In the original story, the introduction of Zane and Xara was scripted, unlike the introduction of Lenny and Katelyn, which came about through playing the game.
This time I will assume that Sithia was impressed by what Katelyn said about Zane when she met him at the community garden.
So she is here to check them out for herself.
Sithia finds him proper, polite and quite attractive.
I think she would be OK with having some eye candy around the house.
I was considering playing out the back story of how Zane met Xara, but I am too impatient for that.
I just want them join right away.
He's charismatic too?
Alright, that's enough for Sithia.
He's in.
Instant friendship.
The girl seems interesting.
We will take her too.
What is Zane and Xara's backstory?
Xara immigrated from France to Bridgeport. She met Zane in a dance club and he proceeded to use all his vampire powers on her to entrall her and make her his familiar. But there was something about Zara that made him feel really guilty about it, so he didn't do it. They became good friends and he gave up preying on human sims and turned to plasma fruit.
It's ironic that he is now enthralled by a sort of vampiric fairy.
They seem committed to the idea of moving in with her.
Let's make it official.
Third milestone achieved.
Now that I think about it, there was more to their story.
Zane traveled to France where where met Xara, fed off her, made her his familiar and brought her back with him.
The guilt of taking her changed him, and he wanted to return her back to her normal life. Under her own control, Xara decided to stay and the became good friends.
They seem very nervous right now.
Well, they have been enthralled by an evil fairy and have just given up their regular lives to achieve her goals.
There might be some lingering reservations.
Xara wants to be a fortune teller.
Perfect, since that is what she was in the original story.
And yes, Katelyn and Xara will be a couple again.
Katelyn is looking a bit thirsty in this shot and Xara is a refreshing drink of water.
This house already had a piano in it when Sithia moved in.
Perfect set up for Zane as he loves playing the piano.
He is also supposed to be interested in architecture, but I didn't feel like playing the architect/design career.
Katelyn is happy as can be, first magic and then Xara.
Now it's time to get Xara that fortune teller job.
Janett Merrick?
I did put her in Bridgeport, but what are you doing thinking about her?
Who is Jannet Merrick?
Jannet was a witch in the story that had an eye on Sithia's property and tried to acquire it while they lived at the temporary castle:
Story Flashback time!
William Fangman: "Hey! You there! Get away from my dog and get off our property."
Lenny: "Your property? This lot does not belong to you. We hold the title to it. You get off our property!"
"Your little fairy girl isn't the only one who can wield magic to manipulate the minds of office drones. What she gained we can take with the citizenship to back it up."
"Talk, talk, talk--there is nothing you can do about it. You have no legal rights you can claim in court. You don't want that kind of attention, and it's too late to transfer the property to someone who is legitimate--not while we have something to say about it."
"William, don't you dare lose to him!"
Lenny soundly thrashes William Fangmann.
"William!"
Jannet: "Oh, you have done it now, whoever you are.
This property is the most beautiful natural area in Bridgeport and I refuse to let it get away."
"My my, daily trifles--I guess life would be boring without them."
"I will have to remove you myself. What should I use?
I know!"
This isn't an official installment to the story, but I was playing around in Moonlight Falls and made over Jannet in CAS. She was married to Beau Merrick, who happens to have moved from Bridgeport. I had to steal her for Bridgeport, so look out for her soon.
"Honey, we can work this out. All you need is counseling."
"Counseling? You think me insane? I'll tell you what is insane: this house, this town."
"I'm sick of you.
I'm sick of the lot of you and I'm getting out. Don't think about looking for me."
Yuri's introduction to the original story was also scripted.
I had to add her to the household in advanced so I could have enough control to create the scene.
This time around, I want to actually play her before she meets Sithia.
I also need her highly skilled in Science, Inventiveness, and Handiness before she meets Sithia. It's the reason why Sithia wants her in the first place. Yuri drops by one of her favorite hangouts (the library) and applies for a job while she is there.
She applied for a career in science and heads there to see the facilities.
I didn't have this science rabbit hole in the original story.
I was using a combination hospital/science lab.
This new lab is perfect for Yuri.
