Give Feedback
About this image
Notice
This user's image description contains 19 images. Some authors like to showcase more of their work in their image descriptions or use the image description to provide a storyboard for the image provided.
You will need to be logged in before you can see this user's image description.
40 comments
I'm Working on TEP019 right now to possibly bring a hint of some closure to the TEP series and then we'll be going full force on Two in the Bush some more.
Curious, in the middle section, why does the narrative switch to third person then back? Is that a device to show that Mona "separates" herself during violence?
I knew that if I did describe the scene I would get bogged down in describing and detailing it. That's not a bad thing, but the battle itself wasn't meant to be the focus. You know me, I'm not going to puff up my character either if I can help it. I'd rather let the reader eventually say "Whoa, the two of them took on at least a dozen experienced Legion soldiers and limped away from it intact!" than go on about how tough, smart, or skilled anyone is - anybody can do that and many people overdo that. Reading about some invincible war machine that never loses and can't be hurt is boring.
I went a little off-tangent there, but it's related. I will be using third person again in this series as sometimes the subject won't be Ramona or knowing the story from her personal perspective would reveal too much too soon.
That was an excellent question, I hope I gave an adequate answer. Thanks TC!
At first I thought you switched to Niners perspective, but then some of the verbiage cancelled that notion. Then I thought maybe it was written by MM in Ve's perspective, but then I remembered you wrote it. However, in away, I guess that is sorta close to "Ramona can potentially see the world through Vedette's eyes and maybe Vedette has the ability to know the world as Ramona perceives it, read her thoughts". So I suppose in an indirect way I was kinda close.
There's a story in how that scene ended up being shot, but I don't want to take the telling of it away from Miss Morose if she wants to tell it as it was truly her adventure and brilliance that made it what it came out as as you see it here.
Glad you liked it, thanks for reading it of course, and the kind words.
I just used the setfog command like crazy, then tinkered with the ENB until you actually see what was happening. I should have used the GECK to place actual smoke down, but I try an' avoid the GECK like the plague. ^^;
I remember making a test esp that put smoke and even the Dead Money cloud in Goodsprings just to see what they looked like.
The setfog command was easier and had less AO issues.
Yeah, the true intent of "Moaner" is to be a textual/verbal representation of "Mona" with Niner's accent. Pulling off a double entendre without being suggestive or going into adult content territory was icing on the cake.
I agree, astounding is a good word for the images. Quite a few assets were customized for this story, but I don't want to get too into it, hoping maybe we can get the great and powerful one herself to talk about them.
It was fun making the skins to go along with the wounds/grime described in the story, and much easier to try to make something when you already have a mental image of what it's supposed to look like, rather than just messing around with it for however long until it looks nice-ish.
You really set her an emotional point Brig, the friendship between Vedette and Ramona has made me cry a lil' bit. Also the friendship between Niner and Ve is a matter of his own.
But you're by far my favourite storyteller ( not my only favourite ), and also the pics are amazing.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
Friends and family are where it's at, they make days more worth getting up for and they help provide direction in where to focus one's energy. On top of that, there's the old phrase "you never know what you've got until it's gone" and Ramona has learned the meaning of that often. She doesn't want to learn it again.
Thank you for your kind words, I have many favorites too and am glad I get to know you and the others that post. We have an awesome little community here.
Thanks for taking the time to look and read and sharing your own work.
Aww - this really made my eyes moist. So sweet
Working on team projects is different in that I develop everything on "paper" first, all thoughts, details, and ideas are refined and fairly final when I hand it over along with thoughts and suggestions on what I imagine things will look like or locations and outfits and whatnot and then let Miss Morose work her magic.
This way I'm not limited by my preconceptions of what is mechanically possible to capture and I can change details at any time I want without having to reshoot anything and THAT is amazingly liberating. Normally laziness would dictate that a scene stays as it was originally conceived because I couldn't be bothered to do it all over again if I even had the ability to.
everything about it is perfect.
thank u for this lovely moment!!