TWISTED HUNT FALL 2012
Once again, we’re all twisted.
This year’s Twisted Hunt theme is Darkness and since we’re dark all the time, this was a pretty easy theme to work with. Here’s what we have for you- if you can find them.
As of this writing, we believe all the boxes are out (they’re all definitely out.) and working properly. If they’re *not* working properly, someone *tell us*, because otherwise we have no way to know that. We would much rather know sooner rather than later if there’s some kind of borked permissions or a box not selling correctly. It’s a lot easier to correct the earlier we know about it.
However, please don’t ask us for hints. We won’t give them to you (really, we won’t.) and one or the other of us might not even know where the box IS at any given time (one of us might be asleep or something when it gets moved.) The Twisted Assistants have the current hints. That’s all we can tell you, and it’s all we’re going to tell you. Really.
The Midnight Cavern from Urban Forge contains 3 floors (one is a hidden basement with a secret door), a bathing pool/shower with 3 adjustable animations and a fireplace. There are instructions on how to use all the features contained within the box(at least there should be- someone tell me if there isn’t one.) The cavern is copy/mod/notrans.
From Dare Designs, the Flight of Darkness dress is fully rigged mesh (you’ll need a mesh viewer to see it properly) and has a flock of ravens surrounding a midnight blue gown with a slit side. It comes with 3 sizes and an alpha layer.
From The Fooding, the Darkness Decanter Set gives out glasses of wine on touch and features sparkling moon and stars on a midnight blue background. The set is mesh, so you’ll need a mesh capable viewer to see it properly.
From Dark 7, the Skeletal Hands bench, which is menu scripted and offers a variety of poses for you to enjoy. The bench is mesh, so you’ll need a mesh capable viewer to see it properly, but it’s pretty low prim for something so complex looking. Perfect for all your spooky outdoor builds for the season(or in our case, all year round.)
Happy Hunting, Twisted Folks!
Oh is it March again? Welcome to Spring Hunt Season.
Between spring hunt season and the RedZone controversy, I haven’t been able to get here. I’m still stuck dealing with the RZ issue, but we did manage to get all the spring hunt prizes out. All 11 of them. Don’t even ask.
But we know people love to know what the prizes are, especially on these long , difficult hunts- so here we go.
For the first time, we’re participating in the STEAM hunt. We hadn’t previously because neither of us do brown(though Dare can pull brown off nicely, I… I have brown trauma. It’s just one of those things. Damned Good Design and Dare Designs are participating in STEAM IV which starts March 1 and goes through March 31:
This bathtub contains the same script engine as the bathtubs that are for sale at DGD. The little gears move on the water pumps as well. This prize ***WILL NOT*** be sold or given away once the hunt ends- if you want it, come get it now. It’s no mod/copy/no trans.
Over at Dare Designs we have Airship Raider, which comes with all parts shown, including the boots, belt, and hat. It’s versatile enough to go out dancing, and invade someone’s airship later.
Next we have the Roleplay Hunt. Dare Designs is participating in this one, and the hunt starts March 1 and ends on March 31. All you fantasy roleplayers should have a lot of fun with this one:
The outfit is called Cryphunter and should be perfect for all of your dark fantasy, chainmaille wearing needs. It includes everything (other than me) you see in the poster. (Girl not included- see how we got that name now?)
Ah yes, the Big One. It’s time once again for TWISTED HUNT. (I haven’t even finished unpacking the last one, so help me.) This time the theme is Nevermore. All six stores are participating with seven prizes in total (the two VA prizes are in one box.) Twisted Hunt starts on March 1 and ends on March 31. Good luck, gang.
Dare Designs is once again a sponsor of the Twisted Hunt, and this time, the prize is Bloodraven. It’s a Victorian Gothic outfit in blood red (just like the boxes) and comes with everything shown, including the hat, sunglasses and boots (but not me.) You can even wear it to hunt the Steam hunt later!!
From The Fooding, we have the Victorian Poet’s Inspiration Tray. It comes complete with pen and ink, laudanum, opium and absinthe, and gives out glasses of absinthe when touched, all on a delightful silver tray.
From Girl Not Included, we have The Raven, sitting on the bust of Pallas. As always, GNI prizes are full perm, so you can go nuts with this and even sell your own creations later.
There are two prizes at Virtual Alchemy(but both are in the same box.) The photo, called The Bleak December, contains a quote from The Raven at the bottom. The photo itself was taken by me- it’s not grabbed randomly off the internet and played with in pshop and laughably called “original artwork”. The second prize is the Nevermore Graveside Marker. The photo in the headstone can be replaced with any photo you like. It includes the pose, which you can adjust for positioning if you need to do that. Both prizes are copy/mod/no transfer and both will ***ONLY*** be available during Twisted Hunt. They will not be sold or given away after the hunt is over.
At Damned Good Design SL, there’s The Raven’s Writing Desk, an 1830′s style writing desk and chair with a raven backsplat and motif on the writing surface. The chair contains a sitting pose, and the set is copiable. It is exclusive to Twisted Hunt and will not be sold or given away once the hunt is over.
Finally, we have (as always) the granddaddy of them all. I always save the UF prizes for last, with good reason.
DONT REZ THIS IN YOUR HOUSE. SERIOUSLY. NOT KIDDING.
