[the grey mage]

"When the magic's white is too light and black is too dark, you need to choose the color of a varg."



Recently, I've been stalking VIGo's and KnickKnack's Lucky Chairs and the MiniMania again, hoping I'd be lucky and win one of the gorgeous fantasy/roleplay-outfits that both creators put so generously out to be won. It's always full priced items you can also buy in their shops, and since the texturing and the prim- and sculpt-work has convinced me long ago, I was rather excited when the 'S' finally showed up and blessed me with this beautiful ensemble. VIGo's Taliesin robe has an extraordinary collar solution and comes with sculpted sleeves and pants legs - the texture itself reminds of an expensive velvet, with a precious-looking edging of silver and black on the sleeves and chest piece.

If you don't feel like waiting for your lucky letter to come up, you can also purchase the robe directly in store; there is a number of 11 colors (grey, purple, green, red, teal, tan, white, yellow, black, brown and blue) to pick from which will be yours for 400 L$ each.


Hair: !lamb. - Heart
Skin: ~Tableau Vivant~ - Vincent June
Eyes: MADesigns - EYES_HONESTY ~ harbor of love
Beard: EMORTAL CONCEPTS - ~blk Chin Curtain~

Staff: Deviance - Enchantress-Staff (part of said outfit)
Outfit: ViGo - Taliesin (free at the Lucky Chair or 400 L$ in store)

The ones at the gates

As different as they looked when they were in their true forms as similar was their appearance when they transformed themself into beings which looked more like humans.
Chama de Xeo forced more power into her stuff. So that it started to light the darkness around her. Her reptilian eyes would have allowed her to see her even in the night but she wanted to make sure that the beings on the last island knew that she was around. Chama was one of the guardians. Normaly the ones of her kin were not asked to guard anything. They prefered to sit on their hoards, only leaving them to threaten all kinds of beings to get more glittery things so that their piles of jewelery grew and grew.

Chama had done the same for two or three thousand years. But then she started to have a hoarding problem. Her cave became too small and she also had to recognize that the beings she pestered not always gave her gemstones. Some started to give her shiny glass crystals and she had taken those as precious stones. The thought that somebody might know that her hoard did not only consist out of very seldom and worthy items made her shiver. For some years she caught pretty young men and forced them to sort and polish the things on her hoard. All of those died really suddenly in her opinion. Most of those men had been kept by her for sixty years but that was not much time for a being like her. So after the seventh or eighth - they changed so fast so she had a hard time counting them - she had to admit that she needed to do something else. Luckily other dragons had had the same problem before and decided to do something which might kept them entertained for a longer time or which would at least keep them from killing themselfs because of boredom. Chama became a guard. As many others she spend her time now on an portal island and took care that none of those strange beings, which had never heard about magic, made their way into the world she loved.

What to say about the Draco skins from Fallen Gods Inc. beside that they are amazing? They come in 22 skin tones with 4 options at every skin tone. Of course they are available for both genders. But only the female ones come with a SB version (SB = Superboobs). The options consist of a scaled, a smooth one and a marked version of each of those. There are demos of all skins available in the store. They are great for roleplay and could be used to make for example mermaid/mermen avatars. And the ones without scales of course could be the base for any fantastic being.
The clothes on those pictures come from Deviance. The black set is called Enchantress. It comes with several options for the cape. It could be worn with and without collar and in a long and a short version. The skirt reminds a bit on silks and comes also in several options. I liked the one with beads and skulls best. The top comes on the systemlayers and there are also undies layers included into the set althought the skirt covers everything. The staff with the crystal belongs also to the set. The top in the shades of green belongs to the Elementalist sets. Those are only made of prims. The set contains a version of the clothes with a golden trim and one with a silvertrim. Each of those comes with two kind of tops, bracers for both arms and a skirt and all of those in two sizes. It takes some time to adjust all those primparts but the details are just so lovely which makes it worth it. And of course the textures are amazing.

Outfits:

Silberblue:
Skin: Fallen Gods Inc.: DRACO Glacier xx +FGInc.+ Scaled (990 L$ or 3300 L$ for fatpack with all versions of that skin tone)
Outfit: * Deviance * - Enchantress (Onyx) (400 L$)
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Ryoko Hair (250 L$ for one colour 1500 L$ for the fatpack)
Jewelry: Finesmith Rhonda full set (currently not in the store as the store is being rebuilt)

Teal:
Skin: Fallen Gods Inc.: DRACO Mithril xx +FGInc.+ Scaled (990 L$ or 3300 L$ for fatpack with all versions of that skin tone)
Outfit: * Deviance * - Elementalist - Lagoon (500 L$)
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Maeve Hair - (250 L$ for one colour pack or 1500 L$ for all colours)

The pictures have been taken at [E U R O P A] with poses from Purple Poses .

