Forum Handles and Miscellaneous Stuff
Added 2025-09-23 16:00:15 +0000 UTCI've run quite low on background information I can throw up for fun here on the down time sadly. So, pardon me for scraping the bottom of the barrel. So since I missed throwing up the forum handles last time, I'm adding them now.
Forums Characters
- CutestSilverBird: Sylvia Swallows, planar governor, and resident troll.
- EmeraldElegance: Esmeralda’s forum handle. One day, she’ll have a double digit post count.
- BlazingCrown: Belkis’s forum handle
- MidwestSoccerFan17: Riley’s forum handle
- TrueSoldier: Henry Taylor
- HaremGod: Timothy Cooper
- QuestBasher: A long time forum members, often seen casually chatting with Npc72
- Npc72: Hands down the forum’s most prolific poster. Generally he’s just joking around. Occasionally he has something useful to say. He's also the creator of the Loli Sword God meme pictures.
- SecretProtagonist: A man he has set upon himself the role of a troll bashing. He’s also among the old forum members.
- MrDeepPockets: A digustingly rich man who has dropped half a billion buying merit points.
- SongGirl: A kindly girl who made her merit by uploading songs. She likes hearing about people’s lives.
- ResearchKing: An older academic who has taken up the role of researching magic. He’s the oldest, by lifespan, living member of the forum.
- WiseGuy: A ‘smart’ fellow who posts on the internet.
- Griffmiss: Resident software guru and the developer of Runeworks Studio and Virtual Cauldron
- DrSodium: An unhinged member of the forums who thinks far too highly of his brilliance.
- DustyLibrarian: A member who read all the books Sylvia copied into the library. He handles knowledge keeping.
- FlameKeeper: The system administrator / Lucifer
- ThatFinanceGuy: A less common poster known for his financial breakdowns
- BlueRangerSPD: A helpful poster who maintains the (Un)official Hunter’s Field Guide
- DesperateBowman: A hunter player who’s just getting started.
Sylvia AI Games
I just recently discovered Flux-Kontext which allows the editing of images with a prompt.
Which, incidentally makes changes like the above possible. The unfortunate tidbit is that the AI has added annoying artifacts that decreased the quality. Fortunately, I was able to partially alleviate this by having the AI redo the image (Ha!)
I really, really need to create myself a nice pipeline one of these days.
My fancy fix prompt: Keeping all the macro items in the image as is, repaint it to have smooth features, fine lines, and high detail. This should be a high quality anime-style illustration. Where fine details have been blurred insert something that fits. The goal is to improve the image quality, the color vividness, and to smooth out errors, artifacts, and speckling.
Sylvia AI Image Prompts (for fun)
This is a segment of the AI image prompts I used. At the start, I usually used FluxPro 1.0. Recently I've started using FluxPro 1.1 - Ultra. One of these days, I should setup a proper script with an API to do this for me, because it's possible to get MUCH better results through various multiple pass actions.
Working with any AI has its frustrations. There's a limit to how many token that can be fed in, and there's a lot of things the AI just doesn't understand or do well. Often, I have to exaggerate things. For instance, if I don't describe Sylvia heels as 'tall' she's usually put in kitten heels. If I don't say 'extremely long' for her hair, its usually just a bit beyond shoulder length. If I don't repeatedly use adult words for her age, the AI tries to create a tweenager.
I'm sure different AIs have different issues. But I'm mostly familiar with Flux because I keep coming back to it as the results it produces are more often of the style I desire.
Sylvia : Arc I
Water color style, with a high quality, ethereal fantasy vibe.
A cute, twenty year old lady walks through a magical academy, books in hand. Early morning sunlight pours through stained glassed windows. Side-front profile.
Silvery, light gray hair with faint hints of lavender-pink in an extremely long French Braid. Her braid trails behind her back, tied with pink ribbon. Her skin is smooth and healthy. A delicate frame with shapely hips and bust. A cherubic face with an adorable nose, rounded cheeks, and enchanting anime-like eyes with bright, pastel pink irises.
Dark, navy blue knee socks. Dark, navy blue robes, trimmed with elegant gold embroidery. The robe’s hem ends at her knees. Clasping the robe over her chest was a bright blue bow with a gold medallion at the bow’s center. The bow’s medallion bears the Academy’s coat of arms. Beneath her robes and exposed by billowing bottom, is a shorter emerald green dress. The green dress has lace at the bottom.
Sylvia: Arc II
Water color style, with a high quality, ethereal fantasy vibe.
A cute, twenty year old lady is sitting, legs crossed, on a stone rooftop. The streets of a damaged vampire city are behind her. There’s a dark castle, silhouetted by a huge, white moon. Her expression is serious.
Silvery, light gray hair with faint hints of lavender-pink in an extremely long French Braid. Her braid falls behind her back, tied with pink ribbon. Her skin is smooth and healthy. A delicate frame with shapely hips and bust. A cherubic face with an adorable nose, rounded cheeks, and enchanting anime-like eyes with bright, pastel pink irises.
