[make me fly]

Make me fly and forget
all the sorrows of
today

Hold me in your arms
and protect me
forever.

Miamai has just recently released their latest Blacklabel-Collection named Chod, and I immediately fell in love with it. Black pearls, embedded in luscious, almost ethereally arranged folds of sheer cloth, fur and delicate lace are the main themes of those carefully crafted items - and a lot of dark glamour. I particularly love the overlong 'goth-sloth' sleeves which also look stunning worn without the rest of the jacket, and the loose-sitting and wide pants are not only comfortable, but also rich in detail and continue the jacket's theme, making them a perfect match.



The Begtse-pants are available in both black and white, whereas the Skanda-jacket comes in black only. However, they are unisex, so all of you fashionable gals don't need to feel left out and can feast your eyes on those beautiful pieces as well. In honour of the new collection you can also grab the matching Warcry necklace as a group-gift in the new Blacklabel building - there is a slightly different female version up for grabs, too, so don't miss out on those!

On Storm

Hair: RAW HOUSE - Destroyer
Skin: ~Tableau Vivant~ Vincent February
Eyes: Negaposi - Creature Eyes - Burnish
Beard: *Valiant & Sacred* - 2.0 Chin Patch v2
Horns: *~*Illusions*~* - Cylindriculus Horns (previous hunt gift)
Piercing: [ni.Ju] - Chain Chomp Piercing w/ flexi chain
Hairbase: custom - not for sale
Eyeshadow: A:S:S - Goth makeup - 04

Jacket: MIAMAI_Skanda (M)
Pants: MIAMAI_[BL]_ChodCollection_Begtse Black
Necklace: MIAMAI_[BlackLabel]_Chod_WarCry Necklace (group gift in store - joining fee!)

On Khaokash

Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Maeve Hair – Branches
Skin: SCALES xy +Fallen Gods Inc. +SKIN+ TERRA arkanum
Eyes: Sterling Artistry - sa_DragonEyes_FieryVision
Horns: /Wasabi Pills/ - White Death Horns
Shape: [CS Shapes] - Declan Shape

Pants: MIAMAI_[BL]_ChodCollection_Begtse White
Harness: Al Jamal - Daeva harness

Pose: :+:SS:+: - Running Up That Hill 3 - Couples Pose

Two suns

They danced again. It was that day when the leaves and the flowers were covered with a golden glow. The one day in the year they were close.

Iaor and Iasha the twin suns. Nobody ever had expected that there would be twin suns again. There had been twin suns before but all of them created chaos. They tried to be more beautiful than the other one and started try to shine brighter than their sibling. Because of their silly competitions they devasted planets and uncountable beings were killed. But all of those twins had the same gender. So Iaor and Iasha were different. They managed to work together. And once a year they met to dance a whole day together. The twinsuns needed this day to make desicions together. While the beings on their planets stared up to the now visible stars.

The temple of Fallen Gods Inc. has been rebuild and reopened. To celebrate this the fortune teller returned so that it is possible to find your soulmate at Fallen Gods Inc. again. When finding that person you also win the wonderful Aureum skin. The skin is golden and well shaded. The pack contains a male and a female version of it and even fitting clothing. Storm and I picked both white hair to combine it with the skins. He choosed Lust which is currently in the sale at Magika and I used the from Wasabi Pills. The silks he is wearing are the special edition silks for July from Al Jamal. They come with a resize script and are very detailed. The rainbowsilks are available on the Deviance lucky chair.

Storm:
Skin: +Fallen Gods Inc.+ - AUREUM (Fortune Teller prize 0 L$)
Hair: Magika - Lust (currently on sale in the discount section 49 L$ for one colour pack 99 L$ for fatpack)
Eyes: [Plastik] - Bloodless - Gold (previous gift)

Outfit: Al Jamal - Tsiatsan silks (special edition silks for July 180 L$)

Dagmar:
Skin: +Fallen Gods Inc.+ - AUREUM (Fortune Teller prize 0 L$)
Crown: Aureum female oufit crown +Fallen Gods Inc.+ (Fortune Teller prize 0 L$)
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Maeve Hair - (250 L$ for one colour pack or 1500 L$ for all colours)
Outfit: Deviance - Elementalist - Rainbow (0 L$ Lucky chair)

Pose: !bang - too close (250 L$)

The pictures have been taken at Ode by Storm.

