Trilog. joooooooj. I'm sorry about all this mess we caused. Please, forgive us. I guarantee you that our comments didn't come out of menace. Eva and I just didn't know when to shut up although you cleraly said: The violence level of this entry is high ; so if you find something too violent/disturbing to you, just skip to the spoiler following the one you're reading.

I apologize in mine and Eva's name. High respect toward you is still on ultra high.  

47 minutes ago, Elf Prince said:

Trilog. joooooooj. I'm sorry about all this mess we caused. Please, forgive us. I guarantee you that our comments didn't come out of menace. Eva and I just didn't know when to shut up although you cleraly said: The violence level of this entry is high ; so if you find something too violent/disturbing to you, just skip to the spoiler following the one you're reading.

I apologize in mine and Eva's name. High respect toward you is still on ultra high.  

Eva and you have nothing to apologize for, Prince. It was a choice from mine to show what happened the way I did, I knew it wouldn't please everyone, but I am glad if it allows some discussion over it. Tabrielle's harsh story put aside, 50% of the objective was to have people realize the horror of what living a rape can be. 

So no apologizes needed, and on the contrary, your wifes's and your reactions and criticism are always welcome.

 That ending was sad. Colly's carrying pose was a bit annoying for me to get right without clipping. I wonder if you had trouble too. Good Yob though. 

Didn't expect you at all to this kind of rape content.  

That was pretty dark and is quite a contrast to your previous story. Storytelling was excellent though, the poses, the lightning for the most part, as well as sequencing and post editing. Great job as usual with the effects! The magic looks really convincing as well as the tentacle-ish things.

T.b.h. I would have loved a bit more recap in the beginning, it's been a while since your last Tabrielle entry.

Great job though, I'm looking forward for the next entry, but I really do hope she doesn't take the usual helpless girl route making her way through the dark caves of Skyrim with various "incidents"... 

I think you can do better then that  

Edit: And btw. I didn't get a notification either.

7 hours ago, Jayomms said:

 That ending was sad. Colly's carrying pose was a bit annoying for me to get right without clipping. I wonder if you had trouble too. Good Yob though. 

Pure sadness indeed. Yet I never said that Tabrielle's chronicles were going to be a happy ending. The whole second half of this chapter is but an ordeal to one of the purest characters in the series. But all the characters she mentioned in her last thoughts are still there. So this story isn't ended yet....

About the poses, I'm glad it doesn't shows too much, but 90% of the shots were done one year ago, where I was more limited in terms of posing mods. So the first carrying images are in fact a sexlab animation captured in a concealing angle. The second aren't Colly's but Wulf's carrying pose, and there was indeed clipping issues so I had to tcl + jaxonz it out to get something satisfying. 

Thanks for your appreciation, Jayomms. 

58 minutes ago, Alter Native said:

T.b.h. I would have loved a bit more recap in the beginning, it's been a while since your last Tabrielle entry.

But there is ; that's exactly why I reworked my summary/hub entry a small week before resuming the story. And I mentioned those are accessible through the main menu menu ; you know in the boring introductory stuff I write at the start of each entry.

58 minutes ago, Alter Native said:

Didn't expect you at all to this kind of rape content.  

That was pretty dark and is quite a contrast to your previous story. Storytelling was excellent though, the poses, the lightning for the most part, as well as sequencing and post editing. Great job as usual with the effects! The magic looks really convincing as well as the tentacle-ish things.

Hopefully I won't have to feature this kind of content in each entry. Specially of that magnitude.

I'm glad the style and technical making were up to the task. It sees that most of the shots were done quite a long time ago, and though I did what I could to fix them up to my new standards there are limits to what you can to from source material. The shadow arms however are an illustration of the contrary, as they were done from scratch ; and considering I had no professional image editing skills this was a real challenge. And so I learned a lot through trial and mistake... Hopefully criticizing the work of others also helps me knowing when mine is good enough or not. ^^

Wanobi's tutorials also helped me beyond their original scope, but that doesn't applies to the shadow arms.

58 minutes ago, Alter Native said:

Great job though, I'm looking forward for the next entry, but I really do hope she doesn't take the usual helpless girl route making her way through the dark caves of Skyrim with various "incidents"... 

I think you can do better then that

Oh shi... I had already planned a play-through with the interface on where she has to go through a whole herd of undead horse mutants genetically engineered to sexually assault their human victims. I'm afraid half of the budget went into the textures.

Jokes aside ; rape is a common fantasy, surprisingly enough even among women. But fantasized rapes do not look like real ones. As a storyteller, I do empathize at least a little with my characters. So you can imagine I wouldn't really wish for a rape like this one happen repeatedly to one of my girls. Honestly, to me, the violence degree of this one was beyond even what we saw in Drunna's Dark Ascension, with cruelty extending even to psychological torture. Yet they do live in a harsh world, which is at war ; so even the possibility of that happening can have consequences on their behavior. Enforcing them to behave in a believable fashion ; just like you could see among the Wildling people in Game of Thrones. If I can reach that degree of consistenty/believability, then I'll have succeeded in one of my objectives as a storyteller.

58 minutes ago, Alter Native said:

Edit: And btw. I didn't get a notification either.

Which would suggest the problem isn't in the type of publication (as I did this on a draft, and then created a fake entry immediately published to create a second notification) ; but in the notification sending itself which is random (DJregs received the second one, but Resdayn none of the two).

I have found a fix for the follow entry bug ; I may use the occasion to share our conclusions regarding the follow blog function with Ashal.

Regardless, thanks for your criticism, Alter !

31 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

But there is ; that's exactly why I reworked my summary/hub entry a small week before resuming the story. And I mentioned those are accessible through the main menu menu ; you know in the boring introductory stuff I write at the start of each entry.

Fair enough 

31 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

 Hopefully criticizing the work of others also helps me knowing when mine is good enough or not. ^^

I am sure it does, however it's impossible to get the first impression of one's personal work that other people get and thus the perspectives are just different.

31 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

Oh shi... I had already planned a play-through with the interface on where she has to go through a whole herd of undead horse mutants genetically engineered to sexually assault their human victims. I'm afraid half of the budget went into the textures.

I hope you didn't waste the other half of the budget on story 

31 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

Jokes aside ; rape is a common fantasy, surprisingly enough even among women. But fantasized rapes do not look like real ones. As a storyteller, I do empathize at least a little with my characters. So you can imagine I wouldn't really wish for a rape like this one happen repeatedly to one of my girls. Honestly, to me, the violence degree of this one was beyond even what we saw in Drunna's Dark Ascension, with cruelty extending even to psychological torture. Yet they do live in a harsh world, which is at war ; so even the possibility of that happening can have consequences on their behavior. Enforcing them to behave in a believable fashion ; just like you could see among the Wildling people in Game of Thrones. If I can reach that degree of consistenty/believability, then I'll have succeeded in one of my objectives as a storyteller.

Which would suggest the problem isn't in the type of publication (as I did this on a draft, and then created a fake entry immediately published to create a second notification) ; but in the notification sending itself which is random (DJregs received the second one, but Resdayn none of the two).

I agree and understand and as you know my entries can be quite violent as well, rape content is just not the kind of content I'm drawn to.

Oh damn it! As I see, not only me wasn't expecting turn like this! 
I have to note that it is technically accomplished brilliantly, as it seems to me. The effect of dissolving the enemy in the air looks surprisingly clear and no frills, in fact, like all your effects. And the narrative part just feels amazing. Especially I love how you do the "background narration".
And for some reason, in the case of your stories, it is always the voice of Logan Cunningham.

Dunno why ^_^
Great job, really great! I repeat once again that I was deeply surprised. And I hope that he will end well ^ _ ^

Wow... This was a seriously incredible entry. I'm used to seeing a mix of drama and humor in your stories, but this was something else entirely. And let me tell you, I fucking loved it. Writing? Top notch. Screen shots? Captivating. (Nice job on the magic stuff, like that was excellent.) And the music really added a lot. You're really making me eat my works when I said I don't think we can use music well in our stories, because damn that was good. Incredibly excited for the continuation!

4 hours ago, Tirloque said:

About the poses, I'm glad it doesn't shows too much, but 90% of the shots were done one year ago, where I was more limited in terms of posing mods. So the first carrying images are in fact a sexlab animation captured in a concealing angle. The second aren't Colly's but Wulf's carrying pose, and there was indeed clipping issues so I had to tcl + jaxonz it out to get something satisfying. 

 

Thanks for your appreciation, Jayomms. 

Oh I forgot Wulf had some carrying poses in there. Thanks for the tip.  I'm also gonna try my hand at Jaxonz Positioner again and hopefully it don't crash on me this time. 

6 hours ago, Alter Native said:

I am sure it does, however it's impossible to get the first impression of one's personal work that other people get and thus the perspectives are just different.

Absolutely. Plus the audience is the audience, and you're never sure beforehand of what the reception is gonna be.

Yet, you can know beforehand if you're doing garbage (specially in terms of special effects). Hence the rework of nearly all effects of the first part. \o/  

6 hours ago, Alter Native said:

I agree and understand and as you know my entries can be quite violent as well, rape content is just not the kind of content I'm drawn to.

And are you drawn to good stories ?  So far there's been 2 non-consensual scenes over the ten found in my chronicles. I've got some freedom over what I choose to show or not, but most of the time those are naturally brought by the story. It was the case here, specially considering it made Urunach focus on the humiliation rather than the horrible death he would've destined her otherwise.

In your stories, your main protagonist being a female in position of power, she uses seduction and even possibly vampiric seduction to trigger sex even in victims that wouldn't willingly do it at first. Hence her seduction having the excellent perk of being unpredictably dangerous, as most of her human partners could always be wondering if there isn't some hidden trap laid for them to walk into.

If we remind ourself Jasper and his wife Hanna wife example, Jasper was magically forced into a sex he didn't want at first, while Hanna was forced to watch, before they were both murdered. The was some physical violence (with bleeding beforehand), psychological torment and a not really consensual sex scene. So in the end, while storywise this was masterful, this was very similar to the torture Urunach casted upon his victim. With the difference that his ways were more directly violent, more testosterone-induced ; while Nora had a more feminine and subtle approach.

And the difference that Nora succeeded in breaking her victims psychologically, whereas Tabrielle wasn't completely undone by the Forsworn leader. Anyway, there aren't sex in all of my entries, and the non consensual proportion of it is minor. So there are good chances we don't get to see this at every chapter.

2 hours ago, Jayomms said:

Oh I forgot Wulf had some carrying poses in there. Thanks for the tip.  I'm also gonna try my hand at Jaxonz Positioner again and hopefully it don't crash on me this time. 

As long as you don't use it on your main saves, it should be alright. But I highly recommend it, Jaxonz is a must have for storytelling ! ?

4 hours ago, Crw said:

Oh damn it! As I see, not only me wasn't expecting turn like this! 
I have to note that it is technically accomplished brilliantly, as it seems to me. The effect of dissolving the enemy in the air looks surprisingly clear and no frills, in fact, like all your effects.

Thanks Crw ! I know you'd have the eye for the effects, as a fellow photoshopper yourself. I liked how that effect rendered in the end ; I just reused my smoke effect and shaped it accordingly before parting it. This highlights that image editing skills are like a construction set : once you've learned one, you can reuse it to build another on the top of it. And so the more you acquire, the quicker you gain in possibilities ! I also like it in terms of scenario, as it underlines perfectly the problematic of fighting against Urunach in his darkness marble : supposing you don't die on the arms, he's just uncatchable. And so highly destabilizing to fight compared to regular opponents. 

4 hours ago, Crw said:

 And the narrative part just feels amazing. Especially I love how you do the "background narration".
And for some reason, in the case of your stories, it is always the voice of Logan Cunningham.

Dunno why ^_^

Some voice actors do a really amazing job at dubbing. This one is non exception, and reminds me somehow the actor doing Geralt of Rivia's voice in The Witcher.

