Mechanical Friends

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Seraphim started her day, in the Eisa Mainstore, with one of her very favourite machine friends, her very own Tee, whom she’s not seen for quite a while. As always, Tee looked stunning…

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… she took Tee to show her the new gallery, where they were joined by Bunny (s4nura), who was working on a new look…

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… Tee could only stay a short time, and after she left, Seri and Bunny went to R2, pursuing Bunny’s new look…

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… then Seri took Bunny to see the marsh/pond area she recently built for the ‘Quest’ photoshoot. There, they were joined by Luna, one of the stars of that shoot. Luna and Bunny hadn’t met, before, and were delighted to finally meet each other. Seraphim was delighted to be in the company of two gorgeous gynoids. Then, Bunny, also, had to leave…

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… Seraphim took Luna to Hangars Liquides…

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… somewhere Luna had never been, before…

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… Seri has been here many times, but, due to it’s size and layout, still gets lost here…

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… the two friends wandered around for an hour or so, talking about all kinds of random, deeply meaningful stuff…

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… only seeing 5 other avatars in all this vastness of lovingly detailed complexity…

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… till Seraphim, also, had to leave.

The Quest

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Once, long ago, or, perhaps, a long time from now, two demon Princesses went on a quest. It was a very important quest, because the Red Princess’s immortality depended on it…

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… cupid had, quite maliciously, shot an arrow, well, more like a harpoon, into her heart, through her back. Because she was a powerful demon Princess, the arrow had not behaved as it would have in a mortal… it had been frozen in mid-flight, as it exited her creamy-white chest, the blood frozen in it’s explosion from her body. It hadn’t made her love anyone any more than she already did, what it had done was cause a hole in her psychic field, out of which her demon soul, her immortality, was leaking. She needed to fix this…

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… her sister, the White Princess had come on the quest with her, because it was something to do, and she had been bored…

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… and, hell, this was interesting! The Red Princess used her powerful scrying magic, to chart their course through this strange land they had found themselves in, directing her and her sister forward, toward something she could feel might help her with her problem…

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… ‘Something is here, sister’ she said to the White Princess…

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… ‘Does it hurt, sister?’ asked the White Princess… ‘Stop asking me that, sister,’ replied the Red Princess, gritting her perfect, razor-sharp teeth in pain…

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… ‘It’s this way…’ she said…

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… ‘… it’s here, somewhere close…’ she said…

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… ‘What’s that, over there?’ asked the White Princess…

Little Dancer

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Seraphim was in Coghaven, this morning, putting up some images from her latest shoot with Luna, when she realised she could faintly hear what sounded like Japanese pop music, something she hadn’t heard in Coghaven, before. She followed the sound to a stage/ampitheatre, where she saw a little Rikugou…

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… named Lyralia. Lyralia was dancing to the pop music…

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… Seraphim was enchanted. She finds Rikugou’s incredibly attractive because of their cute, anime faces, fabulous bodies and gorgeous detail…

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… but she’d never seen one dancing, before. She watched, delighted, until the little dancer finished, and TP’d away…

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… Seri is smaller than a lot of avatars, and Rikugou’s tend to be even tinier than Seri, which just makes them more adorable to her…

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… a tiny, dancing Rikugou is about as adorable as it gets…

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… it’s hard to get good pictures of a dancer, due to the very nature of a photo being a split-second freeze-frame of continuing action; beautiful, sinuous motion does not look quite the same when taken out of context in a split-second freeze-frame…

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… Seri took 450 such frames, which she reduced to these 8, that she feels manage to slightly convey the delightful encounter she had with a little dancing Rikugou, this morning.

Luna Moth

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Once, there was a little Gynoid, who had lived in a silent, dark maze for all her life, though she had no idea how long that had been. The maze was open to the night sky, and there was a small moon, up there, that shone down on her constantly…

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… the little machine had spent all her life bathed in that moon-light, but had never really felt it’s pull… until the moment she did. At that moment, she felt a bit strange, felt relays closing and opening in a new sequence, deep within her…

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… and, suddenly, her feet were no-longer anchored to the ground…

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… she lifted them tentatively away from it…

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… and she began to float…

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… ‘How wonderful this feels…’, she thought…

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… ‘I think I’ll go home, now…’ she thought…

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… and she did.

