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Welcome to Alchemy Immortalis!

Our new blog is meant to be a fast & friendly place to find out what's new at the Alchemy Immortalis shops and sims. We hope to make it easier for you to find what you need, & to keep in touch.

Alchemy and Immortalis Cyannis welcome yewwww ...

We are 2 artists creating props, scenes & experiences that invite suspension of disbelief & help you to live a more magical life.

Spoil Yourself with our Latest Deals ...

Indulging yourself with decadent new treasures is easy at Alchemy Immortalis. Click "Deals" in the menu above to find the perfect gift to spoil yourself or a friend.

Escape to our "Alchemy Immortalis Bed & Breakfast Experience"

Short-term stay cottages, complete with Celtic landscaping, horseback riding trails & unfettered waterways for fishing, swimming & sailing. Perfect escape to recharge solo, or as a couples getaway.

Sirènes et Moineaux ... a decadent little French patisserie and chocolaterie

Serving our Bed & Breakfast guests & other visitors. Have a tête-à-tête with your amis in the outdoor café, or dance cheek-to-cheek to vintage French music.

There's No Place Like Home ...

Many guests ciome just to sit and enjoy the view and listen to a little Irish music. Click "SIM MUSIC" on the menu above to find our what we're playing.

Sit, Cuddle, Dance, or Even Pop the Question ...

Click any of the upright standing stones that you'll find all around the sims to summon poseballs to sit, snuggle or dance with a friend. There's even one that let's you pop the question ; )

Down the rabbit hole ...

There's something magical afoot on the Alchemy Immortalis sims. I wonder when that door opens?

Friday 13 September 2013

A Little Friday the 13th Mayhem to put a bit of free loot in your pockets ...


Curious about the InWorldz grid and want to check it out? (Or maybe you've already got a home away from home there like us ...)

For a limited time if you buy a new product in Second Life that has also been released in our InWorldz shop, we will give you the same product in InWorldz free of charge. Buy more than one product? No worries! If we have them on both grids, we'll send them to you.

Bought it in InWorldz and want to send the same thing to your avatar in Second Life? We'll do that too :)

Log into your avatar in InWorldz and send us a notecard with your purchase details from your Second Life transaction record (and the Second Life avatar name you purchased them with, if different) and we'll send you the same item in InWorldz free of charge. (Bought it in InWorldz? Send your InWorldz transaction(s) details to us in Second Life).

PLEASE NOTE: we do not (and will not) have all of our existing Second Life creations in our InWorldz shop. While we will bring some of our existing treasures in over time, this offer only applies to the new creations we will be releasing on both grids, and for a limited time.

Send your transaction details in a notecard to the following avatar:

Alchemy Immortalis


Don't have an an avatar on the InWorldz grid yet? Here's where you can sign up for a free account:

http://inworldz.com/register.php

Want to let us know you've joined us on the other side? Enter:

Referral Code: CjJQZlTZjR

when you sign up at InWorldz to let us know you're here.

Where Can I Find Alchemy Immortalis in InWorldz?


You can find us at our new shop at InWorldz.

Here's to a more magical life on both sides!

-- Alchemy & Immortalis Cyannis.

Thursday 12 September 2013

InWorldz, Our Home Away from Home: A Letter from Immortalis


If you are in InWorldz now, have you left Second Life? Why did you move to InWorldz?


The short answers are "No, we have not left Second Life.", and "We moved only our personal home/estate and our building studio/experimental builds parcel."

Alchemy and I live in both places. InWorldz is our house in the country and Second Life is the big city where we commute to work, socialise, and enjoy the nightlife. Then at the end of the day when we are tired and ready to be alone at home, we go back to InWorldz.

As all of my building for the store starts in InWorldz first. Naturally our experiments show up there first. When products are retail ready, we release to BOTH grids at the same time. Second Life is where we started and we will always be there.

We will also be releasing, over time, items that are specifically needed in InWorldz only. Due to a smaller base of stores/designers, there are avie-related items that I want and cannot find, so have to build myself. It's strictly necessity building.

The biggest reason we are in InWorldz is financial. When Alchemy and I gave up our 5 sims in Second Life, it was purely a real world financial decision. Our sims were approaching the cost of a RL home mortgage and we did not have that money to spare.

