Spring Hunt Madness

Spring had finally sprung!

Crawling out of the darkness of the winter, at last the short frosty or gloomy days and the long icy nights were banished to memory as green shoots of new life emerged.

The grumbling of the dark months, wrapped up to the neck with thick woolens, so comfy, yet so cumbersome was over, she pushed those to the back of her closet, and kicked the warm scarves and hats under the bed. Sunlight, warm Spring sunlight was flooding through the window, it was time to step outside, and feel the soft new grass under her feet.

Tying up her hair, she picked through clothes selected as part of a hopeful dream back in the winter, thrilling at the lightness of the fabrics, and their promise of long happy days relaxing outdoors. She slipped into a dress, itself the colour of sunshine, unable to prevent a smile as its flowers seemed to smile back.                                                       Throwing the door wide she ran outside, bare feet on the lush grass. The scent of daisies drifted lightly on the air, calling her to the bench in the sun, its planters thick with blooms. Stretching out, she relished the sun and its warmth on her skin, and settled back on the cushion, a soft sigh escaping her lips as swallows flitted overhead.

Another week, another Hunt! 

The Depraved Nation Spring Madness hunt is gridwide, and contains some amazing stores, items included here are among the prizes you can expect. There are around 150 stores, and the hunt is running until April 15th, the hunt prizes are free to buy. SLurls to all the stores in order, and hints (yes Hints - manna from heaven after the Twisted). 

http://depravednation.com/depraved-spring-madness-2-0

Prize items are mostly for females, but there are unisex and male prizes from quite a few stores, and with items as varied as skins and shapes, poses, clothes, furniture and buildings. Those listed here are all prizes from the hunt - with the exception of the hair - also available free as a group gift - details below.

Skin     : S u g a r : Summer Afternoon Teaparty -C- :2:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Depraved%20Nation/233/22/86
Shape     Waffle! Sienna Shape
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dream%20Valley/84/185/23
Tattoo     S (and) P Body Shop - Depraved Mind Tattoo
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Passion%20Dreams%20Islands/64/64/2
Eyes     [kirei] Oasis Blue - Eye-
http://slurl.com/secondlife/JuicyBomb/160/208/2
Dress     [ SAKIDE ] Plumeria Dress Yellow
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dark%20Tranquility/128/88/24
Necklace     Trident Astrolabe Pendant [Silver/Sapphire]
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Maladomini/50/128/500
Pose (Image 1)    PicMe Poses    PM - DSM 2.0 hunt pose 5
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Zen%20of%20Dreams/38/54/2
Wall Decal     Sharkfin Landscapes   Swallows back in Spring Wall Decal
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stratus/143/54/37
Bench    L'aize Dayz   LD Planter seat
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Triskelion%20Shores/125/189/21


Hair   (Not in the DSM Hunt - but current free group gift, available by hitting the subscribo in store)
[Shag] - Pretty Please - vodka
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Silent/190/141/38

Simple chic

I love this clean cut smart casual look which is centered around these delicious unisex shirts were a new release at 22769 this weekend just passed. There are 10 colours to choose from and at only 45L why not have them all! I'm still gushing over the hairs at handmade isn't this one so chic? and I'll briefly mention the bag before I dash off to RL yes that pesky thing that gets in the way! it's currently a luckyboard grab and has shoulder or hand held options, OH and you can change the colour to black too if you so please.

Hair: 80L - Carol on Kut > Handmade
Skin:0L - Group gift - Noemi  > Wow skins
Shirt: 45L - Preppy shirt - beige > 22769
Jeans: To be released soon at > 22769
Shoes: 35L - Gacha item - yuyu flats  > :)BCC.
Bag: 0L - luckyboard item > Septem essentials 

[your free underoos for march]

It's March, and this, my lovelies, means it's time for a new, gorgeous freebie from VITAMEN! This time you can get not only one, but 6 different Japanese loincloths. That's right, the traditional kind that quite much reminds of a thong and will show off your bubbly buttocks. The colours you can win are brown, black, blue, plum, green and a red-tone (shown in the picture), and the silky looking fabric has a pattern of small cherry blossoms. The loincloth is fully sculpted, resize-scripted and comes with a realistic looking bulge for your viewing pleasure :) The Lucky Board changes every 5 minutes, including wildcard rounds. Good luck!