Yet in that case I see Madanach with a really deep voice, comparable to the one below, but more aerated, a bit older, and less Black and less American sounding :

And with a bit less "BOY", maybe. ^^

As for Tabrielle's narratives, her voice would probably be close to the one of female Bretons PCs of the game.

4 hours ago, Crw said:

Great job, really great! I repeat once again that I was deeply surprised. And I hope that he will end well ^ _ ^

Some readers did foresee part of the events, but apparently not all of them, and not completely for those who did. So I'm glad if the scenario didn't get to predictable. Glad you enjoyed, Crw ! 

2 hours ago, Collygon said:

Wow... This was a seriously incredible entry. I'm used to seeing a mix of drama and humor in your stories, but this was something else entirely. And let me tell you, I fucking loved it. Writing? Top notch. Screen shots? Captivating. (Nice job on the magic stuff, like that was excellent.) And the music really added a lot. You're really making me eat my works when I said I don't think we can use music well in our stories, because damn that was good. Incredibly excited for the continuation!

Well this is the moment where the elements prepared before start clenching together, and as it marks the resuming of the Chronicles main stories I wanted it to be as perfect as currently possible considering what I had. And while Stranger's cross-over had a somewhat negative impact on keeping the audience caught-in ; let me tell you I learned so much while doing them that that chapter of Mourning White wouldn't have been half as good in terms of quality if it had been done before them. So, ironically, Stranger's crossover did help the Chronicles in the end. ^^

Glad you liked the music as well. Just like with the effects, the difficulty is finding the right ones, and not overdoing it. I had gone for something different for the last part, but it wasn't syncing completely with the whole thing, so i had to do a bit of digging.

Thanks a lot for your praise, Collygon !

1 hour ago, Tirloque said:

And are you drawn to good stories ?  So far there's been 2 non-consensual scenes over the ten found in my chronicles. I've got some freedom over what I choose to show or not, but most of the time those are naturally brought by the story. It was the case here, specially considering it made Urunach focus on the humiliation rather than the horrible death he would've destined her otherwise.

 

In your stories, your main protagonist being a female in position of power, she uses seduction and even possibly vampiric seduction to trigger sex even in victims that wouldn't willingly do it at first. Hence her seduction having the excellent perk of being unpredictably dangerous, as most of her human partners could always be wondering if there isn't some hidden trap laid for them to walk into.

 

If we remind ourself Jasper and his wife Hanna wife example, Jasper was magically forced into a sex he didn't want at first, while Hanna was forced to watch, before they were both murdered. The was some physical violence (with bleeding beforehand), psychological torment and a not really consensual sex scene. So in the end, while storywise this was masterful, this was very similar to the torture Urunach casted upon his victim. With the difference that his ways were more directly violent, more testosterone-induced ; while Nora had a more feminine and subtle approach.

 

And the difference that Nora succeeded in breaking her victims psychologically, whereas Tabrielle wasn't completely undone by the Forsworn leader. Anyway, there aren't sex in all of my entries, and the non consensual proportion of it is minor.

I didn't try to attack you or your story in any way, Don't get me wrong. In your response to my first comment you seemed to justify yourself, and I was trying to say that there is no reason to justify yourself as I wasn't attacking you in the first place. I was merely expressing a different taste when it comes to sexual content.

To answer the quoted comment check my last reply in this thread:

towards Rattlesnark.  My position hasn't changed since then.

(Hannah wasn't his wife, just his girlfriend, but I'm not disagreeing about what you said.)

32 minutes ago, Alter Native said:

I didn't try to attack you or your story in any way, Don't get me wrong. In your response to my first comment you seemed to justify yourself, and I was trying to say that there is no reason to justify yourself as I wasn't attacking you in the first place. I was merely expressing a different taste when it comes to sexual content.

 

To answer the quoted comment check my last reply in this thread:

towards Rattlesnark.  My position hasn't changed since then.

(Hannah wasn't his wife, just his girlfriend, but I'm not disagreeing about what you said.)

Hannah wasn't his wife ? You mean they were living in sin already ? Damned !

