If you are familiar with this blog, you know my absolute favourite place in SL is Mopire City. I have blogged about it several times (check the ‘search thingy’ on my blog), and will probably blog about it several times more. Mopire City (part of the Mopire City/Rieri-Town/Hiraya-Town/Tokyo-Windhill City/Mitsumi-Town complex) is HUGE, and exquisitely constructed… the best build in SL, as far as I’m concerned… yet hardly anyone I meet has even heard of it. I’ve been exploring it for a very long time, and I, still, always find places for the first time… like this tunnel…
… which leads into this underground tube station. I’ve been down here, before, but from a different access point… it’s a bit like a video game, lots of similar environment, almost designed to confuse. The level of detail in all of Mopire City is simply astounding… the prim count must be staggering…
… the station is two levels, that I have discovered, so far, but could be more… there is a vast underground road network here, too…
… this platform is mirrored on the other side… I’ve been down to the other side, long ago, where I found a shooting gallery (the only real shop in all of the Mopire City complex, apart from R2 Fashion, which hovers above it all, is a gun shop)… but have never been able to re-find it. Mopire City is one of those sims where it doesn’t matter where you create an LM from, it only ever takes you to the official landing point, so it’s extremely hard to explore here and not get lost, because you can never do it methodically, you have to always start at the beginning, and get lost, again…
… we got lost down here, the other night, after finding the tunnel, and had to TP back to the landing sight, then find our way back here, and try not to get lost, again! We found this little guy, waiting for a train… I’ve found these guys dotted around the whole, vast complex; the only, obvious, humour in the whole, clinically perfect build…
… the most amazing thing about Mopire City is that in the ten-odd years I’ve been exploring it, I would have seen 10-15 other avi’s… at the most! No-one lives here, that I have ever seen, there are no rentals, no ‘tip’ jars, and only the gun shop and R2 Fashion to finance this amazing, complex, beautiful build… though I’d imagine a top-end SL weapons dealer, and R2 Fashion would pull in a good monthly income…
… we eventually found some stairs that lead us up to the surface. This is a wonderful, mysterious place, well worth a visit but, be warned, you will get lost!
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