#vampire chronicle

We got some new players recently, so I thought it was time for some more cocktails 🍸

A Doctor Death for, Monika Wieczorek played by @acheronarcanist

½ oz lime juice

½ oz simple syrup

1 oz absinthe

1 oz chartreuse green

In a cocktail shaker with ice cubes add absinthe, green Chartreuse, lime juice, and simple syrup to the shaker. Shake vigorously for about 15 seconds.

Strain the cocktail mixture into the glass filled with ice. Garnish the Doctor Death cocktail with a lime twist. (optional)

A Café Brulot Diabolique for, Louis-Baptiste Dèsirè played by @justinkayce

2 sticks cinnamon

8 whole cloves

peel of 1 lemon

1 ½ tablespoons sugar

3 oz. brandy

3 cups strong black coffee

Saving these for Posterity, since, when I finally found the sprite rips of them, I had the impulse to upscale/enhance/recolor them.

I'd asked @the2dstagesfg about them a while back, and he said they would not have been easy to rip (though I found them on PalMod Discord thanks to DerekFCC!)

In case you don't know, these are the "Dark Force" nebula that appears in the Vampire/Darkstalkers fighting game stages.

The topmost is the original natural color, the next below is a slightly enhanced brightness adjustment I made to bring out the hues.

The bottom two are just two custom hues I made based on my tastes... it's really beautiful for a sprite stage effect!

In the games themselves, the very center of the stage effect will cause a wavy "shimmer" animation effect, as if you were in a whole other dimension!

As a side note... throughout the series, Guilty Gear has had special effects like this during Overdrive Attacks, Dust Launches during Air Combos, and also during some rare Overdrive Finishers.

GGX was the oldest game to have those kind of looping effects, but they later added shimmering stars, lightning, spikes of aura, and sometimes even lens flares, depending on the game!

“You look like something from Poe," I said with a smile, coming forward for a kiss before I shrugged off my backpack and began to unload it. He smirked. 

"I would hope more akin to the Highwayman." 

I hummed, deftly plucking a few tubes from the pile. A plastic pallet served us well, and with a small knife a took a dollop of this hue and a drop of that, mixing them in fast chopping motions before appraising what I had, and with my pinkie, dotted Marius' nose with it. 

"Well, claret does become you!”

What an adventure it has been with you, Hazel Blanke, triple survivor of Dagon's Call and Atlanta's sexiest Duskborn.

Just wanted to share the magnitude of sketches I have for her. 🖤🦇