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At one point in my SL, I owned a virtaul dog. Chances are, you did too. Now raise you hand if you or anyone you know found those things amusing for more than 24 hours. Anyone?

But these days, I’ve got a new pet of sorts, a creature that has kept me amused for a seriously silly number of hours. When other men might have given me flowers or chocolate, my stalking target Shep Korvin recently gave me the gift of Daleks.

Fair warning: if you were never a fan of the original Doctor Who series and associate the word “Tardis” with the name “Billie Piper”, go away now. This entry is not for you, and I will not have you pointing and laughing at my starry eyed delight with my new vitual toys.

These Daleks have been very faithfully recreated by Fenrir Reitveld of MechMind, and he’s letting them go absolutely free of charge. They come in a set with two types - Imperial Daleks and Renegade Daleks.

If they look like two boxes of thumbtacks with toilet plungers attached, well, welcome to the BBC circa 1963: they pretty much were made from boxes of thumbtacks and toilet plungers, such was the extent of the Doctor Who budget.

Like their TV series counterparts, these Daleks hover their way around their environment saying things like “do not move, do not move, you are our prisoner!” and “entry to Level 3 has been cleared” and other Dalek-type things. They ignore avatars, unless you bump them - at which point they start screeching “Danger! Danger! Alert! Alert!” which is quite fun. It is not as much fun, however, as sitting on the Dalek’s head (or anywhere else you can settle) and riding it - which is not part of the Dalek programming in or out of SL and makes them mildly insane.

(In no way are these vehicles - trust me when I tell you, you cannot steer these things.)

But the real fun happens when you put two together. This involves quite a lot of frenzied shouting and shooting, as they furiously run down each other’s health meters in an attempt to kill one another in very short order. Occassionally they manage to blow ieach other’s heads off at the same time:

They explode upon death and litter the ground with body parts, which clear up after a few minutes. (Very tidy, these Daleks.)You can also kill them off with a simple die command, but honestly, its much more fun to hit a sandbox and just rezz 20 of them at a time, over and over again. After all, as the Doctor says, “If you have a tool, it’s stupid not to use it.”

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