Otherworldly

The table has been set for an opulent Renaissance feast. A roast pheasant is accompanied by three additional dishes and of course there is fine wine as well. The pheasant and the three dishes are new releases from Del-ka Aedilis for the SL Renaissance Festival and both are donation items raising money for the American Cancer Society.

The lady hosting the feast wears a gown by Les Encantades, which features a wide variety of colour combinations via the texture HUD, and a beautiful head ornament with matching earrings from Zibska. Along with the skin from Mignonne, these are all Renaissance Festival releases. The skin includes eyebrow options, add-on lipstick and blushes as well as a special version with a powdered face.

The current round of We Love Role-Play is almost over, but you have until the end of the 28th to take a look! For my final post for the September round I picked out the Cecil gown from Lorien, which makes really great use of PBR for the dress texture and to bring out the embroideries on the dress. Sometimes it gets too shiny, but this one really sells a fabric texture with a more metallic decoration. I paired it with the tiara from NeonSheep which has a classic medieval look and which also is available at WLRP.

From the Engine Room comes the final new release, the cool Four of Swords hair style from Magika. I turned off the optional bangs and matched the colour of the swords to the tiara and the gold of the dress, but there are more metal options included on the HUD. And, of course, the HUD is a fatpack of hair colours for just L$ 450, quite the steal.

It is still a learning process to get the lighting just right to show off PBR as well as possible, but I am pretty pleased with how this gorgeous Teeglepet tack set from ContraptioN came out in my photos. The Carousel Trappings set is a beautiful rendition of the tack of a classic carousel horse, now available at the Dog & Pony Show for the vast majority of Teeglepet horse breeds. I decided to pick it up for the Pegasus, since a baroque horse suits my image of a carousel horse. The set includes both fallback and PBR textures, but of course I wanted to use the latter and the leather in particular is spectacular. I am also using a new coat for the Pegasus, the Glimmer coat from Hoofbeatz, also available at the Dog & Pony Show.

I picked up two more poses from Animosity after discovering their horse & rider poses through the Dog & Pony Show, to get a bit of a circus girl feel to these photos. My outfit is perhaps more Steampunk than circus, a new release from Petrichor & Ersch for the Engine Room (which has so many cool new releases this time around). The huge hud with texture options meant that it was easy to come up with a combination that suited the colours of the tack.

Back from vacation IRL and as usual exhausted by it, so only slowly getting back into things. Before I left, I did not have time to use this gown from Lorien for July’s round of We Love Role-Play, so I wanted to rectify that. Fortunately, since the event always takes a break in August, the July round is still up and available.

The Karen outfit is a linen gown with a tooled belt and some modest detailing, making it suitable for a woman of some means, if not a noble lady. Here, the mistress of the house is inspecting the kitchens, perhaps in advance of an important meal. The kitchen furnishings, as well as the house itself, are earlier releases from Del-ka Aedilis.

Deep in the desert, a tall gate reaches towards the sky. It is set in no wall and seems to offer entrance into nothing at all, yet legends warn against passing between the enormous pillars. Those who have, or so it is claimed, have never been seen again.

Out now at We Love Role-Play, the awesome Metatron Gate by Vae Victis is a huge piece of fantasy decor, with beautiful texturing and detail. Up close, there are swirls of energy along the insides of the pillars. The HUD allows you to mix and match 5 metal textures across different parts of the pillars.

The gate made for an excellent backdrop in this desert scene, where I am also showing off Rakshasa’s release for WLRP, the Roman-inspired Stefanos outfit (with a sword from LR Weapons added to it). The outfit is highly customizable in terms of the textures and colours, offering both clean and bloody or tarnished versions.

Another round of We Love Role-Play awaits you and my first picks for showcasing from the July round is an expansive Roman merchant set from Del-ka Aedilis and a collar from Drunken Brokkr. The merchant set includes a variety of excellent decor pieces for furnishing a Roman (or Roman-inspired) shop—or a kitchen, for that matter—and the collar works as a slave collar for a variety of settings as it offers texture options for both the leather and metal. I decided to setup a scene of a wealthy household’s slave girl shopping for her mistress; already her basket is full of previous purchases. I took some liberties with her dress from Senzafine (available at Midsummer Enchantment, which closes today), it is rather too fancy and more Grecian-inspired than Roman, and her pretty leather shoes from lassitude & ennui aren’t precisely Roman either.

The Tempest Bullwhip is the latest release from DICTATORSHOP. It features original mocap animations for both single and dual wielding, depending on which version you opt for (Standard, Advanced or Expert). Realistic whip sounds are included and you can customise the look of the whip with a tinting hud. To show off the animations, I just had to make a video. I had still planned to write a bit more about the whip and the sexy new dress from Petrichor & Ersch, but after my dog training today I have a nasty rope burn on the back of my left knee, so sitting down is rather uncomfortable! Of course, I have still added the credits at the end of the post.

A final adventure for this year, as the Fairelands are set to recede into the mists today. It has been a wonderful experience as usual and as much as I wish the sims would stay all year around, it wouldn’t be the same. I already can’t wait to see what the amazing worldbuilders and other creators will come up with next year! I will leave you with a video from Avalon and of course credits to everything can be found at the end of the post.

The magical isle of Avalon, Alia Baroque’s creation for this Fantasy Faire, became witness to a meeting between two fantastical beings. One, a fae called to this realm as the dragon nearly woke from his slumber. The other, a spirit horse lured down from among the clouds and starts by magic required to send the dragon back to sleep.

At the Jail & Bail for Alia, I bought the Ancient Spell version of the special skin. I was really curious to see how the sim would change if the dragon awoke, but alas, that did not happen. But I knew I wanted to create a post with this skin and when I got the opportunity to blog the Qamariki mod & texture kits for the Teeglepets, created by Tutto E Vanita, I had an idea for bringing the two together.

