Whoa, there is SO much going on at Mieville's Historical Hunts Haunted Halloween event! Themed markets, games, and activities are taking place across several Mieville sims, and all feature Halloween decor galore, with an occasional dollop or two of gore. Let's take a quick tour of a couple Mieville regions starting with Shelley and Chesterton.
All of the sites I visited in Mieville Shelley are accessible via the Haunted Halloween teleport portals. This portal below is located in Chesterton.
On the right of this portal is Roger Thunders' site with instructions for the Event's multi-sim scavenger game. You can earn points by collecting various objects and then redeem them for prizes. Read all about how to get started by visiting this site!Next, if you touch a portal's steps, a menu pops up with 23 (!) different sites to visit. The first one listed is Cara Cali's Botanica in Shelley, a nice colorful place to start! You'll find tons of seasonal holiday items at Botanica, both decorating the site and for sale.
Just across the road you'll find more great shops including Grasshopper Street (by Mitra Ardwyad), WonderWorks (Roger Thunders), Witch's Corner (Ellen Sideways), and FT design (Akiv Wizardly).
From there I decided to visit other Shelley sites listed in the portal. These included EED Home and Garden (by BB Woodford), Angel Fae Boutique (Sorrell Scorpio), Kharg Haunted (Keanu Kharg), and Witch Haven Games, a central site for games at Shelley. You can see from the photos below that there are photo ops and neat things to explore at all of them! The Games site includes vendors where you can redeem scavenger game points for prizes, shown in the photo below. All of these Shelley sites can be reached directly by the portals so I won't put in lm's here. Use the portals — they're fun!Top, L-R: EED Home & Garden, Angel Fae Boutique; Bottom, L-R: Kharg Haunted, Witch Haven games.In comparison, you really do need to walk or fly around Chesterton or have lm's to discover everything as the portal does not include many Chesterton sites! There's a ton of shopping here, a mini-hunt, games, and some unique sites. So put your witchy walking shoes on and let's take a quick spin through Chesterton!
The first thing you might notice about Chesterton is how colorful everything is, and there is a fair amount of gore. And murder, mayhem, flowers, and green slime. And at least one demonic alligator. And grenades, blasters, and bombs...
Top, L-R: Murder, mayhem, flowers, 'n' slime décor largely by nana Saenz throughout Chesterton & Creepy-scary violent animesh dance party with Texas chainsaw-wielding Pink Bunny, phew, that's a mouthful! (at Dj Dragon's site); Bottom, L-R: Cemetery Shop Industries (by Damon Salvatore), purveyor of animesh ghouls & gators, and Evolution King, purveyor of grenades, blasters, bombs 'n' more.
And then there are bright, colorful, full-perm, family-friendly, and slightly spooky shops to explore...
Our Anuenue friends Jamie Peterson, Sebby Tiogar, and Meadow Copperfield collaborated on a family-friendly section of Chesterton that includes a haunted Victorian mansion (left, above) and a mini-hunt. Find out more at the house. Their respective shops are nearby the mansion too. I love the Wizard's Apprentice brooms with buckets — watch out when you land there, wink wink!
The Dragonsworn booth (right, above) by Annakari Genesis has cute-spooky dolls, little wizards, sad broken bunnies and more for sale. This booth is tucked inside a tower like a hollowed-out tree — don't miss it!
Wander around and you'll find many other interesting shops with great products:
Locations for Shops shown above:
Last, I want to end this looong post on a bit of a personal note. Some of you know that each year at this time I build an altar for DÃa de los Muertos. I do it not for fun kitschy reasons but to honor and remember those who have passed. This is the 1st time I have built my altar at an "Event" rather than at the Bibliothèque.
Please do visit the Bibliothèque's little altar if you are interested in Mexican culture / traditional DÃa de los Muertos observances, or if you wish to honor those who have passed. You will see our dear Mr. Mayor Perryn Peterson honored there, along with Mieville's master DJ Ktahdn Vesuvino and others. How many traditional components can you identify, and do you know why they are there? This year I added my own calaveritas literarias, or Little Skull Poems. These are little poems that make fun of death, and they are components of many traditional DÃa de los Muertos celebrations in Mexico. Near the feet of Mictlantecutli and Coatlicue (Aztec God of death and Patroness of life and death), there are some small brightly colored books. Just touch them to receive my silly calaveritas — enjoy!
(Oh, pssst: I should point out that la Santa Muerte does not belong as part of a DÃa de los Muertos celebration. But I do like that statue by nana Saenz and her Catrina statue to the right of the door. If Catrina is ok with Santa being there, I can be too... ) 😇
Okay — that's it for this post! Please give a shout out if I missed some shops here!
Your friendly Mieville Librarian, General Scaredy Cat, & Mexican Culture Lover,
Credits: Photos by Farzy
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