Preview … of sorts ….
As it’s taken longer than expected to get the first chapter of my vampire story online, I thought I’d post a preview picture of one of the vampire trios that will be starring once it gets going. I took this picture because I needed it for set decoration (I then got carried away with making new pictures in SimPE!), but for the past few months I’ve been using a bigger version of it as desktop wallpaper (recently ousted in favour of Tahlvin from World’s Apart - see the links at the side). Meet the Maxwell family - from left to right we have Augustus (Gus), Julian and Constance:
Other than the fact that they’re siblings, and ancient, I won’t give away any further details just yet. I’ve also decided that a new sim I made for a contest at InSimenator will pop up as an extra of some sort, simply because he’s the first male sim I’ve made for ages that I’m really happy with:
His name’s Orlando Gray, and for the purposes of the contest I decided that he writes Gothic horror stories for a living. When I made him in Body Shop I hadn’t realised how good he’d look when he reached the highest fitness level 
All being well Chapter 1 will be online in a couple of weeks - I’ve just sent the latest batch of lads off to university in my royal kingdom neighbourhood, so I’m trying to keep everyone there up to date in between taking the pictures for the new story.
Happy Simming! 
EDIT: added some out-takes here -
Ah, so that’s what your vampire trio looks like! You mentioned them on my blog. The two guys are very hot. (Tahlvin feels very honored that he managed to take over your desktop for awhile.) I can’t wait to read about them! And, believe me, I know what it’s like to have a project take longer than you originally thought it would. haha!
Orlando is a yummy Sim! Don’t you love that hairstyle? One of my guys (whom you have yet to meet) wears it too. Oh, and his skin is amazing! Is that an Ephemera/Teru-K skin?
Comment by Kara — November 1, 2007 @ 10:59 pm
Hi Kara, thanks for visiting! Yes, that’s the trio I mentioned (there’s another trio as well, but the only pictures I have of them have been taken for the chapters). Tahlvin’s still looking gorgeous on my desktop
I’m glad I didn’t start to post the story as soon as I’d got Nightlife - I don’t think I could put up with too many blue vampires running around! Thank goodness someone made a hack that lets them keep their original skintones.
Thanks for commenting on Orlando
He’s just got engaged to his maid after a fling with Lisa Ramirez (wife of the furniture shop owner in Bluewater), so the female sims seem to like him as well 
That hair’s gorgeous, and I’m sure your sim will be when he’s introduced! The skin is an Ephemera/Teru-K - it’s the light one from the Simple Skin collection. I think I’ll be using it on quite a few of my male sims 
Comment by Tanya — November 2, 2007 @ 4:47 am