Fur Valleys

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The Fur Valleys (often known as "The Valleys") is a group of island simulations (also known as "regions" or inaccurately as "sims") within Second Life. The Valleys are located in the southwestern area of the island cloud.

[edit] History

The first region in this chain, Fox Valley, was created in November 2005 by RedFox Costello in order to form a furry area apart from Dreamland, due to a difference of opinions between RedFox and Anshe Chung.

More regions were added, each typically owned and run by different individuals, until the chain became the Fur Valleys of today. However, the chain is constantly growing, in particular the Dragon Valley Estate.

Fae Valley, owned by Alynna Vixen, left in May 2006 and joined with Meeting Island, becoming Raccoon Hill. The region has since vanished.

Masquerade Valley, formerly Furnation Tria, moved out in December 2006 when it was sold, becoming the free-floating island, Masquerade Island. This region no longer contains a furry theme.

Silverymoon, owned by Angel Fluffy, moved out during early 2007 to join with his other regions to form their own small island chain.

[edit] Island simulations

As each island simulation in Fur Valley is owned by different individuals (with a few individuals owning more than one), the theme and purpose of each region differs greatly. Despite this, the Valleys do form a strong community.

Open lines of communication exists between the owners of each sim, both as a safeguard against griefers, as well as determining where and when new sims may be added to the region. In general, the owners whose regions neighbor vacant spaces have the final say regarding new regions in these spaces.

Originally, a rule was implemented regarding naming, such that each region required the last name of "Valley." This rule has since been dropped, being maintained only by older regions, as well as new islands (but not voids) of the Dragon Valley Estate.

The following is a listing of all regions within the Valley chain, organized in the approximate order each joined this island conglomerate.

[edit] Fox Valley

Fox Valley is a mostly residential island sim. Owned by Redfox Costello, it was the first of a series of regions which eventually became Fur Valley.

[edit] Wolf Valley

Wolf Valley was owned Kithylin Perth, but was sold to Mako Minogue in June of 2006. It's primarily a residential region featuring a clothing optional beach and two art galleries. It's become a popular hangout and place to dance to 80's music and tunes spun various guest DJ's.

Sabine's Shiny Sandbox has been relocated to Serenity Woods and the small mall in the center of the sim decommissioned and replaced with a park-like welcome center created by Wolftribe Karura. The mall vendors were moved to the large mall located in Serenity Woods.

[edit] Kitsune Valley

Kitsune Valley, originally owned by Alynna Vixen, moved out from the Valleys in May 2006 to join Furnation Worlds, becoming Furnation Kitsune. It later left Furnation, becoming a separate island known simply as Kitsune. In August 2007, Kitsune Valley returned to the Valleys, and was sold to Snowmeow Soothsayer. Alynna retains control over one quarter of the region.

[edit] Dragon Valley (Estate)

The Dragon Valley Estate is a series of islands all owned by Foxkin Impfondo, so named because of Dragon Valley, the original region of this estate.

The number of regions in this estate currently number thirty, fourteen islands and sixteen voids, most of which are available for rent.

The islands which make up this estate are described in further detail in a separate section, although the void regions are described in their own section.

[edit] Istaria Prime

Istaria Prime was once part of the Furnation Worlds conglomerate. For a time, due to the departure of Masquerade Valley, Istaria was not connected to the rest of main portion of the Valley island chain. This has since changed with the addition of Yin Valley. Istaria Prime is owned by Crawler Woyseck.

[edit] Serenity Woods

Serenity Woods moved into Fur Valley in early June 2006. It features a very large store, as well as residential areas.

Serenity Woods was formally transfered to by Ron Overdrive, a former Forest Guide, by it's original owner, Foxkin Impfondo. It was sold on 25 June 2007 to Mako Minogue as the manager and financed by Kerwin Newall.

Once the sim's finances were stabilized and certain organizational changes were made, the sim was then offered to the current Guides (Sim Admin) staff for purchase at $0 profit. The Guides led by Curt Pascal held a number of fund raisers and were successfully able to purchase the sim in November 2007.

Curt Pascal is now the official Owner of the sim as of this writing.

