Calling All Holiday Hosts!
The Festival of Lights will be taking place in There.com over the next couple of weeks. Do you have a winter holiday event in mind that you would like to plan and include in the festival?
Some past fun and creative events held during the holidays include winter a wonderland fashion show, Santa scavenger hunt, caroling, secret Santa gift exchange, eight days of Hanukkah, winter ball, ice skating, holiday quests, Developer Showcase, sleigh rides and much more!
If you’d like to plan a holiday event to include in the Festival of Lights, make sure to add the keyword FOL to your event description. You can also contact Staff member Pyrena_Zosime and send her a ThereMail or Facebook message with the details of your event to feature on the There blog and Facebook page.
Also, it’s not too early to start planning for New Year’s Eve events! Thereian Greenie is planning a NYE Masquerade Ball. Contact her to plan coinciding events to celebrate the arrival of 2017!
Thanksgiving Events in There.com
Gobble, gobble…it’s almost turkey time! Thanksgiving Day week is here and there are a few celebrations and games scheduled over the next couple of days in the virtual world There.com.
Happening around the clock this week is Jodi780’s Thanksgiving Day Quest. The clues to the quest are set throughout the Fantasy Island Neighborhood. The residents have built a beautiful tribute to Native Americans and show a scene from the early settlers Thanksgiving Day feast. Stop by and take in the sights and sounds.
Feel free to drop a writing document letting the community know what you are thankful for this season in the Pilgrim Village Lot. There is a nice collection of books, scrolls and brochures left by people of the Neighborhood and visitors expressing their gratitude and giving thanks this holiday season.
Thanksgiving Gobble BINGO will be hosted by Coolnet560 at the Avalon Therriotte on Wednesday, November 23 at 6:00 PM PST. Sign up for the event here.
Thanksgiving Day events are being added daily so check up on the Activities Page and join an event.
Ourstock Oobie Antics Event
Photo Credit: Robert Rodrigues
Are you ready for a fun and challenging Ourstock event silly enough to give you the giggles? You’ll need an Ourstock Oobie prop to wear and a whole lot of determination and patience to win this game. The shenanigans begin Thursday, November 17th at 5:00 PM PST/8:00 PM EST.
Once you’ve got your bear suit on, enter the red elevator that will take you up to the platform. Step out onto the rickety platform and gain your balance. You must successfully walk, run and jump over the obstacles stacked along the narrow pathway. Watch out for the bubble trap in the middle…you’ll never escape! You must complete your journey over the beam and through the obstacles all the way to the chair on the bell tower in order to be included in the dice roll. Avies are not allowed to save spots to teleport back to if they fall off. You will be disqualified if you cheat. You must start over at the elevator entrance if you lose your balance. You can attempt the crossing as many times as you like during the duration of the event. Pushing, shoving and jumping are all allowed as it is every BEAR for himself!
The prize for first and second place is $13,500 Tbux or a special 2016 Ourstock ZMW buggy. First place gets to choose the Tbux or vehicle prize. Sign up early to get to the event as there will be a lot of avies dressed up like bears pushing and shoving their way to first place.
Books and Tea on Sundays
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Read any good books lately? Share your love of literature this weekend at Books and Tea hosted by Jessica_6. Discuss poems, short stories, books and authors with fellow bookworms in There.com.
You can catch Jessica_6 every week on Sundays at 2:00 PM PST/5:00 PM EST at her humble abode over in the Maidenflight Therehouse Neighborhood.
Sign up for the Books and Tea Club for more information about this weekly staple event.
Tuesday Theme Planning Meetings
Every month in There.com our community members come up with creative themed events for everyone to enjoy. Special events are planned for holidays, the different seasons and fun annual themes in addition to never before celebrated events.
Every week on Tuesday evenings, the community is invited to attend the Theme Planning Meetings to discuss upcoming event themes, brainstorm new ideas and review past events to find out what worked well and if there need to be any suggested changes for next time. If you have a creative idea brewing for a fun themed event in There, join your host B_A_B_S on Tuesday nights to share your contributions.
Weekly meetings will be held in different locations throughout There.com. You can search the Activities page for scheduled weekly meetings or join the There_Events club for email updates.
10th Anniversary Ourstock Festival
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Grab your bell bottom pants and groovy glasses because Ourstock in There.com is in full swing! The hippies have taken over and it’s all about peace, love and granola. Don’t miss out on the 10th anniversary of the Ourstock festival in There.com going on until November 20th. Events are being added daily so search Ourstock on the Activities page to find the next event.
Photo Credit: Mimi Beckton Facebook
Photo Credit: Robert Rodrigues Facebook
The next upcoming event for the festival is Ourstock BINGO to be held on November 14th at 6:00 PM PST/9:00 PM EST and hosted by PrincessPebbie.
The 10th annual Ourstock event is being hosted on Hippie Islands. Pitch your tent on the outskirts of the Islands and hang out for the next week and enjoy the festival with new friends and neighbors. You can grab a PAZ from the Shop to set up camp.
Murder Mystery In There.com
The residents of Fantasy Island recently made a grizzly discovery over at Minxyx’s Place. Upon entering the Saloon, they spotted the body of woman dressed in a hospital gown dangling by a noose from the barn rafters. The woman was a mental patient who had escaped from the hospital. At first glance the authorities presumed it was an open and shut case of suicide, but on closer inspection it was clear that something far more sinister had occurred.
Can you read the suicide note the escaped patient left behind and follow the clues throughout the Fantasy Island Neighborhood to solve the murder mystery? Put your sleuth skills to the test and figure out this case of Whodunnit!
Solve the Fantasy Island Freaky Festival murder mystery in There.com for a chance to win a one of a kind Whodunnit buggy! The murder mystery competition runs until Sunday, October 30th.
Women’s Halloween Costume Showcase
Don’t get caught wearing last year’s costume to the Halloween party in There.com! Dress up your avatar in a fresh new costume from the Auctions. Our Designers have been hard at work this season to bring you creepy, scary, cutesy and sexy outfits to choose from. Browse the costume section and find the best fit for your personality.
Halloween Decorating Contest
Halloween is a hauntingly good time of year in the virtual world There.com. Our Designers have endless ghoulish imaginations and have created spooky and grisly virtual items for our community to decorate with during the Halloween season. If you are planning on building a haunted house, outdoor bloodbath, creepy cemetery or a scary scene, we’d like to invite you to enter your Zone in the 2016 Halloween Decorating Contest for the chance to win a Spooktacular gift.
There will be tours set up of participating locations between October 26th and 29th. Three anonymous judges will visit all of the locations and vote for their top three favorite Spooktacular spaces. A Halloween gift will be available for those participants that take 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. As an added prize bonus, all contest participants will have their names submitted in a dice roll for the chance to win a gift. The dice roll and contest winners announcement will take place at the Spooktacular Halloween Party on October 29th. Contest participants to not have to be present at the party to be accounted for in the dice roll. This year’s contest and Spooktacular Halloween Party is hosted by Coolnet560.
Good luck to all of our participants! Thanks for sharing your creativity with our community
Halloween House of Horrors
Superdale Mr. Halloween extraordinaire has done it again! Each year his Halloween builds in There.com get bigger and better. It’s hard to believe he could top the previous year, but you’d have to teleport over to the Big Easy Island and decide for yourself.
With a total of four 100-drop Lots, there’s so much blood and horror to see, you might miss some of the small details. It’s easy to get lost in the maze of Halloween frights. It might take more than one trip through to really soak in all of the spooky delights. So grab a group of friends if you dare and take a ride on the biggest Halloween scare!
Start your epic Halloween journey in the Place of Horror Graveyard. Here you will find a book of tales of unbelievable horror. Read along if you dare and find the first clue of many throughout the path of terror.
Find the graveyard escape route up the stairs and carefully walk down the rope bridge past the giant troll. If you’re really quiet and can contain your screams, he’ll remain asleep and you can slip past him. Enter the House of the Dead at your own risk!
Be careful to remain on the dock path wandering through Blood In The Bayou or your innards might be added to the blood bath below! Scurry past the fire breathing dragon and away from the army of ghosts to make it safely out the other side.
The last trail of terror on the ghastly tour is Fire In The Woods. This one might make you break a sweat! Make sure to keep your arms and clothing articles away from the flames. Be careful of creepy skeletons and things that go bump in the night along the way. Phew! You made it out alive without a scratch.
Create your own House of Terror with Halloween items available in the Auctions. Sign up for Halloween events celebrated throughout the month of October in There.com.
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