If we could, we would have left our sims up for eternity in Second Life. When we gave them up, we lost our home, not just our retail shop. To remain in SL, we relocated our retail presence. We are still there...but we have been homeless for a long time.

A lot of people would simply say, just buy a small parcel and set it up. I tried that. It didn't work very well. I felt constrained by the theme of the other parcels. I didn't have enough room or enough prim, so we moved our personal home to InWorldz.

I found room for my imagination, with extraordinary prim counts and not much financial investment.

I don't expect people to follow us to InWorldz. This note is just for the few people that wonder if we will ever build sim environments again. The answer to that is yes, and we already are. If you want to see what we have going over there, I have experimental sea caves, ruins and soundscapes that are meant to be experienced with a particular windlight setting and water, and explored with a particular playlist of music, that is on the sim now.

If all you are interested in is our shop, our brand is on both grids. Releases are synced to both grids.

...but for those times you miss just sitting in one of our landscapes, exploring and listening to music...we can offer that again. Don't get hung-up on it being a different grid. Think of it as a weekend trip to the country. You're on holiday. You're a tourist.





In my short time in InWorldz I have made a few observations. I have not found it to be as easy finding the really artistic and immersive sims OR find designers I really love by exploring. There are here but spread out in pockets.

Quick Points:

  1. Because of the lower population, I find my time here more solitary than SL...but I'm here with Alchemy so this grid is appropriate for a private home.


  2. Because uploads are free, land is cheap, and transferring creations between grids is pretty easy, this is a haven for builders like me.


  3. Sculpt bounding boxes respect their visual shapes so additional invisible prims/setting to phantom is not necessary.


  4. Mesh is here in the beta client and I have brought mesh in easily.


  5. One of my biggest worries was that I would not have an AV that looked good. Alchemy and I are vain I suppose. LOL But that worry is unfounded. It simply took a little longer to find what we wanted. There are just enough big designers here that we got our AVs set up in a day.


  6. You can bring in Lindens and exchange them into the local currency, which are IZ's (pronounced Izzies). So we found nearly everything here priced at half of what we were used to. We use InBiz to exchange IZ's in and out of Second life. It's a 2 way transfer.


  7. Our windlight settings are already in the stock client. We gave permission for that a long time ago ironically.


  8. InWorldz CAN be immensely ugly, just as SL can. But as designers we control our own environments and one of the best things you can do is change your windlight settings immediately. We use and have designed our environments to be experienced with windlight set to "Shadow1" and the water set to "glassy.


...then, come visit us:

The Sanctuary (237,84,21)

-- Immortalis Cyannis

(Don't forget to turn on your music. Sound is an integral part of the environment).

NEW AT AI: Coastal Rock Formation


One versatile piece to create endless caverns and vistas to explore!
The Coastal Rock Formation is one linked object with unique textures on all sides. This allows you to turn it this way and that, mash duplicated together in all sorts of configurations to make a maze of sea caverns of your own...or simply to stand alone as monolithic islands in the surf.

This pack also ships with 4 additional configurations added to an invisible extender prim making it easy for you to add the set to your space as off-sim enhancements.

Each of the 4 off-sim objects are the same formation, but rotated 90 degrees, so you don't have to rotate it yourself.

Mod & Copy, you can half submerge them, stand them proud, add campfires under the eaves and swirl waves at the base of each rock....

A terrific companion for our Tidal Pool Wave and Ocean Soundscapes Pack!

LAND IMPACT:

• main configuration - 8
• offshore versions - 9 each
• optional ambient light = 1

PERMISSIONS:


COPY/MODIFY/no transfer

PRICE:


In Second Life - L$395
In InWorldz - Iz$695

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?


Available at our inworld shops at Second Life, and also at InWorldz.

Also available in our web shops at the Second Life Marketplace web site, and soon at the InWorldz inBiz web site.


A Note from Immortalis Cyannis ...



There is magic in water. I grew up near the sea and some of my greatest boyhood memories revolve around roleplay of old sea myths and stories. From ancient myths of fantastical sea creatures and gods to later legends of the sunken continent of Atlantis, the imagination of my youth had great influence on the man I am today.

