Friday, October 27, 2023

Exploring Haunted Halloween, part 2!

Hey y'all — it's time for another tour through the vast Mieville Historical Hunts Haunted Halloween Event sites. In our first Exploring Haunted Halloween installment we covered Shelley and Chesterton. This post we'll snoop around the rest of the sims, including Dragonsworn, Poe, Story Brook, and Kipling. Get your Frankenstein Flats on, we're gonna cover a lot of territory and we don't want your feet to hurt!

Tip: Use the event site portals to get to these sites — the portals are fun! Here's the link for the main portal site at Chesterton to help you get started. Just touch the portal's steps, choose the place you want to visit, and awaa-aaay you go!


First, Dragonsworn has a number of sites listed in the transportation portals. The theme of Dragonsworn is creepy carnival rides, envisioned by Dragonsworn, Amanda Dench of Dench Designs, Kerhop Seattle, and the folks at Lineage. If you have ever wanted to ride giant spiders or dance with your choice of ghouls, now's your chance! There's lots to explore here and plenty of photo ops! 



 Top row, L-R: Dragonsworn, Dench Designs; Bottom row, L-r: Kerhop Seattle ride, Lineage site

Next, Poe has a haunted corner site listed in the portal. 



I don't know much about the haunted part but here's part of a mighty attractive graveyard set out by Sarah Dalrymple. Nice!


Next, the newly redesigned sim of Story Brooke Resort at Mieville Docks has a couple fun sites to visit, both of which are listed in the transportation portals, so I won't insert the various SLurls here. Just use the Event site portals to get here!

The portal's "Haunted Building" site lands you at Sanna's collection of crazy mayhem psychedelic textures galore, some with a Halloween theme, others general mayhem. Love Sanna! 👻

The "Pumpkin Shops" are literally shops inside of cute hollowed-out pumpkins. Merchants/ shops here include Kim's Kreations, Liam Metaluna's Ye Olde Panda Panda, Dinkie and Professional Attire clothing shops from Beth Ghostraven, Miss Violet's shop, Country Crafter from Aquarius Denimore, 2xtreme by AeriaBlaze, and Rozamyndi's Hats. 🎃

Next, we'll spend some time going through Kipling!

The Kipling Piazza is the portal's one site identified as Kipling. This is the pretty plaza site with lots of stores. It's not clear whether all / which shops are participating in Haunted Halloween or have in-theme items for sale, but it's good to know what's here and give a visit! Again, use the portals to get here!

On one side of the plaza you'll find McMinnar's Oddments (by Jalynne Ohmai), Kittycat's Textures (Kittycat Ninetails), Butterflies (Fergie Loudwater), and A Little Cuqui Shop (Sorsha Xaron).    On the other side are Angel Fae Boutique (Sorrell Scorpio), Impertinences (nana Saenz), TFF (Tayren Theas), Bren's (bredoll2), Panthar Sounds (Lara Panthar), and Singularities, 1 prim décor by Cara Cali.


The anchor store of the plaza is Kim's Kreations. I couldn't resist posing with this creepy little ghoul hiding in a hollowed out pumpkin, just outside of the shop. Yikes — he wanted to nibble on my lace dress! 😱



Last, we'll visit spooky Skellington Manor at Kipling. This one is not in the portal or notecards but there is a lot to see here! Roger Thunders & Sorrell Scorpio designed the Haunted Manor and filled its multiple levels with scary scenarios and activities. 


First, visit the Ground Floor Portal to enter Skellington Manor.

Be sure to touch the "Enter" sign to my left to learn about all the things you can do and see inside Skellington Manor. Then touch the portal to enter - woo, get ready! There are activities and things to find on every level!



Who knew there would be a dance party here? Dancing skeletons and more are on the 1st level of Skellington Manor, including a graveyard and crypts, witch's cabin, and a vampire's lair!





Or a creepy mad scientist lab? This is on the 2nd level, along with a Voodoo Mart, evil asylum, a haunted forest and graveyard!




Or a... well, I don't even know what this is! Wait — this candy-cane nightmare up on the 3rd level must be the witch's candy trap! There's also a haunted pirate ship and creepy forest up here. 

All this should be plenty to keep you busy, exploring Haunted Halloween and having fun! Hope this motivates you to keep on exploring and enjoy!


Your friendly Mieville Librarian & General Scaredy Cat,

Credits: Photos by Farzy


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