News and Updates

This Friday, we’re taking over the worst-kept secret in town: the local speakeasy. We’ve got illicit booze, live music, and dancers for your entertainment! Just whisper the password to get in the door, and give in to an evening of great music, best costume contests, and Rare Texture giveaways!

When: Friday, April 12, 2pm-5pm

Suggested Attire: 1920’s attire, flapper dresses, mobster suits, etc.

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Starz (darkxstarz) | Decor: Demi Riaxik | Host: Aimee Novaland | Rare Texture: Hosea Whitfield | Event Organizer: Aimee Novaland

We have created a new set of Soul War Rare textures!

The previous Soul War Rares are now retired, congratulations to all the winners. Your Rares are now likely to be even more coveted since they cannot ever be won again.

With the new set, there are a few changes. Primarily, we’ve added Rare textures for the Barrels, Vessels, and Urns. This update adds 61 possible new Rare textures (all the achievement categories + Top Individual, Family Leader, and MVP awards) to each of the 5 types of container.

The second change, as mentioned in our achievement blog post, is that now each winner will receive just one texture, and this texture will be chosen based on whatever your dominant race is at midnight at the end of the month. So regardless of the Achievement category, if for example you are Demon dominant at midnight on the 31st, you will receive an Urn Rare Texture for your award.

As with our past Rares linked to achievements, any ties will be broken with a coin toss to see who will get the Rare texture for that category.

Good luck Soul Warriors!

Please read this post if you want to keep your Determined Achievement going!

We updated the Determined Achievement at the beginning of February so that it counts based on visits to the Determined Well instead of HUD wear. In certain cases we’ve been resetting achievements for people that asked for help during this transition period.

We have no reason to believe that there is any problem with this achievement, and when it gets reset, every indication is that it’s due to a user not actually successfully touching a well. This could be either from standing too far away, or just not remembering to show up that day, etc.

We want to make everyone aware that starting April 1, we will no longer be resetting Determined Achievements for any reason.

IMPORTANT: In order to keep track of your progress and make doubly sure that you are succeeding in touching a Well, we recommend that you SAVE A COPY of the message that you get when you touch the well that tells you what your determined status is. The message will look like this:

You touched the Determined Well at 2019-03-27 08:17:19 SLT. Your count is now at 2 days. Make sure to touch the Determined Well again tomorrow (2019-03-28) between 00:00:00 and 23:59:59 SLT

IF YOU DON’T GET A MESSAGE THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS IN LOCAL CHAT, IT DIDN’T WORK, AND YOU NEED TO TRY TOUCHING IT AGAIN. There is no harm in touching a Well more than once a day. In fact to make doubly sure you are succeeding, you can touch a Well until you get this message:

[15:58] :: You already satisfied your Determined achievement today at 2019-03-27 08:17:19 SLT

An easy way to keep track of your Determined status is to make a notecard in your inventory, and just copy and paste your daily message into that notecard. Or, you could do the same thing with a document on your computer; either way you always have a record of when you touched it. We log every time anyone has a Determined Achievement event, so we also have this information on our end.

We hope this helps clarify things, and once again we are not going to be resetting any Determined Achievements anymore starting 4/1. Please see FAQ answers below.

FAQ:

1. Q: What if I am certain I touched a Well yesterday but I get this message? “Your last Determined Event was at 2019-03-27 08:17:19 , which was before SL time yesterday (2019-03-28), so your Determined achievement has been reset to 1 day.”
   • A: If you get this message, you did not successfully register a touch the previous day. If you are saving your messages, you can look back at your notecard and see if you have a message from yesterday. Unfortunately, in this example you will only see the message that you touched the well on 3/27, and you won’t have a message from 3/28. That means you forgot to touch it yesterday, so it makes sense that it was reset to 1 day today.
2. Q: What if I’m in the hospital and I can’t log in to touch the determined well?
   • A: In order to be fair to everyone, we can’t make exceptions to the no reset rule for any reason. If we say that we will reset you if you’re in the hospital, unfortunately, bad actors will just claim to have been in the hospital. We can’t be put in the position of verifying who was really in the hospital.
3. Q: What if I know I won’t be able to reach my computer for a day, so I give my login to someone else to do it for me, and they forget, and I get reset to 1 day?
   • A: This is a situation similar to the one above, we cannot make exceptions to the no reset rule, or else bad actors will claim that exception. In order to be fair to everyone, we have to say that there are no exceptions. We recommend that you never give your SL login information to anyone.

Lords and Ladies, Gods and Goddesses, you are cordially invited to the court of Zeus for a most spectacular party, fit only for the Gods! Dust off those togas, don those robes, and Join us for an evening of great music, best costume contests, and Rare Texture giveaways!

When: Saturday, March 30, 12-3pm

Suggested Attire: Togas, Gods/Goddesses, monsters from Greek Myths (Cyclops, Gorgon, Centaur, Pegasus, etc.)

