Today, in Second Life Dante's Inferno opened for business as part of the Literature Alive! programme, and generously hosted by NMC.I need to declare an interest here - I did the terraforming and built and textured the signs for the build, but if you want to see a whole sim changed into Hell for a week, please come and visit the Inferno and Linden Hills.
As part of learning about the Inferno we ask students, and visitors, to consider who they know from Real Life who might be a suitable candidate for each of the rings of hell and why. Some are easy, some are trickier - heresy isn't quite as important now as in Dante's day, but feel free to come and have a go and nominate your least favourite people for a spot in Hell.
If you happen to be a generous sponsor, and have a sim to spare (a void sim will work, it's a matter of space, not prims), please contact me, we'd love to have a medium term to permanent home for the Inferno.
The picture isn't photoshopped - we did briefly have an angel flying around the circles of Hell exploring, and I was lucky enough to get a picture.
1. It's nice and all, but where's my falling burning ashes? Where's my whiny trees? Where's my inverted baptism thingies with an old pope stuck inside? I was dissapointed not to see a huge grotesque Satan with three mouths at the center. Most of all, where's fluffy- er, Cerberus? The gluttonous can't go unpunished!
But In all seriousness, I love the concept and the execution, but I think It'd be so much better if you actually had the rivers flowing to the center, and maybe more details like those mentioned above.
Posted at 7:07PM on Jul 12th 2007 by Tsukasa Keiko