[News] So it looks like

The next three or so weeks for me are probably going to be pretty crazy. I’m going to Florida next weekend (Disney World for Halloween! *squeaks and faints*) and will be there for about a week. I had hoped that I would be able to have the time/energy to continue to update until I went and then I got steamrollered over by an early cold and have kept a sleep schedule that resembles my cats rather than a humans. (I’ve been awake between five and seven hours most days this week.)

Plus, I’m working on some makeovers for the various people on Shadowcrest, despite someone’s assertion that it’s more or less pointless. Nothing hugely major, just different hair and in a couple cases I’ve decided that skintones or eye hues would be better changed, but we’re talking more or less cosmetic changes. Hopefully not much that will change the core of the sim in question.

Also, on the “Season” front, (Round, if you prefer.) I had intended for 24 episodes in the Season and then a short season break, rather like you get with TV. But I just have too much to cram in before the end of this Season (I already have the last episode planned out.) to fit it all into the eight episodes I have left. (Four weddings, an important romance, another pregnancy, and I’m still hoping for all six of the remaining ladies to make their appearances yet this season.)

Although I am still hoping to close this season out around the end of the year. (Might mean having to do two posts a week, but I doubt that anyone will complain about that. ;-) )

But, for those of you who are on the Keep. I am intending to use the next week before I go catching up on getting all of the downloads I’ve been hording up on the Keep. All the male clothes you’ve seen on the people in Shadowcrest, except Ren, whose tunic is already up. It was part of my SS gift to Ann. I had a recolor I made specifically for him, but I seem to have mislaid it and will have to find it again. Plus Kennedy’s dress and Raquel’s dresses, as well as the new, as yet unseen, dresses for Tiffany and Jolene. Heidi’s dress which is an age conversion of another SS gift to Ann. Plus I have a really bad outfit I made for Bors, if you’re an Albion reader you probably saw it in the post where the de Ganises meet the Ferreiras for dinner. And three hairstyles; two male retextures and the snood I made for Eva back in like late July/early August and had plum forgot I had it done.

Thanks for your patience, I hope it will be rewarded!

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Dumb Opinion

“What in God’s name is that?” Lady Kennedy asked. Lock pulled his nose out of the book to look around. What? Oh.

“The Servantus?” A brow cocked as the doctor’s head turned back toward him.

“The invisible chick.” She pointed.

“The Servantus.” Lock repeated. “I have it doing cleaning.”

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Darkest Before the Dawn

“Are you quite certain, Lady Kennedy, that you don’t want my seat?” Wesley asked as Kennedy settled back onto the desk.

“Yes. Right now if I sat on anything soft I’d probably fall asleep. I haven’t done this kind of hours in a while. I’m out of practice.” Kennedy said, shaking her head. Gray scoffed softly which caused Wesley to glare at him. Gray looked significantly at the king, who did look tired. Kennedy found her right arm up, middle finger extended before her tired head even caught up with the fact that she’d moved.

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A Lifetime

“We meet here again, Mr. Smith.” Lady Peyton laughed. Ren tried not to look blank, which just made Lady Peyton throw her head back further, the sunlight shimmering off her platinum hair, her gray eyes shining near silver, apparently he hadn’t hid it very well at all.

“Uh–aye?” Ren said when she looked at him expectantly. She shook her head. “So, what does this fine morning find you doing.”

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Writer’s Crisis

One of the bad things about writing a story with pictures is the fact that sometimes what you think this episode will be about isn’t what your inspiration says it will be about. Unfortunately I ran into this this week. I have an episode shot, but my inspiration and my writer’s instinct both tell me that this is not the time for that particular episode.

Also, unfortunately, I’ve not got a back up plan. I have not got any other pictures shot and I don’t even have the locale for the next episode completely built. >_<’ So unfortunately no update this week. But hopefully next week’s episode will be there on/by Thursday as scheduled.

Thanks for understanding!

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Dunno If I Can Face

Dawn was still not even a promise of lightness in the sky when Emanuel woke up. What woke him or why he couldn’t say, while drinking enough usually guaranteed he’d end up horizontal at some point, it didn’t necessarily mean that he’d sleep well or for very long. He stretched and sighed and stared off into the darkness.

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Here’s To The Night

Emanuel looked out the front window, his gaze barely taking in the winter dormant trees and not taking in the glazed window at all. Here in a minute or two he would blink his eyes and try to bring them into focus, when he noticed that they were out of focus at all. Still, he wasn’t too far gone, his gait was steady, there was no palsy in his hand as he reached for the wine bottle sitting on the desk. The good stuff. He half smiled. His father had always had it, and now that secret stash was Emanuel’s. But it wasn’t bottomless and some part of him knew that at the rate he was going he’d run out.

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This week in the news.

Okay, I think this layout is more or less live, I’ve added character pages if you want to see brief write-ups of the characters. Nothing too spoiler-y, about the only thing is confirmation that any potential romantic relationships as being potential. I really tried to be informative without giving everything away.

Also finally got some links up. Nowhere near all of my credits and favorites, but it’s a start.

As far as an episode update goes, I skipped last week’s episode to put up the site, and this week’s update is shot, I just need to pin down my muse and get it written. Hopefully tomorrow. I have been poked into doing something else yet tonight. Something about putting it off long enough…

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Something Like

Dolph sat at his desk and stared at the piece of parchment in front of him, trying to force the lines into some semblance of sense. But every time he thought that maybe, perhaps this time he had achieved that, the bottom would fall out and he’d have to start all over again. Nearly eight years working as a traveling judge was surprisingly little aid in becoming a councilor to the king. He sighed and shuffled the papers once more. Maybe it was more winter was finally releasing it’s hold on the world and so the part of him that had spent all those years as a judge was preparing to pack up and ride out.

Except all those towns, all those circuits, weren’t there anymore, the roads were overgrown with trees and weeds, hardly more than a beaten rut going soft with melted snow or a bottom jaw of broken stones and patches of mud in towns that no longer existed. Even in Shadowhaven, in the Black Gate region, the part that was hit first and hardest by the plague, the streets were an ugly mess.

Maybe that was why it was so hard to make the words on the page fit some semblance of sense. This sort of thing just didn’t make sense. None of it made any sense at all.

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Maybe It’s Just Me

Peyton stared for a long moment at the lump of clay in front of her then put her hands to the surface, her foot spinning the wheel. The clay squished and slid and clung to her fingers. God she loved that feeling. If she closed her eyes and just focused on the clay, the way it felt, the way it smelled, the way the pottery wheel sounded, she could almost have been back in the studio at school.

The studio had been her refuge, her hideaway. The one place she could be herself, just herself and not catch any shit for it. It would have surprised no one who had known her that she had more or less staked this little shed as her territory from about the moment that Tiffany had hung the door on it, pronouncing it safe to use.

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