Saturday, August 6, 2011

Spicy Legends

With the reopening of the Temple, also Hunts are back to Selidor: Nature's Tropical Nights Hunt and Madpea's Peaster's Castle Hunt. I hope you enjoy the prizes, Good Hunting,
Alia


Previews:
Tropical Nights Hunt (Free) - July 29 to august 31
Peaster's Castle Hunt (HUD purchasable near info desk) - august 5 to 30 september
And if you complete the whole Hunt this is the final prize:

Saturday, July 23, 2011

The return of the Temple

Dear Fallens,
Finally after months of sky life our Temple is back.
Feel at Home,
Yours,
Alia

Celebration Facts
Fortune Teller: Aureum Skins and Outfits available at the fortune Teller from 23 July to 31 August 2011, check a preview here:
New discounted products: as an apology to previous customers of packs or singles.
(Check a small turquoise triangle over products, it indicates it's discounted.)
Discounts last till 31 August 2011

- I added some new makeup editions for clowns, arboreals, elves;
- fixed male dust elementals (red and blue goatee now have runes;
- new packs are available on brand new skin panels.
- Pixies price dropped to 1500, for that reason the New Pixie Flame is discounted up to 70%
- Diana shape is on sale again.

Stay tuned, many more things are going to return...

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Spoiler

There's not much to add, except that the incredible work and talent of Yabusaka gave Me that creative sparkle of love towards Second Life which was fading slowly this last year.
Anyway....did I said, metallic robot avatar with glowy circuits?
Folks, we are going to have some crazy thrill/fun soon.
God save the Mesh.
Check more about Mesh avatars by Yabusaka here:

Saturday, July 16, 2011

"Deep Within"


(Did I really wrote 2010 on those panels?...)

"I walked to the morning snow, just a lone owl following the rythmic sound of my step cracks in the iced snow; I walked in the morning snow and I felt lost. The silence started to hurt my ears, the cold scent of ice making me wish to stop and never continue again, but I did.
And you waited for me."
The Tower of Memory

From the Author
Snow and ice can be a warm silence to seek inside of us that small hidden place where everything exists, we ourselves as our memories. I hope you find that warm room and enjoy your stay,
Alia Baroque

"Deep Within" I

"Deep Within" II

"Deep Within" III

Friday, May 20, 2011

From Heaven to Hell

Post Gets updated with each Inworld group Notice. To know more about what's going on check past notices in Official Group. Enjoy the descent.

Third Sigil: "O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings." - John Milton

Third Sigil

First Dogma: And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? - (Revelation 13:4)

First Dogma

Second sigil: "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." - (Hebrews 13:2)

Second Sigil

First Sigil: "Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening." -Seneca

First Sigil

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Spring Break & Invocations

Dear Fallen,
I thought it’s nice if I write a few words to let you know how things proceed under many fronts.

The Temple rebuild is going slow but well, am enjoying a lot the rework and taking time to plan under many aspects so for a few years, hopefully, it will be able to host more releases without encountering a panel cluster. Am trying to simplify and enchance the shopping experience with a simpler layout, by also not taking anything from Selidor’s Temple and nature as part of the enjoyment, same as for its details and secrets. I also wish you to know that the bay and sides of Selidor are still the same and accessible without the risk of falling prims on your head, even if Selidor as sim has a fixed teleporting route, you can access it by walking in from Athan, I just ask you to avoid the Temple area while I build so things can proceed without too many distractions.

On the creations front am taking a so called sabbatic month, working on many things when I feel the vibe and letting ideas flow without any rush or usual personal pressure to complete in a fashionable time, reason why for a while I might not participate in Hunts so all My ideas can flow freely with no time or theme constraint. There’s also a very big possibility that by the end of summer I might finally choose to sell builds and furniture, though not the ones that are present on the Islands but others projects I keep in My pocket still. Another news is that I am torturing sculpted prims lately and preparing for the mesh hit.

