oh no! The Oziversary has been taken over!

"Help!" cried Dorothy. "The Wicked Witch of the West is trying to take over Oz! Will no one helps us defeat this evil plot?"

If you fail to answer Dorothy's call for help then I'm afraid, poor soul, that the Witch already has her claws sunk deep into your heart and you are beyond any help I can offer you - but those still pure of heart listen well.

After one glorious year filled with happiness and golden sunshine, a cloud of gloom is descending over Oz. From Munchkin Land to the great City of Emerald itself plans were being made for a glorious celebration to mark the one year anniversary of Magic of Oz and the good fortune the fair Candy and the gallant Malk have brought to the land. However, the Wicked Witch caught wind of the plans and is now meaning to hijack the celebration, steal all the anniversary gifts for herself, and allow only the flying monkeys to dance at the balls!

We need your help to save the Anniversary Celebration! Starting Monday, October 12th, citizens and friends of Oz alike will join forces to defeat The Witch's evil plans! 21 merchants of Oz have made gifts for those brave enough to battle The Witch. Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, has learned that The Witch intends to capture the Silver Slippers and thus take control of the celebration. Glinda has made an infinite number of copies of the Silver Slippers to hide all over the Magic of Oz sim in order to confuse The Witch.

The fake slippers are of no use to The Witch but if you find a fake pair of slippers and follow the directions hidden in them, Glinda will reward you for helping to increase the Wicked Witch's confusion! The Silver Slipper Hunt will run for the duration of the anniversary celebration, October 12-18, so be sure to find some time to come and help confuse The Witch.

In addition to the Silver Slipper Hunt, there will also be a photo contest, fishing contests with unique items to find and lindens to win, and dancing, dancing, dancing! More informtaion to follow in subsequent posts, but remember Oz is counting on you! Mark your calendars, The Silver Slipper Hunt starts on Monday, October 12 at the Magic of Oz sim! Come and defend Oz from the plots and schemes of The Witch!

(thanks to Elizabeth Tinsley for the write up of the story!)

One Year Oziversary!

The Magic of Oz celebrates its one year anniversary October 12th - 18th with a week long celebration! Events include the Ruby Slipper Hunt, two 7 Seas Fishing tournaments with 3,000L prizes each, Monster Ball and Masquerade Ball with prizes, and a Flickr contest. Don't miss a chance to see a preview of the Ozimals bunnies at the Q & A before the launch!

Stay tuned to this blog for more updates :)

Huzzah!

Magic of Oz has it's own blog! Welcome! This is the place to be to find out about events and news about the Second Life sim, Magic of Oz. I've moved all the Oz posts from my jewelry blog here for continuity.

Stay tuned for more info on our St. Patrick's Day Frolic ;)

Winter Solstice Ball Tonight at 6 pm SLT

Come on over to Magic of Oz for the Winter Solstice Ball (yes, I know that the solstice was yesterday ;) ) A wonderful excuse to just dress up and dance! Here's the official blurb:

You are invited to the Winter Solstice Ball to be held in Emerald City Monday evening at 6 - 8 pm SLT. Dress is your most frothy and gorgeous ballgowns and elegant evening wear. Masks and jabots, ruffles and cuffs, lace and tailcoats, oh my! Prizes for the Most Elegantly Dressed Male and Female - $1500L each to Silent Sparrow and Evie's Closet, respectively. Special Solstice gift for all Ball attendees :) Dance to classical and holiday music in the Emerald City ballroom on the second floor - don't miss this magical event! Hope to see you there :)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Magic%20of%20Oz/110/234/59

The Frolic Starts Today!

Yes, its time for the Oz Winterfest Candy Cane Frolic! What is a Frolic, you ask? Well, it is a super fun event where you frolic about looking for candy canes, of course! Any similarity to a HUNT is purely coincidental. *winks*

The Frolic opens TODAY at 9 am SLT. We will be closing the sim from 7 am to 9 am to prepare all the candy canes for dispersal.

The complete list of designers (in a completely random order):

Silent Sparrow
Rebel X
KessKreations
The Laughing Academy
Sn@tch
Schadenfreude
Loulou & Co.
Violet Voltaire
Risusipo Chipmunk Shop
MnM Design
Penguin Village
Step Up
Guild of Crie
Reve du Crie
Stringer Mausoleum
Wasabi Pills
DoD
Delight-ful
Eye Candy
Treasured Visions

How do you Frolic? Its as easy as one, two, three!

Step 1. Look around. There are candy canes spawning randomly all over the sim. When you see one, click it. It will disappear and you will get a gift tag. (Oooh, you know what gift tags mean, right? Presents!) Red Candy Canes contain unlimited items and Green Candy Canes are limited - only 10 green candy canes will drop per hour.

Step 2. Wear your gift tag. It will appear in your hand and tell you which shop to visit to get your gift. Find that shop in Oz.

Step 3. There will be a green striped gift with ruby slippers somewhere in the shop. You need to be within 2 meters of the gift, then click your tag. You will receive your gift!


Some additional information:

The tags are one use only! Discard the tags after you receive your item, they will not work again.

If the vendor has put more than one package in the gift box, the box will distribute the gifts AT RANDOM. This means that you will need to collect multiple tags to get all of a vendor's gifts and it may take quite a few tries to get them all. This was solely at the vendor's discretion and I invite you to send any "You've Been Naughty!" mail to them and not me ;)

The list of shops that are doing multiple gifts are:

KessKreations
Risusipo Chipmunk Shop
Violet Voltaire
Eye Candy
Schadenfreude

We hope you enjoy the Frolic - happy hu...I mean frolicking!

Stay Shiny,

Candy Cerveau

More details on Winterfest :)

Come join in the fun at Magic of Oz this winter season! We have six WEEKS of fun stuffs to do here in the Land of Oz.

First up is the Winterfest flickr contest. Each week for the next six weeks we will take submissions in our flickr group for winter photos in Oz. The rules are simple. Winter or holiday themed. Use different areas of the sim for extra credit. For super extra credit, look around and utilize the awesome interactive decorations all around the sim. Ther are lots of things to do here - ice skating, sleigh riding, food and drinks to find - ride a carousel! We will be looking for creativity as much as a lovely picture. Photoshopping is allowed but not required. Malk and I will choose a winner each week who receives 500L. The six winners will then go to a public vote for best Winter photo in Oz. The grand prize winner gets $5,000L! Exciting stuffs yes? See the discussion in our flickr group at http://flickr.com/groups/magicofoz/

We are also doing Festivus in the Witch's Castle - a SL holiday for the rest of us! Come visit the Festivus Pole and air your grievances anonymously through our Angry Snowman! Marvel at the display of Feats of Strength and enjoy whatever other rituals we can come up with.

We are also planning a formal Winter Solstice Ball on the 21st at Emerald City. Ballgowns, dancing, prizes and merriment galore =D Do you love beautiful flowing dresses and dashing formalwear? Does the thought of dancing the shortest night of the year away to lovely holiday music spun by a live DJ sound like fun? Then this is an event not to be missed! Prizes for Best Dressed, of course. Times to be announce shortly.

Then we are planning our Candy Cane Frolic - this is a hunt with a twist. (ha!) We will have candy canes (magic ones of course) that spawn randomly throughout the sim, just like the ruby slippers. But in this case, the candy cane gives you a gift tag labeled with a certain store. Inside the store is a present. You wear the tag, touch the present and get a gift! Easy as can be :)

Oh, also new holiday custom fish on the way and fishing in different areas of the sim! Maybe fishing tournaments if I can convince Malk to run some...*grins*

Last but CERTAINLY not least... we have new stores in Munchkin Land! Welcome Alchemy, L & Co., The Laughing Academy, and Reve du Crie/Guild of Crie to Oz. Stop by and visit the newly remodeled section 2 of ML. I think we have one remaining open shop there and we would love to get a hair designer! IM Magic Scribe for more information.

Questions, comments, or flinging snowballs? Im me, Malkavyn Eldritch, or Magic Scribe.

Stay Shiny!

Candy Cerveau
Self-Appointed Queen of Oz
(just call me Ozma ;) )

Winterfest at Oz!

Magic of Oz is gearing up for the holiday season with events all through the month of December! We will be closing the sim Monday December 1st at 7 am SLt to transform Oz into a magical winter wonderland! We hope it will only take a day, but the flying monkeys don't like their elf outfits so they are working somewhat slower than normal ;)

This is a quick preview with more info to come after we re-open the sim. Stay tuned ;)