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Issue #1: The Briar Patch Part 1


LexiAJ82

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After a long absence (Nearly 3 years!) I've decided to return to the land of Skyrim, and to the characters I've so enjoyed writing and following. This chapter (and indeed this first arc) will unite us with Alma, The Amorous Alchemist. In addition to illuminating her origins, it also serves as a soft reboot and first issue of this new iteration of the Lexi-Verse. I've made some changes to my game since last we met. I've switched my body type to CBBE-3B for more freedom of outfit choice, and have started using Rudy ENB as opposed to Skyrim Re-Engaged which I used before. Both are excellent, but I'm finding I rather prefer Rudy.

 

These chapters will be shorter than the ones on my previous blog. My ADHD makes it extremely difficult to focus on one chapter long enough to put together chapters as long as I did before, but by breaking those into somewhat shorter chapters, I can fool my addled brain. I've had a lot of fun coming back to this, and hope to continue on for sometime under this new format. I hope you enjoy it!

 

Without further adieu:

 

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I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of this relaunch. As always, thanks for reading!

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Crw0

Posted

Wow! 
that's a comeback i didn't expect! 
Glad to see your stuff once again! 
It's an increased activity in a blog section these days)

LexiAJ82

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14 hours ago, Crw0 said:

Wow! 
that's a comeback i didn't expect! 
Glad to see your stuff once again! 
It's an increased activity in a blog section these days)

 

Thanks! I've missed doing these stories quite a bit, but until a few months back I wasn't sure if I'd actually try and start things up again. 

 

I feel like keeping my entries a bit shorter will really help me stay focused.

Talesien

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Can't say I remember reading your stories before, but having finished that one I will have to dig through your archive for sure. Attention from Sanguine and Maven in a single day, this ought to get ... erh "fascinating". ;)

LexiAJ82

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11 minutes ago, Talesien said:

Can't say I remember reading your stories before, but having finished that one I will have to dig through your archive for sure. Attention from Sanguine and Maven in a single day, this ought to get ... erh "fascinating". ;)

 

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! 

 

And yeah, Alma has a couple chapters in my other blog. They're set a year or two down the line from this and her life definitely gets interesting...

Jay-Omms

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Great chapter... :):heart:;):thumbsup: The only complain I have is that the letters in your word bubbles are a little too small for me. Unfortunately shortcut zoom doesn't make the pictures bigger so I have to open a new tab for every pic to zoom in on the words. Too many extra steps for readers to have to wait through load screens for each pic especially if internet is slow. I'm luck to have fast internet. But if it's a few seconds I have to wait I don't wanna imagine anyone else like some people I know. :sweat_smile: Like how you turned Ingun Black Briar and her attitude goth. :lol:

LexiAJ82

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46 minutes ago, Jay-Omms said:

Great chapter... :):heart:;):thumbsup: The only complain I have is that the letters in your word bubbles are a little too small for me. Unfortunately shortcut zoom doesn't make the pictures bigger so I have to open a new tab for every pic to zoom in on the words. Too many extra steps for readers to have to wait through load screens for each pic especially if internet is slow. I'm luck to have fast internet. But if it's a few seconds I have to wait I don't wanna imagine anyone else like some people I know. :sweat_smile: Like how you turned Ingun Black Briar and her attitude goth. :lol:

 

Glad you enjoyed it! 

 

As far as the word size is concerned, I scaled my pages up a bit in size from before and probably didn't increase the word size enough. I kinda wondered about that. 🤔 I'm going to go up a font size for part 2 so hopefully that will help.

 

With Ignun being obsessed with poisons and death, the goth thing just felt right. Doesn't hurt that I think Goth girls are kinda hot too. 😄

Devianna

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Oh my gosh! It is so good to see and read your stories again. I have really missed them.  😍

 

Now on to important stuff - Aza is back! And so is her love of cheese! 🧀 So, does this take place some time after the whole 'become the daedric prince and overthrow Sanguine' arc? She definitely looks great in her usual form.

 

Love the new ENB - looks more subtle in colors and I think it suits the story well. I also can't stop laughing at Ignun and her goth phase. It honestly suits her, especially considering her love of alchemy. (That, and it's great to see her smoking. It is a bit of a staple among some of your characters 😅)

 

Writing smaller chapters might be a good option to prevent the burnout. Your effects and dialogues are as crisp and entertaining as ever. The visuals are very pleasant. I am eagerly awaiting the continuation!

 

Welcome back and as always - thank you for sharing your work with us 🥰

LexiAJ82

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Thanks! I'm glad you've enjoyed my work!

 

On 11/27/2025 at 9:26 AM, Devianna said:

  Now on to important stuff - Aza is back! And so is her love of cheese! 🧀 So, does this take place some time after the whole 'become the daedric prince and overthrow Sanguine' arc? She definitely looks great in her usual form.

 

That was one of the first things I thought when I decided to use Aza here: She needs to be eating a piece of cheese! 😂 This actually takes place somewhere around a year/year and a half prior to any of the events of my other blog. So what you're seeing here is Aza before the fall. Since I was going back in time here, in a manner of speaking, I decided I wanted to show a little bit of what Aza's relationship with Sanguine was like before all of that... unpleasantness.

 

On 11/27/2025 at 9:26 AM, Devianna said:

 

Love the new ENB - looks more subtle in colors and I think it suits the story well. I also can't stop laughing at Ignun and her goth phase. It honestly suits her, especially considering her love of alchemy. (That, and it's great to see her smoking. It is a bit of a staple among some of your characters 😅)

 

Writing smaller chapters might be a good option to prevent the burnout. Your effects and dialogues are as crisp and entertaining as ever. The visuals are very pleasant. I am eagerly awaiting the continuation!

I'm actually really happy with the look of my game and images, both the world and the characters, and I think I'm pretty well done looking at any kind of visual tweaks, or body types, or any mods that affect any of that. I agree that the ENB suits my story well as does the overall look and it's nice to get more positive feedback on that aspect. I've never been going for full on realism in my shots, or photo-realism. I've just been looking for the look that I think works best, and I think for me, this is it. And yeah, Ignun was a lot of fun, both to create, and write!

 

I'm really glad you enjoyed this. As far as the continuation is concerned, hopefully you won't have to wait very long. I have all of the pages shot and laid out already. All that's left is to add in the dialogue and other little effects and touches.

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