Uru Live has died again.
I was in There when it died the first time, and I'd never heard of it (I had played Myst a time or two in the late Eighties) but became aware of a mysterious diaspora of Uruites who went around talking about reltos and linking books and were sad, very sad, to've been flung out of their world. I had to research and investigate to find out what it was - then got to know the Uru people including Enjah. I remember one sad person saying how beautiful their world had been, and how she wished I had seen it.
The Uru people spread like dandelion fluff throughout the metaverse, and built, as well as they were able, reproductions of their beloved Uru objects and landscapes. In Second Life an island, Telador I think it was called, was a home for Uru people. But, for joy, after a long time Cyan responded to the pleas of the Uru folk and restored the lost world.
I did try it - sadly I was driven mad by the fly eye aspect (shards) which I had never experienced before and which I hate, and by the dankness. It wasn't for me,* but all those lost Uru people could go home! Except many of them didn't. And now it has closed, again.
*Truthfully, too, I could never quite understand why the people were called D'ni when to me Dineh is Navajo (I spent 16 years in Indian Country). That felt weird to me.
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- 12:03 PM
- 12:03 PM
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"*Truthfully, too, I could never quite understand why the people were called D'ni when to me Dineh is Navajo (I spent 16 years in Indian Country). That felt weird to me."
Interesting... the D'ni Cavern was eventually revealed to lie beneath urtahra in New Mexico. Here is a short excerpt from the D'ni Wikipedia page...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'ni
"One should note the similarity between the word "D'ni" and the word "Dine" (pronounced d'NAY). The Dine are more commonly referred to as the Navajo Nation. Although Rand Miller has not stated that he drew the name for the D'ni from the Dine, it is easy to speculate that he may have[original research?], especially because the opening to the D'ni cavern is in New Mexico, part of the Navajo Nation."
Perhaps some of the D'ni escaped to the surface after the awful plaque that occcured thousands of years ago?
Interesting... the D'ni Cavern was eventually revealed to lie beneath urtahra in New Mexico. Here is a short excerpt from the D'ni Wikipedia page...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'ni
"One should note the similarity between the word "D'ni" and the word "Dine" (pronounced d'NAY). The Dine are more commonly referred to as the Navajo Nation. Although Rand Miller has not stated that he drew the name for the D'ni from the Dine, it is easy to speculate that he may have[original research?], especially because the opening to the D'ni cavern is in New Mexico, part of the Navajo Nation."
Perhaps some of the D'ni escaped to the surface after the awful plaque that occcured thousands of years ago?
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: 10 April, 2008 16:47
: 10 April, 2008 16:47
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