News and Updates

We are pleased to announce Season 3!

As with the last Season, you will earn points for doing challenges, the points increase a progress bar, and when you reach checkpoints you unlock rewards. Both Bloodlines and Legends activities are included in the challenges. The rewards are a wide mix including but not limited to: Bloodlines Products, Legends Products, Metrics, Resources, Rare Textures and Gift Cards.

The Seasons HUD is available for free in vendors at the landing areas in our regions and we’ll be doing a blast-out delivery to all current Bloodlines players. To be clear, you don’t have to have the HUD on to be earning progress, but you do need to wear it to unlock and claim your rewards.

For full reference information, check out the Seasons Guide. Some highlights are below:

SEASON PASS

There are plenty of checkpoints and rewards by default, but there are also bonus valuable items hidden behind ‘locked’ checkpoints. These can be unlocked by purchasing a Season Pass, which can be done either with L$ or with Season Pass Tokens which can be earned along the Season path of rewards.

REWARD OPTIONS

Certain rewards will have choices, for instance if one of the rewards is a Vial, when you collect it, you choose which kind of vial you want: Blood, Lumen, Human, Ether, or Ichor. Other rewards will have alternatives. For example, say a reward is the coffin, but you already own the coffin, you’ll be given the option to get some metrics instead.

METRIC CACHES & METRIC RESERVES

“Metric Reserves” can be given at various points, and these are metrics that you unlock immediately and can access at Refill Stations.

“Metric Caches” can be given at various points, and these are metrics that you store up and unlock if or when you finally complete the season progress bar.

CURRENT SEASON DURATION

The current season, Season Three, will run from midnight* on January 31st to midnight on March 31st, 2022.

Happy achieving!

*As with all of our releases, we do not award retroactive points or achievements. Progress on Seasons will begin tallying from the time of release onward. 

**Please note, the Season Pass is not an in-world delivery, it will show as active on your Bloodlines profile page once you have purchased it. 

We are pleased to announce Season 2!

As with the last Season, you will earn points for doing challenges, the points increase a progress bar, and when you reach checkpoints you unlock rewards. Both Bloodlines and Legends activities are included in the challenges. The rewards are a wide mix including but not limited to: Bloodlines Products, Legends Products, Metrics, Resources, Rare Textures and Gift Cards.

The Seasons HUD is available for free in vendors at the landing areas in our regions and we’ll be doing a blast-out delivery to all current Bloodlines players. To be clear, you don’t have to have the HUD on to be earning progress, but you do need to wear it to unlock and claim your rewards.

For full reference information, check out the Seasons Guide. Some highlights are below:

SEASON PASS

There are plenty of checkpoints and rewards by default, but there are also bonus valuable items hidden behind ‘locked’ checkpoints. These can be unlocked by purchasing a Season Pass, which can be done either with L$ or with Season Pass Tokens which can be earned along the Season path of rewards.

REWARD OPTIONS

Certain rewards will have choices, for instance if one of the rewards is a Vial, when you collect it, you choose which kind of vial you want: Blood, Lumen, Human, Ether, or Ichor. Other rewards will have alternatives. For example, say a reward is the coffin, but you already own the coffin, you’ll be given the option to get some metrics instead.

METRIC CACHES & METRIC RESERVES

“Metric Reserves” can be given at various points, and these are metrics that you unlock immediately and can access at Refill Stations.

“Metric Caches” can be given at various points, and these are metrics that you store up and unlock if or when you finally complete the season progress bar.

CURRENT SEASON DURATION

The current season, Season One, will run from noon* on December 1st to midnight on January 31st, 2022.

Happy achieving!

*As with all of our releases, we do not award retroactive points or achievements. Progress on Seasons will begin tallying from the time of release onward. 

**Please note, the Season Pass is not an in-world delivery, it will show as active on your Bloodlines profile page once you have purchased it. 

