Tracing the Threads of History and Fantasy

Rooftop Rest

November 15, 2024

Lore has a lovely addition to their Oasis series out at the November round of We Love Role-Play, a rustic desert house and three types of large jars/amphorae, and I set it up together with the Oasis walls and well that were released some time ago. The house consists of a single room, with cracked and worn walls, and a ladder takes you up to the rooftop through a hatch. That is where I decided to setup the Djinn’s Rest, a little lounging area with animations that I picked up from Roawenwood during 25 L Tuesday.

The sexy Astra outfit by Salt & Pepper would perhaps best be described as fantasy lingerie, with ornate metallic accents on both the top and the boots. And these make excellent use of PBR, just like the Oasis house does.  With the fatpack you can mix and match all the colours and textures, allowing for a lot of different combinations.

Very sexy is also the extra long Bora hair from Wasabi for Kustom9. The HUD lets you switch between bangs or no bangs as well as a more windswept style. Here I went sleek and serene.

The Queen’s Tower

March 07, 2023

A lonely tower by the sea, a queen in self-imposed solitude. That is my second offering for We Love Role-Play, featuring the new releases from Grasshopper St and Les Encantades.

From Grasshopper St comes the Berengaria Crown and Medieval Veil. These are beautiful pieces, perfect for an accurate medieval look. The crown can be stripped down a bit by removing some of the ornaments and the HUD also includes several metal and jewel options. The veil comes in silk and cotton and rigged as well as unrigged.

The Revna gown is an intricately adorned dress that offers a lot of flexibility in how you combine the colours if you have the fullpack HUD. I had some minor quibbles with the fit of Blanca, the other Les Encantades gown I showed, but Revna is clearly a newer mesh and perfectly rigged to Maitreya Lara. It also includes fits for Belleza GenX, Kupra, Legacy and Reborn.

Sweet Rowena

February 19, 2023

The Truth Collective is a collaboration between Truth and, at the moment, Faga and Wasabi. The Rowena style is by Truth and Wasabi, with Wasabi making the mesh and using Truth’s regular textures. The style comes with and without bangs and with the long ponytails either thicker or thinner.  Its a pretty cool idea, this kind of collaboration, and it will be interesting to see what other styles come out of it.

The outfit is called YingShui and it is from another NextUp collection by deviousMind.  Yellow isn’t usually my thing, but if you call it Gold or, as here, Saffron, I am all for it. ;) The collection includes two types of commons, the shorts & top shown here and a dress, as well as several rares. The tattoo is again Ceres from Nefekalum, but here I am using the golden base and the red overlay together.  The pose comes with the couch, which is by Roawenwood.

The Summoning

June 30, 2022

They were not ready for what answered them…

F&M Oblivion has two cool fantasy hair styles at the Hair Fair with this one, called Selene, being the most spectacular. As it reminded me of horns as well as the curve of the moon, something magical seemed an obvious choice. Fortunately, I had just won a Discord giveaway from Petrichor for the very cool Kelstreia outfit (which consists of many more pieces than what I am showing) and I think it goes really well with the hair to sell the idea of perhaps a succubi or other demonic creature having been summoned. The summoning circle is from Roawenwood and includes animations both for a central figure and for people praying and summoning in the outer circle. Placing it deep within the cave system from Fanatik added an underworldly touch to the proceedings.