Engine Room: The Night Fliers

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STORYLINE: It was risky flying night time bombing runs over Berlin. Sure, the cover of night would protect the bombers but the bombs rarely landed on their intended industrial targets. Faced with this problem, Winston Churchill had an idea. He called the leader of his secret new ally for help, the Children of the Night. This is how the Crimson Bat rose to fame in the newly formed Vampire Nation. He had been a smuggler working in the Pacific with a stolen Zero, and now he was the leader of the Night Fliers, the fighter escort for the nocturnal Allied bombing raids.

This post was inspired by the Deiselpunk elements at the 2nd round of the Engine Room. This round is even larger than the first, and stuffed with amazing and creative quality items. Don’t miss it! The hat by Ungod comes in brown or black, with wrench emblem or not. The Bomber jacket by Krankhaus has fits for major bodies in both mainstream and anime styles. It has a hud to change the change the textures of many separate texture zones. To add a little more of a vampire twist to the outfit, I used the bat barrettes by Cae and earring by Supernatural like medals for a vampire airman. Lol The eyepatch is from the Military Girl gacha by Silvery K. The pants are a gacha from Riot, Bird of Prey. I wanted a unform looking top to go under the jacket, and found a great solution in the Perseo Space suit by L’Emporio&SL. Adding a bit more DieselPunk elements are the headphone by the forge and belt by Deathrow. The Gloves are by Contraption, and undersuit by Blue Falcon Industries. I had a very hard time finding a plane, thats how I ended up with a Zero instead of a B-17 Flying Fortress. HaroMotors has a lovely Zero with well made insides and outsides, and a very hud with many capabilities.

MAY 4 UPDATE: After a week of waiting, a dead monitor was confirmed to be problem. However the replacement monitor is defective. A new new-monitor will arrive May 13th. Meanwhile, here is my attempt to power-on despite the woe... Enjoy some DeiselPunk from the Engine Room! Its Half-time now, with new releases and gifts!

On him, The Crimson Bat of Night Fliers:
Hat: Ungod Iron Legion Cap [mesh] (Engine Room)(149L)
Jacket: Krankhaus Airman Jacket, Jake [mesh](Engine Room)(200L)
Top: L'Emporio&PL Perseo Space Suit, Black [mesh](430L)
Belt: Deathrow DRD Steampunk Belt [mesh](175L)
Headset: The Forge Aviator Headset steel, Head Units gacha [mesh](75L)
Bodysuit: Blue Falcon Industries Armored Undersuit, light (300L)
Medals: Cae Trick or Treat Barrettes - Set 1[mesh](325L)
Pants: RIOT Birds of Prey pants black, gacha [mesh](50L)
Eyepatch: Silvery K Military Girl(Eyepatch Silver)13, gacha [mesh](80L)
Gloves: ContraptioN Dapper Dandy's Gloves [mesh](350L)
Boots: Lapointe Bastchild L&B Swear "Drift Mesh" Leather Jacket Outfit - Mens [mesh]
Medal: Supernatural Natasha Septum Silver #6, gacha [mesh]
Medal: Supernatural Natasha Septum Silver #9, gacha [mesh]

Eyes: S0NG Sublime Eye, Vampire Eye [mesh](50L)
Eyeliner: Lovely Disarray The Guyliners : Slept in [BOM](110L)
Scar: Usagi Cafe Usagi Cafe hunt item #4 [BOM]

Hair: Action Hair Base 04 Veganic - Snow [BOM](107L)

Skin: Tableau Vivant Noctis skin - bald -Tone 01[BOM]
Mesh head: Raven Bell James, Bento [mesh] (2000L)
Body: Belleza Jake 2.0 Bento Mesh Body  [mesh](2999L)
Pose: [3M] standing2_m_001_1

Setting:
Plane: HaruMotors HM A6M2b-Kaga [mesh](2500L)

Location:
Tulagi Seaport & WWII Central [VICE]

The Immortal 500: White Knights

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STORYLINE: The Immortal 500 race was looming. According to tradition, the victor from the pervious year determined the rules for the next race. Excited rumors spread throughout the fractured Vampire Nation. Would the deposed tyrant and winner from last year, Kaiser Kruel, reemerge from the shadows to deliver his decree? He had been missing for some time. Anticipation and speculation for the event had reached a fever pitch when like the master showman, Kaiser returned to loud applause. He announced himself as leader of the newly formed United Americas. The crowd gasped. A new Nation? Kaiser was clearly enjoying himself. "All forms of transportation will be banished in the 2066 race. The race instead will be a relay. Hand to hand combat will be legal, and," he paused for dramatic effect, "...greatly encouraged." Representing his United Americas, was team White Knight. Their team leader was the infamous C.U.R.S.E.D Angel. who ripped a Battle Bot apart, limb by limb, with his bare-hands.

Are you tired of going to big events and finding nothing for guys, or nothing for girls? Wouldn't it be great to see an event that brings both girls and guys back together? Introducing new event, Epicene! This first round has a wonderful collection of quality new releases for everyone! Shown above is the new Dext hair by A&Y Cyberbunker on sale at Epicene. It comes in male or female, had a hud to change the colors on its many parts, and it also includes a scalp tattoo with TMP, Omega, and system layers.  From Boys to the Bone, is the ingenting crop blue with braille lettering. As with all BTTB wear, it includes a wide range of fits for girls, guys, and femboys too.  Also at Epicere is the Gutchi Galaxy Headphones. They are resizable, and come with a hud to change its textures.  Over at ROMP are they awesome Sporty Boy Pants by Swagga.  This is the American style football pant with padding under it. You can pick them up in white, black, and red. They are fitted nicely for the TMP male. Also by Swagga are the shoulder pads and headgear from gacha Digital Flyboy.  From Cureless is a fun gacha, Synthetic Angels, over at Epiphany. I used the Hale and Gevurah heads.  From the past round of The Gathering is the Nubian Collar by the Forge.  The helmet by Blue Falcon Industries I combined with the other headgear elements. Its mod, so I made the visor more transparent. On the belly are the Bionique implants by Bliensen + Maitai. The Razor Dread boots, are always handy. The skin is by Clef de Peau, and the TMP eyebrow is a gift you can pick up at the Aeros mainstore.  

(Update:  You can see part 2 of this storyline at the Dark Phantom blog)

On Him, Team United Americas, C.U.R.S.E.D Angel:
Hair: A&Y Cyber Bunker Dext Cyber Hair (Male) white, TMP applier [mesh] (Epicene)(320L)
Top: Boys To The Bone ingenting crop blue braille male [mesh] (Epicene)(250L)
Headphones: GUTCHI Galaxy Headphones [mesh] (Epicene)(450L)
Pants: SWaGGa Sporty Boy Pants - White (TMP) (ROMP)(249L)
Hands: CURELESS Synthetic Angels Gevurah Hands RARE, gacha [mesh](Epiphany)(75L)
Halo: CURELESS Synthetic Angels Seraph Halo PURE, gacha [mesh](Epiphany)(75L)
Collar: The Forge Nubian Collar - Black, gacha [mesh](The Gathering)(50L)
Headgear: SWaGGa Flyboy Headgear v2 RARE, Digital Flyboy gacha [mesh](50L)
Chest Pads: SWaGGa Flyboy Pads white/silver, gacha [mesh](50L)
Helmet: Blue Falcon Industries =BFI// Viper Helmet - Male Fit V1.2 [mesh](500L)
Implants: Bliensen + MaiTai Bionique - Implant - White [mesh](299L)
Boots: Razor Dread Boots - Mens [mesh](599L)
Brow applier: Aeros Brows Thick and Straight basic five TMP (free)
Face Applier: Clef de Peau Robin T1 (500L)
Skin Applier: Clef de Peau Body Soft:T1 TMP Appliers (500L)
Head: TheMeshProject (BETA) Head(m) - Anime (Deluxe) [mesh](5000L)
Body: TheMeshProject (BETA) Deluxe Body [mesh](5000L)
Pose: Nicotine ~N~ RuthlessTigerTechnique4 (no longer available)

Surfing with the Alien

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Back at the beginning of August, I was invited by Style Kingdom's editor Dougie Boxen to take part in their Vol. 9 Challenge: Heroes and Villains. Entrants were to choose a comic book hero and create two looks: A hero outfit and an off duty look. Can you guess what I picked? lol I thought a long time about who would I portray. Which one spoke to me? Which inspired the most possibilities? Because this is a fashion magazine and a style challenge, I had the idea to develop two completely re-imagined looks using readily available items in SL. My goals in the style were: Elegant, Noble, Futuristic, ... and oh yeah, monotone colors white, grey, and black. After I sent my style shot in, and waited nervously for the results, it turned out I was one of two people who won the challenge! Woot! I feel like I just joined the Major Leagues. After that was the real photoshoot for each outfit, and this was much more time intensive that my normal blog shots because of the demands of the magazine format. It was a really cool challenge and I enjoyed it. Thanks to Dougie for inviting me. The final issue had a switch in concept from Heroes to Everyday SL. I admit, I'm curious about the other hero shots, I want see! But it was fun to go through the issue with a friend, and see if we could recognize any the heroes hiding below their secret identities. lol. I also enjoyed seeing all these badass looking ladies and sexy secretaries. Overall, great issue with beautiful pictures.  Check it out: Style Kingdom vol.9  If you're looking for me, my name got a mention on the cover and you can find my picture on page 8/9.  The pictures I'm showing in this post aren't in the issue, but I thought it would be cool to share my Hero image above, and two of my unretouched captures that I submitted for the challenge.

A few details about the the outfit above. Almost all the designers I chose from were at the FutureWave event for the simple reason that these stores are making original mesh design. I'm delighted that they got a spot in a more mainstream fashion magazine. Scifi original content makers need some loves too. The Helmet is by Blue Falcon Industries. You can switch the face shield between many different textures, I liked the white bright cyber one for my shot here. The system layers bodysuit is also by Blue Falcon Industries and comes with both white and black versions. The arm warmers by Razor come with a default hands fit and a Slink. (love that!) The texture hud will let you switch around the colors and textures. Because I really don't like sharp end between a system layer bodysuit and the neck, I added the Cyber Neck Corset by FK!Designs. Over the top is the Konvert Turtle Neck by VRSION. The boots are by A&Y Cyber Bunker. They used to be only for the girls, but no more! Yes you can get these in rigged fitted mesh for the guys! The hud that comes with it will let you play and switch around the colors too. Very nice. On the hands, I used the latex glove applier by Adam n Eve,

Hero Outfit:
Helmet: Blue Falcon Industries Viper Helmet - Male Fit V1.2 [mesh](500L)
Tanktop: VRSION KONVERT Turtle Neck [mesh](250L)
Arm Warmers: Razor Foe Gloves Fatal - Mens - Slink with hud [mesh](249L)
Hands: Slink Male Hands [mesh] (450L each)
Glove Applier: Adam n Eve latex glove (150L)
Neck Corset: FK! Designs Cyber Neck Corset - Male - White & Silver [mesh](250L)
Bodysuit: Blue Falcon Industries Armored Undersuit (300L)
Boots: A&Y Cyber Bunker Deuz Boots Metallic Male black [fitted mesh](690L)
Eyes: By Snow Citadel Eyes [mesh] (200L)
Skin: Tableau Vivant Nathan - tone 14 (990L)
Hoverboard: BareRose Metal Board (current raffle, free) [mesh]