We’re so pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 2021 Haunt Tour Contest. Thanks to everyone who participated, there were so many amazing entries this year! You definitely did not make it easy this year. The top 3 winners will receive the Gold Crown texture, the 5 Runners up will receive the Silver Crown texture, and anyone who participated will get the Participation Rare. Textures will delivered automatically to your Rare Library soon so look for it on your profile, or rez a Paint Can or Bloodlines Container and look for the texture in the menu to download.

Thanks everyone for making this event a success!

Gold Winners

• 1st Place(100L metric of choice) – Lucifer Melodious ~ Ashes of Elysium
• 2nd Place (60L metric of choice)- Beautiful Starlight ~ An Arcane Magical Feast
• 3rd Place (40L metric of choice) – Farthington Whetmore ~ THE HAUNTED FOREST

Silver Winners

(20L metric of choice each)

• Sparkle Udimo ~ Creepy Hollow Cove Mistfits Junction
• BrookeRanger Resident ~ Celtic Angels Market
• iszie44 Resident ~ASG Scary Campfire Stories
• mothuka Resident ~ Dead and Destroyed
• rtt Starsider ~ Ozweeden Haunted Tour 2021!

We’re excited to announce the next official grid-wide Bloodlines Event – The Haunted Tour 2021! It will start today, October 8th and run to October 24th. We are changing the rules and prizes a little this time – because we are giving away a combined total of 15,000$L worth of Metrics to the top winners! So we want to see your best decorating! Please see the end of the post for guidelines if you want a chance to win.

The Haunted Tour is an event for people who wish to show off their haunted houses, dungeons, clubs and bars for the spooky holiday ahead.  Anyone owning a Bloodlines Haunt can opt-in and anyone with a HUD will be able to participate in the tour.

What specifically does this mean for Bloodlines players? It means during that time we’ll be connecting participating Haunts up via the website and the HUDs, so that you can easily travel from haunted location to haunted location, and meet up with people while discovering new Bloodlines-friendly places. (If you need to acquire a Haunt you can visit our stores here).

For Haunt owners, this event means a chance to get your location on the map! The Haunted Tour will provide an influx of new visitors, as well as give you a chance to network with other Bloodlines friendly locations. Players will be able to vote on their favorite Haunts, and prizes will be awarded at the end. Mars Bracken, Lyle Maeterlinck, Liquid Designs Resident and other officials will be visiting participating locations to help with the final judging of the top locations, and we hope to see you there!

Voting will start in a few days and run until October 24th. During that time, all you need to do to vote is press the ‘Vote’ link next to the Haunted Tour icon on the profile of participating haunts.

Prizes (Awarded at the end of the Tour):

1st Place Winner: 100L of the metric of your choice + Gold Crown rare texture + Banner on Bloodlines Homepage for a week following the event

2nd Place Winner: 60L of the metric of your choice + Gold Crown rare texture + Banner on Bloodlines Homepage for a week following the event

3rd Place Winner: 40L of the metric of your choice + Gold Crown rare texture + Banner on Bloodlines Homepage for a week following the event

5 Honorable Mentions: 20L of  the metric of your choice + Silver Crown rare texture

Haunted Tour Participation Rare: Given to anyone who opted-in their location to the event. (Limit one per avatar)

Getting involved is simple:

Location Owners – If you already have a Haunt, just log into your profile, Edit Haunts, and opt-in via the radio button for the Haunted Tour Event. Make sure to use the Haunt Events calendar to schedule specific times for your events.

Bloodlines players – The Haunted Tour will automatically generate locations in your HUD, under the Haunt button. We’ll also make it clear on the website which locations are participating, so you should be able to easily find the next great location to visit!

Rules and Guidelines:

All locations opted-in will receive the Participation Rare at the end of the contest. However, a few things to think about when trying for prizes are:

1. Store Haunts – If your store is decorated and the haunt is part of the decor it will be considered. Non-decorated stores will not be considered for top prizes.
2. Clan Land / Other Haunts – If your family location does not have any event-specific decor, it will not be considered for top prizes.

