Very nicely done and I love this new blonde girl. That moll on her face makes he very sexy and the screenshot was perfect.

Story is very well made. Just personal opinion: I know it is Skyrim and everything is possible but I'm not kind of person who likes when people talks to the animals. That looks like a fairy tale. Please, do not be offended. I'm just sharing my toughs as a friend to friend.

Unfortunately first 6 pictures didn't open well for me even after three tries. Please, take a look the spoiler. (Damn, LL is tucked again. I can't place the picture in the spoiler or in the post).

Coffee is the best time to write a story!  Not the best to shoot a story though, get distracted too easil... Look a Ladybug!  

I gotta say, I like this Cast!  Sophie's a cutie and her dog Ker'ag (or is it Keurig?) is just the goodiest boy I've ever seen! So cute!  

Victor was my favorite though!  There's always something funny about an enchanted item not wanting to fulfill it's place in the world.  Hope it works out for him.  

I also hope that Reckus's Irresistible Ring, affects Sophie as well! 

/10 Good Job!   

47 minutes ago, Elf Prince said:

Very nicely done and I love this new blonde girl. That moll on her face makes he very sexy and the screenshot was perfect.

 

Story is very well made. Just personal opinion: I know it is Skyrim and everything is possible but I'm not kind of person who likes when people talks to the animals. That looks like a fairy tale. Please, do not be offended. I'm just sharing my toughs as a friend to friend.

Unfortunately first 6 pictures didn't open well for me even after three tries. Please, take a look the spoiler. (Damn, LL is tucked again. I can't place the picture in the spoiler or in the post).

 

 

Thank you for the kind comment, Elf Prince. ?

Sophie having a talking wolf-doggie is surprisingly lore friendly in this particular case. Clavicus Vile has a talking supernatural dog Barbas, that has a quest in the vanilla game. It makes sense for the Daedric Prince to grant her a similar companion, seeing as he raised her.  Though of course I understand not everyone might like this.

I've cleared the cache and checked on different browsers - everything opens up fine for me. Perhaps pixxxels were just having temporarily problems or LL was being wonky again? ?

50 minutes ago, djregs said:

Coffee is the best time to write a story!  Not the best to shoot a story though, get distracted too easil... Look a Ladybug!  

I gotta say, I like this Cast!  Sophie's a cutie and her dog Ker'ag (or is it Keurig?) is just the goodiest boy I've ever seen! So cute!  

 

Victor was my favorite though!  There's always something funny about an enchanted item not wanting to fulfill it's place in the world.  Hope it works out for him.  

I also hope that Reckus's Irresistible Ring, affects Sophie as well! 

 

/10 Good Job!   

Hehehe, you are so right about coffee. I got distracted by way too many youtube videos while going there to just "pick a nice song for screenshooting mood" ?

You know, Ker'ag is a dremora name, but I love your version of it! (yup, I went to look up that coffee-maker's model ?) It just fits perfectly! And yes, he's definitely a very good boy. So fluffy too! ?

Victor was surprisingly fun to write and he'll be getting even more screentime in the following chapters. ? As for Lord Rekcus (let's ignore the fact that I misspelled it on that second panel where he's mentioned) there's a bit of a hidden meaning in his name. ?

I'm glad you enjoyed this chapter and thank you for your comment. ?

Excellent work, Dev. Agree with my Prince about Sophie. She is gorgeous.

6 hours ago, Devianna said:

Thank you for the kind comment, Elf Prince. ?

 

Sophie having a talking wolf-doggie is surprisingly lore friendly in this particular case. Clavicus Vile has a talking supernatural dog Barbas, that has a quest in the vanilla game. It makes sense for the Daedric Prince to grant her a similar companion, seeing as he raised her.  Though of course I understand not everyone might like this.

 

I understand. You know, when I played Skyrim I always killed Barbas, took the axe and sold it. He was very annoying stupid dog. Anyway, I didn't want to be critical to your story that was great. I just said I would never have humans-animal talk option in my stores. That's all.

Interesting so far. ?

Talking swords and dogs and a new lady of your tales.

Playing with new designs and Skyrim is dangerous us, cause they always end up a new stories ?

I don't think Gwynolda will like her ?

Look forward what happens next.

Waaait a second...

Okay, now Gwen really have something to tell you.
 

Do not get me wrong, I do really really liked your work! Literally love it At least because it's close to me in the spirit, and really half of all the stuff that I love is in place ^_^ 
Great work ^_^
Can't wait to see more of this ^_^

upd: I hope I didn't messed up with this "conditions" thing.

