Halloween Nightmares 2023 – Part 4 // DRD’s Secrets of Salem

Today I come with a huge, picture-filled post to you.

First of all, before the shitstorm starts, I am not standing for anything that has to do with torture or want to glorify historical mistakes. Burning witches – innocent females, males or children – is one of the darkest and most terrifying chapters of the religious history and I could not be further away about being positive about that in any way. But it is history and we are learning from history – sometimes at least.

It is a little sneak preview about the new annual DRD hunt sim and some design cooperation of this exciting and incredible event.

The sim for DRD Salem is already open and you can explore it, while the hunt was delayed a little bit, but it seams they are on the home stretch – keep an eye on their group notices to not miss it!

DRD again built new amazing buildings, decoration and harvest decor for their event and you can get them as 15 sets single or in a mega pack with 240 (!!!) items. I have to admit it is really worth it as you can decorate your whole parcel or sim with that in an amazing way.

For the event DRD did find an amazing clothing designer, who made an amazing Puritan couple outfit matching the event theme perfectly. I am wearing the female outfit called “Salem Female” in green for my first picture, but you can have it in black, red or brown as well. You get a full outfit with shoes and the cute bonnet at the DRD mainstore – perfect to do the hunt as soon as it does go live! Maybe peek at the 718 mainstore as well… they usually do completely different designs, which I already drooled all over for a couple of times *grins* . I have a feeling there will be a blog post about 718 soon *chuckles*

The second designer DRD did collaborate with is the sweet Lady from WLS – Stabitha. Sure they had to get her on board with her amazing statues and buildings too! She made the amazing Preacher statue, which you can find in the middle of the village near the gallows, if you zoom in you can see it on the right bottom corner of the third picture, but I will have another post where I have it more in the focus soon 😉

I could just snap some impressions of the sim and the buildings, but I really recommend you take a look for yourself – Below you can find some of them maybe they tease enough so you grab the limo and fly over there 😉

Credits and store locations as always at the very bottom.

DRD – “Salem’s Chruch” available at ACCESS // October 2023

DRD – “Salem’s Jail” available at The Fifty // October 2023

DRD – “Salem’s Gallows” available at Equal10 // October 2023

“DRD’s Secrets of Salem” – landscape impression

Clothing

Outfit: 718 – “Salem Female”  (Maitreya) – NEW @ DRD Salem // October 2023

Hair & Makeup

Hair: no.match  – “No Call”

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “EvoX Avalon”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”

Poses, Props & Tools

Pose: FOXCITY – “Witch Hunt Bento Pose” (Bento, with surrounding & props)
Building 1: DRD – “Salem – Salem’s Church” – NEW @ ACCESS // October 2023
Building 2: DRD – “Salem – Salem’s Jail” – NEW @ The Fifty // October 2023
Building 3: DRD – Salem – Salem’s Gallows” – NEW @ Equal10 // October 2023
All the rest: DRD – “Salem – MEGASUPERPACK” – NEW @ Mainstore // October 2023
Location: DRD’s Secrets of Salem

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Originals @ Spookzilla Hunt // October 2021

Wicca’s Originals @ Spookzilla Hunt // October 22nd – November 1st

I’m LATE! I can’t believe I fell asleep at the computer, again!

Where are my clothes? Why can I only find one boot?

I forgot to do laundry. Maybe I can wear this top one more day. No one will know if I wearing a bathing suit under my clothes, will they?

Bruno, that is NOT a chew toy. Give me back my glove.

Now, how did THAT get in the refrigerator?

Five minutes to get to work. I am so, so, so, late.

Why is the parking lot empty? I can’t believe it.

It’s Saturday!

!!! Prizes between 5L$ and 25L$ !!!

Event Location: Spookzilla Hunt

Wicca’s Originals @ Spookzilla Hunt // October 2020

Wicca’s Originals @ Spookzilla Hunt // October 23rd – 31st

Just because a lot of us are quarantining at home does not mean we can’t still have a fun Halloween season! Wicca’s Originals is taking part in the Spookzilla hunt! It runs from October 23-31st!

Over 200 designers have joined to make this a fun experience for everyone. Each designer has made a hunt item (priced only between 5-25 L$) and each store has a hunt key. If this sounds like a fun experience then head on over to Spookzilla!

