Silver & Gold Hunt Blog

Last minute Dash hunt ends at midnight...

2010-01-09T11:17:00.000-08:00

Hi all, as the hunt is about to wind down I am posting the list of hints as I have them. There seems to be a couple trouble spots that have gone missing today if you are not in the hunter group please do join then check notices from today for the skip lm's for those. I have to go out for a short time and will not be online. Leave notes of any locations that you believe have gone missing by sending an IM or dropping a notecard to Rox Arten as soon as I am back I will check on them and send any additional landmarks out in the hunter group so that you can get to all the vendors locations that are down. Unfortuantely I have not got time to add slurls here now but hope this helps!

1 It's the last one you would think, and really isn't hiding, best viewed at a distance
2 this is an award winning bell
3 Keep the darkness at bay
4 So traditional
5 Bells ringing on high
6 Take a dip, then if you get cold grab a scarf and warm up
7 let it rez then look high and low
8 Not all bells decorate trees
9 A piece of the orient
10 twinkling and sparkling
11 Take a seat and ponder
12 (2 gifts) both out in the open look around!
13 relax with the gentle sea breezes and watch the gifts pile up
14 Mistletoe and bells
15 What a view!
16 wait for things to rez!
17 I have a lovely view of the Sakura from where i sit
18 lovely decorations
19 Crystal beauty shines from above
20 Shivering as I watch over you
21 The piano player
22 Around the corner
23 Look high and low
24 Oh so cuddly "My BEARy furry friend is wearing your prize while she guards jewels fit for Queen Guinevere."
25 Make yourself beautiful
26 you've come a long way why not take a seat and put your feet up
27 can't miss it
28 "Are you tired from hunting? Have a seat and relax" and don't forget to look around and get a pic with santa too!
29 look high and low
30 watching over you as you shop
31 let it rez and look around
32 Bells bells Bells but only one will give you the gift
33 ritual and traditional
34 Gingerbread and christmas trees snowmen and ornaments
35 stay in the landing area
36 not that hard to find
37 a lovely decoration
38 visible from the landing
39 beautiful wall art
40 Captured Gothic Blues
41 find the right shop (Sian Birke Jewelery) a peaceful resting spot
42 flying high
43 get yourself a mixed drink
44 wedding bells are going to ring
45 watch your step
46 follow the pink sings to the right shop and look around it's not hard
47oh how pretty this little bell is
48 I wanna be a star
49 come on in it's warm inside
50 time for a bit of a rest
51 bit of the southwest
52 beautiful decorations and a family of snowmen
53 when candy canes meet wonderland
54 take a plane for a flight
55 be a maniac
56 Anyone up for tips
57 check the hint note in shop for current hint
58 check hint giver at landing for current hint
59 hint giver there
60 cluegiver at sign
61 Rawr like a dinosaur
62 nicely displayed
63 Your Style
64 Jingle bells and pretty lights
65 a different kind of wonderland
66 Tropical breazes
67 sitting pretty
68 bells peel on high
69 working the ropes
70 beautiful decorations
71 Perched over you
72 Babes in toyland
73 sometimes you just need to take a load off and rest a bit
74 flames and passion
75 "Very ornamental."
76 make sure you look in things
77 lovely body jewelery
78 upstairs corner store
79 your morning routine
80 oh the lovely couches
81 Maybe I should brush my hair
82 tucked away safe and sound
83 it's a zodiac thing
84 wouldn't i look cute pulling santa's sleigh
85 hint board in store
86 3rd shop on the right
87 it's an invasion
88 wait for rez
89 2 gifts 1 arch and light 2 sit by the fire and warm yourself look around carefully
90 "Fear and Loathing in SL"
91. none needed
92 it would make a big thimble too bad someone lost it
93 reighnedeer, sleighs and bells what a good team
94 just like a bat
95 Oh christmas tree ...
96 2 gifts 1 pondering wedding gowns 2 dreamers and cakes
97 sweet treats
98 Oh tannenbaum and sugar treets
99 mmmm peppermint hot cocoa
100 wow the places you've been you must be tired... take a seat and put your feet up!
101 look up high
102 i thought that's where stars belonged
103 finde the shade store (other side of sim)
104 find the Drakke store (other side of sim)
105 go through the arch and to the right for the store... look under and behind things
106 what pretty garlands
107 shed some light on the situation
108 needles and ink
109 look at that view
110 what soothing sounds the windchimes make
111 looking down over you
112 don't overlook the obvious
113 lovely centerpieces
114 find the sign
115 Charlie brown loved his tree
116 silver & Gold are a perfect finishing touch for red & Green
117 paperweight for magazines
118 just walk in you can't miss it
119 Sile steam and trees
120 Strike a pose
121 on the sign
122 so close it could bite you
123 peeking out from behind stained glass
124 a bit of body piercing anyone?
125 just came in from the cold
126 holiday decorations
127 how can I help you
128 cluegiver in store
129 naughty bell go to the corner
130 Hunt Hints sign in store
131 You should be in pictures
132 seriously there is no hint needed
133 tucked in safe and sound
134 Pink is so my color
135 Take the Sim Teleport to Alice Went Neko ...up and up and up
136 just hanging around
137 mmmm holiday fresh backed pie
138 hint given at landing
139 Try Me
140 look around it's in the open
141 soaking in the sunlight
142 i thought a star went here
143From base to summit, gay and bright, There's only splendor for the sight.
144 hint giver at landing
145 can I go any higher
146 I wonder if this bell was naughty
147 come on over and chill near the fire
148 not the sample by the sign (sample set for sale and wrong lm in it confusing please fix)... nothing like a hot bath to warm up on a cold day
149 PQD's Gothic Christmas Shoppe ... not hard to find
150 mistletoe and jingle bells
151 look to the skys
152 bells peel on high
153naturally just chilling
154 this bell must be very cold
155 one of these things just dosen't belong
156 check out the art
157 Do you know what time it is?
158 what a lovely painting
159 use the teleporter where you land to proper shop... then sit down for a lovely meal
160 overhead