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Lord | Decor: Lilahceleste Belar | Host: Aimee Novaland | Rare Texture: Hosea Whitfield | Event Organizer: Aimee Novaland

We’re stoked to announce the release of The Chrysalis and The Furnace! Now angels and demons can join the other races, hibernating in style.

These items function much the same as our other coffins, with the ability to send metrics to other avatars whether they be online or nearby.

You can find these beauties at Bloodlines South and Bloodlines North, as well as in our affiliate vendors as of today!

We’re elated to announce the release of the Ichor and Ether Bonds! Now angels and demons can propose to those they care about with their very own specialized bond ring boxes and rings.

The Bonds function much the same as our other bonds, with the addition of a HUD that allows you to send Charisma and metrics and interact with other settings, without having to touch the ring itself. The rings are mesh, but not bento rigged; they are however attached to the ring finger attach point, which (with a little adjustment) should work / animate with almost all mesh bodies and hands. We did this to keep the ring editable, and also so that those with certain kinds of mesh bodies would not be excluded from using it!

As with the other Bonds, we have Ring redelivery terminals set up at our main stores. You can find them to the left of the main Torment and Ascent HUD vendors, at Bloodlines South and Bloodlines North, respectively.

Sláinte! It’s that time of year again, when you must don some kind of green clothing or else suffer the pinching, spanking, and ridicule of your peers. The upside is that you also get kisses and booze! Join us this Friday for a cheerful evening of music, costume prizes and Rare giveaways.

When: Friday, March 15th, 4-7pm

Suggested Attire: Anything green!

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Syn | Decor: Aimee Novaland | Host: Lilahceleste Belar

Rare Texture: Hosea Whitfield | Event Organizer: Aimee Novaland

We’re thrilled to announce the release of new achievements for Angels, Demons, and Humans that support them. There are over two dozen new challenges with multiple levels, each of which can earn you badge icons for your profile, and the envy and esteem of your fellow players!

We’ve made an update to our Rarity calculation as a result of the new achievements. There are certain achievement requirements in order to reach certain soul rarity levels, such as that you need 7 or more achievements at level 5 in order to reach Ultra-rare soul status. Before this update, there were four frenzy and berserk achievements, but now there are eight. Only four frenzy and berserk achievements will continue to count towards the rarity requirement, in order to maintain the same level of difficulty for the rarity levels. So, any four out of the eight total frenzy and berserk achievements will count for rarity.

We made a similar update to The Soul War medal award system. There are medals you can win in soul war for getting certain numbers of achievements to certain levels, such as getting 5 different achievements to level one to get the Wooden Star. Only four out of the eight Frenzy and Berserk Achievements will count towards Soul War Medals. You can still do all eight, and they still count for Soul War Progress and rankings. You just won’t be able to use only Frenzies and Berserks to get the Wooden Star and other medals, you will have to get other achievements as well.

Again, the goal of the above two updates is to maintain the same difficulty level of getting medals and rarity, while just expanding the number of achievements that there are to choose from to get medals and increase rarity.

And finally, this month we’ll be releasing a completely new style of Soul War Rare textures! Details on that are to come, but the gist is that we will be retiring the previous Soul War Rare design and replacing it with a new one. Also, the way in which textures are delivered will change; currently if you win a Soul War category, you get a texture for multiple container designs. Since we’ve added two containers, delivering 5 different versions of the same award texture (especially when not everyone owns every type of container) seems a bit overkill.

Starting on April 1st, if you win a Soul War category you will be delivered just one rare texture, and it will be in the container type of whatever your dominant race is on the 1st. So if you are demon-dominant, you’ll be delivered an Urn Soul War Rare texture for your winning category, if you’re angel-dominant you’ll be delivered a Vessel Soul War Rare texture, and so forth. More details on the new style of Soul War Rare texture will be released soon, so stay tuned to this blog!

For more information on achievements, check the Wikia, or the Achievements Guide pages:

Achievements Wikia Page   Achievements Guide Page

Do you ever have one of those days you feel like you need to get out of here? Like off of this planet out of here? Well come on down to Bloodlines and party extraterrestrial style with us this Friday! Join us for an interstellar evening of music, costume prizes and Rare giveaways!

When: Friday, March 1, 3-6pm

Suggested Attire: Aliens, Spacesuits, Cyberpunk, or anything you’d wear on your next space adventure

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Lord Halostar | Decor: Lilahceleste Belar | Host: Aimee Novaland

Rare Texture: Hosea Whitfield | Event Organizer: Aimee Novaland

We’re happy to announce the release of the Ichor and Ether vials! They work just like our other range of vial products, except of course with these you can use precious ether and ichor metrics to fill them.

***Note: these vials will need to be rezzed on the ground at least once, in order to make them transfer.

You can read more on the Ether Vial and Ichor Vial gear pages. You can buy the Ether Vial at Bloodlines North, and you can buy the Ichor Vial at Bloodlines South.

Happy vial trading!