Prim Perfect and Ekphrasis talks at the SL10B CC Auditorium: Wednesday 19th June

Prim Perfect is sponsoring three talks today at the Auditorium at the SL10B Community Celebrations.

What lies ahead for the heroes of The Blackened Mirror?

First of all, at 1pm, Elrik Merlin will be talking to Zander Greene and Aisling Sinclair, two of the cast of the popular Treet TV drama series The Blackened Mirror. Zander (in real life actor Scott Simpson) plays Harland Quinn, the private investigator in a big dieselpunk city who is hired by the mysterious Alais Allen (played by Aisling).  They will be talking about the show and the upcoming series but … no spoilers! The show, by the way, is written by author David Abboy, who is also travelling The Long Walk at this year’s Community Celebration.

Ekphrasis Talks at SL10B Community Celebration

Then, at 3pm, in the next in our series of Ekphrasis talks, Rowan Derryth will be talking to the very talented film-maker Draxtor Despres , who has been drawing plaudits for his new media series, the Drax Files. You can see more details of that talk here.

Non Profit Commons at the Auditorium

And last for today, at 4pm SLT, Saffia Widdershins will be talking to several members of Nonprofit Commons about their work and about the role of nonprofits in Second Life.

Do come and join us!

And don’t forget the special Prim Perfect contest at the Celebrations.  Name the places In Our Second Lives, and you could win L$5000!

Can you name the places?

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Seraph City celebrates its third birthday with a party!

The Seraph Club

There’s a special event to celebrate in Seraph City!

Seraph City’s 3rd Birthday

Seraph City, the beautiful 1930s dieselpunk city that figured as a key location in The Blackened Mirror – is celebrating its third birthday today, Saturday 6th April, with a party at the Seraph Club from 6 – 9pm.

There have been some changes recently in the region – awesome new sim surrounds, and the region is acquiring more mesh builds.  There are also some available sites for renting, and plans to add some games – like the murder mystery in the offices of The Daily Prim (which will be updated shortly).

For today’s event, evening wear is preferred (1920s – 1930s style would be perfect), and, they say, “tea” will be available from the bar!

It should be a fun evening – hope to see you there!

The Streets of Seraph City

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Fun Noir at The Blackened Mirror: Inworld games closing at the end of the year

Sadly, with the end of Season 1, the time has come to bring the inworld games for The Blackened Mirror to an end.

The games that run purely on the web will continue, but we will be ending the games that are played on the Second Life grid at midnight on December 31st 2012. Announcing this now will give you the opportunity to play any of the games that you might have missed.

Why are you closing the inworld games?
Region and parcel owners have been very generous both in donating gifts and in hosting our prims for the games. But they need the freedom and flexibility to change their areas, which could invalidate or even remove clues in the games. If we are doing this for one area, it seemed right to do it for all, so that there should be no confusion.

Why are you keeping the web games open?
Although the first season of The Blackened Mirror is now over, the episodes continue to be available through The Blackened Mirror and Happy Hunting websites, and through The Blackened Mirror page at Treet TV and The Blackened Mirror You Tube site. So it’s possible that even at a period when we are not launching regular new episodes, people might be coming to the show for the first time and – if they are – we want them to learn that The Blackened Mirror is more than a TV show (and more than a game). We hope that keeping the web games open will give people who discover the show the fun of also discovering the challenges!

Meeting a Seeker of Truth

We’ll be republishing details of all the web games shortly. But for now … make sure you get the last of the information about The Blackened Mirror inworld games in our Fun Noir section!

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Fun Noir for the Blackened Mirror – the winners of our special contests!

The Seraph Club in Seraph City

At the end of season party for The Blackened Mirror, we held draws for all special games that we have been running throughout Season 1. The prize for each of these games is a chance to appear as a character in the world of The Blackened Mirror, not on the show, but referenced in The Blackened Mirror materials!

We will not reveal answers here, as people will still be able to play the games on the web!

The questions (and winners) were as follows:

From Episode 1 – the A Day in the Life of Harland Quinn game
As part of the clue in the diner (where we showed a copy of The Daily Prim newspaper, with its racing news), we asked:
What links Quinn’s bet with a Broadway musical?
The very first person to get this right won the chance to appear in The Blackened Mirror world. This was Kyle Beckett, who chose to become a good character and a reporter on The Daily Prim newspaper.
But we continued the game till the end of the season, and the winner was:
Chris Collins

Harland Quinn – Private Investigator

From Episode 2: Secrets from Quinn’s past
This game was first launched at the HP Lovecraft Festival in Second Life, where a special playbill was located. It was subsequently included as part of the jigsaw game associated with Episode 3. We asked:
Tell us the connection between the poster, the newspaper report and a famous Hollywood film about the world of theater …
No-one has been able to answer this question correctly!