News...and info on what's next

2010-01-04T09:34:00.000-08:00

As we wind down I wish to thank all of the vendors for all their hard work as well as all of the helpers and hunters for making this a great hunt. It's been an interesting journey from that spark of an idea through now and I've learned a lot of lessons. I wish to announce that I have two new hunts being planned.

The first to celebrate the Chinese New Year (2010 is the year of the Tiger) will be held in February and is named "Welcoming the Tiger Hunt"! To keep up to date on that hunt you will find info here:
http://welcomingthetigerhunt.blogspot.com/

The second to celebrate Earth day (2010 is the 40th anniversary of earth day) and our planet in general will be held in April and is named "Celebrating Gaia Hunt"! To keep up to date on that hunt you will find info here:
http://celebratinggaiahunt.blogspot.com/

The limit for vendors in this one is firmly set at 75 and again we will have starting points, this time at 1, 25, and 50. The starting point shops again were personally selected by me and will be taking spots later in the lineup then their early applications would give them. Application Information and Hunt rules & Guidelines are posted on both blogs, I will be adding the hunt signs and more to those blogs over the next few days.

What am I looking for?

2009-12-09T12:39:00.000-08:00

OK first, my apologies everyone, it seems that I omitted to mention in the starting note card what you are looking for and that is totally my fault.... there are samples on signs only at some shops however, to help those who might be starting at a location that isn't one of those here are a couple of pictures... because they appear a bit differently depending on if you have preferences enabled to show shininess and bump mapping or if you have those off I am including two images... one with and one without those preferences enabled. It may be any size some are very large others are very small most hare mid range in size! First with bump & shine enabled... second without!
Happy Hunting,
Rox

Almost Time to Start!!!

2009-12-04T22:39:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone, so it's been a couple of long months of planning, organizing, lots of paperwork, and a whole lot of time spent tping around the grid to check out shops, sort out the hunt order, and make sure everything goes as smoothly as it possibly can. Now the time is almost hear to see the results of the hard work and effort. I am privilidged enough as hunt organizer to have seen images or items from a large number of our hunt locations and I am so happy with the variety, quality, and creativity displayed by everyone!

First, to each and everyone of my vendors, I wish to once more thank you for putting your faith in me and joining this hunt. I don't call it my hunt, never have, nor will I ever do so because while I decided to run it, put in a lot of work organizing it, and have the responsibility of keeping it going and fixing issues it is NOT my hunt it is OUR hunt! Without each and every one of you this hunt could not happen. Each of you have put in much work too getting ready for this hunt and that should be recognized as well. I've learned a few lessons, made a few mistakes, and had a few oh no lets fix this now moments but I honestly feel very good about how things have gone and hopefully will continue to go.

