Dialogue Hesvar #156 - Ayr's Magic Day Spa

Hesvar #156 - Ayr's Magic Day Spa
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Sam has recovered a bit but is clearly still not thrilled with life. So after lighting the room lamp Ayr has told Sam she has an idea but has to go see if she can finds what she needs.



*Ayr returns to Sam's room.* "Found this in the old shed with the heating equipment. Should be perfect to transform that chain and collar into the envy of women everywhere."



Sam: "I appreciate the effort, but I'm not sure how some scrap rope is going to do that."

Ayr: "Trust me. Ropes and knots make lots of things better. Now stop being a killjoy and sit up so I can do my magic."



*Sam sits up and Ayr hops on the bed plopping down behind her."

Ayr: "Here take the chain and bring it around to the other side."



Ayr: "Now just hold your hair like that and I'll get you all fixed up in no time."



Ayr: "Alright. Just a few no-slip surgeon's knots and I'll no longer feel the pressure of that chain dangling down between your breasts saying 'Hey world! Look how much better endowed Sam is than Ayr!'"

Sam: "Wasn't this supposed to make me the envy of women everywhere?"

Ayr: "No, I said it's going to make the collar the envy of women everywhere. I guess I feel less insecure about inanimate objects."



Ayr: "Ta-da! My magic is complete. Gone is that annoying slave collar and chain wandering into places unknown! In its place a fabulous metal necklace that screams wealth and importance!" *More quietly* "And says look at me not Sam's chest."

*Sam reaches to inspect her chain and collar.* "What did you do exactly?"

Ayr: "Magic! Where in this case magic just means I tied of the loose end of the chain to the ring on your collar. Still, it should look better and make the chain flop around less. Let me see."



Ayr: "That does look nice. Seriously the envy of many to have something like that around their neck. Plus I really think it will be a lot less annoying held up like that. I wear my necklace all the time and don't find it to get in the way. Just give it a chance. Trust me your day shirt is cut low enough you'll still hold Lucius's attention."



Sam: "It actually does feel less annoying. I feel kind of stupid I didn't think of something like this myself."

Ayr: "Not everyone has my fashion sense."

Sam: "I wish we had a mirror."

Ayr: "No arguments here."

Sam: "Thank you. For everything today."

Ayr: "You're welcome. Now are you ready to rejoin the world?"

Sam: "I should put my low cut shirt on first."

 

It's the kind of thing that makes you fill really silly you didn't think of it yourself.

And thank you very much for commenting on these stories. The general lack of response has me close to packing it in.

 

I agree they're definitely dying, if not already dead. I came in through the vinyl side of the hobby and the same transition happened over there. They were very popular a decade or so ago and have steadily trailed off both in terms of how many are posted and the interest they get. And yes I've definitely noticed popularity is ranked something like silent > comic book > narrative > dialogue. My longer dialogue and continuing story are pure evil. Short attention span theater rules these days.

Old here too. Give me a real screen and keyboard over a phone.

I also find it frustrating that people tell me how much they love the story and hope I continue, but still never comment. Comments are the feedback that tells me it's worth continuing.

Ah well. I should just post a photo of a pile of bodies and say the Vespins won. A single photo would probably make it my best received story ever.

 

Simple is good oftentimes. Thanks.

I didn't even realize you had a website @beamlette as I have signatures off, but looking at it just now you were quite prolific in the past.

While I understand the satisfaction of past work, the fact that both of you rarely or never do stories these days makes me feel that similarly to me the thought of creating more stories in a vacuum of response isn't all that appealing to you either.

Not sure how accurate that is as there were certainly others posting stories at the time too, but to anyone out there that did start because of me I apologize for dragging you into this dead end hobby.

As to phones, it's amusing to me if people who use them really won't read text. Phones caused almost all websites to be reformatted to accommodate them (often resulting in many options just disappearing) and apparently those websites are/were chasing a demographic that has no use for them. While I agree reading on the small screen is annoying and if I read something on the phone that seems REALLY long its always amazing how short it is on a bigger screen, I think it's more of a general continuing reduction in attention span. Add in threaded comment systems everywhere and pretty much any chance of conversation is gone. If someone even bothers to comment it's one quick reply from the post author and that's the end. It's often not even clear that the reply to the comment is ever read. Then everyone's on to the next post or at least the newest comment which of course being threaded has no connection to previous ones.

My latest website has no comment system. It's not because I couldn't / don't know how to add one. It's that I think it would be effort for no good. Few read, far fewer would comment, and the odds of follow up comments are basically zero. Throw in the various privacy regulations being created to "control" the big sites that are just punitive on small sites and it's a definite no go. As much as I'd love to have image annotations again it just really doesn't seem worth it.

 

I made a web comic version for the modern age. No loss in translation at all.

 

I was being a bit sarcastic when I said no loss in translation, although not terrible in this particular case. Many episodes would suffer a lot more though as serious dialogue gets reduced to a sentence.

 

Yes the writing style has to change to fit this format. Long speech goes away but in return a little bit of expressiveness is gained by choice of font, size, bubble, etc.

The wall of text dialog for which I'm infamous would have to go. So the equivalent of St Crispin's Day speech gets condensed down to "Let's go!".

 

Yes length generally kills, especially dialog. I have my fans but it turns away more than it gains. Serious topics also tend to turn people away. I've always said people prefer sunshine, kittens, and rainbows. So my comedy elements attract the casual viewers, but don't necessarily pull them in as regulars.

Fortunately I've always been pretty sparse in the photos I take, often only having 0-3 photos that I discard for a typical 12-15 shot story. If I redid the whole storyline I'm sure there would be some with basically no space for bubbles. Like any adaptation the story and characters will just end up different.

 

Thanks. It's much easier to get the best poses from the vinyl dolls with their internal armature instead of the elastic string inside the resin dolls.

Even if it doesn't help Sam psychologically so much, not having the chain flopping all over the place probably will be an actual improvement for her.

And the reason they haven't removed it or tried is the golden eagle crowd says they've tried to work with that metal before and found nothing capable of cutting it.

 

One example of the advantage is just that there's no elastic providing tension that wants to pull things out of the position you place them. Of course there's still gravity.

I think that was Ayr's main goal. To stop it from always being in the way.

I have it in my head that it's the hardest material they've encountered, but it's certainly possible it never left my head and made it into a story.

 

The first Dollfie Dreams were strung, but every other vinyl doll I know of has as frame. It's certainly not a requirement though. Dollfie Dreams are on topic here but Smart Dolls aren't. Not sure if any other vinyl dolls are. It was a grandfather clause type of thing.

I'm not sure. A quick check of where I thought it was it wasn't there. And nothing has ever said Kano's gun was made out of that metal. Gareth's staff isn't metal at all. Plus I don't think Kano does much experimenting outside of the desert menus at various inns.

 

Yep just the crystals. And I did consider saying his experimentation was with different women, but apparently not so much in the bedroom itself as its apparent Ayr has been more experimental than him in that regard.

 

Maybe he feels he's got it mastered.

 

Well I suppose if your plan is one and done you don't have to be good. Doesn't seem his style though.

 

Yeah even as much as he moves around that reputation probably would have caught up to him at some point.

 

Pretty shocking she's a surgeon too eh?