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The full outfit for the image above you can see in the  Style Kingdom vol.9 issue. The Unsung top, vest, sleeves all work together seamlessly and have a very cool unique look. The pants by VRSION came included with the Konvert Male Boots. The folds between Unsung and VRSION work really nicely together. The Adventure Boots by Rab Labs are fitted mesh, so its simple matter to edit the shape and get the boots to fit over the pants. Love that!  The animating Citadel Eyes are By Snow. They echo wonderfully with the helmet. All the colors are changeable too.  The Nathan 14 skin texture is one of my favorites by Tableau Vivant. It has a wonderful silvery shimmer to it. truly unique. The fun hoverboard is a raffle prize from BareRose. You wear it and it will trigger a hovering animation. It's still available in the raffle if you want to camp out and win it.

Off Duty Outfit:
(to see entire outfit and magazine photo, go to Style Kingdom vol.9)
Helmet: Blue Falcon Industries Viper Helmet - Male Fit V1.2 [mesh](500L)
Vest: Unsung Angelus Jacket - Black/Black/Black [mesh](400L)
Jacket: Unsung Angelus Vest - Plain - Grey [mesh](275L)
Sleeve, Glove: Unsung Angelus Sleeves Black, Gloves Grey [mesh](190L)
Pants: VRSION KONVERT - Male boots (includes PANTS) [mesh](260L)
Boots: Rab Labs Adventure Boots White [fitted mesh](395L)
Eyes: By Snow Citadel Eyes [mesh] (200L)
Skin: Tableau Vivant Nathan - tone 14 (990L)
Hoverboard: BareRose Metal Board (current raffle, free) [mesh]

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FutureWave: Eden Rescue

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STORYLINE: By the time he had given up all hope of finding the Lost Eden, his skin had bleached pure white from lack of blood. He was ready to die. His dust would become a part of this barren world. But then a strange android wearing cat ears suddenly showed up. She belonged to the Lord of the North. She could not speak, but he could tell she was special, like an intelligence was behind her actions. She showed him an image of where the Lost Eden was being held captive. Ah-ha! The reason he could not find her, was because she not on Mars at all, but in orbit above it! The Lord of South had no idea what kind of violence a starving vampire was capable of, he wasted no time launching an attack. During the battle, the terrified Eden made a desperate attempt to escape. She was shot in the leg, slipped, and fell off the platform into the vacuum of space. He shrieked and dove after her.

Update: FutureWave has been a great success. It is now closed, and plans are being made already for it to inspire our visions of the future next year!

I am wearing new additions to FutureWave by Unsung. The crown, jaw, and chest plate all come in either white, black and white, or black. There several material zones you can tint different colors. Each mesh piece you edit for a good fit. One of the newest items said male/female but I want to explain it's for a specific character. However, if you have a male on female shape avatar, it should work. My eyes are a wonderful new creation By Snow. It's a contact lens that fits over your eye. There are layers of animations you can tint different colors. Very cool and only 25L. While you are there, don't miss the free gold Circuit nails. Going with my bleached theme, is the wonderful new skin by Tableau Vivant available at the Fantasy Collective. All four skins for sale there are fantastic colors, like the greatest hits from T.V.'s fantasy line, but updated for the new Kevin line. This cool eyebrow by Nuuna is so goth, so Siouxsie Sioux. I've been dying to use it for while now and finally got my chance. It's tricky to make the top brow nice and smooth, you may need to tweak your head shape and brow shape to wear it. The blood and bruises are by Lovely Disarray. They show up so nice on a pale white skin. Love it. Items I am wearing once more for the FutureWave finale are: the Epia group gift arm band, gorgeous hair by Argrace, free halo by Amelie Barbour, the white version of the Blue Falcon undersuit, grey version of the Miamai Tinker Taylor boot, the Vrsion glove, and the neck corset for men by Etchaflesh, and bleached a snowy white Death Row Devine wings.

