Vendors - Don't Forget...

Vendors, last night there were a lot of things going on, a lot of scripting issues that has had me awake and in Second Life for over 30 hours straight (thank goodness for spell check, cause the typos right now are so bad due to lack of sleep) now just to try to get this hunt started on time. And because of the multiple scripting error found in the first version, where hunters could get 1-13 of the same item, we had to get a new script sent out last night after already sending half the gift boxes out. I got the new, good one out. But not everyone has been on to change that script out. So I could either postpone for more hours while we waiting or let people get 13 of everything. ;)

Since nothing is transferable I went to the 13 or 3, for those that hadn't change their scripts, rather then wait longer. But there are hunters that have no idea what is going on. So hurry to get those scripts changed! The script can be found in the vendor's group notice history.

WELCOME HUNTERS!

The hunt is ON! Yeah!

Hunters, there is a group for help. HUNT2HUNT. You can chat there for hints and such.

However, because of the kind of hunt this is, most have not hidden their umbrella hard at all. And all of them are within 20 meters of the landing point (or store depending on the type of landing point. ;) )

Keep an eye on this blog. We have had some problems with the scripting and we are still working out the final bugs. But the HUDs work. Today only they will not count. The scripter needs to get the rest of the shops in the hunt to finish registering. Only then will we be able to get the final count, and then the HUD will count along with you.

Because there were a few problems with the scripting, some of the shops will not be able to register till tomorrow. If you find a shop is not registered yet, then check this blog. There is the SLURL to each shop on the left of the blog. You can then come back in a day or two to get that gift.

Do not forget to come back for the gift. You definitely want all the gifts to get that final bonus gifts. You will get almost double the gifts in one room! All for just completing the hunt! Whoo hoo!

Click the poster for complete details about the hunt.

Thank you for checking us out and happy hunting!

Quick Post About The Hunt Status

Boxes for the first part of the hunt are out!

If you get on and do NOT find it, IM me RIGHT AWAY.

I have been here for 24 hours now (as of the time of this posting) so I am in PAIN, I am TIRED, and I want to pass out, my eyes are drooping so much. But because there have been issues with the scripting and the scripter left unexpectedly last night before I could find out what was going on with the HUD and everything. Good news is that after several hours she got on long enough to let me know that the problem I saw with the hud would be fixed sometime tonight. As well as give me a HUD dispenser for the hunt that would work.

As things stand right now at noon the HUD dispenser will be put out in my shop and the other two locations.

As people get the HUD, they will get instructions on how to register.

As each person joins the hunt, and registers, the hud will teekp track, though it will not have the right numbers this first day. That is because she needs to set the number later tonight.

Some shops who't be registering until tomorrow, but that is okay. All shops will be accounted for.

In a few days as the hunt gets under way, I will be getting the second gift location filled with the new gifts. Well the vendors will be as I will have no control, like these gifts, of the final bonus gifts. Then when the hunters finish the hunt, they will be able to unlock the special locaton and gifts.

Stay tuned... it opens soon!

HEY!

Hello Hunters!

I am Jasmine Princess, Vendor and SFH helper. I am introducing myself because over the next couple of weeks you will be seeing alot of me!

I will be blogging on here about the different shops and gifts found on this hunt. I will show you all of the fantastic stuff you can expect on this hunt and where you will find them, but remember, you have to get them all to get the awesome gifts at the end of the hunt!

If you have any questions or need help with the hunt and are a vendor or hunter, you can always IM me!

Happy hunting!

Jasmine Princess

Stuff Happens!

It's an old saying, but it's true. And in SL it's more Real Life Happens.

The scripter didn't check her email before leaving for work. So I have yet to get the scripts. So I have yet to send out the hunt boxes. :(

But as one of the vendors said... "The 7th lasts 24 hours. We have all day the 7th to get the hunt started." Thanks, Carol, that made me smile.

