The Vampire Ball

Last night was the Vampire Ball at Nocturne. Everyone dressed up extremely fancy for it, though its often hard to take snapshots when everyone is dancing and moving, and there are poseballs scattered everywhere to allow for multiple people dancing together. I don't know why, but I hate having poseballs in images, even though they are a common item seen in SL. I will edit them out if its fairly easy to do so, otherwise I just won't take a picture that contains them.


The music was provided by Zan Eldrich, and was mostly of the Gothic and/or Industrial style - a few of the darker alternative rock songs got slipped in. He also weaved some of the vampiric standards in, and he even was able to find Sanctum Sanctorum by The Damned, which used to be extremely rare. The Evil Manipulative Daniel years ago spent something like two months helping me try to track down a copy of my own, back before music downloading was more than hours and hours of a dial up connection getting a song in bianary from an alt._____ newsgroup. He also played Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde, Deception (Ravnos Theme Song) by the Cruxshadows, The Vampire Club by Voltaire, Cry Little Sister done by GERARD MCMANN not the god damn Sisters of Mercy, Zan and a couple of other super vampiric songs.


Zan, who is consistantly super tall, dark and spooky was even more spooky and seemed quite a bit taller than usual. Something about nearly max height gentlemen and top hats makes me feel like I'm using my super short starter avatar again, though I imagine I'd feel like I was about the size of a gnat if I had actually been using it. I totally forgot to ask him what he was wearing, though I do know that cape is a Lucia Cyr creation...the cloaks she's created for her Cyrian nobles and vassals is quite unmistakeable. They are not for sale, and please do not bother asking her if you may buy a copy - they are part of the Cyrian role play in Ave Maria, for specific characters. She does, however, produce items with a similar dark theme in her LostHaven shop.


Beetle was there as well, somehow making vampire mix well with clockwork doll. She wore the First Princess outfit from Bare Rose in Red, though you can't really see much of it here, with a pair of boots from Draconic Kiss. Her hair was from Goldie Locks - in case anyone missed it, Cyrians are hair freaks - and is the Aphrodite style in Black with gold ornaments.


I should probably mention her eyes, since they are quite visible here, and not entirely normal. She picked them up at Atomic Kitty, which is also where we got our 'trendy' ear and tail sets from. Beetle has a lot of really neat eyes, and she typically has one coloured blue and the other coloured green; I actually got the idea for my blue and violet eyes from her.


The fan came with the set, from what was mentioned, and has a very nice animation to it. A lot of times, they hand pose ends up going into the fan itself, making it look like the fan is cutting the fingers off of the hand. This one doesn't do that, and I am almost tempted to buy the set for the fan alone!


For the majority of the night, since there is a nightly themed contest, I wore the Evening Together gown from LVS & Co. I really do like the look, and it reminded me so much of Mina that I figured it was completely appropriate for the theme. After PatricLoren won the contest, though, I decided I wanted to see what the other part of the outfit's set looked like...


...totally vampiric Cabaret ring mistress look. Except I lacked a bullwhip and a chair...


I'm not sure which I would like better with this outfit, the ShoeFly Gladiator heels in black or the black Gothica boots by *Hexed*. I may just try and find some non-decorated boots, maybe a pair of equestrian boots in black, just for this look.


The other thing I might change here is the hat, which is from my . I might tilt it so its covering one ear instead of resting atop both of them. I may also go pick up the La Petite Morte hat from Snatch for it. I discovered later on that it also looked pretty killer with those sexy pinstripe pants I found the other day.


All and all, the Vampire Ball was really fun, and I was glad I actually got home at a decent hour from work so I could go.


Since I mentioned ShoeFly, I have a little story to tell. I had bought a pair of the Gladiator platform heels in red latex, however due to one of the many horrible bugs that a merchant could have occur, the invis prims weren't working on them. I sent a quick note to the own, CCTV Giant, and went off to bed.


The next time I logged in, CCTV had sent me a new pair of the shoes along with an explination of what caused the first pair not to work right. A complimentary gift was included as an apology for the mix up, even though it wasn't really CCTV's fault. I already was becoming a fan of ShoeFly, but the awesome customer service from the owner has totally sealed it for me. Needless to say, if you're looking for shoes - especialy ones with sound, check this store out.

Second Life Relay for Life Clothing Fair - Part II

This part of my SLRFL post is going to be about the fantasy clothing I found. I was so torn on what all to get, since I'm a huge fantasy nut, and our sim mostly leans towards that kind of style. Everything was at a great price, and most had at least some if not all of the proceeds going to RFL so...I justified all purchases as charity ventures. ^.^


Elven Enchantress in Crimson
Fairy Grove Creations came close to owning my soul. They had a lot of different outfits that I wanted. All of them work with the theme of the Cyrian sim, and they're all fairly pretty in design.


The first outfit I bought from them was the Crimson Elf Enchantress. You can barely see it, but it comes with a spell book that has its own held pose built into it. Just like the stave you see a bit if, it can be used with the Spell Fire system, though there are SF enabled and non-scripted versions included in the set.


The only thing I dislike is that the shirt is on an undershirt layer, which means no tattoos without it looking odd. The corset is absolutely gorgeous though, and I've been tempted to contact FGC about purchasing the undershirts from the outfits I bought on other layers.


