Back to Nature

Who knows where the evolution will take us? Who knows where it might have taken other civilizations elsewhere, merging and combining with their surroundings instead of taking control over them with tools.

Perhaps there can be a symbiosis between humanoid life and flora, if nowhere else than in our imaginations. Sinking in limb-like roots that allow moving about, skin absorbing alien lights, humanoid hands kept for their usefulness, hearing becoming less vital when the senses are attuned to pollen and pheromones…

I have always enjoyed such moments of trying to envision how life would look like through the eyes of something so alien that their priorities and needs in life differ completely from human. It gives perspective.

Almost all of the alien plant can be acquired from the new round of Genre that focuses on scifi. The skin by Jalwa is not actually green, I just played with windlights. The tentacle outfit by The Stringer Mausoleum went perfectly together with the mask and ear pieces by Spyralle, hair is by Analog Dog and the Biologic Evolution body tattoo by Fallen Gods Inc. completes the look.

Scene: Alien Plants: Cerridwen’s Cauldron – Paradise Bat Orchids, Gnome Toes, Wisp Mushrooms

Alien: Skin: Jalwa Skins – Jezebel Vamp Ethereal* | Body Tattoo: Fallen Gods Inc. – Biologic Evolution (overlay, Light) Spores* | Hair: Analog Dog – ism kale | Eyes: Repulse – Lacerated v2 Green | Tentacles: The Stringer Mausoleum – Troiian Tentacles S.E. Ship Slime | Mask & Ear Pieces: Spyralle – Sensory Enhancement Modules

Poses: Orc Inc. – Stand 77 & 78

52 Colours: Shuttle Gray

My first thought for shuttle gray was something cybernetic, but since I had just played with a twi’lek I wanted to go in another direction. Fortunately this skin by Fallen Gods Inc. was a prize in the Sanity Falls Hunt and transformed Sonya into a stone medusa easily.

I dug out an old hunt prize from Fallen Gods Inc. to be the stone she’s sliding out from, what better way to match the textures than to use the products of the same designer? Speaking of, even the dragon tattoo is appropriately Alia’s.

The crazy hair is — of course — from the Crazy Hair Hunt. It’s by The Stringer Mausoleum, although I took the palest one and tinted it to shuttle gray values for better effect. If Medusa had had -this- hair, no silly hero could have vanquished her!

I love the fantasy texturing Alia puts in his skins, but as I’ve said before: they shun clothes. They really do! You put on anything else and the textures start a hissing fit war against each other. So after a while of sighing I just always give up and begin checking my poses for an attempt at something PG. -ish. So pretty it’s definitely worth it!

Sanity Falls Hunt: Skin: Fallen Gods Inc. – Immemorial Female Natural

Crazy Hair Hunt: Hair: The Stringer Mausoleum – Massive Overgrowth (tinted gray)

Other Credits: Building: Fallen Gods Inc. – Bloody Mess Sky Dome | Tattoo: Fallen Gods Inc. – Ryu, Hokusai Face Tattoo Light | Eyes: Repulse – Demonic v3 Eyes (Grey) | Make-up: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics – Smokey Licorice Kisses | Poses: Olive Juice – Sassy 7 /Astalianda – Shinies 3 / Sparrowtree Studios Poses – daringdiva3

Fallen Warrior

I was making a less girly twisted unseelie and then I remembered this mourning faerie statue by FallnAngel Creations and the rest sort of just wrote itself…

As I went through Del May’s poses I ran into this one and with the statue there it seemed that the two had a story to tell. Had the unseelie killed the faerie? Did she know her? And then the realization hit me. She -was- her. This is the moment of transformation from the flittery faerie into an unseelie warrior and our villainness is slowly regaining consciousness afterwards, then getting to her twisted feet and regarding the creature she once was, now frozen in stone.

The look started with that glamour armor by Gilded. I used only one arm of it, asymmetry seemed to make it work better. I picked a dark, almost lizardish skin by Kastle Rock Couture and mixed some of Fatal Error’s sukkubus to it. The latter provided the scant clothing layers, twisted legs and interesting bodyhorns for our warrior. This pose is also by Del May.