I remember walks along the sand in the mist, and off in the distance were great monoliths and sentries risen out of the the distant gray.. They were always just out of reach, protected by the swirling jets and eddys. Dangerous and just out of reach but surely populated by those fantastical sea creatures and gods.

I spent many hours staring out at the ocean.

Now I live in a desert, and although physically the ocean is hundreds of miles away, when I revisit these environments virtually, my imagination knows not the difference.

The Coastal Rock Formation is one linked object with unique textures on all sides. This allows you to turn it this way and that, mash duplicated together in all sorts of configurations to make a maze of sea caverns of your own...or simply to stand alone as monolithic islands in the surf.

Along with the on-sim object, I have 4 off-sim coastal rock formations. Each of the 4 off-sim objects are the same formation, but rotated 90 degrees, so you don't have to rotate it yourself.

Mod & Copy, you can half submerge them, stand them proud, add campfires under the eaves and swirl waves at the base of each rock....






NEW AT AI: The Ruins Alcove


This pack ships with 2 different versions of The Ruins Alcove one with an open back, and one with the back closed. The open back version can be handy when you use it as a merchandising tool in a shop or museum if the alcove is set against a wall. If someone was to step into it, or navigate in with their camera, the open back version will look closed from the front view, but will not trap the camera once inside. This can reduce the frustration of guests viewing items within it when it's flush against a wall.

Additionally, we have included a light prim that you may wish to tuck near the bottom of your alcove to add the warm, ambient glow that you see on our own display and in our adwork.

A terrific companion for our Coastal Rock Formation, Tidal Pool Wave and Ocean Soundscapes Pack!

LAND IMPACT:

• open back - 7 + invisiprim - 2 (if used for a walk-in display)
• closed back - 8 + invisiprim - 2 (if used for a walk-in display)
• optional ambient light - 1

PERMISSIONS:


COPY/MODIFY/no transfer

PRICE:


In Second Life - L$395
In InWorldz - Iz$695

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?


Available at our inworld shops at Second Life, and also at InWorldz.

Also available in our web shops at the Second Life Marketplace web site, and soon at the InWorldz inBiz web site.


A Note from Immortalis ...



Originally this was not a retail product. Let me begin at the beginning.

When Alchemy and I gave up our 5 sims in Second Life, it was purely a real world financial decision. Our sims were approaching the cost of a RL home mortgage and we did not have that money to spare.

If we could, we would have left our sims up for eternity. When we gave them up, we lost our home, not just our retail shop. We relocated our retail presence in SL but we have been homeless for a long time.

A lot of people would simply say, just buy a small parcel and set it up. I tried that. It didn't work very well. I felt constrained by the theme of the other parcels. I didn't have enough room or enough prim. So we moved our personal home to InWorldz.

I found room for my imagination, with extraordinary prim counts and not much financial investment, to begin building again in a manner I was accustomed to. I call InWorldz my "country estate". I live in both, just as people commute into and out of the big city. For socialising, nightlife, work and many other things we are in SL. When I am building or it is the end of a long day, we go to our home in Inworldz.

Long story short, I am building again.

The Ruins Alcove came about as I was designing our private home. I wanted something solid and with layers of age. As the other pieces snapped into place(the sea caves, the ocean waves, and the sounds) the alcove evolved into a standalone item meant to blend into all of the coastal themed items.

So, this piece is the first of many more in the "ruins theme." The next pack to be designed is the much larger, and matching "bigger brother" building kit to create a more immersive and spacious environment.

The future building kit will be completed as a natural byproduct of building our personal home. Please look for it in the coming months. It's good to be back.



NEW AT AI: Tidal Pool Wave


This pack ships with 2 different versions of the wave: one with Full Bright turned on, for those who wish it, and one with it turned of for a greater level of realism.

The waves are identical except for that setting, and they are fully modifiable so that you can change any aspect of them you wish, such as size, glow, or colouring.

A terrific companion for our Coastal Rock Formation and Ocean Soundscapes Pack!

LAND IMPACT:

1 prim each

PERMISSIONS:


COPY/MODIFY/no transfer

PRICE:


In Second Life - L$125
In InWorldz - Iz$195

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?


Available at our inworld shops at Second Life, and also at InWorldz.

