Masks of Mystery at Gay Riviera

There's always a good time to be had at the Gay Riviera, and Halloween is no exception. The talented, creative and generous team have scared up a sim-wide event that will have you shaking in your shoes.

Halloween happenings include the Mystery Mask Hunt from October 13–31 and a Haunted Masquerade Party with DJ Zann Baxton on Sunday, October 14 from 4–7pm SLT.

To enjoy the tricks and treats, grab a Magic HUD at the Masks of Mystery shop and start searching for the mystery masks. But it's not so easy – your search is being watched by evil spirits who will try to trick and scare you. You'll need to be brave to find the masks, but if you do, the shopkeeper will let you pick an amazing gift from his prize room!

The shopkeeper has also called upon friendly ghosts who have seen where the masks have been hidden and can help you on your hunt. They have stashed a surprise and clues to the masks locations inside Tricky Treats. Grab a candy bucket from the Masks of Mystery shop and prowl the streets collecting the treats scattered all over the Gay Riviera! Will you fill your bucket and collect all the clues and surprises?

And, if the hunt and its prizes aren't enough spooky fun, get yourself out to the Haunted Masquerade Ball & Beefcake 2012 Halloween Preview Party

Join all your spooky fiends at a grand Masquerade Party in the graveyard as the demonic DJ Zann spins some macabre tunes to rattle your bones! Dress up in your favorite scary or sexy Halloween costume and win fabulous prizes! Beefcake will be there unveiling their new lineup of arousing and provocative costumes for 2012, so you don’t want to miss it!

The Gay Riviera is always a great place to find treats, and the occasional trick!


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Mask of Mystery Prizes Provided By: BEEFCAKE, Lazybum, Vice, Pillow Biters, K!ng, Dirty, Viper Gallery, Sophie's Choice, Alryx and T'eeze!

Menstuff Hunt

There is still time to grab the great gifts being offered by 150 of the top menswear designers at the Menstuff Hunt. Check out the list of all the stores SLURLs along with a list of hints. 

Hidden somewhere in the store will be the Menstuff T-shirt. Look closely, it could be tiny!

One of the managers of Menstuff is SkinTrader Grayskin, better known as Ahn, and he’s done a fantastic job of previewing all the gifts. But hurry, the hunt ends September 3, 2012.

Jesse Belavidorico (left) wears Kmadd “Elcon” hair Gift #2 & Tamiron Forge “Glamour Costume” Gift #4; 

Andrijiko “Dandy” Coveria (right) wears House of Alcott “Herne the Hunter” Gift #44

Freaky Freebie -- er, Thursday! Also known as: The Crazy Hair Hunt

Oh hello! Wasn't I going to be doing a regular column on Fridays, about nice things you can find for free in SL? I think I was... uhm, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Recently, I found a hunt dedicated to the idea of hair in SL that simply Could Not Happen in RL. There's a few styles that are pretty androgynous; a male could wear them, easily. So, here's my Freebie Friday post about the third Crazy Hair Hunt.

I found a lot here that would be FABulous for a a woman on a runway or for a drag look. The first that crosses my mind is from Evie's Closet, who brought us an updo littered with butterflies (Butterfly Effect is its name).
However, there are a few mohawks in the hunt that I've gotten plenty of compliments on.

Freebie Friday!

Hello folks, Nath here again. Merrick and I were talking about forthcoming columns and it occurred to us that, what with the stereotyped perception of gay men being clothes horses, it might be useful to help our readers find good clothing. There's a lot of bad freebies out there, it bears note- some of the worst being what we're handed by Linden Lab when we first rez.

Yes, we all have these outfits. No, nobody really likes them.

But because of how advertisment and promotions work in SL, there are several ways to get nicer freebies than these, with very little effort. Several clothing designers have a section of clothing they deliberately offer for free, to let you see what you think of their offerings. Others have lucky chairs, midnight mania boards- all ways to get more avatars into their shops to look around, and while some shops treat their freebie boards/chairs as a place to offer something substandard for free, there're plenty of shops who offer nice things for free on their lucky chairs- simply things that are a bit dated, or no longer selling as they once did.

However, on this Freebie Friday, we're going to focus on another means by which designers give away their goods for free: the hunt. In a hunt, one person gets several vendors together (sometimes more than a hundred), and gets them each to donate an item. They place the item and the LM for the next shop in the hunt in an Easter egg, which is then hidden in the shop. A lot of hunts will have a web page where hints or updates about the status of the hidden prize can be posted- as well as SLURLs so you can go to a specific shop if you want. Some bloggers put together a page where photographs of the items they've found can be shared, too.

This week, we're going to talk about the Jack or Jill hunt. This hunt is organized by Depraved Nation. It started with 50 shops in it, and the male path (this is a hunt with a gift for the ladies, and a separate gift for the men) currently has 48 vendors. There are a lot of very talented folks offering things for the hunters- including a full shape and skin! The 'easter egg' you're looking for is a small gray disc with a male symbol (♂) on it, and there are hints at http://depravednation.com/jack-or-jill for the various locations in the hunt.

Everything in this picture is from the hunt:

What, doesn't everyone put on a mohawk to go skiing?

Skin & shape: Michael, from Ispachi
Hair: Destroyer w/ Razored Hairbase, from Raw House
Sunglasses: Sofian Mesh, from Kumaki Glasses Style
Jacket: Down Jacket, from Gabriel
Shirt: Drape Shirt (brown), from Gabriel
Scarf: Scarf Be Men, from *** Just You Jewels ***
Pants: Solemn Jeans, from Travisty
Belt: Belt-Duality *MESH*, from [ JP ]:dsg.
Shoes: Fulham Riding Boots, from LOORDES OF LONDON

The hunt starts at Razorblade Jacket's shop, and continues through several others- Gabriel, Nikita Fride, Ispachi, to name some of my favorites. You can get to Razorblade Jacket to start the hunt by clicking on this SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Depraved%20Nation/140/157/70 There are a wide variety of designers in the hunt, and quite a lot of terrific gifts they're sharing with the hunters. If you're looking for a new skin, new shape, new eyes, or winter clothes- and especially if you're looking for free ones- I really recommend participating in this hunt!