This guide will explain how to create persistent scenes using Devious Desires. This mean animations that you perform on Thralls do not disappear after you leave the server, which goes a long way to make your locations truly feel alive!

Make sure you’re familiar with the basics of Devious Desires first, I have another guide on that if you aren’t.

Note: Looks like my images for this guide have walked off somewhere, I will look towards replacing them.

Step 1: Gather your two thralls and begin a scene.

Make sure you have all your thrall appearances set correctly first; attempting to customise a thrall later will break their animations and you’ll have to start over.

Step 2: Switch your positions using the Puppeteer menu

Open the Puppeteer menu and use the Scene tab to switch the Thrall positions correctly; your thralls should be in the positions A and B, and your own character should be at C (we don’t want them to be in the scene at all). Make any minor individual adjustments now, as you usually won’t be able to later (without breaking their animations, that is)

Step 3: End the scene

Click the Start/End scene button now to remove your player character from the scene. (Do NOT use the Eject button on the Puppeteer Scene tab, as this will break the Thrall animations as well).

Your thralls will now persist in the world performing their animation!

Hope this was helpful.