Also available in our web shops at the Second Life Marketplace web site, and soon at the InWorldz inBiz web site.


A Note from Immortalis ...



When I build, I'm happiest when I can control every aspect of the build. Something I have not, up until now, taken control of is water. During the creation of the Sea Caves sim build, in InWorldz, I found myself on a grid where I didn't have the same tools I had in Second Life. I had to create water effects out of necessity.

If I was going to have to build water, I decided to include features I have been wanting for years in second life water. I wanted Full Bright off, slow (almost still) movement, and the ability to control all aspects of the prim myself, instead of being constrained by someone else's idea of what good water looked like.

This water is quiet. It is not flashy bright and screaming for your attention. For my purposes it was perfect. In the daytime, and at night, it is more realistic. My windlight settings change the mood of the world and often water looks frenetic when the ocean is calmer. This water plays much nicer with calmer worlds.

It can be resized to gently swirl around small rocks, stretched larger to encircle the base of coastal formations, or even larger to gently suggest offshore or deep ocean swirling currents (which are perfect in a bay). I use a large one for this purpose then layer smaller ones where needed for a more realistic look.

Because, I do not want to dictate which water looks better in your applications, that with Full Bright on or off, I leave that decision to you. This effect is mod & copy.


NEW AT AI: Ocean Soundscapes Pack


People frequently asked us to share the soundscapes that we had crafted for our sims. Well, now you can make some of them your own ...

This pack ships with 3 separate soundscapes rocks, each with a unique set of sounds to make your water-enhanced spaces more immersive.

You can set the rocks out as they are, spacing them apart at various intervals to create a greater sense of realism, or take the scripts out and tuck them into objects in your own space to enhance the immersion without increasing prim count of your favourite space.

Terrific addition to our Tidal Pool Wave and Coastal Rock Formation packs.

We'll be releasing more soundscape packs with other themed kits soon.

LAND IMPACT:

1 prim each

PERMISSIONS:


COPY/MODIFY/no transfer

PRICE:


In Second Life - L$195
In InWorldz - Iz$395

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?


Available at our inworld shops at Second Life, and also at InWorldz.

Also available in our web shops at the Second Life Marketplace web site, and soon at the InWorldz inBiz web site.


A Note from Immortalis ...



Alchemy is a modest and quiet designer. She works behind the scenes often, and sometimes says to me at the end of the day, "I've worked all day and no one can see what I've done. There is nothing to show."

I always tell her, without you, my builds are lifeless. She is a talented song writer, scripter, and builder. This is the perfect example of a product that she's contributed, that cannot be seen. If I could share the most important trick to bringing an environment to life, it is this: sounds are the blood of your creations.

They are what make a place fully immersive. As an artist, I am driven by sound. When a place is being designed, it's the mood of particular songs that I channel into the objects I'm building. But when I am done building, the builds become tomb silent again. One of the last things I do as a builder is infuse the sound back in.

The design of this soundscape is purposeful, and tailored to an ocean environment with shore, sea caves, and calmer pools further away from the shore. The trick is placing sounds where they are realistically appropriate.

➤ Place all crashing wave noises only where the waves touch the shore.

➤ Place all lapping water noises only where you see calmer water.

➤ Place the booming sea cave, with their rumbling low bass crashes, at the back of caves.

If you place your sounds within your environment, in a realistic way, subconsciously your mind will accept it as real. It's effect balances the visuals and rounds out the overall presence of your builds.

Tuesday 3 September 2013

Come Visit Our Resident Ghost: Ophelia Slipped Between the Veil


Inspired by Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founder John Everett Millais' oil on canvas portrait, we've brought this haunting beauty back to life ... or at least part way ;)

As tragic as the portrait's muse, Elizabeth Siddal, whose life ended prematurely and in despair, our pixel phantasm's allegorical dance of death will add a tinge of the macabre when you invite her into your space.

✔ free-wandering full-bodied apparition

✔ ethereal, realistic movement

✔ leaves a gentle plasma trail as she floats

Pop in and visit Ophelia in our shop. You'll also find her haunting our Gatehouse Cottage on display just down the road from our main shop. Click on her to buy her, or purchase her from the vendor on the wall just inside the lobby of our shop.

