**** OPENSIM ONLINE WEATHER SYSTEM V8A UPDATED RELEASE *****
AVAILABLE FOR FREE AND FULLPERM AT WEATHER SECTOR

************** WHAT’S NEW IN V8A COMPARED TO V8? ************
1- Added a LIGHTHOUSE addon - more realism to your sim - it plays the fog horn when needed (on certain weather conditions as foggy or mist, for instance);
2- The "day" sound was changed for something more relaxing,smooth, subtle than the previous version.

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY REZZED THE OPENSIM ONLINE WEATHER SYSTEM IN YOUR REGION, YOU ONLY NEED TO ADD THE LIGHTHOUSE AND SOUNBOXES. THATS ALL - IT WORKS ON PREVIOUS VERSIONS AS V8 AND V7

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------🌦 Opensim Online Weather System V8A 🌦
Bring your OpenSim region to life with real-time, dynamic weather!

✨ Features
🌍 Live weather updates for any city worldwide
🌡 Temperature shown in both °C and °F
🕒 Local time (AM/PM and 24 hours)
⛅ Realistic conditions: rain, snow, drizzle, thunderstorm; EEP SKY changes automatically on your region!
🎨 Automatic weather textures and matching sounds
🕒 Customizable update interval
💡 Low-lag and optimized for OpenSim
🛠 Easy setup via a dialog menu

Transform your region instantly — rez the system, enter your city and API key, and enjoy dynamic weather all year round!

📦 WHAT’S INCLUDED ON VENDOR V8A:

- SCRIPTS USED V8A (BOX);
- SOUNDS USED V8A (BOX);
- TEXTURES USED V8A (BOX);
-LOGO USED V8A (BOX);
- WEATHER SCULPT SET V8A (BOX);
- OpenSIM Online ADDON (SLAVE) V8A 01 prim;
- OpenSIM Online Weather Display Board V8A (SLAVE) 11 prims;
- OpenSIM Online Weather Controller V8A (MASTER) 01 prim;
- OpenSIM ONLINE THUNDERBOX V8A (SLAVE)(INVISIBLE by default);
- OpenSIM ONLINE SOUNDBOX V8A (SLAVE MAIN);
- OpenSIM ONLINE SOUNDBOX V8A (SLAVE SLAVE);
- OpenSIM Online Northern Lights V8A (SLAVE);
- OpenSIM Online Cloud V8A (SLAVE);
- OPENSIM WEATHER CODES UPDT 10JAN26 (NOTECARD);
- OPENSIM Thunder Caller (MASTER) HUD V8A (add me)";
- OPEMSIM Fog Caller HUD V8A (MASTER) (add me);
- READ ME PLEASE!! (ENGLISH) v.26MAY26 (NOTECARD).


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⚙️ HOW TO USE
1 – Get your API Key
API = Application Programming Interface. It lets the weather script fetch live data from a forescast website.
Steps:
Go to: https://openweathermap.org
Sign up or log in (website will prompt you to paid subscription but choose the free one!!)
Open your profile → API keys
Create a key → copy it

2 – Rez the Weather Sculpts (You will find them inside the box "WEATHER SCULPT SET V8A (BOX)".

Rez the weather sculpts across your region - around buildings etc -
I recommend going on infra-red mode (Firestorm) by clicking CONTROL+ALT+T.
Select all sculpts →LINK THEM ALL and insert on the root prim (just select them all) and insert the script called "OpenSIM ONLINE SCULPT V8A (SLAVE)". (*)

(*) THIS SCRIPT AND ALL OTHERS USED ON THIS SYSTEM can be found at the box called "SCRIPTS USED V8A (BOX)".

3- Insert some of the textures included on the "TEXTURES FOR SCULPTS V8A (BOX)" that can be found inside the box "SCRIPTS USED V8A (BOX)"
Textures on the root prim of the linked sculpts MUST be "clear,r1,r2,r3,r4,sr1,sr2,sr3,s1,s2,s3 and s4 to script work perfectly. By default, all pieces of sculpts have already the needed textures so to not worry :)

4 –SET UP THE SYSTEM:
Rez the controller "OpenSIM Online Weather Controller V8A (MASTER) 02 prims" and click it. A dialog menu (blue menu) will prompt:
-> Choose the name of the city (English only - other languages or misspelled, script won`t fetch information). If a city name like Springfield (USA) is selected and there are 5 on that country, script will select a random one - on these cases, type "Springfield,IL,US" (Illinois, United States) so script will fetch information from the correct place. Another option is also select by lat/lon mode (latitude/longitude).
-> Click again, and insert the API KEY generated by the website.
-> Click once more, now insert the interval. and that s it.
It will send information to all soundboxes, sculpts, thunderboxes rezzed if in within same region!
Rez the display board next to the controller "OpenSIM Online Weather Display Board V8A (SLAVE) 11 prims"
-> Click the controller and click the "Update Now" button.
This action updates the info on the display board.

***** Please be patient. All changes on the dialog box, script may take up to 15 seconds to fetch the information!*****************************

5 – Optional: Add Sound & Thunder & Cloud & Nothern Lights:
Plays drizzle, rain, and blizzard sounds when told by the controller..
If no bad weather: plays birds (day) or crickets (night).

In version V8A, there are now two types of SoundBoxes:

OpenSIM ONLINE SOUNDBOX V8A (SLAVE MAIN);
OpenSIM ONLINE SOUNDBOX V8A (SLAVE SLAVE).

How to set up:

-Rez as many “OpenSIM ONLINE SOUNDBOX V8A (SLAVE SLAVE)” objects as needed in your region (optional);
- Link them all together;
- Rez only one “OpenSIM ONLINE SOUNDBOX V8A (SLAVE MAIN)”;
- Link all the previously linked SoundBoxes to this one.

Important: For this to work, “OpenSIM ONLINE SOUNDBOX V8A (SLAVE MAIN)” must be the root prim (the last object selected when linking). It is the box that contains the script.

And voilà — you now use one script for all SoundBoxes, and the sound will be emitted from each of them in near-perfect synchronization.

(ps) I recommend rezing them close to buildings or common public areas. DO NOT rez the sounboxes too close to each other. Believe me ,Spam sound will be unpleasant for the visitors and it won`t sound natural to your ears!

SOUNDBOXES NOW HAVE THE NIGHT SOUND (THE CRICKETS) SUPPRESSION!
* The script checks the object’s latitude and the current month!
* Tropics (≤ latitude 30°) → night sounds always play.
* Polar regions (≥ latitude 60°) → night sounds are always blocked.
* Mid-latitudes (latitude 30°–60°) → gradual suppression:

* In winter months (depending on latitude), night sounds are blocked.
* In summer months, "night" sounds play normally.
* The script stops "night" sound if suppression applies; "day","rain", "drizzle" and "snow" sounds always play normally.

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-> Opensim ONLINE THUNDERBOX V8A (SLAVE):
Plays a thunder sound and flashes lightning when told by the controller.
When rezzed, by default it is invisible, please go to infra-red mode (control alt+t) to see and resize it to your needs.
PS. To test it, please add as a hud (or just add it) the "OPENSIM
Thunder Caller (MASTER) HUD" and click it. Once you see the size and position are ok, this script is no longer necessary.
Be patient. Thunder sound and the lighting will show on a random interval of time from 10 seconds to 05 minutes.

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-> OpenSIM ONLINE CLOUD V8A (SLAVE):
4x4 sized sculpt cloud to rez in your region - It will show when the weather conditions told by the controller when it asks to. Otherwise it will remain invisible.
No setup needed

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-> OpenSIM ONLINE Aurora Borealis V8A (SLAVE).
4x4 sized mesh to rez in your region - it will show only at nights (sun position OpenSIM ONLINE EEP ADDON (SLAVE) V8A
This add-on automatically changes the region EEP sky according to the weather conditions received from the OpenSim Online Weather Controller.

1. Rez the object named:
"OpenSIM Online EEP ADDON (SLAVE) V8A 01 prim"
2. Place it anywhere in the region.
3. Ensure the following EEP settings are present inside the prim inventory:
TCLEAR
PCLEAR
PCLOUDY
CLOUDY
FOGGY

4. The script will listen for weather data sent by the Weather Controller and automatically apply the corresponding EEP sky.

PERMISSIONS REQUIRED
The object must be rezzed by the Region Owner or by a user with Estate Manager rights.
Otherwise the script will not have permission to change the region environment.

IMPORTANT NOTES
• This add-on changes only the region EEP sky preset according to the weather condition.
• It does NOT modify the region time offset.
• It does NOT change the day length or sun cycle.
• These parameters remain controlled by the region’s existing environment settings.

OPERATION
Once rezzed and running, the add-on works automatically.
No configuration or user interaction is required.

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-OpenSIM LIGHTHOUSE ADDON (SLAVE) V8A — 07 prims

OVERVIEW
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The Lighthouse Add-on integrates with the OpenSim Online Weather System. It listens for weather data broadcast by the Weather Controller (Master) and responds automatically:

• When fog or reduced-visibility conditions are detected, the lights turn ON and
a fog horn sounds at regular intervals. (once each 90 seconds)
• When conditions clear, the lights return to their normal automatic day/night cycle.


IMPORTANT — READ BEFORE REZZING
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This add-on comes in TWO separate pieces:

1. The lighthouse building
2. The light beam with reflector

⚠ DO NOT LINK THEM TOGETHER. They must remain as two independent objects.


SETUP
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Simply rez both pieces in your region. No additional configuration is required.
The system works SIM-wide regardless of where the objects are placed.


LIGHT MODES
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Click the reflector (owner only) to cycle through the available light modes:

Mode 0 — Lights Always Off
Mode 1 — Lights Always On
Mode 2 — Automatic (day/night cycle) ← default

Note: During active fog conditions, the lights and fog horn sound are always forced ON regardless of the selected mode. When conditions clear, the previous mode resumes automatically.


TESTING
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To verify the lighthouse is working correctly, attach the included HUD:

"OPENSIM Lighthouse FOG HORN Caller (MASTER) HUD V8A (add me)"

This HUD allows you to manually trigger the fog horn and confirm the system
is responding as expected.


WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT ACTIVATE THE SYSTEM
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The lighthouse activates under the following weather conditions:

Mist · Smoke · Haze · Dust Whirls · Fog
Sand · Dust · Volcanic Ash · Squalls · Tornado


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📌 Notes

-Keep your API key private — free plan allows ~1,000 calls/day (enough if you set 15-minute intervals).
-Make sure city name is spelled correctly in English.
After changing settings or resetting the script, it may take up to 15 seconds for the menu to reload and fetch the new information to display.
BE PATIENT!

Don’t worry — your settings are saved inside the prim in case of script replacement, script or SIM reset!

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FAQ

1 – What does “Master” and “Slave” mean?

Master script = The boss.
Goes online to fetch live weather.
Sends the result (via channel messages) to all connected objects.
Slave script = The worker.
Never goes online (saves lag). Just listens for the Master’s messages and updates textures, sounds, or lights.

📡 Example:
Master says: “Weather code 502 = heavy rain”.
All Slaves hear it → they switch to rain textures and respective sound.

👉 In short:
Master = speaks.
Slave = listens.
Channel = the walkie-talkie frequency they use.
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2 – Does the script works on a certain distance or on the whole region?
- It works SIM-wide, no matter if your SIM is 1x1 or 12x12 or if any object from this weather system is rezzed 1,000 meters high (*). it will work!
(*) Certain grids limit script activity up to - from 4,000 to 10,000 meters max high - check with your grid owner!

3- Can I rez more than 1 cluster of sculpts on my region?
Yes! Here an example on what I do on my 8x8 SIM called TROMSO: 8x8 VAR with 4 different places, so I put the "OpenSIM ONLINE SCULPT V8A (SLAVE)" on each of the clusters!. no matter how many cluster you have on your region, they ALL call just a single API from website!
SO LOW LAG FOR YOUR REGION!