This is a full size two story house with a usable third floor tower/attic and a greenhouse in the back corner. It contains two fireplaces and front and rear entrances, as well as a master bedroom balcony. It is both modifiable (so you can mod it to your heart’s content) and copiable (for when you screw up modding it to your heart’s content.) It isn’t transferable. THIS version will ONLY be given away for Twisted Hunt. It will not be sold later. We are planning to release a darker version of this (Even Gothier.) and a Steam version as well (different color palette.) but they will not be available until the hunt is over.
As always: We expect you to hunt for all prizes. All prizes will be MOVED often, and hints changed. If we find out about people giving away hunt locations in local chat, or hunt groups, we will not hesitate to kick/ban. Stores have been modified to fool primfinders. We spent a LOT of time making these- we expect you to actually look for them.
Other than that? Go nuts, and happy hunting!
-AK
Busy, busy, busy at the Loft…
This is going to be an incredibly short post, since I’m going to let the pictures speak for themselves. I’ve just done a massive update of flickr, with about 400+ pictures of what’s been keeping us so busy for the last few months.
Dare Designs: Full photo set
Urban Forge: Full photo set
Have fun browsing. 
– Dare
Gothmas by Gaslight – Six Times over…
(Since I had to make the logo version of the sign anyway… figured I’d use it…)
Yes – SIX times over, for us anyway (and I’m not even an elf, but she is…) – six stores, six prizes, we’ve been working our pointy little ears off over here in the workshop… yeah, okay, enough with the holiday imagery already… on to the prizes…
For Urban Forge, Axi designed a lovely little one-room winter cottage, which we then shoe-horned into a snow-globe…
From Girl Not Included – a set of full perm lantern sculpts, useful for all manner of things, really…
From The Fooding – a full silver tea service that gives out cups of tea with drinking animations…
From Dare Designs – a collaborative design effort (she made a sketch, waved her hands over, and *poof* clothing appeared like magic) – ‘Gothic Gaslight’ in winter ashes grey…
From Virtual Alchemy Photography there’s this cute ‘Gothmas Kiss’ photopose offering…
and from Damned Good Design, a brand new seasonal (but not festive) sleigh bed design (with a full bed menu, no less).
That’s the whole array, six stores, six prizes, all new and out there somewhere hiding in those pesky little bells. (…the bells, the BELLS!! …)
Happy hunting – DM
Twisted Krissmuss is upon us. Gah.
So what IS Twisted Krissmuss anyway?
Well, here’s what it isn’t. It ISN’T a hunt. What it is, is a shopping tour. 216 different merchants. All of whom are selling whatever it is they have for TK for $100L. Every single merchant, no matter what their Twisted Krissmuss offerings are, are selling them at the low price of $100L.
But wait, there’s more.
ALL Twisted Krissmuss items are transferable, so you can give them away as gifts. That’s right. 216 different merchants, each with stuff for sale for $100L and ALL of it is transferable.
Where can I find out more about this bucket of awesome? Oh right here. ALL SIX of our stores are participating in Twisted Krissmuss. Two of them (Dare Designs and Girl Not Included) are sponsors. It’s 90 minutes until it starts and as I write this, Dare is frantically working on a gatcha machine to put in Dare Designs as an added treat. Anyway, here’s what we’ve got available:
From Dare Designs:
You can get this outfit in any one of six colors. All of them are available for the $100L price for the duration of the Twisted Krissmuss event. In addition, Dare has just finished (as in JUST finished) what may be the most beautiful gatcha machine ever, which will be available for all to try their luck.
From Girl Not Included:
GNI has two offerings for Twisted Krissmuss- one is a full permission sculpt pack containing a tree and a variety of ornaments as well as a single texture pack for both. The other is a full permission texture pack for the ornaments so you can create them in various colors and styles. Each one is only $100L and have we mentioned full perm? Yes, that.
From The Fooding:
We have a lovely crystal punch bowl that gives out goblets of holiday punch, which contain a custom drinking animation. Perfect for all your holiday parties and beautiful table settings.
From Virtual Alchemy Photography:
People have asked about my crystal photo tree for a while. I had originally made one for a design competition and then imported it into SL for a hunt prize a while back. So we revisited the idea with a holiday twist. This one is tabletop sized (there’s one on display at VA to see in person for scale) and has photo frames as ornaments, that you can replace with your own pictures! (okay you may want to keep the photos of the cats, because they’re super cute.)
This is a cuddle sleigh. It contains 5 different animations and made from custom sculpts and textures. There is one on display down at DGD so you can see it for yourself. It’s a hell of a deal for $100L, I tell you what.
However, speaking of deals… We do have one more. The biggest deal of all. We may live to regret this…
From Urban Forge Virtuatecture:
Yes, it’s really only $100L . Really. The photo of us inside the thing might give you some idea of scale. This is not a small, skybox sized building. It’s big enough to house a reasonably sized nightclub. It’s VERY pretty. And it’s only $100L just for Twisted Krissmuss.
So there’s less than an hour to go before the madness starts. Make sure you check that list twice so as not to miss any of the wonderful stuff frantically put together by the other 210 stores participating in this event. Go down to Twisted Krissmuss Central over on Lasombra and pick up your own tour book. We’ll see you back here tomorrow for the 12 Days of Deathmass.
No really, we mean that.
-AK/DM