Now, to our hunters, welcome to the Silver & Gold Hunt (yes, the name has shortened a bit along the way). I hope each of you has a great time and enjoys both the hunt and the gifts. As all hunts I am sure we will have a few hitches... SL is a very fluid place and shops move, sometimes by choice, others without warning in nessecity. I will continue to do my best to keep issues to a minimum. I hope you will bear with us if/when this happens. I will take care of them as fast as possible, unfortunately with a world full of timezones sometimes it takes a little time to get new landmarks placed

I invite all the vendors and the hunters to post to the flickr group, vendors post pictures of gifts and by all means hunters post pics of having fun on the hunt or opening the gifts, or even your favorite gifts... the group is for everyone! We have a group for hunters to get help/help each other find the bells... but please note I will be monitoring it along with others and direct slurls or being rude to others in group will not be tolerated. Have fun, enjoy the chat, make friends, and get some great gifts! I won't be cracking any whips if the conversation gets slightly off topic but I will maintain order and our simple rules. Please try to rmeember it's ok to chat, but keep in mind those who are asking for help.

Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/silverandgoldhunt

Happy Hunting
Rox

Setup Deadline Passed... Shops being replaced

2009-12-04T01:33:00.001-08:00

We will be doing a bit of reworking on the hunt order over the next 22 hours as we have a few shops that will need to be replaced. I set in place some very simple rules for this hunt, a timeline to help keep everyone on track, and deadlines that were put in place to ensure things would go as smoothly as possible. One of those rules was that every shop had to have one person in the hunt vendor group for the duration of the hunt. This is not because I want to take up one of your precious group slots (goodness knows I have to juggle groups enough on my own to understand it's difficult to do this) but because with 160 vendors, it's not feasible for me to try to personally keep every vendor up to date with all that doing a hunt entails (sign changes, lm changes, walk through results, and so forth). I am rather disappointed to find tonight when going to check last log ins for those who had not responded (fully expecting that they had not been online, or they had and maybe notices were not being delivered).

To those vendors who left the hunt group, I am not sure why you would do that and plan to take part in the hunt, however, I was clear on this rule. I wish you each all the best, and I have no hard feelings or ill will toward you, however, I must remove you to ensure the integrity of the hunt. I plan to do everything possible to make this hunt run smoothly for all of the hunters as well as for all the vendors who have worked hard on gifts and set up as instructions required!

Happy Building,
Rox

Walk through started

2009-12-01T08:52:00.000-08:00

lol Fyre and I with our vallium hats thank you Meri :) doing the walk through!

Ohhhh the bells....

2009-11-23T01:54:00.000-08:00

Ok so just a tiny little update... hunt object... a silver and gold bell... they are all stuffed with LM's but as it's almost 5 am here i'm going to bed and will pass them out tommorrow (still in the time frame promised)... I want to double check the numbers and proper lm's are in them one more time when i'm not half awake! I know neurotic... but here is a pic just for giggles of me in front of all 160 of them!

Applications now closed!!!

2009-11-06T01:40:00.000-08:00

After taking a quick poll of those in the hunt already and extending the number of slots to 160, we are now closing applications as the deadline I had set has now passed. Thank you everyone for taking part in this hunt, all shops should be listed here on the blog now and every vendor should have received a welcome packet (folder)! If you see your shop listed and did not get the invite to the group or the welcome folder please IM me. I will be double checking group membership (of at least one name listed on the application) for each shop over the next few days. After i get some sleep I will do up a new sign to send out as well as a note card version of the hunt order!

I will be checking landmarks and that every shop has a sign out and starting work on getting the hunt objects loaded for everyone. I will also be posting both here and to group notices a list of guidelines for all of our vendors as well as a list of suggestions for those who are new to hunts.

Remember we have a flickr stream set up for this hunt so feel free to post your pictures of gifts there once you have them ready.

Additionally I will be looking for an official blogger for this hunt over the next week and once I have us one I will notify everyone who that is!

So now that my work is done... since it's almost 5 am for me... I am going to bed and getting some rest then will get back to work on things when i get up!

Lets make this the most amazing hunt anyone has seen!!!

Happy Building everyone,
Rox

October 30th Update....Reminder...

2009-10-30T22:18:00.000-07:00

Just a quick update for everyone, we have 25 spaces left before we hit 150 and I close applications. If we do not reach that by Nov. 5th we will close them with the number we have I am pleased with the size of the hunt already and am really excited about the great variety of items we should be for prizes based on shops.

I am trying to update the blog, send welcome packs, send group invites and so forth at least once a day. I have processed all applications received to date at this very moment. If you sent one and are not listed in the shop list, received a group invite, and received a welcome pack folder please resend it as it was not delivered to me.

