Inquisitors, Angels and Demons, Oh My....
I do have the rest of the Ayame story -- the third part is kinda long -- and will post it tonight or tomorrow night. Also have Episode 4 almost ready (last few shots are in post-production, and then I have to do the coding to insert the new shots into the old version of the episode. Flashback montages are a lot of work, you have to do so many scene changes for just one or two shots each....). So more Exalted goodies soon.
Meanwhile, back in the medieval World of Darkness...
New doll story project, which should also be of interest to White Wolf fans who remember Dark Ages: Inquisitor and Demon: The Fallen.... One of the doll boards I post on is having another photo-story contest: Angelic Descent. The contest's theme: Fallen Angels.
Ooooooh. Please, please don't throw me into that there briar patch, I'm a' beggin' you... Ideas, ideas, where are all my ideas...??
And then I remembered good old Brother Leopold von Murnau and the namesake of this LJ, the original Libellus Secretum Sartaelis. And a little vignette I had always thought about writing, about how crotchety old straight-arrow Leopold became THE patron saint for the modern-day Inquisition known as the Order of St. Leopold.... (something that is doubtless still causing poor Leopold to spin madly in his tomb).
[* * * For non-gamers reading this, I was one of the writers on the Dark Ages: Inquisitor game book, along with nagaina_ryuuoh, innocent_man, doctorcaligari, adders, and others. I did the opening fiction piece, which introduced Leopold von Murnau and Sartael, and so I've always had a special fondness for the members of House von Murnau. In our discussions for our section of the book, Myr and Sarah and I decided that Leopold needed some characteristic vulnerability or inherent flaw to make his life more interesting (in sense of that old Chinese Curse), and so we decided what he really really needed was his very own personal demon. And Voila! -- a new smart-ass character was born.* * * ]
Of course, none of my cast of dolls (at least not those who qualify for the contest) looks even REMOTELY like either Brother Leopold or how I'd imagined Sartael (who I always considered to be one of the Namaru) to appear. Especially not in apocolyptic form. (I had to dig the Demon: The Fallen core book out to remember the terms for these things, it's been so long...). So I am creating two (well, actually three) entirely new dolls for this project, including doing my first-ever hair-rooting job (because Obitsu simply doesn't offer a doll head that comes with a Dominican tonsure in aging silver-gray), and will have to do their faces and costumes and props (including Sartael's book, of course) and angelic/demonic wings and....
And the deadline is May 10, which is NOT a lot of time for this kind of thing. Fortunately it really is a short story, and fairly simple in terms of setting and props. (Not so simple in terms of special effects, though). I have about half the script done so far. Almost done with Leopold's hair.
So while I watch the Democratic candidate debate and the post-debate discussion on Countdown tonight, I will probably be working on constructing posable wings.
And yes, I will post the whole thing here when it's done! (wish me luck!)
Meanwhile, back in the medieval World of Darkness...
New doll story project, which should also be of interest to White Wolf fans who remember Dark Ages: Inquisitor and Demon: The Fallen.... One of the doll boards I post on is having another photo-story contest: Angelic Descent. The contest's theme: Fallen Angels.
Ooooooh. Please, please don't throw me into that there briar patch, I'm a' beggin' you... Ideas, ideas, where are all my ideas...??
And then I remembered good old Brother Leopold von Murnau and the namesake of this LJ, the original Libellus Secretum Sartaelis. And a little vignette I had always thought about writing, about how crotchety old straight-arrow Leopold became THE patron saint for the modern-day Inquisition known as the Order of St. Leopold.... (something that is doubtless still causing poor Leopold to spin madly in his tomb).
[* * * For non-gamers reading this, I was one of the writers on the Dark Ages: Inquisitor game book, along with nagaina_ryuuoh, innocent_man, doctorcaligari, adders, and others. I did the opening fiction piece, which introduced Leopold von Murnau and Sartael, and so I've always had a special fondness for the members of House von Murnau. In our discussions for our section of the book, Myr and Sarah and I decided that Leopold needed some characteristic vulnerability or inherent flaw to make his life more interesting (in sense of that old Chinese Curse), and so we decided what he really really needed was his very own personal demon. And Voila! -- a new smart-ass character was born.* * * ]
Of course, none of my cast of dolls (at least not those who qualify for the contest) looks even REMOTELY like either Brother Leopold or how I'd imagined Sartael (who I always considered to be one of the Namaru) to appear. Especially not in apocolyptic form. (I had to dig the Demon: The Fallen core book out to remember the terms for these things, it's been so long...). So I am creating two (well, actually three) entirely new dolls for this project, including doing my first-ever hair-rooting job (because Obitsu simply doesn't offer a doll head that comes with a Dominican tonsure in aging silver-gray), and will have to do their faces and costumes and props (including Sartael's book, of course) and angelic/demonic wings and....
And the deadline is May 10, which is NOT a lot of time for this kind of thing. Fortunately it really is a short story, and fairly simple in terms of setting and props. (Not so simple in terms of special effects, though). I have about half the script done so far. Almost done with Leopold's hair.
So while I watch the Democratic candidate debate and the post-debate discussion on Countdown tonight, I will probably be working on constructing posable wings.
And yes, I will post the whole thing here when it's done! (wish me luck!)