News and Updates

This week Bloodlines is running a contest to hear your most memorable Turning stories. It could be your turning, or one you were present at and witnessed, and it can be either Lycan or Vampire. This time around we prefer “factual” stories; we promise to do more fantasy / RP stories later!

We’ll be awarding 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes, so take a trip down memory lane and tell us your story in 400 words or less. Please include your name in the notecard, and the title of your story.

How to Enter

1) Write out your story on a notecard, along with your name and the Title
2) Submit the notecard at one of our Contest Drop Boxes:

Bloodlines Contest Drop Box   Bloodlines South Contest Drop Box

Contest Rules

Time: The contest will run for 1 week, ending on March 1st, 2013.

Judging: Entries will be judged by Mars Bracken, Lyle Maeterlinck and Noire Luminos.

Criteria: We’ll be considering tone, narrative structure (beginning, middle, end), and of course grammar and spelling will be taken into account.

Prizes

– Top 7 entries will be immortalized in the Contest section of our Bloodlines Wiki.
– 3rd place entry will win a full 100L Lumen Tank or 10L Blood Tank
– 2nd place entry will win a full 150 Lumen Tank or 15L Blood Tank
– 1st Place entry will win a full 200 Lumen Tank (or 20L Blood Tank) and a Bloodlines Haunt Destination System, along with a Vial of Mars Bracken’s Lumens or Blood, depending on what the winner wishes.

For any questions, contact Noire Luminos or a Bloodlines Liaison.

Happy Hunting!

Noire Luminos, Lyle Maeterlinck, & Mars Bracken

UPDATE 3.4.13

The winners have been announced! You can find them listed on the Bloodlines Facebook page, and on the Bloodlines Wiki.

This week Bloodlines is running a contest to see who can take the best photo of a Lycan scene! So get your fur on, go to the most picturesque spot you know in SL, and snap a photo. Your options are wide open – hunting, fighting, running in a pack – it’s up to you.

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 lycan in SL
2) Put the texture in a notecard, along with your name and the Title of the photo
3) Submit the notecard at the Drop Box:

Bloodlines Contest Drop Box

.:[ Contest Rules:]:.

Time: The contest will run for 1 week, ending on February 16th, 2013.

Judging: Entries will be judged by Mars Bracken, Lyle Maeterlinck and Noire Luminos.

Criteria: Entries will be judged based on the overall image, but some things to consider might be setting, lighting, , and the avatars involved. Photoshopping is acceptable.

.:[ Prizes:]:.

– Top 7 entries will be hung in picture frames on Bloodlines property, in the Lycan Temple, until the next contest begins.
– 3rd place entry will win a full 100L Lumen Tank
– 2nd place entry will win a full 150 Lumen Tank
– 1st Place entry will win a full 200 Lumen Tank and a Bloodlines Haunt Destination System

For any questions, contact Noire Luminos or a Bloodlines Liaison.

Happy Hunting!

Noire Luminos, Lyle Maeterlinck, & Mars Bracken

UPDATE 2.19.13

The winners have been announced! You can find them listed on the Bloodlines Facebook page, and on the Bloodlines Wiki, and hanging in-world in our Lycan Temple.

Today we have 3 new Bloodlines drinks you can buy and share with your friends: Bloodlines Vital Blood and Moonshine in glass longneck bottles, and Cider in cans. The bottles contain 0.35L of Vital Blood or 3.5 Lumens, and the cans contain 0.35L of Cider, which will restore 7% humanity. You can distribute and share these new drinks in two ways: from affiliate vendor fridges that you set up on your own land, or by buying packs of them to store up or share with your friends.

The fridges come in several different packages, and come with posters and neon signs to hang up and decorate your bar. You can get each of the individual fridges with their associated posters and signs: The Blood Bar, The Cider Bar, or The Moonshine Bar, or, you can get all 3 (plus a Haunt system to place on your land), in The Bar Pack.

You can also buy them in packs of 6, 12, 24, and 48 to take home and store up, or share with your friends! The Vital Blood Pack, The Moonshine Pack, and The Cider Pack all have extensive options for sharing drinks with your friends.

