It is not easy to keep our balance
when the world beneath us is falling apart.

Hate, violence and greed pull at us,
while fear and despair grow louder.

Perhaps we cannot change everything.
But we can try to keep moving forward –
holding on to the hand of someone
who walks this narrow path with us.
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Es ist nicht leicht, die Balance zu halten,
wenn unter uns die Welt aus den Fugen gerät.

Hass, Gewalt und Gier ziehen an uns,
während Angst und Verzweiflung immer lauter werden.

Vielleicht können wir nicht alles ändern.
Aber wir können versuchen, aufrecht weiterzugehen –
und dabei die Hand eines Menschen festzuhalten,
der diesen schmalen Weg mit uns geht.

CURRENT TRIBULATION WORKING DEVICES (Aug 17,2026)

TRIBULATIONS KITCHEN
Elite House Water Storage (water reservoir)
Tribulations Cleaning Cloth: used to clean spills from the reservoir
Tribulations Dirty Rag Bucket: laundry-style bucket for dirty rags
Tribulations Washing Bowl: stone washing bowl for rags
Tribulations Kitchen Sink: non-draining sink with water pump for water
Tribulations Closed Ovens: main oven/heating unit for cooking
Tribulations Warming Shelf: open warmer above the Closed Oven
Tribulations Enclosed Warmer: warming over with a door
Tribulations Enclosed Cooking Oven: main cooking oven
Tribulations Cooktop & Oil: 4-burner cooktop with heated stones for cooking
TRIB_Cooling Stone: a place to put hot pot/pans for cooling
TRIB_Stockpot: general stock pot used for heating water and cooking
TRIB_Indoor_Wood_Crate: storage for gathered and chopped firewood


GENERAL
TRIB_Elite Decorative Fireplace: main heating for elite homes, uses gathered and chopped wood
Thornridge Village Well: provides clean well water
TRIB_Pond_Bucket (reusable): used for obtaining pond water
Thornridge Village Pond: provides pond water, bathing and drinking water
TRIB_Pond Water Dock: area for getting water from pond
Gathered Firewood: "found" wood for heating, cooking and weight lifting


FARMING/HUSBANDRY
TRIB_Animal_Water_Trough: uses pond water to fill and give to large/medium animals/livestock
TRIB_Small_Animal_Water_Trough: uses pond water to fill and give to small animals


APOTHECARY
Apothecary Vase (water reservoir): water used for drinking & mixing medicines
Thornridge Apothecary Fountain (clean water): provides fresh water for the apothecary


INGREDIENTS
TRIB_Ash Box: ingredient box obtained by burning wood
TRIB_Charred Firewood: partially burned wood saved and can be relit



COMING SOON: (August Line-up)
Tribulations Plate Rack: plate/mug giver
Tribulations Herb Hanger: storage for herbs
Tribulations Medieval Sconce: single lighting with candles or oil
Tribulations Medieval Chandelier: multiple candle or oil lighting
Tribulations Rug: rugs for through out the homes and pet bed
Tribulations Fresh Vegetables & Eggs: crop/egg storage
Tribulations Alcohol Storage: wine and liquor storage
Tribulations Dry Goods Storage: flour, sugar, etc storage
Tribulations Bread Storage & Workspace: bread storage and cooking/baking prep
Tribulations Herbs & Spices: ingredient storage
Crops: grains, vegetables, root vegetables
Orchards: citrus, stone and other fruit trees
Elite House Controller: house ownership, household roles, entrance rules, heating system, water system, info
House Controller: house ownership, household roles, entrance rules, heating system, water system, info
Abandoned House: house squatting, household roles, entrance rules, info

🌙 MOONLIGHT CRUISE ON REDWOOD BAY 🌙
Brought to you by Rockin' the Seas Cruise

Join us aboard the MS Neverworld Bountiful for a very special evening — celebrating over ONE YEAR as the Metaverse's first moving entertainment venue! 🎉

This sailing also marks our Special Ship Christening Event ⚓✨

🎧 Live DJ | Romantic Music

📅 Thursday, August 20th
🕓 4:00 PM Grid Time
🌐 hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002/redwood%20bay/136/69/24

Come dressed for a night on the water — moonlight, music, and memories under the stars. See you at the dock!

I’m delighted to share that I have given Fred Beckhusen exclusive distribution rights to my newest region, Tumbletwig, created especially for the DreamGrid community.

Tumbletwig is a tiny enchanted world of Frog Fairies, magical treehouses, winding woodland paths, ponds, gardens, hidden little inhabitants, and plenty of surprises to discover.

Fred will be making the Tumbletwig Exclusive OAR available in the next few days through Outworldz for DreamGrid owners.

A heartfelt thank you to Fred for giving me a platform where I can continue creating and sharing these lovely little worlds. Having the tools and freedom to turn an idea into an entire place—and then share that place with others—is something I truly appreciate.

