What a party!

I want to thank absolutely everyone who made it to the Third Life Grand Opening yesterday. Things went better than either Kat or I had imagined they would. The place was packed, everyone had a great time. It was simply amazing.

I also want to apologize to those who tried to get into the party and couldn’t. We had the region at full capacity for three hours! One of our friends tried to get in for 45 minutes straight before space opened up. In the future we’ll work out overflow space so everyone can at least hear what’s going on. (We have the technology, we can do that. 🙂 )

In case you didn’t make it here’s what you missed:

We started with me teaching a class on Plotting—a quick how-to designed to get you past dead ends and let you toss twists and turns into your work.

Kat Klaybourne then gave a talk about the purpose of Third Life and our goals for that slice of Second Life.

Jamie Jordan was next up with a half-hour of comedy live.

At 7pm game time, I read the story Wildest Dreams and we finished off with an in-world fireworks display that I designed/choreographed.

We had members of two cheerleading squads–the Second Life Cheerleading Squad and the Spirit Dazzlers–in to act as hostesses and tour guides. While we were at capacity for the three hours, we had over 80 different people able to attend.

It was just a fabulous party and a ton of fun.

Again, thanks to everyone who made it. Special thanks to Kat who worked so hard at setting everything up; and Christi for wrangling the cheer squads.

We’ll definitely have to do this again!