Here Be Dragons

The Landscape of the Month for this upcoming issue of Prim Perfect is the collection of ten sims called the Isle of Wyrms. As the name implies, avatars here can be dragons. Wanting a few more snapshots for the article, I went there myself.

The first resident I met was Skylarian Isachenko, a gold dragon who approached me after I teleported into the sim Limbo. Apparently I looked like a visitor. (Heh. Perhaps me standing there and staring around in wonder had something to do with it.)

Skylarian was wonderfully informative, giving me a number of documents about the Isle of Wyrms and dragons in general. (A perk to being an inquisitive visitor is that you might be offered a ride on dragonback…)

Very fun! I felt like I was in the middle of an Anne McCaffrey novel.

After talking with Skylarian, I decided to check out the adjacent sim to the north called Cathedral. Here you can find dragon eggs on display.

I’m a little fuzzy whether or not these eggs are for sale. If I understand things correctly, you can buy a hatchling or wyrmling (young dragon) avatar at any time, but not sure if from these particular eggs. (The adult dragons—wryms—are only for sale at special times of the year and only in limited quantities.)

In Cathedral I met Houkou Ninetails, another adult wyrm.

Houkou patiently answered my numerous questions and posed for a few snapshots, along with another dragon, Keiko Katscher.

With me in the foreground, you can get an idea how big these adults wyrms are.

Houkou presented me with a hatchling avatar of my very own as a gift from the Isle of Wyrms (an aquatic fire hatchling, which seemed to me like a contradiction in terms, but I certainly wasn’t complaining!).

It was a lot of fun to scramble and waddle around in this shape.

Houkou offered to show me around and I took him up on it. (I think it was a him but I’m not sure—gender never came up.) He transformed into a beautiful white wolf to play tour guide and I fell in love with his wolf’s prim hair.

I stayed a hatchling for the tour, partly because it was fun and novel, but also because I didn’t have a quick way of changing back into my human form without flashing Houkou first, which seemed like bad form, considering he’d been so helpful and polite to me.

~ by perryapplemoor on January 18, 2008.