What Are You Wearing?

[DCSL]

I've been a little curious about you ladies that always dress to the nines. Do you change clothes, besides adding your armor, every single time you go out to hunt? Additionally, you're generally container free or limited to a single item. How do you guys consistently pull this off? Do you have an attendant, on another account, that basically holds you entire hunt outfit or do you put all your gear in the single container you do show on some of these outfits?

The main thing I am curious about is the amount of effort you go through to be consistent with this switching. I switch outfits for functions but generally overdress by a slight margin to go hunt. I pass this off to a large degree on my ability to sing my armor. My RP has it that my sung armor protects my dressier than average clothing from harm or wear to a good margin thus why I don't grunge down to hunt. Would it be better to be more consistent and switch outfits out after every single hunt?

I'm fairly sure that I'm the only one who changes their character every day, all the time (unless I don't play her). ElvenLady might, not sure. Most people change the outfits every few days/weeks/season.

Strata doesn't even carry her armor with her when she's not hunting, although as a bard she's never really without armor for the random invasion. She has loads of mix-and-match hunting clothes and, when she's in them, she'll just wear the armor constantly with it because it is deliberately part of the outfit. Outside of an emergency invasion, Strata would not dream of hunting in the get up I just posted or any of her other everyday wear.

She also doesn't carry a lot of big items with her all the time. Just a few small ones. Other than a bundle of acantha, she carries no herbs. She has a small drawstring pouch that holds her bankbook, manifest, shop manifest, signet, house ring, Mist Harbor transport item, her Lornon temple entry item, and her giftbox enhancer. The pouch just moves from big cloak-worn container to container. Other than that, she's always got an invisibility amulet, her Call Familiar sachet, a weapon, her general use fan and her pet snake. No other magic items, enhancives, herbs, toys et cetera. Most of the cloak-worn containers she wears for hunting are max lightened/deepened. And she'll have a disk.

All this requires an enormous closet for her. It means two "handmaidens" on another account with containers and lockers full of separately organized clothing and jewelry. Before I sign off as Strata for the night, I take her up to Mist Harbor to get redressed for the next time I play her. It doesn't take me long usually.

I realize that this seems like a ridiculous amount of effort but it is very character defining for me. I don't do this for a single other character. Lysistrata is very much about appearances and would not be caught dead not looking her best. In fact, that is one of the reasons she immediately departs when she dies, so that no one sees her in that position of weakness. I know. This is madness. But no, this is SPARTA. Or STRATA.

[Fallen]

E's new look. I'm sure you'll agree it is a drastic improvement.

You see a tall, slender figure with features hidden by a deeply hooded, austere dark robe.

[DCSL]

E's new look. I'm sure you'll agree it is a drastic improvement.

You see a tall, slender figure with features hidden by a deeply hooded, austere dark robe.

No, I don't agree at all. I'm deeply disappointed that he's not wearing the purple color robe. I thought we all agreed that he could pull it off.

[ClayBeadGirl]

Lithyia is now Spitfire ready... Arrgh!


You see Lady Lithyia Medeea.
She appears to be a Human from Allace.
She is shorter than average and appears to be youthful. She has long-lashed brown eyes and powdered, olive skin. She has long, meticulously kept deep brown hair which falls in loose spiral curls. She has an angular face and high cheekbones.
She has a pair of tiny silver loops in the ridges of both her ears, a trio of small spiral seashells peeking out of the sand tattooed on her ankle, and a tattooed symbol of Niima on her wrist.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a deep blue tri-cornered hat, an inky black brocade jacket embroidered with foggy swirls, a white cotton blouse, a dark blue svelte leather corset, a heavy woven chain sword-belt with a curved black pearl-inlaid warblade hanging from it, an elegant silver flagon, an ample loot sack, some dark leather pants, and some slouched black leather boots.

[Fallen]

No, I don't agree at all. I'm deeply disappointed that he's not wearing the purple color robe. I thought we all agreed that he could pull it off.

That is used to play hide the halfbreed.

[DCSL]

That is used to play hide the halfbreed.

I'm also disappointed that this sounds a lot dirtier than I actually know it to be.

[Elvenlady]

I've been a little curious about you ladies that always dress to the nines. Do you change clothes, besides adding your armor, every single time you go out to hunt?

Hunting, what's that?

I wish I could say I change every day like Strata does but as I tend to play 3 girls on a fairly regular basis, I'd probably end up spending all my time in the lockers. Corlyne might be your gal for that.

Rohese has everyday wear which, as Silima mentioned, relies largely on one deepened container/cloak and armor concealing robes. Enhancives etc. are discretely scripted on and off when no one is looking. I do like to change her for the evening if I know she's going to be simply socialising and for this I also have a "handmaiden account" that gets dumped on regularly.

Merelle will change outfits at least once a week just for the fun of it, she is after all my Nalfein barbie doll and can get away with more diversity in her looks than the prissy priestess.

The dhe'nar tends to stay in the same outfit for a few weeks because I tend to design one that is minimal, practical and more character defining in terms of her current RP. That said, she's due for a change which is currently a work in progress. Watch this space.

P.S I like the new look Evarin except we can't see him scowling at the peons any more! Oh wait, they're AUSTERE ... got it.

[Rahrah]

I don't change every single day but there are times when I'll add or take away something in the outfit I posted to change it up a bit. Since she's a warrior I can get away with wearing my halfplate all the time and not having to wear gowns, dresses or skirts.

..there are a few people trying to change that though. Good luck!

[FNLN]

I tried. It came down to not having enough stuff to keep up with it. So the cleric has one general use outfit that's pretty much max lightened and deepened and very utilitarian and then a few things he can step into (and out of) on a case by case basis.

The sorcerer has a much more extensive wardrobe but I'm not too happy with a lot of stuff (I'm working on fixing that) and so I change semi-regularly.

[Elvenlady]

For Silima's lecture this evening:

You see High Lady Rohese Bayvel-Timsh'l Illistim the Scrivener of Ta'Illistim.
She appears to be an Elf.
She is taller than average with a slender willowy form and appears to be youthful. She has silver-lashed misty grey eyes and silky smooth, fair skin. She has lustrous, hip-length silver blonde hair with an elaborate chain of loosely knotted loops hanging down from each temple. She has naturally glossy, rose-pink tinted lips. Peeking through her hair are dainty upswept ears tapering to fine points which enhance her fey-like countenance.
She has a cascade of tiny silver stars tattooed over her right eyebrow that fades into her hairline, and an inking of a faint star constellation on her neck.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a delicate gold-linked ferroniere dangling a wisteria-hued round of feystone, a wing-collared aubergine velvet gown with flamboyantly ruffled cloth-of-gold sleeves, a platinum wedding ring, and some strapped golden viper skin open-toed shoes.

Laph shooz, naturally