Relay for Life of Secondlife 2025 - The Magic of Hope

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And with last weekend another Relay season has come to a close,  It was grand fun even if missing a few people.  

Great music from the DJ's and I had a fun time switching clothing or avatars! And taking friends about the track.  Crashed hard in that first lap about the sims,  twice,  but then not really any crashing after that.

We DID loose a sim for some reason and kept having to by pass it. Never did hear why but it came back about two hours before it ended.

oh and I made it 15 laps and I wasn't even trying!

Track stats

Avatars:     1249
Laps:     5254
Distance:     47,433,942 meters
Course Length:     9,029 meters

36 sims unless I counted wrong

They said we circled the world if this was one long track!

Photos!

 I tried to get a photo of each camp sight before relay started, can be seen here I think I got them all 

All the fun photos of actual Relay day here! Fun with avatars and other things! 

 And deeper visits in to some camps can be seen here Sadly the Labyrinth build was picked up by the time I got to it. I did go into detail with the stunning Fantasy Faire build. 

 And lastly photos of the annual sink the sims end party I think the water went up the highest it has in a while this year! 

Relay Grand total  L$: 110,802,508
USD: $443,210.00

Steelhead Grand Total L$: 64,521
USD: $258.08

Fantasy Faire L$32,289,022
USD: $129,156.09

More on Fantasy Faires camp on the track 

Next years theme!! 

Wild for a Cure! Steelhead is already making plans!

The Light in the Darkness

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Its time to take a break from the Fun of being at Relay to Remember just WHY we are here.  The Luminaria Ceremony.

We Relay for those we have lost.

We Relay for those that are fighting.

And we Relay for Hope that one day we will never need to Relay again.

For any that may want to watch the Luminaria Ceremony    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY_FVWbyIjA

 

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Lets Get ready to REEELLAAAAYYYYY

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Steelheads camp sight is done and ready. I took an image Fuzzball posted as an idea *the mad hatters hat as a house* and ran with it.  It was my first time doing the theme for us!  So you gotta come see it! Big Magic Hat houses ALL over!   Represenging the many hats that Cancer Survivors and Caregives have to wear!
There a LOT of amazing Camps this year.  The Theme is the Magic of hope so LOTS of magic!  Theres a Hogwarts,  Fantasia, The Labrythin,  An entire forest of Disney stories, wonderland, Oz, Lots of Draqons, lots of Fairies. And Sayige has, for Fantasy Faires build, taken over an entire Sim with  ghosts of Junction.  Bits and pieces from several of her past builds for Junction and its breath taking!

We have reached SO MANY fun raising milestones this year! Including SIX MILLION USD raised over the entire time that Second life has holding Relays!

LOOK AT THIS TRACK 

 

Watch the opening ceremony and other ceremonies on Youtube !  https://www.youtube.com/@RelayForLifeofSecondLife

Listen along https://t1radio.com/  Great music and lots of fun!

Relay schedule, Theme hours! Dress up and have fun CLICKY CLICK 

 

 LETS DO THIS!!! 

TIME TO RELAY FOR LIFE!!

TWENTY THREE YEARS

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Be a quarter of a century soon... Adar and I got married on June 1st 2002

Time to Drift into the Mists - Farewell to Fantasy Faire 2025

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This year my posting of Fantasy Faire started with a dream of Junction. and now its time for Junction to drift into the Mists once more. Becoming just a dream again. 

But Junction will rise once more from the Mist and bring with it new worlds to explore and fall in love with in 11 months time. And we will spend that 11 months dreaming of it and how we can help Fight the Unweaver and eliminate the Cancer he brings. Till then we keep dreaming of her. 

 This year my Faire started with me being preforming for the first time! With Merryjests Wonders show! *photos* and a *video* . It was great fun even if it was mostly standing backstage. But hey, thats theater for you! 

This year the annual Kids Roleplay was a little short for a few reasons and almost didn't happen. But the Fantasy roleplay sim Astrium stepped in to make sure something happened! And so that is how we got The Travelers - The Echowrite Quill Which you can read about on the link there and see my photos from it at this link. I'd like to thank Astrium for doing this so last moment and it was still fun!  

 Now I did miss out on a bus ride this year, not sure how that happened, I'm blaming the power outage we had on that. Nearly three days with out electricity! I Missed Beltane! It also took out some of my planned time to chill and go to shows and things! So I do feel I missed out on a lot of things I did get a few random photos though *link*  

 I also did a thing halfway through faire that I don't know how many noticed! I'll be making a post about that later this week. But it was TOTALLY MerryJests Fault!  

 And of course we had the annual year in Meeting. It was totally not a rave. And I did not dress as Jem for it! Photos of the meeting are at here 

Some of the regions added things to their build over the run and I took a walk about to try to get photos of those after the faire was closed to the public. You can see those here

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 Being in Junction as the sims are sent back to the Mist is a lovely special tradition Ive grown to look forwards to. Though this year Junction had a bit of a fit and crashed everyone three times before being officially sent to the mist! Photos here You can watch the last minute of Junction 2025 here, enjoy the music! 

