Guardian's Key Update

Part 2 - Vijaya here. Telaan must be found before it is too late, but where to look for the Temple of Aodh?

Thank you everyone for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

Projects Overtaking my Mind

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else -- if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
(Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 2)

I've had so many things come to mind for me lately. My list of to dos follows. :)

I have an Angels' Cloud I want to Sim and post and an idea for the next prompt I don't have written,

I have six pose boxes I want to put together,

I have Wake the Dead to finish writing and get Simmed for this Sunday,

tons of Sireta's Blog written and pictures taken that have to be put together into an update,

I have the Solitude prompt to Sim for simfic50 and

one other project I want to get written and then Simmed. :)

This list does not include sets that need to be built for all my stories and skins I desperately need to get done. I also need to design tattoos for Chandra Elves and for followers of the Guide.

So, I'm extremely behind on my reading, I'm sorry. I'll have a couple of days vacation time from my full-time job later this month. I'm really hoping to get at least partially caught up then. I'm not ignoring anyone, just running behind.

Thank you all who take time from your own busy schedules to read my stories.

Take care,
Lachesis

Update

Part 1 - Mist Hollow (III) now up at Sea of Moons.

I get very few outtakes any more between pose boxes and always having freewill off. But sometimes, I forget and leave freewill on and actually get an outtake or two. :) They were waiting for Lessa to do a wardrobe change.

Thank you all for reading.

Take care,
Lachesis

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.