:: New :: Raven Tree Quests - Introducing the Alfwagey—A once proud and powerful people

Search the island for sparkly artifacts. Collect all four to win the L$1000 gift certificate accepted at Raven Tree Creations Voucher Vendors!

First Alfwagey artifact set consists of ancient remnants from the final Alfwagey battle!

Link to the Quest Room in Second Life:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/MGM/88/161/32

Look for this sign at the Raven Tree landing spot

Alfwagey Battle Artifacts Quest Card

The Artifacts you'll be collecting:

Yields a small Redwood Tree prize!

Alfwagey Breast Armor Artifact

Yields a small Redwood Tree prize!

Alfwagey Battle Glove Artifact

Yields a Curio Chest of prizes plus a Redwood Tree!

Alfwagey Battle Axe Artifact

Yields a small Redwood Tree Prize!

Alfwagey Shield

STORYLINE:

The Alfwagey

Long ago, right here on the island now inhabited by Raven Tree Creations in Second Life there lived a proud and powerful people called the Alfwagey. They worked and fought hard for centuries to build a civilization that for its place in history was extremely advanced with skills in manufacturing, the arts, warfare, and critical thinking.

These great people reigned in this land for generations, but like all in powerful positions, eventually fell in battle against a formidable foe. Forever estranged from this world as they once were, they did not go without leaving behind traces of their civilization, artifacts representing their battle prowess lost in their last fight, pieces of armor left strewn on ancient battlefields.

Lately these ancient artifacts have been surfacing due to harsh weather on the Alfwagey Island, now known as MGM, home to Raven Tree Creations in Second Life.

OBJECTIVE:

Your quest, should you choose to accept it, involves the following:

Search the island of MGM in Second Life for Alfwagey battle artifacts. Find all four to win!

Specifically, find and collect the Alfwagey:

•    Breast Armor                    [yields Redwood02 Tree additional instant prize!]
•    Battle Glove                [yields Redwood Tree additional instant prize!]
•    Battle Axe            [YIELDS larger Fantasy Pine + CURIO CHEST of instant prizes!]
•    Shield             [yields Redwood02 Tree additional instant prize!]

As you search you'll be looking for small colored disks that sparkle and have a slight glow. These are the 'artifacts' that you collect. Samples of the artifacts are on display here:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/MGM/88/161/32

Click the artifact to collect it.

Once you've collected all four Alfwagey battle artifacts IM Ginny Enzo for your reward.

REWARD:

In addition to all the instant prizes each artifact gives out (listed above)....
You'll receive a L$1000 Gift Voucher redeemable at the Raven Tree Creations Gift Voucher Vendors At Raven Tree Creations Main Store.

Please see the "Questing at Raven Tree" page on the Blog for more info.

Thank you.





:: New :: Burned Out Hollow Redwood Tree Stumps

Now available for purchase in our main shop here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/MGM/10/128/32

View this new addition to the Forest Products as displayed with the Stand of Redwoods in a Box (which also includes these stumps) here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/MGM/134/138/27

IN THIS PACKAGE YOU GET:
four different custom sculpted burned out holow stumps

PERMISSIONS ARE:
Stumps: copy and mod

PRIM COUNT:
Each sculpted stump = 1 prim

We hope you enjoy your new Burned Out Hollow Stumps and please IM with any questions that arise.

Thank you.

:: NEW :: Stand of Redwoods in a Box!

Available for viewing and purchase in front of the main shop in Second Life here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/MGM/134/138/27

This incredibly versatile package gives you all you need to quickly rezz one stand of redwoods or fill your entire SIM with lush forests, or both. It's all copyable!

Raven Tree Stand of Redwoods in a Box Info:

IMPORTANT

PLEASE NOTE: make sure to press 'save' on the Rez-Faux menu before dragging copies of items and/or taking copies into inventory!

IN THIS PACKAGE YOU GET:

four sizes of Redwood trees

four different styles of ferns

four different burned out stumps

All of this comes in a handy Rez-Faux package for easy rezzing of as many Redwoods and ferns and stumps as you want.