It has all the tech toys she could hope for.
She has her own side interests and wanted this job to make all that she needs available to her.
Her new job is just having her focus on gardening, handiness and fishing.
Boring for Yuri, the Advanced Sciences Lab is where the cool stuff happens.
She worked up an appetite.
Fortunately there are vending machines here.
She can get rid of the hunger pangs long enough to finish her work.
Horrible, but it does the job.
She wanted to try out the the group science project before she leaves.
The look of a hardcore science girl.
Sadly, she has to leave to go get some sleep.
There aren't that many starter homes left in Bridgeport.
She was lucky to get in this one after Zane and Xara left.
She settles down to some nice science dreams.
Until she is awaken by some crazy townie.
It's past three in the morning.
So, she was out for a jog and decided, hey, let's wake somebody up?
She should know that his kind of thing is not right.
Also, take a hike, workout girl.
She's awake now.
She might as well finish this invention.
Yahoo! You are having fun. As to being nostalgic lately I've been thinking about Bella's story from TS2.
I was thinking about playing it out in TS4.
I've already edited the Caliente household by getting rid of Katrina and giving the girls and Don their TS2 homes back:
I don't care for EA's revision of the Calientes.
Nina and Dina's mother was N i g h a t Caliente, not Katrina, and their mother died when they were children.
So Katrina is out of the picture and out of the game. I am also making them over
That household description is from The Sims 2 by the way.
And we are going old school with remakes of their old TS2 homes.
Don is here only temporarily, until I can build some relationships.
Dina:
Traits: Materialistic/Goofball/Slob
Aspiration: Mansion Baron
Career: Sticking with culinary for now.
Nina:
Traits: Jealous/Self-assured/Neat
Aspiration: Soulmate
Career: Something with different hours from Dina (convenient for Don.)
Don:
Traits: Romantic/Self-assured/Non-committal.
Aspiration: Serial Romantic
Career: Doctor (Similar to original TS2 career)
And now that Dina is away, Nina will play.
Nina is now established as Don's main squeeze.
Time for that bachelor pad, Don needs his own place.
Right next door.
Having down working as a doctor is kind of creepy, but yeah, he will be hitting on patients and staff.
He's not some bulky, body-building, tattooed bro.
Dina was really hot. He's going to have to invite her over some time, when Nina is at work.
I was thinking about playing it out in TS4.
I've already edited the Caliente household by getting rid of Katrina and giving the girls and Don their TS2 homes back:
I adore old school. A heads up if your are going to upload the homes please. :-)
"Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilizations as well."
I love the design and quality of TS3 objects. Look at that round opening--no octagon.
Good job!
Missed one. It must have been out of range.
She was up bright and early the next day.
So early, she decided to check out what's going on in the park behind her house. It's all decked out to celebrate the arrival of Spring.
She tries roller skating.
It should be a fun way to exercise, if she could become steady on skates.
That was fun.
It makes her realize that she is missing out on life.
All science and no play makes Yuri a dull girl.
There seems to be plenty to do here.
Let's get her face painted. That should be fun.
What?
Who told that guy he was good at face painting?
She'll try someone else.
That's more like it.
She joined a woman in a game of Gnubb.
She was holding her own until...
BONK!
Her opponent realizes she is playing an amateur.
And she missed her toss too.
It doesn't look good.
That's game.
Ow well, it was fun, even if she lost.
But now she is feeling hungry.
Good burger!
Wasn't she supposed to go to work today?
Oh well, she might as well just call off.
She might as well keep the fun times rolling.
There is an arcade nearby.
I was thinking about playing it out in TS4.
I've already edited the Caliente household by getting rid of Katrina and giving the girls and Don their TS2 homes back:
I adore old school. A heads up if your are going to upload the homes please. :-)
I'll have to CC scrub it and replace the missing objects and textures.
It might be a while before I get around to it.
I was thinking about playing it out in TS4.
I've already edited the Caliente household by getting rid of Katrina and giving the girls and Don their TS2 homes back:
I adore old school. A heads up if your are going to upload the homes please. :-)
I'll have to scrub it off CC and then replace the missing textures and objects.
