By Bixyl Shuftan
It's now a new year and a new decade. And all around Second Life, people celebrated New Years Eve at different places.
Club Cutlass held it's New Year party early, on Saturday night December 28.
There were party favors, notably hats, people could pick up and wear.
There was an extra large prize, 5000 Lindens, up for grabs for the top male and top female New Year's look. Shockwave Yareach won the prize for the men. For the women, it was a four way tie. This was one of only two times a Cutlass contest had five winners in recent years.
Sunday night, December 29, was the Holiday staff party for Nydia Tungsten's White Vixen Enterprises. Normally, the DJs, hostesses, and other folks considered staff can't enter contests. But this was one party in which they could. It was held in the ballroom of Mouse Hole Manor.
DJ Snowbuns (Skylark Lefavre) was the DJ for the party, which went on for three hours. The prize would be split between Aubrytia Resident (Nikkita), Ranchan Weidman, and Nydia.
I can't remember what theme Eternal Desires had on Monday Night, December 30, but this guy was in the mood to bring back the "Roaring 20s."
Tuesday Night, December 31 was the big night, and many places had celebrations. This included Montecito Bay at the Magnum Opus.
"The Moff" played tunes for his audience there while doing crux dances on stage.
Another place was T1 Radio's Arinultra Cay, which really decorated their pier for their "Rockin' New Year's Eve" party.
Netara Landar, a former writer at the Newser, was hosting at a club doing a live music event.
Virtual Ability had a small party, with a conversation that got interesting at times, "I look at the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey and we aren't quite there yet, by a long shot." "Who thought the 21st century would suck this bad." "No PanAm flights to the moon." "Not even a flying car."
As it turned out, there are flying cars, at least in Second Life. "There's a lot of good that's happened in this century, and a lot that's gone wrong that hopefully can be put right."
For the Sunweavers/Angels, there would be no scheduled party at either the Happy Vixen or Club Cutlass. Instead they and the people of Caledon partied at the Goblin Cave in Caledon Downs.
Duchess Cynthia Farshore invites everyone to celebrate the coming of the 20's at the Goblin Cave! Starting tomorrow around 7 PM SLT, that's one hour till midnight east coast, on till it passes the west. Wear what you want but be fun and come styled in the 1920's. Hopefully this party no one will crash it at the end. ..but there may be some explosions!
Cynthia played the music for the party, in which the suggested wear was fashion around the 1920s. So it was more "Dieselpunk" than steampunk.
And the party had it's own ball drop. Ten seconds before every hour, it would start to lower, and once at the bottom, it would ring in the New Year in another time zone with a few fireworks.
Bay City would have it's own New Year's party, the Prim Drop at the Bay City Fairgrounds. As it took place at 11 PM SL time, not everyone from the East Coast and Midwest could stay up that late. "Rawring 20's about to begin at Bay City!"
Among those at the party was everyone's favorite Linden bunny, April Linden. "It's rare that I can manage to stay awake past midnight."
There was no shortage of chatter, and jokes, "Hide your alcohol from the bay city police. The 20s are about to start." "Who's gonna clean up all of the confetti THIS year?" "Not me. i'll be hiding behind the prim."
Eventually, the final moments of 2019 arrived, and the prim slowly went down the pole.
And with the clock striking 12, 2020 had officially arrived in Second Life. Marianne McCann would announce that their total for fundraising for the Childs Play charity was L$217,000. "Here's to Bay City, Second Life, and especially to everyone who makes this such a special place every day! Second Life is as good as its people, and y'all are gold!"
It was a brand new year, and a brand new decade.
Bixyl Shuftan
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