Press Release: "Creepy Cryssy: A Good Victorian Dickens - Dark Winter Event"

Press Release

"Creepy Cryssy: A Good Victorian Dickens - Dark Winter Event"

Indulge in a darker side of the season at Creepy Cryssy, where Victorian elegance meets Winter Solstice.  Our festival features a "Nice" quarter with traditional decor, snow, and Christmas candlelight; but beware: the rest is "Naughty" domain, ruled by Krampus and all things eldritch. 💀❄️  

Top features include: an Advent Calendar game with free prizes, extra gifts throughout the sim, live entertainment & parties, food, fun, and of course... shopping!

For the Advent Calendar game, visitors can find gift-boxes on the ground and click them for a random selection of Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Ultrarare presents!  The Ultrarare gift changes every midnight between December 1-24.  It's completely free, no group required. :)

This event is rated Moderate for mildly-creepy content.  However, our "Nice" section in the SE sim quarter is intentionally mild and safe.  Families and small ones are welcome there.  Just follow the signs on the ground.

Participating Merchants: This event's sponsor is ~Lantian/Flox~, and other merchants include All Things Beautiful Textures, Black Magnolia Imports, Dragonsworn, Indecision, +Inner Mantra+, Junk Food, Kitty Creations, LozMac Designs, LOVE, Martine's, MishMash Fusion, SomeOne Stole My Sign, The Mustard Seed, and more!

Come find a wide range of top-rate decor, clothing, jewelry, furniture, and full perm items for your shopping therapy.  Even better, each merchant has a free gift waiting for you!

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CONTACT INFORMATION

    * Organizer:

       Wyvern Dryke 􀀂 (email: wyvern.dryke@gmail.com)

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WHEN: 

    * Midnight, Saturday, 1 December 2024 - 11:59pm, Sunday, 5 January 2025

    

    * (The Haunted Nawlins build is permanent - more events happen throughout the year!)

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WHERE: 

    * All of Flox sim:

    

       http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flox/128/128/28

   

View Online:

https://hauntednawlins.blogspot.com/2024/11/pr.html

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MORE INFORMATION:

    * BLOG:     https://hauntednawlins.blogspot.com/

    

    * Discord:  https://discord.gg/HWaVuPSg

    * Flickr:      https://www.flickr.com/groups/nawlins/

Halloween in Bellisseria

 

Many Second Life locations are offering some Halloween fun. One well-known area, Bellisseria, has a few spook-tacular things going on as well. The big thing going on is "The Great Trick or Treat" event. But that is not all. The Haunted Neighborhood is back. And for something more spooky fun than terrifying, there's the "Hammieween."

Read more in Events.
 

Gift Grab Week Eight

For those who haven't done the latest "Gift Grab" from Linden Lab yet this week, (described in their blog post of the event and briefly at the end of our June 22 article of The Birthday), this week's area is a bit on the creepy side. The hint is, "Come and visit for a spooky stay. Once you enter you may never go away!" It is in the Falmouth Hotel in the Falmouth sim in the Bay City area.

The description of the place is, "The Falmouth Hotel will reopen soon after some slight superatural damage is repaired." The scream I heard just after I arrived was a sign that it wasn't. The hotel was one creepy place inside and outside, with some low spooky music playing. Getting to the room where the gift was located, it was a bar with a bloody zombie bartender and some creepy-looking teddy bears. They were old, bloodstained, and had their eyes redone with buttons. One group was drinking what looked like blood in teacups and the other one had a desert bowl of eyeballs. There was some occasional childish giggling, and once in a while the teddys would break out into outright laughter, often while their heads were turned toward someone in the place. Creepy.

The room had been made by Governor and Michael Linden and Squishy, Crazy, and Silent Mole. What they were thinking of, who knows? A certain Bay City resident spotted me on her radar and messaged me, "Say hi to the teddy bears for me." I went ahead and got the Crystal Anniversary gift, and headed home. There, I rezzed the crystal it was packaged it, and got the contents.

And this week's gift, a crystal ball. When rezzed and placed, when clicked on it will give you your fortune for the day. Occasionally, it will offer useful advice, "Don't just say that you are sorry. Mean it." But more often are witty and amusing comments, "May your hair ever be worn on your head." "Never sit on a pose ball you aren't prepared to make a commitment to." "A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of typing." "Avoid loud noises and low-flying ducks."

This is Week Eight of the Gift Grab, which lasts until late September in which Week Fifteen is for those who got all fourteen of the previous gifts.

Bixyl Shuftan

Haunted Enchantment Isle

The Enchantment Island Haunted, Spooky, Ghosts and Creepy is my third haunted house to visit. Luckily there is a notecard that you will use to help you enjoy all the fun in the house. The visit to the dining room is eye opening. Have a seat! A very spooky skeleton band will entertain you in the music room. 

There are interactive activites if you look for them. Have a seat in the living room and you will see a delightful skeleton who dances just for you.  Watch that fire place in the living room . Climb the stairs to the upper floor and knock on the doors . The master bedroom is full of fun to find. The attic is especially poignant as you listen to the voices of the children and find their toys scattered about. You wonder what happened to them all. 

This house was built by Aragon Sommer with Bambitwice Nightly of the Museum of Illusions and Magic, about which I wrote last year. Hidden places await you, just have to find them. Luckily for us there are clues in the notecard. After you visit the house, outside the gate there is a teleport to the store where you can actually take home some of the parts of the house, or all of it!  

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Enchantment%20Island/56/218/24

Gemma Cleanslate

Cartoon of the Day

By Bixyl Shuftan