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For a while the chapters are going to be focusing on the Millers (and Luke in particular) more than on politics, so it only remains to be seen what I have planned for them...
Meanwhile, chapter 4.2 is out! (link)
I also have a small announcement to make: the next week I'm abroad for work, so the next chapter is most likely going to drop at some point during the next weekend.
I am really impressed by the all-sixamian group of NPCs you have going on there, including at the restaurant.
My own sense of fashion is just terrible instead, dressing up Lyra was always so difficult!
As for the alien NPCs instead, I'm mostly using the MCCC mod to turn all the random NPCs walking around into aliens. It's sort of like cheating, but so that I'm using it on NPCs and not on the played family it doesn't seem very important to me, and at least the setting of the story is consistent.
Will catch up at some stage, soon.
@SnowBnuuy ,
Misty in the army is not casual either, but how could I exploit this in TS4 where I can't actually represent real fighting scenes without heavy mods? Who knows...
@NRowe , the octo-idiots chapter was probably the funniest chapter I wrote in a while, I laugh just thinking again about it XD
Maybe I'm still able to write a whole chapter without any catastrophe, after all?
And I generally struggle a lot with having my Simlit characters break up and then find a new significant other too, sims lives on normal lifespans are so short and there are so many steps to show to make the whole process meaningful for the sim development. IRL this part of the story would have covered several years, while in-game it was literally something like 10 sim-days, so I really had to put some effort in make it sound like a lot of time was passing in between the different sections of Luke's diary.
Yet, I still have the impression that I took even too long to reach this point, by this point Luke was midway through the young adult life stage and I really had to hurry up to make sure that there would have been a generation 5 too :P
And wow this screenshot of the street was just gorgeous
That's a cool idea about Luke having the library as a business.
Luke (and also Misty) have surely grown a lot since when they were teens, they talk like they would be able to face any challenge now. And this probably means it's time to find some challenge for them to face, isn't it? :P
(*The Millers, who always and only hope for a peaceful life, don't like this element*)
It sounds like very stressful, yet rewarding, times are coming for our heir...
Though I wonder, for the future: In the early gens, we saw the difference of Sixamians raised on Earth to Sixamians raised on their home planet. I wonder, these children that will grow up in New Sixam, likely mostly-isolated from humans...how will they grow up? Will Luke and Misty be willing to let them mingle with humans? It'll be interesting to see where the next gen goes from here.
@NRowe , they are really cute, indeed!
@SnowBnuuy ,
Who knows, many different paths are possible... And I have the feeling that gen 5 will turn in a quite different direction from the one you're imagining now :P
I would also like to point out that this part definitively feels a bit too calm for my tastes, even if it is clearly a set-up for the stabilization of the New Sixam life and of the next generation. Yet, my brain can't avoid to make thoughts like:
The only question is when...
It looks like a quite calm chapter, but Lyra seems to have a big announcement to make...
and "the situation at home was quite chaotic" was wonderful
yes, any toddler parent can relate
and Misty looks incredible in uniform and in that flannel shirt
and often in social situations I have wished to say similar to what Luke said
But I don't....