RFL Sunbeamer's "Bid Rita Skunk"

 

 Team Sunbeamers has a few more "Bid Me" events going on at Club Cutlass. Team captain Rita Mariner would explain in a group post.

There are a couple new BID MES up and running at CUTLASS.

1. CHARLEE is offering to go PANDA, 2000L per week

2. BIXYL is offering to go BUNNY, 3500L per week.

3. RITA: I am offering you a choice, A. Skunk, B. BAT, C. Chipmunk
Highest kiosk wins, Encase of a tie, I'll pick one of the tied avatars to wear. Length of time I wear them, based on how much is donated to that kiosk.  I am cheap this time 2000L/week

 

 Rita's second "Bid Me" this year was different than most. Instead of two options, there were four. Besides the default kiosk on the left to keep her as is, there were three options. The first was to bid her into a white skunk. The second option was to bid her chipmunk for a time. The last kiosk on the far right was to bid her a dark red bat. This time, there wasn't so much a week to bid her on, 2000 Lindens per week this time.

Rita was most likely thinking she'd be spending no more than a few weeks in one of these forms. But Relay can be full of surprises. Just after it was set up, some "crazy person" donated twenty thousand Linden dollars, or $90 US dollars, into the skunk kiosk, much to the team captain's surprise. This led to some joking around on Relay chat.

[19:03] Rita Mariner: Someone really, I mean REALLY want me to be a skunk avatar. In my BID, ME to be a skunk, someone piad, 20,000L,  That's 10 weeks!
[19:04] ღ Mαyα ღ (MayaserenaCeNedra Resident): \o/ That's awesome Rita
[19:04] Nuala Maracas: woo hooo
[19:04] Bixyl Shuftan: heh heh
[19:04] Nuala Maracas: it's a stinky job but someone has to do it :)

[19:04] Rita Mariner: Booo
[19:04] Selene (selene Jashan): lol you lil Stinker Rita!  lol
[19:04] Female (Female Winslet) has learned to be very, very careful about bid-mes :-)
[19:05] Bixyl Shuftan: the sweet smell of successful Relaying?
[19:05] Selene (selene Jashan): absolutely Bixyl!
[19:05] Rita Mariner: well they had a choice of three different avatars, they dump it all on SKUNK
[19:05] ღ Mαyα ღ (MayaserenaCeNedra Resident): Skunk is funnest

After that, most Lindens donated further were going into the skunk kiosk. 20,000L is a lot of Lindens to top, so the only thing likely to change was the amount off time Rita would spent as a mephit, possibly to beyond the Relay season. So Rita decided it was time to admit she was taken off guard and bite the bullet. On Saturday April 15th, Rita announced she was ending her Bid Me early.

MY BID ME - Rita to SKUNK

Since I am already at 10 weeks, I am going to call my BID ME Early.  Thank you for the donations, but 10 weeks is enough.
 
 Keep Rita Bunny - 100L
 Turn Rita to Skunk - 20,600L
 Turn Rita to Chipmunk - 0L
 Turn Rita to BAT - 50L
 
 I go Stinker for 10 weeks Til JUNE 10th.

Nobody from her team had any objections, two and a half months being a while. Yours truly remembers when Fuzzball Ortega of the Steelhead Salmons went purple for a whole year, and I personally felt that was too long. 

 

A few years ago, Relay teams could be "skunked" as a prank, and to "deskunk" the team, a certain amount of Lindens had to be raised. With this in mind, the Sunnies ended up skunked again, or rather their now red-eyed and bushy-tailed team captain.

There's two other Bid Me fundraisers at Club Cutlass at Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757). They will be described in detail in the next article.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan

Sunbeamers "Unskunked," "Bid Me Human" Event

June 6 might have been called "D-Day" for the Relay for Life Team Sunbeamers, though in this case the "D" would have stood for "de-skunking." The morning before, it was discovered someone had "skunked" the Relay team. So a "De-skunking" party was planned at the Happy Vixen  DJ Geerkil, one of the few dragon DJs around, spun the music.