Judging is subjective and will focus on quality, sticking to the spooky / haunted theme, and also ease of access. If the area you’re looking to share with the Bloodlines community is difficult to find / hard to access from the Haunt landing, that will affect your ability to earn a top prize.

Happy decorating, and good luck!

We’re pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our Haunt Tour Contest. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Very soon, the 3 Winners will get the Gold Rare Textures, the Runners Up will get the Silver, and anyone who participated will get the Participation Rare. Once we send them out, textures will delivered automatically to your Rare Library soon so look for it on your profile, or rez a Paint Can or Bloodlines Container and look for the texture in the menu to download.

Thanks everyone for making this event a success!

Gold Winners

• Domini Noctis hall of Glory – Mothuka Resident
• -The DarkSide Of Oz-(Bloodlines 13th Anniversary Haunted Tour 2021) ~ Rtt Starsider
• The World Is Yours – Crystal Starlight

Silver Winners

• Imperio Krauss Kuran 13th Aniversary – toshi2013 Resident
• Crimson Court 21306 – JZychowicz Resident
• Lycan Turning Circle 25976 – Sparkle Udimo
• Starlight Dynasty – Charity Starlight
• Sanguine Swamp – Nimh Guisse
• Celtic Angels Market – Suzi Marquette

We’re excited to announce an official grid-wide Bloodlines Event – The Bloodlines 13th Anniversary Haunted Tour and Anniversary Party! Bloodlines is officially a teenager now and we’re really in the mood to party! Since it’s our lucky 13th we’re getting a bit spooky this year so if you want to decorate your Haunt location keep that theme in mind!

On May 7th you can tp to the party here: Anniversary Party!

The event starts now (April 22nd) and runs through Thursday May 6th at 12:00pm SLT. We’ll immediately be connecting participating Haunts via the website and the HUDs, so that you can easily travel from event to event, while discovering new Bloodlines-friendly locations. In the last week before the party, Mars and Lyle will be visiting participating locations to help with the final judging of the top Haunts, and we hope to see you there!

For Haunt owners, this event means a chance to raise awareness of your clan land, club, bar or RP area! The Anniversary Event will provide an influx of new visitors, as well as give you a chance to network with other Bloodlines friendly locations. Players will be able to vote on their favorite Haunts they visited during the week. The day after we have made our deliberations (Friday May 7th) we’re having an event on the Bloodlines sims, and we’ll give away the prizes!

To vote on your favorite Haunts, all you need to do is press the ‘Vote’ link next to the 13-year anniversary icon on the profile of participating haunts.

Prizes:

Anniversary Participation Rare – Given to anyone who opted-in their Haunt to the event. (Limit one per avatar)

Runner-Up Rares (Silver Crown) – Given to the best 20 Haunts (may be more or less depending on the quality of entries)

Top Haunt Rares (Gold Crown) – Given to the top 3 Haunts. These will also receive a banner on the Bloodlines homepage for a week following the event. (may be more or less depending on the quality of entries)

Getting involved is simple:

Location Owners – If you already have a Haunt, just log into your profile, Edit Haunts, and opt-in via the radio button for the 12th Anniversary Event. Make sure to use the Haunt Events calendar to schedule specific times for your events. We’re keeping the theme wide open – as long as your space is Bloodlines (or Legends) themed in some way, we’re excited to check it out!

Bloodlines players – The 13th Anniversary Event will automatically generate locations in your HUD, under the Haunt button. We’ll also make it clear on the website which locations are participating, so you should be able to easily find the next great location to visit!

On May 7th, we’ll wrap it up with an official party / awards ceremony on the Bloodlines sims where we’ll deliver all the prizes, so be sure to stop by. See you there, and thanks to everyone for making Bloodlines a vibrant RP community for 13 years running!

We’re pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our Season’s Greetings Photo Contest. Thanks to everyone who participated! The 3 Winners will get the Gold Rare Textures, the Runners Up will get the Silver. Textures will delivered automatically to your Rare Library soon so look for it on your profile, or rez a Paint Can or Bloodlines Container and look for the texture in the menu to download.