The hair by The Stringer Mausoleum is the only thing not from Twisted Hunt and I added a dark fae crown by DemotiK to it. There’s also a gorgeous upper body tattoo by Imperio Designs, I’ll have to use it with a lighter skin soon to show it off better. The eyes are by Repulse, who always delivers awesome supernatural gazes for all your dark-mood avatars. The twisted lantern is by Kisetsu, who had the whole shop full of them, some with hints. I had such fun there, wonderfully arranged little extra hunt. <3 As for the surroundings for the transformation, it’s a witch temple by Stone Misery. The pose that looks like she is now ready to leave her past behind and go out hunting is by AAA Poses.

52 Colours: Bronze

This is one of those colours where I knew immediately exactly what my Miss Bronze would be. Clockwork doll, no way around it. I’ll take this opportunity to also remind you all that Steam Hunt has started again, although the things Miss Bronze wears are old and not from this hunt. Still, it’ll take a while before I’ve dug myself through Twisted loots and will have the time to hit the Steam properly, so thought I’d mention it already!

And so, without further ado: “Once upon a time there was a clockwork doll…”

The marvelous bronze-toned doll skin and mechanical head are actually from the last spring’s round of Steam Hunt, by Secret Shelf. So perfect, so fitting.

“When no one was looking, she exchanged her gears for a human head, hoping to see the world better this way.”

The golden face tattoo is by Fallen Gods Inc., and seemed perfect for the little dolly. I also added make-up tattoo layers for dark eyes and a lip stripe, both by The Plastik. The clockwork eyes are by Frick. The mechano-guts are by Grim Bros.

“Behold, the world was a marvelous place, full of exciting shiny temptations everywhere…”

The dress is also by Frick and although it’s mostly more brass, the darker accents were rather clearly bronze and worked well with the clockwork concept. The stunningly surreal hair is by The Stringer Mausoleum.

“Try as she might, she was trapped on her pedestal, unable to find a way to the glittering city of promises.”

The mechanical hand is an old hunt prize by Yellow Jester and the butterfly key is by CFF — unfortunately SL had eaten the creator name, so I’m unsure which shop that actually is. Alas.

“In the end, there was only one way out of the tower.”

The shoes are by Grim Bros as well, and my absolute favorite steampunk shoes. The poses used were by Creative Insanity (1 & 3), Niqotine Poses (2&4) and Estetica (5). Miss Bronze’s Glittering City is in Omega Point. If you’ve never been there, do visit and explore. It’s rather breathtaking.

Steamy Twisted Demonology Hunt?

One of the things I’ve always loved about Second Life is how versatile the avatars are. If it can be imagined, someone has probably made it and is selling it. If you want to be a pixie princess one day and a hellhound the next, nothing’s stopping you. If I want to run about as a dark elf in the morning, steampunk clockwork doll in the afternoon and a Victorian lady in the evening, it’s easily done.

Another of my favorite things in SL has always been the hunts. Freebies hidden away for you to locate @.@ It appeals to me both because of the free factor as much as the challenge factor of finding the hidden things. However, what Sonya agrees to wear is …carefully selected, to put it kindly. I have casual clothes. They’re in the ‘costumes’ folder. <.< Gothic, fantasy, vintage, couture and costumes is what’s in my inventory. Thus I don’t usually wade through the hunts with normal things in them. If I can wear couture, why would I ever want to put on jeans? O.o

But when September kicked off with Twisted Hunt, Demonology Hunt and Steam Hunt, it was time to hunt like no tomorrow. I’ve still not sorted it all, but I’m getting there. And since I was taking screenshots to show some of the looks around, I decided to share some of my favorites here!

Twisted Hunt was organized by DV8 and it was absolutely perfectly organized, too. A pleasure to hunt through, despite the twisted evilness of the well-hidden cubes. Here’s the first get-up that made me squee…

DV8′s Cyber Jammer outfit and skates. So random, so awesome. Skin is from Oralune and most definitely not a freebie. Hair and mask are from DV8 as well. If you click your AO off and walk while wearing the skates, you’re actually skating. ^^

This one made me blink. I doubt I’ll be wearing it much since grunge is hardly my style, and being a puppy even less, but I had to screenshot and post it for the sheer value of someone making other kemonomimi than nekos! Plus the attitude is awesome. Boots, hair, puppy bits and outfit all from Pop Tart & Urban Assault, skin from Falln and not a part of the hunt.