It might be awhile.
Johnny Rocket's Arcade is actually right across from Yuri's house.
It's time to meet people and make friends.
Wait a minute, I don't think she's a random townie.
Jannet Merrick?
How could I not tell from the face tattoos? Get away from her! She's bad news.
See!
A few minutes conversation with her and you are in a bad mood.
Talk to Marina Prattle instead.
It did feel a bit lonely playing her in the beginning.
It's nice to see her being social. I imagine that she doesn't relate well with her coworkers.
Marina eventually wanders off, but look who is here:
Lenny!
The synchronicity is perfect.
Have a chair and join the fun.
Here is another synchronicity.
Jannet and William Fangman, so this is where she met her future henchman.
I will have to switch and hook them up officially. Jannet will have to steal him from Buffy the Vampire slayer, since story progression matched them up.
Fire alarms?
They must have gotten on the topic from Yuri's biscuits burning.
It was a fun day and night for Yuri, but it eventually had to end.
Well not exactly.
She couldn't resist pounding out an invention before bed.
Giving it a test.
And an ice cream treat before bed.
Enjoying new found freedom, she called off work again and went down to the junk yard to refresh her scrap supply.
She can use explosives now.
Oh, I didn't notice the turtle there.
This is gonna be a big bang.
RUN!!!
BOOOOOOOMM!
Oh!
I was actually surprised by this.
Yuri does not like being toasted.
At least she has her vac to suck the scrap up quickly.
What are all these little insect like creature in scrap yard.
Nanite colonies.
Interesting.
Yuri received some bad news when she arrives home.
She has been fired from her job.
However, being truly free to pursue her own interests is a nice upside.
I've never thought about placing the junk yard where the dinner is in vanilla. I may try that. Where did you put the Scrumptous Nibbles? Was all of this done in CAW?
If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all. Live in your Truth.
I was happy to be back with Sithia's household, but it always makes me nervous to rotate between households.
You never know what you might find when you come back.
It's Spring, so Sithia can get her outdoor garden started.
Xara was doing laundry.
Katelyn is obsessed with dancing, in her underwear.
Lenny was probably tired for that time he spent in downtown Bridgeport.
Zane is obsessed with the piano.
I sent Lenny to pick up Yuri since she is jobless with plenty of free time on her hands.
Get out of the house and out of the city.
He has friends he wants you to meet.
I will finally have them all back together again.
Gotta take a bridge crossing shot.
In the original story, Yuri didn't join in until after Sithia built and moved into her castle.
I wanted Yuri to participate in getting to the castle this time.
The meeting of Sithia and Yuri in the original story was very enjoyable, but it was mostly scripted and I had control of both characters.
Yuri is a visitor this time.
I imagine that Lenny told Sithia all about Yuri, and that Sithia would see the value of having someone who knows about science and technology in the household.
Part of the old story plot was blessing Yuri with the Flight of Felicity, which was furn for her, so I decided to do it again.
There you go, Science girl, try some magic.
Whoa, she looks upset.
She's leaving!
What? Where are you going?
When did she get a car?
No matter. We are going to track her down wherever she goes.
She wasn't heading back into Bridgeport.
She was going deeper into the hills, until she decided to get out of the car.
For a brooding session.
How odd. And... what?
Jannet Merrick!
You have something to do with this?
Something is starting to make sense here, but later for that.
We have to get Yuri back.
No more gentle coercion for the Science girl.
You belong with us!
Welcome home, Yuri.
She is now part of the household...
...and I can get to the bottom of what is going on here.
It turns out that Jannet Merrick is Xara's boss at her fortunetelling job.
Jannet was on her way to work, and so was Xara..., and so was Yuri. It seems story progression gave Yuri a job that quick.
That explains why Yuri changed her clothes and left.
She was going to work. Well, she won't be needing that job.
She quit that so she can begin the work she needs to do here.
After taking a moment to do the I can fly! routine granted to her by the Flight of Felicity ability.
Now, to work.
There is a basement in the greenhouse.
A little upgrade to the nectar making machines and Sithia will be producing quality nectar.
