The Cape Cod House is slowly coming along...

My avatar stops at Yoville to pick up her paycheck and accumulate credits, where now she has some modern furniture in the living room as well as some furniture in her bedroom and den. She also has a washer/dryer in the hallway. She has also done some remodeling, creating a balcony in her bedroom. But still a long way to go. She still hasn't bought anything for the bathroom, kitchen, or dining room. The yard is also still empty. But that is the last step.
But, for me, today was cold in Southern California as I check out a festival at a local park. The park was crowded as I searched an empty space for my collapsable chair and tote bag right in front of a pond filled with ducks and geese. Crowds of people, walking in a caravan, are walking their dogs, each dog of different breed and different size. I relax in my chair as I read a comic book, and then my novel. By 5pm, it gets cloudy and cold as well as a little windy. I take out my fleece blanket and try to relax in my chair. Within a half of an hour, I decide to walk back home and relax in my warm townhouse with Gumby D'Arcy.
I check on few writing pages, wondering what else I could write about. I drop by at Facebook, where my avatar goes to get her paycheck and check out someone's house and apartment. She drops by her house after picking up her 2nd paycheck for the day.
She decides to go sleep in her apartment with her pets for tonight, while I do some brainstorming.

Home Decoration at Yoville

My avatar has been saving credits on Yoville for a week and she finally can afford her Cape Cod house. Although it looks suburban, she is decorating it with modern furniture. She continues to save credits from her Engineer job at the Factory, and now she has some furniture in the living room and bedroom. She hops to her apartment to check on her pets before going outside to chat with the locals. She does some extra $credits$ at the lobby as well as maxing jobs with the locals. She helps a 21-year-old wobbly avatar sober up by taking him to the local coffee shop to buy some coffee as well as chat. He had partied and gotten drunk at the local nightclub in Yoville. She explains, "Been there, done that. Lots of coffee and water helps". They walk around in the Yoville streets and meet other avatars on their way back to the apartment. She also got some house warming gifts from some avatars, flowers, a clock, a plant, and soda. She has also added more people to her crew, working under her. "Getting an MBA sure helped," she remarks.
She hangs out on the street in front of her apartment building with a crowd, trying to market her novel and her writing sites. She starts to get tired and closes the computer.

Just another day at Yoville Life

As my avatar walks through a crowd in the Yoville Apartment Complex front area, she runs into more Reps for the Godfather as well as a Mole and Adolf Hitler. A trannie Aussie joins the crowd, wearing a green leprechaun dress and a mustache. As she chats with neighbors, they all start acting up again, mostly out of boredom or just to get attention. She visits some homes, like a lookieloo, after getting her paycheck from the engineering job she is currently doing at the factory. She sends messages to some friends, suggesting a party for Sunday. And, finally, she works some odd jobs at the apartment area. This is just a day at Yoville, a small town community filled with eclectic avatars trying to entertaining themselves. She strolls the streets of Yoville, looking for familiar faces, but realizes they are in different time zones. She decides to retire to her apartment, playing with her 3 pets, watching tv, and playing pool.