For our gifts, you just have to find those 10 sweet little ghosties hidden all over the sim:

If you wish to know more about the event you can also have a look at their Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/treventssl/

We hope you all have a fun Halloween season and Happy Hunting!

Event Location: Spookzilla

Wicca’s Originals @ Spookzilla 2019

Wicca’s Originals @ Spookzilla 2019 // October 25th – 31st)

We are a part of the Spookzilla Hunt once again! This time you are hunting for our Wicca’s Original Ghostie (red with lil clouds, see image for example) that will lead you to ten amazing gifts from Wicca’s Originals! All of our items are in the spirit of the season and will have you covered from head to toe. Prizes range in price from L$5 to $25L and fit a variety of bodies (check key for details as not all items fit all bodies).

Event Location: Spookzilla

Wicca’s Originals @ Hallow Manor 2019

Wicca’s Originals @ Hallow Manor // October 18th – November 1st

Tired of tripping over your own feet? You need something more precise, and more functional. Enter the Eagleden Legs and accompanying boots, by Wicca’s Originals. A smart steel and brass body augment, this improves leg performance by incorporating hydraulics, spring tension, and replace brittle bone with unyielding metal. Jump higher, run faster, kick harder, these beat out their organic counterparts in every race. Comes exposed for easy diagnosis and maintenance, but can be covered up with clothing easily. The boots they come with are part western, part punk, held together with metal pins, metal studs, and buckled straps. Can choose to wear the replacer on one leg or both, and the boots come in a myriad of hues.

The Eagleden Legs are available for Maitreya Lara, Slink Hourglass, Belleza Freya and Signature Gianni!

Hallow Manor as well has a fabulous hunt going on during the event. The rules and guidelines you can find at the Hallow Manor Hunter’s Guide: https://palegirlproductions.com/hallow-manor-hunters-guide/

Our hunt prize will be a special version of your Phantom Mask. This half-mask can be worn on either side of the face, and is adorned with patterns depicting an enigmatic array of symbols. Puzzle pieces, haphazard stitching, saw blades, and gears appear on the mask, giving the wearer a sense of mystery along with anonyminity. Rather than a traditional eye hole, the eye is covered by a mesh, obscuring view of it while allowing clear sight. Can be worn by men and women alike.

Event & Hunt Location: Hallow Manor

Wicca’s Wardrobe @ The Snowbound Hunt 2018

Wicca’s Wardrobe @ The Snowbound Hunt 2018 (December 1st – 12th)

It’s time for another hunt! This time we are Snowbound! We took some of our items and made special Snowbound Hunt versions of them. We have 7 special edition items that are a part of this hunt and they range in price from L$7 to L$25. You don’t want to miss out on these. You are certain to have some fiercely frozen style this winter season!

Taxi: Snowbound Hunt Sim

Press Release

The Snowbound Hunt by Toxxic Rhiannyr
Event Dates: December 1st-12th, 2018

Once upon a Lucky Star, a little snow capped town received an unexpected shipment of tree ornaments from the elves at Amazon. It was late in the evening when these special prizes arrived, so the residents came out to grab a few boxes to secure at their front porches til morning. As they were tucked snug in their beds, outside mother nature switched moods and dumped mounds of snow and ice all over their cozy homestead. Littering the area with tree ornaments and mangled boxes. The residents set out to pick up tree limbs and debris left over from the wintery storm but they need help from you to locate the tree ornaments!

The packing slip stated that the ornaments are stuffed with prizes from 70 different stores from a game called Second Life! They are priced at 25L or less! As a token of our resident’s appreciation, you can keep the prizes found inside! We appreciate you assisting in this messy matter and we wish you all a Happy Holiday and Bright New Year♥

Toxxic Rhiannyr – Mayor of Lucky Star
secondlife:///app/agent/37c42d18-3eb3-4086-969c-c99351fd6b0f/about

The Snowbound Hunter Group
secondlife:///app/group/531cb104-7c37-bd58-75cc-fdd2374b5537/about

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/The-Snowbound-Hunt-711371592575130

Wicca’s Wardrobe @ Spookzilla

 