[suffering for your sins]

"Not even the unbearable ache as they drilled those thorns of steel through my head and took my eyes was comparable to the pain you punished me with when you left me, blind and suffering for your numerous sins."

A little mix of old and new in this post, with the awesome belt from .:Hermony:. being a long-time and beloved guest in my inventory, just as the versatilely usable black leather pants from *Deviance*. The ZombiePopcorn hunt gifts you with a creepy, bloody blindfold and the Dia de los Muertos-inspired sleeve tattoo from [Reckless], whereas the crown of thorns - or rather studs in this case - is a Marketplace promotion from ~.:.Hysteria.:.~, 40 L$ for a limited time only!




Skin: ~Tableau Vivant~ - Vincent February
Hair: RAW HOUSE - Destroyer (currently on sale)
Beard: *Valiant & Sacred* - 2.0 Chin Strap v2
Hairbase: custom

Pants: *Deviance* - Leather Pants
Belt: .:Hermony:. - LuckyDeath Belt (black)
Tattoo: [Reckless] - Death is certain Life is not (free at the ZombiePopcorn hunt)
Blindfold: -J.I.N.X- - Bloody Blind Fold (free at the ZombiePopcorn hunt)
Headattachment: ~.:.Hysteria.:.~ Gratia plena (Marketplace-promo)

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.

Strange wolfs

Bluebelle had to facepalm when the wolf adressed her. It was just embarrassing since the old wolf had been bullied by the seven young kids and left the forest. The new wolf was colourblind and a bit stupid too. He approached every female who went into the forest and spoke about the nice flowers they could pick. After that he normaly tried to gain informations about grandmothers. This time it was Bluebelle's turn to be pestered by the wolf and he did not even recognize that she allready had picked some flowers. It was just embarrassing. Bluebelle planed to teach the seven young kids a lesson hopeing that the old wolf would come back if the bullies would behave.

Deviance has moved some weeks ago but they kept the lucky dip. So its still possible to win this great blue belle outfit. It comes with several primparts for example two kinds of skirts, a short and a long one, which also come in two versions with blue or white frills. The stockings come in blue or white as well and so do the frills around the shoulders. I love the textures of the dress and how fairytale like it looks.

Dress: * Deviance * Blue Belle (Rose Red revisited) (0$ Lucky dip)

[bleeding ink]

You brought me to life
from sketch,
engraving me in copper and black -
your favourite rockstar bound to hang
above your bed.

But time passed by and your interests changed
your men were of flesh now and jealousy-strained
watching me with narrowed eyes as I stayed in my frame -
terrified.

But they never touched me and in the end it was you
disowning me with a shattering grip
of your birth-giving fingers' threw
leaving me lifeless and bleeding ink
and laughing at my very last
blink.


Luna Jubilee's blogger challenge - Week 19: Umber.

Skin-Overlay: +Fallen Gods Inc.+ - Engraved Male (previous hunt prize)
Hair: [Shag] - Dogs Of Lust
Shirt: *Connors* - L/S SEE-THROUGH MEN CAMO
Pants: Deviance - Leather Pants - brown
Shoes: 7071 - Engineer Demi Boot - Distressed Black (store seems to be gone)
Weapon: *** Black Dragon Weapons *** - Machete Dual

With friends in the garden

Somehow a giant clover grow in my garden. So i asked some friends to visit me. Although it was a strange clover because even the goats who seem to become more and more every day did not want to eat it. We climbed onto the shamrock and Zorah pretended to balance but she had some mean plans ... ouch.

This shamrock is big enough for five people. It is well made as everything from Just a Pose and fits well into the garden or on a st patricks day party. The poses are animated so it looked like Zorah was planing to kick me. I enjoyed it to spend sometime with Dehrynn and Zorah in the garden.

Shamrock: { Just A Pose } The Party's Clover - Animated! - (75$ in TOSL this weekend)

Dagmar:
Top: A:S:S - January cardigan - Crimson
Vest: A:S:S - Cotton vest - blue
Trousers: [[[COGOO]]]Cotton Trousers

Dehrynn:
Hair - Amacci Hair Isak ~ Jet Black
Shirt - !RFyre Hollis Mens Black Slash Sweater
Belt - [MANDALA] Kookai Belt /Black (Resize)[Male] stomach
Pants - Deviance-leather pants-stars - Black v1.1
Boots - Abyss - FM_Boots//SlowRider[Black_Leather]
Lip piercing - A:S:S deLuxe - Cross my heart, male
Ears - Schadenfreude Fey Ears with Solid Acrylic Plugs
Eyes - A:S:S - Stars in your eyes - Dehrynn
Eyeliner - A:S:S - Guyliner - 03
Skin - [ DNA ] .::.:HARMONY:.::. [_TYPE 3A_] [_HAIR_] SHAVED
ring - ) AI ( Wytlesey Solitaire Signet Ring

Zorah: is just offline and will be pestered to tell what she wore as soon as she comes online.

