Welcome To The Land Of Long, Explanitory Text Walls :D

(There will be no humour, only explanations. |<)
As I don't know where the rest of the team are (well, actually Narita is loving life without the computer and seems to be doing awesome, according to her Plurk, yay (: ), I'm going to start dual posting with my personal (and not actually used) blog Trickett Blogs Stuff. I intend to have free posts, regular fashion posts and more social and personal based posts on it but we'll see how it goes, it may just be dual posts at this rate. x:
On to actual post... I thought this would only take me an hour or two, turns out it took me all day. I don't know, something about finding the correct poses, the right hair and falling asleep twice in the process. x: Actual post is incredibly long because I'm walking you through everything and giving you useful info. |:



I also had to redo this picture because I left Bubble out of the box. x: I made a switch from my regular Illusions ears to a free pair of guaged and pierced ones from Bubble available on the Fallen and Depraved hunt. I guess that's why you don't try and list all the stores on the picture. x:
The nails shift through a rainbow of neon colours and are an anniversary gift from Ni.Ju, available at the store for a couple of weeks. Congrats on one year to them and I'm pleased she stuck through it because she's coming out with some really nice stuff. :3
The outfit is from Roawenwood and is part of a mini-hunt Roawenwood is holding in addition to the Twisted hunt. The Twisted hunt finishes on the 30th, I'm unlikely to be blogging much else from it because I'm spending a rediculous amount of time sleeping and scrounging money to buy as much as I can from Collabor88. Yay Bletaverse. x: I also think SL Freebie Hunters already did a great job. I love this blog, it's a defintie time saver. x: And remember, all boxes ar within 30m of the landing point.


I wanted to base this post around a couple of stores I've seen in hunts this year. Namely Petrichor and Repulse. If you're regularly doing hunts you're probably already familar with them. x:
Petrichor is a skin and shape store. It doesn't have a large selection but they have been very generous with their hunts offering up whole avatars in some cases, which they later set up for sale. They have a small range of colourful and animal-based skins currently available. This skin is also from the Twisted Hunt and also comes with the purple mask on a tattoo layer. :3
Repulse is anotehr incredibly generous store specialising in really unique, alternate and gorey eyes. It also has a large selection of wounds and scars and things that just generally ooze and bleed. x: The eyes in this picture are from the Fallen and Depraved Hunt too. This is a hunt I defintiely intend to do next month, I think.


You can slightly see the guages on the ears here. x: My original Illusions ears are purely texture change where these ears are purely tinted. They work with a very useful HUD. I think managed to match them up a lot better than some of my previous posts but I also like the ability to add a base texture so the ears don't get washed out.
The skins are from the Stalker Trailer Trash and The Macabre Hunt (TMH). I especially love the clown one. x: The eyes are from the Twisted Hunt and again, The Macabre Hunt. I'm going to watch out for this hunt, too, I think. I haven't really been itnerested in doing it the past couple of hunts but these prizes make me think I might this time.


These skins are a lot more universal. The green make-up skin is from The Unknown Hunt (TUH) and therefore costs 1L. It comes in all tones though. :3 The confetti make-up is from the American Bazaar Birthday Hunt. I'm pretty determined to do this hunt but it does end on the 30th. x:
The eyes in these pictures are instead from XYR. They have several freebies on the marketplace. I managed to find their in world store, they sell low price skins and eyes at 5L although I think some of them might be included in the packs.
Also, blonde Trickett. o: I bought this hair, I shall use this hair. |: It doesn't get used for everyday wear because I don't have blonde hooves yet. I find mismatching hair/outfit/fur colours odd. <.<

(tl;dr)

First + Second Pictures
Skin // Petrichor // Twisted Hunt
Eyes // Repulse // Fallen and Depraved Hunt
Ears // Bubble // Fallen and Depraved Hunt
Nails // Ni.Ju // Freebie
Outfit // Roawenwood // Twisted Additional Hunt (Click the Easel for direct TP x: )

Third Down
Skin 1 // Petrichor // Stalker Trailer Trash Hunt
Eyes 1 // Repulse // The Macabre Hunt
Skin 2 // Petrichor // The Macabre Hunt
Eyes 2 // Repulse // Twisted Hunt