I still want that recorder..OH WAIT I FOUND IT Enjoy... 

 Now to prep for my 23rd Wedding Anniversary on June 1st and for Relay Weekend on June 7th & 8th. I think I may be the main person making Steelheads camp sight this year. ..thats not nerve wracking or anything...

Floating away - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

The waters about Mire of Whispers weren't deep but you could still float if you tried. 

 

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The Ancient One - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

He was so much bigger in person as he wandered The Wraithwoods 

 

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Dandelion Daydreams - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

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Flying feeshes - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

More memories before the wrap up post.

Scrunkle Gulch was such a special sim.  Even the mega sized TWI cat was small compared to the cat tree in it! I will miss it so much.

But I have small bits of it to take home thanks to the quest!

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Sunset of the faire...

And the sun has set on Fantasy Faire 2025

Junction has faded into the mist, now its time to go Second Star to the right...

I'll have a proper wrap up soon. Probably over the weekend.

 

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Floating lights in Holi - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

Holi was a breathtaking build and it had the most beautiful river 

 

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Jem is My Name - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

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My New Friend - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

A thing I'm doing this year as I had to many photo ideas and not enough time!.  Do I remember what I have one?  Not really, but could figure it out if pressed.

I do remember which sim!

So for the first of these here is my new friend in the depths of the pool in Yuum Baalal Grotto 

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Fantasy Faire 2025 Sim - Fairelands Quest sim- The Isle of Dreams

ISLE OF DREAMS | SLURL
Sponsored by VRazeTheBar
Region by Garvie Garzo & Solas Enchantment
The Fairelands Quest Region

*Official text from the Fantasy Faire page*

All of my photos of the sim can be seen at this link here Some select ones can be seen on my Flickr in their proper size not changed for the album .

The Isle of Dreams is the sim part two, and a few small bits of part one, of the annual fairelands quest is held on. Its beautiful and fun! And while there is one day left for the faire to do the quest It's Doable! Go do it get lots of things!

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If you get the Upgraded hud with outfits this is the lovely Female one by Belle Epoque a special color of their Brie Dress. The male outfit is a recolor of Be's Glade I showed off earlier. There are also dinkie, Tiny and Petite outfits!

The bird is Pax and comes with the hunt pack as well as the lantern!

My plan now is to get the Lavendell hunt done and take random photos about the sims that are more for fun then showing off items by creators. But that will still happen!

Fantasy Faire 2025 Sim - Pixie Dust

PIXIEDUST | SLURL
Sponsored by The Akipelago
Region by Aelva Fairelander
The Arts & Entertainment Region

*Official text from the Fantasy Faire page*

 All of my photos of the sim can be seen at this link here  Some select ones can be seen on my Flickr  in their proper size not changed for the album .

Pixie dust was the sim where all the Performance shows took place, except for a few about the fairelands. My brother Merryjest preformed his original opera the first full day! And I was in it! He used a song for my scene he wrote for me uuuhhhhh in the last century... ..yes we've known each other that long lol you can see the full show here  

There is underwater stuff in this simple but lovely build. I enjoy the lil village just up from the performance area a lot!  

Next year I have SO got to blog these two after junction so you get the schedules!

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Fantasy Faire 2025 Sim - The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour 2025

THE GOLDEN HOUR | SLURL
Sponsored by The Realm of Rosehaven
Region by Elizabeth Tinsley, Saiyge Lotus & Haveit Neox
The Event Region

*Official text from the Fantasy Faire page*

 All of my photos of the sim can be seen at this link here  Some select ones can be seen on my Flickr  in their proper size not changed for the album .

While most of the events are over now the region built to hold them are just lovely! Here is the Golden Hour which has the FaireChylde Airship in it for a faire full of Dance parties!  

Maybe next year I should do the events regions after I do Junction so people can get the event scheduled lol.

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Yuum Baalal Grotto - Creators

Click here for a Shopping Guide to all stores on Yuum Baalal Grotto I will not be posting store SLURL's individually, as my goal is for you to go to the faire to buy the items there! If you want information on an item I have on that is NOT at Fantasy Fair, and that will mostly be hair and poses, Ask for it! I'll be happy to tell you, if I remember what I used, but I am trying to highlight the Fantasy Faire exclusive items, or items by FF vendors you can get at their faire shop only. And not everything I have on.

SLURL to Yuum Baalal Grotto

Not much in clothing in Yuum but lots of avatar bits, accessors and some just fun things! OH and you can get parts of the sim build! Click for Bigger

 

YOU WANT THIS KIWI MOUNT. The animations are HYSTERICAL.  Oh holy crap I laughed so hard when I went through the dances. It's by Positive Wavelength  and theres lots of skins to pick from, I grabbed one of the Relay offerings to use!  Theres also an avatar of it if you wanna run around as a Kiki and a holdable verson

My outfit is by Constraint and is their Celestial Kaos Dress in a special relay color. It sparkles so much! The crystals about my body are by  Ichor and are their Aether Crysts, and I think they are just nifty looking!

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This gorgeous dress is by Barracuda called Josette. You can get a range of colors and the color has gold embellishments. 

