So I suck at Blogging!

Yes, its been months since I blogged.  I've been busy.  Hard Alley is still there.  I'm still a rotten old bastard.

Hard Alley just celebrated its 4th Anniversary in Second Life.  For those of you who are not familiar with Second Life, 4 years is like 20 years in Real Life.  We've been running a full sim for over a year now and there's no sign of it ending anytime soon.  There are still a lot of perverts out there that are having fun and enjoying all the sick twisted fantasies that Hard Alley has to offer.

So what has happened in the months since Takashi was elected Mayor of Hard Alley? A lot!

We've added a drug den inside an abandoned pharmacy.  Rodison, the Hard Alley Drug Lord, has moved his band of sick junkies into it.  These drug addicts will do anything for a fix... anything!

Trixianna Saenz has taken the position (that sounds so dirty) of Hard Core Club Manager.  She's got DJs lined up for every day of the week and the club is rocking out every night, usually starting around 7pm SL time.

Tempest Jewel and I broke up, but she has found her true love and is now married to him.  She's also going to be DJing at Hard Alley once a week.  Check out her wedding photos on the Hard Alley Flickr site!

Candace Flossberg and I have gotten together.  Yes, there are still women foolish enough to put up with me.  She's smart, she's sexy, and she's willing to let me fuck anyone I want.  She gets to do the same, of course.  Candace is fun and easy going and a joy to be around, and I'm a lucky man to have her in my life.

There have been other changes, some good, some bad.  I won't bore you with all of them.  I'll try not to take so long to blog again.

The Mayor of Hard Alley

This month we held elections to determine who would be the first Mayor of Hard Alley.  Interest in it was much higher than I thought, with over a dozen candidates in the running, although the field dropped to 10 by election day.  We had candidates who were long time Alley residents as well as people from all over SL and some who had never been to Hard Alley.

The 2 week long campaign period was full of cheating, dirty tricks, lies, bribes, and sexual scandal.  Promises were made that will never be kept, assasination attempts on candidates were made, and a good time was had by all.  During this time, City Hall was constructed near the Reform School (good source of interns!).

Election day itself was more of the same, with bimbo cheerleaders offering blow jobs in return for votes for thier candidate, candidates bribing voters, and other candidates cheating and attempting to trick the voters into voting for them.  After 24 hours and several sim resets, the voting booth was closed and nearly 350 votes had been cast.  The winner was Takashi Alexseev of the Tea Baggers Party.

Taka was sworn in yesterday in a public ceremony.  The following is a transcript of the ceremony and Taka's innaugural address:

Hard Rust: Friends... Perverts... Bitches... Welcome to the official innauguration ceremony for the newly elected Mayor of Hard Alley, Takashi Alexseev.

Takashi Alexseev is a long-time Alley resident with a history or sexual perversion and indecent behavior.

He can frequently be found cross-dressing or sexually abusing his fellow dancers at the Hard Core Sex and Strip Club.

Takashi ran a fine campaign for Mayor that began with cheating and culminated in trading sexual favors for votes.

Takashi, please approach the podium...

Raise your right hand and place your left hand on your crotch and repeat after me: (copy and paste)

Hard Rust: I, Takashi Alexseev...

Takashi Alexseev: I, Takashi Alexseev...

Hard Rust: Do solomnly swear to uphold the lack of law in Hard Alley...

Takashi Alexseev: Do solomnly swear to uphold the lack of law in Hard Alley...

Hard Rust: To promote vice, greed, and corruption whenever I am not fucking interns...

Takashi Alexseev: To promote vice, greed, and corruption whenever I am not fucking interns...

Hard Rust: To accept any bribes and all forms of graft...

Takashi Alexseev: To accept any bribes and all forms of graft...

Hard Rust: To abuse my authority and subject the citizens of Hard Alley to perverse sexual deviations...

Takashi Alexseev: To abuse my authority and subject the citizens of Hard Alley to perverse sexual deviations...

Hard Rust: And to set an example for others to follow by indulging in sins of the flesh and drunken debauchery at all times.

Takashi Alexseev: And to set an example for others to follow by indulging in sins of the flesh and drunken debauchery at all times.

Hard Rust: So Help Me Lag.

Takashi Alexseev: So Help Me Lag.

Hard Rust: Congratulations, Mayor Takashi Alexseev!

Takashi Alekseev: My fellow deviants,

As your newly elected official, I intend to make Hard Alley the epitome of filth, debauchery, and hedonism. As amazing as it is now, from the darkest sewer to that luxurious office in the sky (which happens to be mine), there is still much work to be done.

Residents should be free to satisfy their basest, darkest need because we are here for you. Be secure in the knowledge that I will interruptus my coitus at any moment to hear your concerns. As painful as that may sound, I want to stress that I will place your needs above my own. That is the Teabagger's credo.

Your voices have been heard at the ballot box. I ask that your voices be heard again throughout this sim. Express that lust inside you, feel no shame, and infect others with it.

Ask not who is going to screw you, but who will you screw today!

Thank you, Hard Alley!