Teal

Edita was a magician extraordinaire. That meant either she was brilliant or her experiments went wrong. So one day she wanted to tint all her clothes teal. But at the end not only her clothes became teal it also happend to her hair. So she had to wait till dusk the time her familiar awakes. Nobody ever was able to find out why she choosed such an uncommon familiar. It was a swarm of fireflys.So with the help of her familiar she was able to get the normal colour of her hair back. But the whole process was rather exhausting for her so she fell asleep in the meadow and had to stretch herself in the morning.
Deviance has a minihunt going on in the store at the moment. You have to search for three witch hats. All contain a part of the teal Elementalist outfit. The staff is also part of the outfit. The whole outfit is made of prims. So its sometimes kind unveiling but there is always the possibility to wear pasties under it to hide the bits. For the pictures i used the prim feet from chained. They come with pretty jewlery. The skintone, the colour of the nails and the colour of the stones are changeable with a colour hud.
Feet: Chained : Indira silver (499 Linden)

Wasabi pills has two new puzzle boards. On both you could win ocean coloured hair. Both come with a resize script.
Left: /Wasabi Pills/ Emmaline Hair - Deep Ocean (0 Linden just lots of puzzling)
Right: /Wasabi Pills/ Kyler Hair - Deep Ocean (0 Linden just lots of puzzling)

Outfit on the first pictures: Deviance : Elementalist Teal (0 Linden hunt gift)

P.S.: im sorry that i didn t write anything the last days but i moved because im going to start my masterstudies in an other town.

Tree adventures

Once upon a time there lived a young treeman. He belonged to the race of the arboreals. But he always had the feeling that he did not really belong to the other trees. So one day he decided to wander away to find other rebels like him.But on his journey he did not meet any other arboreal. So when he saw a very old sleeping one of his race he decided to exchange news with the elder. He hugged the other tree to whisper secrets to it but when doing so he his a drow priestress which was leaning against the elder thinking that it was a normal tree. She was furious. He couldn t even find the time to apology before she used her staff on him and turned him again into a sapling.
Afraid he quickly ran away. First he wasn t able to think at all. He was shocked and also afraid that the drow might follow him. So he ran as fast as possible. After a while he thought that he would grow up again anyways. Some hours after that thought he realized that this would take about 500 years again. That was some hours before he became very sad and started to hope that he might find some help.
He wandered and wandered. He climbed onto mountains and walked through rivers. He saw big and ancient beings sleeping. And decided not to wake them.
One day he found a hut and knocked at the door. A strange looking guy came out saying lots of words like "hiya" and "howdy". The tree told his story to the man, hopeing that the guy would be a magician or a witcher.
And he had luck. The man was into alchemy and even had some ideas about how to help the arboreal. So they tested a lot of potions.
And one of them worked. But not in the way the tree hoped. He quickly grew but somehow his form wasn't like before. He had turned into a she. The alchemist came closer curious examing her knotholes. So she thanked him very much for his help and also promised him to visit him again. She also told him that she had to handle some tasks and walked away as quick as possible.
When being sure not to be watched by the man anymore the tree digged his legs into the ground. There she stood for a day. In the morning her wood started to split and she was male again. But he wasn't alone anymore. The arboreal had used its cell division skills to change its gender and to get a sapling. Together they disappeared into the woods.

Fallen Gods takes part in the kawaii hunt. And their hunt gift is just amazing. Its a little sapling avatar. But thats not the only treeavatar which is available as gift in that store at the moment. With spending some time at the lucky fortune reader it is possible to win a adult arboreal avatar. Its very nice to spend time at that fortune teller. Its like a meeting of the fantasy lovers of second life. Nearly like the fantasy faire in small. The avatars are of course amazing. The textures are great and i love the little details. For example the flowers on the male tree are different to the ones on the female tree. The sets include covers for pg sims. So its also possible to be a tree with bits or to roleplay on sims where it is asked to be decently clothed. The fortune teller visits Fallen Gods Inc. till 30th September.

Trees:
Male: ARBOREAL fortunes MALE +Fallen Gods Inc.+ (0 Linden lucky fortune)
Female: ARBOREAL fortunes FEMALE +Fallen Gods Inc.+ (0 Linden lucky fortune)
Child: ARBOREAL Sapling +Fallen Gods Inc.+ (0 Linden Kawaii hunt)

Mean Drow:
Dress: Steam 3 Hunt Giftie Gear : #86 Wishbox
Skin: Ibanez Skins - Lyra - Moonlit Drowess (799 Linden)
Staff: Deviance - Enchantress - (was a Group Gift)

the wizard:
hair: Dirty Biker Hair black (freebie at different locations)
Skin: Belleza Thomas V2 Tan Release Groupgift (available at Belleza store - groupjoin 250 L$)
Ears: NV YOJO ELF EARS (Pride Hunt Gift - Hunt is over)
Outfit: Discord MU-DOU (Groupgift)

Three outfits for women

Scratching my head a bit while thinking of where to wear this great corset from Orquidea. Its from the song lyrics hunt. The store is also rebuilt and there are some more new outfits so its worth to look a bit around in this store.
Corset: Orquidea : SLH Note #23 Earthbound corset (0 Linden)

Yesterday i was horribly keen on a dress on a midnight mania from Bellissima!. While waiting i won some outfits from the store raffle. For example this top and the skirt. The top belongs to a whole skatergirl outfit and the skirt. You got the chance to win all 20 minutes. The skateboard comes from Draneqo. And the sk8-rack was a groupgift from the same store.

Top: _Bell_Skater Gurl - Skulls Black (0 Linden raffle item)
Skirt: _Bell_Tartan Mini Skirt Robertson Modern (0 Linden raffle item)
Sk8board: +DRANEQO+ Sk8Board(Devil Boy) (300 Linden)

This outfit is the new lucky chair item from Deviance. And its just amazing. But i only dared to wear it at home as its only made of prims. The design is great, very sensual but its still possible to fight in it.
Outfit: Deviance - Elementalist - Rainbow (0 Linden Lucky chair)

Eating cupcake at Deviance

In one of the best hunts i ever did i won this blue bell dress at Deviance. Yesterday i was also at Deviance and had some cupcake there. So in some of the cupcakes i ate i found little gifts. And one of them was the dress out of that hunt.
Dress: * Deviance * - Blue Belle (Rose Red revisited)

Going on eating i found those pirate outfits. They come without shoes but the floor was cold so i pounced a lady who was standing next to me and stole her shoes. Arrrr
Outfit left: * Deviance * - Pirate Mate (Pink)
Outfit right: * Deviance * - Pirate Mate (teal)

After so much food i felt the need to go for a walk. So i tried doing the bluebird hunt. But it was too tricky so i only found the skateboard but on a lucky board i won a jacket. Depressed i decided to eat more. In the next piece i found trousers.
Jacket: >KAGUYAHIME< Jerseys! (lucky board)
Trousers: * Deviance *- Kitty Stampede Jeans (Dark Blue & Faded)

So i thought well one last bite and won this black outfit. When recognizing being nearly naked i uses my new wings and flew home as fast as possible.

Outfit: * Deviance * - Demon's Mistress (black & white)


For this blog i used the wonderful *Posey* poses from No Strings Attached. Im very excited about those poses as they are well made and the one i used for the blue belle dress is quite unique in my opinion. They are available in a normal and a mirrored version each set for 150 Linden.

Deviance Groupgift

Standing in the forest fighting against the evil. And clothed perfectly in the new groupgift from Deviance, Enchantress.
Deviance have just released the Enchantress outfit. And because of that they have sent the outfit in teal to their subscribers. It comes with a shape but its possible to modify it. I can`t belive that they choosed to give away the outfit in teal as gift, as its the best colour in my opinion.
Outfit: Deviance - Enchantress - Group Gift (0 Linden)

Magic & Romance Hunt

If you have enough of your roleplay dresses the Magic & Romance hunt is a hunt you should attend. The hunt runs from 1st of february till 7th of March. A lot of fantasy shops take part in it.
I'd like to show some of the hunt items.

First of all i want to start with Kouse's sanctum. There i found this nice gown. It comes in a short and a long version and is very pretty.

Dress: [K~*~S] Glimmer (Hunt Gift)

When looking for the Hunt item i did fall in love with a dress (it was green). On the picture i wear it without the sleeves.

Dress: [K~*~S] Mira - Gown - Dark Emerald (500 Linden)

At Mer-Elf (the hunt also starts there) i did get this gift. As the sim is adult there is an alternative starting point for the hunt.


Dress: *MEC*- Christina- Midnight Snow- Limited Edition (Hunt Gift)

This beautiful Gown is the gift at Mystic Sky. The staff was the gift at Elvenbreath.
Gown: ~Mystic Sky~ Samantha Gown: Purple (Hunt gift)
Staff: Elvenbreath: magic wand star

This dress reminded me on the Fables comics. Bluebelle and the unveiling of the secret what bluebelle wears under her dress. The dress comes with various versions of the flower basked, two versions of the stockings (blue and white) and even a shape. Its the hunt item at Deviance.
Dress: * Deviance * Blue Belle (Rose Red revisited) (M & R Hunt item)