It wasn't long before Sithia had fruit bearing plants.
Yuri had a harvester ready to go before she arrived.
Now she can put it to good use.
Good work. This will help speed up production.
She gave it to Sithia, but I think fairies are just bad with technology like this.
Although I do think Sithia would look good playing electric guitar.
Yuri is making another one, but I think Sithia will stick to harvesting by hand.
Yuri is better at harvesting than anyone else in the household.
In the original story I always hoped that Yuri would build a simbot and add an artificial lifeform to the family, to mesh with all the magical creatures, can picture her with the Supernatural Skeptic trait too.
The thing with Yuri being forced into the fortune teller career, thats a basegame mechanic that I really hate. Technical explanation: Every sim in a career needs to have a Boss and a few coworkers, and unlike normal real-life jobs, every sim has their own seperate Boss and coworkers. Its all randomly assigned, and the game will pluck any sim from the world thats unemployed or retired to fill these roles. That sweet old sickly lady thats retired? Suddenly shes your boss in the athletic career. The only way to protect against it, is to create manual townies at the start of the game, and assign them jobs in careers at level 5 and above, so that the game has no chance to steal people for it. This is pretty much required for all the new careers that old towns werent designed for, like Fortune Telling.
Rebuilding Sims 2 inside Sims 3 one lot and sim at a time.
Holy smokes, where has the time gone?
I just stopped this thread cold turkey.
I just happened back today because I am working on a personal project related to these sims.
I want to convert my old supernatural story to a format I can enjoy offline and not worry about losing it if EA purges my old story thread.
I have a pretty sizable backlog of game play.
When Get Famous came along I got all caught with exploring that pack and creating content for my cosplaying sims.
And then Strangerville came along. I still haven;t finished that one. My interest is waning a bit.
So now I am reworking my TS3 Supernatural story. It's a big project. Which is fine because I after I finish off Strangerville, I propably won't touch TS4 until we get a Univeristy pack.
I did my supernatural sims up until moving into the castle.
I did have a great time with them. The nostalgia was fantastic.
But with all Sims game, once you arrive to the end-goal, it's not as much fun anymore.
I will probably go back into it because of my new project. I might need some extra content to flesh out the old story more.
Holy smokes, where has the time gone?
I just stopped this thread cold turkey.
I just happened back today because I am working on a personal project related to these sims.
I want to convert my old supernatural story to a format I can enjoy offline and not worry about losing it if EA purges my old story thread.
I have a pretty sizable backlog of game play.
When Get Famous came along I got all caught with exploring that pack and creating content for my cosplaying sims.
And then Strangerville came along. I still haven;t finished that one. My interest is waning a bit.
So now I am reworking my TS3 Supernatural story. It's a big project. Which is fine because I after I finish off Strangerville, I propably won't touch TS4 until we get a Univeristy pack.
I did my supernatural sims up until moving into the castle.
I did have a great time with them. The nostalgia was fantastic.
But with all Sims game, once you arrive to the end-goal, it's not as much fun anymore.
I will probably go back into it because of my new project. I might need some extra content to flesh out the old story more.
I hope that you do continue your Supernatural Story and keep us informed by using an non EA format such as a tumblr, google docs, etc. I really did enjoy your supernatural stories as well as others have I'm sure
If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all. Live in your Truth.
I am bringing this over from another thread.
I am currently editing Champs Le Sims and I had to search just to find these pictures.
Now I will know where to find these if I ever need them again.
World Adventures
I haven't sent my sims on an adventure in ages.
I am jumping way ahead to where I am now with my current sims.
I just sent Matty and Devon to Champs Les Sims. I usually do three edits to this world before I send sims.
I put in the Eiffel Tower.
I pretend Champs Les Sims created a sister tower to the one in Paris.
I replaced this building with a made-over version with a Fusion Lounge in it.
And I throw in the Arc De Triomphe back there. (Another Paris rip-off).
But I happened to look in my community lots bin and noticed all these TS3 Store Venues that I have never used.
I only bought them for the game play objects. I just use the objects as I choose without the lots.