Fulli is wearing 3 awesome things for girls from FutureWave.  Pink Fuel has an Alabaster skin with strong dark brow, several makeups, and appliers. MV's Frozen Shadenfreude Skirt has a wonderfully detailed texture, and it works great with the new Graves outfit Velocity. Both outfits come in multiple colors. Her hair is the spunky style Cookie by Wasabi Pills, and this pose is by F*cking Ninjas. For blog purposes, I flipped Fulli around in this pose facing forward. I hope you all enjoyed the phototelling series for FutureWave. We worked very hard to do so much in so very little time.

On Him, the Cursed A.N.G.E.L.:

Jaw: Unsung Mechabone Jaw - White [mesh] (FutureWave)(400L)
Armor: Unsung MechaBone Chest - Mens White [mesh] (FutureWave)(300L)

Headband: Unsung Mechabone Crown - White [mesh] (FutureWave)(400L)

Headdress: Amelie Barbour Concentric Halo [mesh] (FutureWave) (free)

Top, Pant, Gloves: Blue Falcon Industries Armored Undersuit - LIGHT (FutureWave)(300L)

Boots: Miamai Tinker Taylor boots - Glare Ceremony [mesh] (FutureWave)(300L)
Eyes: By Snow Radar Contacts with hud [mesh](FutureWave)(25L)
Gloves: Vrsion KONVERT 2.1 Male Glove [mesh] (FutureWave) (200L)
Wings: Death Row Designs Devine wings/glow - light [mesh] (100L)

Neck corset: Etchaflesh Male Zip Me Up Neck Corset [mesh] (150L)

Hair: Argrace ARATA - White [mesh] (250L)

Tattoo Brow: Nuuna Emi makeup - blue (100L)
Tattoo Bruise: Lovely Disarray Vital Hostility with Heavy Bruise (150L)

Skin: Tableau Vivant Kevin Skin - Dark Creatures - 3 (Fantasy Collective)(399L)
Armband: Epia Symbol Armband [mesh] (group gift)(free)

On Her, Lost Eden:

Skin: Pink Fuel Sora <Alabaster> - Lt. Smoke (FutureWave) (1000L)

Skirt: {MV} Shadenfreude Skirt - Frozen [mesh] (FutureWave)  (250L)

Top, amor: Graves Velocity  clear (FutureWave) (590L)
Hair: Wasabi Pills  Cookie Mesh Hair - Night shadow [mesh] (250L)
Pose: F*cking Ninjas Man Overboard (2 Person) Pose (edit)(50L)

Setting:
House: Fanatik Sky Tower [mesh] (3800L)

Thanks for your help Fulli!

FutureWave: A Vampire's Fate 2065

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STORYLINE: He was an A.N.G.E.L., part of an elite force of guardians protecting the Eden, people who were free from all genetic engineering and cyberization. These untainted people were the most valuable things on Earth. His job was an extremely dangerous one. But his motives for doing it were not exactly noble. You see, he was just protecting his food supply. Good old fashioned humans were a rare thing in 2065. A vampire can't live on a cyborg's "transistor fluid," or bite the neck of a disgusting horseshoe crab blueblood freak either. The blood needed to be pure human, not glow-in-the-dark human jellyfish juice.

The awesome folks at Cursed have brought to you a new event, FutureWave with the goal of showing designers' own vision of the future. The results are amazing with many different styles of the future, and even some retro! The sim is a cool cyber city in the sky in black and cyan. Club Gothika mobile unit has moved to the cyber city it's DJs of Goth will be there rocking your moonboots.

Wednesday 2/19: 8-10pm SLT – Lokii Violet (Wednesday Night Spiral)
Wednesday 2/19: 10pm-midnight – Bronxelf (The Wednesday Night Darkwave)
Thursday 2/20: 2-4pm SLT -Cruel Britannia (Gothika After Hours)
Thursday 2/20: 10pm- midnight – Bronxelf (The Thursday Night Apocalypse)
Friday 2/21: 8-10pm – Lokii Violet (Friday Night Spiral)
Sunday 2/23: 8-10pm – Pie Zipper (Sunday Night Pie.)

