Horrid Marika

Marika and Jiryn, from Jiryn's viewer

...Marika transforms into an alien, Marika's viewer

Can you spot the difference?

Funny that I have to resume posting on this blog in a rather unceremoniously way. But yes, last week I was having viewer troubles. For the past few weeks I have been using Phoenix viewer without too many glitches…

until one day, a week ago, I logged in to see a naked, ruthed version of me. Thinking it was a temporary glitch, I logged out, returning a few hours later in the same form. Sigh.

My clan mates and friends in Sanada assured me that time that they see me in my usual self – clothes and all – but of course I looked different in my viewer and it was annoying. It was distracting all the more to see myself in my naked ruth form while sparring for my bushou test. Aawww, lol.

Horrid Marika!

The problem persisted for days until I found out in the forums that the cure for this glitch is to hit “Advanced” tab -> Character -> Character Tests -> Test male/female (whatever is applicable). The process will take you back to your first form during your first day in Second Life, but I really didn’t care. I reformed and reattached stuff myself and soon enough I was good as new.

The problem no longer recurred, thankfully. For those of you who have had similar problems, you can try the same steps. I hope there’d be no [accidental] strip spars in the future for me…unless my intent is to participate in s strip spar.

Hm…strip fight? This merits another post in the future. 🙂