PERMISSIONS ARE:

Trees: copy only

Ferns and Stumps: copy and mod

PRIM COUNT:

Out of the Rez-Faux box the set includes 43 objects and 120 prims. However the Stand of Redwoods in a Box is completely flexible to your needs and can be reduced to a single one prim fern or stump or expanded to build an entire SIM of lush Redwood forests.

We hope you enjoy your new Stand of Redwoods in a Box and please IM with any questions that arise.

Thank you.

:: New At Raven Tree ::

We are pleased to announce this sensually appointed and expertly crafted addition to the Raven Tree Furniture Collections. The New Library Furniture set includes everything shown in the picture above. More details are available in the info note card in the vendor at our Main Store.

:: NEW :: Raven Tree SIM Is Getting a Makeover



Laying Down On the Job?

                                         .....:::::     OPEN DURING CONSTRUCTION     :::::.....

Although it may not look it in that picture of me reclining up there, I've been very hard at work building a new Main Store for Raven Tree Creations and getting that build settled into what will be a full SIM makeover! However if you look closely you may notice me directing the day to day operations of all this hard work with my left hand—seen in the above photo slightly raised, and affirming how in control I am of all the work that is going on at Raven Tree ;)

I'll be very excited to announce the grand opening of the new Store and remodeled SIM ... That announcement is coming very soon.

As always the Main Store is open during construction, so please feel free to drop by anytime and hang out, witness progress, or shop of course!

New Hunt at Raven Tree Creations

Tired of Easter eggs and cute little bunnies?

Raven Tree Creations has the HUNT that'll cure your ills.

Hunt INFO area at Raven Tree Creations landing spot

The Raven Tree 'Jars of Clues' are whispering again to help you find the latest free prize hidden someplace on the Raven Tree Creations SIM "MGM".

As usual check your open chat log upon landing at Raven Tree for an initial clue that'll get you started right away. This hunt, like most of our hunts is contained within the MGM region and will not require teleports between regions to find your prize.

The Prize, what is the prize you ask? Well it's a free copy of our cozy FIELD TENT.

Prize INFO:

Ambrosia Field Tent from Raven Tree Creations

Get cozy with your friends in this stylish field tent. Features include:

•    Flexible flag flying on center post

•    Four built in sit animations

•    Convenient step stool that doubles as a seat

•    Finely sculpted posts, roof, and stool

•    Tent is phantom for easy access

Touch for color change menu, right click and sit for sit animations.

16 prims *** no MOD / no COPY / yes RESELL GIVE AWAY

All Raven Tree Creations are carefully handcrafted and/or sculpted and are sure to add style and comfort to your Second Life.

Thank you for your interest. And please, feel free to IM with any questions. ~ Ginny Enzo

:: NEW :: Exclusive Group Member Dollarbies Vendor

Exclusive Group Member Dollarbies Vendor

We have a new, exclusive, dollarbies vendor located near the landing spot at the main store. This vendor is only for Raven Tree Creations updates group members. Currently available from the vendor are some new ferns and a pair of naturally stained single prim sculpted shelves among other things.

If you're not already a member of the 'Raven Tree Creations updates' group in Second Life joining is super easy! Simply look on the left side of the Exclusive Vendor – there you'll see a place to click and join the group. Check back often as I'll be swapping the available items regularly. Enjoy.

:: NEW :: Defend Your Realm!

Defend your realm from harm, lock up your enemies, or gather with kinfolk—with this versatile build from Raven Tree Creations the role play possibilities seem endless.

With its tall, sturdy, iron spiked stone walls, stylish orange sun emblem, mysterious blue water garden fountain, and thick wooden ironclad doors your new fortress is the ultimate build from which to protect your Royals, or Clan, or Township while enhancing your SIM with a forbidding yet majestic and homey structure—expertly constructed with custom sculpted prims and textures.