 WOW Excellent Narrative! Her backstory is absolutely brilliant. And Nice outfits on the girls too. Overall good quality story.  Though the quality of everything else is Good I can't say the same of Vile's statue... the Low Res.  I wonder if there are any mods that improve his shrine or Statue. ?... aside from that Good Yob indeed.  

11 hours ago, EvalovesEP said:

Excellent work, Dev. Agree with my Prince about Sophie. She is gorgeous.

Thank you, Eva. Glad you liked it! ☺️

1 hour ago, Resdayn said:

Interesting so far. ?

Talking swords and dogs and a new lady of your tales.

Playing with new designs and Skyrim is dangerous us, cause they always end up a new stories ?

I don't think Gwynolda will like her ?

Look forward what happens next.

Thank you for the kind words, Resdayn. ☺️

Creating new character designs is indeed dangerous for a storyteller, because the story is bound to follow. ?

I can definitely see how Gwynolda would have a few problems with someone who was raised by a Daedric Prince and a dremora. ? But Sophie's story is stand-alone, so it doesn't cross over into any of my other series.

1 hour ago, Crw said:

Waaait a second...

Okay, now Gwen really have something to tell you.
 

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Do not get me wrong, I do really really liked your work! Literally love it At least because it's close to me in the spirit, and really half of all the stuff that I love is in place ^_^ 
Great work ^_^
Can't wait to see more of this ^_^

upd: I hope I didn't messed up with this "conditions" thing.

Ooooh dear, do I have a story for you, Crw. ?

So first I played around with the designs for a Blackguard. Dark armor, cold steel-colored eyes, white hair, epic sword - you know, the whole package. Of course the armor needs to be black because Lord Soth (Dragonlance and Ravenloft series) certainly didn't wear pink, so neither would Sophie.  Then the hair needs to be ashen because Raistlin Majere, Ciri and Geralt of Rivia were all too awesome to have any other hair color. And finally the sword - needed to be daedric, no doubt about it. Well, small problem - not that many daedric weapon variants out there (at least for Skyrim SE). Especially the ones with runes on them. So while browsing through the weapons I thought, "Eh, I'll just take this one. Strange though, it looks vaguely familiar". The reason for a talking, enchanted sword came from Lilarcor (Baldur's Gates) and Umbra Sword (finally some actual Elder Scrolls lore ?). Happy with my choices I went on to write the dialogues, scenes, etc. But a nagging feeling of seeing that exact sword design was still somewhere at the back of my mind. When everything was more or less in place for a story, I decided to go double-check your comics. Sure, I remembered you had a talking sword, but those are rather common, right?  And then I zoomed in on your sword. Yes, it's a two-hander, but the design...Rats! ?Then I took a closer look at Gwen's hair. Double rats! ?? "Crw will think I stole his idea!!!" (insert moments of horror and copious amounts of coffee intake here). So I went back and reread Gwen's story: "Ok, she met the sword's spirit face-to-face. They made a deal.  And he thirsts for battle. Aaaand he's actually competent.  All right, all right, I think there are sufficient differences between him and Victor. I probably don't need to rewrite my story after all." ?

All that being said I think Gwen is a wonderful character and perhaps subconsciously she was a bit of an inspiration. That and the fact that probably most of us storytellers here have read pretty much the same books, played the same games and in part draw ideas from them as well.   Also that spoiler comics is great! Thank you! ? And I'm glad you (and Gwen ?) enjoyed the story.

15 minutes ago, Devianna said:

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Thank you for the kind words, Resdayn. ☺️

Creating new character designs is indeed dangerous for a storyteller, because the story is bound to follow. ?

I can definitely see how Gwynolda would have a few problems with someone who was raised by a Daedric Prince and a dremora. ? But Sophie's story is stand-alone, so it doesn't cross over into any of my other series.

 

 

 

That and the fact that probably most of us storytellers here have read pretty much the same books, played the same games and in part draw ideas from them as well. 

 

They are indeed, thats how my stories and blog born haha.

Yeah, as nice Sophie and her Daedric "mother" seems, Gwynolda would not be nice with them ?, they should not meet.

Thats certainly true, we pretty much played the same games, and has a big thing for reading, things may look familiar, but inspiration ideas and mind behind it not.

1 hour ago, Jayomms said:

 WOW Excellent Narrative! Her backstory is absolutely brilliant. And Nice outfits on the girls too. Overall good quality story.  Though the quality of everything else is Good I can't say the same of Vile's statue... the Low Res.  I wonder if there are any mods that improve his shrine or Statue. ?... aside from that Good Yob indeed.  

