The Scoop ‘n’ Rating Hunt, Working Could 1st to thirty first, 2024 – Ryan Schultz

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It’s Could once more, which implies that all month lengthy, the Second Life Syndicate will likely be operating their annual Scoop ‘n’ Rating hunt, which gives many fabulous free prizes—if you will discover them! The objects you’re searching for are swirly little anthropomorphic poop figures, as proven within the image under. You may suppose these objects would stick out, however the darkish, soiled sewer maze during which they’re hidden makes this hunt among the many tougher ones! Learn on for some suggestions and methods to make your hunt (or, for that matter, any Second Life hunt!) just a little bit simpler.

As I stated, in case you are utilizing the shared or default atmosphere, the sewer tunnels are darkish, which makes the searching way more tough! Right here’s an instance of what you’re dealing with:

So the very first thing I’d advise you to do is to activate the lights! Within the Firestorm viewer, simply click on on the Fast Preferences button within the backside right-hand nook (the one with the Firestorm phoenix emblem on it), and choose both Nam’s Optimum Pores and skin 1 or CalWL from the Sky menu. This drug den now seems like this:

The second downside is the fog, which tends to obscures sure areas within the maze of sewer tunnels. Now, it would be best to do the next:

1. Proper-click on a bit of the fog/smoke, and choose Extra from the pie menu;
2. From the following pie menu that seems, click on on Extra once more;
3. From the following menu, select Derender, then Short-term.
4. Repeat as wanted (I needed to do it 4 instances to take away the mesh fog from this den!

Now, you may lastly see clearly sufficient to seek out the poop with the prize!

Right here’s one other professional hunter’s tip. Generally you’ll encounter a really sophisticated scene, corresponding to this jumble of packing containers, barrels, and different junk:

As an alternative of utilizing your digicam controls to see round each nook, flip in your X-Ray imaginative and prescient! Within the Firestorm viewer, press Ctrl-Shift-R in your keyboard. This turns off textures and places you into wireframe mode, which seems like this:

In wireframe mode, it is possible for you to to “look by way of” objects to seek out any distinctive swirly poop shapes hiding behind them! While you’re carried out, simply hit Ctrl-Shift -R to toggle wireframe mode off once more.

Now, let’s check out a few of these Scoop ‘n’ Rating hunt prizes! Along with the gloves I discussed earlier, Una has a couple of different items ready for the intrepid sewer hunter, like this cosplay jumper outfit (as I stated earlier than, the pooper scooper is obtainable at no cost from a poster close to the hunt entrance). This all-in-one outfit is available in a dimension to suit Maitreya Lara, and the whole lot is included besides the gloves and the boots.

One other enjoyable, Barbie-like outfit consists of three separate Scoop ‘n’ Rating hunt prizes:

• Cubic Cherry has 14 totally different colors of this Gear Up helmet hidden all through the sewer maze; that is the pink one.
• The D.B. Cosplay gown is a present from Una (Maitreya Lara dimension solely), and just like the earlier outfit, it’s all-in-one (together with the headscarf and the belt with the pouch).
• The D.B. cosplay boots are additionally a present from Una (once more, one dimension solely, for Maitreya Lara, however it is best to be capable of alpha out your ft in order that they match different manufacturers of mesh our bodies).

One other beautiful reward from Una is that this dirndl-style peasant gown in pink and inexperienced (once more, for Maitreya Lara solely):

Now for some fully totally different seems! This superb gothic ballgown in pink and black is one other prize from the Scoop ‘n’ Rating hunt. It’s known as LaViuda, and it’s a reward from Candy Kajira. I paired it with the blue-striped parasol, a present from Grasshopper Road. which is available in two variations (left or proper hand pose), is resizable, and even tintable! (I tinted the parasol with an excellent little bit of gray to match this gothic horror look.)

Zoom in on the face, and you’ll see two extra hunt items from Tristan Flinders (TF): the facial scar is from a package deal known as Linea, and is available in BoM, Omega, LeLutka Evo and EvoX, and Genus variations. The broken eyeball comes from one other TF reward known as Ami, which additionally consists of totally different scars, black eyes, eye textures, and mesh eyeballs (in Omega, LeLutka Evo and EvoX, and Genus variations).

One other reward is that this Belle black ballgown, which comes with a HUD to alter the colors of the gems. I paired it with a second Scoop ‘n’ Rating hunt prize, the Demonslayer lengthy black fingerless gloves from Normandy. I like this look, however sadly, there’s zero details about the creator of the robe within the package deal, so I don’t know who made it! Oh, nicely.

There’s additionally plenty of dwelling and backyard decor to be discovered as nicely! One in every of 4 items from Petrichor is that this limited-edition Summer season Moon mirror:

From WLS comes this imposing, scary-looking Clown Entrance (the land impression/LI is 23; I needed to take away a big tree from my Linden Residence yard to rezz this sucker!).

There are various furnishings items from ChiMia (thirty of them!), like this Mary Jane corridor tree with its built-in seating and storage:

Right here’s a gallery of among the different hunt prizes from ChiMia, an actual combination of furnishings types starting from gothic to rustic to mid-century retro! Please click on on every thumbnail to see these footage in full dimension and to get the merchandise identify:

Completely happy searching!

P.S. To save lots of myself a lot time and trouble as I drag my small military of alts by way of the identical hunt occasion over and over and over, I normally draw up a notecard with hunt prize descriptions (together with what sizes the attire items are available in), hunt object names, and areas, to assist me navigate. (I imply, why trouble trying to find a gown or robe when it doesn’t are available in a dimension for the physique your avatar makes use of?)

In case you are merely tearing your hair out, or in the event you simply hate doing hunts, then please be a part of the RyanSchultz.com Steals, Offers & Freebies group in Second Life, the place I’ve shared a succession of notecards with transient descriptions of as many hunt prizes as I may discover, together with their areas within the maze.

The group be a part of payment is L$50, which I really feel is an affordable worth to ask for anyone who has primarily carried out your trying to find you 😉 and in the event you contemplate this dishonest, nicely then, please don’t get the notecards! Some folks get pleasure from doing the hunts themselves, with none help—however some don’t.

Please be aware: I’ve posted successive, numbered replace variations to the notecard as I proceed to seek out new objects, and I’ve seen that among the location SLURLs received’t open because the notecards get longer with every replace, so that you may need to do an object identify or proprietor search below Space Search, or just return to a earlier model of the hunt notecard. Sorry! Second Life simply appears to crap out when notecards have an excessive amount of textual content or too many SLURLs in them. I’ve had this occur earlier than once I used to create notecards to information my small military of alts by way of Store and Hop occasions. It’s irritating, however there are normally workarounds.

I additionally submit recurrently to the group about different fabulous freebies I discover at varied purchasing occasions throughout the grid, or if a Second Life retailer I go to has an excellent collection of free objects on their reward wall. Your L$50 will likely be nicely spent, I do guarantee you! And charging a payment implies that I get to name myself a skilled freebie fashionista! 😜