You can't really see them, but the outfit comes with a nice pair of matching boots. They're the standard adventurer style in shape but use a crushed red velvet similar to what is seen on the skirt. Its got accenting similar to the skirt waist embellishments, as well as a bit of the look from the jewelry.


This is a really nice coordinated set, and its available for a bit cheaper than usual (I think, I can't recall the main store prices) at the RFL booth FGC has. Really wish the corset was on more layers...

Avalonian Enchantress

This next outfit was released at RFL by Avilion Mist as their contribution. Initially, I wasn't going to get it because it was purple, which is usually reserved for accents, however it was a special edition, and really gorgeous as well.


This actually has ten different pieces to it. There is the shirt, which is shown here, and an undershirt for those who are a bit more modest than I am. There is a skirt layer skirt, however it wasn't fitting right so I didn't wear it for the image - the glitch pants were enough for a simple pose, especially with how full the skirt is.


Though they look like part of the scripted capelet, there are sheer prim sleeves that attach where the shirt ends. They're fairly sizable sleeves too. They look much like the skirt, with a sort of glittery effect to them.


Now, there are two seperate head pieces. One has just a long, flowing veil down the back, beneath most hair while the other has a veil over the face. Both have the silvery circlet that you can see here.


The hair is Avalon (Chained) by Goldie Locks. I really like the style but its one that lends itself more towards elegance and such than towards daily use outside of an RP sim. Still, it goes well with this costume, though I'm considering getting a different colour to match the dress.


The Crimson Huntress
One of the many outfits I picked up at DeFluer - hey, they're mostly 200 L$ a pop, which is a huge discount on a lot of them - was the Hunter Armour in Red.


This outfit is actually quite versatile. There are twenty eight parts included in the package. There is the armor shown here on the shirt layer, a bikini top on a shirt and an undershirt layer, and a chainmail undershirt for starters. Then there's a choice between just the armor on the underpants layer or adding the leather leggings over them. There's an armor skirt, and two different versions of the hip armour, the lower of which is shown here as well as a belt. Then there's a full chain skirt or the partial chain skirt like I chose for the image. All of the leg armor could be worn, as it was here, or only part of it can be worn and different boots used. There are three different kinds of cloaks, the regular long one shown here along with the shoulder armour and gloves.


There's so many ways to wear this outift, though there are six shown on the promotional poster at DeFluer's RFL booth and main store. And I'm quite sure they'll mix well into other fantasy costumes or even every day use.

A Blaze Devotion

The style of this particular RFL gown reminds me of Romeo and Juliette due to its cut, however the colours are far brighter than they would have been back then. Created by Evie's Closet and used for their primary donation item, this dress is a lot more light and flowing than an image can show.


The hair is again by Goldie Locks, only this time it's Sienna in Russet Red. This is another one of those styles that I don't often use on a daily basis, as its just a tad too elegant for my everyday wear. When I first started SL, I used an extremely short avatar, and this hair used to get stuck in the floor weird which is part of why I never used it. Now its a good length, and really is made for people over 5' tall.


Devotion - shown in Blaze - is one of the few empire waist dresses I've liked in SL, as most usually move weird no matter what you are doing. This one flows quite a bit more than I expected, making the satin folds shift in an interesting manner. Its almost as supple as flexi hair, as you can see by this image, but not quite enough to make it annoying while walking.


There are actually two RFL boards up for this outfit in Evie's booth, and it was fairly crowded when I stopped by, so there's good reason for it. I've actually been trying to remember the name of this place for ages, after stumbling upon it with another character. So glad to have found it again!


Snowbound
I think I may end up using this as the armour for the Drow set up I got at Onigiri the other night. I need to go get a few hair styles in pure white, rather than the blonde I used here, but the armour has potential Drowness.


This is another reason why Fairy Grove Creations nearly owns my soul. I was really torn on the different colours offered since there was no red or crimson in sight for it. In the end, I went with the White Celtic Sentry which has a scripted sword that can be used in the Spell Fire system.


The developing trend between myself and FGC is that they make all their corsets and shirts on the undershirt layer, which deprives me of my lovely tattoos. I really do wish they'd offer more versatility with this, since not everyone is adept at skins so their tattoos are built in.


And I'm not quite sure how I feel about the shoes. They're far too thin in my opinion, though I honestly haven't put forth effort to widen their look. I realise they are designed to look like certain plate armor sabatons, but I really don't dig how skinny it makes the feet look. Hopefully its something silly like the design used larger than size 0 feet, which is easily altered as opposed to having to widen the prim parts of the shoes.


The hair is from Damselfly, its called Storm and this particular version is in Voodoo. They're scarcely seen here, but the tips are a nice red colour. This looks like Storm from the X-Men's hair, and I really couldn't convince myself to get it in Red. My inner Comic Geek was too angsty about it, so we settled for the happy medium of Voodoo.


And that does it for my fantasy costuming bing. Well, I did buy more today, but that was only after figuring out that DeFluer had some really good deals running for RFL featured items only. I've gone off to acquire the various bits from her that I've thought of getting before, but never quite convinced myself to get.


On to the formals...with a minor nod to lingerie!