Nokia's Connected Worlds Exploring Virtual Communities this Thursday

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Nokia's next regular Connected Worlds event in Second Life will be held on Sept 25th, at 11am Second Life time (so 7pm for UK readers). The focuses this time around will be on Virtual Communities, with five of the top communities in Second Life joining the attendees in the Wulfenbach airship, which is conveniently moored to Nokia's Island.

The event will be primarily based around voice chat (as opposed to text chat), and should run for ninety minutes. Those of you with Second Life installed can jump direct to the airship through this SLurl while those looking to join the virtual world can download and install Second life for free from Linden Lab's Second Life website.

The five communities attending are...

  • Wastelands
    A virtual post-apocalyptic residential and roleplaying continent, dedicated to post-apocalyptic survivalism, and a grungy-but-fun sense of community. Everything from bands of desert raiders to Mad Max style shanty towns dot the landscape, as well as treacherous pitfalls and radioactive swamps. A very interesting community, roughly themed as a mixture of Fallout and Mad Max type environments, which has also become quite the desireable destination for people wishing to live out their dreams of post-apocalyptic savagery in a courteous and extremely well-done residential environment.
  • Steelhead City and Europa
    Home to the famed Baron Wulfenbach, who will be piloting his majestic flying castle airship, Castle Wulfenbach, to Nokia sim, and will serve as the gracious host of the activities in his grand ballroom therein. Steelhead and Europa are a light-hearted steampunk sim, where the power of steam has been harnessed to drive technology, and the citizens live in victorian elegance.
  • The Ordo Imperialis
    Loosely based on the warhammer 40k roleplaying game system, the Ordo Imperialis works as a military organization with strict protocol, and tight training of its elite troops. They roleplay as soldiers in a future space army, protecting a fortess planet from other groups vying for supremacy. A fun, well-run operation.
  • New Caledon
    A large residential continent, where community members can live out their dreams of a steam powered paralell world, hosting "expeditions" to the mainland of Second Life, and living in a pesudo-science fiction world of their own design, where steam is king.
  • Harry Potter
    Dedicated roleplayers who live out their fantasies of magic and academics of the netherworld in the Hogwarts sims designed by Liquid Heat. These roleplayers focus on playing the roles of Hogwarts students and instructors, in a lively fantasy environment.