As some of you may or may not know on April 6th of this year Littlefield opened it’s own grid. Rather than do what everyone else does and go into some “advertising” thing here, I’d rather talk about the people behind this grid. First… I’d like to say that even with the hatred of myself personally as well as the Littlefield Group, this grid has been a gigantic success. We’ve done no advertising, nor have we had any assistance from the usual media sources in the VW community. In some cases this is because I’ve asked them not to report on it because they skew what the grid’s intent is (or what they THINK it is, rather than coming to see for themselves or simply asking), and in some cases because the sources are known to be hateful and bigoted toward people that aren’t in their “clique”. If you can’t figure out who these sources are, take a look around and see who has not mentioned the opening of or the existance of our grid and you’ll get the idea…. That being said, in 6 weeks this grid managed to accomplish having over 300 “quality” residents, and over 100 regions. Why is that? Let me tell you why that is… This grid cares about our residents, and is run by people who LIVE there and actually care about the people and the grid.
I’d like to begin with someone who remains mainly silent and behind the scenes. Not because he belongs behind the scenes, but because he chooses to be there. Ashton Nobilis. Ash, spent the last easily 6 mos literally killing himself tuning this grid so it runs (in my opinion, and if you ask any of the residents and visitors theirs also) one of the smoothest, fastest, most stable grids in Opensimulator to date. In RL Ashton is an IT professional with a focus on Security. When Ash sat initially with me and we discussed doing a grid of our own, we decided that our primary goal was to have a solid, fast, production grid where people could come and get what they had in SL, but without all the hassle of high tier, and commerce. We have MORE than accomplished this goal, and that is primarily due to Ashton’s professional attitude, diligence, and flat out CARE and concern for the people on the grid. If you like the grid, and you think it runs well… Ash is the person you should be thanking for that. In the time I’ve known Ash, he’s become family to me and a close friend and confidant. Not a day goes by that him and I aren’t on G-Chat in hysterics laughing about something, or discussing something. We couldn’t ask for a better person to own this grid with us.
The next person who absolutely is integral to the operation and quality of this grid has got to be Camryn Darkstone. Camryn is one of my submissives, and not only that, she is someone I love dearly and is one of my closest friends… Yeah, Yeah, I know what your going to say “Ewwww BDSM… Sexist… Blah, Blah, Blah…” You can make your own judgement on who and what you THINK Camryn is, but I can tell you right now, she’s a brilliant and talented sim designer, and anyone that thinks she’s some kind of mindless idiot because you have some pre-disposed notion of what a submissive is or what BDSM is, then you’ve never taken 2 mins to speak to her or get to know her. Camryn’s sim designs are without a shadow of a doubt THE BEST in the metaverse. I’m not saying this because she is who she is to me… it’s simply the fact of the matter. Camryn managed to get all of our welcome areas, training areas, etc.. up and running from FLATGREEN regions in the matter of weeks. This is all the landscaping, building design, layout, etc.. And she personally went through and created a “learning region” for people who have never been to a virtual world before. She didn’t load someone’s OAR and say “here it is”, she didn’t use a bunch of people’s builds and slap them on a region.. She created every single piece BY HAND! I have had rave reviews from every single person who has visited this grid either via HG or locally and they are absolutely floored at the quality and sheer beauty of her sim designs.
Next on my “hit parade” of commendations is Toy McBride. We have over 800 people in our OSGrid Littlefield Group, and alot of that is due to Toy and her non-stop creation of wonderful MLP enabled furniture. Toy is another of my submissives (see above my thoughts on what this means) who I also love dearly and is another of my best friends. I’d like to point out, while we were starting this grid (and this is the kind of person Toy is…), Toy was helping create furniture for OSGrid’s new welcome area, and she still managed to juggle that as well as furnish an entire grid startup. Toy’s furniture and MLP work is absolutely OUTSTANDING! The care and fine detail she puts into every chair, sofa, table, or whatever piece of furniture she creates is meticulous and some of the highest quality content you will find ANYWHERE in the virtual world. Feel free to stop by our grid or OSGrid’s Littlefield Fine Furniture store (every piece of content there is hand created by Toy herself and she spends hours posing every component of MLP for it) and judge for yourself.