PRICE:


COPY/MODIFY/no transfer - L$175

Available in our shop inworld, and also on the Marketplace website.

New at AI: A Pair of Very Dapper Sheep (...and a couple of free gifts whether you buy something or not ;)


We have as much fun dressing up our windows as we do ourselves, especially when it gives us an excuse to have a little more fun with those saucy blackface sheep!

Since introducing you to the very dapper pair donning top hats in our lobby showcase we've had lots of folks asking to take them home. Now you can.

We've also tucked in one of our huggable sheep (pose included) as an extra gift (see picture below). Just stand back a few feet when you go to unpack your wooly new friends from their wild crate, and a few feet more if you decide to <cough> "dump" the scripts from the sheep ... (We do like to make our unpacking tools as fun and sometimes as irreverent as what they hold ;)

Pop in and take a peek at our fall displays and bring home those baaaaaaa-ad new friends, and while you're at it, be sure to click on the parchment scroll in front of the sheep in the window display to take home another free gift: a wearable version of the hat the sheep are in, as well as a jeweled walking cane, and a surprise novelty gadget that you're just going to have to discover for yourself when you unpack them all.

PRICE:


COPY/MODIFY/no transfer - only L$125 for the set

Available in our shop inworld, and also on the Marketplace website.

Autumn Homecoming Sale Event: 50% off Jewelry & Fashion, 75% off Prefabs and Landscaping Kits


Discounts Available through Inworld Store Vendors Only


We're starting to tuck things back into our new shop on the Fashion Boulevard sim, and are celebrating this mainland homecoming with a big sale event. Drop by and visit our inworld shop to take advantage of discounts on some of your favourite craveables.

Don't believe those prices floating over the vendor! All of our in-store jewelry and fashion will give you 50% off the list price when you click the "Pay" button. That makes for some mighty cheap fine baubles.

Got your eye on a cottage and some landscaping kits to make it feel homey this fall? Our in-store vendors will also give you a whopping 75% off those items right now!

* Please note: these prices are only available for a limited time through the vendors in our inworld shop, and not in our Marketplace store.

Friday 9 August 2013

Gotta Get Gatsby? Try Our New Lady Sophronia Vintage Estate Rings ...


"Lady Sophronia Vintage Estate Ring" Collection


Fell in love with Gatsby's charm? Spoil yourself or someone special with a slice of that Jazz Age decadence, captured in this vintage estate ring. Our "Lady Saphronia" was inspired by a 1925 Art Deco dinner ring, donning an elegant emerald-cut center jewel, framed by sparkling European-cut and single-cut diamonds and a curvaceous border of tiny calibre-cut gems.

  • available in both transfer and copy versions

  • ships in an ornate, jeweled ring box (see pic)

  • sparkle and fire in stones

  • detailed hammered platinum band

  • modifiable for easy resizing

* NOTE: The transferable version of the ring ships in a box that is modifiable for people who wish to tuck other gifts inside and customize the title and description.

The photos are un-retouched, shot in midday light with no use of effects to ensure an accurate representation of the ring and the jeweled presentation box. Please note that your computer and graphics card may cause slight variations in colour and detail.

The ring is available with 4 different gemstone settings.

PRICE:


TRANSFER/MODIFY/no copy - L$425 each
COPY/MODIFY/no transfer - L$425 each

Available in our shop inworld, and also on the Marketplace website, in both COPY and TRANSFER formats.

Sunday 14 April 2013

Selling the Last Alchemy Immortalis Sim for Less than 1/3 of the Retail Cost



This winter we sold our 4 parkland and residential rental sims (Empress and Hierophant, Saerlaith, Ceangal and Inis Caiseal) to 4 wonderful new owners.

We've decided to simplify further, letting go now of our main retail "Alchemy Immortalis" sim. (We shared a bit about the reason for the changes in our March 28th Reboot! An Alchemy Immortalis Makeover post).

This is a full service, 65,536 m2 private estate capable of hosting up to 15,000 prims/land impact.

WHAT'S NEXT?


We are shifting our focus to our first life priorities. We will continue to create and sell in Second Life, but in a simpler fashion, and are currently setting up a shop on the mainland to accommodate this. We will be sharing our new location shortly.