After the ceremony, the new Mayor After the ceremony, the new Mayor
was attacked by an assassin dressed in a Spider-Man costume, and a revolt was lead in a failed coup attempt. When the dust had settled, the fearless Mayor was no where to be found. He had run away and was in hiding. It took a huge party at Hard Core to draw him back out.  Drinks were on the house and hookers were on the payroll as the night turned into one of sex and depravity.

Valentine's Day at Hard Alley

With Valentine's Day fast approaching, I thought it would be a good time to discuss my views on love and romance in Hard Alley.  I am sure you are all riveted to your seat in anticipation, so let me begin...

There are those who might believe that love does not exist in Hard Alley, but I say it is quite the opposite.  Hard Alley is full of love.  I look around every day and see people displaying their love and affection for one another.  Every dirty mattress is stained with a testimony to the amount of love abounding in the Alley.  The sounds of love permeate the air as I wonder the narrow passages between the run down and condemned buildings.  I see couples engaged in many acts of love throughout the course of a day, usually culminating in a climactic scene where one showers his affections on the other.

Is there Romance in Hard Alley?  Again, I say yes.  My strippers are constantly being woo'd by the men and women who frequent the Hard Core Strip Club, and frequently, as a sign of affection, my strippers will shower these men and women with gifts of love, such as panties or blow jobs.  What better example of love and romance does one need than the sight of a gentleman holding back the hair of a stripper as she sucks his cock to keep from getting her hair all tangled with his cum?  Or the man who applys that extra amount of lube to his lady before sticking his cock in her ass?

Yes, Love and Romance are in full bloom in Hard Alley.

Happy Valentine's Day from your lovable hopless romantic, Hard Rust.

Hard Alley: A Retrospective, Part 3

Okay so now I've started something and response is much greater than I expected, and my little Alley was too small to handle the traffic.  After all, it kind of ruins the mood if there's a bunch of people standing around when you're supposed to be scared and alone.

I bite the bullet and buy some land adjacent to mine.  Now I am paying a monthly land fee.  It's not much, but I became very much aware that I am shelling out RL money so other people's pixels can fuck.  The Alley grows to about 3 times its original size and I add a sleazy hotel and more alleys.  Then I stop thinking two-dimensionally and build down, adding a subway tunnel (that goes absolutely nowhere, of course).  Now the Alley has begun to include "themed" areas that add to the fun.

Now the Alley is about a month old, and copy-cat "alleys" are starting to appear.  I don't believe any of them lasted for more than a month or two.  Once again, traffic increases to the point where I have to buy more land and expand the Alley.  I add a filthy Restroom (because we all know that it's every girl's fantasy to be raped in a dirty restroom), and begin to build the Hard Alley Sewer System.  These latest additions prove to be extremely popular.

It's not long before I have to expand again, but unfortunately there is no more land for sale in the sim.  I search around and find some land in Yulmu near the middle of the sim (to give me room to grow on all sides if needed).  I pick up the existing Alley (which is small but still no easy task), and move it to the new sim and begin work on expanding it once again, adding the Hard Core Sex & Strip Club, and a Mall to rent space and help offset the money I'm paying each month.

Hard Core quickly becomes popular and I am forced to learn quickly how to run a club, dealing with hiring dancers and setting up tip jars and realizing that clubs don't run themselves.  The Mall starts to fill up and my wallet feels much better and I'm free now to concentrate on building and adding more themed areas.

About this time, several people have become regulars at the Alley, many of whom help out around the place.  Jessica becomes my first Cop, patrolling the Alley in a hot little outfit and helping keep griefers at bay (oh yes, griefers had discovered the Alley, which was climbing the Popular Places list higher each day).  Susanna, a friend from my previous avatar, was one of my first renters, selling her vampire teeth.  And Lil'Bit, who spent most of her time sitting on a dumpster with her friends.

I mention these three people in particular, because they all took inspiration from their time at Hard Alley and went on to create their own sims, Midian City, City of Lost Angels, and Crack Den, respectively.  Each of these sims took their inspiration from Hard Alley, but added their own original ideas and today each of them is highly successful.

After several more land purchaces and several other expansions, Hard Alley grew to about 1/4 of a sim, although it seemed much larger.  The Alley hit the top of the Popular Places list with just over 50K in traffic (this was before traffic calculations were changed and 50K was about as high as it went).  Unfortunately, being on the Popular Places list brought lots of noobs and lots of griefers, neither of which was good for business.  My refusal to prohibit noobs was the reason Lil'Bit left to create Crack Den.  I still believe that today's noob can be tomorrow's RPer, and they will remember who was nice to them when they were starting, and indeed I have people tell me all the time that they started their SL lives in Hard Alley and we were one of the few places that treated them well.

Hard Alley kept growing and expanding slowly over the next year.  During that time I also created the School Girls Gone Bad Detention Facility.  I wanted to prove to myself that the Alley's popularity wasn't just a fluke and that I could repeat my success.  It took a while to come up with the idea, but eventually I fell back to my own fantasy about my boss's sexy daughter who was in the D-Home being traded for cigarettes.  That was all I needed and the School was built and became a hit very quickly.  At times it has even been more popular than Hard Alley and is still a hot place to play.