The catacombs of authentic dungeons make the lock up of your captives an easy task and will instill intense and genuine consternation in their minds and bodies.
The forested gardens and centralized sofa let you enjoy the outdoors with plenty of space to set up role play or just relax.

The Raven Tree Fortress Dungeon is available in two configurations priced accordingly—the higher priced model comes with a 'secret' side entry or exit that can be partially under water. This corridor leads to a hidden inner stair with a concealed dungeon entry available only by clicking on one of two 'sun emblem' access switches. With this access-way open – a hidden 'cell of lost souls' is revealed behind a row of aged iron spiked bars swathed in history and patina.



Prim Counts & Footprint:

There is a 31 prim 'Footprint' of the build available to you for 1L$ to rezz on your land to see how the Raven Tree Fortress Dungeon will fit in your space.

The total prim counts below are how the units rezz out of the box however they each include trees, fallen stumps, rocks, ferns, potted plants, a fountain, and a group seating area totaling 131 prims. These items are optional and are not linked to the building making them easy to move or delete or take into inventory and use later.

Secret side entry Model Prim Total = 674

Lower priced model with no side entry Prim Total = 607

Strike a Pose!

Poses and animations will never be in short supply in Second Life. They are everywhere. But not all of them are artistic or created by talented animators. Every once in a while I'll try and post a little something about some of my favorite talented animators in Second Life. Like this one pictured below by artoo Magneto of the AKEYO Power AO:

Ginny the model

Hair: Wasabi Pills Aerandir Hair - Dirty Blonde
Outfit: by Opium. Guerilla with the blue bits from the expansion fat pack
Boots: BAX black patent ankle boots.

:: NEW :: Fantasy Wooden Walkway and Railing - builder's pack

In this builder's pack you get everything  you need to make your own Fantasy Wooden Walkways and Railings.

The package includes:

The highly detailed single prim sculpted wooden walkway planks

Two different whimsically inspired single prim railing and/or support structure sculpts

Features Include:

•    all prims are copy and mod permissions

•    use the textures on the prims or apply your own

•    make as many bridges or walkways as you like

•    resize the components to meet your own needs and designs

:: NEW :: Gothic Landing Build

Detailed gargoyles surrounded by fine stone and iron work place this build in a unique architectural category somewhere between Notre Dame and some sort of oversized crypt from a dark fantasy.

Pictured here atop the Raven Tree Main Store on MGM in Second Life the Gothic Landing was designed to accompany your dark desires to new levels of enjoyment. Why is it called a 'Landing' you may ask? Well, it really makes a great central location or 'Landing Spot' for your dark themed SIMs. The included gargoyles are a refreshing new take on a common theme in Second Life. I spent hours and hours creating and texturing all the various gargoyle pieces and all the sculpts for the building itself, making sure the shadows all looked just right. 

There is a large main-level gathering area that could serve easily as 'grand role play stage' or commercial space for the right kind of SL content creator. Above each of the four stairways is a small gathering spot or retail vendor display area—two are roof covered, while the other two are open air. Higher still is a large open deck area where gargoyles perch and keep lookout. Centered in this upper area is a 'hidden' room, the uses for which are limited only by its size and your imagination.

Two of the stairways can be lit with the included gargoyle lanterns – just touch them to turn the flame on or off. Actually, you can light as many as you want with the gargoyle lanterns because they are copy permission and separately linked from the main build.

Building Tip ---->> right click and edit the gargoyle lantern - hold down shift and drag one of the colored arrows to make a copy of the gargoyle lantern for use in other areas! Enjoy.

See more details on the build at SL Marketplace or come visit and explore its incredible 3D experience in-world.

Virtual Democracy in Second Life

Corporate America has a plan for you. Corporate America wants you fat and yet hungry for more. They want you stuffed with fast food and diabetic. They want you awake at 3am watching infomercials. They want your mind useless like a cold wet noodle. They want you sick and prescription dependent. And those that aren't sick, they want you too. They want you slaving away till you die so you can pay that mortgage forever.

