Really, They're Not Abandoned Sites

Added some in-game pictures to Lachesis' Presents for TS3, but not Sireta's Blog, just some fun happenings.

Added pose boxes to Stand, Sit, Lay, Kneel and Couples

And some TS2 fun - I really didn't know the dog could eat the homework. :) The girl in pink whose homework it is seems a little too happy.

Take care,
Lachesis

One Last Word on Stealing

On Sunday morning I received an email from a fellow Sims Storyteller telling me that my story, Out of Touch, Out of Time, seemed to have been posted on Perfect Sims' website along with many other writers' work.

I already made one post on this topic at the Sims Writers Alliance on Sunday before I had a chance to calm down a bit. Yes, I was and am angry. We've all been violated, and we're working to get the site removed. There is nothing more we can really do at this time.

However, I'm mentioning this one last time because in my case, I believe they thought they weren't technically stealing as they changed Cheyenne's name - although they used Jonas'. They also did some very poor rewriting; removing my exposition and writing it more like a script than a story.

My pictures don't show up on the site, at least when I visit it, because Google and Picasa don't like to be hotlinked. I do have enough knowledge to know if I go to the webpage and view the page source my pictures are embedded in the code. When I copy and paste them into a browser page, they show up as, indeed, mine. There is no question that the story they have there under the title The Sea of Moons is Out of Touch, Out of Time.

In my case, they only completed two chapters. Others, however, had much more of their work translated and stolen.

The point I'm making here is that regardless of whether the story is stolen in its entirety, or the plot and essence of the story is taken and used, it is still stealing. Hotlinking the pictures only adds to the crime.

This has, unfortunately, affected many good storytellers, many of whom you've been reading far longer than me. These people have always been open and helpful. I'm sorry to see that the Sims Community for all it's wonderful, helpful and creative people, still has the element of abuse infecting it.

'Nuf said from me, I've been very vocal about this entire thing. Now, I'll work behind the scenes trying to get the site removed, and move on with my stories as I always have. Just a little older and wiser these days.

With Days Like This...

This has by far not been my best of days. Nothing has gone right at any point during the day. I even tried to screw up a boxed brownie mix. Now how is that for sad? :p

But despite fighting me every step of the way by snapping out of position despite the fact I was using SL's shelf to place them, I've updated SoM Guardian's Key. Mist Hollow II has been posted. Yes, it is particularly short, but I'm still on the set up chapter. Unfortunately, everyone needs to know where they're going, how they're going to get there and why. :)

Thank you all for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

Angels' Cloud Part 4 at Simfic50

Well, things went much smoother than I expected and I was able to get the next Angels' Cloud up after all. Which is good because that leaves tomorrow free to play catch up on reading the stories I follow. Guardian's Key will be back next Sunday. I'm leaving it on the every other week schedule so when Wake the Dead is ready for prime-time it'll slide into it's Lachesis' Tales slot without problem.

If you haven't played with Parsimonious' Balloons then you're missing out on a real treat. Even if you don't need them they are great fun to watch your Sim go up and up in them. :)

Thank you all for reading!
Take care,
Lachesis

Showing off ;D

I've been meaning to do these pictures forever, and I just haven't gotten back into Zachary's world until recently. I was there this week working on an update. So, while there, I decided I'd completely share his library with you. Since it took me weeks to put this thing together, and now that I have the plot worked out to the end, I don't think you'll ever see it again, I want to show off. I think this thing goes somewhere beyond normal detailed oriented. :p

First, ignore the omsp I forgot to remove from the library in the one picture. Believe me, it was one among hundreds. Also, you may or may not notice, I was so hung up in making clutter, I forgot to put a door in.

Second, I want to thank everyone of the great cc creators out there. Without them, this type of story could never be told with the Sims.

A new Angels' Cloud is forthcoming, but I'll be honest, working on this is very time-consuming because I'm very detail oriented with it, so I hope to have it in the near future, but that depends on how I think the pictures look. This is one case of being very picky.

Take Care,
Lachesis

Sea of Moons is Back!

Guardian's Key has officially started! Part 1 - Mist Hollow I. Enjoy.

And everyone I know seems to have posted at least one update this past week. If I've been unusually absent from everywhere, I do apologize. I should be back on track next week. I just kinda got caught up in a Sims3 neighborhood I haven't even really taken pictures in, except a couple that were really strange. LOL

Thank you all for reading (and being patient with the six week delay between the end of The Search for Nanda and the start of Guardian's Key)!

Take care,
Lachesis