Tryst Design Group

Newsletters, releases & special event updates for the Sanctum Sanctorum, Intemptesta Nox, & Templum ex Obscurum SIMs, including patrons of Relic and Serendipity Studios.

Invitations to special events in the Pub, the Opera House and other SIM gathering spots.  Member-only tips and clues to give you the inside track on upcoming SIM quests.

Gothic romance and sensual pleasures await fellow time-travellers as we welcome you into our businesses -- Relic and Serendipity Studios -- in the Second Life virtual world and other destinations within the metaverse.  Baron Grayson and Sue Stonebender welcome you to explore an ever-growing continent of adventure through Tryst.  We're passionate curators of creative cultural and educational experiences, romancing the senses with a tantalizing combination of dark aesthetics, sensual sounds and whimsical alternate realities.


-- Regards from hosts,
   Baron Grayson & Sue Stonebender.


Baron and I have, for the most part, been notoriously reclusive.  We're creators with a voracious appetite for storytelling in all of it's forms: words, pixels, food, earth, charcoal, celluloid, and almost anything that allows us to manipulate light and shapes and shadows and tastes into something decadent and immersive.  During the past two and a half years we've found some interesting ways to work and play together through our businesses -- Relic and Serendipity Studios -- and as two self-indulgent people who play to work and work to play.

We have no problem amusing ourselves when we've got an endless digital canvas, but that are two things that we have learned:

1) the metaverse is larger and immensely more interesting than our single shared playground in Second Life, and,

2) the intrinsically cool souls we've connected with along the way continue to enrich our experiences in ways that are too many to count.

Hence, a New Year's Resolution and a new path: come out of our shells and try to share more with the community of people who have supported us and made it all so damned fun along the way.

While we've had a web site for quite some time, it's been woefully out of date, in part because we have so little time for the boring stuff like web code and really needed to find a handful of tools that freed us up to simply enjoy a little communion.

Our inworld newsletters have been a great deal of fun, but the tools at hand make it difficult to share rich content with friends and guests.  So, we've turned to Vox, a tool that we both came to love for it's simplicity and it's ability to get the techy shit out of the way and simply let us play and connect.

We each have our own personal blogs.  This new joint effort is more of a watershed for the Tryst community that we've had so much fun cultivating this past year.  We want to make it easier for people to talk back, share their own ideas, and connect so it's not such a one-way push of information.  What we want most of all is that sense of community.

Over the next few weeks we'll be working to bring in some of the things that we've already shared inworld, particularly our newsletters, because they lay the foundation for who we are as individuals, as business people and a couple.  We hope this makes it easier to interact with us, because we certainly want to do that with you!

As always, it's elbows -on- the table here.  Grab a chair and join us ...

Sue Stonebender,
the girlie half of the Tryst Design Group.  ~winks~