I hope Tumbletwig brings a little magic, a few smiles, and perhaps a new appreciation for frogs to many DreamGrids.

Welcome to Tumbletwig — Frog Fairy Paradise.
Where the frogs have wings and the forest is much bigger than you think. 🐸

It's Jolie & Allurra letting y'all know we have opened 2 new Clubs and a Soulful Vintage-Shopping Mall on the Region and are inviting all of you to come roam around and see it all !! One Club-Club BlueFire is a Blues club ! The other-Rebel Boots Country Saloon is a Country Club ! Beside Club BlueFire is a Vintage Shopping Mall with 20+ stores for you to shop at ! We have worked hard to get things up and running for our friends and soon to be new friends, we hope !! The Clubs are open for you to visit, although we won't be having Live sets until sometime in the Fall. We will let ya know about that !!! Feel free to come visit anytime and if you have any questions or thoughts, even a complaint (oh my...lol) Let Allurra or myself know !! Remember-Sharing is Caring--always !!! See ya around !!

Get your drainpipes, teddyboy jackets, poodle skirts and bobby socks on for a great rock and roll event in London City's 50's diner. Jon Temple will be playing some great rock and roll classics from artist such as Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis plus many more. hop://login.gentlefiregrid.net:8002/London%20City/157/128/...

DJ Dragon at the Junk Room 8 to 10 am today
with a Tribute to

CCR - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Come over with your friends and join me for a tribute party.
See you there
Dragon


DJ Dragon im Junk Room 17 - 19 Uhr MEZ
mit einem Tribute für

CCR - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Kommt mit Euren Freunden rüber und feiert mit uns die Tribute Party

Bis gleich
Dragon

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Carpe%20Noctem/245/242/5...
Listen to the Stream: http://dragon.radioamv.com

Dave loves to entertain, bringing you a unique experience unlike any other!
At 6am - 8am SLT (2pm - 4pm UK)
Come on down for 2 hours of fun, banter and laughs!

come join him for a rodeo rideeee

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/54...

I rezzed him in the air, but he can be rezzed on ground and ridden. The point of this post is this project is about preserving Fred’s original Second Life creations and making selected pieces available to be enjoyed again. I have been using photoshop, Canva for years when generating ads, most people do. I’m going to leave it there. Thank you.

The ORIGINAL Latex Lounge Fetish Dance with LIVE DJ Walter Balazic - Tonight at 5pm Pacific!

Come join in for some great music and a great group of people who've been in the BDSM and Fetish business for over 14 years in Opensim! Free LATEX gift every week!!

Now on OSGrid!
Starts at 5pm PST!!
HG: hg.osgrid.org:battersea

Khiron Ametza, 2pm ALT (10pm UK) live from Brasil, at The Opening Party and Special Tribute to David Bowie.
The Palace over Labyrinth
An unusual and opulent venue in the sky over Labyrinth, great space!
Join her for 1 hour of Live Music, as she sings for us at this special event!

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Labyrinth/622/943/995

Khiron Ametza Live,
Sunday, August 16th, 2026,
2pm @ Labyrinth

The Opening Party and Special Tribute to David Bowie.
The Palace over Labyrinth
An unusual and opulent venue in the sky over Labyrinth, great space!

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Labyrinth/654/1213/28

come on down and have fun with Ian and the band, and enjoy this special magical occasion!
at 1pm SLT (9pm UK)
All are welcome to come and join in the festivity's and help Celebrate!

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Labyrinth/622/943/995

Clan Escotia & Clan's band are performing for this special occasion, one of the most talented live singers, come on down for a hour of magic!
at 12pm SLT (8pm UK)
All are welcome to come and join in the festivity's and help Celebrate!

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Labyrinth/622/943/995

Added my Onboarding Widget today to the DragonCommand Platform. This should help cut down on Support Tickets for Grid Owners from folks who might find it difficult Creating an Account and/or Avatar:
ONBOARDING WIDGET — THE FLOW
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
State 1: Just registered (Hatchling)
→ Right-side popup appears
→ Step 1 ✅ Account Created & Verified
→ Step 2 → Create Your Avatar (CTA button)
→ Step 3 🔒 Log In via Firestorm (locked)

State 2: Avatar created (Fledgling)
→ Step 1 ✅
→ Step 2 ✅
→ Step 3 → Download Firestorm + Login URI
→ Widget shows one more time then gone

State 3: Has logged in before
→ NO WIDGET — they know what they're doing
That's it. Once they complete all steps and they have their Avatar and they are in-world, the widget disappears forever! (It is dismiss-able in the meantime if they get irritated with it. It just appears at each log-in until the user creates their Avatar. Can be disabled for System Admins who do not intend to create avatars.