Witch's hat with a bent cone. From the cone's tip dangles a silver, crescent. She wears a frilly, black dress with lots of pastel pink lace and ribbons. Her cute, shapely, and sexy outfit, has lots of frills and a puffy skirt. The dress's long, bell sleeves link with the lacy, shirt like collar. She wears pink, teardrop earrings and tall, pink stiletto pumps.
Sylvia: Arc III
Water color style, with an ethereal fantasy anime vibe. Side Profile.
A twenty year old lady leans again the rail of a high tower. On a dark night, rain falls on an ancient, obsidian city with gothic architecture. The lady wears a nostalgic expression.
Silvery, braided light gray hair with faint hints of lavender-pink. Her braid falls behind her back, tied with pink ribbon. Her skin is smooth and healthy. A delicate frame with shapely hips and bust. A cherubic face with an adorable nose, rounded cheeks, and enchanting anime-like eyes with bright, pastel pink irises.
White stockings show a bit of thigh. Black robes, trimmed with gold embroidery. Robes end at her knees, coat streaming behind. Beneath the robe was a shorter white dress. The white dress is trimmed with pink lace. Clasping her robes over her chest was a cute, pink bow, a gold medallion at the bow’s center. The bow’s medallion bears a coat of arms. She’s has a black beret on her head.
Sylvia: Arc IV
Water color style, with an ethereal fantasy anime vibe.
A twenty year old lady stands on rocks in the jungle. She gazing up at two white capped mountains. It’s a black, star filled night. The only illumination is moonlight. The lady's back is to the viewer, only the back of her head can be seen.
Silvery, light gray hair with faint hints of lavender-pink. Her extremely long hair is in twin tails, tied with pastel pink flowers. The twin tails have a gentle, spiral curl and reach her calves. Her pale skin is smooth and healthy. She has a delicate frame with shapely hips.
The girl wears a simple and pure white dress with tall, pink, stiletto heeled pumps. Held off to the side in one hand is a pale, wooden staff. At the staff’s tip is a medium sized quartz crystal glowing with blue light.
Sylvia: Arc V
Water color style with an ethereal, fantasy, anime vibe.
Lady, twenty years old has a gentle smile and a princess like visage. She sits, legs crossed, on the parapet of an ivory tower. Below is a city modern and fantasy.
Her extremely long, silvery, light gray hair has faint hints of lavender-pink. Her hair is in twin tails. The twin tails have a gentle, spiral curl. Her skin is smooth and healthy. She has a delicate but mature frame, with shapely hips and an ample bust. A cherubic face with an adorable nose, rounded cheeks, and enchanting anime-like eyes with bright, pastel pink irises.
Dark gothic dress. Long bell sleeves. Puffy shoulders. Lace choker. White trim. The numerous ties and ribbons, however, are pastel pink. Pink, silk flowers adorn the dress. The short skirt is made from raven feathers. Her lace headdress, adorned with pink flowers, is like a tiara. Tall, pastel pink, stiletto heeled pumps. Glossy, pink lipstick. Pink earrings.
Sylvia: Arc V pt 2
Ethereal anime-style illustration in loose watercolor technique with dark fantasy elements. Lady, twenty-years old sits on the edge a tiled roof. A tiny, medieval village is front of her. The setting sun casts everything in its orange-red light.
Her extremely long, silvery, light gray hair has faint hints of lavender-pink. Her hair is in twin tails. The twin tails have a gentle, spiral curl. Her skin is smooth and healthy. She has a delicate but mature frame, with shapely hips and an ample bust. A cherubic face with an adorable nose, rounded cheeks, and enchanting anime-like eyes with bright, pastel pink irises.
She wears a blue shirt dress, the ruffled skirt ending around her knees. Pink trim, pink ribbons, and pink lace add flavor. On her head is a blue beret, adorned with a pink bow set elegantly off center. For shoes, she wears cute, blue pumps.
Sylvia: Arc VI
Ethereal anime-style illustration in loose watercolor technique with dark fantasy elements.
A lady, twenty-three years old spins to show off dress outside a fantasy hotel. It's dark outside.
Her extremely long, silvery, light gray hair has faint hints of lavender-pink. Her hair is in twin tails. The twin tails have a gentle, spiral curl. Her skin is smooth and healthy. She has a delicate but mature frame, with shapely hips and an ample bust. A heart-shaped face with an adorable nose, rounded cheeks, and enchanting anime-like eyes with bright, pastel pink irises.
An elegant evening dress of dark violet. The dress is like a galaxy with sparkling stars. Towering, violet, stiletto heeled shoes. Stockings. Lace choker around her neck. Pink, tear drop earrings. Black pendant hanging over her breasts. She wears a violet beret.
Sylvia: Arc VI - Old
High quality, ethereal illustration in loose watercolor technique with dark fantasy elements.