Again please be sure your SLURL linked from the blog is correct. If you need to change your location please just drop me a note with the new LM and SLURL along with your shop name on it so that I can update the blog and the lm's in the hunt list.

If you haven't applied hurry and get me your application deadline is firm and I won't take them after the 5th!

Thank you to all the wonderful vendors who are taking part in this hunt!

Welcome Packs and Blog Please Do these things!

2009-10-26T23:20:00.000-07:00

I've finally finished sending the welcome packs to all the vendors ~WOOT~... less then 50 spaces open for additions!!! The included attachment is in case SL did not deliver the folder or for emergency back up!

Please do this:
1. Read the note in the welcome pack & put out the sign.
2. Check your shop is listed and slurl is correct on the blog (if not drop me an IM they go to email so won't cap).
3. IM me if you have questions or concerns or I missed a question from your application.

Thanks,
Rox :)

Above is the notice sent in the group (for those vendors unable to be in the in world group yet! Attached was a boxed copy of the welcome pack... if you did not receive the folder, and are not in the group yet please IM me in world and I will resend it to you.

Vendor Clarification....updated info.

2009-10-23T18:59:00.000-07:00

There have been a few questions asked by more then one person so I am going to clarify a couple of things for everyone here...

1. If you got an invite to the Vendor group in world then yes I have your application, it has been placed in the line up for the hunt, and your slurl/shop should be listed on the right of this page in the hunt links. (I've finally caught up with all that I have received as of this moment!)

2. I sent group invites to all names listed on each application unless specified which one to send to or that one was for emergency contact only. You are not required to keep the group on multiple partners/alts however and may choose which one to have it on. I just ask that each location have at least one person in the group who is going to check notices for information as we go along.

3. Yes you are being added to the lineup as I receive applications. No one is being bumped further back in the lineup except those who I have spoken with specifically about being a starting point store. I plan to have starting points every 20 stops (with only ten after the last start point) to help in case the chain breaks and takes a short time to fix (we all have to sleep at some point!)

4. Thank you to those who have offered to help out with the hunt, it is appreciated and I am sure help will be useful I will be looking over the planning I did and where things stand on how they are working so far to fit that plan and see where help would be most useful. I will send a notice out in the in world group listing where that will be for those who wish to help out and have the time.

I will be sending out welcome packs with additional information and a timeline to all the vendors before Monday. We will cap at 150 vendors, which since we are already at around 87 I am guessing is going to be before the November 5th deadline for applications.

We have a great variety of some amazing designers in this hunt, I am truly honored that you are taking part in my hunt and thank each of you. I'm very excited for this and will do everything I can to make this the best hunt ever! I will be putting a hunt object together soon and once I have it will post images for you. I have been laying plans and watching each hunt I was in for about a year now and have set plans in place for a lot of what has been common in past hunts.

Happy Building
Rox

Hunt Application/Information

2009-10-22T19:33:00.000-07:00

CIF&D and Secrets of Gaia present:
The One Is Silver & The Other's Gold Hunt!
December 5th, 2009 through January 9th 2010.
Application Deadline November 5th, 2009!

A bit about our theme:
When deciding to do this hunt I wanted to do one that would happen during the holidays to bring people through our shops to help increase our visibility during the busy holidays when everyone is looking for beautiful gifts for their friends and family. I put out an open call for anyone interested in sharing ideas for hunt themes but got little response in the way of ones that felt right for the season. So I went looking for something that would fit the feelings of the time of year without restricting us to holiday related items. After mulling over a few ideas and surfing the web randomly I came across a girl scouts website with the old girl scout song “Make New Friends” listed as a folk song and is indeed public domain. It seemed like a beautiful sentiment for the time of year that wouldn't lock us into holiday items that would only be useful for a short time.

NOTE: Hunt is limited to 150 spots max and will be ordered in the order applications are recieved!

Hunt Guidelines and Rules:

1. Only original creators no resellers, clubs, rentals, or copyrighted materials (such as art taken from the web) if it's not your own original work then please don't apply. Obviously use of purchased textures, scripts, and sculpties is fine as those items are sold to content creators for use in their work.

2. One location per store. If you have multiple shops with different names and locations you may apply separately but as I will be limiting this hunt to 150 stops max please give others opportunity to join us. I reserve the right to limit multiple entries from the same person if we get too many applications. You may include gifts from multiple stores in one package if you wish to promote these other businesses.