Last Pictures
Skins 1 // Petrichor // The Unknown Hunt // 1L
Eyes 1 // XYR // Freebie
Skin 2 // Petrichor // American Bazaar Birthday Hunt
Eyes 2 // XYR // Freebie

Related Links You May Find Useful
SL Freebie Hunters for hunt prizes
The Twisted Hunt - the official merchants list page - finishes September 30th
The American Bazaar Birthday Hunt - official merchants list and hints page - finishes September 30th
The Unknown Hunt - blog with merchants list and hint - finishes September 30th
Fallen and Depraved Hunt - official merchants list and hints page - finishes October 15th
The Macabre Hunt - official hints blog - finishes around October 15th
Stalker Trailer Trash Hunt - official hitns list - I don't know when it finishes but I assume October 15th x:

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Also, I totally forgot to mention Creator Stamp Rally is back. :D I'm going to try and write up a post documenting the cheap things you can buy to get the cards but we'll see if that happens. x:
P.S.: If I managed to mess up, leave a comment and use search/Google. x: Blogs, they're a lot of work. x:

Last Night For Horror Night

So some time in April my cache corrupted itself and I haven't been able to operate my usual photographic settings because it no longer saves preferences when you log out. x: I think you can achieve this bug by switching between viewers. You can fix it by uninstalling and doing a clean reinstall but I procrastinate so it took me a few months. :3
I think I'm finally over my MMO episode sort-of-somewhat so I should be around a lot more and hopefully posting a lot more. x: I don't know when or if anyone else is coming back, I'm going to wait around for a bit and see what happens. x:

Anyway, in news more useful to you. Today is the last day for the Horror Night sim and sale event. :3 If I have managed to write "Hoor Night" during this post, apologies, it appears to be an unfortunate typo I have developed. x:
Horror Night is a sort of Japanese school murder mystery. You teleport in, grab a HUD and look around the old, abandoned school for scraps of paper. When you pick up all the scraps, they are added to the HUD and when you have all the scraps you find the shrine and click on it.


The prizes are this cute uni-sex (yay, no boob shading x:) watermelon T-shirt and a rather awesome little bracelt. I thought the bracelet was just plain brown beads but if you click it, you get skulls. o:

The build is very nicely done. The scraps are easy to find, they are on the walls and floors (don't forget to check the pool) and there are poseballs you can interact with to create some scarey scenes. :3 It would make more sense to take photos there but studio conditions make lag easier to control. x:
If you enjoyed this sim you'll also enjoy the Bakumatsu Obakeyashiki build. :3 I think they are a related project.


While you're hunting the hallways, hiding in rooms and avoiding the ghosts you'll notice a few vendors out. I bought the Dimbula Rose (this URL takes you straight to the stall) skin because I thought it was cute and creepy and I think it's limtied edition and limited edition makes me panicky. x: It's also very nicely priced at 77L. :3


The skin also comes with matching eyes, which you can pick up beside the demo vendor for 1L. :3

And I think that's about it. You didn't read any of that. Yay words. :D I think I have to go save my "Social Sims" sim now... <.<

Skin // Dimbula Rose @ Horror Night (SLURL to stall) // 77L
Eyes // Dimbula Rose @ Horror Night (SLURL to stall) // 1L for 3
T-Shirt // Rude Rebel // Horror Night Hunt prize (SLURL to start)
Bracelet // Naminoke // Horror Night Hunt prize (SLURL to start)

In the name of every Heretic

Psst

...

Yeah.

Hey :x

So here I am. I've been gone for a fair bit and I'm sure those that loathe me hoped the worst, though they will forever be disappointed. I am currently very busy, but in the past few days have been missing the blog. It's hard for me to be present right now, because I'm waking up every morning at 5:45 am, and not home until 6 pm, and in bed by 10 pm at the latest. Not much time for blogging. I also messed up my ankle something fierce and contracted the Mongolian death virus that's been sweeping the PNW. Exciting times. Anyway, I'm sure this isn't new, but when I saw it I instantly fell in love, and want to wear it every day forever.