Coming up next…. Dirk Mathers (aka Massiel). Dirk is like a brother to me, and we have probably spent the last 4 years talking about THIS concept. Finally… we have what Dirk put on my radar 4 years ago, and I couldn’t be prouder of how it’s turned out. Dirk is our primary scripter. Dirk sits quietly behind the scenes creating all the scripts that make our welcome areas what they are.. From songboards, to the Display Panel system for the Tech Hangout, to visitor counters or whatever. Dirk also sits quietly in the background “fixing” or “supplying” scripts for all the residents. Between Dirk and Ashton (another of our scripting geniuses) I watch them DAILY creating scripts or altering scripts to make things work for the residents of the grid. This however isn’t the only thing Dirk is responsible for… Dirk “IS” the community. Dirk’s region Stonehaven which I luckily happened upon 6 years ago was the pinnicle of what happens when you put a good group of people together for a common cause. And Dirk’s continual organizational skills and persistance and to put it bluntly, love.. of his region and the people that reside there is what made Stonehaven, and now Littlefield Grid what it is.
This grid, and our move to Opensimulator from SL wouldn’t be in place if it were not for the next person I’m about to mention. Ada Wong. I can’t even begin to tell you how lucky it was that I met Ada. I met Ada purely by accident as she was a friend of an old submissive of mine. Ada and I hit it off instantly, and I just love Ada. Anyone that meets her loves her because she absolutely lights up the room when she comes in. Anyone that has visited AW Designs in OSGrid or LFGrid has seen her absolutely stunning boots and clothing. When we arrived in OSGrid there was exactly 1 pair of boots that everyone on the grid wore. Inside of a month, Ada had created 40 pair of womens boots, clothing etc.. and flooded the grid with her content. Her content is some of the BEST out there, and she is probably one of the most prolific content creators in the Opensimulator community. Ada originally ran a very profitable business in SL called SUBlime designs. When I told her I was looking to move to Opensimulator, she IMMEDIATELY jumped on board and was the person who went out on my scouting expeditions looking for a new home for all of us. Ada said to me that for her, the money from SL was simply so she had money to pay tier to have a place to create content. THAT… is the key to what makes something like Littlefield Grid a success! After visiting probably 30 virtual worlds and going “eh…” we stumbled upon OSGrid and Simhost. After renting 4 regions from Simhost, I left Ada for the day to do some testing.. when I came back, she had an entire sim/mall created and had already started building and creating content. This was 3 years ago when you couldn’t keep inventory from dissapearing 5 mins after you created it mind you, and even with all the frustration of that, it didn’t stop her, and she wasn’t the least bit frustrated by this. She saw the potential of this kind of VW community, and now thanks to her, we have what we have in place. To give an example of the zeal in which Ada builds things.. she recently discovered mesh.. 🙂 Stop by the new Littlefield Garden Center in LFGrid and see what she’s been up to. She practically filled the place with fantastic Mesh content in the blink of an eye…
I’d also like to mention someone else who due to illness has not really been able to enjoy the fruits of her labor. I’m about to get into the RLV/BDSM aspect of our grid, and one of my other submissives Elizabeth Rofanui. Everyone can thumb their nose at RLV/BDSM all they like, but call it what it is… Alot of people are involved with it, enjoy it, and have founded wonderful relationships in the VW because of it. Liz likes to joke that she is an angel, but I can tell you this.. she is. I absolutely love Liz, and everyone that has ever met her would agree. What is Liz’s contribution? Liz has created the scripting for EVERY RLV object that Littlefield has in place. Cages, cuffs, gags, whatever… Liz had her hand in it. Liz also spent MONTHS dissecting the Opencollar system to make it function in Opensimulator. You use opencollar on your grid or your sim? You can thank Liz for it. Because the likelyhood is your using some varient that she fixed in order to make it compliant with Opensimulator. If you ask Dirk about Liz (and him and I discuss her frequently), she is probably the most structured genius with regard to scripting we’ve ever seen. Her scripting is like artwork.. and I can tell you this.. RLV is no picnic to script. Dirk and I frequently modify, or look over her scripts and just shake our heads at the elagance at which she executes everything. She is the single most detail oriented scripter I’ve ever had the pleasure of being involved with, and I’m honored to call her one of my family.
We also have another behind the scenes admin who’s scripting and attention to detail is absolutely STUNNING! We wouldn’t have speakeasy dance club if it were not for her. Adelle Fitzgerald. Many of you probably know Adelle from OSGrid and what an absolute pleasure she is to be around, and what a scripting genius she is. Haven’t seen her work? Stop by Speakeasy dance club… Look at the lighting and my WONDERFUL MacIntosh amps there and you’ll see the absolutely incredible detail oriented and amazing script work she is capable of. We were absolutely thrilled to have Adelle as part of this project because she goes out of her way 100% of the time to help EVERYONE constantly… Did I mention the lights are fantastic and I love them Adelle? LOL!!