Corporate America wants to shove the American Dream down your throat until you choke – they want to wash your brain with their version of enslaved freedom until you completely forget what true freedom even meant. They've had a plan for you since before you were born.

But they can't take away our freedom because we'll always have our right to choose—our ability to say no to the fast food, no to huge extravagant houses, no to cigarettes, no to a prescription for every known bad feeling under the sun, no no no!!!

They can't take that away.

That American freedom is mirrored within a virtual world known as Second Life™. Widely known as the largest user created online virtual world of our time, and practically all built by its residents, Second Life runs on a majorly capitalistic micro-economy based on the almighty Linden Dollar. Residents are free thinking citizens if you will, free to socialize, build, work, develop, create, sell, educate, learn, and do just about anything (please see the Linden Labs TOS for governing law). They are free to dance, to fall in love, to practice all faiths, or partake in the many lifestyle communities that exist in Second Life or dream of those yet to be created.

Just like in America the on-going struggle to remain free while still being governed and living in a law abiding society is always apparent within Second Life. Just like in America Second Life's residents are a mixture of people that give of themselves, people that provide helpful services, people that invent and provide what others are willing to pay for, and people that are willing to break the laws of the land for their own personal gain. Another parallel, is the difficult task of bringing such ruthless people to justice—but just like in America where people don't want the federal government policing all their actions, residents of Second Life don't want Linden Lab turning into the equivalent of the CIA or worse.

Virtual life continues alongside the physical one with its residents facing many of the same challenges we all have as citizens of the real world. Second Life is not a utopia free from real life problems. It is however a grand and diverse virtual place to express ourselves, an environment where we connect with inner truths and like minded people in ways that can be difficult to accomplish anywhere else. Second Life is a place where, if left untouched by the reign of tyrannous governments, all peoples of developed nations and who have high speed internet access can become citizens of an online world where they are free to live as they please. Like America, Second Life is a free country as long as you can afford it.

Valentine's "Hunt for Savings" still going on through February

The first "Jar of Clues" is located in a handy spot right at the Raven Tree Creations landing point in the main store. Just look for the sign pictured here.

A few adjustments have been made to clue locations based on feedback from those that have completed the hunt making finishing successfully even easier than before!

See you here.

Misha Fine Jewelry

click to enlarge

Here I am feeling beautiful wearing new Misha Bangle Bracelets with Onyx. I just love the creative individualism Misha deftly imparts into each piece of jewelry she makes. It's obvious that she loves what she does and it shows! Misha Kerang is definitely one of Second Life's finest new jewelry artisans.


A highlight at DGD Fahion Mall on the Lanika SIM in Second Life, Misha's shop features precious gems as well.


Oh, and the lovely bag I carried home my new jewelry in looks so pretty on my shelf that I think I'll keep it there alongside my books and things. I look forward to shopping at Misha Fine Jewelry often because she is constantly releasing new designs that keep me coming back!


My Hair is from Wasabi Pills. It's called Earleen Hair.
My top and jeans were a freebie at 22769 Casual Couture
My sit pose/animation is from Sissy's Animations

The Small Stone Cottage from Raven Tree

Imagine cozy comfort while residing in this well appointed small stone cottage. This versatile two room cottage looks at home on SIMs ranging from Medieval role play to modern country side living. This cottage is perfect for single rental units. Come see it all furnished at the Raven Tree Main Store!

Features include:

• Sculpted rock walls with rustic original custom stone texture
• Finely sculpted pillars, stairs, and roof prims
• Sculpted arches with custom shaded textures
• Scripted fold-away stairway to second floor room
• Home controller system with privacy mode
• Lock doors and change window textures and opacity using the menu
• Small and functional - it will fit on most any plot of land
• Stairs and door use custom edited sounds, different for open and close. They are professionally edited to sync with the movement of the scripted doors and stairs
• The front gate has its own special professionally edited sound effects for open and closing too
• Control switches for the fold away stairs, one upstairs and one downstairs

122 prims *** no MOD / yes COPY / no TRANS

The cottage measures 14.5 front to back  x 10.28 wide x 22.3 meters high

Pictures following—this quaint stone cottage is the perfect centerpiece for many types of role play and nestles well amongst forests and hills and other homes with its impressive shapes and textures. With architecture that fuses Medieval and Gothic Revival styles it wows the senses in tantalizing ways.