And then it hit me that I should be placing these lots in France. France is the weakest of the Adventure destinations to me, and I really want it to be a romantic getaway. So why not place all these lots here so my sims can have more to do.
I am sure others are doing this, but it finally clicked with me. So...
The Duke of Bows Renaissance Fair goes here.
The Deliciously Indulgent Bakery goes here.
I should check if I can squeeze this one in the town center.
It would be much cooler there.
World of Wonder goes here.
And the Last Venue of Amore goes here.
Yeah, it's Italian themed, but other than Monte Vista, I don't have many places to put it. It should be good for some romantic gondola rides.
I relocated the art gallery here because it was on a nice property that was better for the Last Venue of Amore.
My sims are just getting started.
I will probably focus on them extending their Visa before testing out the new venues.
I think I am about to uninstall The Sims 3.
I was back into it for a while and just watched in dismay as Monte Vista slowly corrupted.
Missing sim icons, consignment stores not working, sims traveling below the ground, lag, crashing despite clearing my cache files,
I put too much work into it just to have my game become borked.
I had a great time and have plenty of pictures from it all, but the game just doesn't seem stable anymore for me.
I think I will just keep myself entertained with TS4 and all the other unplayed games I have in my Steam Library.
Plus removing all the TS3 content and CC will free up a lot of hard drive space.
I've had the same problems @CK213 so I empathize. I really miss my horses so may go back to it one day but lately have mostly been replaying 2. I started it from the beginning again just to see how much i missed. LOL.
And I also do play 4 but taking it slow. Just going now to check out some of the game changers video and see what the next one has to offer.
Take care.
"Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilizations as well."
I've had the same problems @CK213 so I empathize. I really miss my horses so may go back to it one day but lately have mostly been replaying 2. I started it from the beginning again just to see how much i missed. LOL.
And I also do play 4 but taking it slow. Just going now to check out some of the game changers video and see what the next one has to offer.
Take care.
Thanks.
I will keep it long enough to document all my TS3 house design plans.
That might help with any TS3 separation anxiety.
I haven't played TS3 since June of last year.
I am really getting bored with TS4 and I picked up TS3 again.
I'm back in the game with a new game play scenario that I have been meaning to play for years.
I am playing a Sim City version of the sims. Basically I have a sim that invests in the rabbit holes and community lots as his wealth increases.
I then upgrade the town.
Imagine Sunset Valley growing like a Sim City town would.
My sim married Lisa Bunch.
He is making his money by growing life fruit and money trees.
And they are investing in the grocery store as well as the book store. I believe I will have Lisa pursue politics and become mayor.
I've spent this morning looking for these pictures of this makeover of Sunset Valley that I no longer have as a save.
The goal is to make Sunset Valley look like this.
This is like a slowed down town makeover.
I play until they earn a nice chunk of cash and then I invest and buyout a business. I then make the lot over.
I am also slowly adding my favorite lots I have built over the years.
I think I will stay away from World Adventures this time.
My last game was fine until I edited the France and went on an adventure.
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In the original story, the introduction of Zane and Xara was scripted, unlike the introduction of Lenny and Katelyn, which came about through playing the game.
This time I will assume that Sithia was impressed by what Katelyn said about Zane when she met him at the community garden.
So she is here to check them out for herself.
Sithia finds him proper, polite and quite attractive.
I think she would be OK with having some eye candy around the house.
I was considering playing out the back story of how Zane met Xara, but I am too impatient for that.
I just want them join right away.
He's charismatic too?
Alright, that's enough for Sithia.
He's in.
Instant friendship.
The girl seems interesting.
We will take her too.
What is Zane and Xara's backstory?
Xara immigrated from France to Bridgeport. She met Zane in a dance club and he proceeded to use all his vampire powers on her to entrall her and make her his familiar. But there was something about Zara that made him feel really guilty about it, so he didn't do it. They became good friends and he gave up preying on human sims and turned to plasma fruit.
It's ironic that he is now enthralled by a sort of vampiric fairy.
They seem committed to the idea of moving in with her.
Let's make it official.
Third milestone achieved.