An Vanaheims Küste ist ein Schiff auf Grund gelaufen. Wir haben mal schnell noch etwas von der Ladung gerettet. Muss wohl ein Kunsttransport gewesen sein. Aber kommt und seht selber....

A ship has run aground off the coast of Vanaheim. We managed to quickly salvage some of the cargo. It must have been an art shipment. But come and see for yourselves...

Miss Munk will be spinning her wheels of steel at 1 pm grid time, at The Piazza!
Bring your headphones and get on down here and listen to nonstop beat matching and full spectrum sound!



Plug the link into your map and we'll see you there.

http://bridgemere.outworldz.net:8002:Paradise Lagoon

Come join multi genre DJ Ting, Ting has 50 years of experience, he plays tunes we all like to hear.
Put on your dancing shoes and come on down to Alternate Metaverse !
We are looking forward to seeing you all here :)
Party Stage
Alternate Metaverse is the new landing point, come and make new friends
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/54...

Hello!

I just updated my cuffs. It is a whole revamping of the script, to fix some bugs and menus.
Get a copy at my SIM:
hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/The%20Silvertree%20Cove%20-%20BDSM/...
Look for Amanda's Cuff Set 2608

Highlights:
- Original mesh
- Original poses and animations
- Chain particles
- Legacy and PBR textures
- RL/Online Timer self bondage
- Owner / Key holder saved in LinkSetData (survives intra-grid TP and resets)
- Public mode / Steal key mode
- Movement slowdown when legs are restricted
- RLV Lock
- RLV restrictions
- LockMeister and Lockguard compatible
- Run Away option for hard reset

Reminder of the Grids 3rd Bithday Party from 4 -8 pm grid.escape2reality.org:8002:Escape2Reality WelcomeGrid Time We hope you will come join us in celebration we have some awesome tunes lined up .. DJ Mystic Moonshine 4-6 and DJ Purrfectt Katt 6-8 ~S~/''''@/grid.escape2reality.org:8002:Escape2Reality Welcome / c'ya there

One of Opensimulator's Longest continually running Dance Parties! 16 years and counting!! LIVE DJ and Dancing!! Music from the 60's to current day!
Tonight at 8pm Pacific!
Now on OSGrid!

HG: hg.osgrid.org:80:speakeasy

12 GRID ONWARDS: LOVELY BEACH CLUB DOUBLE HEADER;
CLASSIC SOUL/MOTOWN WITH DJ ROSA ALEXSEEV + ZEN MIX LATE NIGHTER (UK/EURO TIME)

Rosa spins it on the beach
Soul n Motown- set's a peach
Then Zen will follow with a mix
Lots of lovely juicy picks
So put your kinis on and come
To Lovely Beach Club- shake those bums

IM Bobbi Fox for Uber, or take Club Line tram from Welcome
hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Lovely/971/271/23

added XMPP to the grid, so you can chat with your friends with a client like Gajim or Conversations. just log into chat.holoneon.com with your first.last and holoneon password. there are two auto-groups that sync, all users and friends in your FL. I will work on bridging the chat with os im.

🌟 LINKUP GRID IS OPENING VERY SOON! 🌟

🚀 Something exciting is coming to the OpenSim world!
LinkUp Grid is getting ready to open its doors, bringing friends, fun, creativity, events and a place to Link Up with people from across the Opensim. 💙🌍

✨ We’re getting everything ready…
🎉 New places to explore
🎶 Events & entertainment
🏡 A friendly community
🤝 New friends & connections
🌈 And plenty more to come!

👀 WATCH THIS SPACE!

The countdown to LinkUp Grid has begun!

Coming Very Soon… 🚀💫
#LinkUpGrid #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Hypergrid #ComingSoon

Wir haben wieder umgebaut!
Es gibt jetzt einen neuen Bereich rund um das Thema Hochzeit, der alles bietet, was das Herz begehrt.
Dazu gehören Bereiche für religiöse und weltliche Zeremonien sowie Tanzflächen!
Außerdem erwartet Sie eine große Auswahl an Dekorationen, Gardienen und Mobiliar
und natürlich Mode für Braut und Bräutigam!
Zudem gibt es einen eigenen Bereich für Valentinstags-Dekoration.
hop://chubelz.de:8002/Chubelz%20Wedding/219/121/26
We’ve renovated again!
There is now a new wedding shopping area. It features everything your heart desires.
Areas for religious and secular ceremonies, as well as dance floors!
Plus a wide selection of decorations, drapes, and furniture
and, of course, fashion for the bride and groom!
There is also a section dedicated to Valentine’s Day decorations.
hop://chubelz.de:8002/Chubelz%20Wedding/219/121/26

Coming to you at 6am - 8am PDT/SLT/OST/Grid Time (2pm to 4pm UK), 2 hours of fun, laughter and banter, kicking off your Saturday with a bang!, come one, come all, all are welcome to come and join in party and have fun!
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/35...