[edit] Critter Valley

Critter Valley is a region owned by kodi Sachs which moved in to the Fur Valley region at the end of June 2006. It was subsequently sold to Snowmeow Soothsayer in the spring of 2007.

[edit] Zeta Valley

Zeta Valley provides a friendly area to zoophiles, and for this reason has come under a certain level of controversy from the other Valley regions. The region is not currently connected to the main portion of the Valleys.

Zeta was once connected to the rest of the Valleys via Dragons Void, but due to disagreements between the Zeta Valley residents and the Dragons Void admins, is now separated once again. About half of the island is leased out to groups and people, although there has been little change in the properties since the sim was created.

While the region is zoophilia friendly, any objectionable content is kept in group-only areas with warning signs posted on the ways into the areas. Most ground-level areas are open to the public, although there is many rental areas for people that are differently themed to members, including Stable Stalls.

Zeta Valley includes a club friendly to Daryth Kennedy's dragon avatars friendly club (Isle of Wyrms), a mall, and a money tree.

The casino was closed due to changes in the AUP of SecondLife.

Zeta Valley is owned by Wolphin Fluffball. It surfaced 29 July 2006.

[edit] Cub Conclave

Cub Conclave provides a safe area for the babyfur community. The region features a castle, a mini mall, a marina, a bathhouse, a spaceship and Club Softpaws among other things. The region was founded and is owned by Raven Welesa.

Cub Conclave (and the associated Kit Estates) was not connected to the main potion of the Fur Valleys for a time, due to the move of Masquerade Valley. This has since changed with the appearance of Yin Sea.

[edit] Kit Estates

Kit Estates, like Cub Conclave, caters to the babyfur community, but is focused more on residential areas. It is owned by Raven Walesa.

[edit] Jaguar Valley

A residential region created on 20 January 2007, located north of Serenity Woods. Owned by Mako Minogue, Jaguar Valley is a rural-themed residential sim. It's most notable resident is Allen Harrington who builds highly detailed Asian and Ranchero themed homes as well as visually rich nature themed skyboxes.

[edit] Pony Island

Pony Island moved into the Valley chain in early 2007. It's owned by Crissa Javelin and is mainly used as a sandbox sim for people to build new things on.

[edit] Lovecraft Forest

This region dedicated to H.P. Lovecraft's works was owned by Kerwin Newall and MathueTaxion Theeuwes. Located north of Jaguar Valley, it also connected Pony Island sim to the rest of the Valleys for the first time when it came online in February of 2007.

Lovecraft Forest was sold to new non-furry owners in April 2008 , renamed and moved to a new grid location far from the Valley Estates continent.

[edit] Furry Park

Furry Park is owned by Effsey Nelson, as a residential complement to FlyinTails Airfield (now known as Falcon Valley). This region, along with it's former complement, disconnected from the Valleys, in an attempt to cut down on local lag in the middle of 2007. It currently lies just north of the Valleys.

In September 2007, Furry Park was sold to Equino Faulkland and moved to the Ryder Estates, its currently located off the east edge of Ryder Lake.

[edit] Horse Valley

Horse Pony, who rents a large parcel in Zeta Valley, and Phillip Vought partnered together to purchase Horse Valley sim in April of 2008.

[edit] Equus Beach

This void (aka water or OpenSpace) sim was purchased by Horse Pony and Phillip Vought and placed due west of Zeta Valley on 15 May 2008. It reconnected Zeta Valley to the main continent. Zeta had been an island for almost two years up to this point.

[edit] Dragon Valley Estate

The Dragon Valley Estate, named such as Dragon Valley, was the first sim to become part of this estate, are all owned by Foxkin Impfondo, and his rental group, Foxkin Rentals which manages most of the rented land within the estate.

The administrators of the Dragon Valley Estate and Foxkin Rentals include: Autumnfox Vesperia, djomnifusion Snickerdoodle, SleightOf Hand, Stria Teazle, Wyvern Sieyes, Kitten Radio and Cera Watts.

These regions are listed separately for clarity, in the approximate order in which each joined the Valley chain, rather than the order in which each joined the Dragon Valley Estate.