However, I'd like to get it started at midnight as planned.

In any case, several shops have dropped out. Morgan Cyr has even been abusive enough to start IMing some of the vendors in the Vendor's Group and slandering my name to them. I had them complaining to me that Morgan wouldn't shut up and leave them alone. So it seems that some of the vendors that left did so with a bad attitude. And though I'm glad they left, no one needs that type of attitude in a fun loving hunt, leaving did leave holes.

If you happen to be a shop, or know someone with a shop, that can get a gift done in time, I will be happy to slip you in at the last minute. But please be quick about it. I want to make sure you are set up.

Thanks for those of you who have been so very patient with everyone's real life that took presidence over their second life. We all are happy to have you in the hunt.

Regardless of what time this hunt starts on the 7th, you can still be rest assured that there is going to be no other like it. And that the designers that did stay are some of the best lesser known designers in Second Life. No one will want to miss this hunt!

See you at the hunt!

About Ready To Panic

The scripter didn't give me the right perms with the script. So when I went to start handing them out, I couldn't. They won't transfer!

Since I have been up for over 17 hours working on stuff for this hunt, I am going to take a nap. I PRAY that the scripter checks her e-mail in the morning before she goes to work so that she can log in long enough to give me the script with the right permissions. I sent her a couple messages and she told me she'd check, but don't know if that was supposed to be before or after work.

So send up a prayer that she sees it when she wakes up.

And if you are a shop owner that can't get on before it starts, we will be posting the SLURLS to the shops here so that people can go around you and come back to you when you do get a chance to get online.

Thanks

The Gift Boxes Are Ready

Just a short entry, because I have to run get my pain medication before it gets past midnight....

The gift boxes are done! Whoo hoo! The scripter has got all the bugs out. So when I get back I will give a shout out to the group to find out who is online. Those online will get their boxes first. Then I will get the rest out.

I have been on for over 15 hours and so I HAVE to have a break and I have to get my meds. Because the scripter has a job and needed sleep too, she won't be able to get the final gift boxes, those bonus gifts that people finishing the hunt will get, until tomorrow after work. But we do have the main ones, the important ones. I have to load them with landmarks and rename them and then send them out to you.

See you all soon!

Regarding How The Hunt Works

I was just going over the posts, adding some labels to past ones that all they said was "NEWS", wanting to make sure that people could find certain things when needed, like if they are only for vendors or helpers... and ran across this comment.

juliannasong said...

I just hope, Tiea, that all we vendors keep the above rules in mind when we select hiding places. I have done hunts which are organised in this way and become very frustrated when I have found say 17/18 items, and the last item I just cannot find.
Often I have left that hunt and returned to one that is more immediately rewarding, where the prizes are available as soon as I find the item sought. As a consolation could prizes be available every so many stops, as an incentive to keep going?
From my expenice of Hud-counted hunts, I hazard a guess that could be built in.
Just my two cents worth - as an avatar addicted to hunting.
fivesinger Zenovka (Juliannasong)

First off... I hope and pray that everyone keeps within the rules. That they keep the items EASY to find and that they keep it within 20 meters (which if you lay out two 10 meter boards shows you just how big a space that can be) of the landing spot (or of their shop should the landing point be a central landing place). Because everything is coming down so close to the wire, as we go around and check for the boxes before the hunt, if this rule has been followed, the helpers and I won't have a problem locating them.

Second... The prizes will be at each location. It will be like any other hunt. You touch the box and get a gift with a new landmark. The only difference is that the hud will then register how many locations you have been to, how many gifts you still have to get, and if you have gotten them all or not. And the last location you were at, so you can keep track when you come back to it. Each shop will have a gift. At the end of the hunt there is a big room that I have designed where those shop owners that have agreed to supply another gift will come and put their gift down. This room can be accessed by anyone, but you can't get the location unless you finish the hunt. And you can get the new hud unless you finish the hunt. Because the final box ONLY gives it's contents if you have touched allllll the boxes before it.

