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You Are Invited: Our Second Life Birthday 8 Exhibit

Posted on June 19, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The Carriage Trade SL8B Exhibit in Second Life!

Hey folks! It’s that time once again, when Second Life is celebrating its anniversary!

We have a lovely exhibit at the SL8B celebrations, on the Stunning region. Our exhibit is a miniature version of Carriage Trade and we are celebrating the magical, majestic horses of Second Life.

We're showcasing the Royal Weddings, too!

We would like to invite all of you to come and participate in the exhibit, by riding on the carousel, ‘performing’ as a circus horse, posing on the Cinderella Carriage photo op, standing in the stall, or simply lounging under the apple tree.

Our Carousel @ SL8B

We have many fun gifts hidden away in the exhibit, such as in the windfall apples, the tack trunk, and more. We are participating in the Octoberville hunt. And we’ve added a lot of interactivity including an Eye Visit mini-tour of the exhibit. And we’ve even left enough prim allowance and space to be able to rez out carriages!

The stable display...check out the slide show!

The exhibit opens at 10 am  SLT on Monday, June 20th. We won’t schedule people and horses to be there, (nightmare!) but come on by and hang out, and meet new people.  There’s always a big crowd on the first day and then things get a bit less hectic. We’ll also plan some fun driving events, since when else willw e get 21 regions laid out so ideally for driving?

Take a video tour by sitting on the camera, and then take pictures of a friend on the Cinderella photoopp!

When you come: please make sure you have reduced the scripts in your avatar. Also, once you step off our plot, you should remove your sound attachment, because scripts don’t work on the walkways and your sound attachment will become ‘stuck’ on whatever gait you were in when you left the plot.

Here are the important dates:

June 20—10:00 a.m. SLT: Gates open to the public!
June 23—The Birthday! Special ceremonies included!
June 26—Last day of entertainment.
July 2—Gates close at 11:59 p.m. SLT

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Making Carriage Trade Home

Posted on June 15, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Making Carriage Trade Your Home

Carriage Trade is home to a vibrant community of creative, friendly people and horses.  What brings people and horses to Carriage Trade, initially, are our activities and facilities.  What keeps them at Carriage Trade is the depth and warmth of the community.

We practice an aggressive friendliness with our visitors. It is expected that all residents will speak to visitors if only to welcome them to the estate and invite them to look around. We are strongly opposed to cliquishness, and actively work to avoid it at Carriage Trade.  We aspire to be a friendly, welcoming community to all of those who follow our covenant rules.

Horses & riders gather outside the Carriage House

Carriage Trade is a themed equestrian lifestyle community, and we have a strict covenant that helps ensure that the community adheres to the theme guidelines and rules.  With a full complement of estate managers, special tour guides and greeters, and our active livery service, Carriage Trade is a haven for those individuals who wish to experience a more innocent, PG-rated equestrian experience.

Gathering to prepare for cross-country riding

Our theme of the equestrian lifestyle appeals to more than just riders and humans, however. Carriage Trade is also home to dogs, cats, and birds.  We welcome all humans and natural animal avatars that are native to the United Kingdom and the north east quadrant of the United States.

Please, leave your fantasy, anthro-animal, and sexualized avatars at home when you visit Carriage Trade.  We admire your creativity, but these avatars are not in alignment with our theme, our rules, or our covenant. Thank you for understanding.

Our 6-Horse Hitch is Great Fun

Joining the Carriage Trade community is very easy! Simply locate a property (Stall, stable, apartment, estate) that appeals to you and rent it! We’ll give you an orientation to the estate and its rules, and then introduce you to the community. We will make it easy for you to become part of our active, engaged community.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Carriage Trade community.

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The Livery @ Carriage Trade

Posted on June 13, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The Livery @ Carriage Trade

 

The livery service at Carriage Trade offers our visitors and guests an opportunity to rent one or more horses for dates, special events, and for just every day riding around.  If a visitor wishes to ensure that one or more horses are available for riding, they simply purchase a a 15-minute or 30-minute voucher form our voucher vendor or SL Marketplace.