Skin: ~Tableau Vivant~ - Andrej Moka (previous TDR-item)
Hair: [Uw.st] - Khan Hair
Eyes: .:Hermony:. - MP Eyes - Smog

Tattoo: *ES* - Koi Warrior - Tattoo Unisex
Underwear: VITAMEN - Roku-Shaku Fundoshi - Azuki-Iro (free Lucky Board item for March)

Tick Tock

„If I can’t scratch my nose in a second, I’m going to die on this spot” – thought Clicketina Tock, and wriggled her nose anxiously. But when you are Universal Vice Manager of Time, you cannot just jump around and do somersaults. You accidentally push an hourglass attached to your dress, and the people living in Australia, Peru or Luxemburg realise that there’s something seriously wrong with time. A second ago they were eating lunch and suddenly it’s deep night, or they were slumbering comfortably and now there’s midday sunshine pouring into the bedroom. „Damned Chronos!” – thought Clicketina angrily. After hundreds of thousands of years of service, her boss suddenly decided to go on holidays… and, given that the length of his accrued vacation time was about fifty thousand years, Clicketina wasn’t expecting to see her boss very soon.

„How dared he leave me here, all on my own!” – grumbled Clicketina silently. „He had a great assistant, me, and now I don’t even have a third-class candidate for temporary apprenticeship to help me, and my nose itches like hell!” Clicketina tried to resist, but the itch was stronger. She started sneezing… and the people in Australia, Peru and Luxemburg fell out of their beds or dropped their spoons and looked around in utter confusion. „This is the end of the world!” – some people thought anxiously… while it was only Clicketina Tock rubbing her nose with a beatific smile on her face, and she felt she was the happiest creature in this wide, endless Universe.

The „Fashion for Life” shopping event is on until March 20th, and my fellow bloggers have already shown you many beautiful items from the fair. The splendid „It’s Time…” gown-hair combo was created by Mirja Mills for EMO-tions, and it’s available exclusively at the fair – so I suggest you hurry, because each and every Linden you pay for it is spent for a truly good cause.

Outfit: EMO-tions „It’s Time…”, including the hair and hat – „Fashion for Life” exclusive item (300 L$).

Skin: Style by Kira „Lulu” skin in „Steampunk Bronze” - Steam6 Hunt gift (0 L$).

Lipstick: Gugu Dada „Tigress” - Steam6 Hunt gift (0 L$).

Eyes: Sterling Artistry Feral Eyes in „Embers” (65 L$, the 6-pair pack is 260 L$).

Nails: Sterling Artistry „Gold Silk” (10 L$).

Pose: Sterling Artistry Emoting Hands No. 5 in the first picture (30 L$ for a single pose and 250 L$ for the 10-pose pack), Glitterati Long Hair 4 in the second picture (it was a formal hunt gift, now the single poses are available for 50 L$ and the 10-pose pack is 250 L$).

The pictures were taken at Hazardous, the latest build of Wendy Xeno.

Fashion For Life 2012

For her, as usual, the darkness was everywhere, the flashbulbs bursting all around lit her beautifully, but showed her nothing of those watching.

Not that it mattered, it was her they had come to see, and she was there to be seen after all. No mere red carpet, this was the runway of the year, all eyes were on her.

Against the spangled backdrop, the red of her hair stood out like a splash of freshly spilled blood, its motion as she moved, as fluid as the sanguine liquid it resembled, carried the illusion further. As the cameras clicked, the whispers began..

                           "Who is she wearing?"

                                                        "The cut of the silk, so daring, so new, so now!"

The soft voices of the fashion and gossip reporters were soon drowned out, along with the scratches of sharp pencils on paper, frantically sketching the dress. The louder, hoarser voices of the photographers

covered all others with shouts for her attention, trying to make her turn this way, then that, looking for the shot that would bring their money for the year.