What should you see at Fallen Gods soon then?
Finally improved accessories as new sculpted ears, male genitalia and some other mistery ones, will hit the store with a new brand hud for easy texturizing with all skin lines, still in progress but soon, hopefully, to be done. Lately am also enjoying the fun over face makeups, I already started a few that need refinement, but they will come all slowly out during may as a bigger full body tattoo that is just an idea for now and long time to see done. Skins? Well… I admit after faes I felt to go more evil, as a basic need: expect something scary, truly dangerous and with a damn bad temp.

And as last line, I like to repeat Myself but do not care:
Thanks to all of you for supporting My creations, feel at home as always on the Islands and a warm Welcome to all the New Fallens,
Yours,
Alia Baroque

Some New Releases:


Also do not miss the Madpea Dark Room Hunt, to get are the Spirit Within Sparkles tattoo, and if you complete the whole Hunt a set of Presence Skins:

Friday, April 15, 2011

Threading

About changes in many perspectives, about the good side of changes and willing to change in good. About Optimism, about support about not giving up. About beauty and open eyes, about the relativity of things, about the gentle that is strong, the fragile that holds a world. About Us.


“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”
~ Albert Einstein

“If everyone gives one thread, the poor person will have a shirt”
~ Russian Proverb

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”
~ Aldous Huxley

“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.”
~ Ovid

“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
~ Victor Hugo

“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
~ Lao Tzu

“The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.”
~ St. John of the Cross

“The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line”
Alexander Pope

“A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.”
~ Scottish Proverb

“Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences”
~ Luigi Pirandello

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.
~ Marcus Aurelius

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of thegreatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and mostobvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsityof conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues,which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
~ German Proverb

You Yourself are Beautiful, and You Yourself entice the world. You Yourself, by Your Kind Mercy, weave the thread of the world.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The common thread here is that we're concerned that people who are being attracted to this endeavor understand the risks as well as the potential rewards.
~ Marc Beauchamp

Honestly, I think shows wear out their welcome. I don't want to be on (American TV series) Seventh Heaven - on for 20 years and no one's really watching and it's hanging on by a thread.
~ Eva Longoria


Thread
Fig. a similar idea or pattern to a series of events. All of these incidents are related. There is a common thread to all this.

hang by a hair and hang by a thread
1. Lit. to hang by something very thin, such as a thread or a hair. The tiniest part of the mobile hung by a thread, the rest are on plastic cords.
2. and hang on by a hair; hang on by a thread Fig. to depend on something very insubstantial; to hang in the balance. Your whole argument is hanging by a thread. John isn't failing geometry, but his passing grade is just hanging by a hair.

thread one's way through something
Fig. to make a path for oneself through a crowded area; to make one's way carefully through a crowded area. The spy threaded his way through the crowd. The bicyclists threaded their way through the cars stopped in traffic.

thread through something
Fig. to travel through a crowded area; to move carefully through an area where there are many obstacles. The spy threaded through the crowd at the palace. The joggers threaded through the shoppers on the sidewalks.

hang by a thread
if something hangs by a thread, it is likely to fail in the near future Peace and democracy hang by a thread in this troubled country.

lose the thread
to stop understanding something someone says or something you are reading because it is too complicated or because you cannot concentrate When he started quoting Martin Luther King, I completely lost the thread of his argument.

pick up the threads of something
to try to start something again, especially after problems prevented you from continuing it In '97, I came out of prison and tried to pick up the threads of my life.




The Temple will reborn.

Threading

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Mysts Epilogue

Cancer waits patiently. Its essence is dormient for ages waiting for the right blood to insinuate its evil. But though seemingly small acts, we can make a difference. Our patient research. The unity of all our efforts. Our hope. These are the elements that can help our world to rid itself of this evil and realize a New Era without Cancer.

This story is real, a story of people who suffer, a story of people who struggle for a cure, and still the ending is not clear. If you wish THIS story to have a good ending. If you do NOT like the story we are living right now, then help us create a better one. Donate to the American Cancer Society and Relay for Life. Each and every single Linden has the chance to change the story, to rewrite our World. A World without Cancer.


