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Tuesday, May 10

Darkness Inside Hunt: 1-58

Kastle Rock Gridwide Hunts has a reputation for well-put together events and The Darkness Inside Hunt doesn't fail to deliver. The hunt is filled with quality stores offering wonderful gifts, as well as a few new places to explore along the way. There is an in-world group to join, as well as an official blog with SLurls and hints to help the hunters as they work through the hunt path. I enjoyed this hunt a great deal and picked up some nice little bargains along the way, so while you are looking for the hunt gift, be sure to check out the sales and specials some stores are offering.

I hit a couple of minor snags along the hunt path - a couple places where either the gift wasn't out or was so well hidden I completely missed it. In each case, however, there was a sample of the hunt item by the hunt signs with an LM to the next location, so there was never a spot where the hunt continuity got broken. Grab your hunt pals and give this one a shot - at 117 stores, it's more than you can do in one evening, but its definitely worth spending a little time checking out.

Cheers, and Happy Hunting!

~Shadowed

When:

May 7 - June 7

Site:

Kastle Rock Hunts Blog

Start:

Electric

Search for item:

Number of stores:

117 (1-58 here)

Problems at the time I went through:

47 - no sign, no item; couple spots no gifts found

58. Dark Water Designs

10. Evaki (wrist bindings included)

16. Xand's Kicks & Twirls

53. Never Ever(jeans not included)

18. Razorblade Jacket (jeans not included)

51. CERO STYLE

31. FLOWERDREAMS CREATIONS by Nile

24. VampArt (jeans not included)

33. Abundantia (M-jeans not included)

1. Electric

23. Jaimie Earst

7. SLACY's

2. Kastle Rock Couture

14. DivaLicious

19. Dressed by Lexi

15. Alexohol (top not included)

26. Asteria & Clarity

50. SLACY's @ Kastlerock

3. Divine Beauty

32. Slick's Corner

49. Devil's Trade

27. SR Leatherwerkx

43. BedLam

42. FORSAKEN

35. Dahllywood (ears and tail)

36. Sa-eela Home Store

39. X-Clusives Animations(shooting animation)

25. TRIDENT Jewelry

13. The Sacred Flame Flower Garden Center

57. DW Designs

44. Stone's Works

56. NLimbo Poses

38. Peeps Fashion Textures Sculpties Clothing

11. Snow Bound

6. Bound & Bitten

22. Black Kitten Home & Design

9. Wicked Beauty Light Shows

28. Maven's Home Furnishings & Decor

5. Roawenwood

30. Royal Thai Gallery

12. VAMP EQUIP MAINSTORE

52. Grumble

21. LoveFactory

40. TRIDENT Mainstore

48. LUXus Designer Furniture

46. Black Cat Bones

45. USC Texture Tomb

41. DAARK Textures

4. Deviant Designs

55. Cynful Designs

57. DW Designs

29. Shameless Bits

32. Slick's Corner

20. Aster's Builts

Wednesday, April 20

SL Discovery: "I Do" Hunt

I have to admit, I am a sucker when it comes to weddings and wedding related things - as long as its not MY wedding! =) I love seeing all the lacy, over the top dresses, the exquisitely detailed cakes and invitations, the endless choices of flowers, colors, and so forth. So, it goes without saying that I was excited to see another wedding-themed hunt coming up this month. TJay, on the other hand, was not so thrilled. There is only so much of listening to me exclaim over gowns that he can take before he needs a serious infusion of male-stuff, so he elected to sit this hunt out.

I ran through this hunt on the first day or so that it began, and so there are a few shops which were not ready on time, as happens with every hunt in the beginning. The official blog was great, providing hints and SLurls to get past that handful of places until everyone gets up to speed. The item you are looking for is a linked pair of golden rings, and some of the vendors were pretty creative in where they hid them. Out in plain sight apparently still works because we are all used to items being crammed into the tiniest spaces available! I had a lot of fun on this, and the coordinators did a fantastic job in getting together a great bunch of stores and keeping things smooth for the hunters. The gifts were gorgeous, there was great stuff for the men (the blog usually doesn't single out specific gifts from specific stores, but the tux from Avatar Bizarre was absolutely perfect!), and the stores a lot of fun to poke around in. Relax, enjoy the stores, and have a great time on this hunt!

Cheers, and Happy Hunting!