4- I rezzed the SOUND BOXES but I only hear the birds or just hear the crickets?
- Make sure the sky (EEP) (**) is time zoned. If you play day on your sim (static sky), script reads the sun position on the sky. If sun is =>8 degrees above the horizon ,script will be told its DAY! If < 8 degrees, script will be told its NIGHT!

(**) EEP that come with this weather system are properly time zoned.

5- I rezzed the "OpenSIM Online Cloud V8A (SLAVE)" and I don`t see anything!
- If you have rezzed the controller before, if it fetches info from website and it says it not cloudy", the "OpenSIM Online Cloud V8A (SLAVE)" will remain invisible (100% transparent). - One still can see it on infra red mode (CONTROL+ALT+T)

6- Why all these boxes with the scripts, sounds, textures? Do I need them?
- It just in case one deletes something by accident so one can always recover it. Also, I do it for preventing assets lost -specially if one is from other grid!

7- I rezzed my controller, set all sculpts and sound box. I select city but nothing work. What could it be?
- Make sure city is well written in English. Also, it happens that on 1st time one rezzes the controller, it can act like this. so just reset script!
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🎉 Final Notes

This script was originally created years ago for my region by my friend Satyr Aeon (aka Malaka) and now it has been fully enhanced/ modified by ChatGPT, DeepSeek AI, Gemini AI and Claude AI.

Enjoy and share it — always FREE & FULL PERM!
— Jimmy Olsen

Die Nacht gehört uns…Kerzenschein, dunkle Eleganz und pulsierende Beats erwarten dich bei einer unserer Gothic Party.
Zieh dein schönstes Schwarz an und tauche mit uns ein in eine Welt aus Schatten, Nebel und düsterer Romantik.Freu dich auf harte Sounds, mystische Atmosphäre und eine Nacht voller Geheimnisse. Ob Vampir, Dark Romantik oder Industrial Soul du bist willkommen, wenn die Dunkelheit dein Zuhause ist.
Heute ab 19 Uhr im Tosca
„Where darkness dances and the night never ends.“

Get moving with friends in the Workout Zone on Discord!

Join us Monday through Friday for quick, friendly workouts you can do from home.

9 AM Grid Time
15-minute seated workout

2 PM Grid Time
20-minute standing workout

Five days a week. No pressure, just movement, motivation, and a little community cheerleading.

Join us here:
https://discord.gg/kfuBrakJnt

🛹 Legacy – gemeinsam lässig, gemeinsam stark!

Zwei Looks, ein Vibe: Wenn Style und Teamgeist zusammenkommen, sieht das genau so aus.

Ob beim Chillen, Skaten oder einfach beim gut aussehen – BK‑Mode bringt Partneroutfits, die nicht nur passen, sondern zusammen wirken.

Cool, bequem und mit einer ordentlichen Portion „Wir‑Gefühl“.
Denn wer sagt, dass Liebe und Mode nicht denselben Rhythmus haben dürfen?

Legacy – für Paare, die lieber gemeinsam auffallen als einzeln untergehen. 💥

✨ BK Mode – Gianni trägt Haltung, nicht nur Stoff. ✨

Hier geht’s nicht um Outfits, hier geht’s um Statement‑Pieces mit Augenzwinkern.
Gianni zeigt, wie man Stil lebt – mal rebellisch, mal charmant, immer mit einem Hauch „Ich weiß genau, was ich tue“.

Ob Denim mit Attitüde, Hemd mit Meinung oder Look mit Feuer –
BK Mode bringt den Glamour dahin, wo er hingehört: auf die Straße, ins Leben, in deinen Moment.

Denn Mode darf Spaß machen, darf laut sein, darf glänzen –
solange sie dich nicht verkleidet, sondern verstärkt.

💥 BK Mode – Gianni - Weil Stil kein Zufall ist, sondern eine Entscheidung mit Charakter.

Hello all flamsiefans!
I hate to break the news, but.....
we needed yet another upgrade;
I found that a sim restart, would return a dead flamsieflocky....
so, now, I've added an autostart function that makes the bunch come alive all by itself....imagine me, in a few months,,,,with some 10 diff kinda flocksies doing....NOT their thing...
All is set in zzhop, feel free to pick up your autoflamsie anytime!
Have fun,
Peter ☺

Good morning!

