About a week ago I registered a human alt called Sparkle Champagne and I’ve spent the last few days creating her simple pictorial guide to Orientation Island and Help Island on Second Life. You can find it here -
The blog stats on this blog prompted me to create the website because so many search terms seemed to point to people desperately looking for a way off Orientation Island in particular. Second Life is a complicated place and the process of registering, logging in and then negotiating the tutorials on Orientation Island seems to be defeating many folk who give up in disgust and don’t bother to try again. So much for Linden Labs’ claim of several million residents …. how many are regularly active inworld, I wonder?
Anyway, I uploaded Sparkle’s Guide today and posted it on the Second Life forums. Now I’m posting it here in the hope that people who NEED this guide will be able to visit and find out how to escape from the maze that is Orientation Island.
Please leave a comment if it helps you 
Thank you for the help. I started SL in November and am just coming back to it to see about educational benefits. I don’t have the same view and instructions on Orientation Island and still not sure what to do, but you did help. I don’t remember completing things at all 4 stations.
Thanks,
Thanks for your comment, Mark. It’s nice to know that the website offers some help to new and returning folk. Hope you manage to get through the maze successfully