(All the chapters of the story are still alive and playable one by one, come take the copy of the complete book at Enchanted Mysts and follow quests by chapter)


And another beautiful clip made by Rociel Fenua to keep as memory.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Mysts - Join Our Interactive Quests at Fantasy Faire

Dear Fantasy Lover,
Please join us to develop an Interactive story that will unfold day by day at the Fantasy Faire 2011. Daily a new chapter will appear with new possibilities and gifts to discover the realm of Enchanted Mysts and understand the Spirit of Relay for Life while you play and explore.
The Evolution of the Story will also depend on you, so come Help the Realm when you are asked for, you'll be richly rewarded.
The Quest started today, you can take a look at the first chapter in the pic below or come visit Enchanted Mysts and the Fantasy Faire 2011 to benefit Relay for Life and take a copy of the Book. ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/Enchanted%20Mysts/72/129/22)

We welcome you to our Story.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Enchanted Arboreals


As in the past years, am auctioning a special unique family pack of skins, in this case avatars, to benefit RFL.

About
With the purchase of this product you benefit the American Cancer society in the full price of the final auction bid. This is the most important part.
The second thing you should now is that is an absolutely unique edition of skins and outfits, that will be available only for one purchase, meaning you and your family will be granted a unique genetic look untill SL drops dead.

6 sets are available, 2 male, 2 female and 2 saplings, bonus eyes; sapling sets include also shape.
Hair on panel is not included.

I thank you for considering one of my creations and expecially for donating to research.
Kind regards,
Alia Baroque
Fallen Gods Inc.





Sunday, April 3, 2011

Enchanted

It became my favourite moment in the whole year, a moment of celebration, of care, of passion, of creativity, intense effort, friendship and amazement. Fun and charity, beauty and lag... the Fantasy Faire.
This Year I sponsor the Enchanted Mysts Sim and had the opportunity to also build it, I do hope you enjoy the peaceful environment of mysty noisy swampy grass shores.

And to benefit RFL, the Violet Edition of the just New released Faes goes to the American Cancer Society.

Get all the information you need about the Fantasy Faire and related informations on the American Cancer Society on the official Blog: http://fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com/

And more to come in this week of celebration...

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Fertile land grows under their feet.

Goddesses are back, fertile, voluptuos and tempting in goods and gloss. And they bring also Fortunes for the lucky in matches....
Yours,
Alia

Lucky fortunes are up, come try your chance at the Teller to win the Equilibrium skins.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Cataclysm

It's full body, it's tintable, it has different styles and has even a demo... Shall I say new full body tattoo just released?
Nah, that's too easy.
Yours,
Alia

...and do not miss to watch how the opening of the Nile went with this beautiful video made, on the price of many crashes, by Rociel Fenua. She gave us a wonderful surprise and memory to keep. Thanks again Rociel and to all that attended, and also...to all that are visiting the Nile. Enjoy your stay .

Saturday, February 19, 2011

The Birth of a Vision


The Events that leaded me to Ancient Avaris were fortuite, strong and immediate.
Sometimes just a piece of unterraformed land with a river can make you feel at Home even if there are still thousands of prims to build.... but visions strike unexpected.
So it came that months ago a wonderful person named Jesika leaded me to the Nile, a communion of mutual ideas, visions, personal knowledge and lifestyle leaded us to join forces: Me, by my builder hand and her and the Setite Clan with the ability to make it live and pulse.
Buildining the Nile was a struggle, stealing time from other obligations I have in Second Life, but the patience of the Clan was infinite and they waited for Me to find time and continue completing the Vision. Now I can say that the most is done even if, by My eyes and opinion, still a lot is missing.
The Nile will keep getting built and enriched, the Nile will keep evolving, but by now I can welcome you to our Vision of an Eclectic greco-roman decaying Ancient Egypt period encountering Vampire the Masquerade... where sand speaks, bugs caress and the flowing of the Nile is life, as the flowing of blood for the Setite Clan,
Have a wonderful stay,

Alia Baroque

SLURL to Ancient Avaris, The Nile

Grand Opening: February 19, 3pm SLT.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

When roses turn around dead men.