 

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This is the first of two Tail skins for the Riptide mer tail. And its MUSHROOM themed. It is by mermade and is delightfully called the mershroom. The hat I just added. 

 

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And this tail skin. which gets a little washed out in the wind light is by Krature called Borealis , But it had a lovely iridescence to it! So shimmery! 

 

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Lastly just a bit of the Sim you can buy. ::Static:: Gigant Marimo and Oyster Caveshrooms and SO MUCH more! GO check the store! 

 

Fantasy Faire 2025 Sim - Yuum Baalal Grotto

YUUM BAALAL GROTTO | SLURL
Sponsored by ::Static::
Region by Nama Gearz
A Shopping Region

Journal entry No.1 April 16, 1883 – In tales whispered around flickering fires, for generations that cave was always a place of legend. As if hidden by the earth itself, kept secret from the world above to preserve the life-force within. The stories passed down speak of flora and fauna that are illuminated by the power of this lush cavern, the grotto walls themselves glittering with energy, but more interestingly tell of a great stag at the heart of it all that gives the gift of life itself. But that’s a legend for you. Every dangerous expedition starts out with one of those. Well, time to pack up. Let’s go see what we find..

*Official text from the Fantasy Faire page*

 All of my photos of the sim can be seen at this link here  Some select ones can be seen on my Flickr  in their proper size not changed for the album .

On the outside this build looks like an unassuming mountain.

on the INSIDE it is a bio-luminance wonder with fungi plants, a pool that has a surprise in its depths and a stunning giant Deer Skeleton!  And you WANT to use the region wind lights here it makes such a difference and its amazing! Go Explore!  Buy the bits of the build you want! MUSHROOMS

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Galerie Gaillard - Creators

Click here for a Shopping Guide to all stores on Galerie Gaillard I will not be posting store SLURL's individually, as my goal is for you to go to the faire to buy the items there! If you want information on an item I have on that is NOT at Fantasy Fair, and that will mostly be hair and poses, Ask for it! I'll be happy to tell you, if I remember what I used, but I am trying to highlight the Fantasy Faire exclusive items, or items by FF vendors you can get at their faire shop only. And not everything I have on.

SLURL to Galerie Gaillard

Sadly Contraptions store is not quite yet open so I cant show anything Walton is selling from the sim but I'm hoping for that big Corpse flower! The build does have a whole lot of great designers and stores to go into. I'm still contemplating getting Aii's just gorgeous and amazing Naga, it comes with so many add ons and people are doing amazing things with it! 

 

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Lets move into the things I do have though! Well in this case Adar has it, and it is this super sexy outfit by Somnium called Young Regent. Its gonna make any guy look SOOOOO good. 

 

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This outfit by Raven Bell is really just amazing. The Lorien Harem Pants and Top, sold separately. it SPARKLES, it Shimmers! It comes in SO MANY colors and sparkles! 

 

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Grasshopper Street is quickly becoming a favorite for period clothing. Their Louise Dress was perfect to match to one of their relay offerings this year! They have a whole slew of accessories themed around the Corpse Flower! I matched the dress with the Corpse Flower Circlet. There's also a hat for the gents! 

 

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I have been drooling over this gown since I first saw a friend wearing it. The Lilyveil gown by Stoic isn't new to the faire but there IS a faire color exclusive hud to get! Just, be sure to also buy the dress. But its WORTH it, you can't see the butterfly bow in the back. Different parts of the gown are effected 

 

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Zan's once again made a marvelous set of outfits. This year he did a whole stunning Peacock theme. I grabbed the Purple for relay but there is also peacock blue and Albino styles! 

 

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Fantasy Faire 2025 Sim - Galerie Gaillard

GALERIE GAILLARD | SLURL
Sponsored by [ContraptioN]
Region by Walton F. Wainwright
A Shopping Region

Behold! The collected curiosities of the esteemed Aurélien Gaillard, gentleman adventurer, eagerly await the eyes of the viewing public. Once a private collection, the new administrator, Loanne Gaillard, has generously opened the doors of this elegant art nouveau estate to those of inquiring dispositions. No need to traipse to far flung lands of danger and intrigue, book your visit today and step into a world of rare creatures, artefacts, and historical oddities, collected into one convenient location with full service airship docks – La Galerie Gaillard!

*Official text from the Fantasy Faire page*

 All of my photos of the sim can be seen at this link here  Some select ones can be seen on my Flickr  in their proper size not changed for the album .

This build is amazing and detailed and MUST be experienced in person to fully appreciate it. It is a love letter to art nouveau architecture and just breath taking. The build is full of displays of plants,  animals  and artifacts. And when you get to the artifact area there are plaques to click to learn what your looking at. Contraptions shop is housed in a stunning Airship parked way at the top.  And I am so glad I went on the Lit fest Tour of the build before making this post as it was NOT there when I took the photos in the wee hours of the morning!

But really, go see this sim!  I can not wait to see what bits of it Walton puts up for sale!  I want it ALL....but especially the corpse flower lol.

I took 100 photos of this build so you REALLY must go look at them all! Or better yet go see the build in person!

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