Another SecondLife dangle

 

My SecondLife avatar, Gus, got hanged again. He's into latex, so this time he was strung up in head-to-toe latex, and wearing a ball gag and a blindfold. He was inspired by someone else who was hanged nearby in a latex outfit that was a bit more science-fictiony. 

The thing with death in SL is that it's not easy to kill an avatar permanently. Gus looks pretty dead, now, but when he comes down from the gallows he'll be pretty much fine. It depends on the roleplaying involved, really. If I'm playing with someone else and we agree that dead is dead, then the victim is dead, unless the player backs out of it. If I'm playing with someone else who has a ritual to revivify me, or maybe a stasis tube for healing, then death doesn't have to be permanent but it needs fixing first. Or, y'know, not. How seriously will it be taken?

It's all on the honor system anyway. You could agree to let me kill you. You even decide you're willing to never use the avatar again after this. So we interact in such a way that your avi dies, and maybe gets cremated and interred afterward, nice big funeral, etc. That seems final, yes? But it's not like real death. You CAN take it back and play your avatar again. It might piss me off, but so? According to the terms of service, I can't make you not play. (Some "killers" take your login credentials and change your password at the moment of "death." This is not allowed under the ToS, but if the admins never find out it's not stoppable.)

Anyway, snuffing it is just one of the many activities possible in the online world of SL. Obviously it's not one of the more popular activities. It's interesting to play with for some of us. Like a few other activities people do in SL, it can be, y'know, kind of horny in real life, too. It's a bit safer than wrapping a rope around your neck in RL, which is a plus.