COST:


We are asking US$300 firm (the retail value of the sim is actually US$1,000) plus the US$100 transfer fee charged by Linden Lab (which includes moving it to your own location, and renaming the sim to whatever you wish). Therefore, the full purchase price is US$400.

WHAT YOU GET:


We will be selling the sim alone. It does not include any of the contents. While we are happy to leave the terrain as is and to provide you with a kit that includes the terrain files, the sale does not include any of the shops, landscaping or products.

WHO WE ARE ACCEPTING OFFERS FROM:


* PLEASE NOTE * We invite offers from people who:
  1. actually have the money to buy the sim ; ) ... and,
  2. are ready to purchase the sim now.


Linden Lab has been transferring sims within a day of the support ticket being submitted (even on weekends!) so you'll likely have the sim in your possession pretty darned quickly.

HOW (AND WHO) YOU PAY:


You pay Linden Lab directly, and they will either accept US$ available in your Linden Lab account, or the equivalent Linden dollar value if you have them available. You tell them which method you want to pay with.

MONTHLY TIER


Tier is due on this particular sim on the 8th day of each calendar month, and will be charged by Linden Lab at the usual full-service sim rate of US$295. Tier has been paid up until May 8th.

*** Please contact Alchemy Cyannis directly if you wish to purchase this sim. ***

We invite you to send an IM or to email Alchemy at:  

*** PLEASE be sure you've read this posting FIRST so you understand the terms of the sale. ***

MORE INFORMATION:



Best wishes,
Alchemy and Immortalis Cyannis.

FLASH SALE: 75% OFF our Gatehouse Cottage for 1 Week Only!


Gatehouse Cottage


A L$4,725 value for only L$1,182!



For one week only we'll be offering our Gatehouse Cottage at a 75% discount. This offer will end at 6pm SLT on Saturday, April 21st, 2013, and is only available on purchases made through the vendor in our main inworld shop.

A preview cottage is on display just outside the front doors of our main shop. (Please note, this flash sale does not include any of the furnishings on display in the preview cottage. The price includes the cottage only. Furnishings sold separately.)

About the Gatehouse Cottage


Based on the original Gatehouse Cottage from the photo-shoot favourite Empress and Hierophant SIM, this is one of the coziest homes you'll ever own in Second Life! Patterned after authentic rustic Irish cottages, from the mossy thatched roof to the beckoning glow and crackle of a truly realistic hearth, you'll feel like you've stepped back in time to a place that is in every way most genuinely home.

With a delicious architectural salvage feel, the Gatehouse Cottage will be a treat to furnish with your favourite rustic treasures, and some of the most fun you've ever had decorating for Christmas! (Watch for our Winter add-on pack to dress the outside for the season too, available later this month.)

The cottage features an easy-to-use controller, offering lots of ways to customize your home both inside and out. Change the floors, the walls, the windows and the curtains with just a few clicks. Shimmering light rays that you can allow to stream through the windows and French Pane glass doors, or turn off. Assign managers who can access the cottage's settings, and guests who you wish to welcome into your home. You can even christen your cottage with it's own special name, embracing a very personal, centuries-old homesteading tradition.

This 2-storey pastoral jewel has been created from sculpts and textures crafted completely in-house, with elaborate shading, lighting and colours, and an intimately unparalleled attention to detail on every single prim.

Add some of our rustic Irish grasses to complete the landscaping of your cozy new home, shown in the related products section below.

  • 190 base prims / 54 optional (244)

  • (base rezzables: cottage - 173 / roof - 9 / doors - 8)
    (optional rezzables: light rays - 17 / curtains - 28 / fire - 9)

  • Free, automated updates.


  • Modifiable so you can truly make it your own! (Please note, some of the rezzables are not directly modifiable, but can be updated through the controller; for instance: curtains, the fire in the hearth and the doors.)


  • Ability to set security on door access


  • Ability to assign managers who can access the cottage's settings


  • Changeable wall, floor, and window textures


  • Optional curtains (colour-changing)


  • Optional fire in hearth


  • Optional light rays shining through doors and windows

Thursday 28 March 2013

Reboot! An Alchemy Immortalis Makeover


Alchemy here! Immortalis and I wanted to give you a little update on the changes you've been seeing at Alchemy Immortalis these past few months. You may have noticed some big changes if you've visited lately, most especially the reduction of our continent from 5 sims to the original 1.