Dropping a hip, slouching a shoulder, she gave them what they wanted, the midnight blue of the silk caressing her every curve. The designer's skill cut the cloth so it shone under the lights, careful and intricate pleats added drama to the gown,  the sections woven finer gave movement even as she posed. She would never pose for long, this brief outing was all it would take for the gown to become the sensation it was designed to be.

Crossing her arms across her chest, as if in some fundamental move of protection, she had their attention, this had not happened before. All sounds died away as she parted her lips, preparing to speak in her low voice, one that carried through the crowds...

   "In all of the darkness, there is a light shining. The light is people doing what they can to help."

 

This is the -Azul- Marcela gown, in Sapphire, a colour exclusively available at the Fashion For Life 2012 event.

As a dress, it is truly beautiful, the colour is rich, and accented with black on the pleats. It involves a system skirt, which usually would have me sighing and resigning it to the 'will never wear' pit at the bottom of my invent. System skirts never work with my shape, and I do hate to change my shape.

For this, however, the creators have very helpfully included a notecard with details of shape measurements to make the system skirt look its best. So, here, the ass is a lot smaller than usual, and I'm a bit knock-kneed (though you can't tell). Most importantly, even with the suggested alterations, it still looked like me. Big plus. 

The biggest plus, of course, is that as part of the Fashion For Life event, the proceeds from the sale go to the American Cancer Society. Fighting cancer, bit by bit, in each and every country is a goal everyone can get behind.

Dress : -Azul- Marcela in Sapphire, exclusive to Fashion For Life 2012

http://slurl.com/secondlife/DreamSeeker%20Its%20Time/127/49/26

Other items of note

Hair : (r)M ~ Hair No.09 (f) Brocade Red

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Magic%20Isle/123/128/31

Nails : Rozoregalia *Gemma*Ring&Nail/3*(F):Ring&Nail1

http://slurl.com/secondlife//159/160/34

Girls gotta eat

The fights took part every weekend. There were no rules so every weapon was allowed. Of course nobody used firearms those were kind of frowened upon. Cat had seen people using bow and arrow. Not a smart choice of weapon in her opinon but some people got got so scared when seeing them that they were not able to have on clear thought. Of course did Cat not belong to those. Only one guy once tried that with her after that bows got out of fashion. She had looked at him for a while then ran to him and cut the bowstring. Without the tension of the string the bow hit the other fighter in the face and made him loose so much concentration that Cat was able to put one of her knives on his throat. It was an easy fight in her opinion. But it was the fight which finally got her the respect she wanted. The fights were a good and easy way to get money. She lived now for a year pretty well from them. Sometimes she got hurt badly and she did not win every fight but it was going well. Of course she would have a secure and less painfull income if she would still work in an office as she had done before but this had been boring and Cat was a being of the street. Her childhood had been a mix of fights and calm time in corners waiting for what would happen next. She did not know anymore what had made her work in a office maybe she had not seen an other way. But with those fights she had found one. Some saw the fact that she had paws as weakness. They tried to stomp onto them while wearing heavy boots. A tactic which wasn't dumb but lacking of elegance. Normaly Cat reacted with grabbing the drink of somebody from the audience and spilling it on the floor. It was rare that her opponents had a clue how to fight on a wet underground and she was able to feel how slick every centimetre under her paws was. Others tried to flirt with her before the fights. Cat was always surprised that they thought she would fight less hard with them because of that. The surprise of those guys was quite bigger when they lost at the end the fight with her. But Girls gotta eat. Or at least have enough money to buy a nice collection of knives.