Another day in Yoville

After going to the grocery store, I enter my computer and check my emails.
My avatar pops into Facebook to check on her apartment and pick up her paycheck. As she socializes with its locals, bunch of cartoon characters with huge heads and small bodies, she realizes that the town has gotten dark. Corruption has filled the town. Scammers everywhere, pimping and making an easy buck. Typical life of an internet chatroom. What else is new, she thinks to herself. As she hangs out in front of her apartment building, chatting with a large crowd of neighbors, she meets someone trying to sell something. She chats with him to find more about him. The more she chats with him, she realizes that he is a pimp, who works for the Yoville Godfather. She chats with the Godfather's pimp, privately, at his apartment. Another guy joins, but leaves soon after. She continues to chat with him to get to the bottom of all this. But he keeps going in circle, repeating the same thing over and over. He keeps saying that they are just trying to help the little people make a better life for themselves. Something doesn't sound right, she thinks. He tells her he will triple her income if she does a task for the Godfather. She tells him she is not comfortable with the whole situation. Besides, she is happy with her life, although she is struggling as an indie. He gets on his cell phone and chats with the Godfather. They promise her if she cooperates, they will triple her income as well as give her a house. She repeats that she is happy with her apartment, and her other homes on IMVU. They threaten her if she doesn't cooperate they will make sure she doesn't return home. She says that it is OK because she also has a life and many homes in IMVU City. The pimp starts to give up, and says he needs to find other people who are more interested. She replies, "That is OK. I am wise. Go find someone gullible." She leaves. She pops in at the factory and the pimp appears there. She thinks to herself, has he been following me all the way here?
When she enters the building, he mutters something that sounds like he wants to kick her out from the factory. He is threatening to fire her for not cooperating. As she tries to get her other paycheck, the power goes off. Suddenly, nothing works. Frustrated, she decides to leave, and aimlessly walks in the streets of Yoville, thinking about all the mess and what the internet world is coming to. She is aware of internet life and chatrooms, but she can't believe how all these scammers, hackers, phishers and other corruptions are infecting the world wide web.
She arrives at the apartment building and hangs out there, popping from her room, where she answers her messages, before she goes down to the lobby and chats with some friends. She sends some messages before hanging out in the front of the apartment building with a crowd from her apartment building. She chats with a neighbor named Christine and then runs into the Godfather. But he doesn't say anything to her and she ignores him.
After a while, she pops back into the factory and notices that the pimp has left. She sighs in relief as she walks to get her paycheck. It works. She walks happily back to her apartment building, where she continues sending messages to friends as well as doing odd jobs on the side. Then, she decides to go home to her apartment to go to sleep, for it is now 11:11pm. As she takes off her clothes and wears her cotton nightgown, she also takes off the bug she has been wearing. She feels she did a good job for the Internet Govt as a spy, collecting information for them. She sleeps in peace with her pets, Perry the parrot, Chinchin the chinchilla, and Paprika the goldfish.
Meanwhile, I continue sitting at my computer, in Southern California, working on my writing and marketing as I wonder what my heroine will do next.

Downtown IMVU--the virtual reality city...

Downtown IMVU has grown into a big city environment, filled with an eclectic group of avatars from all over the world and from all different walks of life. I started out with a small loft as I saved credits on the site and performed various IMVU jobs. I eventually decorated my loft into a comfortable habitat where I can relax and socialize with different avatar guests. As I continue to save credits, I have accumulated many real estate, jet, yacht, pets and livestock, all over IMVU world, from the coastal IMVU area to the countryside and downtown areas. I have also contributed some fashion ideas to some IMVU fashion magazines, and further helped promote this IMVU world site to other people, or avatars, who want to join the adventure.
My avatar hangs out at IMVU on weekends, as a getaway, to relax and socialize, whether at a local coffee shop, ferris wheel ride, rooftop hangout in the moonlight, one of her many places that she has accumulated, or just a group chat at one of their public rooms. Occasionally, my avatar stops by the IMVU Garment District to shop with the credits she has been saving.
It is just another chatroom, but filled with fantasy and adventure, because of its 3D settings and graphics as well as its visuals.

A Life in Yoville...

I arrive at Facebook to check my email via my IMVU private jet. I park my jet in Facebook as I take a taxi to Yoville, a small town in Facebook, where I have an apartment and an Engineering job. I check on my now furnished apartment with three pets--a parrot, chinchilla and goldfish before I take a stroll to the Factory to pickup my Yoville paycheck. I hang out there, chatting with locals and employees as I do some part-time Yoville jobs. Then, as I walk by to the apartment building, I stop at stores on my way. When I arrive at the apartment building, I hang out in the street by a hot dog vendor, chatting with Yoville residents before I decide to go into the lobby and hang out with some neighbors. I stroll to the beach and realize I don't know anyone there. I go back to the apartment, hang out with neighbors, and I invite an Australian neighbor to my apartment, where we hang out for a while to talk about Yoville business and our crew. We decide to add each other for Yoville business purposes.
She leaves, and I fly back to IMVU, where I hang out in my townhouse with a male guest. We tour my townhouse, from lush bathroom to dancing in the kitchen. We hang out in my bedroom, wrestling on the bed. Then, we go on the roof, by the pool, to drink martinis, listen to music, chat, and BBQ. It gets late, and I start to fall asleep. We say our goodbyes and he leaves. Then, I pop out into reality, my California townhouse, pop out of IMVU and close my computer. I go to bed and fall asleep.