At the end of last year I became seriously ill, and I have not been able to be inworld really since December. This played a significant role in our decision to simplify, as both Immortalis and I placed priority on our first lives, as it needed to be. I thank you for your patience as I work to get back on top of things again, and apologize if our customer service faltered during this time.

We've sold all of our sims except our original retail sim, part of a decision to return to our roots and reclaim our passion for designing beautiful things. While we enjoyed the experience of hosting a vast parkland and cultivating a rustic little community of cottages that we shared with guests, it's time to focus on the thing we love most: creating.

Many people have written to express anxiety over the disappearance of our Empress and Hierophant sim, as it was a respite for more folks than we could ever have known. It has a wonderful new owner, Higher Enoch, who has chosen to leave it intact for the time being, and open to the public much of the time so that you can continue to visit. While you will find it's name has changed, your landmarks will still work for the time being. We wish Higher well and extend our deep thanks for continuing to make the space available for your visits for a period of time.

The residential rental sims -- Inis Caiseal, Saerlaith and Ceangal -- have each gone to separate new owners, who have reinvented them as part of their own adventures, so these sims are no longer available to explore.

What's Ahead?



Immortalis and I will slowly be returning to work inworld part time, and will start by re-imagining the original Alchemy Immortalis sim. The main shop will be dismantled. The sim will be redesigned as a standalone isle, with a streamlined approach to how we share our retail creations. We will be simplifying the way things are displayed and sold, and having a bit of fun conjuring up a new set of places to explore in the spirit of the parkland sims we once hosted.

We're very grateful for your patience as we reboot! While it was sad for us both to say goodbye to the other 4 sims and the memories you gifted us with during your visits there, we are genuinely looking forward to getting back to what we love most, creating the small, simple things our dreams our made of.

Here's to a more magical life!
Alchemy Cyannis.

UPDATE - April 14th, 2013



Since posting this last month, we have decided it's time to simply wind down the last sim. We're selling it for 1/3 of the retail cost. Click here for more information.

We will be opening up a shop on the mainland this month and continuing to create and share our work in a simpler fashion. Time to put first life first :D

"May your troubles be less
And your blessing be more
And nothing but happiness
Come through your door."


Friday 25 January 2013

Inis Caiseal SIM for sale at half of retail price



*** Please contact Alchemy Cyannis directly if you wish to purchase this sim. ***

We invite you to send an IM or to email Alchemy at:  

*** PLEASE be sure you've read this posting FIRST so you understand the terms of the sale. ***


This month we sold our 3 homestead sims (Empress and Hierophant, Saerlaith, and Ceangal) to 3 wonderful new owners, but our full-service Inis Caiseal sim is available once again. (Click here to visit.)

COST:


We are asking US$500 firm (the retail value of the sim is actually US$1,000 when blank, and this one's all decked out ;) plus the US$100 transfer fee charged by Linden Lab (which includes moving it to your own location, and renaming the sim to whatever you wish). Therefore, the full purchase price is US$600, and yes, we did say it's firm.

WHAT YOU GET:


The purchase price includes the sim, the landscaping and the cottages (furnishings not included), as is. We will also provide you with "Elements of Empress and Hierophant" sim fatpack we used to create the sim with (which includes the sim terrain textures, road and path prims, land prims, bridges, drystack walls, unscripted standing stones and a tree), a copy version of our Gatehouse cottage and copy versions of our sheep, so you can reconfigure (or use on any other sims you may have) as you see fit. This will help to smooth out the edges of the sim where it was attached to our other sims prior to their moves. (Please see the list at the bottom of this posting for the kits we will give you as part of the sale, and what they include).

WHAT YOU *DON'T* GET:


The purchase price does NOT include components created by other designers where we do not have the ability to transfer them to a new owner. Therefore, the sale price does NOT include:

  • the sim weather system,

  • sim touring cars,

  • standing stone animations,

  • sim music,

  • NPC characters (mermaid in the cove and female greeter at the stable),

  • the rental software, security system or parcel music tools we used to manage our rental cottages with,

  • prim waves/foam,

  • our favourite Mickey Mantle bubble gum baseball card collection, or,

  • our souls.

