Pera: Mayhap PaB is a sort of detox operation
    Faenik is a haired black ball with eyes and ears.
    Quel Karillion: detox: )
    Umbriel Levenque: yes...
    Pema Pera: you cognise, there are groupings devoted to get people OUT of sects
    Umbriel Levenque: an pinch ringway, a friend named it too
    Pema Pera: delivering them from the tentacles of grasping sect members
    Pema Pera: ah, yes Nice
    Pema Pera: so if we get from what IS, so the ordinary nous posed is a instead unsafe, pestilent kinda sect attitude
    Pema Pera: so can PaB aid us to escape?
    Quel Karillion: goodly, you could rather believe the ordinary nous as a sect that embraces well-nigh all homoes.
    Pema Pera: sure, but measure makes not vouch anything about quality
    Pema Pera: they can all be as misidentified...
    Quel Karillion: OH, that Holds not what I 'm designating at: )
    Umbriel Levenque: wonderment flight ' is quite thing I 'm looking for...
    Pema Pera: you intend it Holds contagious: - )
    Pema Pera: & lt; = Fael
    Quel Karillion: goodly, that overly merely...
    Pema Pera: not shake off where we are, but from where we are inquired to believe we are, if you see what I intend, Umbriel
    Quel Karillion: I was mostly attempting to indicate out that it Holds a sect but so widespread it Holds not recognised as one.
    Pema Pera: shake ordinary thoughts
    Pema Pera: ah, yes, certainly, Quel, certainly!
    Quel Karillion: overly large: )
    Quel Karillion: even incohesive: )
    Pema Pera: So we can play Existence 's advocator, as Satan 's advocator against well-nigh anyone 's `` sane '' mentality
    Quel Karillion: kinda an antisect in some shipways

Interesting, PaB as an antisect...

    Umbriel Levenque desires to be cognisant of all ' thoughts, including ordinary ones
    Pema Pera: Ohio sure, cognisant of thoughts is important, being take away by them as holding the only truth is what does a sect so unsafe
    Umbriel Levenque: yes
    Quel Karillion: but that but truth portion is rather common, yes.
    Umbriel Levenque: but truth but many ways
    Pema Pera linking... antisect... insect.. insecticides... antisecticide... PaB?

I afterwards recognise that I should hold indited `` secticide '', not antisecticide, oh goodly.

    Quel Karillion: now that I believe of it, that Holds still what runs to pose me away from Christianity as an organisation.
    Umbriel Levenque:: D
    Pema Pera: yes, a sect can be characterise as claiming that they hold the only way to the truth
    Pema Pera: alternatively of a way to the only truth which would be much healthier and realistic
    Faenik: ^^
    Umbriel Levenque: yes
    Quel Karillion: Yes... Buddhism is rather nice on that point: )
    Pema Pera: so in this sense, the fashion many scientists look at science is doing science into a sect!
    Pema Pera: scientism
    Quel Karillion: yes...
    Quel Karillion holds seen people stating science as a whole is a faith.
    Umbriel Levenque: possibly geezerhood and geezerhood afterward, science equally now could be looked at as a faith... who can say
    Pema Pera: you cognize, it would be really interesting, as a trifle PaB task, to consult on the net a couple of exemplar of antisecticides, detox operations, and see whether their attack mirrors that of PaB to some extent...
    Quel Karillion: possibly: )
    Umbriel Levenque:: - )
    Pema Pera: btw, I should attend to the Kira campus. Would you be interested to get a load?
    Pema Pera: I need to check something there.
    Umbriel Levenque: sure
    Quel Karillion will need to get in somely Quarter-hour but until so...
    Pema Pera: permit me locomote over and tp you both
    Umbriel Levenque: ( involve to go into in 10 but will come )

I teleported over to the Kira Coffeehouse.