Is that it?  Am I done now?  Do I really need to write another long boring post about the history of Hard Alley?

Hard Alley: A Retrospective, Part 2

So here I was, on my third avatar, ready to escape the world of drama and settle into a nice cozy skybox. With no job or relationship, I had plenty of free time to wander SL looking for booty calls. And that is what I did for the first few weeks. I just drifted from free sex site to free sex site fucking as I went. I returned a few times to old familiar places, but big rooms full of pose balls eventually grew boring and I began to look for other avenues of excitement.

That was when I stumbled across a group called Forced Fantasy. It sounded fun, so joined it. For about a week, the group chat stayed silent, but my curiosity grew, so one day I popped into group chat and asked where the group played. That is when I found out that the group had no place to play, which explained why no one was playing.

That's when I started to think about where I would have like to have played, if the group had indeed had a place to play. A dark, secluded alleyway in a dirty, run-down city. The kind of place where no one cares if they hear a cry for help. It had to be an alley. No one ever drags their victim into a shopping mall or a shoe store. They drag them into an alley.

I booted up Photoshop and started working on textures. Starting off with Bricks and adding graffiti and torn posters and locked doors and shattered windows... In an hour, I had enough textures to line the walls of my skybox (which was small and fit onto a 512m First Land parcel). After adding concrete to the floor and stars to the ceiling (you can't have a good forced fantasy in the sunny afternoon), I set out a few of my favorite sex pose sets in strategic places.

Now the alley was all done. I set the land for public access and started to turn on its ability to be found in Search when I realised it needed a name.

This was pretty easy. I had chosen the name Hard Rust just because I liked the sound of it, but now it lent itself to my new creation... Hard Alley. Another few minutes in Photoshop to create a street sign/logo and I was all set to open it to the public!

The first thing I did was send a message to the owner of the Forced Fantasy group. I offered them my skybox alley as a free play area for the group. No strings attached.

They turned me down. I still have no idea why.

Even without the official endorsement of the Forced Fantasy group, I figured 2-3 people a week might pop in and use the place. Needless to say I was surprised when I was getting 2-3 people an hour. What was even more surprising was that 90% of my guests were women! There weren't enough men to keep them satisfied! I knew I had to do something to lure more men to the site or it was all going to go bust. Out of sheer luck, one of the women that came to the site, Cathy, offered to help me out. Cathy stayed in Hard Alley every minute she could, fucking any man that teleported in. Within a week, the site had a steady balance of men and women playing, and I was beset with my next problem...

Hard Alley was too small.

Megz Ling Looking Hot!

Megz
Originally uploaded by Hard Alley

Pic taken during Fetish Fridays. I'm just testing out the linking between Flickr and the Blog, but if I gotta pick a pic to test with, it might as well be a hot one. :)

Hard Alley: A Retrospective, Part 1

Someone got me thinking tonight about Hard Alley and how it all started. For those of you who are interested, keep reading. The rest of you should go surf for some porn or something.

Hard Rust was actually the third avie for me. The first avie, Adrian, had found his way into SL by way of a friend who quit SL two days later, but not before showing me how to get to The Sex Club, one of the more popular hangouts at the time. Even though I was a complete noob (noob hair, noob clothes, noob skin), the dancers there were nice and welcomed me in. Within a week I was dating the Club Manager. She bought me a nice 3000L skin and made me a stripper at the club. Thus began my long association with strip clubs and sex sites in SL.

Within 6 months, I had to abandon Adrian due to numerous indiscretions. It was time to start fresh without a dozen women hunting me down to rip my nuts off.

So I created Zoom. I always loved the name Zoom. Zoom started off with nice clothes and nice skin and prim hair. And what was the first thing Zoom did? He went back to The Sex Club. Upon teleporting in, he was approached by two women, a brunette and a blonde. The brunette offered him a job stripping and told him that all employees were allowed to fuck the blonde as a job benefit. Seeing as I had no means of income at the time, and that the blonde was completely hot, I accepted. Over the next 2 months, the roles reversed and the blonde too the reins of the operation and set up a large house as a brothel/club. I personally helped her place every sex pose ball set in the house. During that time, she and I began a relationship and became partners and co-managers of this sex club. I met a lot of people during this time, including our next door neighbor Suzanna, who would go on to create City of Lost Angels (inspired by Hard Alley).

The club was a critical success but a business failure. People loved it but it could not support itself financially. After a brief (5 day) marriage, we parted and I left the club and she left SL.

The Sex Club was virtually dead so I spent several weeks at Heaven Above the Clouds where I met my next lady. Together we created a very classy strip club that did quite well. I actually built this one. It turned out really nice and it got me interested in building more.

Unfortunately, that relationship ended, and once again I decided to abandon my avie Zoom and start life anew. This time, I would avoid relationships. This time, I would avoid any noteriety. This time, I would quietly remain anonymous and all would be well.

So I created Hard Rust.

End of Part 1.