Call a horse by ‘touching’ its paging board in the livery, and when it arrives, present it with the voucher.

The horse will saddle up, help you get mounted, and take you off for a 15- or 30-minute ride! Of course, horses are available for longer times and you can always request a favorite horse!

Core hours of operation: Sun-Saturday, 7 am SLT to 8 pm SLT.  Outside of these hours horses may be available, but no guarantee.  Please visit the livery to see which horses are available if you want immediate service.

1.    Vouchers are sold in the SL marketplace and the Carriage Trade Livery in the Carriage House.  Vouchers consist of no-mod, no-copy tickets. Riders may purchase these vouchers in 15-minuteand 30-minute vouchers.  Each Voucher is redeemable for 15 minutes or 30 minutes of riding/person/horse.

2.      Vouchers can be used with any of the CT Livery horses that are available to ride.

3.      Horses are registered in the livery stable and have a livery prim for paging purposes.

4.    Vouchers should be given to the horse at the time of rental.  Riders should expect these no-copy vouchers to leave their inventory and go to the horse.  The horse must have a voucher before it will leave the livery yard.

5.    Horses can accept tips for exceptional service.

6. Riders may request that the horse take the bit or that the rider be given the reins.

7. Please! keep it PG, no verbal or RP abuse of our horses.  CT Livery horses are allowed to dump any rider who misbehaves towards them; and that rider’s bad behavior will be logged, sent to management, and the rider’s access removed from Carriage Trade Estate,

8. Play nice, have fun!

****Rules for riders****

a.    Keep it PG, please.

b.    Must not abuse the horses verbally or in RP (no whipping, smacking, etc.)

c.    Horses reserve the right to  dismount riders if riders are inappropriate with them.

d.    No refunds.

e.    May not take horses off estate.

f.    May tip horses, although this is not required.

g.    May ask horse to give guided tour.

h.    Horses respond to voice commands and stay in role, unless otherwise requested.

i.    Horses customarily keep control of the reins for novice riders. If the rider wants to have control of the reins, please ask the horse to release them.

****Horses may dismount riders who are behaving badly towards the horse**** “

Behaving badly includes: Inappropriate gestures/text/voice; verbal or physical abuse (RPed or not); any sort of sexual overtures or attempted age play.  Any horse experiencing this sort of behavior will immediately dismount the rider, log the offensive behavior in local chat or IM, and send the log to Shenlei Flasheart, Carriage Trade Equerry, for review.  There are no refunds to riders who behave badly!

Carriage Trade Management, May 2011

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Pony PLAYGROUND now open!

Posted on June 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment


Rattles the grain bucket for the ponehs out there!

If you haven’t already noticed it, trot on by the Pony Playground in Carriage Trade, where everything is poneh-sized! Check out the pony-sized herdable cow; ride the Pony Carousel, or even take a turn or two on the Pony Hotwalker, filled with fabulous pony prizes. And of course, adorable pony-sized stalls, just 4 in all, just for the ponies!

You can find the Pony Playground near the main stable. See you there!

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Available Properties, 5/24/2011

Posted on May 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Currently available in the Carriage Trade estate, 4 cottage estates, 4 apartments, 2 full-sized horse stalls, and 4 pony-sized stalls.

The apartments are located on the ground floor of Saratoga, and include 75 prims and full land rights, plus full use of our facilities.  Weekly rental is a mere $299L/week and rentals are restricted to humans.

Both full-sized and pony-sized stalls are currently available. Two full-sized stalls are available in the Pony Club stallage, and 4 pony-sized stalls are available in the new Pony Playground. All are $125L/week for 25 prims and full land rights and access to the facilities.

Four cottage estates are currently available. These double-primmed 512 lots offer 200 available prims and come with a cottage, radio system, and Intan system, as well as land rights and full access to our facilities.  The cottage estates may be combined to make a single larger estate, or they may be converted to private stable with the replacement of the cottage with a stable.  Please ask if you have an interest.

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