I did mention it was -Twisted- Hunt, right? This is a mix-match of things to create this lovely little demented dolly with a big, big sword. Skin – Nocturnal Flesh, hair – BattleAngel, dress – Dilly Dolls, pawboots – Demotik, sword- D.H. Customs, tophat – Burning Chrome — all from the hunt.

So when someone makes a full aztec temple with sacrifice stone, and another designer makes a minidress with a knife sticking out of your chest, you know what you have to do, right? Skin – Fatal Error, eyes – Absentia, hair – Discord Designs, outfit & knife – Vexed. Cannot wait for the Halloween parties now!

When we were done with the Twisted Hunt, we started the Demonology Hunt straight away! The subject is obvious and the quality of the items was surprisingly good for such a short and new hunt. There were organizational problems, but for a first hunt of its kind it was a really good one.

I had way too much fun with these photoshoots. Now, if you’re a girl, there is absolutely one thing above others you must get from this hunt and that’s the gorgeous demon skins of Frick. I’ll show all three of them, this is the first. The claw — which is another awesome thing — is from Red Eye Shop. Tail, shoulderspikes and hoofboots are from Burning Chrome. Horns from BloodMyst, spiked wrist strap from Spider Productions. The hair from Deviant Kitties and the straps from Chaospire were not a part of the hunt nor free.

Here’s the red skin from Frick! The awesome claw staff is also made by Red Eye Shop, but it’s hidden in Mayhem Weapon Store. Satyr hooves from Lazy Places. Horns, tail and spikes from The Stringer Mausoleum. Prim fire glowing eyes from Gothic Dreams, hair from Vixen Hair. The Chaospire straps still not free.

Here’s the third Frick skin and a more modern take on a demon! Ears, horns, goggles, pants, hoofboots from Nekorotic Misfits. The shirt from The U-neek, Plasma Spikes from  DeTHGRiP, hair Vixen Hair and the glowing prim eyes from Meimu.

And after barely catching our breath from all the brimstone, it was time to breathe in some steam and head out to the Steam Hunt! It was also the first time for that subject and obviously also for the people organizing it. Some of the big steampunk designer names were missing, the organization was generally a confusion, a lot of the shops had dropped out and so forth. It was mostly furniture and interesting gadgets, so if you’re after awesome mock-victorian gowns or airship pirate outfits, you still need to get those with lindens. However, here’s some of the looks I found interesting…

There were two prizes about steampunk mer-creatures. I found this intriguing. O.o I’ve combined them in this, using the tattoo and the top of aeNigma with the brass octomer ‘tail’ of Brackish. Hair is from Vixen Hair, eyes from Occular Oddities (the only eyes in the hunt, but boy were those clockwork eyes pretty) match strangely well with Falln’s Isis skin (which isn’t a part of the hunt). The deep breather on her upper chest (plus tanks on her back) is from Never Ever and the mechanical arm is from Bare Bear Discount Store. …really, don’t they rust when they swim? So curious.

Since the Steam Hunt didn’t have any skins in the prizes, I poked my inventory for some. This is Frick’s Noir, and for some reason I loved it for these demented doll looks. Hair is from The Stringer Mausoleum, necklace from Lantian, the dress from Weird Designs and the tophat from Viv Trafalgar Outfitters.

As far as screenshots go, this one is definitely one of my favorites. Skin is still Frick’s Noir (not a part of the hunt), there’s Tesla Rose (11 prims) from Rasetsukoku on the right and ‘Undying Love’ (77 prims) from Belle Belle on the left — the top two of my favorite furniture items on the hunt. Outfit from Ali Couture, tophat from Koatic Designs, hair from The Stringer Mausoleum.

And with that I’m signing out and leaving you to hunt for the rest of September — hurry up with the Demonology Hunt, it ends already on 15th. The two others run the whole of September. In October I’ll no doubt be busy again and will post again in a year or so! ^_^