For those that are brand new, if you want some male and female avies, we have a view premade / pre-dressed ones at grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:VWEC Sandbox (nice ones) and some more conservative clothing/accessories, but good stuff you can mix and match. It gets you started until you can get into the groove of going shopping.

Here are some simple tutorials, including intergrid navigation, hypergrid navigation, optimizing your Viewer (but that one is a bit old), an unfinished glossary and some FAQs. Enjoy!

https://sites.google.com/dynamiclearning.solutions/visualt...

ACRL presents: A Tour of Virtual World Museums by Brian Aviator

Wed, May 20, 10:00 AM SLT

Join us in a tour of Brian Aviator's amazing museums! Visit some beautiful and informative 3D museums in the OpenSimulator grid called Wolf Territories. These are wonderful builds with amazing art and information! grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/Virtual%20Museum%20Team/513/508/23

You can grid hop from any OpenSimulator world, such as OpenSim, Kitely, Avacon or others. Or you can create an avatar at https://www.wolf-grid.com/index.php

SEE ALA website: https://tinyurl.com/WTmuseums
Learn more about Brian's Virtual Museum Team: https://www.vmuseum.org/
Contact Brian Aviator, Xenon Darrow, Kreatya Shannon or Valibrarian Gregg

☀️ SCHAUMPARTY AM BEACH – HEUTE ABEND☀️

Der Sommer ruft und wir liefern die perfekte Nacht!☀️
Heute Abend verwandelt sich der Beach in eine riesige Schaumparty mit fetten Beats, kalten Drinks und bester Stimmung! ??✨

☀️ Start: Heute ab 20:00 Uhr
☀️ Location: soul-grid.de:8002:Super Nova Beach Resort
☀️DJ-Sounds |☀️ Cocktails |☀️ Schaumeffekte bis spät in die Nacht

Zieh deine Beach-Outfits an, schnapp dir deine Freunde und feier mit uns unter freiem Himmel!
Eskalation im Schaum garantiert!

This is likely only amusing to older people who grew up with WKRP. As you may or may not know, a station in Cincinnati purchased the WKRP call letters, so there is actually a WKRP in Cincinnati now! Littlefield has done a yearly recreation of the WKRP turkey drop (and will this year) on the Littlefield Region on Thanksgiving day. So we all love the idea that WKRP is an actual station now, and it's actually a GREAT radio station! It is 60's, 70's and 80's music and they have Gary Sandy (Andy Travis) doing promos as well as using the original "WKRP in Cincinnati" sounder. We setup a relay on one of our Shoutcast servers so it can be streamed in world live. So that being said, we created a boombox for free (full permission including the scripts) for anyone that wants it. It's pre-programmed with the WKRP stream, the WLFG Stream (a 24x7 music stream with songs from the 60's to today), and WLFG Holiday (our Holiday stream that is only active from Thanksgiving to New Years Day). We hope you all enjoy it! It can be found at the WLFG Radio station building on Littlefield Mall on OSGrid.

🌾 The Season Begins
In Samsara the season of planting has begun, the paddyfields open themselves to the quiet water, light moves slowly across the terraces, and the first green touches the earth again, every step is soft, every movement patient, the land breathes in late spring calm, and the workers move like part of the landscape, steady and unhurried, this is the moment where the year turns toward growth.

🌾The Work of Hands and Water
Hands sink gently into the warm flooded fields, placing each young rice plant with care, the air carries the scent of wet soil and morning mist, the world feels ancient here, older than memory, older than names, the rhythm of planting becomes a quiet prayer, a promise between earth and sky, and the fields mirror everything above them, clouds drifting, sunlight breaking, time slowing into something peaceful and real.

🌾 Samsara on the TwiztidTimezGrid
This work rises on the TwiztidTimezGrid where Samsara continues its story, where the land holds its own silence and the water reflects every color of the day, here the fields are alive with tradition and renewal, here the season unfolds in green and gold, and every planted row becomes part of the cycle that never ends, a small offering to the world, a reminder that even the quietest places carry their own kind of magic.