Purple gods

Isor felt emotions run through his body when recognizing that his servant did not full fill the tasks he told him to do. It was always the same with those servants. He did not want to have them. But he was one of the last living gods in this corner of the known world so he had to deal with them. Humans who came to serve him. Mainly their intentions were the wrong ones. They hoped to gain knowlege from him. Others hoped to seduce him and to become immortal. But the last human who had managed to seduce him was a goddess herself living on a nearby island.

Isor remembered the moment he saw her for the first time. She had come to his temple to seek help for her ill lover. In Isors opinion that lover had been a worthless being. His illness had been caused by drinking too much of the nectar of the fivepetalled purple Orchid. This drug caused illness among the ones with lack in will and intelligence. But the will and the devotion of the woman who loved this ill man intrigued Isor. He healed her lover but demanded from her to serve him for five years. She was desperate enough to agree so she started to work in his temple. Isor spend a lot of time talking with her. The more they discussed the more he wanted her. He would have been able to force her to be with him but he wanted her to be with him by free will. And she really seemed to fall in love with him, they shared the bed with each other and she had not to work for him anymore. He only wanted her to be around him. But after a while she demanded to work again. She told him that she would need to work with her hands. Isor supposed that this was a normal human need so he agreed. But his normaly so cold blood boiled when he found out that she had an affair with his favourite cook. Then he started to plan his revenge. He watched her and found out that she really loved the cook. It was a shock for him and he only wanted to punish her. His revenge seemed to be not a revenge at all but he was a god and knew the pain of immortality. He turned her into an immortal without her knowledge. Not even telling her what he did. His hearts were filled by dark emotions but he didn't show any of them to her until the last day of the five years. At this day he told her that he had made her immortal. She left his temple filled with pride and joy. Secretly giggling inside her mind as she thought that she had managed to cheat on a god. The cook left the temple with her for a while they lived together. When her lover became older and older and died she realised that Isor must have known about her betrayal. Her powers had been grown during her abnormaly long life and although she was not able to keep her lover from ageing and dieing she was able to heal sick humans. Not knowing what else to do she started to use that ability to help others. She was very sad as she knew that she would never see her true love again. Her soul being caught in an immortal body. The humans called her the healing sorrow. Isor sometimes heared stories about her in his temple. But he was still angry at her else he would have given her the power to end her life.

After her he never used his powers again to make a human immortal. Of course they came to his temple hopeing that he would do so. He accepted when they wanted to serve him and all his servants became much older than a normal human. But all of them died after around twohundred years. Isor knew whom he had told to mow the lawn. It was that new servant. Then he remembered that he saw this servant speak with his sister.

He moved faster starting to search for his sibling. But when he finally found her talking with her favourite alligator he knew that he was too late. Ishta smiled when seeing her brother. The alligator grinned up to him. Isor was not sure if its name was Fluffy or Cutie he never managed to keep all the names, Ishta gave the alligator, in mind. The god formed his hands to fists when seeing both lick at the same moment over their lips. Ishta beamed up to him looking lightly guilty. Isor bend down to stroke the alligator not even asking what they did with the servant.

The purple versions of the scales skins from Fallen Gods Inc. have been only sold for two hours during the fantasy faire. At this week a silent auction, in which a female and a male version of the skin are available, takes place. The auction is organized by Friends fighting Cancer, the relay for life team which also organizes the Fantasy Faire. The skins are great and perfect for roleplaying as demon or dragon or a creature I can not think of. There are also other items in the auction so its worth to visit the place where it takes place. The auction will end at Sunday, June 26 5pm SLT.
The white long hair with the two braids in the front is the latest release from Wasabi Pills. It has also a braid at each side which keep it out of the face. Those braids are joined on the backside. It is great for elven warriors, adventurers and everybody else. It is copy and mod and has a resize script so it also fits women.
The short orange/yellow silks are the gift from Al Jamal in the menstuff hunt. The silks are full of details and colourful. And of course the primparts come with resize scripts.
The white outfit is the Adorabelle set in white and silver from Angelwing. The set contains many prim parts, some of them were not used for the picture. For example the wing and the staff. Very nice are the many extras which are included into the set. There is a stripable versions of the clothing as well as lockmeister compatible cuffs in the set as well as unscripted versions of the primparts. The outfit is available in several colours.

