I've been working on a project as a favor for some friends. A couple of friends approached me about creating a monument for their group (the Lycans of the
Transylvania sims). We discussed what they had in mind, and what the monument was meant to represent. They'd previously discussed two ideas--a tomb or crypt wall with the image of a wolf and moon carved on it, and names also inscribed, or a pit of bones (representing their 'victims') with names carved on the bones.
I thought about it for a bit and made some sketches. I'd recently reread "From Hell", and I sort of had obelisks (like Cleopatra's needle in London) on the brain. I also had an image flash of the Paris catacombs ossuary, with the piles upon piles of bones and skulls.
I had an idea the stone should be mossy and cruddy, since the sim it's on is green and lush looking. It should look as though it's been there for ages. I designed a stylized werewolf holding the moon in its hands, with the idea being the negative space between the arch of its arms should also form a silhouette of a full moon. Underneath is a motto, and on the reverse of the obelisk is a longer poem about the pack.
Each skull has the name of a pack member and the date they joined.
My friends were adamant that I should sign it, so I did.
I was initially reluctant, for a number of reasons, to take this project on. But one of the friends who approached me about making it--the person who knows me best in all of SL, and vice versa--said I'd be 'brilliant'... you just can't let that down, now can you? Heh.
The monument is located on the Hercynia sim in Transylvania, which is in the midst of celebrating six years on the grid. SL's only seven, so that's a long time! I asked, and was told the sim is residential -- it's open to the public so long as you respect the residents and do not enter any houses. [
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