Flickr... I'm too lazy to blog.

For most updates on Amrys, go to the flickr album... it's got more in it, really. I forget to update here.

The latest:

Moar pictyahs!

SL stuff
Because my second life and my RP within SL are slightly different? Perhaps it explains something.
I finally figured out why my avi looks so horrible... it IS the shape, not the skin. I wasn't sure. But my shape for Amrys fixed it up, except the lips were off, so I modded slightly and now have much less horror in the nose/cheek area.

SL Bloopers: Fun with editing!
Okay, there's only one. But this is the only time I've ever gotten my avi cross-eyed.

I was trying to make my own hair (hint: never finished).


Dancing at Club Rockaway with Strangeleaf Langstrumpf. ((Some of you know him as Crazyperson.))

RP Stuff
Amrys's outfit in general has been updated... Magical OOC fairies brought her a shirt I got out of a camp chair ages ago (back before the SL hiatus of whatever-month-or-three), and Beast dyed her hair red (Amrys thought it would be revenge against her mentor for dying Beast's [red] hair blue.). I also swapped the ears with some that can be moved around a good bit, which is nice for displaying emotes.


I am vengeance... I am the night... wait, whut? Is Amrys, watching the city from above.


Amrys is swimmin with the fishies in the CW den!


Grumpily perched on a crate in the den.


Perched on a rail... in the... sewer. Ew. OOC ;) Was attending the RP combat lesson.

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So the other night, Midian hosted a huuuge fundraiser for Relay for Life. How did we do it?
JAIL BAIL '09.
I signed up to play an NPC police officer ;)

This is she. Her name was Lisa Powell, and she was kind of a bitch.


And our first stop on the arrest list... The den! To pick up Ellie (not in picture). Several other CWs were arrested, including...


My sponsor, MJ!
And you can see next to his cell the donation box.

Basically, a ton of people were arrested, then their bails were set. Donate to get them out of jail, then they would "owe you" IC for helping them out. So it's still Midian style ;)
Before it was even fully over, $400 (USD, not L$) had been raised. Whoo!

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Bloopers and Outtakes from Midian!


Amrys: It's bigger on the inside!!
Srsly, why is the TARDIS in MIDIAN? Is someone playing a 'Doctor' character?


Whutthepear. Why was there a giant pear wielding a scythe... playing hopscotch? And really, it was--there's a poseball for the hopscotch stuff.


You really can't see what's so epic about this picture without clicking to zoom in. Sorry.


Not much of an outtake, but whatever. It's the den (most of it), the church, etc.
Midian from Amrys's point of view, basically.

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I think that's all I've got. I'd spam you with slURLs to places I like, but... that's spammy, and not that helpful. Contact me in-world if you want to know where I got something, most of what I own is random accumulated freebies or being worn (or both!).

I'm hoping to make some stuff and start a shop relatively soon, so I hope peoples keep an eye out for that.

Why you do/don't RP with people your entire faction is voiding:

You tend to get hurt. But you might get a chance to throw her off a roof.
Yes, I said throw her off a roof.

Note: CW is shorthand for Catwalker.
And for those of you who have never read this blog before: This is in an ONLINE RP community. None of this happened to anyone in real life. No people/cats/roofs were injured in the making of this battle scene.
So here's several hours of chat-RP in a nutshell:
Amy Nohkan (who CWs have mostly begun voiding in general) approached CWs myself and a kitten I was hanging out with, Kat[rinaElizebeth Karu]. The other CWs, as we'd been advised, ignored her. Kat, who is not a CW, had probably not been advised of this, or if she had, well, she had revenge reasoning, if I understand her backstory correctly. She had taken bullets for another kitten when this character attacked before.
Amy came up to the den's boundary, and I, like a good little pledge, told her to back off. She smirked and backed off. Then she asked what was in Kat's bag. We ignored her, continued talking. She came up to grab the bag, and I put my hand on it, and Kat and I both told her to back off. She wanders over to where a fight is starting up. We see the fight and Amy, pull out phones to message our respective authority figures.
Amy was not pleased. And there was a fire fight! (what is that from??)
She tried to stab Kat, I kicked the blade and Kat dodged anyway. She managed to shoot Kat in the stomach, I stabbed Amy in the leg (well. aiming for the chest. Threw the knife.) and grabbed on to her legs. Was kicked in the jaw. Managed to drag Amy over the edge of the roof, biting her leg to hold on.

Whoo. Carried Kat to the Medical Center (MCMC). Now I know who her mommy is! Oh my. Amrys now has a get out of jail free card.

I took these pics largely to show off Amrys's nose. But here is Amrys keeping Kat company at MCMC.

Catwalker Scavenger Hunt!