Skins: SCALES +Fallen Gods Inc.+ PURPLE natural (auctioned at the FFC Ultimate Auction)
Hair on him: /Wasabi Pills/ Thalion Hair (250 L$ for one colour pack or 1500 L$ for all colours)
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Maeve Hair - (250 L$ for one colour pack or 1500 L$ for all colours)
Silks: Al Jamal - Sabalan silks for menstuff - (0 L$ huntgift)
White dress: **Angelwing** Adorabelle White/S set (500 L$)

[the prince of nqada]

Their civilisation was in decline.
Neither their gold, nor the gems or his wisdom
would be able to save their culture from disappearing.
Nqada's prosperity was over, and soon their skulls, adorned
with golden crowns of light would watch over the ruins of his city
fading to dust in the sun's sparkling glow.



"Nqada" is the name of this breathtaking set *Finesmith Designs* has put out at the Accessory Fair 2011 - for free! You receive the armbands, headdress and corset, made from rich, patterned gold and adorned with deep-red gems reminding of corals. Each piece is resize-scripted, so you can also fit it nicely on a (slender) male shape. The fair, whose topic is "Ancient Egypt: Discover the Treasures", runs until Sunday, June 26th and is well worth a visit - not only because of the variety of stores and the possibility to buy exclusive items at the RFL-vendors, but also because of the nicely designed sim. Go and take a look!

Skin: [.:Mascarade:.] - Nilan
Hair: Magika - Nayla
Eyes: Poetic Colours - Classic - Amber

Jewelry: Finesmith - NQADA - Accesory Fair (free - sim has a central landing point!)
Loincloth: Al Jamal - Shamsee Silks
Henna-tattoo: ~Enlil~ - Sawa

Acharon

Acharon enjoyed his mornings. It was the rare time when he could spend some moments alone. The best was he did not have to made any desicion. His mornings were planed or more he had a strict schedule of actions he performed after waking. Standing on the floor of his pyramid formed temple only he and some of his servants entered, he looked over the capital city of his empire. He was the Hybrid. The living god of the empire, the creature which was able to understand all the inhabitants of the land around the big river and the one who reigned all of them. Nobody ever tried to fight this system.

Of course only few knew that he was the 24th hybrid. Most of his subjects believed that the country had been founded by him. And that he also created the two races which lived in it. The human like noori and the reptilian saya. Acharon used to adress them with words like "my beloved children" or when he spoke with a saya "my beloved breed". But of course it was him who was the child of two races and not the father. Before the first hybrid had been created the noori and the saya nearly managed to kill each other completly. They were not able to understand the needs and reasons of the other race. The talents and abilities of each race were very different but their powers were equal, and they knew how to use their strenghts against the weaknesses of the other race. The noori usually attacked in the mornings, the reptilian saya were slow at this time of the day. They needed the sunlight to heat the thick blood in their veines but when having spend some time in the sun they became faster than any noori. Of course they used this against their foes. When some noori decided to try to darken the sky to keep the saya from the sunlight it was enough for some of the noori leaders. Being aware of the fact that the war against the saya would abolish both races at the end they started to try to communicate with some saya. They first formed a parliament in which both races would decide and create laws together but unfortunatly it didn't work to keep the humans and the reptilians from fighting against each other. So a small group started the hybrid cult.

They were very smart noori and saya and they knew more about the minds of their fellow beings than they wanted to know. And they hated to abuse this knowledge but they disliked the war more. It was them who created the story of the hybrid which created both races and it was also them who spend a lot of time with experimenting to create such a hybrid. Their cult grew slowly which allready brought a bit more peace to the land around the big river. And finally they managed to create the first hybrid. He hatched from an egg which had been layed by a human woman. After having been taught by both races he was ready to reign. So the priests of the hybrid cult started weekly ceremonies in which they called the hybrid and in the fifth he appeared the first hybrid appeared. He only had to open a hidden door and to walk into a room but for those who watched it looked like a miracle. So they respected him without that he needed to fight for power. The cult had managed to make the people willing to follow the hybrid. Acharon was one of the few who knew the whole story and he was aware of his duties. It was his existance which kept the peace but in the mornings he enjoyed the chance to bath alone in the river and to forget the weight of his position for a moment.