Glad you enjoyed this tale, Jayomms! ☺️

Vile's statue is a sore subject. ? I've looked at all the possible textures and while there are plenty of mods that turn daedric and divine statues into voluptuous women there's only one mod that somewhat, barely improves the texture of original statues. And it crashes my game if I install it. ? So let's just...uhh...pretend that Clavicus Vile's statue looks magnificent and not low res at all.

1 hour ago, Devianna said:

Raistlin Majere, Ciri and Geralt of Rivia were all too awesome to have any other hair color

No argues in here. Just to cool to be otherwise.

1 hour ago, Devianna said:

Ok, she met the sword's spirit face-to-face. They made a deal.  And he thirsts for battle. Aaaand he's actually competent.  All right, all right, I think there are sufficient differences between him and Victor.

Yes, there are a significant difference between those two, but there is another interesting detail.

And I know, thats not obvious, but....

1 hour ago, Devianna said:

I probably don't need to rewrite my story after all." ?

You would not need to do this anyway, as you correctly noticed, we most likely used approximately the same sources of inspiration, and it's interesting outcome we have here. This single fact brings pretty much the same ammout of pleasure as your entry ^_^

So what I wanted to say...
If you have any ideas...

I'm here ^_^

1 hour ago, Crw said:

So what I wanted to say...
If you have any ideas...

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I'm here ^_^

BWAHAHAHAHAHA...sorry...will stop...laughing at that...picture....in..a...minute...HAHAHAHAHA... ??

Crossovers are always fun! ?

And yay for awesome sources of inspiration! We're just going to file the creation of Gwen and of Sophie into category "great minds think alike"

Interesting point about Gwen's magical hand, by the way. ? I did wonder where that design came from.

I still have a few things to work out regarding Victor's dialogues, but let's just say that while Clavicus Vile made quite a few enchanted artifacts some of the spirits that he imbued them with he used simply for his own amusement. ?

Great job! Take your time with these stories and do the stories you want to do, no reason to force you to keep working on your main story if you don't enjoy it or prefer to do something else. 

That said I like the said up for your new storyline, you've become so good at telling stories 

I especially liked the innovation with the different frame for the flashback sequence. It's an area that hasn't really been explored by the community in my opinion. 

When doing these kind of screenshot stories you really haven't that much to work with, from a stylistic perspective, maybe fontsize and color. But giving different images different frames is a really nice touch, that I like a lot. 

Might be very interesting and useful for stuff like magic or as you did using it to make the flashback scene stand out from the rest of the story.

That being said I liked the story as well Really looking forward to see more of the pale collecter. Since you already know that you are going to have three parts, I assume they are already (somewhat) done?

33 minutes ago, Alter Native said:

Great job! Take your time with these stories and do the stories you want to do, no reason to force you to keep working on your main story if you don't enjoy it or prefer to do something else. 

 

That said I like the said up for your new storyline, you've become so good at telling stories 

I especially liked the innovation with the different frame for the flashback sequence. It's an area that hasn't really been explored by the community in my opinion. 

When doing these kind of screenshot stories you really haven't that much to work with, from a stylistic perspective, maybe fontsize and color. But giving different images different frames is a really nice touch, that I like a lot. 

Might be very interesting and useful for stuff like magic or as you did using it to make the flashback scene stand out from the rest of the story.

 

That being said I liked the story as well Really looking forward to see more of the pale collecter. Since you already know that you are going to have three parts, I assume they are already (somewhat) done?

Aww, thank you for the praise, Alter. ☺️ I'm always happy to learn that readers find my tales entertaining.

I toyed with an idea of using a vignette effect for the flashback scenes, but they didn't come out the way I wanted them to look. The blurry edges seemed to work better and went nicely with the narrative boxes. I'm glad that it translated well into the actual comic.

I am indeed slowly working on my main story (well, on few storylines to be exact) but this tale got stuck in my head and I couldn't concentrate on anything else until I jotted down the notes and the scenario for Sophie.  The tale is planned out and the first draft is complete (that's how I know there are 3 parts ?) but of course now I need to go over the dialogues, descriptions,  adjust various things and continue screenshooting parts 2 and 3.  I'm hoping it won't take another month for me to publish the next chapters, but real life does have a tendency to interfere with the creative process sometimes. ?

Oh my, a Devianna story without muppets with people actually dying in some violent way ! What happened ? O_o Jokes aside, the first part, though bloody, kept the development of the (badass) fight to a minimum, making place for your now usual multi-character setups. Which was as enjoyable as ever, with a plethora of wacky characters, including a second talking dog, a talking sword, a talking statue, a talkie-walkies, a daedric-like sensual accomplice (which is a leitmotiv in quite a lot of your stories) and a rather original Clavicus-vile champion (despite the common influence with Crw, her double edged bargaining origins make her quite unique). Technically the pictures were as colored as ever, the direction swift, and the comic layouts efficient.

Also liked the ever present touches of humor, would it be only for the sword dreaming to be polished (?),  the several daedric supplicants, or just simply the dialogues writing. Great work, Devianna ! ?

Malicia : « I liked that story a lot too, 'cause the heroine is very pretty, very intelligent, and very strong ; just like me.

               Only thing she couldn't go to our Ginger Gang, 'cause her hair isn't the right color, but maybe she could ask Tabi and Ms Gwen about making a new one ?   »

6 hours ago, Crw said:

Okay, now Gwen really have something to tell you.
 

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18 hours ago, Elf Prince said:

Story is very well made. Just personal opinion: I know it is Skyrim and everything is possible but I'm not kind of person who likes when people talks to the animals. That looks like a fairy tale. Please, do not be offended. I'm just sharing my toughs as a friend to friend.

Malicia : « Even if it's Ms Cassidey who's talking to Bat ?  »

2 hours ago, Tirloque said:

 

  Only thing she couldn't go to our Ginger Gang, 'cause her hair isn't the right color, but maybe she could ask Tabi and Ms Gwen about making a new one ?   »

 

Malicia : « Even if it's Ms Cassidey who's talking to Bat ?  »

 

Np way she will change her color. There are too many gingers in Skyrim already, plus Kiki might be jealous

I sad what I said about human-animals interactions and intercourse. Malicija is exception in the second one. It it epic and tradition on LL:  

7 hours ago, Devianna said:

Glad you enjoyed this tale, Jayomms! ☺️

Vile's statue is a sore subject. ? I've looked at all the possible textures and while there are plenty of mods that turn daedric and divine statues into voluptuous women there's only one mod that somewhat, barely improves the texture of original statues. And it crashes my game if I install it. ? So let's just...uhh...pretend that Clavicus Vile's statue looks magnificent and not low res at all.

Is this the mod your talking about? https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/75380    Because I use that mod along with this mod that stopped the crashes with me.  https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/92777  and it was crash fixes that told me through the log file that it could be or should be corrupt nif files that cause the crashes even with other mods with corrupt nifs. There is a list of the mods it covers and it has worked for me and I haven't got those crash messages since. 

3 hours ago, Tirloque said:

Oh my, a Devianna story without muppets with people actually dying in some violent way ! What happened ? O_o Jokes aside, the first part, though bloody, kept the development of the (badass) fight to a minimum, making place for your now usual multi-character setups. Which was as enjoyable as ever, with a plethora of wacky characters, including a second talking dog, a talking sword, a talking statue, a talkie-walkies, a daedric-like sensual accomplice (which is a leitmotiv in quite a lot of your stories) and a rather original Clavicus-vile champion (despite the common influence with Crw, her double edged bargaining origins make her quite unique). Technically the pictures were as colored as ever, the direction swift, and the comic layouts efficient.

Also liked the ever present touches of humor, would it be only for the sword dreaming to be polished (?),  the several daedric supplicants, or just simply the dialogues writing. Great work, Devianna ! ?

Malicia : « I liked that story a lot too, 'cause the heroine is very pretty, very intelligent, and very strong ; just like me.

 

               Only thing she couldn't go to our Ginger Gang, 'cause her hair isn't the right color, but maybe she could ask Tabi and Ms Gwen about making a new one ?   »

 

Thank you for the compliments, Tirloque. ?

We all know that fighting and special effects aren't my strongest suits, so I only use them when the story calls for it. And since Sophie is a Blackguard (albeit a very cute one) - the story called for something bloody. ?

Also my tales depend on dialogues, which means Everybody talks! ? ( for a moment I even considered for the sacrificial goats to have a few lines as well  but then decided to spare the reader's sanity).  Despite the larger-than-usual violence levels, the story itself is indeed a humorous one, making Evil sound fun! (oh look, it rhymes ?)

Glad you liked the story! More to come soon(ish).

Author: Dear Malicia, you and Tabi are wonderful and very talented but it probably wouldn't be safe for you to have Sophie around. Clavicus Vile sometimes likes to make fun of people and it can turn a little bit mean.  But I will let Sophie know that you enjoy her adventures. ?

59 minutes ago, Jayomms said:

Is this the mod your talking about? https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/75380    Because I use that mod along with this mod that stopped the crashes with me.  https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/92777  and it was crash fixes that told me through the log file that it could be or should be corrupt nif files that cause the crashes even with other mods with corrupt nifs. There is a list of the mods it covers and it has worked for me and I haven't got those crash messages since. 

I saw suggestions for the mod that you linked, but it is for Skyrim LE and it would most likely conflict with a whole lot of my other textures. The mod that I meant was this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3375

It's not bad, but the difference in textures is minuscule and the instability of the mod itself just isn't worth it. I think Clavicus will just have to live with low res statue of himself. ?

@Devianna and @Tirloque

Guys, you have no idea how much three of us likes you and your stories. In behalf of my Prince, let me say a word or two. He is not against your stories and animal content in it. Only a year ago he wouldn't mind to see bestiality sex in someone's story or play it with Ivy. Although my Ivy and I don't know the real reason why he extremely turned against it and interactions with animals (such a friendships ad similar) I strongly believe it came out when he discovered how many people "mistreated" animals equaling them with humans, neglecting people's basic needs for food, water and medicine while spending fortunes on their pets. That makes him very angry. I know, I know, his attitude might be little too extreme, but that's him. So, please, do not be disappoint in him or angry at him, because he is the way he is and he blindly follows his beliefs. You know he loves you, guys, right?

4 hours ago, Devianna said:

Thank you for the compliments, Tirloque. ?

We all know that fighting and special effects aren't my strongest suits, so I only use them when the story calls for it. And since Sophie is a Blackguard (albeit a very cute one) - the story called for something bloody. ?

Also my tales depend on dialogues, which means Everybody talks! ? ( for a moment I even considered for the sacrificial goats to have a few lines as well  but then decided to spare the reader's sanity).  Despite the larger-than-usual violence levels, the story itself is indeed a humorous one, making Evil sound fun! (oh look, it rhymes ?)

Glad you liked the story! More to come soon(ish).

Author: Dear Malicia, you and Tabi are wonderful and very talented but it probably wouldn't be safe for you to have Sophie around. Clavicus Vile sometimes likes to make fun of people and it can turn a little bit mean.  But I will let Sophie know that you enjoy her adventures. ?

 

I saw suggestions for the mod that you linked, but it is for Skyrim LE and it would most likely conflict with a whole lot of my other textures. The mod that I meant was this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3375

It's not bad, but the difference in textures is minuscule and the instability of the mod itself just isn't worth it. I think Clavicus will just have to live with low res statue of himself. ?

 

Oh I forgot you were using SE.  Unfortunately SE doesn't wanna work for me so I gave up trying to fix it. 

10 hours ago, Devianna said:

Clavicus Vile made quite a few enchanted artifacts some of the spirits that he imbued them with he used simply for his own amusement. ?

I guess most of them

Interesting start, can't wait to see where this goes.

15 hours ago, EvalovesEP said:

@Devianna and @Tirloque

Guys, you have no idea how much three of us likes you and your stories. In behalf of my Prince, let me say a word or two. He is not against your stories and animal content in it. Only a year ago he wouldn't mind to see bestiality sex in someone's story or play it with Ivy. Although my Ivy and I don't know the real reason why he extremely turned against it and interactions with animals (such a friendships ad similar) I strongly believe it came out when he discovered how many people "mistreated" animals equaling them with humans, neglecting people's basic needs for food, water and medicine while spending fortunes on their pets. That makes him very angry. I know, I know, his attitude might be little too extreme, but that's him. So, please, do not be disappoint in him or angry at him, because he is the way he is and he blindly follows his beliefs. You know he loves you, guys, right?

Aww, do not worry about it, Eva. ?  I (and I'm sure @Tirloque too) know very well that Prince doesn't hate our stories. Everyone has their own preferences and it's impossible to like every single thing ?. I'm always happy to read your comments and I'm glad if you find my tales entertaining. And if there's a character that you guys don't particularly like, just skip their dialogues ?. Gods know I have plenty of other heroes in my stories that talk non-stop. ?

9 hours ago, ther1pper said:

Interesting start, can't wait to see where this goes.

Thank you for the comment, Ther1pper. Oh, I know that I upvoted but didn't get a chance to mention it in your blog - the latest 3-part entry about an awesome kitty Zan'iir was an absolute delight to read! Really good work on that one. ?

3 hours ago, Devianna said:

Thank you for the comment, Ther1pper. Oh, I know that I upvoted but didn't get a chance to mention it in your blog - the latest 3-part entry about an awesome kitty Zan'iir was an absolute delight to read! Really good work on that one. ?

Oh thank you, I'll try to show more of him later have some ideas planned.