So, Who Did Kill Jocosta?

Hang on a second while I get this thought down. Yes, that should work nicely.

EA Created Mist Hollow!

I've really enjoyed using TS3 to finish Guardian's Key. Yeah, I know, the characters' features aren't as well developed, and honestly, I agree with anyone who thinks Kerrin lost some of his cute. But seriously, working with it has stirred my creative ideas around enough that I have some new short ideas brewing. I've continued to tweak with the features of the characters that will probably be around for a while in hopes of making the differences a little less noticeable. And yay for any new character that can just be cool on his or her own. ;)

Even with the excitement of a new ideas, the thought of recreating Mist Hollow, Sea of Moons, and the surrounding islands was very daunting. A project I wasn't particularly looking forward to. Then EA announced Dragon Valley, a new world from The Sims 3 Store, and I was thrilled with the idea. The reality has been wonderful. The very ideas I'd used to create Dagon - the mixture of medieval and modern, magique and technology - are alive in Dragon Valley.

Best Laid Plans...

Two more updates and Guardian's Key will be officially ended, only the Epilogue will be left to tie things up nicely. It's been an incredibly long ride - my fault I'm afraid. Hopefully, the end result will at least be satisfying if not exactly what everyone expects.

Guardian's Key Update - The Casque

With today's update, we're getting closer to the end. I'm sorry it has taken me so long to get this far. The break was inexcusable. Only recently have I realized my biggest problem was that with tons of pieces of custom content and hundreds upon hundreds of poses available (even with my posebox catalog at my fingertips) I was finding storytelling to be more and more tedious every time I sat down to do it. Now I've discovered that keeping Sims 3 simple as possible, my enjoyment of the medium has returned and my hobby is a hobby once more.

This Week's GK Update

Hi! Welcome to this week's update. Kumara, what a dismal sad place stuck out in the middle of the some of the harshest terrain on Neith.

Back with More Guardian's Key

Hey all, I'm back with more Sea of Moons and Guardian Key. Zeus wanted to help me this week. He can be pretty sweet when he's not acting like the god he thinks he is.

Just so you know, I promise not to disappear again. The picture taking is coming along great - got most of the updates taken. What's taking the most time and what I'm not going to rush is editing the story. Not only do I want to give you the best pictures I can take, but I want you to have the best story I can write. I've always believed it's the story people come here for, and it's very important to me. The rough draft I put up before was full of problems. Typos, threads not fully developed, past events forgotten. Typical rough draft stuff.

So, please bear with me as I update only once a week. I'll do my best to make the wait worth it.

Yes, you're a sweet cheeks.

I've been playing TS3 for a very long time, and I'd love to share some of that, so I hope you'll read on for some screenshots I've taken from the game.

Guardian's Key - Illustrated Ending Begins

Hi!

Yup, I'm finally back to finish Guardian's Key using my Sims. I'd had every intention of doing this very thing in December, but the best laid plans will get trashed every time when ice gets in the way. Slipping on ice while cleaning off my car before Christmas gave me the gift of an external fixator, instead of a cast, to set my broken left wrist. If you don't know what that is, Google it. I'll save you the explanation. Suffice it to say, my arm made grown men cringe. :)

Anyhoo, I'm going to let Lessa and Kerrin tell you about the changes you can expect with Sea of Moons from now on. I hope they don't turn anyone off, but, frankly, there are things about TS3 I prefer over TS2 aaaannnd I really wanted to see what can be accomplished with a vanilla TS3. That, folks, means Lachesis of the posebox catalog thingy isn't using poseboxes. Makes things so much more interesting. (Lachesis)

The End of Guardian's Key

UPDATE: 6/9/13 - This has finally been completed properly by using The Sims 3 instead of The Sims 2. The rough draft version this page linked to has been removed. The finished, non-rough draft version can be found here.

No, no, don't panic, I'm not just walking away, I'm actually posting the end of Guardian's Key. As I mentioned in November, I have a non-Sims story that I'm working on and it has, unfortunately, proven to need more work than I at first thought.

Anyway, while I've been working away on those 80,000 words I've also been feeling badly about ignoring Guardian's Key. So, I decided that until I can get the Sims portion of the story done - the pictures taken - I'd just stick up my text file of what I have written. Granted, it's a bit rough around the edges and has some writing and grammar warts on it, but if you don't want to wait any longer, then your wait is over.

I recently noticed I'd started Guardian's Key in 2009. Never, never did I think it would take me this long to get it all posted. Seriously, it should never have taken more than a year, or a bit longer at the most.

I do have every intention of finishing the Sims portion of it as I have time. When I add a Sims version of the story, I'll be removing that text portion until it's only a Sims story.

Until I find my way back here with a finalized version of Guardian's Key: May you all walk with the Spirits.

See how it all ends, sort of...

Thank you for your patience.

Take care,
Lachesis

Morana II

I'm back with more Guardian's Key. Lessa finally tracks down her parents. They've made themselves so inaccessible that by the time she finds them she's more than ready to let loose.

Guardian's Key, Part 8 Morana, Part II

Sometimes picking which picture I want to use can be a chore. I take so few, only three to four max of each from different angles and pick the one that best depicts what I'm trying to say. There are times, however, when making the choice falls into gut feelings and then I feel bad about the ones I don't choose. So, for shits and giggles, below are two pictures that almost, but not quite made the grade.

Enjoy!

As always, thank you all for spending some time in my world.

Take care,
Lachesis

New Sea of Moons Post

Back again, sooner than expected - yeah, for me, too.

It always bothers me how non-alpha male Kerrin comes across most of the time, and how little he tends to have to do since he's a non-magique. So, I desperately wanted to give you a closer look into what makes Kerrin Draonight tick. I hope this between the parts update succeeds in showing you another side of Kerrin.

