For Twisted Hunters

UPDATE: March 15, 2010
While we originally required merchants to keep the hunt item within 30m of the landing, we regret that MANY hunters have been giving away the locations of the hunt items in both local chat and Twisted Hunt group chat. Unfortunately, hiding places are limited – and with some merchants being forced to move their hunt items as often as 2 or 3 times a day, some are just plain out of hiding spots within 30m. SO – not all boxes are within 30m any longer. However – if they are not, this information will be available with the Twisted Assistants giving hints in chat. It will be delivered with the hint. Sadly, yes – you may blame it being even more difficult on a few people who couldn’t follow the rules.

While this may be the hardest hunt in SL – we’re not about wasting your time. This is supposed to be fun – but sometimes stuff goes wrong that can ruin the fun. Boxes can disappear in a SIM restart, SIMs can go offline for a day, boxes that were previously set for sale can suddenly not be for sale. Or, a merchant is on an ‘adult’ sim, and you’re not age-verified. You name it, we’ve seen it happen – so, we’ve prepared for this as best we can. Here’s some help to deal with problems you may encounter.

The box doesn’t appear to be out.
Let the folks in chat know – then pop over here to get the SLurl for the next location on the hunt. You don’t have to be held up if someone’s box disappears. BUT – you wouldn’t believe the number of times that someone’s announced in chat that the box wasn’t there when it actually was (and they just hadn’t found it yet). This wouldn’t be so bad, except that it takes hours (sometimes days) to stamp out the rumor that the box isn’t there. So make sure you know what you’re talking about. ;) As for picking up the prize – you can always come back later to pick it up.

The box isn’t for sale.
It happens sometimes – usually through SL error, occasionally through human error – and either way, it means you can’t get the next LM. Let the people in chat know (especially the Twisted Assistants) – then come here and get the SLurl to move on to the next store. Come back and pick up the prize when the box is for sale again.

The next location is on an adult sim and I’m not age verified.
We can’t do anything to get you on that sim and to the prize. If you can’t get age verified, then you can’t visit this hunt location/merchant. But you can come here and get the SLurl to the next location and keep on hunting.

I don’t want to hunt in this store.
You don’t have to. Come here, get the SLurl to the next store, move on.

So – you should be able to keep on hunting, really, no matter what happens – and unless the problem is age verification, you can just pick up the prizes you missed once the troubles with the location are solved. :)

FAIR WARNING FOR ALL

While we all come wearing our big-kid pants and don’t take well to whiners so much… jerks are NOT welcome. If you don’t care for what a merchant has created, that’s fine – but trashing them in group chat is a fast way to wear out your welcome. Trashing them in their store is a quick way to find yourself banned from multiple hunt locations. Likewise, using the chat group to trash fellow hunters is not cool, at all.

And just because some people aren’t clear on this – we’re going to say it here for them:

Freedom of speech is not the same as speech without consequences.
Hiding behind “I’m just sharing my opinion” won’t work.
If you need to trash-talk someone, do it in private IM to a friend – because if you do it in the group chat, you’ll be out of the group fast… possibly banned from multiple hunt locations, and possibly reported for abuse by one or more people. Seriously, we’re not kidding. We may be twisted, but that doesn’t mean tolerate flagrant disrespect. The only people not protected by this community-of-respect rule is the people who come to disrupt that community by being griefers or trolls (though we might point out that if you turn INTO a griefer or troll in the process of eating their head, you might suffer right along with them).

It kind of sucks we have to write this here – and honestly, in both Twisted Hunts before this one, the community-of-respect rule has had to be enforced maybe all of 30 times. Considering that the number of people who did each hunt averages around 6,000 – the percentage of people who need to hear this is TINY. Still – it’s only fair to warn those few. We don’t know how it is everywhere else in SL, or what other people allow – but we take our sense of community VERY seriously, and we are far from all talk when it comes to dealing with it. It only seemed fair to say so… even if it’s only for the sake of 30 people.