The Phoenix’s Reach Jetpack from KULT will be available at Second Life Syndicate’s Necrotize Event. This is our first release, and it’s an Art Deco stylized and gore-infused jetpack.
- 100% Original Mesh with only 7,085 Triangles, and 16 Land Impact
- Hand Painted Optimized Textures and Materials
- Manual Resize with Object Animation Scaling
- Custom Animations, Sounds, and Special Effects
- 2 Scripts, 0.015ms “In Use” Script Time, and 0.002ms while Idle
- +Copy +Mod / -Trans
- Short Story Included
This October 7th, through to November 7th, grab your own here for only L$495!
Instructions and usage details can be found here.
Who is KULT?
We are Gutterblood Spoonhammer and NeoBokrug Elytis, and our works combined are KULT. This is our debut release — not just for this event, but for our brand. We have been making content in Second Life since 2006, and are both founding developers of The Wastelands. Ever since we joined Second Life, we’ve both worked independently and professionally on various projects, but this is the first time we’ve worked together as a store brand in Second Life.
Our overarching theme will be Art Deco fused with horror — but our world building and lore will allow us to dip into most thematic content. From avatar toys, accessories, and clothes, to home decor, skyboxes, and vehicles; we plan to create all sorts of interesting things. The majority of all of our releases will have short stories included with the purchase. Each one will contribute to our world building and lore. The first story is just below.
One goal of our brand is to bring content efficiency awareness to our customers and the grid as a whole. We’re both SL veterans who are proud of the “less is more” mentality, because we don’t want to bog down viewer and region performance to achieve great looking and performing content. Resource use is greatly overlooked in Second Life, and we’re exceptionally proud to achieve our visual aesthetic with bare minimums.
Postmortem Report
- Reporting Archivist: #206
- Universe Thread: Inga-603
- Project: Heavy Handed Gardener
- Inventor: Keaton Pace
- Subject: Phoenix’s Reach
At the time of the incident, Mr. Pace was of average height, a slightly heavyset man, with a sallow complexion, hazel eyes and graying hair.
The monitors report that as a youth Keaton Pace grew up in a rural farmland community. He helped his family operate the farm, and in time learned how to repair much of the communities’ farmland machinery. One might say he had a knack for it, and it wasn’t long before he started making his own improved quality of life modifications to the equipment. By the time he began attending secondary school, he already had a few passion project inventions under his belt.
Like all inventors, after graduating he had high hopes of creating inventions that would change the world, and coincidentally make him rich. His experience as a corporate engineer at a desk job left him wanting, and the morning commute seemed like extra punishment. It was at this point in time, in this particular universal thread, that he became obsessed with a better means of travel. He had spent decades of his personal time going through dozens of failed iterations for a jetpack that he hoped would change the world. The KULT decided to give him aid so that he may see the vision, and sent the Heavy Handed Gardener in for inspiration.
Unlike other candidates of the program, Mr. Pace was relatively normal. Initially, he was being monitored as a part of the control group. After seeding, there were no apparent changes to his productivity or drafts of his inventions, which was to be expected from a person of his caliber. However, after 23 years in the project, changes unexpectedly started to manifest.
His inventions began to utilize mathematical formulae of the primary thread, which made him come ever so close to achieving peak energy efficiency in such a compact form. Only minor side effects became apparent, beginning with anti-social behaviors. Though, one may also attribute that to the passion one has when a lifelong invention is almost complete. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Aside from some minor skin discoloration, no other apparent physical manifestations became apparent.
At the age of 54 his invention was actually lifting him off the ground for short flights. It took three more years of refining the design before it would show sustained hovering and flights. Mr. Pace was still not satisfied with the speed of his invention, and worked on specialized energy sources for the jet boosters. Based on his designs, the power core appeared to be utilizing basic level one metamaterials that had not been discovered yet on this thread. Information appears to be disseminating across the gap to the subject. The vision comes.
Mr. Pace began to ignore self-care, and started putting all his spare waking hours into the project. He was close, and he knew it. According to his final notes, if he could achieve triple resonance with his thruster timings it should allow him to travel close to the speed of sound. Thinking far ahead he had already designed a specialized helmet to deflect the air and protect his body, as well as a pair of boots to help stabilize his control and lessen the impact of landings.
Near his 57th birthday, Mr. Pace began a test flight that forever changed our perception of how the seeds react to this universal thread. Upon activating his triple resonance design, he appeared to vanish, leaving behind a momentary gravity lensing effect that quickly faded. After hours of searching, his jetpack was recovered one kilometer away from the source of the incident. There was no evidence that Mr. Pace survived. In fact, it appeared that he had just vanished.
The artifact spent a few months in quarantine, archival storage, and finally ended up at the investigative lab. During the lab’s investigation of the artifact, it became apparent that triple resonance witnessed at the site of the incident was no longer possible due to do the damage sustained from the incident itself. However, high velocities of subsonic speeds were still possible. More importantly it was learned that Mr. Pace never actually left his invention behind. Instead, his journey to whatever demi-dimension had fused his seeded essence and much of his material body to the internals of the jetpack. This only became apparent when trying to activate triple resonance to deploy the wings.
He does not appear to be able to speak or communicate. However, there may be some signs of low level sentience. The organic components do not appear to need any form of sustenance. Activating the impaired triple resonance seems to elicit a pain response. It is unknown at this time if it is genuine pain, or simply a reaction to the devices’ deployment. It is of minor significance to our long term goals.
This artifact has been approved for general KULTist use, but users should be warned about trying to deploy triple resonance, as it is still not fully understood for this thread.