From Episode 4: Death in Velvet Game
In this game, readers (and later listeners) were able to find the first three parts of Death in Velvet, a special Harland Quinn short story written by David Abbot, the author of The Blackened Mirror. They then had to tell us who the murderer was (and how they dunnit too!).
The winner was:
Orpheus Angkam

From Episode 4: The Link between the Seekers of Truth and a famous 1930s novel (and film)
This game asked players to find outwhat linked Episode 1.4 of The Blackened Mirror with a famous novel of the 1930s, made into a very famous film, by the author of Goodbye Mr Chips and Random Harvest.
The winner was:
Garnet Psaltery

From Episode 5: The Police Report game
This was part of an inworld game that asked people to trace copies of the police report that revealed what had been happening in Seraph City while Quinn had disappeared after the Unpleasantness at the Java Jive. One of the places people visited on the Hunt (or through the inworld quiz) was a rather exclusive apartment block, which had a doorman … and we asked:
Why is the name Carlton Garfield a very appropriate one for a doorman?
The winner was:
Maeve Everest

Quinn and Co face a mystery

Congratulations to all our prize winners!

We will be contacting Chris, Orpheus, Garnet and Maeve shortly to find out whether they want to be good or bad characters and how they can best be incorporated into the world of The Blackened Mirror!

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Happy Hunting’s Christmas episode on the web – with the shocking season finale of The Blackened Mirror!

Now you can enjoy the new episode of Happy Hunting! with Cinders Vale and Rosamoo Mendelsohn and an interview with Amanda Yven to find out all about the SL Christmas Expo – and the Race for the Bells - and to see the final installment of Season 1 of The Blackened Mirror – and it’s a shocker!

Rosamoo Mendelsohn of Hunt SL, our hunt reporter, is on hand with all the latest hunt news of the amazing plethora of seasonal hunts – and just look at the way she decorated the studio! You can see more details of the amazing things she’s found – and upcoming hunts – here in her special post.

Happy Hunting Studio – decorated for Christmas!

Then it’s off to the SL Christmas Expo, where Cinders talks to Amanda Yven, who is the organiser for the Race for the Bells – and you’ll have a chance to see them in the beautiful Prim Perfect Pavilion, designed by Eliza Wierwight of Patron.

And last, but definitely not least, we have the final episode of Season 1 of The Blackened Mirror.  Harland Quinn,Harland Quinn, Alais Alleyn and indefatigable Mr Biggins heading in to danger (rather than trying to escape it).

Heading into Danger in The Blackened Mirror

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A Party and Prizes for The Blackened Mirror!

Blackened Mirror Season 1 has ended – and what a shocker of an ending that was, eh?

If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s now on the web.

And we’re going to be celebrating the end of Season 1 with a special party today at the Seraph Club from 3pm till 6pm with Edward Pearse, who plays Harland Quinn’s friend, Edward, not only our host, but also our DJ. And Dress is definitely Film Noir!

The Blackened Mirror End of Season Party

But as well as celebrating the end of the season, there will be more goodies too!  We will be announcing the results and winners of the Special Competitions that we’ve been running all season – five very special games:

Game 1: The Broadway Musical GameGame 2: The Hollywood Theatrical Movie Game
Game 3: The Death in Velvet Murder Mystery Game
Game 4: The Shangri-La Game
Game 5: The Mysterious Doorman Game

And how will you know if you solved the mystery of Death in Velvet?  Well, for the very first time we will be broadcasting Episode 4 of Death in Velvet – which contains the solution to the mystery!

This is going to be a really terrific party – make sure that you don’t miss it!

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw: The Seraph Club is preparing for a celebration!

Seraph Club

Today’s jigsaw is a picture of the Seraph Club in Seraph City, owned by Edward Pearse.

We’ll be holding a party there today (Saturday 15th December from 3pm – 6pm) to mark the end of Season 1 of The Blackened Mirror, with all sorts of fun surprises and announcements – more information will be coming on that shortly – although here’s the poster!

