Non-female specific prizes in the Ghost Buster hunt
Last Friday (31st Oct 2008) saw the final day of the grid wide Ghost Busters hunt organised by Vain, Inc. in Second Life. The hunt (I think it should have been called a haunt, being as it was Halloween), which had started on the 24th, involved over a hundred stores with the majority on completely different sims.
Starting at Vain, we (Jojo and I) picked up our first ghost. The first prize was 8 poses and a couple of landmarks (LM), which caused confusion for many as one was marked; ‘TP to Ghost 108 (can’t find 107)’ and the other LM was what appeared to be a sponsored landmark. So, we like others took the obvious choice and teleported to find Ghost 107, after all no one specifically said the ghosts were to be found in a numerically ascending order. However, ghost 108 lead to 109, which then lead to 110 until we hit ghost 114 and number 114 had a notecard with it saying “This is the End of your Ghost Busting you got all 111[sic]!!!! Woot!!!”. What do you mean “Woot!!!” WOOT? more like WHAT? What the fu…dge happened to the rest?!?
After a few moments double checking that there wasn’t some kind of answer, perhaps another message, a hint as to why we had ended up at the end already, we decided to give it a rest and left the store leaving behind the other slightly bemused hunters. We hadn’t totally lost interest, we had an idea the other LM must be the way to go and an IM from someone we spoke to at the last ghost confirmed it. However, we had seen some excellent sculptie pumpkins en route and wanted to check out the creator’s (vitrail Illios) store, New TRAILS at ZweiteWelt New. Definately most pleased with the purchase. (more…)
