If you know Seri, you’ll have noticed she has an addictive personality… she locks onto things, and obsesses over them, till something else attracts her attention… and, currently, it’s arcade games…

… she just acquired another one for her game corner. Unlike the previous two, this one isn’t posable… but, it makes up for that by being, actually, playable! It’s called Shadow Syndicate, and is made by Tokugawa Heavy Industries, a creator who, ironically, is the creator of one of Seri’s favourite jackets, and, probably, her all-time favourite glasses,  but, who generally makes scifi-techy stuff…

… the game is a homage to 80’s video games and, as someone whose human was an adult in the 80’s, Seraphim can testify to the gorgeous acuity of the homage…

… you also get this poster with the game…

… you start the game, and get a series of loading screens…

… until you arrive at this rain-soaked alley…

… where this guy suddenly appears before you, and your fists come up. You are meant to hit him before he shoots you, and, apparently, that allows you to beat him and progress through the game…

… unfortunately, because you only have a split second to react, and Seri was busy taking pictures, she always got killed! She’d then have to restart the game, and run through everything, again, trying to get the best images… by the time she had enough, she was over it, and hasn’t actually played Shadow Syndicate, yet! But, she will (:

Seraphim visited the ‘Salt Water’ sim, yesterday. She arrived in a torrential, thundery tropical downpour…

… but, once she got clear of the landing zone, the rain disappeared, and she was in a beautiful, pre-twilight paradise…

… she made her way down to the shore…

… the sun was arrested at sunset…

… and the clouds were in constant motion across it’s blazing face…

… the sea was awash with golds, reds, and yellows…

… and seabirds wheeled above the waves.

Seraphim recently visited Obscura Harmonium. There is a functions hall, which is full of photogenic spaces…

… and an outside area…

… which has many beautifully crafted scenes…

… it’s a gorgeous place…

… a photographers delight.

Seraphim visited Morph Studios, today. Morph Studios is billed as a store that has ‘got all you need to be a little sexy demongirl’, it’s all about tentacles and the sort of embellishments that Seraphim has zero interest in, but it also has a scenic sim surrounding it… the blurb says ‘Don’t by [sic] shy to explore the island. Beautiful nature where you can find some mystic spots. But nothing to be afraid, just a peaceful place to relax without scare.’…

… and that’s exactly what Seraphim found. The store was full of someone’s idea of erotic attachments/apparel for ‘little sexy demongirl’, but the sim was beautiful, with a surprising amount of pure sweetness, like the sleeping bambi beside Seri… Seri hung around to make sure the giant octopus wasn’t going to try eating it, but it didn’t…

… there were, of course, a lot of tentacular goings on, but they were quite photogenic, and even funny, like the much smaller octopus in the barrel behind Seri…

… she went with the sim’s recommended Windlight, which had a nice comic book feel…

… and she spent a good hour, wandering around, finding lots of beautiful spots…

… and interesting scenes. These barrels reminded Seri of the book ‘Robinson Crusoe’, a book Seri’s human read, as a child, at least 50 years ago, that child had only seen 2 movies (The Sound of Music, and Flipper), and hardly any television, and the story of Robinson Crusoe just flooded it’s empty little mind with visions of Crusoe’s marvelous adventures, which were, of course, the ultimate shipwreck fantasy, where virtually anything Crusoe could possibly have needed, gets washed ashore for him, mostly in barrels, so it’s all perfectly edible, or, in the case of the container of leaf tobacco, perfectly smokable… Crusoe cures himself of some sickness using tobacco smoke! He also gets dozens of rifles, gunpowder, ammunition, knives, hammers, nails, rope… you get the picture. When the book was first published, in 1719, people thought it was a true story.

Seraphim has been shopping at the Oubliette and Petite Mort, sister stores, for years… she only realised, today, that their sim has a photographers delight aspect to it, called Witchwood…

… which, once she gave it a seconds thought, wasn’t too surprising, that the makers of such gorgeous gothic attire, would also have the skill/taste, to craft such a beautiful photographic environment…

… she spent a good half hour wandering around, checking it all out…

… feeling totally in her element, being a goth girl from way back…

… and a photographer for ever…

… this was a lovely discovery (: