Monday, July 23, 2012

Maiden's Fancy Guild Hall

Name: Neversea
Location: Tier 1 Guild Hall - Halas
Server: Antonia Bayle
Decorator(s): Neversea and Lalayla Crimsonblade, Chromey with the help of a few others

I have been debating posting this project for many reasons during the past 3 weeks or so since it has been finalized, but I decided to go ahead and post it up. There were a lot of bumps along the road for this project, but somehow I made it through to complete it. At one point, I did think it was nearly impossible to complete.

Originally, I was going to just be doing one room at a time. One room over the course of a week, but, well, let's face it, I'm me and sometimes when I get my hands on a project I just can't stop decorating. It's a terrible habit sometimes. Anyway let's have a looksee!

A few weeks ago, I posted a preview of this guild hall in this thread: Sneak Preview

We've now fired the goblins and taken down their badly written signs!


Entrance

I tried to keep the basic look and feel of the fancy, but adding some touches and revising in order to cut down on item count, introduce some new items and give the place a fresher look and feel.



Make sure you sign the book!



Rack your weapon!



Have a seat if you just want to relax!



When you're done relaxing, take a look at our giant habitat! It includes a nice grassy place for mini-tigers (I think it involved gnomes or perhaps some sort of halfling prank in order to get them tiny) and a place for fishes and well, tigers like to swim!



Hang on a second, what's that in the back behind the tree?





We've left the top open, so that we can toss the halflings inside! Specifically the pranking ones.







Onward to the stage!



One of the key things we wanted to achieve with the stage, was to make it so that no matter where you stood in the room, you could always hear emotes and /say. We succeeded in doing this by making the room a bit smaller and putting in a rounded stage.





The stage took me a few days to come up with and put into place, but once I got going, I just kept on going.





We do still have the skyboxes, but I redesigned them. I connected the two and added in a more intricate railing. This of course means you have to share the boxes, but you've got your very own pillow!





The stage as viewed from the balcony.









Time to get drunk at the Fancy's bar!







Have a seat on one of our Crimsonblade custom sofas!







Or have a seat at the bar!





At the fancy, we make sure to provide all our patrons with the finest drinks.



And that's why the Fancy has invested in the Cocoa Bunny Corporations! Check out the newest model of the Cocoa Bunny!



Let's read over the instruction book before we make a cup of cocoa.





In the other section of the bar, you will find a portal hallway with several of the Fancy's extensions and the Manager's office! Complaints and pranks can be sent to Ernool and absolutely no one else!









Heheheh, let's make some odd doodles on Ernie's paperwork!



Gasp! It looks like someone else did it already!



Hmm, maybe there's a book on the bookcase we can draw in...



Hey, what's this?







Let's take a look at a few of the rooms that are usually not seen by our patrons!

The Dressing Room - designed by Chromey







The Pamper Room - Designed by Layla with some minor adjustments by me to lower item count and make the room flow with the rest of the hall.











Banking area - This saw only a minor change to lessen item count!



The travel area and garden - Designed by Chromey and untouched for this revamp as it was perfect as is, but it deserves seeing.







The Crafting Room - This room saw a minor facelift to give it a new look for our crafters and some simple revising to lower item count.







And there you have it, The Maiden's Fancy. Be sure to visit us on Thursday nights for the show!

Garden of Hope

Name: Gardenofhope
Location: Everfrost Summer Home - South Qeynos
Server: Antonia Bayle
Decorator(s): Neversea and Lalayla Crimsonblade
Housing Leader Board: TBD

Over a year ago, I decided to do a project that would span multiple prestige homes. I ran into a lot of issues in the beginning--not having time to dedicate to the project, not having a place for it nor the SC to purchase the needed prestige homes. I'm still struggling to find the time to complete the project and recently I've been struggling to find inspiration for any sort of decorating. But a few days ago, I decided to give it a go and at least get some walls up and something to start working.

I thought it best to show this project as it is built up to show the progress and the little details that will be put in place. I have around 3 or homes for this project, donated by various people in the EQ2 and Raven community, including the donation of a character slot for the homes.

This home was meant to be a memorial garden for the friends of the community that have been lost. This is not for characters that have died or been lost ICly, but for those friends who we have loss due to real life deaths. Each home will be an expansion of the garden and will have a few different themes and places for people to come, sit and remember those lost as we knew them.

I wanted to start with a Felwithe house that was kindly donated to the project, but I ran out of grass tiles to cover the floor, so I have some tinkering to do with that one in order to bring it to full life. So instead I started with the Everfrost Summer Home.

I do want to thank those people who have donated to the garden. I'm sorry, I don't remember everyone who has donated, but just know that I really appreciate the donations and I will somehow, eventually, get everything built and ready for people to come visit soon.

This is nowhere near finished, but here is the beginning of the Everfrost Summer Home, which I have decided to title as: The Midnight Garden


Entry










Side Rooms













I know it's not much yet. it's rather basic, but hopefully with the help of a couple of friends, we can build this place up to be something spectacular. It is currently closed to visitors, but as soon as it is open, I will post and people can come visit it!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Crimsonblade Dragon Pens

I'm having trouble deciding whether or not this house is finished. I don't think it needs anything more, but I only used 511 items out of 1100! Anyway take a look! I won't be posting this one to the leaderboards for a couple of days.

Name: Neversea
Location: Lavastorm Winter Home - South Qeynos
Server: Antonia Bayle
Decorator(s): Neversea and Lalayla Crimsonblade
Housing Leader Board: Crimsonblade Dragon Pens

Entrance



Onward to the Dragon Pens!





Dragon Pens







Wyvern pen, looks like a little one was really happy to see us!





Baby Dragon Pen. Awww..



Mamma and baby blue dragon



Caretaker's Loft with all a caretaker will need! Thank goodness for the wards that keep everything from being set on fire.



















The Hatchery with the Hatchery Tender, Bubbles.







Dragon Training Area



What better way to train dragons to fight than to motivate them with treasure!



A dragon's favorite treat, ice coated goblins!



Some dragons like to sleep outside









Wyvern warming rocks!





Oh! Looks like we caught one of the dragons about to set off on flight training! Wish him luck!