Today we’re also releasing Bulk Apples (at last)! Bulk Apples work just like the drink packs, and also have lots of options for sharing.

Soon, we’ll be holding special events for Bloodlines Haunt bars, so get your Bar Pack, and set up your Bloodlines bar today!

This week Bloodlines is running a contest to see who can take the best Vampire Bite Photo! So get your favorite animation, go to the most picturesque spot you know in SL, and snap a photo of you sinking your fangs into the victim of your choice.

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 Vampire Bite occurring in SL
2) Put the texture in a notecard, along with your name and the Title of the photo
3) Submit the notecard at the Drop Box:

Bloodlines Contest Drop Box

.:[ Contest Rules ]:.

The contest will run for 1 week, ending at Noon SL time on January 30th, 2013. Entries will be judged by Mars Bracken, Lyle Maeterlinck and Noire Luminos. Entries will be judged based on the overall image, but some things to consider might be background, lighting, the bite pose, and the avatars involved. Photoshopping is acceptable.

.:[ Prizes ]:.

– Top 7 entries will be hung in picture frames on Bloodlines property, in the Vampire Temple, until the next contest begins.
– 3rd place entry will win a full 10L Blood Tank
– 2nd place entry will win a full 15L Blood Tank
– 1st Place entry will win a full 20L Blood Tank and a Bloodlines Haunt Destination System

For any questions, contact Noire Luminos or a Bloodlines Liaison. Also, We will be running a separate contest for best Lycan Attack later, so please only Vampire Bite photos this time around.

We’ve made some updates to the way events are scheduled for Haunts, and added a new events calendar for Haunts to the site. The new rules for Haunt events are:

1. Events cannot have a start date more than 24 hours in the past, when the event is created or edited.
2. Events that last more than 24 hours are marked as ‘ongoing’ events, and are listed in a separate calendar: the ongoing events calendar. Ongoing events are for things like hunts, contests.
3. No event can last more than 30 days. Any events currently listed that were longer than 30 days have been truncated to last 30 days. Some people have listed events that go many years into the future. Please don’t do ridiculous things like this, or we will delete your event entirely. Party 24/7/365 is not an event!

In addition, we’ve made an easier way to browse events with the new events calendar and ongoing events calendar. You can also quickly find events happening today on the Haunts landing page.

We got a lot of feedback on the recently-released HUDs, and today we’re releasing some minor updates to fix a few bugs, and to give you more options for how you use your HUD. Here are the changes we’ve made:

1. We added the old scanner back in as an option. Now, you can choose to use the new, robust scanner with detailed information about nearby avatars, or the old scanner that only lists thier names and proximities. You can change this by going to Settings > Scanner > Scan Type > then select ‘Full’ or ‘Lite’. The Lite scanner is the old version, the full scanner is the new version. The Lite version of the scanner can also be used while your HUD is collapsed, just like before.
2. We re-added the two buttons that show when the HUD is closed: scan and settings, for quick access. These buttons don’t show when the HUD is open, because they are on the main HUD body. We’ve also added the old scan functionality, so that you can get text or web stats for other avatars nearby, without going through the new scanner links.
3. There was also some concern over the number of scripts in the HUD. We think number of scripts is not a good indicator of performance, because it depends what those scripts are doing. Most of the new scripts in the HUDs were doing very little, and were only used to receive link messages and update text on the scanner. Regardless, we’ve removed 16 scripts from the HUD by combining the name and proximity columns on the new scanner.
4. We fixed a couple of bugs in the Rage HUD and claws. If you detached your claws or relogged while they were transparent, it wasn’t possible to turn them back on. This has been fixed in the Rage 2.1. We’ve also fixed some strange behavior in the Lycan jump, where the control event was getting triggered for a teleport within the same sim. The previous controls were up + down at the same time. In order to fix this issue, we had to change the control. Now, it’s hold left mouse button + tap up and down at the same time. It’s also now possible to deactivate the lycan jump, in case it interferes with controls on another item under Settings > Jump. We’re really sorry that we let these problems slip through!

