I haven’t done one of these random screenshots posts for quite a while, so on rummaging through the folders on my PC, I thought I’d crop and upload a few for your enjoyment. Behind the cut you’ll find a selection of oddities, pretties, stuff that I thought was interesting or weird, or just downright fun.
Just a quick blogpost about the Red Stick International Animation hunt, which is going on grid-wide right now. The hunt runs until April 20th and you have to find lots of red sticks all over the Second Life grid. Some of them are easy to find, some are devilishly hard. Some are large-sized and some have been sized down. As with St Patrick’s Day hunt prizes often being green, so the Red Stick prizes are often (but not always!) red.
Head to Granymyr for your starting point. Wait for the area to rez, then head down to the stage in the main Red Stick area. Click the kiosk there (the one with the red stick man beside it) for a notecard containing LMs to all the locations.
A few pointers: some of these sticks are extremely well-hidden. You will never have noticed how much RED there is in many stores until now *g* Red signs and red colours ON signs is a good place to check out for sticks, by the way… You’ll be making good use of your camera controls for this hunt!
A few of the store owners have been crafty and hidden one or two of their red sticks on the hunt signs themselves in their stores, so make sure you check those, too. Some of the sticks are lying out in full view, others are partially-buried.
Sometimes the notecard LM will be for a store, but it’s the mall surrounding the store (usually owned by that store) that holds the sticks. Several of us spent a fruitless hour or so searching one store yesterday, only to find out that the sticks weren’t in that store; instead they were in the mall around it (which was owned by the store’s owner).
Team up with other hunters. You’ll probably find yourself bumping into other people searching for the sticks, and the old adage holds true about many hands making light work. More pairs of eyes means faster findings!
Alas, a few of the sticks don’t work. This isn’t Second Life glitchiness, either. I’ve right-click-edited those sticks and they’re not set to either buy for L$0 or touch-grab. They just don’t work! The two I’ve found so far are: one in Tuli, and one in Hairspray.
Lastly, have fun!
Further to my post yesterday about the April treasure hunt at Ohana Isle, here are a few screencaps I took today of some of the prizes. I focused mainly on the wearable stuff: the clothes, shoes, and jewellery. If I get time tomorrow, I’ll try to take some more caps of other items that I found.
Hop behind the cut for pictures!
Ohana Isle has opened up its April treasure hunt, and the theme is Spring. To that end, you have to find 45 little silvery-white springs scattered throughout the whole sim. This hunt is different from their other ones, in that when you arrive and click the hunt information board, you’ll be given a map of the area and a notecard that tells you how many springs can be found in each area. This hunt runs from April 11th to April 20th.
A little tip I’ll pass on for hunts like this, where each find is numbered: get a piece of paper and number it, in this case from 1-45, and when you find each item, cross that number off your list. That way, when you’re on your third round of the area, you can see which numbers you still need to get, and you won’t double up on items you’ve already found.
Here’s what you’re looking for at Ohana Isle:
Edit: Wheee! I got the lot! Although, I have to admit the last one drove me buggy, trying to find it. Bless the person (*g* you know who you are) who helped me to find it. I’ve been here all day, and it’s getting late here in the UK, so I’ll open everything and have a screenshot session tomorrow, to show you a few of the items I got :)
I just stopped by at Frick, to pick up their gorgeous triple pack of freebie ‘Flourish’ skins, and I noticed there were still easter eggs dotted around the store and outside. There are five in total, but Frick’s owner - Fricka Morgath - has blogged that she will be taking the eggs down very soon. (In fact, she blogged that they would only be out for a few more days, and that was on March 30th.) So you’ve gotta RUN for these, as I don’t know how long they’ll be available.
These are all unreleased skins that Fricka has said will not be released once the hunt is over. They’re based on Eloh Eliot’s template, and they’re gorgeous. Make sure you pick up the free three-pack of ‘Flourish’ skins that are on the store wall, too!
Screencaps behind the cut.