Oh noes! The Sunbeamer RFL team has been skunked! Help the Sunbeamers by donating to the skunk kiosk (the one with the skunk plush on it), and help reduce the time in which "Stinky" hangs around. Dress up in skunk avatars or black and white outfits. As this is a Relay event, please keep it clean and don't show anything "bad."

The event had a small number taking part, including team captain Rita Mariner, and raised about 5,000 Lindens for the Sunbeamers.  Becky Shamen contributed a prim skunk with a Sunbeamer t-shirt. More had been donated into the "skunk" kiosk before and after the event, reducing the amount of time the team had been "skunked" by a little more than a day. On Thursday June 8 at 8PM SL time, things were back to normal for Team Sunbeamers.

But the Relay goes on with over a month until the Relay Weekend of July 15 and 16. The current events going on are a couple of "Bid Me" events. Rita is once again putting her fur on the line with a "Bid Me Pink." And then, there's me. Yours truly is going through with a "Bid Me Human" event. I volunteered for one for the Passionate Redheads in 2011, and the results were 29,000 Lindens raised. Stuck in the look for almost a month, I would end up writing about my experiences.

For both "Bid-Me" events, the "change" kiosk will have to have gotten more cash than the "stay" one and be at least 3000 Lindens for the volunteer to change for at least a week. For every additional 3,000, they'll stay in the form for another week, up to the Relay Weekend. The results are tallied a week from now on June 16.

So if you want "Fox News" to go human for a while, now's your change. You may have to wait another six years for another chance. The kiosks are at Club Cutlass at Sunweaver Bay  (114/117/757),

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan

Sunbeamer Team "Skunked," "De-Skunking" Party Today

"What's that smell?" someone commented in the Relay group.

One of the ways Relay teams can prank one another is to "skunk" them. This whimsical stunk has been apparently based on the "purple potty' jokes real-life Relay teams have been known to do. It hasn't happened too often this year. So when people looked in the team totals yesterday, there was a surprise. A cartoon skunk was prancing across our team's name.

WE HAVE BEEN SKUNKED

We have been Skunked, with the Special 'STINKY' Kiosk, until June 9, 9:50 PM, to reduce the time we are skunked, you have to donate to the SPECIAL KIOSK, that Stinky is attached too.  He is currently located somewhere at The Happy Vixen Beach Club.   So come help us out and get rid of the Skunk at the Party!

In March, the Relay Rockers had been skunked, and Team Sunbeamers was among those sending members to their "Skunk Aid" party. Team Sunbeamers will be having a similar event, a "De-Skunking" party at the Happy Vixen today at 4PM SLtime. As this is a fundraiser event, people are asked to keep themselves decent, and the tipjars will be hidden or covered up: donate to a Sunny Relay kiosk instead. Donating to the one with the plush skunk will reduce the time that the Sunbeamer team is considered skunked.

There will be a contest with 250 Lindens on the board (once four people are on it) for the best in theme, skunk avatars orblack and white outfits. Already, the time has been reduced a few hours by donations made on Monday. With a little luck, "Stinky" will soon be gone, and the only skunks around will be the two-legged variety.

Purrfection Estates (236, 219, 24)   

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

by Bixyl Shuftan

Relay For Life "Skunk Aid"

On Sunday March 17th, there was a "Skunk Aid" event. Aimed at the Relay Rockers team, there were people from a number of Relay For Life teams in a fun-filled event full of jokes and skunk-related wear.

Read more in People.

Reader Submitted: Relay For Life - "First Skunked Victim"

A reader submitted  picture from Bain Finch at a Relay Rap, when he took a picture of this guy in a skunk avatar. With the "Stinky the Skunk" jokes, Bain jokingly called him the "First Skunked Victim."

Cartoon of the Day: Why Griefers Hate Furries