Category: Cyrelian

Cyrelian / Misc Characters / Screenshots

Sedave’s in Demand

July 18, 2018

So, somebody told the elf that Marcus and possibly others were getting special help in regards to … what does he call it? Something something “presentation” something conformance… idk

**rolls eyes**

And somehow the elf found out about Sedave–

I’m not blaming anybody here– and of course the elf found out that Sedave makes his home in the Rift. And, more particularly, in Riften. And that Sedave’s a Dunmer who lives on the canal, and.. and…and…

What?

No, Marcus, I wasn’t blaming you. I mean, the elf IS a fully trained investigative– that’s what Justiciars do. At least that’s what they’re supposed to do.

But, you’ll be pleased to know that Sedave is far too canny to answer any letters or packages from couriers and he doesn’t open his door to random Thalmor…

But, like I said, trained investigative officer.

So–

Sedave WILL open the door to cash-in-hand.

The elf wanted me to let you all know–as a courtesy, he said, in that snotty voice–that he has now sought out expert advice, so whatever advantage SOMEONE thought he might have had around here is now gone.

Mee-ow.

We’ll see, says Marcus.

Cyrelian / Erdi / Pairings / Screenshots

So this is what happens when we do not listen to Erdi

July 11, 2018

Well, let’s just say that the photo shoot for Erdi’s first love scene did not go as smoothly as planned, and Erdi had some things to say about it.

 

So you spend all that time getting the props in place—what do you mean you didn’t wait around for Makeup to get in here and deal with the hair?

We’re going to have to scrap this entire set?!

There were remarks about sunburn. Erdi was Not Happy.

We told her that that’s why we pay for editing.

Erdi told us that maybe a little choreography or coaching would have gone a looong way. So many things happened that were Not Sexy.

Elbows– not sexy. Weird giant heads– not sexy. Mulling over body parts looks like you’re at some sort of practicuum– is that a tumor? And… Cyrelian? What are you doing?! Because that looks spectacularly creepy.

I said– Really, it’s not that bad, we can just crop some of that down and–

Erdi demanded that we run it by our resident expert.

Who— oh gods.

Yeah. I know. He’s right there. It won’t cost us any time if–

Fine.

Marcus?

That looks like a nay vote to me.

We had to take a break so Erdi could have a little chat about blocking:

There wasn’t a whole lot of argument with the elf; he just wanted to get this done so we’d let him have his clothes back.

And he got a little sulky with us– not everything was his fault!

Sometimes Erdi’s looking pretty awkward, too.

— Ow! that’s not a handle!

Yeah, I agree. We’re not going to be using that.

Now Erdi’s complaining that some of the face shots we got are not the most flattering:

She wants them cut.

Marcus?

Marcus says the lighting could be better.

Cyrelian wants to know why Marcus gets to sit in the shade between takes. Why does he get food? Why does–

I told Cyrelian he could have five minutes, but that’s it. We don’t want to lose the light.

Hey– Marcus? You gonna come back over here and advise?

Marcus?

Just listen to Erdi, Marcus says. It’ll save a lot of time, Marcus says…

… yeah.

 

Cyrelian

So this is what I’ve been spending all my time at

June 7, 2018

Skyrim SSE is very interesting to mod, and it’s got some quirks. I wanted to see if I could get my characters into it and have them look more-or-less similar. This took a lot more effort than anticipated:

So, the first problem was that Racemenu isn’t ported over yet and i didn’t feel like wrestling around with whatever alpha version of it is floating around out there.  So, I grabbed Cyrelian’s head .nif, converted it, and took a look in nifskope. And– exploded hair!  I had to make a new head nif without fancy hair.

So this is what I ended up with:

 

Shrieks of dismay.

I then started working on the things that I could change– skin and hair et cetera– here’s an in-progress shot:

Still kind of terrifying.

Much time and tribulation later, and–

Well, yeah, that’s why people got the remaster… just absolutely beautiful land– Sorry. I keep getting interruptions.

Fine.

All right then.

I’m done giving out warnings to the peanut gallery over here:

Oh, very nice, Marcus. That’s a good look. And you look so happy to see us!

Ahtar says if you start out as an ugly bastard that there’s not much room to go downhill…

eww.

So, after some cursing and re-installing and a lot of fiddling around, I managed to get ONE of the guys looking okay in SSE:

But all in all it was kind of a frustrating experience. And the eyes aren’t right. We’ll see how things go as the mods over there continue to improve.

And of course Ahtar says there are some faces only a mother could love–

 

 

 

 

 

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