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention a few other people in particular that have made Littlefield and LFGrid what it is. First would be Amy Storm. You want to talk about a dedicated, caring, and selfless person? Amy comes to mind immediately. Amy since coming to LFGrid has created a ton of fantastic clothing, and goes absolutely crazy trying to make it and everything she does absolutely PERFECT for everyone. Not a day goes by she doesn’t ask how she can somehow make the grid a better place for the residents, and she considers it “home”. I’d like to have 100 Amy’s on this grid, and anyone who is lucky enough to interact with her will see what I mean immediately. We also have several “new” people who are content creators on the grid as well. 3 of these in particular I’d like to mention would be Suskatu (clothing and content designer), Christina (mesh designer), and Alexroo (furry avatar designer). All 3 of them IMMEDIATELY jumped on creating wonderful content for everyone on this grid, and this content is absolutely amazing. You have to consider… rather than just bumbling around the grid playing, these people are taking MOST of their free time to create wonderful things for OTHERS to enjoy. That really says something about the quality of the people we are blessed to have on this grid and I can’t thank them enough for being part of our big family. Not to be forgotten are people like Loru Destiny who has quietly in the background have continually given us her wonderful content on a regular basis. Her along with Ada have not only help LFGrid out, but created some items for the new default avatars in OSGrid. Loru and her partner Tryad have been part of the Littlefield community for going on 2 years now. They are the nicest couple you’d ever want to meet, and if you ever get the chance to visit with them, I highly reccomend it. If any of you have ever visited the LF Homes mall, you surely saw some of the wonderful builds from Sprual Harding. She is an absolute doll, and has a wonderful eye for detail. She spends a majority of her time creating WONDERFUL homes for everyone, and if you haven’t seen her builds, stop by and take a look. They are outstanding! Another well known content creator and overall fantastic couple who have recently connected to LFGrid is Trex Blessed and his partner Boxter. These two have been very close to Littlefield and our group for a long time, and we couldn’t be happier they have joined us over here… I know Trex is working on something (that I won’t divulge here until he’s done) that sound AMAZING and we cannot wait to see it!
Another HUGE impact on this grid is the FIRESTORM viewer team. I’d like to single Cinder out in particular because she is on this grid almost DAILY working endlessly to make the FIRESTORM viewer more and more compatible with the Opensimulator environment. This btw.. is a thankless job, and I watch as Jess and Firestorm are repeatedly slagged, bashed, and mistreated on post after post. I’m going to use a little quote that Dirk likes to say to me repeatedly…. “No good deed goes unpunished”… and this holds true for the people at Firestorm. Here’s a group of people that bends over backward on their own time FOR FREE trying to make a wonderful viewer which btw folks, without it, there would BE no metaverse, just to have people go on and on complaining about their work. Hopefully a majority of people will wake up and see what a great thing Firestorm is doing for everyone, and be “appreciative” for what they are doing rather than looking a gift horse in the mouth! Thank you Jess and Cinder for being on our grid and for giving us an absolutely WONDERFUL viewer to use here in the metaverse. We are honored to have them on our grid and we cannot thank them enough!
In conclusion… I’d like to thank personally some of our residents that are creating “regions” for everyone to visit here in LFGrid. We have been lucky enough to attract some really amazing people who are creating some WONDERFUL environments for everyone to enjoy on the grid. LadyJo Martin, who is active on several grids has been working almost continually on her region which has amusements, dance areas, you name it.. I see her there daily working on it, and she’s really done a fantastic job on it. We also have Douce, who spent weeks with Camryn working on prison RP region that turned out fantastic. On the Gorean front, Contessa has an incredible region she’s gearing up for the Gorean community, and it’s absolutely beautiful. In addition, we have several residents who have recently started up regions here that really help make the community what it is… Like Max Radius, Kap Sinus (who’s a hell of a guy, and we have had a great time getting to know), Serenity Graves, and Xena Xanth, who are really making this a wonderful place to live!
This everyone… is what happens when a group of people with a common goal work together. This grid is what it is because of all these people and all the residents of the grid, and I want to thank all of you personally for being part of this… You’ve helped to create an amazing environment that brings alot of happiness to alot of people and we all owe you a debt of gratitude. You should all be proud of yourselves!!
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