Finally, if you still prefer the older version of the HUD, you are welcome to continue to use it. It will not be discontinued, or disabled, and we will continue to support it. We hope you like these updates, and as always, let us know what your thoughts are.

Today we’re releasing updates to all three Bloodlines HUDs: The Thirst 4.0, The Rage 2.0, and The Human HUD 2.0. You can learn more about the new features on each HUD by visiting their respective instructions pages. The major update is the scanner, which gives more information about nearby avatars, including their Bloodlines status, race, clan, and soul status. The new HUDs also include convenience buttons to bite/claw (or offer a claw or bite in the case of the human HUD), set liege, glamour/terror, or get the stats of a nearby avatar, by clicking their name on the scanner.

See the image above for a diagram of the new features of the Thirst 4.0. Some of the other new features include:

1. Clan/Pack/Guild settings have been broken out into a new button. So, instead of going to Settings > Clan/Group, just press the Clan/Pack/Guild button.
2. Animation settings have also been broken out into a new button. So, instead of going to Settings > Animation, just press the new animation button.
3. Shortcuts to your web profile and a quick button for your text stats have been added.
4. To get text stats or a web profile on another avatar, click their name in your scanner list, then press the stats button on the info window that pops up. This button will respond to your setting of text/ web stats under settings.
5. Get someone’s clan profile quickly by clicking their name in the list, then going to more options > clan profile.

We hope you enjoy these new HUDs, and dwe welcome your feedback!

I’m sorry to have to use this forum to address rumors, but I just wanted to reassure everyone that despite the fake screenshot of a chat going around (with a Wikileaks logo, really???), Bloodlines is doing great, and we have no intention of shutting down. In fact, we have lots of exciting updates planned, and I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you about them. Above you can see a picture from my actual lab where I’m working on bulk apples, to come in sizes of 6, 12, 24, and 48. We’re also working on bulk blood shots, moonshine, and changing the way tanks are sold and registered so they can be sold through affiliate vendors. This will also make it so you can place apple trees on your land. We’re also planning a major HUD update, The Thirst 4.0, The Rage 2.0, and The Human 2.0, all with a few new toys and a new look. Stay tuned to this blog for more information about these exciting updates! Also, if you don’t see it on this blog, please take it with a grain of salt, and feel free to send a message to myself or Mars in-world if you have any questions. Thanks! -Lyle

Announcing a really fun addition to the Bloodlines game: The Haunt! The Haunt is a location system for Bloodlines-friendly locations. If you have a shop, bar, castle, cave, or any other location where you welcome Bloodlines players, the Haunt is an easy way to let everyone know where you are. Each haunt sign gives you a profile on slbloodlines.com with a custom image, about text, an SL map of your location, and a link so that visitors to your profile can teleport directly from the website! It also comes with an events management system. Set the name, description, and time and date of your event, and it will appear on the Bloodlines events calendar on the main haunt page. Your haunts will also show up on your Bloodlines profile. If you’re a group leader, you can set one of your haunts to be the main headquarters of your group, and there will be a link from your group profile to your haunt profile.

In-world, you can place a notecard or object in your haunt to be given out when visitors click on your haunt sign, you can add a landmark to change the landing point when avatars teleport from the website, and you can add a texture that will change the sign texture on the font to help advertise your location.

The Haunt also features a stylish and detailed mesh build that we think will look great on your land. Land impact is only 3. You can purchase the Haunt at any Bloodlines store at Liquid Designs, Liquid East, Liquid Badlands, Liquid South, or Liquid Frontier.

We hope you have fun with this system, look for more exciting updates soon!

The Bloodlines Hunt, presented by Hunts R Us, is going on now!  At dozens of Bloodlines-friendly locations throughout Second Life, you can find over 150 prizes worth over 30,000 lindens! You can get the hunt HUD at the vendor at Liquid Designs region. The vendor looks like a coffin with an apple in it near the landing point. There are prizes from Bloodlines and The Crypt available on each of the Liquid sims: Liquid Designs, Liquid East, Liquid South, Liquid Badlands, and Liquid Frontier!