I know that this was an issue with banning. If for some reason you are banned from a sim, then the hunter needs to talk to me. We will work on a way to get that one for them. :)

I hope that this helps ease your fears. You will still get gifts along the way, and can still stop at any time. But only if you get all the gifts do you get the final gifts.

Up And Working - Need Me?

Well, for those of you that need to reach me and I am not in SL right now... You CAN find me on Twitter. Tiea_Aeon. Don't have Twitter? No worries, I have MSN and Yahoo and ICQ. So leave me a note card inworld and I'll get you added to one of those. Not publising it up here because I don't want to, but because I can't remember my login! ;) I THINK it's my e-mail. secondlife (at) ambermyst.com So if you need me, try those to find me. Otherwise, I'll be logging into SL soon. I am checking something out before I do, and then when I do I have a LOT LOT LOT of work to get done in the next 6 hours before the scripter gets on. But you all know I will help you if you need it. And if you aren't sure... talk to your helper. You should know who it is by now.

See you all soon!

Vendors, Send Your Helper A Note Card

PLEASE send your helper a note card, there is a blog entry here with shops and helpers names, and let them know if you are going to be able to be on within the last 24 hours before the hunt to fill your box. We need to know.

If more then half, or a good number, are not going to make it in time, we will push the hunt start time to the 9th instead of the 7th.

So it is IMPORTANT you contact your helper so they can let me know.

Thank you.

New Poster Out!

Version 6 is out! Because we now have 3 starting points.

If you will please put it out. There are shops that still have version 3, and even 2 which has the wrong dates.

Two Extra Days?

Okay, I have been looking the spreadsheet that my helpers are keeping to help me know who has what and have noticed that more then HALF of the vendors do not have the new poster up. Some even have the poster from Aug. 1st.

Tomorrow morning (this morning) I am going to send out a new poster with new locations. I am going to go around and look to see for myself who has their poster up and who doesn't. If I can NOT reach enough people, if I can NOT be sure that everyone will have their gift out, I will push the hunt back by 2 days. This is because I won't be one of those hunts where people start it and can't go to the 3rd place because it's not got a gift box. I rather be one that had to wait a few days then have that happen.

I hope that this will NOT be the case... But since no one has really told me they will be ready, and some don't even have the new posters, I am worried.

The HUD is Done and WORKS!

Hey there! I just tested the HUD with the scripter and it works! Unfortunately it too a lot longer to get those bugs worked out then she had hoped. And since she's got a real job, she won't be able to get back on the computer till tomorrow AFTERNOON, not NOON.

So PLEASE be patient. We will have your gift boxes ready Wednesday night sometime. The important part was to get the bugs out of the HUD as that is what is registering the boxes/gifts and how many and how many left and all that. So basically the hard part is done.

Also, I will be picking a few new places as starting points. I will be doing this in the morning. This means one more poster. Though I will post them here too, so that people following the blog can come here as well to get the next spot. These places will get a couple of the HUD dispensers. This way should there be any rush, people can go through starting from there. They just need to remember that when they end there, that they return to AmberMyst for the gift that they are to unlock.

Till tomorrow... Happy Hunting.

Another Small Technical Issue

Trust me when I say that I am doing some serious groaning right now. If I'd known just how many problems would get thrown at me and the scripter right before the final week, when I changed the date to the 7th I would have changed it to the 14th instead. She's got a lot of real life issues that kept her away from the computer for the last two weeks and she's even pushing it now to juggle her real life to try to get on just to finish this for me in time. To top that off, she's got a couple of new bugs that showed up during the testing phase.

The long and short of this is that though the hunt is still scheduled to start at 12:01 am on the 7th, it looks like we won't have the gift boxes done until noon the 5th. That still gives all you vendors 36 hours to get the box, fill it, and put it out. With someone like me, who is on every day for a few hours, lately 12-16 hours a day to get this ready, I can easily log in once during that last 36 hours to fill the box. But I know that there are some that just can't get on all the time.