Now that I think about it, there was more to their story.
Zane traveled to France where where met Xara, fed off her, made her his familiar and brought her back with him.
The guilt of taking her changed him, and he wanted to return her back to her normal life. Under her own control, Xara decided to stay and the became good friends.
They seem very nervous right now.
Well, they have been enthralled by an evil fairy and have just given up their regular lives to achieve her goals.
There might be some lingering reservations.
Xara wants to be a fortune teller.
Perfect, since that is what she was in the original story.
And yes, Katelyn and Xara will be a couple again.
Katelyn is looking a bit thirsty in this shot and Xara is a refreshing drink of water.
This house already had a piano in it when Sithia moved in.
Perfect set up for Zane as he loves playing the piano.
He is also supposed to be interested in architecture, but I didn't feel like playing the architect/design career.
Katelyn is happy as can be, first magic and then Xara.
Now it's time to get Xara that fortune teller job.
Janett Merrick?
I did put her in Bridgeport, but what are you doing thinking about her?
Who is Jannet Merrick?
Jannet was a witch in the story that had an eye on Sithia's property and tried to acquire it while they lived at the temporary castle:
Story Flashback time!
Lenny: "Your property? This lot does not belong to you. We hold the title to it. You get off our property!"
"Your little fairy girl isn't the only one who can wield magic to manipulate the minds of office drones. What she gained we can take with the citizenship to back it up."
"Talk, talk, talk--there is nothing you can do about it. You have no legal rights you can claim in court. You don't want that kind of attention, and it's too late to transfer the property to someone who is legitimate--not while we have something to say about it."
"William, don't you dare lose to him!"
Lenny soundly thrashes William Fangmann.
"William!"
Jannet: "Oh, you have done it now, whoever you are.
This property is the most beautiful natural area in Bridgeport and I refuse to let it get away."
"My my, daily trifles--I guess life would be boring without them."
"I will have to remove you myself. What should I use?
I know!"
"Fire."
Do you know by the way when they do this? (the bowing)
Is it related to the celebrity system?
Zane has the Proper trait.
It's funny when they get the want to give the "What For" social to sims who have offended them.
I had transported Beau to Moonlight falls. Story progression him up with Jannet.
I later brought her to Bridgeport to be in my Supernatural story.
Yuri's introduction to the original story was also scripted.
I had to add her to the household in advanced so I could have enough control to create the scene.
This time around, I want to actually play her before she meets Sithia.
I also need her highly skilled in Science, Inventiveness, and Handiness before she meets Sithia. It's the reason why Sithia wants her in the first place. Yuri drops by one of her favorite hangouts (the library) and applies for a job while she is there.
She applied for a career in science and heads there to see the facilities.
I didn't have this science rabbit hole in the original story.
I was using a combination hospital/science lab.
This new lab is perfect for Yuri.
It has all the tech toys she could hope for.
She has her own side interests and wanted this job to make all that she needs available to her.
Her new job is just having her focus on gardening, handiness and fishing.
Boring for Yuri, the Advanced Sciences Lab is where the cool stuff happens.
She worked up an appetite.
Fortunately there are vending machines here.
She can get rid of the hunger pangs long enough to finish her work.
Horrible, but it does the job.
She wanted to try out the the group science project before she leaves.
The look of a hardcore science girl.
Sadly, she has to leave to go get some sleep.
There aren't that many starter homes left in Bridgeport.
She was lucky to get in this one after Zane and Xara left.
She settles down to some nice science dreams.
Until she is awaken by some crazy townie.
It's past three in the morning.
So, she was out for a jog and decided, hey, let's wake somebody up?
She should know that his kind of thing is not right.
Also, take a hike, workout girl.
She's awake now.
She might as well finish this invention.
I've been having too much fun. Time to catch up.
Yuri continues to blow through her scheduled work tasks so she can get off early and hit the advanced sciences lab. She is progressing quickly.
She has been working late and is now tired of those candy bars.
She stops buy Scrumptious Nibbles for some decent food.
It's interesting that Sithia isn't the one first discovering the other companions.
