Anne

[FONT="Garamond"][SIZE="2"][COLOR="Navy"] Rhaine had heard the knock at her door and the voice coming from the other side, but paid no attention to it. She was in a place of peaceful tranquility. The voice kept calling her, she could not make out the words, but she could hear that the voice was on of the soldiers. Her mind wavered in and out of her tranquil place and Rhaine began to become annoyed. The door latched open and the soldier jump back and let out a gasp. The floor, walls and ceiling where covered in deadly snakes, twisting and slithering about. In the middle of the room Rhaine just sat Indian style with her eyes closed and breathing slowly. The soldier ?s face paled when a cobra rose up and looked into his eyes. In a voice that was nothing like a human, in a harsh hissing tone the snake spoke, ?Leave now.? The soldier shut the door and with hands shaking walked down the hall. Rhaine remained where she meditating and had a satisfied feeling wash over her. The illusions she created could not harm any one physical, but with their realistic nature they can cause people a fright or can distraction someone long enough for her to kill them. With her visitor gone Rhaine went back to her tranquil state of being and let her mind bend and flow. She always thought the best when she had cleared her mind of all worries, fears, and distractions. A while later she slowly took a deep breath and let it out. Her eyes came open and blinked a few times. Stretching her arms out and over her head, arching her back as she stretch from her long seated position. Getting up from the bed she stretched some more and moved around a bit to get her muscle loose once again. Picking up her side arm she placed it in its holster on her leg and than picked up her katanas. She never went anywhere with out being prepared. Swing open her door a startled soldier looked surprise, while Rhaine was surprised as well she would not show it. ?Can I help you?? Her flowing liquid voice rang out in the quite hallways. ?Yes,, the General would like to speak with you.? Rhaine sent a frown on her face and nodded. Raising a hand up to signal the way for him to lead. Walking down the hallway the soldier tried to make conversation with her, but failed every time. Rhaine?s mind was more on want the General wanted than what he had to say. They entered the General office and the soldier saluted and than left. Rhaine took a seat in a nice chair and waited for the General to say what he had brought her here for. ?Well Fantasy, I could you here because you gave one of my soldiers a scare when I ask him to retrieve you.? Rhaine?s mouth quirked into a delighted smirk. ?It is not my fault your soldiers frightened easily; the illusions will not hurt them, you know that. Besides he entered my room without permission. It was his own fault.? The General let out a sigh. ?If it will make you happy I will do my best not to do it again.? The General?s face became a frown as Rhaine continued speaking. ?If this is all you called me for than I shall be leaving. Good Night General.? Rhaine stood up from the chair she was setting in and left the office, while she contemplated where she would head next. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"][SIZE="2"][COLOR="Navy"]Connection: Tree Taken at a park near my house: [URL="http://img317.imageshack.us/img317/3459/dscf07154ex.jpg"]Trees[/URL][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"][SIZE="2"][COLOR="Navy"]Connection: Building I took this picture outside of one of my old homes: [URL="http://img317.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf07019oz.jpg"]Gas station[/URL] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"][SIZE="2"][COLOR="Navy"]I have to agree with you ChibiHoreswoman I love those Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. I always get an extra basket to go just so I can eat them at home as will. I also am addicted to strawberries. I eat them anyways I can, they are so good. I am also addicted to Pez, I am not really fond of candy, but I can?t help myself with pez. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="Navy"]Rhaine had been seated quickly in her chair thinking mostly to herself. The group grew larger as time past as more of her comrades showed up. As she watched as the group interacts with each other she realized that this was not going to be a good trip to London. [i]We have a lot to prepare for and not much time. I knew this was not going to be good.[/i] As people where starting to leave to pack for London she felt a cold feeling about her. Rhaine gulped and thought what Mycella had said, that Nanashi had arrived. A twisting and retched feeling hit her hard in her stomach. Nanashi exchanged words with Mycella and Zane. Afterwards Zane excused himself and left with the General for training. [i]I should most likely leave as well; I should plan and get things I need ready. Not that I need much.[/i] Rhaine stood up from her chair ?It was very nice to see al of you again, but if you excuse me I must see that I am ready to go to London. I will see the rest of you later.? Rhaine turned and headed the door and to her room. As she entered her room she looked at the plain interior. Out loud she spoke to herself ?This room could use a little dressing up.? With a blink of her eyes the room changed to a maroon colored walls with imperial trim around the ceiling. A large maple coloured wardrobe stood on the sidewall, with a matching desk and bed frame. She took her katanas and leaned them against the wall and took her side arm and placed it on a small nightstand next to the bed. Rhaine sat down in the middle of the bed cross-legged and closed her eyes. With a deep breath and than exhaled she began to mediate. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="Navy"]The sound of heels reverberated off the walls of Sector 7 as Rhaine walked down the hallway. The place had not changed since she had last been here. The though that the place should have changed struck her as odd, why should it have changed. [i]They could of at least made it a bit less shiny and a little less echoing. They should kill their decorator.[/i] Her hips swayed with each step she took down the hallway towards what she knew in her gut will not be a good mission. The rhythm of her body made the tattoo across her body appear that the snake was moving. As Rhaine came closer to the meeting area sounds started to bounce down from the hallway. With a twitch of her lip a smirk made it?s way across her face. She was sure she knew whom the voice belong to, it seemed some of her comrades had already arrived. Walking in her leisurely pace came up closer to the conference room and the voices of her comrades bickering. The voices she could easily tell where that of Mycella and Xero. It did not surprise her that it was the two of them that where fighting; they often had in the past. As Rhaine entered the room her gaze swept over the group. It seemed she was correct in her assumption on which the voices belonged to. As she enters Xero had given a putting of expression to something alex had said. Mycella look to be in some thought, as Rhaine took in her position. Making a quick scan around the room showed that Lycoris and Mike where also present. Rhaine gave a small smile and a nod of her head to her comrades and headed over to a seat to wait for the others to arrive and the meeting to start. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"][SIZE="2"][COLOR="Navy"]Name: Rhaine Marcally Codename: Fantasy Age: 30 Appearance: [URL="http://img307.imageshack.us/img307/6849/girls1048nx.jpg"] Rhaine [/URL] She stands 5?7?. The tattoo stretches across her body and she always wears clothing that shows most of it. Personality: Rhaine has a quiet personality; she will stand back and evaluate the situation before acting. Her mind is always running and forming ideas. She tends to rather spend her time reading than spending time with people. When she speaks she is normally soft spoken, which is contrary to her appearance. Rhaine tends to like things to run smooth and efficiently. Weapon(s): She carries her double katanas and a small pistol on the right thigh. Power: Rhaine has the power of illusions. Rhaine can create anything that her mind can imagine and the image will seem like a true and real object, person or animal. The image though can not harm anyone though, but can be used to frighten or as a distraction [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"][SIZE="2"][COLOR="Navy"]I always keep a bunch of stuff with me. I always have one me a hairtie normally on my arm or in my hair and my necklace. I also never leave the house without my purse. I am know for having anything anyone needs in my purse. I carry a lot of items with me and my purse is always heavy. My purse is just a plain black purse with multiple pocks. I use it when I got to work, business meetings, or just going to classes. In the first section of my purse I keep my train tickets for traveling back and force to the city, a can of pepper spray, and pez. The next pocket I always keep my wallet, credit cards, id, school id, phone, pens, pencil, exto blade, extra blades, two one gig thumb drives, two 250 megabits thumb drives, business cards, and glasses. My next pocket I keep my keys, Nintendo ds, recently I have been carrying my Nintendo sp, a stapler, glue, a glue gun, extra sticks, hot pink duct tape, double sided tape (High tack), and black photography tape. The next pocket has lipstick, chap stick, eye shadow, blush, brushes, two D20s, three d10, three d6s, three d8s, two d4s, Excedrin, band aids, icy hot, and an ace bandage. The last pocket is mostly where I keep all my files and paper work. I keep my train schedule, my class schedule, blank paper, a handful of prismatic markers, a folder, a notebook, a couple handful of change, a bottled water and whatever book I am reading at the time. My purse is one of the biggest jokes around that I fit everything in my purse and carry it around. I am constantly cleaning it out but I always end up putting more stuff in it. So this is what I always carry with me. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2][FONT=Garamond] [B]Newest:[/B] [URL=http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/8670/proof4im0.jpg]This one here was only taken three weeks ago. [/URL] [B]Older:[/B] This one was taken a couple of month ago after a night of drinking ping pong with Tequila. [URL=http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/9555/dscf08429ce.jpg]Anne+ping pong+Tequila= a morning of unanswered questions.[/URL] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Navy][FONT=Garamond]For my theme song it would have to be "White and Nerdy" by Weird Al. I am probally one of the few females alive that always carries a full set of dice, a nintendo ds, a nintendo sp, a psp, a laptop, four thumb drives, a glue gun, ducttape and a stapler on her at all times. [/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]It has been a while since I have posted anything on the old OB that I figured I would share some of my favourite works. The first is a Ds as ad that has been living in my portfolio for a while. This is probably one of the pieces people love most in my portfolio. [URL=http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsad8zk.gif][IMG]http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/5616/dsad8zk.th.gif[/IMG][/URL] This is a magazine advertisement for Nintendo Ds. I designed it to mimic the movie poster of Rocky Horror Picture Show. When I first heard about the Ds I always believed that when it first turned on it should say ?Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me I want to be dirty?. For the next piece I am going to show you I made out cut paper. My thought process was to use as little colours as I could to depict the Hawaiian woman. [URL=http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=flowercolor2lv.jpg][IMG]http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/853/flowercolor2lv.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] This next piece is a piece that I did for a class project. It was coloured using cooured pastels and charcoal giving it two different version with one in colour and one in black and white. Coloured Version [URL=http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?image=colourwr9.jpg][IMG]http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/52/colourwr9.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Black and white Version [URL=http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tonalfr1.jpg][IMG]http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/1410/tonalfr1.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Thank you for taking the time to look at the pieces. I would love if you left any comment or suggest. As comment tell me what people thing of the pieces and any suggest are always good because it always bring things in new perspective and great ideas how the piece can be approved. [/FONT] [/SIZE][/COLOR]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=Blue][quote name='Queen Asuka][size=1][color=hotpink]What I want is a [b]PINK umbrella, lined in RUFFLES, with cat ears[/b]. Seriously. I saw one somewhere in a picture one time, and I have yet to find one. I WANT ONE, dammit.[/size'][/color][/quote] [url]http://umbrellastand.com/672.html[/url] That is where you can find it and where I got mine from. Lately I have been wanting to buy a [b]swing set[/b] and not just a plain old regular one though, I want it to have a sliding board and one of little forts. I have also been wanting to buy a nice [b]Jacuzzi[/b]. My roommates and I figured we would set it up in the living room and we would have a water couch and that it would be really nice to sit in. [/COLOR][/SIZE]

[size=1][color=blue] Charisma chewed the tip of her pen as she watched the slides being click through. The companies newest client is present there product that they would be redesigning the companies logo. Stifling a yawn she made a few quick sketches in her notepad of ideas she already had of the new logo. The meeting came to an end and she gathered up her paperwork. Walking over to the client she shook their hands, "It will be a pleasure to work with you." As Charisma left the conference room an arm came around her shoulder. "Car-Car! What a lovely day, the sun is shinning, birds are singing, and Manny's Brown is having 25 cents a shot!" Charisma wigged out of her friends grip. "Cha-ris-ma, Chuck not Car-Car. I have hated that name since you started calling me that." She let out a sigh as she pushed a button on the elevator. "And we don't have time to get any shots right now. We just got new clients." Rumaging through her folder she pulled out three pieces of paper and handed them to Chuck. "I need you to run them these to the text editor." The elevator door open and they stepped inside, "But Charisma, they will have your favorite shot, Ivy's pussy-juice. " He grabbed the papers and pushed the fourth and sixth floor button. "Come on it is fun to play hooky once in a while. Charisma smiled, "That they may be but we have more work to do. We shall play later." The elevator ding and opened on the sixth floor and Charisma made a bit of gust of wind, starting to nudge Chuck out the door. "After the job is done than we will get some drinks." Giving a small smile she waved as the door shut. When the door closed she lost her balance and propped herself up against the wall. The doors opened again and Charisma left to start contacting printers in her office.[/size][/color]

[COLOR=Blue][size=1][b]Name:[/b] Charisma Scheer [b]Age:[/b] 24 [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Origin:[/b] Vernon , Ct. [b]Current Residence:[/b] Philadelphia, Pa [b]Appearance:[/b] [URL=http://animepa.csusm.edu/galleries/M-N/MadLoveChase/lg/Save0168.JPG ]Picture of Charisma[/URL] Charisma stands 5?2?. At work she tends to wear nice clothing a pair of slack with a matching blouse and when she has meetings she will wear a suit. During the times she is not at work she tends to dress a bite nicer in skirts and dresses, except for the winter time when she dresses in nice clacks and the occasional skirts. She tends to wear only one coat, a long black Victorian printed coat with around the arms and neck collar black faux fur is trimmed. The coat comes neatly down to her ankle and has three double buttons on the front of the coat. On the back of the coat it had a black ribbon that can be used to tie and make the coat a bit snugger. [b]Curse:[/b] Charisma has the ability to control the air and air currents. But because of the curse she has very bad breathing and lung problems. She is not able to over due on exerting herself physically. If she does she can?t catch her breath and every once in a while she tends to pass out. Charisma can only control the air for a short time, if she keeps control of it for longer than 10 minutes her body because very stressed making it hard for her to breath. [b] Personality:[/b] Charisma has always been full of energy and loved to be on the go. She is very kind hearted and has no problem helping others out when they need it. As an art director for a design firm she has learned to be level head, she looks at what needs to be done and makes sure it gets done. She will get on peoples cases to get there work done and make sure that all deadlines are met. Charisma is one who loves