The idea of silks for men was alwas an idea I could not really follow. Until I put together a male avatar and tried the silks vom Al Jamal. The details of those are amazing and they cover everything which should be covered in public without hiding the beauty of the rest of the body. AL Jamal does not only offer silks they also sell fitting jewlery. For those who want to test the look of silks on their avatar there is a gift. Its the purple silks on the picture on the middle. Although it is a gift it has many details. I like that the ring which holds the loincloth isn t fully closed. The Aarat silks on the first picture have gems on the front. They are as all items from Al Jamal available in many colours and the colour of the gems always fits perfectly to the cloth of the silks. The armbands and the harness are designed to fit to the silks. The loincloth looks like being attached to the wire which holds the gems together. The Susa silks on the third picture look elegant with all the gold which has been used to create them. They also have gems on the front but at those silks they look like having been put on a plate of gold. The jinn cuffs go very well with those silks as they are also created by using gold. Fitting to the Susa silks is also a chestpiece available. The gems which have been used for it are the same as the ones on the silks. All the items from Al Jamal come with a resizescript. They are non copy but trans and include a giftbox in case that they should be a gift for somebody. It is worth to visit the store as they play very nice music there.
Fallen Gods Inc. is also a store where always nice music is played but of course the music is only one of the reasons to visit the store. An other important reason to visit Fallen Gods Inc. are the skins and other items which are sold there. The skin used in this blog entry is one of them. It belongs to the hybrid series. It would be more correct to speak of scales and not of skin in when it comes to the skin which has been used in this blog entry. It is available in several colours and even more face options. I liked the terra arkanum version best as it has intresting patterns on the forehead.
The hair comes from Wasabi Pills, it is the branch version of the maeve hair. I like the colour contrast of the hair in powder and the earthcoloured skin. And it amazes me that this very long hair goes so well with a very male looking avatar. So here the list of the used items.

1st Picture:
Harness: Al Jamal - Aarat harness - Ivory (60 L$)
Silks: Al Jamal - Ararat silks - Ivory (95 L$)
Armbands: Al Jamal - Aarat armbands - Ivory (40 L$)

2nd. Picture:
Silks: Al Jamal - El Matareya - FREE (0 L$)

3rd. Picture:
Cuffs: Al Jamal – Jinn – Azurite & Ivory (40 L$)
Chest piece: Al Jamal – Susa chestpiece – Ivory (35 L$)
Top: Al Jamal – Susa harness – Ivory (60 L$)
Silks: Al Jamal – Susa silks – Ivory (90 L$)

On all pictures:
Horns: /Wasabi Pills/ Amoth Horns (I did not find those in the store)
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Maeve Hair – Branches – Powder (belong to the whites pack 250 L$)
Skin: SCALES xy +Fallen Gods Inc.+SKIN+ TERRA arkanum (990 L$)
Eyes: Sterling Artistry: sa_DragonEyes_FieryVision (50 L$)
Shape: DECLAN Shape [CS Shapes] (749 L$)
Necklace: Al Jamal – Sabah necklace – silver/pearl (50 L$)

All pictures have been taken at Ancient Avaris, The Nile. This sim is a roleplay sim and looks amazing. It is possible to visit it by wearing a visitor tag or to be simply brave and to wear something fitting and roleplay while exploring.

[what's the news - for the boys]

Today starts the What's The News-hunt, and within the rich variety of prizes that circle around said theme, there is also a lot of unisex- and male items up for grabs. For further information on the hunt, hints and SLURLS, please check the blog here. Happy hunting!

Outfits from left to right:
1) [hate this] - WTN - #007
2) Holly's Market - WTN - #077
3) Lash-Ware - WTN - #085
4) 22769 - WTN - #001
5) Al Jamal - WTN - #027 and eyes from
[Diesel Creations Ltd.] - WTN - #074