I'm well aware you weren't attacking my work ; but I wanted to highlight that :

• I mostly aim at making a good story, and that, though exceptionally violent, the rape was part of it. Just like your mentioned 6.2 chapter, which was just as cruel, but still an excellent moment story-wise.
• That there are non violent forms of rape (chemical/magical submission, done over someone in a vulnerability state, and so on). The exact definition of it could be debated.

Anyway, I understood your position regarding violent non-consensual sex we'll say, the violence part indeed being the key difference between Nora's feminine ways and the common virile ones.

12 hours ago, Tirloque said:

Thanks Crw ! I know you'd have the eye for the effects, as a fellow photoshopper yourself. I liked how that effect rendered in the end ; I just reused my smoke effect and shaped it accordingly before parting it. This highlights that image editing skills are like a construction set : once you've learned one, you can reuse it to build another on the top of it. And so the more you acquire, the quicker you gain in possibilities ! I also like it in terms of scenario, as it underlines perfectly the problematic of fighting against Urunach in his darkness marble : supposing you don't die on the arms, he's just uncatchable. And so highly destabilizing to fight compared to regular opponents. 

And then you find yourself in the middle of Photoshop trip, superimposing and processing the two thousandth effect in a row, because the previous versions were not as bright as you wanted.

1 hour ago, Crw said:

And then you find yourself in the middle of Photoshop trip, superimposing and processing the two thousandth effect in a row, because the previous versions were not as bright as you wanted.

Hopefully I've got the source images and my processed PSDs, so I wouldn't have to restart from scratch.But some of them aren't shot with an ENB, so supposing one day I'd want to set the quality of the first chapters just as high as the latest one, that'd be a long trip indeed....

47 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

Hopefully I've got the source images and my processed PSDs, so I wouldn't have to restart from scratch.But some of them aren't shot with an ENB, so supposing one day I'd want to set the quality of the first chapters just as high as the latest one, that'd be a long trip indeed....

Eh, it seems I put it not completely clear... I meant that for me it periodically turns into redrawing the same effect, time after time, cos I wanted it to look a bit different.  

Well, one way or another, if you look at how each of the bloggers started and where this trip led them to...
Just thinking of it makes me feel dizzy. And thinking on re-do some of the first entries  just knocks me out  From other side of that this idea is sound interesting ^_^

12 minutes ago, Crw said:

Eh, it seems I put it not completely clear... I meant that for me it periodically turns into redrawing the same effect, time after time, cos I wanted it to look a bit different.  

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Well, one way or another, if you look at how each of the bloggers started and where this trip led them to...
Just thinking of it makes me feel dizzy. And thinking on re-do some of the first entries  just knocks me out  From other side of that this idea is sound interesting ^_^

Rofl, I see what you mean. ^^

Hopefully I don't have the time to do that. Plus, on the contrary, reading my good ol' entries done with my newbie beginner skills of that time is something kinda touching in  a way. Because it's a proof of all the path walked since then.

So I'd only rework those if I had to publish them elsewhere as a unified whole.

In your case, I suspect you're not fully satisfied with your ingame source images. So you rework them in a way that sometimes is more an artistic choice (just like an ENB preset would make choices different than another) , and so as those choices do evolve with time you'd end up redoing everything multiple times.

If I may, refrain yourself from doing that. Re-reading old entries will then make you realize which choices were solid and which ones where questionable, and help you make your mind in case you'd have to re-publish your works under another format.

Malicioza and Tabrielle

I mean I know you're upset, Tabrielle, but there's no need to start channeling your inner xbox live voice chat ? ?

Great job with the editing and effects, some of the frames look like something out of a real comic. 

I agree with everybody else, Tabrielle is your prettiest girl. 

On 11/3/2019 at 7:07 AM, Tirloque said:

 

Oh shi... I had already planned a play-through with the interface on where she has to go through a whole herd of undead horse mutants genetically engineered to sexually assault their human victims. I'm afraid half of the budget went into the textures.