Not only were the designers challenged to show their vision of the figure, but the Cursed team challenged us bloggers too! This post shows my thoughts about what would happen to a vampire in the future.

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STORYLINE: He was on his way to escort an Eden to a new safehouse when a Bounty Hunteress, dressed like a A.N.G.E.L., got the jump on him. (To see this storyline from the Bounty Huntress' point of view, go to Aarya's Dark Phantom blog. She has great coverage on FutureWave for the girls. It was fun to team up once more on an event, Blogger Powers Activate! -^)

To appreciate this outfit you have to see the moving parts. The Devine wings by Death Row flap. They can be turned on or off as well as adjust the speed. Tempest Dragons by DiGi circle around you and you can tint them whatever color you like. The halo animates too and is part of a cyber angel set by Amelie Barbour that's completely free! Don't miss the also cool cyber typing effect by Amelie Barbour, it's free too.  My mask is from the Blue Falcon gacha. Very cool and only 50L a spin. The jaw attachment is by Death row and comes in several colors: mono, bluesteel, toxic, and steel. The outfit by Blue Falcon Industries is actually system clothing layers, but it's so nicely made and even works on male and female! I like it a lot! The Tinker Taylor boots are by Miamai. There are two base styles, one clean like I wearing above, and one with straps and gold buckles. When you wear these boots you need to make your leg muscle standard size medium or lower. I am wearing the WarmIndustrialWristBracer by STONE Baubles for Men from Final Fantasy Fest once more. It just comes in so handy, and I could tint the metal parts to give it a cyber look. The skull gloves are by A:S:S and come in full length and fingerless. My Galaxy nails are amazing. They're by Beautiful Freaks. I will be wearing them a lot because they look so cool, and work great for men and black gloves. On my arm is group gift armband by Epia. It has hud that changes colors, emblems, and resizes. You can also edit tint. My Cyro Hair is by A&Y Cyber Bunker. It comes with a hud that lets you customize your cords and falls with a huge selection of textures! I am wearing a rigged mesh neck corset by Etchaflesh for men! Looks badass ... Hurry to FutureWave! It closes on Feb 23rd.

On Him, the Cursed A.N.G.E.L.:

Mask 1: Blue Falcon Industries SkullMask - White Gacha [mesh] (FutureWave)(50L)

Mask 2: Death Row Designs Cybermask - bluesteel [mesh] (FutureWave)(100L)
Wings: Death Row Designs Devine wings/glow - toxic veins [mesh] (FutureWave)(100L)
Spine: Death Row Designs Spine Centipede (edit tint) [mesh] (FutureWave)(100L)

Headdress: Amelie Barbour Concentric Halo [mesh] (FutureWave) (free)

Top, Pant, Gloves: Blue Falcon Industries Armored Undersuit - DARK (FutureWave)(300L)

Boots: Miamai Tinker Taylor boots - Dark Ceremony [mesh] (FutureWave)(300L)

Arm wrap: STONE Baubles for Men WarmIndustrialWristBracer (edit tint)[mesh] (Final Fantasy Fest)(145L)

Neck corset: Etchaflesh Male Zip Me Up Neck Corset [mesh] (150L)
Hair: A&Y Cyber Bunker Cyro Hair - multicolor [mesh] (550L)

Nails: Beautiful Freaks BF Nails - Galaxy (FutureWave) (255L)

Gloves: A:S:S Slink glove appliers -  Skull black & white (115L)
Hands: Slink Male Hands Relax [mesh] (450L)
Pets: DiGi Gridwear S2 - Tempest Core (29L)

Armband: Epia Symbol Armband [mesh] (group gift)(free)
Pose: Hot Dive pose dive (30L)

On Her, Bounty Huntress:
See the Dark Phantom blog

Location: 
Insilco Cyberspace
Thanks for your help Aarya!