(... though we are happy to tell you where we got all these things them in case you want to pick them up to use yourself, minus the souls).

WHO WE ARE ACCEPTING OFFERS FROM:


* PLEASE NOTE * We invite offers from people who:
  1. actually have the money to buy the sim ; ) ... and,
  2. are ready to purchase the sim right now.

Linden Lab has been transferring sims within a day of the support ticket being submitted (even on weekends!) so you'll likely have the sim in your possession pretty darned quickly.

HOW (AND WHO) YOU PAY:


You pay Linden Lab directly, and they will either accept US$ available in your Linden Lab account, or the equivalent Linden dollar value if you have them available. You tell them which method you want to pay with.

MONTHLY TIER


Tier is due on this particular sim on the 4th day of each calendar month, and will be charged by Linden Lab at the usual full-service sim rate of US$295.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!


We want to thank the folks who have been sending in such kind notes the past few weeks as we've being saying goodbye to 4 of our 5 sims. We have enjoyed sharing our Empress and Hierophant parkland sim with you these past 4 years, and are immensely grateful to the people who called our 3 residential rental sims home during the past year.

We're looking forward to focusing on our original sim now and creating a new kind of magic there.

Best wishes,
Alchemy and Immortalis Cyannis.

HERE IS A LIST OF THE KITS WE WILL SEND YOU AS PART OF THE SIM SALE:


(click the links below to open detailed product info in a new window)


MORE INFORMATION:



Sunday 6 January 2013

Closing Our Cottage Rentals and Selling All of Our Rental/Recreational Sims


Immortalis and I are going to return to focusing strictly on building for our Alchemy Immortalis brand, and will be closing down the cottage rentals and recreational sims.

We are selling all of our sims except for our main "Alchemy Immortalis" retail sim.  There is one full region estate, and 3 homestead region estates.  We've priced them far below the retail value you would pay if you were to buy these sims from Linden Lab.  Below we have outlined the sims we are offering, the price for each, and the monthly tier fees and due dates.  We've also offered information on what comes with each sim, and what does not.

These sims will only be for sale until for the next few weeks, and then they will be gone, sold or not.  If you are interested in purchasing one or more, please contact Alchemy Cyannis directly to enquire.   (IM, notecard or email:  )

Please note that Linden Lab charges a $100 transfer fee (we've listed this with each), which includes the cost of moving it to your own preferred location and renaming it if you choose.  Sims cannot be left in their current position in the Alchemy Immortalis region.

If you haven't had a chance to stay in one of the cottages yet and want to enjoy these sims one last time before they disappear, there are a few cottages open until the end of January.  Please visit our rental centre for availability and pricing.  More info here: http://alchemyimmortalis.blogspot.ca/2012/12/new-short-term-vacation-rental-cottages.html.

Here are the sims we are selling:


FULL REGION:  (retail price:  $1,000)

HOMESTEAD REGIONS:  (retail price $375)


* NOTE: MUST already own a full region in order to purchase/own a homestead region.


WHAT DO THEY COME WITH?

  • existing terraforming
  • existing landscaping (please note: some of the landscaping is COPY/no transfer, so we will provide you with our full sim landscaping kit at no extra charge to replace those pieces as you choose)
  • existing cottages (please note: these are COPY/no transfer, so we will provide you with your own COPY version  at no extra charge to replace the existing ones)
  • if you purchase Saerlaith, you will get the existing lighthouse

WHAT DO THEY *NOT* COME WITH:

The following items were made by other creators, and are non transferable, but we'll provide you with the information on where to buy your own to replace them.
  • the weather system
  • the mega waves and seafoam
  • the animated mermaids and NPCs
  • the touring cars
  • animated rowboats
  • the thick fog masses on Saerlaith
  • a couple of metal railing pieces on the docks on all sims



MORE INFORMATION:



Immortalis and I both want to thank the amazing people who have stayed with us during the past year we have been operating the rental service.  We are incredibly grateful for the ways that you enriched our rustic little Irish community!

Many, many thanks,
Alchemy Cyannis.
"May your troubles be less
And your blessing be more
And nothing but happiness
Come through your door."


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