The notice dropped down: new group freebie at Silent Sparrow. By the time Mar got there, the store was packing out already. A few teething problems with the script (poor Hya, coping with all us lot and not feeling well at the same time) and then we all came away with yet another Silent Sparrow beauty: the Tarnished Suite.
*Note: The necklace is not part of this outfit.
More pictures behind the cut.
I’m absolutely wiped out. I’ve spent the better part of two hours scouring the Retrology sim for their amazing Easter egg hunt, and I think I’ve finally got everything. I daren’t even look at Mar’s inventory (*wince*), but if you love vintage and retro, from 30s to 70s, then get down to Retrology as soon as you can. The hunt won’t last forever!
One great thing: all the eggs have hovertext, so they’re easy to spot. But be warned: they are everywhere. So look high and low, and check out some of the great poseballs dotted all over the sim, too!
Me? I’m going for a lie down, a cuppa coffee, and a slice of the apple pie that I got in the sim’s cafe…
It’s Easter Bunny time on SL (perhaps that’s who my little bunny friend was of a week or so ago!) and Mar has been hunting eggs galore. This post comes nowhere near to detailing everything she’s found in the past week or so, from freebies at the RFL Fair, to various egg hunts. Even some St Patrick’s Day hunt stuff hasn’t yet been screencapped, and her inventory is still heaving despite my best efforts to try stuff on, take screencaps, then file and archive everything!
Anyway, behind the cut are just a few of the items that I have got around to doing.
Edited to add: My apologies, but WordPress seemed to eat half of this post, so if it looks a bit funky to you, that’s probably why.
The Relay For Life Clothing Fair is open. Running from March 17th - 23rd, it spans four sims (named after the four seasons, and each with a theme) and is not only a place to buy great clothes, it’s also a worthwhile cause to support with your purchases. Many of the designers have laid out freebies, dollarbies, and very cheap items, and there are RFL donation kiosks in almost every store with a ‘minimum donation’ payable to receive the (often usually far more expensive) items within them. There is also a treasure hunt, with six antique chests hidden across the four sims.
Please do drop by during the fair and check out the sims. Be aware that they may be very laggy, depending on the time of day that you visit. Just now, summer was fine, but I entered the spring sim and lost all hair and attachments and am in lag hell! But persevere anyway.
The SLurl above will drop you in the Remembrance Garden, which is a beautiful place to pause and reflect, and is decorated with pictures of many loved ones that SL residents have lost to cancer.
Edited to add: Laynie Link has some very useful tips on surviving lag in places such as this, in her post: Surviving Lag 101.
Easter egg hunt at Kouse’s Sanctum, and ladies if you love your long gowns and classy (non-blingy) jewellery, then you’ll want to do this one.
This is what you’re looking for (but they’re a lot smaller than this!)
There are 12 in total, but to judge from the notecard, two of those 12 are probably the tiny little eggs (of which there literally are only two, and once they’re gone, they’re gone) that each contain a L$1000 voucher for the store.
Nonetheless, you should go on this hunt, purely because the items in the ten eggs that I managed to find are so beautiful. If you want to be spoiled for them, peek behind the cut. If not, then go on the hunt and be surprised!
So what is SL for Nowt all about? (Hey, that rhymed…)
Initially, I wanted to see if it was possible to create an entirely new avatar in the Second Life world, without putting in any money of my own. I planned to do this by picking money from money trees only. No camping (sitting on chairs/mopping floors/doing other activities that make an area look busy, in return for small amounts of cash), and definitely no begging! I set myself the goal of a minimum 50L$ per day from the money trees, and met this target on most days. I even exceeded it a lot on a few days. Along the way, I spotted (and screencaptured) many odd things, met some interesting people, got annoyed at the rudeness of ’some people’ and generally had a fun time.
The blog has now taken a different path, since my original goals have now been met. Now, SL for Nowt is all about finding freebies and cheapies, living a virtual existence in the Second Life world on the cheap, and helping out newbies as much as possible.
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