Enjoy quiet evenings relaxing and chatting with friends. Or use the confining upper floor for endless role play situations.

Feast your eyes on the skillfully sculpted and textured stones of the exterior walls, and arches, and cornerstone columns.

In this picture the house controller can be seen glowing and orange to the right side of the entrance. The front gate and double sliding front doors are both individually lockable from the controller menu. With this menu operated controller you can do the following:

• Open and close the front gate and front doors separately
• Lock or unlock the front doors and front gate separately
• Choose between four different textures for the windows separately for upstairs and downstairs
• Choose opacity for the upstairs and downstairs windows separately
• Choose window opacities ranging from 5% to 100%
• Specify a special 'privacy mode' for the windows separately for upstairs/downstairs
• Privacy mode features 35% opacity from the inside and yet 100% opacity from the outside so people can't see in

Drink in the quality of this finely built structure as you take note of its true divided light arch shaped windows.

At only 4 prims each, these windows, with their custom textured arches and sills, with their expertly sculpted wooden mullions, and with their menu changeable glass textures to fit many periods of history are just one of the many highlights of this gem of a cottage.

Give yourself the experience of owning a building that bleeds with creativity. This simple stone cottage can inspire otherworldly, dreamlike outer realms. Throughout history cottages such as this have left their nonhuman, but none the less powerful influences on humanity.

Looking angelic, the cottage is pictured here with some of the Redwood and fantasy trees and ferns from our "Redwood Forest Fantasy" packages. Available at the SL Marketplace online.

Here we see a view of one of the four window texture choices as well as the carefully crafted and sculpted exterior stonework.

Those that appreciate quality sounds in second life will enjoy the sound effects made especially for these items. The front slider doors and stairs use a Raven Tree professionally edited sound that includes an actual 'attack' when the doors close. The front gate has its own custom open and close sounds. These sounds are all professionally edited and layered with stereo quality and feature unique 'attack thumps' and 'sweeteners' that sync with the scripted movement of the gate and doors and interior stairs.

Looking through the lockable front gate past the open, yet lockable front doors and out through the rear window into the forest beyond. The dormer windows look out from the sculpted peaked roof atop the two story cottage.

Windows can be set to 'clear' as well as a range of opacities from 5% up to 100% and feature a menu operated 'privacy mode' that lets you see out while other can't see in.

All Raven Tree Creations products are carefully handcrafted and/or sculpted and are sure to add style and comfort to your Second Life.

Thank you for your interest. And please, feel free to IM with any questions. ~ Ginny Enzo

Valentine's "Heart Hunt for Savings" Going on Now at Raven Tree Creations

Come join the thrill of the hunt and search out the discount vendor containing your FREE ottoman and seriously discounted sex bed! At the Raven Tree Landing Spot you'll find a sign that looks like this:

Hunt for Savings Sign - click this for info

Click the jar or clues in front of the sign pictured above for additional info and special instructions about this hunt. Then Simply touch the  adjacent Jar of Clues and you're on your way. (Remember that all the Jars of Clues 'whisper' their secrets into local chat so you'll need to be within 10 meters of a jar to 'hear' it).

Check posts labeled "Product Releases" for more information on this one of kind canopy covered heart shaped sex bed!

Explore the pretty island with your friends while searching for clues and interpreting hints. The hints are pretty easy to follow, so you'll have plenty of time to carry on with your conversations or do some shopping while hunting. Good luck!