Wicca’s Wardrobe @ Spookzilla (Oct 22nd – 31st)

We LOVE Halloween at Wicca’s Wardrobe and we were ecstatic to be asked to join the great Spookzilla event by Toxxic Rhiannyr! We have made special Spookzilla versions of some of our best sellers for this spooky hunt event. Each hunt item ranges in price from L$7 – L$25 and they are hidden all over the sim. Spookzilla hunters have to look for special ghosties and each designer has their own color ghostie. Ours is purple and looks like this:

We also have a hunt key for you of all our special items so you know what you have to look forward to in finding all our lil ghosties. Our hunt key also lets you know what sizes our hut items are available in:

Taxi: Spookzilla Hunt

Dr. Stein grows funny Creatures

TUNES

Once they killed his monster when it went into a trap
Now he’s making better ones on a higher step
[Helloween]

It is not a secret, that this time of the year is my personal favorite. The weather becomes bearable, the sun is not burning down like crazy anymore, the days become shorter – I always was more a creature of the night and certainly the spooky times arrived 😉 Now I can do weird, crazy and morbid stuff without being asked if I am alright 😉

What inspired me a lot for this post, was the actual hunt and the latest releases from DRD as well as the amazing group gift from CURELESS [+]. I got kinda an addiction to the incredible detailed torsos from CURELESS [+ ], that they have in various releases, which I showed already in previous posts. When I saw that they even released one of those as a group gift I first could not believe it. It was one of the best group gifts I ever got! Speaking of kick ass cool group gifts – the hair I am wearing as well is a group gift coming from no.match. You can wear it with and without the hat!

There is 2 events going on at the moment that really got me excited and after completing both of them I am kinda sad that it is already over… such things  I could do forever 😉 . The fist one would be the Ironwood Hills event called Haunting 2018. It is the 3rd event in a row – and all 3 belong to each other – and I immensely enjoyed them all. While we hunted for little charms for a charm bracelet laying inside a book, this time we got a tablet, that guided us through the whole story and hunt. You do not need to collect something this time you just need to find the right people one after another and solve their riddles. It is a great way to explore the sim as well if you did not do that before as it drags you across the whole sim. As if that would not be already enough for amusement, you get as reward over 40 gifts from the best designers on the grid. All of them as well made special Exclusives, scary, spooky themed for the event – It is a shopping paradise for all those who love the darker side of life 😉

Speaking of the best designers on the grid, I cannot miss DRD. Deathrow Designs, is one of my all time favorites anyways if it is clothing, accessories or structures/buildings. They have a certain way of their designing and texturing, you would discover them under a million of other designers. The skills of the whole team is incredibly amazing and incomparable. They as well are part of the Ironwood Hills event with their mega amazing Reanimator Gacha – you can gamble for it or just buy the whole set. The whole set screams Dr. Stein with the tower and it’s furniture as well as the reward gift for completing the Ironwood Hills hunt. Last year round about the same time they introduced their Shadow Box. A monthly subscription box over 6 month with a final reward gift if you bought all 6 of them. My today background is exactly that final gift with various furniture items that were in the shadow boxes. Obviously I used the dark version – for the Shadow boxes you always got one light and one dark version.

DRD has as well an event going on, the Reanimator Hunt. You just have to grab the hunt HUD at the landing point and roam around the DRD sim along a path they mentioned in the NC. While walking around, you will find little skulls and just by clicking them you will get your hunt items until you collected all and can grab your final 10th gift back at the landing point. What I loved is that the skulls are not permanent. As soon as you lick them they vanish and spawn somewhere else randomly. That makes sure everyone has the same hunting experience 🙂

As a little plus and for all that love to collect things they have a neat addition to the hunt The Steins – 11 unique, in character dressed avatars of their staff – appear randomly on the sim and you have to ask them a specific question (you find that one in the DRD group notices). If you asked the right question each of them will hand you a unique, personalized journal – I still miss 3 of them but I will keep hunting them down 😉

Don’t miss either Ironwood Hills or the Reanimator Hunt @ DRD, before October is over – There is not many chances for free hunts and games in such an amazing quality!

Outfit & Accessories

Torso: CURELESS [+] – “Cadavre Exquis” (Maitreya) – NEW Group Gift

Panty: CURELESS [+] – “Anatomic Doll / Skeletal System / Panty / RARE” (Maitreya, Gacha)

Collar: Asteroid Box – “Caelum Collar” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Red Light District

Shoes: UTOPIA@Design – “Alice” (Maitreya)

Bracers: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Trinity Bracers [Black]” (Maitreya, Gacha)

Bracelets (Incl. Blood Tattoo): CURELESS [+] – “Barbedwire Cuffs”

Nails: Meva – “Bento Claws Dark” (Maitreya)

Bunnies: CURELESS [+] – “Bunny Dool” (Group Gift)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: no.match – “No.Scary” – NEW Group Gift

Makeup: CURELESS [+] – “Undereye Lines & Eyeliner” (Omega Applier)

Lipstick: Zibska – “Folia Lips” (LeLutka Applier)

Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.0”

Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”

Eye: Clemmm – “I’m Tired / Red Bloodshot” – NEW @ Ironwood Hills (Gift)

Ears: .:E.A:. Studio – “Elf Dior Ears”

Poses & Props

Poses: Foxcity

Set: DRD – “Shadow Mansion  – Furnished- Dark” (Shadow Box Bonus Item)

Model & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Lucky with [LeeZu!]!

Lucky With LeeZu Poster

St. Patrick’s Day brings to mind the luck of the Irish, but here in SL you can be lucky with LeeZu!  At LeeZu we are seeing green all over the store. Lucky four leaf clovers are popping up all over!. Each clover has a special surprise in it.  There will be three clovers containing either Bubble Glam Tights, the LeeZu! Nyar or the Oxford Dress Varient. These three outfits are complete and ready to wear.

LeeZu Oxford Dress - Sazzy

But there’s more!!!!  A while back, LeeZu created an amazingly fabulous gown called Beautiful Ann. This gown sells in the store for 1500 L but it can be yours for 40 L only during this contest. Parts of the gown can be found in SEVEN Clovers hidden around the store. Find all the parts and you have the complete gown to wear and treasure. Altogether there are TEN CLOVERS. Find them all and spruce up your wardrobe.

LeeZu Beautiful Ann - Solde

Here’s all you have to do:

Stroll through the store and locate Four Leaf Clovers. Purchase a copy of each one you find for 5 L.  They will be NO TRANSFER so you can’t purchase them for anyone else. Collect all the clovers and you will have three casual items  and one formal gown for a total cost of  50 l.

LeeZu Bubble Glam Tights - Wicca
Drop by the store now and start the hunt for your lucky clovers!

Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lombard%20Park/127/240/23

LeeZu Nyar - NocPictures by GM Nikolaidis

!:Lybra:! for the Murder Mystery Hunt

Lybra 001

At the moment we have so many amazing hunts out on the grid, that you really have to manage your tie properly to do all of them :p.

For example, starting at Finesmith you have the “Murder Mystery” hunt (http://finesmithjewelry.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/finesmith-murder-mystery-hunt.html)

“News Flash!
Socialite WrenNoir Cerise has been murdered and burglarized! They took all of her Finesmith jewelry AND stabbed her FIVE times! They must have really wanted her dead!
We need your help to find her killer!”

14 designer have placed gifts that are each 10L$and as much as I understood it the 10L$ of every item will support the ASPCA.

Today I would like to spotlight the hunt item of Lybra. Lybra Rage made an amazing full outfit including the cool makeup for the Murder Mystery hunt. The outfit is called “Clown Couture” and it did remind me on some of the puppets I know from my childhood. So i could not resist to go with the puppet idea ;).

The “Clown Couture” has mesh pants, a mesh top and a mesh made neck corset. All are provided in several sizes to make sure it fits your avatar. The hat and the huge neck ruffles are part of the outfit and the amazing white-faced makeup with the typical clown expression as well. If you imagine to get that whole outfit for 10L$ only.. you better hurry and get your copy 😉

Lybra 002

Details

Outfit (incl. hat and makeup): !:Lybra:! – “Clown Couture” – NEW (mesh, Murder Mystery hunt item)

Shoes: Baiastice – “Oxa” (mesh)

Hair: LeLutka – “Rykiel”

Poses & Puppethanger: HelaMiyo

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin