Hoorah!

Always nice to see a new Cassidey story.

Good to see, that Cassidey is back in the saddle.

Also: That's one foolish Council of Paladins, if they really think, that there is a place, where C. can't cause trouble within 5 minutes upon her arrival.?

Havent read the story yet, but I am SOOOOOO Excited to see another Cassidey story! PLus she look Soooo hot and sexy in that full-"ish" jousting armor! Your feature pic i awesome!

Will read and comment on her stories and adventures later on!

HE LIVES!!!!  Welcome back to your blog! Great Work as usual! 

Oh, damn good to see you active again, and with a great and quite unique stuff once again! Welcome back!

and yes, since you back in a saddle: 

... that's a very scary development. Mr. G is certainly in the house, soon.

Cassidey's adventures finally return ! Long time no see, to say the least !

And with quite the overhauled gear it seems (those new armors are an impressive fit), for Cassidey, but even more for Bat (which seems to have been redesigned entirely). Not to mention the new demonic evil doers.  Second most shocking element was the amount of gore, which considerably increased the visual impact of the fights (the hammer of justice is no joke here ^^), I see you had fun reusing your ingame blood sprays assets, and placing skulls here and here. Third, and this is more subtle, most of your lettering is now centered, and the bubbles have an outlining. You were really aiming for quality even in the details. The colorful, perfectly centered, posed and custom assets featuring header image was strongly hinting all of that.

Now, the most important is the story itself, which is as improbable as ever, with lots of funny punchlines, underlying references, and quite the twists at times. Some where rather apparent though, others not (Bat's intervention was quite remarkable ^^). The dialogues were mostly entertaining as well, though at times somewhat busy and pace slowing. Yet your new trio has quite the potential in terms of entertainement ; feature that was here was here all along. Impressive comeback, Spy !   ?

« I very wanted to say that that story got it all backwards :

                 - it's not the gal who's supposed to ride a horse in shiny armor, but the prince.

                 - you're supposed to honey honey with the prince, not the squire, no.

                  - and the squire isn't supposed to be red and with a big pee-pee.

               So, even if her armor is very pretty, I would advice Cassidey to ask Mr. Spy about his plans for the future, uh.  »

Shees - talk about over-achieving...

Welcome back - Cassidy was missed.

quality work once again

Nice to see you back. Also you must have been busy for quite a bit, how did you go about doing the decapitation stuff, they looked like poses.

>SPYYYY!!!!?

> So happy to see you. I terribly missed you and seeing you posting a new Casss episode I had the tears of gladness in my eyes. My Prince and Ivy will be happy to see you too. Welcome back, my dear LL friend

I still like Cass's fashion sense.

Thanks so much for the warm welcome back everyone, I really appreciate it!

Lots of comments so here's the first batch of replies, I'll get to everybody. 

On 7/23/2022 at 12:34 AM, Balgin said:

Hoorah!

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On 7/23/2022 at 12:49 AM, mercplatypus said:

Always nice to see a new Cassidey story.

Thanks!

On 7/23/2022 at 1:23 AM, HM1919 said:

Good to see, that Cassidey is back in the saddle.

Also: That's one foolish Council of Paladins, if they really think, that there is a place, where C. can't cause trouble within 5 minutes upon her arrival.?

It's all about minimizing risk. As long as there are no evil cults there she should be fine!

On 7/23/2022 at 1:37 AM, devious-Drunna said:

Havent read the story yet, but I am SOOOOOO Excited to see another Cassidey story! PLus she look Soooo hot and sexy in that full-"ish" jousting armor! Your feature pic i awesome!

Will read and comment on her stories and adventures later on!

Thanks! I really wanted to like a WWII style pinup of her as a sexy knight so I ended up going with that for the cover even though it's not a direct scene from the story. The pose ended up not showing off the lance as much as some of the others where she had it over her shoulder (maybe I'll post some of those outtakes later) but I think the overall shot was better here and also boobies. 

On 7/23/2022 at 2:38 AM, Jay-Omms said:

HE LIVES!!!!  Welcome back to your blog! Great Work as usual! 

Thanks! I was only partly dead.

On 7/23/2022 at 3:09 AM, Crw said:

Oh, damn good to see you active again, and with a great and quite unique stuff once again! Welcome back!

and yes, since you back in a saddle: 

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Oh man that's perfect! The best one yet!

9 minutes ago, SpyVsPie said:

 

Thanks! I really wanted to like a WWII style pinup of her as a sexy knight so I ended up going with that for the cover even though it's not a direct scene from the story. The pose ended up not showing off the lance as much as some of the others where she had it over her shoulder (maybe I'll post some of those outtakes later) but I think the overall shot was better here and also boobies.

Wait . . .she’s holding a lance?

On 7/23/2022 at 4:30 AM, worik said:

... that's a very scary development. Mr. G is certainly in the house, soon.

Mr. G. in the house sounds like a lighthearted 90s sitcom ?. I'll pitch part two to cbs, maybe they'll pick it up.

On 7/23/2022 at 10:16 AM, Tirloque said:

Cassidey's adventures finally return ! Long time no see, to say the least !

 

And with quite the overhauled gear it seems (those new armors are an impressive fit), for Cassidey, but even more for Bat (which seems to have been redesigned entirely). Not to mention the new demonic evil doers.  Second most shocking element was the amount of gore, which considerably increased the visual impact of the fights (the hammer of justice is no joke here ^^), I see you had fun reusing your ingame blood sprays assets, and placing skulls here and here. Third, and this is more subtle, most of your lettering is now centered, and the bubbles have an outlining. You were really aiming for quality even in the details. The colorful, perfectly centered, posed and custom assets featuring header image was strongly hinting all of that.

 

Now, the most important is the story itself, which is as improbable as ever, with lots of funny punchlines, underlying references, and quite the twists at times. Some where rather apparent though, others not (Bat's intervention was quite remarkable ^^). The dialogues were mostly entertaining as well, though at times somewhat busy and pace slowing. Yet your new trio has quite the potential in terms of entertainement ; feature that was here was here all along. Impressive comeback, Spy !   ?

 

 

 

« I very wanted to say that that story got it all backwards :

                 - it's not the gal who's supposed to ride a horse in shiny armor, but the prince.

                 - you're supposed to honey honey with the prince, not the squire, no.

                  - and the squire isn't supposed to be red and with a big pee-pee.

 

               So, even if her armor is very pretty, I would advice Cassidey to ask Mr. Spy about his plans for the future, uh.  »

 

Yeah basically everything is new down to he grass mod. I think the trees might be the only thing that's the same as Cass' last outing (ENB, her body preset, her face preset, her outfit, her weapon, Bat's model, Bat's armor, etc. are all new). Bat's armor I ported from DAZ and so far as I know there are no other DAZ port outfits for horses floating around so I believe he is officially the best dressed horse in all of Skyrim and a very special boy. 

The bubbles and lettering I started doing that way in DCI so that's not new to the blog but it is to Cass. 

On 7/23/2022 at 2:56 PM, fred200 said:

Shees - talk about over-achieving...

Welcome back - Cassidy was missed.

Thanks! She's a special gal. 

21 hours ago, obeymrwalrus said:

quality work once again

 

Thank you!

19 hours ago, ther1pper said:

Nice to see you back. Also you must have been busy for quite a bit, how did you go about doing the decapitation stuff, they looked like poses.

Thanks! The decapitation was pretty easy, actually the easiest of the three kill effects (I was a bit surprised at that myself, the other two ended up giving me a bit of trouble). The poses for that warlock during the decapitation are just from Halo's poser and Kinoko, pretty standard stuff. The effects are all done with outfits and meshes- a helmet that replaces her head with the (retextured) base game decapitation mesh and a blood spurt I ported from DAZ then a version of her head preset that I set with a funny expression in racemenu before exporting it in the sculpt tab and turned into an in game junk item (basically a basket as far as the game is concerned) and added another decap mesh and blood spurt. Then you just pose the NPC and position the head with jaxonz. 

I think as far as things done specifically for this episode porting the hell environment was probably the biggest time sink followed by the melted face. Cass and Bat's outfits probably took longer than both but they were already made just for the sake of making them before I started this project. 

19 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

>SPYYYY!!!!?

 

> So happy to see you. I terribly missed you and seeing you posting a new Casss episode I had the tears of gladness in my eyes. My Prince and Ivy will be happy to see you too. Welcome back, my dear LL friend

Thanks for the warm welcome back, I really appreciate it! I see Prince deleted his account at some point, that's too bad. He will be missed around here.

15 hours ago, Storms of Superior said:

I still like Cass's fashion sense.

She has an eye for fashion! 

I soo enjoy how you write Cassie, where her naïveté  always sets her up to be trapped, and the more the tries to get out of it, the “deeper” it goes.

Also your chapter has one of my favorite Heroine Distress element, tiny creatures!

In fact I’ve been planning on having one as an ally for Jenna named Cockweasel, but can’t find a good model for him.

At the end, we're all coming back!

Nice to see her again, it was a very long time, as I see her here. It is always a pleasure to see her in her adventures.

On 7/25/2022 at 8:40 PM, devious-Drunna said:

I soo enjoy how you write Cassie, where her naïveté  always sets her up to be trapped, and the more the tries to get out of it, the “deeper” it goes.

 

Also your chapter has one of my favorite Heroine Distress element, tiny creatures!

In fact I’ve been planning on having one as an ally for Jenna named Cockweasel, but can’t find a good model for him.

 

Thanks! 

Yeah I remember you mentioning a penchant for the tiny creatures way back when you made your goblins in the cellar entry. I guess I like it too ?

There are a few different scamp and imp type monsters out there but I don't think any of them look fantastic and as this story and Dingle's role in it and potential role in the future kept expanding I decided I really needed to make him a humanoid in racemenu to do it justice with proper expressions and ease of use through standard pose mods. 

23 hours ago, zilvradrow said:

At the end, we're all coming back!

 

Nice to see her again, it was a very long time, as I see her here. It is always a pleasure to see her in her adventures.

 

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Zilphia: "Oh Yes, that's true. BTW why did you take such a long time, to bring me back?"

me: "AE broke my Game. Sorry sweetie."

 

 

Thanks! And careful with that AE stuff, I hear it's bad news ? (signed- still on 1.5.8 gang)

Next time you get bored, give AE a try. It is really no worse than any other Skyrim SE version. All the mods that need to update, like SKSE, have updated.

No damsels to vanquish... ?

Seeing a Cassidey chapter(s) appear brightens my day. Thank you!

On 7/27/2022 at 6:47 PM, fred200 said:

Next time you get bored, give AE a try. It is really no worse than any other Skyrim SE version. All the mods that need to update, like SKSE, have updated.

I'm a big believer in "if it ain't broke don't fix it". I've actually never changed SE version other than when reinstalling the game on a new computer. Maybe if 4080 prices aren't insane I'll try AE ?

On 7/31/2022 at 7:17 PM, Rock&Rule said:

No damsels to vanquish... ?

 

Seeing a Cassidey chapter(s) appear brightens my day. Thank you!

I had that line written normally in the script (monsters to vanquish, etc.) Then when I was making it I realized it would be much More Cass to flip it. 

Thanks for reading!