Tails, Candles and 20 Questions on Monday... A Meme!

I was out sorting through my LM folder, rubbishing those that no longer worked and rediscovering places I had forgotten this weekend and I stumbled upon an old favourite club of mine - Demonic. It hasn't changed much since the days I used to spend time there, which is awesome considering how often things change in SL. Then I saw Berry's Monday Meme this week, and she talks about meeting someone new and starting a conversation with them, and the way the conversation can in some cases seem to be a game of 20 questions hehe...
Berry, however had a little help from an anonymous question provider, so I guess this week is just like meeting someone new and strange in a club hehe...
By the way, the reason I am using this picture really does fit with this post hehe... When I went into Demonic at the weekend, I noticed an amazing looking woman wearing what could be one of my new favourite purchases... Can you tell what that might be? LOL...

I have lots of new things here so it could be a number of different things... The basic outfit - or the pants and the gloves anyway - come from SAKIDE and are available as part of the Excess outfit in black at the World Goth Fair. The hair is also new, a special release from Ploom for the latest line-up of My Attic, but the Kiera style with these new gorgeous Dark Forest Horns from DRD at the Suicide Dollz event allowed me to release the inner Rudh Demon hehe...
I have two different sets of visible piercings here too... The Neck Bolts, I am still wearing from the post just previous to this one, and I added another new Cute Poison - for The Dark Style Fair - set in the form of the Spinal Upper Piercing, running down my back.
I sat and posed with this gorgeous lamp from MishMish, that comes in a large range of different metallic colours, and can be lit like it is here or doused...
Though if you haven't already guessed it, the thing that I saw and had to have was the overly cute heart-shaped, Dark Rose Monster Tail from DirtyStories... Luckily I saw it on the marketplace when I went looking because going into this store is likely to be pocket money suicide for me LOL... I couldn't get enough of wearing it, and even though it earnt me a few funny looks I just had to wear the tail with the bikers hehe...
Now on with Berry's stranger's 20 questions hehe...
When and how did you discover Second Life? – I found SL on August 27, 2006... Well at least that was when I created my Rudh Dolly... I was dragged in by friends I knew from another online game called Furcadia LOL... I was a Green Squirrel before I was me LOL...
Did you know about virtual worlds before or was this your first experience with them? – I was never a gamer, I played Furcadia which is similar to SL in regards to the social aspects... I wasn't there for very long though and I moved on as soon as I found SL... I didn't know much about most aspects of other virtual worlds however...
Has Second Life met your expectations? – I dont think that I had any expectations when I first joined SL... I mean I wanted to be able to hang around with the friends I had that had moved over from Furcadia with me, and I was hoping to make new friends, so I guess it has allowed that to happen hehe...
If you could teleport back to the first ten minutes of your avatar’s slife, what would you tell yourself? – Spend more time at Help Island. I wanted to just get into it and didn't read all of the displays set up by LL - at the time - I could have found SL so much easier if I had paid more attention lol...
How long did it take you to master avatar flying and driving vehicles inworld? – Being part of a Biker club in SL you'd think that I could drive right... My Hubby makes vehicles, you'd think that I could do it right??! WRONG! LOL I am still really crap at driving in SL! I have to ride on someone else's backseat EVERYTIME!
Do you have a mystery alt? – I don't, I don't have an alt at all... Am I one of the only people in SL that doesn't have one? Maybe I should make one?!
Is your SL avatar a reflection of you, or someone you wished you could be? – When you talk to Rudh, it's all me... The personality she has is mine, and I've always felt that if you try to fake it one day you will get burnt! I don't wish I looked like her either to be honest. OK she has red hair and green eyes but that is where the similarities between us stops, Rudh is my Barbie Doll... I play dress up with her style wise... In RL I'm a jeans and hoodies kinda girl, Rudh is rarely seen in something so simple lol...
Is there an individual you met in SL that inspired you in your RL? How? – A lot of people have taught me a lot of things... Those that have hurt me have made me stronger and more able to stand on my own two feet, those that have been there as friends have also made me stronger and taught me to have more confidence in me...
Do you feel it is easier to create stronger bonds/relationships with people you meet inworld as opposed to the real world? – This is a hard one, sometimes when talking to people interpretations of what is being said without the ability to see facial expression can cause problems. Though with meeting someone new you always already have a common interest in that you are both already within the SL world. I spend a LOT of my time in IMs with people and always have IMs with certain people open, we've built very strong bonds without even having met face to face so it's hard to say...
Did you ever imagine or believe people could fall in love with someone they never met before Second Life? – Course, people have been falling in love not just online but though non-face to face contact for hundreds of years - historic kings chose their new wives just by looking at a portrait of them for example. My RL aunt met her current partner 15 years ago online through a dating website... When people in my family heard about how HellBone and I met they were shocked that we met online until I reminded them of that fact too...
How has your perspective of dating changed (or not) since you started playing second life? – Well my SL was the reason I got married just over a month ago lol I guess you could say it changed my dating life for the better!
How has your perspective of employment changed (or not) since you started playing second life? – I am in agreement with Berry about her response to this question... It amazes me that people can and do make a RL living from SL by creating things that people want to own in the virtual world.
Name three things in both your lives that overlap each other significantly. – My Relationship with my Partner, Friendships and I guess sometimes though maybe a bad thing, my sensitivity!
If you could live your life more immersively in a virtual world, would you? (Kind of like the Matrix) – No, I love my SL but I'd miss my RL too much. SL is just a place I go to relax not somewhere I would want to be always.
How do you think behavior changes for people if they’re inworld vs in real world? Why do you think that is? – Again I agree with Berry on this one, people do seem to act in a more passive aggressive way in come cases... They hide behind a set of pixels and think that it is OK to do what they do because it's not 'real'... I have noticed that it is the same people however to be the ones to claim that there are people behind the avatars and that feelings should be remembered!!
How has second life consumerism changed your perception of spending habits, the value of money, the need to be “bleeding edge” with fashion? – In RL I a a big girl, of the fatty variety... I don't mind admitting it I know I am lol... But I tend to find clothes can be fairly expensive... SL really helped me curb my need to shop. I can buy clothes for very little and make my dolly look pretty whilst curbing my need to splurge money on clothes in RL!
Name three skills you attribute to having learned or honed in second life alone. – Overcoming shyness, Photoshop and business management.
If your grand kids googled your Second Life Avatar’s name, would they be intrigued, disgusted, proud or something else? – Wow that is an interesting question... They'd probably laugh at some of the random pictures of Rudh... I mean she tends to wear crazy stuff sometimes!

What is she wearing;
Horns: Death Row Designs - Darkforest Horns in Black Ashleafs (Available now at Suicide Dollz)
Hair: Ploom - Kiera (Available now at My Attic)
Skin: Glam Affair - Candy Skin in America 09 (Past Arcade Item)
Neck Bolts: Cute Poison - Rusted Neckbolts in Skin Version (Available now at The Dark Style Fair)
Piercing: Cute Poison - Spinal Upper Piercing (Available now at The Dark Style Fair)
Tail: DirtyStories - Dark Rose Monster Tail
Gloves & Pants: SAKIDE - Excess Outfit in Black (Worn with SLINK High Feet) (Available now at World Goth Fair)
Pose: No Longer Available!
Lamp: MishMish - Candle Lantern in Dark Gold