In fact, I have been working with the helpers and going around to several of the shops and have been leaving messages for days now about old posters and non fee payment and some have yet to answer. Makes me wonder if they will log in in time or not.

If you are a vendor who can NOT log in once within the 24 hours before the hunt, then you need to let me know now. So that we can work something out.

Otherwise, everyone needs to plan to log in at least once within the 24 hours before the hunt starts. At which time you can reach me or one of the helpers (this blog has all the helpers listed, so look for your shop and the helper) if you are having a problem.

Good Luck Everyone!

UPDATE

The scripter said we'd definitely be ready by Tuesday night. So everyone will get their gift boxes shortly after.

Put them out RIGHT AWAY because no one can use them, or get the gifts, until they get the HUD and they won't get that till it starts. So it doesn't matter when you put the gift out, as long as it is before.

We will be checking the day before the hunt, so PLEASE put your gifts out as soon as possible.

Jasmine has been helping me tonight add everyone's logo and SLURL to the blog. So soon you will be able to see your shop listed. If it is not, or missing a logo, then we need to know that.

Good night!

IMPORTANT - Hunt May Have To Be Postponed A Week

As you all know, I had unexpected medical problems that kept me away from the computer for over a week. On top of that, the scripter has had real life issues that took her away from the computer, one being lack of internet access. I just got an offline message that she will be unable to get on tonight to test the HUD. I can NOT give out the boxes until the HUD and scripts that go into the boxes are tested. She said she can make it tomorrow night and we can test it then. That means that at the earliest I can get the boxes to you all on the 5th. Two days before the hunt starts. I know that this is pushing it. It can be done as long as all of you are going to be on within those two days to get it put out.

If someone will NOT be able to, if more then half will have a problem, I need to know. I will not cancel the hunt, but I will postpone it one week until the 14th. I do not want to do this. I know a lot are waiting for it, I am too. But it may need to be done. Real life comes first and unfortuneately one helper, the scripter, and myself have had connection problems. And the important thing is the scripter. Until we can test the HUD and gift boxes, I can't hand them out.

Please bear with me. I am trying the best I can to get this to start on time. If you are only going to be on for a few hours between now and then, PLEASE leave a note card for me.

Have You Paid Your Fee?

Okay, it's almost time. But only those vendors who have paid their fee will be allowed in. No one will get the final gift box until after the new hud has been tested tomorrow night and until their entrance fee has been paid.

I have posted this in the group before, but keep getting asked about it. So am posting here. You MUST have an alt or partner in the vendor's group. And you MUST check the messages as you log in each time to be sure that you know what is going on.

NEW POSTER READY!

The new poster, the FINAL poster, is done! Get it from the vendors' group!

Everyone must have it out before they will get their gift boxes, as well as have their fee paid.

Thanks!

Helper Change - Aurore Belgar

One of the helpers hasn't contacted me, that I can find, or made sure that things were in order. I think something happened. So, because I don't have time to mess with a whole set of shops not having a helper, I got a new helper. Aurore Belgar will be taking over Bobcat's shops.

Aurore Belgar:
AD Memories
Angel's Low Price Shop
Anguana Designs for Mermaids
N A Designs by Naomi Anatine
Rihanna Goldflakes Designs
SZ Designs
WOOT Air Horns Nautical Goods


If you are one of these shop owners, or in the case of this set, the mall/sim owner, then you now need to be talking to Aurore Belgar for all your needs.

Have You Submitted An Application?

Did you submit an application while I was gone? I have them, or hope I do. I will be going over them on Sunday. If you do NOT hear from me by Monday, send another. On Tuesday morning, NO MORE APPLICATIONS will be accepted! With the scripting needed for this, it will be unable to add a new player mid stream or last minute.