As roleplaying in Lost Angels it was not possible to oversee, how well the Tactical Throwing Knives from Messer Co. go with some outfits. Although not being into fighting there was no different way than buying them. Which was a good decision as the description on the vendor was pure understatement. Beside the fact that the knives can be used as throwing knives and as melee weapon and have special ccs attacks, they have a great menu which offers many choices for the design of the knives. Its possible to resize the sheaths and to choose if those should be worn with straps or not. A nice idea is that its possible to resize the straps seperated from the sheaths. There are several designs for the knives, they can be black or bloodcovered for example. Beside the eight appearance options of the knives there are three for the sheaths. On the ccs side – CCS is the abbreviation of Community Combat System which is the combat system which is being used in Lost Angels – the special buffs the weapons offer cost up to three racial points. Using the buffs the knives cause a higher damage and allow to steal the stamina of the opponent in a fight. Those who are not into ccs fighting can switch the knives to linden damage and use them at places where this kind of damage is activated.
The next wave of the Zombie Popcorn Brand started today. Sakide made a skintight outfit for this event. It comes with two kind of tops - one in black and one in white- which are both also included in a sheer version. The pants also belong to this set which also containes shoes. There are two versions of the pants included one with closed and one with open zipper. The paws with the barbwire and the bloody legwarmers are available in the same event. They come from epic. And of course they are wellmade. The design looks great and for those who prefer hooves there is also a version with two kinds of hooves (black and white ones) available.

Outfit: [ SAKIDE ] Lost City Outfit (150 L$ sold at Zombie Popcorn Brand)
Paws: *Epic* -ZP- Barbs & Blood Slouchie Digi Warmers {Paw} (219 L$ sold at Zombie Popcorn Brand)
Tattoo: +Fallen Gods Inc.+ CATACLYSM (550 L$)
Knives: [M e s s e r Co.] Tactical Throwing Knives (1200 L$)

The pose on the picture is unfortunatly not available anymore but its worth to explore Little China, the sim where the picture has been taken. The location is actually under the sim in the sewer system.

Wrong Time

It had started some years ago. Lights wandering around in the garden in the night. Ghosts were normal in this area. Every bigger house had one or two of them. Sometimes people even tried to get a second ghost when they had allready one. Like those beings would be lonely bunnies or cats. Often this ended not too well with ectoplasm all over the place. Ghosts did not want to share their territory. And some seemed to be quite happy to be alone. But all of them had in common that they only appeared in the night. This one was for some time still active in the early morning and then she stayed longer and longer until she was wandering around all night and day. She didn't do anything which was aggressive or threatening in any way. But then people thought that she was a human well one with a bit strange skin colour but human. And somehow she seemed to interact with people. Which was annoying. Not that she waved to people who walked nearby she also accepted the neighbours post. The first had been bearable but the second was not acceptable. It seemed like it was time to get a second ghost.

Fashion for Life is still going on. The sims are pretty and worth a look. The kimono gown on the picture is one of the donation items from Schön. It has a cut at the side and can be worn on several ways. I like the option to wear it with a collar with a cape or without that cape. The skirt is included in several versions and the obi can be worn with and without the bow. The shape is an other fashion for life item. It comes from Sophistishapes. The set contains also a shape to use with system skirts and a modelshape. It goes pretty well with the skin from Katsucide. The skin is available in several makeups. All sets contain a version with and one without cleavage.
Today many stores which take part at fashion for life set one or more items on 55 L$. So its a chance to make a bargain there.
The hair is the latest release from Wasabi Pills. Its called Kumi and also available in a version with a pony tail at the side. Its very cute and as always available in many colours. Beside this its made of mesh and well rigged. The set contains two sizes one for avatars with bigger boobs and one for those with a bit less.
The pose on the picture is available at the current round of flux. It comes from Status.


Dress: ::Schoen:: Kimono gown "Sei" (55 L$ only today Fashion for life item)
Shape: Sophistishapes - ANGEL (1000 L$ Fashion for life item)
Skin: [Katsucide] Sandra Cendre - Tan - (4800 L$ Fatpack, 800 L$ one makeup sold at Fashion for Life)
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Amandine Mesh Hair (1500 L$ for fatpack 250 L$ colourpack)

Pose: STATUS - Onomatopoeia (100 L$ for 5 poses sold at FLUX)

The picture has been taken at Fashion for Life.