~Shadowed

When:

April 18 - May 22

Site:

SL Discovery - I Do Hunt Hint Page

Start:

Goddess Apparel

Search for item: Sculpted interlocked wedding rings

Number of stores:

Problems at the time I went through:

A few skipped stores, as at the start of any hunt, but LMs to the next stores are available on official blog

14. Just BECAUSE Clothing (pants not included)

64. Hooligan Streetwear

59. Unforgettable Temptations

21. Dani's

5. HerBerry

61. Wafflez Designs

46. Evolve

50. Sari's Creations (M-pants not included)

63. Abundantia

1. Goddess Apparel (includes male boutonniere)

34. Alloro by Laurel Carlucci

16. Clothes Culture

9. Avatar Bizarre

25. Neko Hideaway, Death Monkey Inc.(hair/shoes included)

31. Lilypads

51. NK Styles

33. Divine Beauty

62. Wildz Creations and Pimp Daddy Trivia

49. SLACY's

20. 90 Degrees

45. Pen's Gems

53. Sophia Jameson Inc. Gallery (shapes)

6. JoJo's

38. TempT

28. Kizzy Mainstore

42. IC (ILLY Creations)

41. Exquisite Jewellery

10. PA Designe Mainstore

18. Glam Catz and Cat's Cradle

60. Juneberry Art Glass

17. Bella's Designs

23. E-Line design

40. Sterling Artistry Boutique

52. Magnifique Poses & ICED Jewelry

36. Embody Shapes & Poses

47. RoseHaven Designs

8. Q&A's Wedding Supplies

2. Tree House Treasures

57. Evaki

44. Siempre Studiod Photography (gift card for photography work)

7. Black Kitten Home & Design

54. ZAP-in

48. Needful Things

12. LUXus

32. Star*Crossed Designs

30. Gypsy Gadgets (butterfly emitter)

15. Life Is A Rose

37. Just Luk's Gallery

24. Crazy Cakes Toybox

39. Garden Oasis

29. Gumi's Flower Shop

11. Seasonal Creations by MamaP

12. LUXus

19. Clo's Tip Jars

56. Tatiana's Tea Room

13. !ADD @ The Junkyard

22. Enchante Designs by Dena & Anya

3. Aster's Builts

Wednesday, March 23

Hunt for RP 2

The roleplay sims and stores in SL offer a rich variety of imaginative settings, clothing, furnishings, and paraphernalia to cater to every taste and whimsy, from the rugged Gorean sims to the darkly enticing vampire sims to the exquisitely detailed sci-fi sims. The H4RP2 is a great chance to get out there and explore some places you may never have seen and to get a taste for some of what SL offers to those who enjoy roleplaying in a 3D environment. The hunt is roughly 73 stores long and the GMI bag you are looking for isn't all that difficult to spot. The gifts are beautiful, and a lot of the stores on the hunt path are well-known for the quality of their wares. You will not be disappointed if you head out on this hunt.

That being said, there are some issues with the hunt. The skipped stores are no problem - the LMs in the gift folders have been updated to take you smoothly from one place to the other, bypassing the missing stores. You need to keep a VERY close eye on your inventory as you go, however. Some of the stores give folders and some give objects that you need to pull the LMs from as you go. Also, a good number of the stores give folders with names such as "blahblahblah" instead of the hunt/store number information. Cute the first time, annoying by the 3rd or 4th, and downright irritating by the 7th or 8th as you are trying to A) find them in your inventory to get the next LM and B) figure out which of the multiple, same name folders is the one you want, and C) trying to figure out which store the gift came from as you unpack. I can understand renaming the hunt item prim, that is becoming a fairly common practice to help cut down on the cheating and using prim finders and whatnot on hunts. But forcing the hunter to find and rename individual folders or objects sent to your objects folder in order to get the LMs or keep the folders together in some sort of order is a royal pain in the arse. It's a great way to get a gift you love and have no idea where it was from, or to just plain lose things, especially with the crashes and TP issues going on in SL lately.

One of the more exciting challenges on the hunt, though, are the scripts in some of the gifts which automatically move the item periodically. This was a lot of fun, making it a race against the clock, not just a where's waldo type hunt for the items. There is also an in-world group you can join for help and to find fellow hunters on the same search. The sims do run the gamut from PG to Adult, but LMs are provided in the gifts and on their website to skip any you might not be able to access.

As a side note, i THINK we got all the folders sorted correctly, and the gifts labeled with the correct store names, but in the eventuality we didn't...blahblahblah. =)

Cheers, and Happy Hunting!

~Shadowed

When:

March 1 - March 31

Site:

Hunt for RP blog

Start:

Sa-eela

Search for item: a burlap sack marked GMI