Be careful when you arrive at a "Public Help Area" that will be your home base until you reset it to SBCC Island! All sorts of shady characters, and a few helpful ones (thankfully) hang out at these places. These are call GRIEFERS, avatars who like to harass other avatars. If you see "Second Life Mentor" floating above someone's head...ask them for help. But often random encounters are with helpul veterans. Looks in SL can be deceiving. A dragon or devil avatar may be really helpful, and a mild-mannered "noob" avatar could be a griefer (avatar that irritates and harasses others). There is a roleplaying game based on vampires in SL. It's called Bloodlines and it can be annoying; many vampires run about and get points by asking if they can bite other avatars. I always tell them no. They are not creeps per se but they can be pests, not playing the game well but simply racking up points for the number of bites they collect. My best advice in case of a close encounter with a creep: walk or fly away and find SBCC Island or ait SL (Command+Q). Do not accept random friend requests or teleport requests. For those who come through Orientation Island, however, you will get them and they are almost always innocent.