Showing posts with label Millbank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Millbank. Show all posts

Sunday, October 4, 2026

Bellisseria Trick or Treat

 

 It's October and the spooky season is upon us. And that means what's become a Halloween tradition in the Linden Home continent is back: the Bellisseria Trick or Treat. Homeowners can give out candy, and anyone can go get some pieces of it. 
 
To pass out the candy, you need to own a Linden Home in Bellisseria. If you do, head to Millbank at (217/41/23). There, you'll find the giver for the candy buckets, and the HUD for get treats (picture above). Touch it, and you'll see an option to get either just the bucket, or both the bucket and treat HUD. Pick either (pick both, and they come in a folder makerd "Halloween Candy Bucket Challenge 2026 Game Supplies"), and head to your Linden Home. Rezz it from your Inventory to a place at your home accessible to people, such as the front porch or next to the sidewalk. If there's particle effects that look a little like a blurred neon green bat swirling around the pumpkin, you should be all set. It is not recommended placing the pumpkin inside the house without a sign inviting people in. These buckets are not meant for use outside Bellisseria and will de-rezz if it's attempted. 
 
To collect the candy, you're going to need the game HUD. It's at the same place as the candy buckets. Once you have it in your inventory, Add it to your avatar and it should appear on the upper left of your screen. If it does, you're ready to go. You go around Bellissaria looking for candy buckets you haven't taken from yet. If you see one, touch it. If you haven't touched it before, there should be an animation showing a small explosion of candy, and the number in the hud should go up by one. Touching a bucket you already have will do nothing. If you yourself have set up a candy bucket, the number will go up by a bonus five a day. 
 
While the candy collecting in itself is fun, what makes it better are the prizes.  Getting one candy gets you the participation prize: the "spooky speaker." One hundred candies gets you a playable bobbing for apples game. 250 candies gets you a spellbook, which can either be held or household decor. Four hundred candies gets you the top prize, a "Grim & Gloom Boopie," which you can "add" the animesh version to follow you, or use the other as decoration. For the first time, people get prizes for having a candy bucket at their Linden Home. If your bucket has had a hundred people reach into it, you can get a magical sweeping broom. All prizes must be collected from next to where you got the candy bucket and HUD. 
 
While you could just run or fly about Bellisseria to find new candy buckets, there's a way to find them faster.  A list was made on Google docs where one can find them. To get on the list, you need to fill out a few spaces on this form. 


 Linden Lab would make a video for this year's Trick or Treat. 
 
When the Trick or Treat Event first went live on Thursday October 1, there was quite a bit of chatter about it on Bellisseria chat. People were showing one another the links to the list, as well as SURLs of their Linden Homes they had just set up their candy buckets. Some of whom had put a few decorations up. 
 
Once again, the location for the candy bucket, HUD, and prizes is at:  
 
 
 
Trick or treat,
 
Bixyl Shuftan 
 

Friday, October 13, 2023

Haunted Neighborhood and Bellisseria "Trick or Treat"

 
 
 Two of the Lindens' annual Halloween goodies in Bellisseria are back. One is the Haunted Neighborhood, in the Millbank sim.

The Millbank region has undergone a spooky overhaul, with numerous Linden Homes getting a haunted horror theme. Visit the many haunted houses, and see the scary sights! Take a step inside the homes while you’re at it: there are such sights to show you!
 
Once again, Bellisseria's spooky neighborhood is back, with all sorts of creepy sights, and sounds. A dingy trailer park has sounds of chainsaws going and screams in the background. One houseboat is full of slime and has a spooky shrine inside, and just what is that gurgling underneath the water. One house has the sounds of kids giggling, but no sign of them other than toys and a ball that seemingly is rolling by itself. There's a creepy cemetery with a freshly dug hole that when you walk past just seems like a tempting spot to rest for those tired. And one place with a "for sale" sign will collapse in a cloud of dust and debris. 
 
Some places have traps in them, and if you're not careful a heavy bookshelf might fall on you or a blade might shoot out at you. There is a flashlight available near the official start area, though it aids your vision just a little, and sometimes being able to see things slightly better isn't always a good thing in this place. Oh, and you can also grab the balloon for a quick tour. But is letting a haunted balloon guided by a sinister-sounding ghost steer you around a good idea?
 
To get to the Haunted Neighborhood, head to: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Millbank/216/40/23 


Also going on is the Bellisseria "Trick or Treat" event. For the third year in a row, residents will be able to go trick or treating around the neighborhoods of the Linden Home continent. 

Creep or crawl over to Bellisseria this Halloween season to snag some candy and win prizes! This is an interactive event open to *everyone* where Residents living in Bellisseria can host Candy Buckets on their parcels. You don’t want to miss the paranormal partygoers and creative costumes throughout Bellisseria during this virtual Trick-or-Treat.

To play the game head over to the Haunted Neighborhood at Milibank (216.40.23) and head to the place with the three signs near the flashlight and balloon. The one on the left will get you the HUD for the game (image left) and will be all you need to get if you just want to play. For those wanting to take part, grab the pumpkin from the sign on the right. You'll need to be the owner of a Linden Home to take part. And it's not recommended you have a teleporter to a private skybox near where you set the pumpkin.

The game takes place only on the continent of Bellisseria, and all pumpkins can only have a piece taken from them only once. There are prizes for getting lots of candy, especially for those to take 200 or more.


There was a video about the Trick or Treat event by Linden Lab, featuring Magellan Linden and Punky dressing up as each other, or in Magellan's case trying to. 

For more information, check out this forum post by Patch Linden. There's also a list of homes available to help trick or treaters search for candy. The one at Clean Getaway also has a huge cutout of Patch Linden where one can grab a messful of SL candies, "There are 100+ candies and other gifts inside Patch now. Touch him to get them Clean Getaway (92,158,32) The haunted house also gives candy, and there's punch, too."

Trick or treat.

Bixyl Shuftan