Osakki 'Guerrilla' set - 300L

The outfit is from Osakki, and is beautiful. It comes in like six colors, and the sculpt work is ridiculousawesome. Of course I had to get the black. Don't judge me. It retails for 300L which is totally reasonable. Mmmm Military. Gimmie more.

Osakki 'Guerrilla' set - 300L

I've paired it with my favorite J's boots, my favorite Lamb hair, and my favorite Tres Blah skin (which isn't available anymore). Also the darker cross legging are unavailable, but, that's a small detail really. What's more important, is how amazing this outfit makes my ass look. Lookit that crisp line. Perfection.

Osakki 'Guerrilla' set - 300L

Anyway. I'll try to be around, I am totally incapable of being any sort of prolific right now tho. Thank god for Tricky :d she's amazing *hart*hart*hart* See you soon! (maybe)

A Post Without Antlers

Do you ever write stuff in your head and then when you come to sit in front of the comptuer, it all dissapears? That happens to me just about everytime I sit down to type something... x: I'm going to try to reassemble whatever I had written in my brain for you...
I'm still very into the game I joined last year so I haven't been in SL much. x: But I managed to catch a post on the Japanese blog Misty Night featuring some cosplay outfits in the lucky board at Luna Sabia and thought I'd reblog a couple here.

This outfit comes with a sword, although I couldn't figure out how to make it visable. x: It also comes with a chest plate, that I left out.
I think some of the textures depend on the intricacy of the prims a bit too much but I do like the prim work in most cases. I think a lot of the pieces can be used uniquley. :3

The outfits are very prim-y so wanting to avoid the fun of readjusting prims, I modded the shapes provided by the creator. x: (I'm a shape freak and they needed thicker/longer arms, bigger hands and thicker legs on the maid shape, in my opinon. I also messed with the chests but I left the faces alone. :3)
As it wasn't my traditional shape I figured I'd mix things up a bit and use the ears from the Illusions lucky chair, which have been around for some time now but it's Easter so it's a good time to add rabbit ears to the feeds. :3
There's a whole lot of other outfits available in the lucky boards in cluding more casual outfits. :3

I forgot to use windlight in these photos and for some reason high resolution snapshots aren't working and won't let me adjust the resolution but it's O.K, it's not the end of the world. :D But I do need to figure out how to fix that because it did that last time too. >.> Maybe I need to give in and figure out how to change a graphics card? x:

First Picture
Outfit and shape // Luna Sabia // Lucky board
Rabbit Ears // Illusions // Lucky Chair

Second Picture
Dress and Shape // Luna Sabia // Lucky Board
Rabbit Ears // Illusions // Lucky Chair

Salt Group Gifts (or Sporadic Posts on Quiet Blog)

So... Happy New Year? I don't know where everybody's gone. x: I suspect they're being normal and having in depth and useful first lives. :3
We're lucky I didn't find anything rabbit themed or there might have been a lot of Watership Down references in this post. (Find me an Inle mask? ): )
But I did find some very pretty group gifts. :3 They come with a dull story, the gist of which is that I saved a notecard a very long time ago to a store I thought looked very pretty but might skip off the radar and someone on my timeline asked if anyone had a landmark to that store recently so, I decided to investigate. It makes my estimated 20k+ notecards worth it. :3



The umbrella and skirt/top set are all group gifts at the lovely Salt. I love the skirt sculpt especially. :3 The store has very small selection but this reopening gives me hope that the creator is working on new stock. :3

My photos appear to be somewhat back on track, I think I had my hardware settings too high, I noticed my last ones were pretty grainy. This ones just kind of grainy. :D I wish I kept track of which settings I was using for some of my old ones... I still like my paint boxes. >.> Must be more consistant...

