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[doe1971]

Anyway, Triss seems a bit bored by the procedure. I think she deserves some extra punishment, for example a nice stake out spreadeagled under the desert sun.

Good ideea.

 

[logan222]

I always loved these before and after pictures by Vicar. Especially the girls who have had their tits enlarged...

 

[doe1971]

By the way, JD, you know how much I like those full frontal central perspective views many consider boring... any chance for a full frontal head to toes view of Ciri (or Yen, or Triss) walking in the yoke?

I thought about using an older things with a required angle, then I went making a whole new posing scene, from scratch. Hope that makes you happy and also fits nicely in the story.

Before starting the long desert march, on the outskirts of the city the slavers check every chain, every yoke to ensure they are in good shape. There will be no blacksmiths in the desert all the way to the Ophirian capital

 

[Lord Ludwig]

I thought about using an older things with a required angle, then I went making a whole new posing scene, from scratch. Hope that makes you happy and also fits nicely in the story.

Before starting the long desert march, on the outskirts of the city the slavers check every chain, every yoke to ensure they are in good shape. There will be no blacksmiths in the desert all the way to the Ophirian capital

Happiness is a fleeting and elusive state, the most fortunate among us will experience it maybe five or six times in a lifetime, and always for just a few minutes. The more one thinks about how one wants and deserves happiness, the more unhappiness becomes likely.

But your works always are a bright spark even in the dullest days.

All that said, it's a much richer and more complex picture than what I had in mind. I thought of a solo picture of Ciri (or Yen, or Triss) walking while yoked in the desert. Something like this crop, but with an exhausted look on her face, only sand around, maybe the burning sun in the sky.

 

[Baron Von Sade]

End of the day, most of the slaves are sent to the pens except for three considered the laggards of the day.

Beautiful!

 

[doe1971]

Happiness is a fleeting and elusive state, the most fortunate among us will experience it maybe five or six times in a lifetime, and always for just a few minutes. The more one thinks about how one wants and deserves happiness, the more unhappiness becomes likely.

Depends how you define hapiness, I guess. If you go with the clinical explanation, the elevated amount of feel-good endomorphins in the brain at least a standard devation over the baseline (that's 67% elevation) you can attain that state every time you ejaculate or do crack, nothing very special. If you go higher on the Maslow pyramid, yeah, it's getting rarer. How can you make trully happy someone like Jeff Bezos?

As for the marching one, sure, I can take another angle. Stay tuned.

 

[Lord Ludwig]

Depends how you define hapiness, I guess. If you go with the clinical explanation, the elevated amount of feel-good endomorphins in the brain at least a standard devation over the baseline (that's 67% elevation) you can attain that state every time you ejaculate or do crack, nothing very special. If you go higher on the Maslow pyramid, yeah, it's getting rarer. How can you make trully happy someone like Jeff Bezos?

As for the marching one, sure, I can take another angle. Stay tuned.

Well, Bezos could try the St Francis way: giving away his wealth to the poor. Or to me.

More seriously, I think in languages derived from latin means something rarer and more powerful than what is usually intended in English with happiness. Not the joy of finding an empty parking space, but rather a blissful feeling of completeness akin to what Faust was looking for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicitas

That aside, it's not so much about angles, the angle is fine. It's about having just Ciri (or Yen, or Triss) walking in the desert, clearly exhausted but still trying to keep a proud attitude, in a full frontal central view. Of course it is no way a high priority for me, if you prefer to work on the stakeout or whatever.

 

[wulf]

I thought about using an older things with a required angle, then I went making a whole new posing scene, from scratch. Hope that makes you happy and also fits nicely in the story.

Before starting the long desert march, on the outskirts of the city the slavers check every chain, every yoke to ensure they are in good shape. There will be no blacksmiths in the desert all the way to the Ophirian capital

I'm curious about why that one slave is blindfolded. Giving the guards dirty looks perhaps?

 

[Lord Ludwig]

I'm curious about why that one slave is blindfolded. Giving the guards dirty looks perhaps?

You're not paying attention, Wulf

You even put a like on the message in which, a few days back, I said: "That's Philippa Eilhart. If you knew the Witcher mythos, you would know she was punished a tiny bit more vigorously already: she wears a blindfold because King Radovid had her eyes scooped out..."

 

[wulf]

You're not paying attention, Wulf

You even put a like on the message in which, a few days back, I said: "That's Philippa Eilhart. If you knew the Witcher mythos, you would know she was punished a tiny bit more vigorously already: she wears a blindfold because King Radovid had her eyes scooped out..."

You are right, I failed to make that important connection. But in all fairness to me, my cat was using my leg as a scratching post when I typed that, which can be quite distracting from the task at hand. In the future I will make sure to feed said cat before logging on to CF.

 

[doe1971]

Triss is not terrified enough (according to LL) by the punishment so she's left staked overnight.

 

[wulf]

Triss is not terrified enough (according to LL) by the punishment so she's left staked overnight.

I would gladly volunteer to stand guard over her to make sure some unsavory characters don't take advantage of her.

 

[doe1971]

I would gladly volunteer to stand guard over her to make sure some unsavory characters don't take advantage of her.

Worth saving?

 

[wulf]

Worth saving?

At least till I'm done with her.

 

[doe1971]

Dear LL, that's the best aproximation I could find for the angle you wanted. Not entirely orthometric but close enough, I hope.

 

[Lord Ludwig]

You are right, I failed to make that important connection. But in all fairness to me, my cat was using my leg as a scratching post when I typed that, which can be quite distracting from the task at hand. In the future I will make sure to feed said cat before logging on to CF.

A pussy at your feet while writing can be distracting, indeed.

 

[Lord Ludwig]

Triss is not terrified enough (according to LL) by the punishment so she's left staked overnight.

Excellent. Only one doubt: overnight? Sure, it will be cold and so but would the discerning slaver not punish a disrespecting slave by having her staked out during the day? All four ladies have rather pale skin and could benefit from some sunbathing...

 

[Lord Ludwig]

Dear LL, that's the best aproximation I could find for the angle you wanted. Not entirely orthometric but close enough, I hope.

Very nice picture, especially Triss's face conveys the right state of mind. I was thinking of a pic showing only one of the women rather than the whole group, but of course you should do it as you prefer, dear JD.

 

[Dafnees]

Another version of the same idea(by faile35)

All the best,
Dafnees

 

[doe1971]

Excellent. Only one doubt: overnight? Sure, it will be cold and so but would the discerning slaver not punish a disrespecting slave by having her staked out during the day? All four ladies have rather pale skin and could benefit from some sunbathing...

Yeah, I hear ya but storyline wise they pushed the wheel all day, three got falaka'd and one got extra. Missing a whole day at pushing the wheel for a relaxing stretch on the beach is more of a reward than a punishment, isn't it?