Thank you Golpher my beautiful friend for this wonderful gift again.

Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys & Girls. DJ Azraella is back with the final studio set from J.W. Cooper & The Kaos Crew. This brings the total amount of tracks in this set to 100 and completes the project. If you have collected the others you won't want to miss out tonight.

12 P.M. till 2:50 P.M. at Subterranea Club Advantis
Taxi Below
hop://hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002/Advantis/351/276/998

★ WHO : DJ Adriana Darkheart ★
★ WHAT: Trance, Uplifting, Melody Future Tunes ★
★ WHEN FRIDAY 15th MAY 11.30 AM PDT/ 20.30 UHR CET ★
★ WHERE: Club XSTASY★
★ TAXI: hop://grid.vlive.me:8002/Kings%20Quarter/660/599/2

Währen in Moskau die Ehrenlegion der "Arschficker von Buschta" an dem mit internationalen Haftbefehl gesuchter Verbrecher vorbeizogen, begeht die Ukraine stattdessen den "Europatag".
Selenskyj: "Heute ist der Europatag".
Die Ukraine begehe diesen Tag in dem vollen Bewusstsein, dass sie bereits ein untrennbarer Teil der europäischen Familie ist.
Lasst uns der Ukraine gratulieren zu ihrem hartnäckigen erfolgreichen Wiederstand gegen die Russischen Kriegsverbrecher, und sie in Europa Willkommen heißen.

While in Moscow the "Legion of Honor of the 'Ass-fuckers of Bushta'" marched past a criminal wanted under an international arrest warrant, Ukraine, by contrast, is observing "Europe Day."
Selenskyj: "Today is Europe Day." Ukraine observes this day with the full awareness that it is already an inseparable part of the European family.
Let us congratulate Ukraine on its tenacious and successful resistance against the Russian war criminals, and welcome it into Europe.

I wrote the lyrics to this from a poem I composed years ago. I used Suno ai to set the lyrics to music and then struggled with the video, using GROK. I hope you like the song. https://youtu.be/r2Rzns4kEio?si=O-QXhP59lOngiwd_

Etwas Entspannung auf einer gemütlichen kleinen Insel bei uns in Dorenas World. :-)
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A little relaxation on a cozy little island here at Dorena's World. :-)

I had the pleasure of visiting Peter’s build at Zweet Zurroundingz, and it truly stopped me in my tracks "again". This is one of the most visually stunning environments I’ve seen—rich with detail, atmosphere, and imagination.

From the lush plant life to the beautifully placed animals and the way the light rays bring everything to life, every corner feels thoughtfully crafted. It’s not just a build—it’s an experience.

You can tell this was created with passion and a deep eye for design. I’ve genuinely enjoyed every visit and find something new each time I return.

Congratulations, Peter. This is magnificent work.

Come check out the wonderful items Peter offers, thank you! 🦢🌺hg.osgrid.org:80:Zweet ZurroundingZ

The region is back open for your shopping! I hope you enjoy the Pandora build, if you run into issues please let me know and don't mind me if you see me I am building behind the scenes and adding New things. Come On Down!

🌈 Phx Kids – bunt, frech, einfach zum Verlieben!

Die neuen Phx‑Outfits bringen Farbe, Fun und ganz viel „Awww“ in den Tag.
Ob Glitzer, Pastell oder Neon – diese Looks hüpfen direkt ins Herz.

Bequem zum Toben, süß zum Anschauen und perfekt für kleine Wirbelwinde,
die gerne genauso strahlen wie ihr Outfit.

The beacon is placed now at Kitely. You will see the region offline, but when you hop to the grid you will be able to visit. Thats because at Kitely the region starts when people are visiting. So Welcome to Elin Design!!!

HG Safari returns to the Tenth Dimension grid once again, and this time we will be touring a new exhibit by Tina Bey. Please join us at 12noon grid time for an exploration of an amazing and fun exhibit.
hop://grid.tenthdimension.org:26002/Imagination%20Island/3...