The story to date

Today the class decided on a direction for our story and town that we will build in Second Life:

- we decided to abandon the gun factory/weapons facility story idea

- instead, we decided that there would be a construction accident while building the stadium that killed a number of people. These people are buried in the stadium. When visitors now to go in the direction of the toilets, on the way they may be taken from a cubicle into a parallel 1930s "village of dead people".

We still need to work out who those people are and what happens when people end up in this village...

Worlds exercise from today - what we decided

Physical world:

• Characters could be humans, ghosts, vampires or cannibals
• Some people wanted only humans. We can decide this over the next few weeks as we build
• Characters will walk
• Some wanted no flying, others wanted to keep flying. Again, we can decide this later
• days are short
• characters eat food ("like hamburgers") from vendors and food stores
• get around via Segways
• terrain is green and flat. there are trees. Characters can grow veggies
• characters carry foam hands (?)
  
• wear tshirts with team colours and logos; all class members are team players, visitors are spectators who can't go into certain areas
  

Social world:

• communicate via SMS and phone
• town has one cop/sheriff/king/emperor/sultan
• maybe a security guard?
• are things good or bad? Class opinion on this was mixed
• characters swim for recreation and party
• there are no families or kids
• most characters live the same way