Thanks to everyone for making this event a success!

Gold Winners (Shown Above)

• Bruna Shelford
• Mothuka
• Saffaux

Silver Winners 

• Adrienne Carling
• Altariell Rosenstar
• Bruna Shelford
• ivonnelle
• Jadebelgie Wylie
• Littlehorn Sinatra
• nosbor34
• Rainnight
• Redmoon444
• Sparkle Udimo
• Suzi Marquette

Bloodlines is having a photo contest! We are feeling quite festive and we want to see what makes you get into the holiday spirit, whatever frosts your snowman! The best photos will be featured in the banner on our website, as well as hung in a gallery down on Bloodlines North.

The contest is free to enter, and you may enter as many times as you like (as long as each photo is different).

How to Enter
1) Take a photo of a winter scene, avatar(s) dressed in a holiday theme (can be yourself or another), or a beautiful winter  tableau. Final dimensions need to be our Website Banner size, so at least 2400 x 600, max 4800 x 1200. If you wish, you can submit a photo that is square (2400×2400 min) but make sure that there is a croppable strip appropriate for a banner.

To submit an entry, create a new ticket in our support system, include “Winter Photo Contest” in the title and be sure to include your avatar name: http://slbloodlines.com/support

Contest Rules
Time: The contest will end on December 4th, 2020.

Judging: Entries will be judged by Mars Bracken, Lyle Maeterlinck and LiquidDesigns Resident

Criteria: Entries will be judged based on the overall image, but some things to consider might be setting/location, lighting, and mood, and whether you have some RP or race elements present (angel, demon, vampire, etc.). Photoshopping is of course acceptable but please don’t add text to the photos. Bloodlines also reserves the right to do slight photoshopping to winners (if necessary) in order to format them for the final banners.

Prizes
– Top Runners Up (number TBD)will receive Photo Silver texture for one type of container
– 1st Place Winners (number TBD) will receive Photo Gold texture for one type of container as well as becoming a banner on the Bloodlines homepage.

We’re looking forward to checking out all the entries and picking the best ones for our site. Good luck!

We’re pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our Haunt Tour Contest. Thanks to everyone who participated! The 3 Winners will get the Gold Rare Textures, the 20 Runners Up will get the Silver, and anyone who participated will get the Participation Rare. Textures will delivered automatically to your Rare Library soon so look for it on your profile, or rez a Paint Can or Bloodlines Container and look for the texture in the menu to download.

Thanks everyone for making this event a success!

Gold Winners

• A Witchy Brew Spectacular ~ Crystal Starlight
• A Land Far Far Away ~ Rtt Starsider
• Trunk or Treat ~ Red Pralou

Silver Winners

• Deadman Stoney ~ Jacheld1
• Crimson Cafe ~ Robrell
• Misfits Demon Turning ~ Sparkle Udimo
• Russian Rock Club LAIR ~ Tormentor13
• Halloween Island ~ Kaileb Aeon
• Bloodrose Manor Noctural Entertainment ~ Nyala Blaisdale
• Misfits Vamp Turning Circle ~ Buddyden
• Les Morti Clan Land ~ Dona Tryce
• Obsidian Order ~ KionMinnie
• IToxic Residenz ~ DevilDana

Look outside your window right now, do you see it? It’s creepy… It’s spooky…. It’s downright horrible! Guess that means it’s time to celebrate Halloween with Bloodlines. Nothing is more fun than getting all gussied up and partying down. Won’t you join us for an evening of great music, rare texture giveaways, and awesome prizes?

We’ll also be announcing the winners of our Haunted Tour, so definitely stop by!

When: Saturday, October 31st, 1-5pm SL

Suggested Attire: Halloween Costumes, witches, ghosts, vampires, creepy crawly things!

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Lord | Decor: Crystal Starlight | Host: Skittles