Inspiration

((Another entry for Silver Night's Tier 3 Battlecruiser Contest ))

Inspiration

Virkold collapsed onto the couch with an exhausted sigh. He nearly fell asleep at that very instant, but he knew he didn't have time. He had to get back to work. Just enough of a break for dinner with the family...

His wife stepped into the doorway, drying off a plate with a dingy towel. “Honey. You can't keep working like this.”

“Nhh. Sure I can. Somehow.” His wife just frowned. “Ancestors will give me... ss...”

“...Honey?” Virkold jolted in his seat.

“I'm awake! I can work!” He blinked around absently before refocusing on his wife.

“Is this secret project really that important? Egbendik knows how hard you're working...”

Virkold leaned his head back against the couch, letting his eyes roll up to look at the ceiling. He tried to picture it in his head. An Amarrian ship with eight of those monstrous lasers cannons. Darting about through space, nimbly dodging around Minmatar battleships as it melted them to pieces. He gritted his teeth.

“Yeah. It's important.”

“Harjolf! Careful!” Virkold glanced up as Harjolf, their eight-year old son rushed into the room. He held two ships in his hands and swooped them through the air.

“Pew pew pew! KABOOM!” The boy tossed the Caldari Drake toy into the air, sending it on a wild spin down to the floor where it bounced across the carpet and against an old storage box in the corner. Luckily, it was as resilient as it's namesake. “Yeah! The Gallente win!” Harjolf danced about with the one remaining battlecruiser toy in his hand. Virkold laughed lightly and let his head fall back against the couch again.

Virkold's wife smiled, setting down the plate and rag on an end table before kneeling beside Harjolf. “Harjolf, you know that's not how it flies...”

Virkold blinked at the ceiling, then looked to his wife and son. He stared at the toy.

“You've got it upside down.”

Virkold's eyes widened.

“And backwards too.”

Virkold's eyes grew as wide as saucers.

“I know, momma... but this is how it looks cool!”

“YES! THAT'S PERFECT!”

Virkold leaped up from the couch as he shouted, startling the two.

“...I GOTTA GO.”

Mentor, Muse

(( Written for Silver Night's Tier 3 Battlecruiser contest  ))

Mentor, Muse
The young Amarrian engineer ran his fingers over those long graceful curves.  He took a short, sharp breath.  He let his eyes drift closed in the dark.  That body...

The lights clicked on in the design room.  The engineer's eyes snapped open anxiously and he leaped back from the holographic design console.  Parud Vakirokiki stood at the doorway, fingers still hovering over the light control.  “...Working late again.  How admirable.  It's good to see such noble dedication in your generation.”

“That's... yes.”  The engineer quickly grabbed up a handkerchief from his work stand and dabbed at his forehead, trying to compose himself.  His efforts were a failure as Parud stepped in, and a tall, elegant woman in simple robes followed her.  The engineer locked eyes with her for but a moment.  She was gorgeous, as always.  Her robes hung loosely, completely concealing, but it only sparked his imagination harder.

“Oh my...” Parud's voice thankfully broke the engineer's concentration.  His eyes darted to her as he dabbed his brow again. 

“Wh-What?  What...”

“Alara had been telling me you were by far her greatest student, but... I was not sure I believed it until now.”  The engineer's eyes slowly drifted back to the lovely robed woman.  She smiled softly, bowing her head.  Everything he knew, she had taught him.  All of his skill, his talent, he owed it all to her.

But it was more than that.  His drive, his inspiration...  His muse...

Parud stepped past the engineer and up to the console where the holographic image of a tall, curved ship floated elegantly.  Statistics scrolled idly past beneath the projection.  They were stunning... 8 turret mounts, and enough generators and reinforcing to load weapons meant for the finest battleships in the Imperial Navy.  The young engineer stepped around to the side of the console.  He glanced down to his worknotes.

Tall
Curvacious Curved
Delicate
Flexible Adaptable

He gently flipped the leather-bound notebook closed.

“Magnificent.  This... What do you call it?”  Parud turned to the engineer.

“A-Ah... I, um...”  He stumbled over his words, before his eyes raised to his teacher, standing simply.  When the Lord created her, he had perfection in mind.  He had only done his best to create his own sad immitation of his teacher.  “Mentor...”

Parud frowned.  “No.  That won't do.”  The engineer blinked, turning back to her suddenly.

“No?  What?”

“I have seen the defeat of our enemies.  This ship is the Oracle that has shown me. The Oracle.”  The engineer stood stunned.  “I must take the plans to The Empress immediately.”  She tapped a few buttons on the console and the hologram blinked out.  Parud withdrew a small disc from the machine and immediately turned, marching towards the door once again.  “Your skill is a testament to the Empire.”

“...But...”

Alara paused, smiled softly to the engineer, and followed Parud Vakirokiki from the room.

Mad

I am mad tonight, EVE.  I hope you're happy.

Hey you crazy Sebiestor, what've you been up to?

Long time, no post!  Maybe you've been wondering why there hasn't been anything here recently.  Well, I'll tell you:  School work.  This semester is kicking my butt, along with all my non-EVE related side projects!  But I'm not GONE, not by a long shot.  Here's a list of things I've accomplished...

-Learned to use my first T2 guns (No really, I'm not joking)
-Made lots of new awesome friends in the New Eden Racing Association
-Won over 100 million isk racing (See link above)
-Overcame my fear of training skills I'm not remapped for

See?  And you all thought I was being lazy.  I even have my To Do List to get done:

-Finish prepping for Season 2.0 of NERA
-Get to MEDIUM T2 guns (Still not kidding here folks)
-Train Logistics for Incursions so I can stop whining about needing money
-Make money
-Doodle more outfits
-AND MUCH MUCH MORE

So stayed tuned, my pretties!  And your little dogs too!
~Alta♥

NE-RA

So!  Last Sunday I had the chance to get involved with the New Eden Racing Association.  And get involved I did!  If you've been looking for something fun to do in EVE that's wild and out of the ordinary, I can't suggest the NE-RA enough.

So let me give you my fast sum-up of racing.  Basically, at the start of a race, the organizer announces a password for the race, and a location (So, Gablukdababaduh X Asteroid belt II).  The participants race to that spot, where a secure container is.  You fly to the container and unlock it using the password, wait for it to load (Which can sometimes take 30 seconds or more).  Once the container opens, it contains the location of the next waypoint, and you rush off.  It sounds simple, but the combination of zooming to the point, and then stopping/slowing into the 2500m area in which you can open the container, all while others are doing the same is actually a blast.  Oh, and all the waypoints are in lowsec for added danger!

Anyways, there's different classes to race in (Frigates, AF, Interceptors), and people have assembled teams and everything.  This season is wrapping up, so it's a little late to try and earn top spots, but there's still two races left!  Everyone should come out and give it a try.  It'll give you a chance to enjoy it and get a feel for it before the next seasons starts.  All the racers are really friendly and want more competition!  So move your asses people!

If you have any questions about racing or the league, feel free to get into contact with me via this blog, or in EVE!  Or, if you'd like to find a more experienced advisor, you can post on their forums, or join the NERA Academy channel in game.  And, the rules are here!

Hope to see you on the track!  I'll have more fashions for you lovelies soon!
~Alta♥

Sadistic Spiral

So, it's been awhile since I've posted!  I've been busy busy busy, what with Uni starting up, earthquakes, health issues, car trouble, hurricanes, and FASHION!  I just completed my first outfit design for someone else's uses, and I must say, it was a lot of fun!  With that being said, I figured I might as well walk you through a bit of my design process.
Sakura Imoru sent me this information to start from:

"As you can see from her EvElopedia-Entry and her Blog Sakura has quite a history. What it doesn't mention though is that during the last months Sak became kind of corrupted living in that decadent and hedonistic world of the Empire herself.

She has started to collect slaves of Amarrian origin (preferring former holders or people who worked for them) and has taken her hunger for vengeance on a more personal level, treating them like shit and stuff (She has become quite a sadist, her slaves only recieve some love from her when they accept being Sakura's animals/pets, abandoning their humanity as seen in the blog). Her looks should somehow show all of this... being head of a Khanid house herself as well as her hatred for everything Amarr and her (kind of new/awakened) sadistic nature."

So, this was very different from the outfits I usually work on, which are just random ideas that I try to turn into 'omg it looks cool!'.  Also, I was supposed to be going to sleep, but my brain started to churn ideas around, and I finally had to drag my laptop back over to my desk and start to pour some of those creative juices out.  I wound up with this:

 

I think my mouse must've been dying or I had too much Coke, because those jittery lines still make me wince.  Anyhow, Sakura liked the basic idea of the dress, but had some tweaks.  Shorter skirt!  Longer gloves!  Kinky boots!  Also, we had a discussion about the 'missing' spiral of fabric around the dress (Yes, it's one long slit that wraps around!), and the decision was made to have it show more, but use transparent fabric.  I hear and obey!

 

With the main layout of the dress pretty much set, Sakura just wanted something to make the gloves and shoulders pop a little more.  I made like a Final Fantasy character designer and added buckles to everything!

 

We were both pretty happy with the design at this point, but Sakura was hoping for a front & back view, and I was eager to get the chance to redo those ugly lines, as well as put some more polish on the image.  We agreed on a new template to use, courtesy of  Dualmask of DeviantArt.

Ultimately, a lot of time passed, I worked really slow, and then this is what I had after the dust cleared:

Click for full view

That right sleeve on the rear view still bugs me, but I was pretty sure I could redraw it a thousand times and never be happy with it, so I left it as is.  Other than that, I couldn't be more pleased with the results.  This is easily the most work I've put into an outfit, and I'm very glad it seems to show.

Anyway, if you'd like to work on an outfit with me, drop me an email!  I can't make any promises, since it's just for fun on my end, and I have real life to fend off too, but we'll see what we can work out.  Later loves!

~Alta♥

A Few Outfits to Welcome You!

What better way to open a closet than with CLOTHING?!  These are just a few misc. outfits in Alta's closet.

This 'Shark Attack Victim' is actually one of my favorites... I guess I'd have to figure out what sort of large creature to name it after if I was going to use it in EVE.

Then I have a crowd favorite, which I actually designed before I played EVE.  I named it 'Industrial Hazard', but in EVE, it quickly became the 'Barrage Dress'

Anyhow, just a sampling I'd put together over the last couple days!  I hope you enjoy, and welcome to the blog!

~Alta♥