Top/Skirt/Umbrella // Salt // Group Gifts

STOP THE PRESSES ;-;

THE APOCALYPSE IS COMING, CANIMAL IS CLOSING! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *cries*

I come back from my break to this. THIS. It's not fair. Other than an overwhelming urge to end it all in the face of this news, I have to say I am enjoying the sale. Everything in the store is 50L or less. I can smile just a little bit through my tears as I fill the holes in my collection. I'm not sure I can take another store from my noobdom closing, first ~Momo~, now Canimal. I just can't do it anymore. Canimal was the first store I fell in love with. I will still stand by my claim that this shop has the BEST flippy prim skirts you can get. And my Punk Rock plaid skirts will NEVER leave my inventory. Ever.

Canimal 'Body Graffiti' (Suicide Girls) tattoo - 50L
Canimal 'Deadly Lullaby' Necklace - 50L
Canimal 'Cutsie Tanks' (Rainbows) - 10L
Canimal 'Punk ROck' Plaid Skirt (Pink) - 50L for the fatpack

Canimal is an older store, she hasn't had an update in ages, and about a month ago I was discussing with Narita the possibility of it closing. Sigh, it didn't have to happen THIS soon after the conversation happened, but what do you do? Sure, Canimal really stopped creating ages ago, but it still feels like a huge loss. From casual, to punk, to goth, to naughty, there is so much to love and so much that we as a community are losing with this shop closing.

Canimal 'Lust' lingerie pieces - 20L each

I honestly can't tell you when the closing date for the shop is, but you should get there and buy it out ASAP. There are also some freebies hiding around the shop, a could of jewelry sets, some stockings, so make sure to keep an eye out for those.

Canimal 'Kawaii T's' (Happy) - 50L for fatpack
Canimal 'Deadly Lullaby' Necklace - 50L
Canimal 'Omina' pants (green) - 50L for fatpack

So Goodbye Canimal, you're definitely going to be missed. Thank you for all of the awesome you graced the grid with, and making my noob ass look hot. I'm more than positive I'm not the only person you helped with that, and we're all going to miss you. Like desperately.... Ohmygodpleasedon'tgoooooo :[

Canimal 'Fashion Militia' jacket - 50L

The One Where Trickett Forgets How Wide The Blog Is, Again

And has to unhappily rescale her pictures which she spent a surprisingly long time measuring out the pixels on but is too lazy to redo them all. (This is why I like Paint, I can count the pixels. This is also, partially, why it takes forever.)

Anyway. A couple of weeks ago, before my computer died from dust overload, I decided to download Viewer 2 because I wanted to utilise the tattoo layers and because every other viewer that uses them hates me. I am taking the ability to rez things over the rubbish interface. Since then I've been looking out for tattoo layer freebies across the grid. :3
Also: free hair. :D



If you're sick of all the antlers and hooves on the grid you can adopt a seal-like disposition with this seal tattoo, a hunt prize from T&P. :3 There's a lack of interesting head gear and feasible tails for seal-people though. x: It was a store I found browsing through some Flickr pictures. It sells a lot of big shiny eyes. :3 There's a couple of clown make-ups out for 5L but officially-broke Trickett decided she may come back for those another day.



Elegant Epiffany was a store I found a last month. I think it was through a blog but unfortunately I don't remember which. x.x Since then the owner has very kindly gifted a lot of skins she's been working on and several make-up packs to her group as well as regularly changing her midnight mania (group only) board. These were a couple of the latest ones. The top ones are part of a pack available in the archive for a few more days and the bottoms ones are Christmas freebies available to everyone. There's also a Christmas themed lucky chair. :3

The back of the tattoo reads "...don't club me" but it was difficult to get a pose showing both the make-ups and the back without looking like my mother was part-seal, part-owl. Slight-fail blogger moment. You could club me for it but I will be using my antlers in self-defense. :3

I copied SLURLs from map so hopefully they're not messed up, they look suspicious. <.<

First Picture
Hair // Yuna's Hair // Group Gift (Fatpack)
Seal Make-Up / Eyes / Chest Tattoo // T&P // Winter Animal Lovers Hunt

Second Picture
Hair // Eha // Store Gift (Fatpack)
Eyes // T&P // Subscriber Gift
Top Eye Make-Ups // Elegant Epiffany // Group Gift
Bottom Eye Make-Ups // Elegant Epiffany // Christmas Gifts
Chest Tattoo // T&P // We Love Animal's Hunt