to live in stress she claims that is the only time that she is alive, thought this wears her body down. When Charisma doesn?t have any stress in her life she tends to be become very bored and doesn?t really know what to do with herself. She always has been able to make friends easily throughout her life and always has enjoyed being who she is. [b]Biography:[/b] Charisma has always been full of life and energy. She made friends where ever she was even at an early age. Her family moved around a lot but it really never bothered she always kept in touch with her friends through letters or on the phone. Charisma loved to play outside and loved to play in the field like any other child. Her life did changed during the summer of her tenth year, a couple months after her tenth birthday. [I]?Come on Charisma, hurry up. They are going to be shooting off the rocket any second! Do you want to miss it?? A young boy with dark brown hair had stopped running waiting for her to catch up. They where off to watch the rocket they had made be launch. ?I am coming, it isn?t my fault my legs are shorter than yours, Jeremy. I am running as past as I can.? She shot back not missing a stride in her run. Her long ebony coloured hair flew behind from the wind as she ran towards the group of friends in the distant. AS she was nearing them something felt wrong, it was getting hard for her to breathe. She stopped in her tracks and clutched at her throat trying to gasp for air. Her friends around her realized something was wrong, but she couldn?t tell them what was wrong. Charisma heard the calling her name asking her what was wrong and if she was okay. Her eyesight began to blurring and soon everything was starting to become black. She felt a hand grab her as she was about to fall over as she passed out. Charisma awoke in the hospital with her Mom and Jeremy beside her. She looked at them confused, ?What happened? While am I in the hospital?? ?You passed out dummy, remember?? Jeremy stood over her with a relived look on his face. ?I am glad you are okay, Honey.? Her Mom lends over her and gave her a hug. ?The doctor said that you have to take it easy from no on. It seems there is something wrong with your lungs and when you make sure lungs work to hard you can?t breathe. Like today when you where running in the field you can?t do that anymore, Sweetie, I am sorry. You are going to learn to take it easy. [/I] At first Charisma thought this was a hard thing and took it badly, but as time went on she found it really wasn?t that bad at all. She may not be able to always keep up with everyone, but it was okay. While she was in high school she found that she could control the wind currents. She had found out by accident when she was wishing that a stack of paper another girl was carrying would drop them and as she was think this gust of wind blew them from the girls hand. Charisma began experiment with this and found that it could be very useful. She never really used it to harm another person but she used it to play tricks on other sometimes. While she was experimenting with it though she found she could only keep control for ten minutes before her body became to much physically stress and she would start having hard time breathing. As she grew older she put all her energy into the arts, Charisma found a passion for design work, be it either graphic, fashion, publishing or any. She trained and studied hard. She went to an art college for a while but than decided to leave and traveled to New York. There she trained in a graphic design firm for a while and than moved to Los Angels where she stayed for a year. At the age of twenty three she was offered a job in Philadelphia as an art director for a graphic design firm, specializing in coming up with corporate identities. She fit along great there and loved the team that she worked with. Charisma loves the feel of the stress the deadlines put her under mentally. It seems she always works the best that way. As she found out that physically stress makes her body weaker, mental stress really didn?t effect her breathing much at all, though sometimes it did. This she founds was the best part of all because stress was what made her tick, since she has this not being able to really run around and or do anything strenuously physical it doesn?t really matter or bother her to much. [/size][/COLOR]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=Navy]Thank you, Retribution, for your comments. I agree that the logos need to be cleaned up some. They are just a first draft that I created on the computer. Though I don't think a serif font would work to well for this logo project. I stylized the company Digital Manga Publishing to be in a calligraphy style. The only actually font in there is the same written either at the botton or on the side depending on which one. The rest of the work i created myslef by hand with a paint bursh that I designed as well to mimic a calligraphy brush stroke. [URL=http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cherryblossom9jk.jpg][IMG]http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2228/cherryblossom9jk.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] This is the logo I choice out of the ones I did for Digital Manga Publishing. I plan on changing it some, by moving the text to the side and addidng more branches to the trees with more "flowers and leaves". This is a two page editorial that I did for a class a while back. [URL=http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=childhoodlost9sz.jpg][IMG]http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/9533/childhoodlost9sz.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Thank you again for the comment . As always please feel free to leave any comments or suggestions, they are always helpful. [/COLOR][/SIZE]