[edit] Tiger Valley

Tiger Valley is primarily Japanese themed. This region is devoted to land rentals, and is divided into nine rentable sections. It was originally owned by Epic Tank, but was sold to Foxkin Impfondo in early September 2006.

[edit] Rabbit Valley

Rabbit Valley was originally owned by Kithylin Perth, later sold to the Kenzo Clan, and finally now owned by Foxkin Impfondo. The region bears no relationship to the publisher of the same name.

[edit] Dragon Valley

Dragon Valley was the first region to become part of the Dragon Valley Estate. It will also soon contain the central office for Foxkin Rentals, which manages the majority of the rentable land within the Dragon Valley Estate.

Dragon Valley is primarily a residential region, and is divided into four sections, each with its own theme: Japanese (Northeast), Medieval European (Southeast), Rustic (Northwest) and Modern (Southwest).

In addition to land rentals, apartments are also available in Dragon Valley, including: Pagoda Apartments, Treehouse Apartments, Sky Apartments and Dragon Apartments. The Pagoda features a kitsune shrine in front.

[edit] Ryu Valley

Ryu Valley is primarily a region for visitors rather than residents of the estate. Its main feature is the giant volcano at its center, which constantly spews "lavabombs": harmless objects which leave a streak of lighted particles behind them, but which do often enter neighboring regions.

Ryu Valley includes a large mall called "Moon that Never Sets Mall", so named because it is contained within a large moon floating high above the region.

The floating moon also contains the Macro Room, one of the major draws to this region, which features macro prim furries, and a variety of situations for normal-sized furs to escape from.

In addition, a mature area is present deep inside the Volcano for Daryth Kennedy's dragon avatars as well as normal-sized furs.

Ryu was the second region to become part of the Dragon Estate.

[edit] Falcon Valley

Falcon Valley, formerly known as FlyinTails Airfield, is a residential region, available for land rentals. It currently lies North of the Valleys, and is awaiting connection to the Dragon Estate.

FlyingTails Airfield was devoted to flying aircraft of all sorts, and was set up like a giant airport, complete with landing and take-off strips. The region was originally owned by Effsey Nelson, but was sold to Foxkin Impfondo on 18 September 2007.

[edit] Neko Valley

Neko Valley came online in November 2006 and is primarily a residential region, available for land rentals. It is the sister sim of Otter Valley.

[edit] Otter Valley

The sister island of Neko Valley, which emerged at the same time, Otter Valley is also a residential region, available for land rentals.

[edit] Cheetah Valley

Cheetah Valley came online in early 2007. While originally a residential region, it now caters primarily to commercial residents. It is the sister island of Ferret Valley.

[edit] Ferret Valley

The sister island of Cheetah Valley, which emerged at the same time, Ferret Valley is also a residential island available for land rentals.

Unlike Cheetah, Ferret once featured a large mall within a Japanese-style pagoda, as well as containing the visitor center for Foxkin Rentals. The mall has since merged with the Moon that Never Sets Mall in Ryu Valley, and the Foxkin Rentals offices are in the process of moving to Dragon Valley.

[edit] Ocelot Valley

Ocelot Valley came online in early 2007 and is primarily a residential region. It is the sister island of Meerkat Valley.

[edit] Meerkat Valley

Meerkat Valley is the sister island of Ocelot Valley, which emerged at the same time. Like Cheetah Valley, this region was originally residential, but later became devoted to commercial residents. Meerkat Valley became the testing grounds for allowing various new types of new businesses in the Valleys.

[edit] Cougar Valley

Cougar Valley came online in June 2007 and is primarily a residential region, available for land rentals. This region is notable for its tall mountains.

[edit] Lynx Valley

Lynx Valley came online in June 2007 and is primarily a residential region, available for land rentals. This region is notable for its large river which runs through the middle of the island.

[edit] Mink Valley

Mink Valley came online in June 2007, and is primarily a residential region, available for land rentals. This region is notable in that it is shaped like a paw print.

[edit] Lemming Valley

Cougar valley came online in June 2007, and is primarily a residential region, available for land rentals. This region is notable for its steep cliffs, paying homage to the 1991 video game "Lemmings."