You can be sure, what happens in the darkness will forever change him. Kerrin's been living day to day for far too long, it's time for him to see he has to embrace the man he is, the good and the evil halves of his personality.

Somewhere in Neith...

Oh, and if you're interested in seeing some of my non-Sims writing, I've entered the Mills and Boon New Voices contest for the second year. Cat's Destiny. It's paranormal, and no, it's not about a cat-shifter. I didn't realize that using the heroine's name in the title would give people the wrong impression until my husband mentioned it to me.

Thank you for reading.
Take care,
Lachesis

Spirits, I Hate Summer

First the good news, or I hope the good news, I'm back with the next installment of Guardian's Key.

Second, I want to thank everyone who's still hanging in there with me. I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate it. Also, I seem to have picked up some new readers as well, and welcome all of you, and again, thank you for your patience.

I love this story and I so want to get the rest of it to you. Things are just starting to pick up and the real fun is about to begin. I've mentioned before that this story will complete the Kerrin/Lessa trilogy that started with A Vampire's Tale. Now that we're back in Morana where it all began, the questions are soon to be answered and their story will reach its conclusion. It's not going to be an easy trip for them by any means, but no longer will either of them be unsure of what their futures hold.

I'd love to be able to promise I'll be back before months go by again, and I'm going to really try, but I can't.

Thank you all,

Take care,
Lachesis

Guardian's Key Update

Okay, I'm a week later than I wanted to be, but I'm certainly hoping I can get my shit together and get back on some kind of good update schedule.

So, back to Sea of Moons and Guardian's Key Part 6 Return to Cronus (II).

Yes, Kerrin's about to get in a world of hurt. The sweet, loving vampire is about to temporarily disappear, and the fighter he was in his early years will return. Frankly, we won't be following him, exactly, but he won't come out of this the same. None of them will, to tell the truth. By the time this adventure is over, no one's world will survive intact.

And that's all the hints I'll give for where this story's going. :)

Thank you for reading.

Take care,
Lachesis

Guardian's Key Upate (So Much Later Than I Intended)

OMG, I never meant to be away this long, and frankly, I'm can't even begin to say what the next few months are going to hold. Hopefully, I'm going to get my shit together soon.

When I started this more than two years ago, Sea of Moons was the only story I'd intended to do, then I came up with Out of Touch, Out of Time, but at least I finished that. I should have quit while I was ahead, but noooo, I decided I wanted to do a vampire story and a Steampunk story. I had so much more of whatever I needed to do this a year ago.

I still love all my stories, and want so badly to finish them, and I will, but I just can't stick to a schedule at this time.

So, I'm offering breadcrumbs when I can, and here's today's:

Guardian's Key, Part 6.

I should mention, that with this update, I start completing Kerrin and Lessa's story. From this point forward, I will be tying up any loose ends left behind from A Vampire's Tale. Or, just answering any questions that started there and have wound their way through what I'd like to call the trilogy of Kerrin and Lessa's story.

Not to worry, we'll still be following Telaan and gang around to solve Adrostos' little problem of the casque that the Guardian's Key will open.

Thank you all for hanging around.

Take care,
Lachesis

Guardian's Key Update

Sea of Moons, Guardian's Key Temple of Aodh Part II is finally up. Sorry for the delay, but I just couldn't seem to get it to sound the way I wanted. Not sure it still does, but you can only rewrite something so long before it becomes overwritten. :)

Take care,
Lachesis

Late. Again. *sigh*

O-kay, it's official, I can't make Sundays despite trying. :)

Late again. Guardian's Key up next, hopefully soon.

Take care,
Lachesis

Bringing Back the Schedule

As you can see, a new Sea of Moons, Guardian's Key Part 5, The Temple of Aodh, Part I. Telaan is finally found, but will they be able to save him now that they found him?

It appears that Wake the Dead has decided to take on a life of its own, and I can't see completing it at any time in the near future, so, rather than put SoM off any longer, I'm reinstating the old rotation schedule. Frankly, I've missed SoM and my characters.

Oh, and this special post is early, the normal schedule will again be Sunday's if at all possible.

Also, I want to thank S@ndy for sending me a tutorial on doing Telaan's chains. Yeah, I know, you sent that to me ages ago, but I'm slow. It made getting this update completed that much easier.

Take care,
Lachesis

Guardian's Key Update

Part 4, Cronus (III) posted. :)

It's my intention to step back and work on another project for a bit here. I may or may not make it with the next Wake the Dead this week as there is an involved set I need to put together for it. I don't like leaving everyone hanging, but I need to get myself caught up. I messed around last week trying to clear my creative brain from the mess it'd gotten into recently and realized I need to completely clear one project off my plate, so that's where I'm going.

Also, Drew has posted Pose box whimsy an interesting look at innovative ways to use pose boxes.

Thank you everyone for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

Wow! Close, but I made it.

Guardian's Key - Cronus, Part 2

And by the way, please note the comment above about the changes in the pose box catalog. Hopefully it won't take that long, but I didn't get as much done on it during the Christmas break as I'd hoped.

Thank you all for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

Guardian's Key Update

The never ending war with Acantha hasn't been kind to Cronus, as Kerrin finds out. Cronus, Part 1 here.

Thank you all for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

Late Again :/

Hey everyone, unfortunately Sea of Moons, Guardian's Key, Cronus I is going to be late. Not next week late, just not today late. The update is written and the pictures are taken, finally, I just have to put the two together. So, within the next couple of days late.

But I will leave you with this taste of the next part in Adrostos' quest to find the Casque.