Jinx Kinx

My friend Bethany told me she'd discovered a new place for the dissolute activities we both enjoy, so we went to check it out. Jinx Kinx is an airborne sex play area in the Hoodoo sim, and something about it reminds me of 'the old days'.

Oh man, here I go. My first Rezday is next Wednesday, and I'm already starting to talk like on oldbie. I'm thinking of 'back in the day', when I started SL at the beginning of last Spring, and there was something called 'Dwell'. If you joined SL after the summer of 2006, you probably don't know about it. Nowadays people running businesses and attractions in SL are concerned about traffic to their locations, because it puts them higher on the popularity list, and that's better for retail and general commerce. But until last summer, traffic in SL actually translated into Linden Dollars. 'Dwell' was an incentive feature that allowed you to actually make money in SL simply by having a popular spot. You didn't actually have to have any commerce going on there, but the Linden system would actually pay you (a portion of some arbitrary amount they put out), based on your traffic. I actually earned Dwell when I got my First Land (now another extinct species), and just by hanging around my house for the better part of a day, I scored something like L$4. Big whoop, but that's how much I got for one or two people hanging around on 512m^2. Imagine what people got at Heaven Above the Clouds at that time. A lot of major places in SL closed after Dwell was discontinued, and that spurred the rise of 'vendors in the club'.

There I go again, showing my age. Heaven Above the Clouds is still around, but eight months ago it was one of the places in SL to go to people-watch, socialize, and, hopefully, to get picked up for some e-sexin'. It also had a certain 'wink wink nudge nudge' reputation, being the most popular sex park. The lag was terrible, so you could usually count on a nice 'poseball farm' like Above it All to take care of the necessary animations, after leaving Heaven Above. Compare the popularity of Hard Alley today, and its similar reputation -- and craptabulous lag. But it was places like Heaven Above that were mostly dependent on Dwell to keep up on tier payments.

Anyway, I wax long, so let's get to the tourism.

Jinx Kinx is a floating space station for the kinky in search of some public playspace. Well, maybe not exactly a space station, since it has open-air stairways and an upper outside deck. But there's a definite sci-fi feel to the building and its decor. You start off in an airlock (although when my friend TP'd me there, I ended up on top of the outside structure), and go through a predictably noisy iris valve to get into the main area. It was this place that set off my nostalgia, since it's... a room full of poseballs. Haven't seen that concept (or lack thereof) since the days before everyone had a SexGen bed. Maybe Jinx is interested in saving on prims, but it seems like there could be a little more thought given. Say what you want about Missy's Pleasure Starcruiser, it had a well-executed concept, being able to get down in every room of an imaginary spacecraft.

Jinx is basically organized around 'kinks'. In the main room, you have multiple-penetration, gangbang and bukkake poses. On the other end of the main area is an exterior deck, which leads to a smaller capsule-style skybox space containing your favorite extreme devices -- the Dark Delights Violator and Scorpion, and a Milkerz F5000 milking machine. Down the stairway you'll find more, including a potted tentacle-monster plant, the Deviant D/s suite, and the now-familiar Dark Desires Horse.

There's also a horse of a different species, an apparently old(?) KDC device that I've only ever seen at Dungeon Online. It's a fascist Lockmeister object, and made in the shape of a abstract horse-machine. I have no idea what it does, however, because neither example I've seen has worked properly. I'd love to find out what this thing does, I have a girl who might be interested...

The larger area in the lower level is devoted to a kink that not many people I know in SL enjoy: toilet fetishism. There's toilets, the bathtub, stalls, and a big porcelain area with standing yellow puddles, and some poses. I tried the 'Roll Arond In Pee' pose, strictly for the novelty, and it was a pretty good animation. But sorry, no real enjoyment for me there (my potty training was pretty much trauma free). Bethany and I did enjoy the dirty SexGen mattress, though, a classic on its own, down to the Smoking pose instead of the usual cuddle. And probably the cleanest object in the room.

The stairway is a notable feature, even if its just a stairway. It's 400m in the air, so falling off would be tedious, if nothing else. But Jinx has kindly provided teleporters also, for those of us for whom simulated foot traffic holds no appeal. One thing I noticed about these is, they all have the same three destinations that access the main parts of the club, but there are more locations in the area than this. Each teleporter seems to have a different fourth destination, making it interesting to try all of them. Apparently, Jinx also has some speciality areas set up: a couple of two-story houses, separate from the station, one which caters to lesbian play (all pink balls), and one which is intended as an office/classroom RP area. There are also a couple of locations Jinx hasn't set up yet, apparently, but the teleporters are holding out hope.

Last of all, a somewhat sad affair awaits on the exterior top deck of the station. A pool with a rather large outer structure highlights in red (for those using Alt Shows Physical), and a tooltip reveals it to be (drum roll please) a SexGen Pool. Okay, that's fine. I set about to explore the built-in poses, but was confounded by a script error -- missing animation, apparently. Sorry, Jinx, but the L$5000 price tag is a bit steep for something with existing bugs. Good luck with that.

The cool thing about Jinx Kinx is, it's so new that the n00bs haven't discovered it yet. Right now, It's a nice quiet place to get nasty, even though people do TP in at random. It was enjoyably free from crowding. It's only a matter of time before that ends, i think. I wish Jinx success, however, she's got a good build going with some interesting stuff, even if I'm not sure how she's going to have the place make Linden$.

Can't wait for the Pulp Gallery!