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)

Erm, Hi! Remember Me?

Hi, remember me? I'm the one who goes by the strange name Lachesis. You know, the one that comes and goes from here very sporadically.

Thought I'd Just Check In

I know I've been silent a long time, but before I head off today to work on my manuscript, which is still taking longer than I ever expected (I hate when characters don't see things the same way I do), I thought I'd stop by just let you all know I'm still among the living. I'm coming ever closer to seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and hope to get the first draft finished very soon.

In the meantime, thank you everyone who has started or is continuing to read my stories. It's always wonderful to me when I see someone just starting out with A Vampire's Tale. I hope you enjoy the journey. For those who've been around for a long time, I hope to start putting the pictures on the end of the story soon. I'm waiting for my new computer to arrive soon - to replace my eight-year-old baby - and we'll be moving all my TS2 stuff over there. What a production that will be, wow. Maybe a new computer will make the TS2 load time a little less tedious, but I'm not getting my hopes up that far. ;)

Also, I know Guardian's Key doesn't exactly end by answering all questions. I have so many ideas for these characters, I'm really hoping I'll be able to continue with them into the future. But, unfortunately, that will depend on what happens with my manuscript - if the editor buys it - and just life in general. Also if I do sell my story, I have plans for it to be a series of books that exist in the world I've created. That could also fill in my time. But we'll see. My love for the Sea of Moons world is quite strong.

I have plans for these people, I just hope I have the ability to tell their stories either with pictures or just words.

Again, thank you all for your patience.

Happy April Fool's Day. :D

Take care,
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