    Pema Pera: Here is the barroom country, for the language eves...
    Pema Pera: in one corner, but you see the whole spot is BIG
    Pema Pera: we can hold meetings with 100 embodiments, if the sim lets
    Umbriel Levenque: nice interior
    Pema Pera: all Storm 's work
    Quel Karillion: Yes, looks nice: )
    Faenik: why not?
    Pema Pera: so you see the barroom is rather far from the Centre, so the people mouth Dutch, Suomi, whatever, would trouble or be troubled by the Anglofiles: - )
    Umbriel Levenque: clearly European: - )
    Umbriel Levenque: fountain... perhaps not so

I moved seething to the 2d flooring, a kinda unfastened gallery, and Umbriel and Quel followed me.

    Pema Pera: so if somebody gives a talk, ahead of the fire spot,
    Quel Karillion: looks a little unfinished here still: )
    Pema Pera: incarnations can remain within 20 meters on both floorings to listen
    Pema Pera: hehe, sure
    Pema Pera: work in advancement
    Umbriel Levenque: good thought that
    Quel Karillion: Yes, the thought could peradventure utilise even more flooring. 100 people might get herded on only 2; )
    Pema Pera: goodly, 70 is belike a boundary for a sim to transport comfy...
    Quel Karillion: Yes, likely
    Quel Karillion: until the performance gets better.
    Quel Karillion: hopefully Mononucleosis will assist therewith
    Pema Pera: we 'll see. We make mean for the Kira Coffeehouse to go a kinda Science Hub for Sec Life
    Pema Pera: yes
    Quel Karillion: it Holds already in the waiter
    Pema Pera: with negotiations about what occurs science-wise in SL
    Pema Pera: suchly wide than PaB
    Pema Pera: but unfastened to `` other shipways of cognizing '' as we name it
    Pema Pera: PaB is like wodka, this more similar beer
    Quel Karillion grins.
    Umbriel Levenque:: - )
    Pema Pera: both respectful to the openness of science and the human context thereof
    Pema Pera: PaB getting from the Existence terminal
    Pema Pera: Kira Coffeehouse begining from the science terminal
    Umbriel Levenque: Nice
    Quel Karillion:: )

The conversation turned back to the Kira Language Barroom.

    Quel Karillion wonderments if that native language conversation takes away much.
    Pema Pera: we 'll should see
    Pema Pera: I at least would be happy to utter my ain language occasionally, for a alteration
    Umbriel Levenque:: - )
    Pema Pera: and making so with only one other someone nowadays could be at least equally interesting as with tenner or twenty
    Quel Karillion: yes, depends on the somebody rattlingly: )
    Pema Pera: so no plan, no recording, no programs or ends
    Umbriel Levenque: would be interesting to listen inwards for me
    Pema Pera: like a Coffeehouse verily!
    Pema Pera: sure, anyone is welcome
    Umbriel Levenque: yes
    Pema Pera: could move as language lessons
    Quel Karillion: rather, yes: )
    Pema Pera: like, tomorrow I 'm attending give a talking about Kira in a Tokio Ginmill, in Japanese
    Umbriel Levenque: Nice
    Pema Pera: ah, Quel, something says me you might be able to read the annunciation, hehehe
    Pema Pera: only a s
    Quel Karillion smiles.
    Pema Pera: http://snbar.ameblo.jp
    Pema Pera: Kira
    Pema Pera: halfway downward the page
    Umbriel Levenque: got Ta tally. thanks for taking me over Pema
    Quel Karillion: See you afterwards Umbriel: )
    Umbriel Levenque: good nighttime
    Pema Pera: C u Umbriel!
    Umbriel Levenque: see you afterwards Quel

Umbriel went, and we turned from languages to clip zones.