The Blackened Mirror End of Season Party

And now – let’s do a jigsaw … but I’ve been a little mean and selected an unusual shape! Actually, I think you’ll find it easy …

The Seraph Club in Seraph City

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

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Join Happy Hunting! for our awesome Christmas show – with the last episode of The Blackened Mirror Season 1

Our studio decked for Xmas

Join us for today’s Happy Hunting! in the treet.tv studios in Garden of Dreams at 3pm, Friday 14th December, to learn about the great seasonal hunts that are going on across the grid, to find out all about the SL Christmas Expo – and the Race for the Bells - and to see the final installment of Season 1 of The Blackened Mirror – and it’s a shocker!

Rosamoo Mendelsohn of Hunt SL, our hunt reporter, has decked out our studio with a positive feast of goodies that can be obtained through the seasonal hunts. She will be on hand to share all the latest hunt news with our host Cinders Vale, and some examples of the wonderful items she’s found.

Prim Perfect Xmas Pavilion

Then it’s off to the SL Christmas Expo, where Cinders talks to Amanda Yven, who is the organiser for the Race for the Bells – and you’ll have a chance to see them in the beautiful Prim Perfect Pavilion, designed by Eliza Wierwight of Patron.

And last, but definitely not least, we have the final episode of Season 1 of The Blackened Mirror. Harland Quinn,Harland Quinn, Alais Alleyn and indefatigable Mr Biggins heading in to danger (rather than trying to escape it).

Heading into Danger in The Blackened Mirror

“You know where we’re going,” says Alais to Quinn at one point, and it’s not a question.

But how does Quinn know? And what will they find at the end of their journey?

It’s … complicated.

But you can find out by watching The Blackened Mirror today, when it’s broadcast for the first time at 3pm SLT as part of Happy Hunting!

And then, tomorrow, you can join us for a celebratory party!

The Blackened Mirror End of Season Party

So join us at 3pm today in the studio for the broadcast. Bring along your hunter friends too. We will be glad to have you all join us for the show.

Or – if you can’t attend in person – tune in at 3pm SLT on Friday for the live show on http://treet.tv/live – where you can now chat with other audience members and even some of the participants during the show – or catch it later in the week on our shows page on the Treet.tv web site at http://treet.tv/shows/happy-hunting.

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw: Heading into Danger in The Blackened Mirror

Heading for danger

Today’s jigsaw is a scene from Episode 6 of The Blackened Mirror, the final episode in the current series.  It finds our main characters, Harland Quinn, Alais Alleyn and indefatigable Mr Biggins heading in to danger (rather than trying to escape it).

“You know where we’re going,” says Alais to Quinn at one point, and it’s not a question.

But how does Quinn know? And what will they find at the end of their journey?

It’s … complicated.

But you can find out by watching The Blackened Mirror today, when it’s broadcast for the first time at 3pm SLT as part of Happy Hunting!

And then, tomorrow, you can join us for a celebratory party!

The Blackened Mirror End of Season Party

But, in the mean-time, let’s do a jigsaw!

Heading Into Danger in The Blackened Mirror

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

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Test your knowledge of The Blackened Mirror in our new web game!

Harland Quinn is taking Miss Alleyn … Fishing

At the end of Episode 1.5 of The Blackened Mirror, Harland Quinn tells Alais Alleyn to get what she needs – and that he will need more ammo; they’re going fishing.

But what other arrangements does Quinn make as he plans to leave Seraph City?

Now we can tell you …

Before leaving Seraph City, Harland Quinn wrote a number of letters and sent them to various friends, telling them where they might find the gifts he had left for them. And you can find the letters on the web – but you’ll have to answer a few questions that test your knowledge of The Blackened Mirror to find them!

You’ll find full instructions on how to play this game, and the first clue here.

The final item will lead you to a special prize – it unlocks access to part 3 of Death in Velvet, the radio play of a Harland Quinn mystery (separate to the main series, but referencing some of the characters – and with some very special guest stars!).

By the end of the game, you should have had access to a number of letters from Quinn (and thank you to Zander Greene for writing the letters) from which you will learn something more about Harland Quinn and his relationships with the people around him. And that, for Blackened Mirror fans, is the best prize of all!

What messages is Quinn leaving behind in Seraph City?

However, there is also a version of this game that you can play within Second Life, where you can find extra gifts. For more details of the inworld game, see here.

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