Being able to post

Ok looks like for anyone else to post, not sure if that includes 'comments', I would need to add you or have you all as contacts. Not sure how to do that at this stage since this is my first blog page, so if anyone esle knows, by all means add me as your contact while I work it out.

Ok so we need to set up an application and advertising programme, so we can get shops on board and hunters interested.
Before we can do that we have to sort out a few details and look like we are actually organised (of course give me a list of shops that will participate and I will be amazingly organised overnight lol).

Ok if we are going with the paths idea which all of us seem happy with, we need to define what sort of items are in each path, and how many paths there are.

Fashion is very common, loads of girls love free dresses, guys get sick of doing hunts of that nature though and are looking for stuff more aimed at them.
Furniture is another thing a lot like going for, and I would say buildings could go nicely into that path as well.
So what else do people love to hunt for around sl in Midnight Mania boards and Lucky chairs...
Textures
Plants, or garden/landscape in general
Artwork/decorations

There are lots of others things like animations, scripts, sounds, vechicals etc, but not many shops that have only those sort of things generally particpate in hunts, and I doubt we would get enough for them to be their own path. We could however make a sort of magical mystery path that has anything in it that does not fit elsewhere, or for those shops that have a bit of everything and can be one of the 'cross-over' points.

Ok so lets see what all that means -
Womens fashion - clothes, hats, jewellery, basically anything you normally wear on an avatar

Mens, unisex, or general humanoid stuff (lots of furries etc out there) - Fashion etc not specifically for women and could include shoulder pets, wings, tails, etc

Furniture - all your normal household stuff, buildings, including such things as gazebos (possible cross-over point with plant/garden stuff)

Plants/landscape - Obviously plants (could cross-over with textures), fountains, outdoor furniture and bridges(cross-over with furniture)

Textures - I would probably add art etc in with this one

Mystery - anything we can't catergorize elsewhere or just want to put here for fun anyway, very good for shops that sell a little of everything

Ok, that makes 6, could probably chop to 4 or 5 by say combining plants and furniture, and textures into mystery, so just have to decide how many we go with.
For the application/poster etc process things like colours of the paths don't need to be defined yet, just the outline of how the hunt would work.

Just had an annoying thought with all the new stuff, we may have to think about the mature and PG thing :( Quick thought is still have all in together, but have either mature in second half and at that point in the hunt they get the option to continue on but knowing it will be to places marked as mature, or when one comes up in the order the note with next location has two location, mature one and one to hop past it/them to the next pg one.
Hate having to think about this stuff, but if I don't it is bound to come up.

Idea to make our hunt different

Since we are a diverse collection of people and types of shop, why not give the hunters some choices?
Just after Fashion? Follow the purple path.
Want to furnish your home? Follow the red path.
Want male or unisex items? Follow the blue path.
You get the idea.

I envisage it working a bit like a group of separate little hunts which run concurrently and also 'cross over' at a number of points. Cross over points would be shops that are on more than one path, so hunters who have finished, or have had enough of the path they are on, have the opportunity to change direction without necessarily going back to the main start point. It is also a way for shop owners to hit their target audience, rather than having a bunch of girls who don't have a home coming in and getting furniture they don't really want and not producing on-sales, because all they want is hair and dresses.

This is just an idea of course, and this particular idea will only work with a larger number of shops partaking in the event. Just thought I would see if anyone actually likes the idea :)