A lady, twenty-three years old spins to show off dress in the courtyard of a gothic hotel. The sky is a pitch black.
Extremely long, silvery, light gray twin tails with faint hints of lavender-pink. The twin tails have a spiral curl. Her pale skin is smooth and healthy. The lady has a mature, delicate, and shapely frame. An elegant, cherubic face with an adorable nose, rounded cheeks, and enchanting anime-like eyes with bright, pastel pink irises. Her lips are a glossy pink.
An elegant evening dress of dark violet. The dress is like a galaxy with sparkling stars. Towering, violet, stiletto heeled shoes. Stockings. Lace choker around her neck. Pink, tear drop earrings. A black pendant hangs over her breasts. She wears a violet beret.
Comments
I mainly operate through an AI model aggregator poe. Technically, I could be calling the model through an API using the poe keys, which would give me far better control and setup. "For context: Automatic1111 itself is fairly lightweight, but when usage ready its at least 10GB, each model checkpoint is ~4–7 GB. " Sadly, my crappy old laptop only has 8 GB total. One of these days I'd like to get a real setup to really play around with AI models. "A LoRA is a small, supplementary model that can be loaded alongside a base model. It's great for teaching the generator to reproduce specific things, for example, you could train one for Sylvia, so you don't need long descriptions every time. That way, you can focus prompts on other aspects of the image while keeping the character consistent." That's rather cool. In my mind, the correct way to do this would be to build a library of character images. Extend those images into poses and postures. Add in clothing and examples of the character with that clothing. Then, finally, have a selection mechanism that programmatically pulls from the library based on labels, then feeds them through a chain of AI model activities that produces the final image based on the prompt. Finally, there would be an easy way to flow all this back into the library, breaking down the resulting image into labels to provide a flow of consistency from image to image. And perhaps a way to custom train the models into variants off that library. Many of the pieces to achieve this already appear to be there. But not all the parts have congealed into one easy to use IDE to make it happen yet. I'd really like to play around with this some day. But, the older I get the busier I get and the faster time seems to fly by. Still, you've given me lots of exciting points to branch off of if I ever do take that dive.
Steve Barbour
2025-09-25 17:10:56 +0000 UTCAbout AI image generation, I'm not sure how familiar you are with it (maybe you simplified things for the post, or just didn't dive too deep). I'm not an expert either, but I thought I'd share a few tips. Flux isn't really an "AI" itself, it's a base model for image generation. You might be using it through a website, which is totally fine if you want to avoid the technical setup. Personally, I use Automatic1111 (an open source local program), and many people also recommend ComfyUI for more advanced, streamlined and customizable workflows. Some of the most popular base models are Flux, SD 1.5, SDXL (sometimes called Illustrious), and Pony. SD 1.5 is a bit older now, SDXL is very solid (my preferred choice), and Flux is newer but more resource-intensive. My favorite checkpoint is Nova Anime XL (which is SDXL based), but that's just a personal pick. Flux may have some anime-capable styles, but it doesn’t yet seem to have as many anime-focused derivatives as the SD 1.5 or SDXL families. For context: Automatic1111 itself is fairly lightweight, but when usage ready its at least 10GB, each model checkpoint is ~4–7 GB. On my RTX 2060, I can generate images decently, around a minute for a 1080p result. It's much faster to generate at lower resolution first, then upscale (or regenerate at higher resolution) the best outputs. If you have at least an RTX 3060, you can also train LoRAs fairly comfortably (though lower cards can still do it, just slower). A LoRA is a small, supplementary model that can be loaded alongside a base model. It's great for teaching the generator to reproduce specific things, for example, you could train one for Sylvia, so you don't need long descriptions every time. That way, you can focus prompts on other aspects of the image while keeping the character consistent. Speaking of prompts: it usually works better to think in keywords rather than full English sentences. You can group and emphasize words with parentheses, or adjust importance with weights (like keyword:1.4). Tools like inpainting are also handy, instead of regenerating an entire picture, you can select just the area you want to fix and re-prompt for that part. Finally, if you can't or don't want to bother with installing and setting up anything, or you want to explore different models, CivitAI is great. There is limited free generation and I'm pretty sure you can also train LoRas there. You can download checkpoints, LoRAs, and even browse other people's results. If you click an image there, you can see the exact settings and prompts they used, which is really helpful for learning.
Daniverzum
2025-09-25 15:41:50 +0000 UTCThat'd be a fun scene. I'm not sure if I'll ever have a good time in story to do it. The plot in the next several arcs is pretty tight. I might manage it in Arc X: Mortals.
Steve Barbour
2025-09-23 16:31:55 +0000 UTCOn the topic of the forum comments i'd love to see a scene where the main posters all have their first post life meet up. Their reaction to loli sword god's inaccuracy being the lack of a sword and them complaining about finding out some of Sylvia's worst trolls in person such as those spiders not being edible.
Kurosov
2025-09-23 16:16:43 +0000 UTC
