TREASURE HUNT!!! Tamsin Barzane

My real life fingers were tired this morning, all that alt-clicking and more to create 21 prizes for the hunt--but it was all worth it as people started rolling in! Seeing folks in African wear--or decidedly NOT African wear!--and watching them have fun rolling over the island created a surge of pure joy.

Panic, too, at one point--a small fault in the script initially meant people who found all 20 prize oranges were being harangued by the prize server and asked for a 21st. One disgruntled hunter asked if there really WERE a grand prize! The scripter quickly made an adjustment, and people were back to checking for the animals who were guarding those juicy virtual citrus fruits!

Making that many objects in a few days meant I had to learn a lot! The whole exercise was a sneaky attempt to get people to watch the Nigerian animal slide show in the hope of hints. All prizes were meant to have animal references, but one (done...oh, after 1:30 am real time) lacked the reference--send me an IM or email at tbarzane@gmail.com identifying the prize without an animal reference, and I'll send you a little prize! OUR READERS WILL FREQUENTLY GET SPECIAL OFFERS HERE.

Watching neko folks and Goreans, cowgirls and others avidly hunting up by the lioness or gingerly avoiding the gorilla's banana was a treat. Suicidal avatars (or so it seemed!) walked straight into the sea to hunt for oranges flung to marine creatures.

And wasn't it lucky timing? Sculpty Creation's Jon Haskell succumbed to pleas and made a pangolin (scaly anteater) in an effort to keep Saminaka's pesky termites in check, just days before the hunt opened!

There are free African clothes in a random giver in the Katamba Exhibit Hall, where the hunt begins and ends, as well as 1L hair. Come in character and have even more fun! Oranges are waiting...until June 22.