    Pema Pera: so I am the tomorrow: )
    Pema Pera: so I anticipate that we get a goodly populated Japanese eve in the Kira Coffeehouse, commencing following hebdomad!
    Pema Pera: if I 'm making an even midway nice business advertizement
    Quel Karillion: sounds likely, yes: )
    Pema Pera: permit 's check the times. I am aspiring 8 postmortem civil time
    Pema Pera: so that is 7 americium EDT
    Pema Pera: must be 3 postmortem for you, right?
    Pema Pera: or 2 PM?
    Pema Pera: 1 necropsy in Amsterdam and Paris, tell
    Quel Karillion: 3pm sounds good
    Pema Pera: 4 Am SLT
    Quel Karillion: yep.
    Pema Pera: you get on Moscow clip?
    Quel Karillion: OH, about Sabbatum log, I 'll set something on the wiki but... ca n't verily lay any log about it. Mostly voice between me and Gaya initially and so something we were inquired to leave out.
    Quel Karillion: not sure about Moscow clip: )
    Pema Pera: Moscow is two hrs offly from Paris, so must be the same as you, right?
    Quel Karillion: but at the instant 8pm in Japan is 3pm in Suomi...
    Pema Pera: As for Saturday, goodly you can but do a short narration about it, whatever could suit
    Quel Karillion: not sure if DST does a difference
    Quel Karillion: I 'll besides be posing upwards Sunday 1AM
    Quel Karillion: goodly, much of that log is available from the autologging system overly: )
    Quel Karillion: although, better leave the URL out
    Quel Karillion: those are unedited

Back to tech talking.

    Pema Pera: ah!
    Pema Pera: okay, I 'll redact it out
    Pema Pera: but it is unsafe to hold it there if hunting engines chance it
    Pema Pera: so efficaciously it will be printed...
    Quel Karillion: they should but bump it if it Holds connected from other pages.
    Pema Pera: but how make you make a point that cypher links thereto page?
    Pema Pera: It takes justly one soul someplace... who so buries... but hunt automata wo n't bury
    Quel Karillion: hard, yes.
    Quel Karillion: Lashkar-e-Toiba see, I could setuprobots.txt
    Pema Pera: not a workable semipermanent solution mayhap? Hard to tell what is best
    Quel Karillion: necessary for testing.
    Pema Pera: hey, here is an thought!!!
    Quel Karillion: for the time being, this thing is running from a waiter that my work is inviting though.
    Pema Pera: How about hold the autologging system replacing each avatar name by a figure and holding a information base with the keys, like a kinda hash table
    Pema Pera: so printing the natural material would be fine, right?
    Pema Pera: equally long as you make n't print the hash table
    Quel Karillion: it already maintains the keys and utilise them to place people
    Pema Pera: which will be applied for getting it on the wiki
    Quel Karillion: makes n't look at the name for that
    Pema Pera: Ah, I see.
    Quel Karillion: but makes relieve the name
    Quel Karillion: at the second utilise that for theview.php
    Quel Karillion: and besides holds database integer Idaho column for eah
    Quel Karillion: each
    Quel Karillion: so completely unrelated figure of each person is available besides
    Pema Pera: great!
    Quel Karillion: ok, assay looking at it again now
    Quel Karillion: naturally, when people speak about others, that Holds seeable
    Pema Pera: yes, but that is well-nigh e'er a given name, not the holonym, which makes n't rattlingly place the mortal generally
    Pema Pera: goodly, unless you hold a given name like Corvuscorva
    Pema Pera: but even that goes Corvi: )
    Pema Pera: so alrightly: - )
    Quel Karillion: ok, I besides addedrobots.txt that disallows spidering in the least.
    Quel Karillion: so at least major hunt engines wo n't index it now even if people associate to that
    Pema Pera: great!
    Pema Pera: goodly, I should get travelling here, checking something out
    Pema Pera: good seeing you ( sort-of again: - )
    Quel Karillion: ah, yes, I 'm a little after from my program overly: P
    Quel Karillion: See you after: )
    Pema Pera:: )

  Er - what can I say?   :.......DDDDDDDDDDD