Yes, this time I made it double… Two Treasure Hunts running at Selidor, each special and separate, but with one thing in common: both feature two new tattoos as prize for hunters. The Legacy of Maul tattoo is available with the Dead Man’s Hand Hunt by Madpea (check the official blog here) by purchasing a Hud and following an adventure that will lead you through many stores till the final treasure room where you can find a bounty of goods, included a surprise, now freshly released just for the Hunt, by Fallen Gods Inc. The other Hunt is a free to participate one, created by Nature's Hunts (check official blog here) by the name of When Roses Turn Black Hunt, giving you the Thorns Redux Tattoo in black, for those that from long asked me an integration for the Thorn facial tattoo peculiar of one of the Dark Elves skins. Both welcome you in this month by tradition dedicated to Love and Insanity (Carnival), which seems as couple get always along well. Hope you enjoy hunting and new releases,

Yours,

Alia


And if you complete the Dead Man's Hand, this is what awaits you in the treasure room:

Silent Treats

Am not sure how many of you know that Selidor hides many surprises. Some are openly placed over the freebie desk or in the lucky chairs, but some are more silent, hidden and up to you to discover. Some treats include old time group gifts unavailable otherwise or particular creation made on purpose, as a few simple details I share over the Island. Good extended hunting.

Goddess teaser….

Interesting Facts: The Outfit, Tophat, worn in the Legacy of Maul Ad is part of RFyre Steam punk Outfits, this one for men, called Habitual Steam, check the blog entry here. The inspiring and unique pose used in the personal AD with the Couple is called Pearl Oyster Box, by Del May. Check her Flickr group here.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Fire Salamanders for "Extend a helping Hand"

Fire Salamanders are on sale for full benefit of the "Extend a helping hand" Cause. Visit the market and see a shopping friendly way to support this cause with many beautiful creations,
Yours,
Alia

More Informations: http://katjohnston.com/

Thursday, January 6, 2011

What's the News?

2011 Just started and I can't help than having a good vibe over it, for many SL related matters as personal ones. So, what's the News? Well the first one is that this year's first official creation is a Tribute to Gustave Doré, which you can get free in the "What's the News" Hunt. If you want to know more about this artist of which I am very fond of, check here the wiki general information, worth it. The tattoo layer is a theme I wished from long to create, the ability to add to avatars the hand drawn, painted or carved effect, now with the new tattoo layer is possible to work over the whole body so made my first try. Also added a few framed artworks by Dorè, hope you enjoy it.
(Gustave Doré works are not copyrighted, his work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or fewer.)

HINT: In the Temple, rows of books throw a shadow over an old box of memories where your news lay.

My Plans
I've been scribbling and planning over my agenda as I usually do, to set priorities over projects.It keeps always light and open to modifications, but basically I follow it during the year. In those past months I was much concerned with the overall progress of SL, marketing issues and many longterm completions of lines as the gods of Warfare. New great ways to improve avatar genetics presented themselves with v2 options as the tattoo and alpha layers, giving a huge way to improve skin making in second life. So for now on, except finalizing the New Goddesses very soon, will focus on ways to integrate the new layers with skins, old tattoos and body enchancements. Being able to have an additional layer over the head template is simply a whole new world, but finding useful ways to approach it will take me some time to test possibilities, I guess time will tell which are the best solutions. For now I can tell you I have many new lines on my flesh carving table shaking in chains for freedom to incarnate, hoping you will like their ways to be. To end I want to thank all of you for your wonderful support in all this years, but expecially in this taugh past one, your support is mainly one of the things that keeps me going on when SL becomes uncertain. Let's have an amazingly meshes and simlish 2011 together, I see you in our mad world,
Alia