 

Now that's the kind of quality content I come to the LL blog section for! Just please don't let this new project get in the way of blog entries keeping us all updated about your progress through random quest mods! I'm on the edge of my seat awaiting the next update!

On 11/3/2019 at 1:07 PM, Tirloque said:

 

Oh shi... I had already planned a play-through with the interface on where she has to go through a whole herd of undead horse mutants genetically engineered to sexually assault Malicia. I'm afraid half of the budget went into the textures.

 

I didn't knew Malicia gonna get a story that soon ?

9 hours ago, Elf Prince said:

 

Malicioza and Tabrielle

 

I do like that screen of Tabrielle, though it appears to me there's a small defect in the lighting I added, it's just great in terms of presence and threatening aspect. Compliments to you about Malicioza too btw, I think her athletic body fits her traits very well, and the warm lighting of your screen makes it very home's fireplace like.

That being said, I did ask to Malicija to inform Tabrielle about Malicioza's message, here is her answer :

8 hours ago, SpyVsPie said:

 

I mean I know you're upset, Tabrielle, but there's no need to start channeling your inner xbox live voice chat ? ?

She followed with some insults a couple of images later, so maybe she's a PC gamer. Pun intended.

8 hours ago, SpyVsPie said:

Great job with the editing and effects, some of the frames look like something out of a real comic. 

 

I agree with everybody else, Tabrielle is your prettiest girl.

Well, it seems there are several people thinking like that. Maybe that would explain part of her relationship with males then, though as I said she doesn't sees herself as that pretty.

I'm glad you appreciated the effects, getting close to a real comic being part of my objectives. Thanks for the compliments, both regarding Tabi and my work !

7 hours ago, SpyVsPie said:

Now that's the kind of quality content I come to the LL blog section for! Just please don't let this new project get in the way of blog entries keeping us all updated about your progress through random quest mods! I'm on the edge of my seat awaiting the next update!

It's because I know you people are crazy fond of quality content. I've also scheduled to post some of it as a journal of three or four lines, which I'll continue posting twice per week despite full fledged stories being right next to it. 

5 hours ago, Resdayn said:

I didn't knew Malicia gonna get a story that soon ?

You'll be duly mentioned as co-scenarist, don't worry. ^^

4 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

 

 

It's because I know you people are crazy fond of quality content. I've also scheduled to post some of it as a journal of three or four lines, which I'll continue posting twice per week despite full fledged stories being right next to it. 

 

twice per week? are you being sick? ?

That seems super fast compared you.

11 hours ago, Resdayn said:

twice per week? are you being sick? ?

 

That seems super fast compared you.

And more specifically that doesn't sound like me at all ; nor in the content type, nor in the frequency.

On 11/4/2019 at 9:55 PM, Tirloque said:

I do like that screen of Tabrielle, though it appears to me there's a small defect in the lighting I added, it's just great in terms of presence and threatening aspect. Compliments to you about Malicioza too btw, I think her athletic body fits her traits very well, and the warm lighting of your screen makes it very home's fireplace like.

 

That being said, I did ask to Malicija to inform Tabrielle about Malicioza's message, here is her answer :

 

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That was brilliant Trilog. Hahahahahahhahahha. But, Tabriele is in trouble now since Stranger has his eyes on her and he is very horny.

4 hours ago, Elf Prince said:

On 11/4/2019 at 9:55 PM, Tirloque said:

I do like that screen of Tabrielle, though it appears to me there's a small defect in the lighting I added, it's just great in terms of presence and threatening aspect. Compliments to you about Malicioza too btw, I think her athletic body fits her traits very well, and the warm lighting of your screen makes it very home's fireplace like.

 

That being said, I did ask to Malicija to inform Tabrielle about Malicioza's message, here is her answer :

 

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That was brilliant Trilog. Hahahahahahhahahha. But, Tabriele is in trouble now since Stranger has his eyes on her and he is very horny.

Hmm, Tabrielle isn't an easy challenge. Even considering the difficulties he had to overcome to even approach to the true Malicija. ^^

But Stranger wouldn't be Stranger if he didn't try, would he ?