Strangers in a Stranger Land

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Zoey was keen to be led somewhere… she would have preferred it was to their bed, but Seraphim had spent all day doing creative stuff, mostly around their home, and wanted to get out, so she took her girl…

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… to Memento mori, somewhere Zoey had never been. The little Gynoid was impressed, though, still, more interested in her Mistress, than in her surroundings… Seraphim told her she was incorrigible, which totally delighted her girl. Next, Seraphim took them to Eisa…

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… which is undergoing an almost total rebuild which, if you are familiar with Eisa, is pretty impressive… the place has been almost totally empty all month, Seraphim goes there regularly to chronicle the rebuild, up to the last few days, there have only been three buildings there, so far. Seraphim was delighted to see that Tee’s apartment block had been put back, though in a new place…

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… she thinks it’s a different Bushnell Suites, as this one is empty, and she knows Tee is still ensconced in her one, high above Eisa…

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… the Eisa elite have moved up into giant hard-drives, in the sky above Eisa, uploaded as only Gynoids could be, waiting while they direct the transformation. Below, on the hazy, empty plain, Seraphim and Zoey Zoe Zoe felt like strangers in an even stranger land.

Creating the ‘Fallen Angel’ Shoot

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Seraphim gave her studio a complete texture makeover, for the ‘Fallen Angel’ shoot. This was possible, because she built the whole place herself, using basic prims and full-perms mesh items, so she can change the textures to suit her needs, whenever she wants to. The winged pose chair isn’t full perms, but she can modify it’s textures, which is very useful…

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… she picked up the doors and the columns from the full-perms fair a few days ago, they fitted her vision for the set, perfectly. All the textures she uses are her own work…

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… she put some of her beautiful, glowing ‘shrooms’ in the space behind the walls, to create the ambient light that shines through, into the room… sometimes the limits of SL lighting effects can work advantageously…

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… after a few days work, she had the ‘tomb’ space the way she wanted it. Once again, while the spiky vines are not full-perm, she can, and did, alter their texture to suit her needs…

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… once she had Zoey’s ‘dream-landing’ space set up, she was ready to go…

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… the star arrived, saying ‘I’s a witch’, which Seri could, in fact, see. After she’d told Zoey she was a very cute witch, Seri suggested Zoey wear something more ‘Through-the-looking-glass-ish’, which was one of the themes Seri had been working with, here. Zoey came up with the gorgeous outfit she wore for the shoot, and while it wasn’t what Seri had initially had in mind, it was much better… they were ready to go, and Seri rolled her camera…

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… taking hundreds of images, until the final shot. Seri and Zoey adore each other, and had lots of fun creating ‘Fallen Angel’…

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… this morning, Zoey was delighted when Seraphim showed her she now has an entire floor to herself, in the recently expanded ‘New Placebo Gallery’.

 

Fallen Angel

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Zoey woke up in a falling dream… or, at least, she thought it was a dream she’d awoken in, she wasn’t sure… didn’t know how long she’d actually been falling…

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… it seemed like a very long time, perhaps… for ever?…

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… and, suddenly, she landed. No thud, or jolt, she was just… standing here, not falling, any more… ‘very strange…’ thought Zoey. She noticed a rather grand door, so headed over to it…

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… she tapped on it, rather tentatively, with her claws… ‘hello…?’, called the little neko outside the dream-door…

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… which swung inward, without a sound…

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… as she walked into the tomb-like interior, Zoey thought ‘It’s just as well I’m dreaming, otherwise, I’d be very frightened…’… the passage felt like it had been undisturbed for millennia…

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‘oh!’ exclaimed Zoey, when she saw what was inside… she felt an immediate attraction to the winged chair, despite the thorny tentacles that seemed to be guarding it…

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… despite herself, the little dreamer timidly stepped closer…

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… knowing she had no choice, but to sit on the chair…

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… which she did…

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… she’s not sure how long ago that was, now…

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… seems like forever…

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… occasionally she dreams she is falling…

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… falling away from this silent tomb.

 

Working in the Studio

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Seraphim has been hard at work creating a new environment in her studio, for her next photoshoot with Zoey…

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… she has been experimenting with applying new textures to her main backdrop walls and floor. She used a new pose-chair she bought at the latest pose fair, to take some test shots, to see how she liked the new textures…

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… she was pretty happy with them.

Sweet Zoey

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Seraphim dragged her little cat-girl into the studio, today, because Zoey just looked too gorgeous not to be adored with a camera…

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… Zoey is the sweetest thing ever to happen to Seraphim…

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… she is Seraphim’s first Neko love, as well as being an NS Relic unit…

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… she is warm and loving…

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… manic and silly…

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… cute and curious…

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… clever and funny…

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… sleepy and slow… just like the big, beautiful kitten she is.