For the rest of the fae’s look, I used one of the RFL releases from deviousMind together with one of the new colours of the SteamWings released for the Faire and a crown from Les Encantades.

As for the Qamariki, I modded my Teeglepet Pegasus with the kit as I have a copy version of the Pegasus. The first time I tried I managed to skip one step and had to start over, but once I actually followed all the instructions it was not difficult at all as long as you have some basic understanding of how to use the editing tools. The Qamariki mod kit is available for most Teeglepets, including even the new Kelpie and Hippocampus pets. In addition to the mod kit, you need one of the special texture kits and the toughest part about that will be to pick your favourite. This is a really fanciful mod kit and the texture kits use glow and emissive marking for an ethereal appearance.

I love how the colours of this came together, all very warm and earthy. That gorgeously sexy little thing I am wearing is Kamille from Tres, available exclusively at We Love Role-Play. Kamille supports a nice range of bodies (here I am using the athletic Khara body from Inithium) and comes in 9 different colours and patterns. Each can also be either opaque or sheer and of course I had to experiment with the sheer version. I just love the look of it, not the least from the back.

I’ve got two other WLRP releases on display here. The major one is the Oasis decor set from Lore, which includes a well, a variety of pots, a bench and the whole surrounding enclosure. Wonderfully earthy and realistic textures and a great set for building a desert village centered around a vital well.

The pot I am carrying on my head, however, is from Lorien and includes a holding animation which I adjusted somewhat to go with this pose.

The sorceress welcomed them onto the roof of her desert citadel, with a view that stretched even to the distant ocean, and offered them refreshments, the juice of a glowing blue fruit that tasted unlike anything else.

The Tiane dress from Luas for We Love Role-Play called for a full-on fantasy mood rather than something more pseudo-historical. The beautiful jewel tones of the dress paired well with the fantastical Fenfruit set from Cerridwen’s Cauldron, which includes both the fruits themselves and two different beverages made from it presented in different flasks and flagons.

The ornate table, with its gorgeous mosaic top, and the leather pouf are both by Lore. The table includes a HUD with several different wood colours and even more options for the mosaic top, which manages to capture a really glassy look.

After a busy day, is there a better way of relaxing than in a warm bath? Dutchie‘s latest release lets you relax in a luxurious claw foot bathtub and includes all the additional amenities you might need—wine, for example!  I used the bathtub and the accompanying releases together with some beautiful bamboo arrangements from Kaerri, adding a touch of green lushness to the elegance of the furnishings. The bamboo is from a set called Shiburi which includes several different Japanese-inspired planters and they can be found at the Plaza event which runs for a few more days, until June 13th.

As for the beautiful bathtub and the accompanying releases, it is available at FaMESHed for June. The bathtub comes in a PG and an Adult version, which means you will likely see it again as I explore the Adult options. This post, however, highlights some of the solo PG animations.  There are 20 of those (the Adult has 10 additional mature solo animations), including some with auto-attaching props (using the AvSitter experience) such as a book, a wine glass and a razor.

The tub includes options for the sound (which is very soothing and realistic!) and for the colour of the tub itself and of the metal. The metal options are also available on the mirror (which is available as a wall-mounted and as a leaning version) and on the lamp, whereas the side table has colour options. Both the bath caddy and the side table can be rezzed out either with or without props and the props seen on them are also available as separate pieces for full versatility.

Opera is this year’s grand vision from Alia Baroque, a place of “baroque decadence, whispering curtains, bucolic debauchery”.  So, when I dressed up in a dramatic ensemble combining pieces from Petrichor, Find the Fish and Seydr, it was to Opera I went for a background to fit the mood.

Petrichor released a huge amount of different items for the Faire and here I am using both the Arvylinde dress and the Kyrkonen Veil. The latter kind of makes me think of the Vorlons of Babylon 5 and I love how it, together with the tattoo and the halo from Find the Fish, give a very priestess-like quality to my avatar. Adding an extra touch of magic are the Flayre Eye FX from Seydr, a kind of animated “eyeliner” that curls like smoke under your eyes. Beautiful effect.

The Fantasy Faire is open and I’d like to invite you to join me in little bit of exploring of Nysaris, one of the sixteen shopping regions of the Faire. Accompanying me on my walk around Nysaris are my two companions, a wise owl and a fierce wolf.

As usual, you will find credits at the end of the post, including direct slurls to the stores at the Fantasy Faire.

The April round of We Love Role-Play opens today and you can whet your appetite with the Shopping Guide as well as with the blog posts that are starting to crop up. Such as this one!

For this post, I am mixing up the releases from lassitude & ennui, Moth & Moon and Misteria, the result being a fae who rides in the Wild Hunt, here on the prowl on her on with her black steed. The soft green skin from Moth & Moon blends nicely with the Dryad gloves from Misteria (BOM layers and appliers included), and the Wild Hunt shoulder piece from lassitude & ennui adds a touch of menace. This is not a fae you want to meet in the woods on the wrong night.

I am also using a new release that isn’t from WLRP but which deserves a special mention because I find it so neat. RVN Store is a new-to-me store which I came across at the Level event and they have several different add-on deformers for mesh heads. Now, I have seen deformers for mesh bodies before, which allow you to achieve shape variations that the sliders can’t do. But with such body alterations you run the risk of clothing not fitting, so I haven’t found them that interesting. But face deformers? I had not seen those before and I am excited. The set that I am using pieces from here is called Chic Cheeks and it alters your upper and lower cheekbones. Perfect if you like sharper cheekbones. I am also really intrigued by their nose deformers since I am a sucker for strong noses, so I may have to give those a try too.