Online avatar diary - part 2

I’ve still been persevering with seal online for my avatar research. All I can say is so far so good. It’s much better then second life in many ways, but mainly because it doesn't crash and is dead easy to gain access to. Another thing to mention is that I re-downloaded fraps again, and its working like a charm. Fraps is a program which allows you to record in-game footage. This allowed me to take a few clips of my adventures!


This week I have been travelling around the bigger towns of the online world. The two main towns are Elim and Lime. I first travelled to Lime after reaching level 11 to see what was what. Turns out its kind of a ghost town there, very few people to talk to. That was a shame, it was a quaint little town ^_^.
After trying to have a civil chat with anyone, I gave up hope with Lime and travelled to Elim. Upon reaching Elim, I was shocked at its cartoony beauty. A nice big ol stony town with tons to do and people to see. I ventured round and started trying to talk to people. Now, this is a fairly hard thing to do it seems since people don’t want to sit still for very long.


Luckily I started talking to a knight about 20 or so levels higher than me in nice shiny armour. We talked about ourselves, where we were from, how old we were, what we did for a living etc. Turns out this guy was older than me at the ripe old age of 32! He lived in United Arab Emirates! wow. I asked if he tried to make his avatar to resemble himself. He replied laughing, obviously since the customisability in this game isn’t exactly fantastic, but you can style your hair and choose a class that could possibly resemble the type of person you are. For example a mage is cleaver and intelligent, a warrior is strong and brave; people could choose these classes and have neither of these traits in real life.
But no he said he didn't. He was a nice guy though, even though hiding behind some random made avatar, he seemed genuinely nice. That being said, trying to talk to some high level characters was impossible, they just push you aside as if your scum!

After having a wee talk to the locals I found a huge mass of people. They had setup their character to act like a store. Over their names would be a description of what they were selling. They were all AFK (away from keyboard) as they had just left their characters on to show items they had for sale. All of which sold items at extortionate prices!

So yeah, that’s basically what I did this week on seal online. Update coming next week. Oh I also found some random pigs...