3. You will receive an invitation to the hunt vendors group upon acceptance of your application; you must remain in the vendor group. I understand group slots are limited but it is important to be able to communicate with the vendors effectively and this is the best option for that.

4. Gifts may be anything you wish to create, or if you prefer an item from your stock but please no freebies repackaged. This only annoys hunters to work to find the hunt item and then open it to find only stuff they could have gotten as a freebie without hunting. I was intending to do a jewelry only hunt, however, having heard from several jewelers who also do other products I no longer intend to limit it to jewelry only so the gift can be anything you wish to.

5. You do not have to build items for the theme, themed items are always welcome but the spirit of the hunt is friendship, if you wish to do a seasonal item for the time of year you are welcome to however, my intention was to do a hunt with items that would be useful the rest of the year not just for a short time during holidays.

6. If possible including a male item or unisex item is encouraged but not required.

7. Object must be no more then 30 meters from the point at which the hunters land. If your location is in a mall or location with centralized teleporting you will need to be able to put up a sign pointing them to your store. Please check with Mall/Market/Rental managers that you can do this.

8. The hunt object may be hidden however you see fit, however, it may not be hidden so that it is enclosed fully in another object, only a tiny bit of it shows, or is otherwise nearly impossible to locate.

9. The hunt object must be set to sell contents NOT a copy (which gives the hunters a folder rather then making them have to rez a box) and will be set to L$0 and no more!

10. Your gifts must be boxed/bagged before placing them in the hunt object. The folder given to the hunter should only contain 2 items, the landmark to the next location and your gift package!

11. The Hunt sign must remain up for the duration of the hunt.

12. If your shop moves or you drop out of the hunt for any reason you must notify an organizer so that we can keep the chain from being broken which only hurts other vendors in the hunt. If possible a day's notice would help to ensure we can replace the lm in the previous box. I do understand that sometimes even the vendor does not know in advance that the location is going to be suddenly relocated or vanish.

Application Instruction:

1 Create a new notecard and name it "Silver & Gold " (by creating your own notecard it will make it easier to pull up your profile by properties to send you the hunt object when it's time)
example: Silver & Gold Secrets of Gaia Rox Arten

2 Copy the following to the notecard and fill in the information. I am asking for both landmark (to include in hunt boxes) and SLURL (just in case sl glitches and wipes the landmark).

Shop Name:
Your Name:
Alternate contact or partner (if any):
Landmark:
SLURL:

3. Be sure that you included your landmark and the notecard saved and drop the completed application on the profile of Rox Arten.

Getting Set Up

2009-10-22T09:52:00.000-07:00

Welcome everyone to the "One Is Silver & The Other's Gold" Grid Wide Hunt...affectionately known as the Silver & Gold Hunt. I am getting set up and accepting applications (will post the application info in a separate post) now for this hunt. Hunt will run from December 5, 2009 to January 5, 2010! So I want to start out this blog by giving a bit of info on the concept and on me. As a vendor myself I have been doing hunts since the POE one last December and have had some great and wonderful experiences alongside some frustrations in doing them. I have been in SL as a merchant/vendor/content creator for over 3 years now as well as a teacher and Dean of CIF&D. The original idea came to me to do a hunt as an organizer as another way to give some exposure to my students and graduates because I know how hard it is to get started and get your name out there. Hunts have been a wonderful source of new customers and friends for me so it seemed like something that might help them get a bit of footing starting out.

Taking on a project like this was daunting with all that I do already, so I spent several months watching closely how each hunt I participate in was run, how the hunters perceived it, and making lists of what things I felt worked best and which things I wanted to avoid and laying general plans for the hunt. Early in September I finally decided that it was time to do a hunt and that I wanted to do it for the holiday season both to let those participating vendors give gifts to hunters during this season of giving and also to get people coming through our shops in hopes of having them think of us or see items they might not have when they were considering giving gifts to their friends.

Additionally, while going through inventory I found that holiday items are bountiful and I am sure others have tons of holiday stuff from hunts too. So that in mind I wanted a theme that would not lock our vendors into doing an item that was only useful for the holidays. After putting a request for suggestions for ideas to my student group and the jeweler's group I didn't get any ideas that seemed to fit the feeling of the season and went looking for one that felt right. I came across a girl scout website with old folk songs listed... after much research on the background of the song "Make New Friends" it is indeed an old folk song and public domain. Thus the theme of our hunt was born.

First two verses of the song (in case your not familiar with it):

Make new friends,
but keep the old.
One is silver,
the other is gold.

A circle is round,
it has no end.
That's how long,
I will be your friend.