About the Raven Tree Jars of Clues

Jar of Clues

Here at the Raven Tree SIM you may come across an object that looks like this pretty pink jar pictured here. If you see one of these seemingly randomly placed jars, don't be fooled—each one has been specifically placed in connection with the current "Hunt" that is going on at Raven Tree. These simple jars are key when participating in hunts to win various prizes or find featured discount vendors selling special items.

These Jars of Clues whisper into open chat when touched. So a hunt participant needs to be within 10 meters of the clicked jar to get the clue in open chat.

These hunts give you a chance to come and enjoy the beautiful Raven Tree SIM. Stay tuned for announcements and descriptions of current Raven Tree Hunts!

:: NEW PRODUCT :: Raven Tree Four Poster Canopy Lover's Sex Bed

Located at Raven Tree's Main Store (vendors are right in the landing spot) I am now offering this new heart shaped sex bed on sale through the month of February to celebrate Valentine's Day. Come get yours for only 299L$ while this incredible deal still lasts! Oh! And there is also a free gift inside the vendors—a cute little ottoman adorned with pretty pink hearts that includes a single sit animation.

Both versions – with sex and without – look identical

There are two versions of this sensuous bed available on sale now – one with sex animations and one without. The one without the sex animations is also on sale now through the end of February for only 199L$. A great bargain for such a lovely bed that is easily combined with one of Second Life's high quality stand alone sex engines.

Particulars about the beds are listed below – some of which only apply to the sex menu version:

               ::::::::::::  Four Poster Canopy Lover's Sex Bed  ::::::::::::

Highlights:

•    Regal yet rustic Style

•    Warm Plush Canopy

•    Cozy Operable side Curtains

•    Custom Sculpted and Textured finely detailed prim-work

•    MLP2 with 46 total animations included

Quick Start:

•    rezz it, position it.

•    click the curtain tassels to operate curtains (note: curtain at head of bed is stationary)

•    click the curtains or canopy or dark base for a color change menu

•    click the top mattress for sex menu

•    type /1 show or /1 hide to show or hide the couples pose balls (these are separate from the sex engine!)

With its solid post frame in aesthetic contrast with its sensuously, luxurious bedding, canopy, and side curtains, this quality bed from Raven Tree Creations™ is sure to add much pleasure to your Second Life while looking impressive in your room.

Operation of the bed's functions:

1)    Color Change function

a)    The color changer effects the 'canopy', the 'posts', the 'curtains', and the 'tassels'.

b)    Choose 'ALL' or one of the above categories from the menu for your desired color change.

c)    Simply touch a curtain or the canopy to get the menu.

d)    The menu offers a 'default' selection to bring the colors back to how they were when you rezzed the bed.

e)    There is also a 'Raven Tree Burgundy' color selection available on the menu for those of you who love a deep Burgundy color as much as I do. ;-)

2)    Sliding curtain function

a)    Each curtain slides individually

b)    Touch a curtain's tassel to slide it back and forth

3)    Animations are available by clicking the top heart shaped mattress prim for a menu. You can make adjustments to the positions by clicking the OPTIONS button off the menu and making further choices from there.

NOTE: if you find the pose balls hard to sit on because they are inside the bed simply choose the stand button on the menu - the balls will be in a easy place to sit on after that - then you can choose other positions from there!

4)    Pose Balls for the couples cuddle pose are linked into the bed and can be shown by typing /1 show into local chat – or hidden by typing /1 hide into local chat.

Specs:

Dimensions

•    5.13386 wide

•    5.13386 long

•    4.80152 tall

Prim count: 84 total

•    All Phantom

Permissions are: no copy / no mod / transfer

Thank you.

Welcome

I'd like to welcome everybody to Raven Tree Creations new blog—where I'll be premiering new Raven Tree product releases, announcing events, promotions, and/or changes at the Raven Tree Main Store.

I'll also be sharing with you bits and pieces about some of Second Life's finest content creators, designers, animators, and artists—with posts about various things and places I come across in my travels.

Thanks for being here. And I hope to see you around in Second Life!