[edit] Void Simulations

Void regions (also known as "voids" or "ocean regions") in the Fur Valleys region are primarily used to add ocean to the surrounding areas, although each has it's own set of unique landforms and most are each rentable as an entire region.

All of the void regions in the Valleys island chain are currently owned by Foxkin Impfondo, but the four original voids are each managed by a different administrator of Foxkin Rentals.

[edit] Dragons Void

Dragons Void was the one of the original four voids in the Valley chain, and the first void which was rentable as a entire unit. This void was originally placed north of Wolf Valley and west of Zeta Valley, but moved south due to disagreements about landforms in the region. It is managed by djomnifusion Snickerdoodle.

[edit] Kitsune Sea

Kitsune Sea is void region which features a fox-shaped main island split in three parts, as well as several pawprint shaped islands which serve as rental spaces. This region is managed by Autumnfox Vesperia.

Kitsune Sea features a small mall upon the fox's head, which is home to Dancing Drake Designs, an avatar company which produces fantasy and furry characters, as well as Fawksie Stuf, Autumnfox's own business which produces a variety of gadgets and fashions. A section for freebie items, including collie avatars by Taylor Humby, is also available.

Other notable visitor spots include a forest in perpetual autumn bloom, a waterfall boats may sail under, a mountain shrine complete with meditation pillows, and a sunken kistune temple where a visitor may be told their fortune.

[edit] Strianic Ocean

Strianic Ocean is an ocean region, named after its original manager, Stria Teazle. Nevermint Debs also manages this region.

This void is notable in that the island's shape resembles a dragon on the map, and an underwater coral reef, currently under construction.

[edit] Onyx Ocean

Onyx Ocean is a rentable void. It was formerly the private home of Fara Heart, who later transfered management to Cera Watts.

[edit] BlueRay Sea

BlueRay Sea came online in early 2007 and is a rentable void. It was named for BlueRay Darkes, a personal friend of djomnifusion Snickerdoodle.

[edit] Geckos Void

Geckos Void came online in early 2007 and is a rentable void. The region name played a tribute to the popular gecko mascot of the Geiko car insurance company. The region was formerly named Gecko Void, but was renamed in June 2007 purely for aesthetics.

[edit] Moonlight Sea

Moonlight Sea came online in early 2007 and is a rentable void. It was named for the initial crescent moon shape of its island. The original island shape has since changed, but it still maintains a somewhat moon-like shape.

[edit] Sydney Sea

Sydney Sea came online in early 2007 and is a rentable void. It was named after the child of one of the Foxkin Rentals administrators. It was formerly named Sidney Sea, but was renamed in June 2007 due to a spelling error.

[edit] Crocodile Rock

Crocodile Rock came online in June 2007 and is a rentable void. The name originated as a joke, bearing the same name of a song by Elton John, but the name stuck.

The region is notable for containing several crocodiles, which have moved about depending upon the current renter. It also contains a giant sculpted mushroom in the center of the island, originally planted as a joke, but which the current renters decided to keep.

[edit] Dolphin Deep

Dolphin Deep came online in June 2007 and is a rentable void.

[edit] Drakes Void

Drakes Void came online in June 2007 and is a rentable void.

[edit] Kitten Cove

Kitten Cove came online in June 2007 and is a rentable void.

[edit] Raccoon Lagoon

Raccoon Lagoon came online in June 2007 and is a rentable void.

[edit] Salamander Sea

Salamander Sea came online in June 2007 and is a rentable void.

[edit] Yang Sea

Yang Sea came online in June 2007 and is a rentable region. It is the sister island to Yin Sea. The region is notable for it's island resembling the yang (light) half of the yin-yang symbol.

[edit] Yin Sea

Yin Sea came online in June 2007 and is a rentable region. It is the sister sim to Yang Sea. The region is notable for it's island resembling the yin (dark) half of the yin-yang symbol.

Yin Sea is also responsible for finally reconnecting Istaria Prime, Cub Conclave, and Kit Estates to the rest of the Valleys island chain.