First of all, Amrys is now a Catwalker Pledge!
(It's like being a pledge to a sorority or a fraternity, including the ppppledge ppppin, except it's not lame. It's awesome.)
Anywho, from here on out, this is going to be an IC ("In Character," for the non-RP people) post.
It's basically the massive email/text message/thing that she's sending to her sponsor, MJ.
Because it costs money (okay, like a quarter. But STILL.) to upload the pictures to SL as textures.

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I finished the scavenger hunt! Did you know this thing has one of those timer camera things in it? It's pretty cool, I didn't know they made phones with those.

Anyway, here are the pictures.

Take photos of the following things in the city, and turn in a notecard with the photos when done!

1. Wolf graffiti


2. Holy birds


3. Theater stage


4. A merry-go-round


5. An ambulance


6. A memorial


7. A rooftop fire


8. Record store


9. Advertisement for pop tarts


10. A piano / organ


Anyway, I hope this is satisfactory.

Oh, and don't let me forget to submit an incident report--we ran into someone on the roof earlier, and I came in as backup.

--Amrys Kotenka

Amrys is taking over :O

I sort of saw this coming, but I'm almost always in RP mode now. Watch out, might start a diary for Amrys! Haha... I tend to try to think in character when I'm playing, so it's easy to do that right after an RP session.

So, what's happened...
She's inquired about joining catwalkers and intends to do so. OOC, I've submitted the application and am just waiting to hear back. Excitement!

I made a new shirt (twice, plus a second version of it that I didn't upload), which is grey with blue stars and says "звёзды" ("stars") on it. Amrys wears it under her jacket. It's a little tacky, but the idea is that it actually shows off her color a little better (eventually she WILL take off the jacket! But I'm so cold IRL that I don't want her to, it'll make *me* cold!) and since it's grey, I can give it a slight color without messing it up (as long as I'm careful of the stars), so if it clashes when it first uploads [it did], then I'm fine :) I like uploading grey things and coloring them in world.

The problem is... I decided to try making a new set of ears using this method and a hair texture I had made, so that the inner ear color would be slightly different. No luck. I forgot that you can't have different colors on one object, just different textures. So I'll have to color out of world and bring it back in if I'm going to do that with just one prim. Which means I'll stick with the ears that I bought.

I think I'll start posting stores and stuff that I like, but right now I'm a little short on time on the posting and don't want to log in to look up the slurls. I know I'll be on too long if I do :O

Fun with photography!
If you didn't know, in Second Life you can take a picture twice in order to get a more "realistic" look. First take the picture with color, then with depth. Avatars are always in the foreground with depth (from what I've seen), so it's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
Then layer it in photoshop or similar program with the depth layer over the color in screen, linear dodge, or exclusion (I used exclusion, but all of those worked; exclusion just brought out the color best in the picture that I did this to first). Save as a jpg, gif, or png... one of the standard formats, and you're good :D

Here's one I did just now:

exclusion


screen


linear dodge

They're kind of small, but you can see slight differences. Exclusion is the "foggiest" (and probably most appropriate for a scene of someone sitting high above Midian). Linear dodge lets the most color through from the background.
If you wanted to emphasize the background more, there are ways to do this too; never fear ;)

Anyway, I'm out of time to post (curse blogger's slow upload! I should just use that flickr account), so...

See you on #2!

~Ameretat

Midian City newbishness

My character now has a skin to match her description :D
She's blue. People keep saying to me (when I'm not in Midian and just haven't bothered to change back into my "normal" outfit) "You're blue."
Apparently, I wouldn't know that I'm blue?
I keep getting that weird song stuck in my head because of it.

I've been trying to get better pictures, but that's kind of hard to do in Midian when your skin color isn't that far off in value from the surrounding environment.
Also--seeking better hair for her. It's a lot less visible now that she's blue, but she still has little bits of ear showing D: This is not good.

I'm finally branching out a little bit in RP; I've mostly been RPing with one person, and otherwise just sort of bumping into people and getting kicked out of places (eg, that rooftop in the picture--she's not allowed there. IC and OOC I thought that was outside of Catwalker territory, though :( She'll have to live somewhere else, I guess; she's supposedly been sleeping on those roofs). But I finally ran into some Catwalkers besides just being a little too close to their territory and being run out, so hopefully her name's floating around. *resists urge to metagame*

Anyway, Midian city now has a wiki, and I have a page! Amrys's wiki page

Shiny.

I don't really know what else to say... I'm debating starting one of those "diary" things for her, but I don't think that's really something she'd do? I don't know.

Anyway, for lack of anything to say, I'm off.
~Ameretat

Pictures!

This is my character in Midian City. She is scary? No, not really.


And this is my normal look, except I've modified my shape a little since and I changed the sock-things. Also, I have sandals now, that I made :) But this is my profile pic.