Yuri's curiosity is piqued by Lenny's unusual eyes:
She is new to Bridgeport. It's about time she started meeting people.
She and Lenny have handiness and collecting in common, so they have something to talk about.
He also seems to be the physical type.
So she tests his reflexes.
Werewolf reaction, but she doesn't know that.
She just notices his sense of humor.
It's getting late though and she should get home.
It was nice meeting and chatting with someone outside of work.
Perhaps they will meet again.
Science marches on!
And so do Bridgeport's townies.
Yuri has no time for social causes, especially if it's protesting areas that involve science.
What do they have against astronauts anyway?
She continues inventing at home.
In the famous words of Yosemite Sam: "My biscuits are burnin'!"
She turned that pain into profit when she sold her creations at the consignment store.
She still takes off early despite annoyed looks from co-workers.
Her work is done, they can't complain about that.
She loves working on the group science project.
She's doing fine by herself.
Finally, time to pull the lever.
Awesome!
The brain-boosting effect is highly beneficial.
She will have this device mastered in no time.
Might as well give some of that cerebral love to inventing as well.
The result being she oversleeps and is late for work.
I was thinking about playing it out in TS4.
I've already edited the Caliente household by getting rid of Katrina and giving the girls and Don their TS2 homes back:
I adore old school. A heads up if your are going to upload the homes please. :-)
AHQ Champion
Late for work!
She missed the car pool and had to take a cab.
After work, she stops by the community garden.
To test out her latest invention.
I love the design and quality of TS3 objects. Look at that round opening--no octagon.
Good job!
Missed one. It must have been out of range.
She was up bright and early the next day.
So early, she decided to check out what's going on in the park behind her house. It's all decked out to celebrate the arrival of Spring.
She tries roller skating.
It should be a fun way to exercise, if she could become steady on skates.
That was fun.
It makes her realize that she is missing out on life.
All science and no play makes Yuri a dull girl.
There seems to be plenty to do here.
Let's get her face painted. That should be fun.
What?
Who told that guy he was good at face painting?
She'll try someone else.
That's more like it.
She joined a woman in a game of Gnubb.
She was holding her own until...
BONK!
Her opponent realizes she is playing an amateur.
And she missed her toss too.
It doesn't look good.
That's game.
Ow well, it was fun, even if she lost.
But now she is feeling hungry.
Good burger!
Wasn't she supposed to go to work today?
Oh well, she might as well just call off.
She might as well keep the fun times rolling.
There is an arcade nearby.
I'll have to CC scrub it and replace the missing objects and textures.
It might be a while before I get around to it.
I'll have to scrub it off CC and then replace the missing textures and objects.
It might be awhile.
Johnny Rocket's Arcade is actually right across from Yuri's house.
It's time to meet people and make friends.
Wait a minute, I don't think she's a random townie.
Jannet Merrick?
How could I not tell from the face tattoos? Get away from her! She's bad news.
See!
A few minutes conversation with her and you are in a bad mood.
Talk to Marina Prattle instead.
It did feel a bit lonely playing her in the beginning.
It's nice to see her being social. I imagine that she doesn't relate well with her coworkers.
Marina eventually wanders off, but look who is here:
Lenny!
The synchronicity is perfect.
Have a chair and join the fun.
Here is another synchronicity.
Jannet and William Fangman, so this is where she met her future henchman.
I will have to switch and hook them up officially. Jannet will have to steal him from Buffy the Vampire slayer, since story progression matched them up.
Fire alarms?
They must have gotten on the topic from Yuri's biscuits burning.
It was a fun day and night for Yuri, but it eventually had to end.
Well not exactly.
She couldn't resist pounding out an invention before bed.
Giving it a test.
And an ice cream treat before bed.
Enjoying new found freedom, she called off work again and went down to the junk yard to refresh her scrap supply.
She can use explosives now.
Oh, I didn't notice the turtle there.
This is gonna be a big bang.
RUN!!!
BOOOOOOOMM!
Oh!
I was actually surprised by this.
Yuri does not like being toasted.
At least she has her vac to suck the scrap up quickly.
What are all these little insect like creature in scrap yard.
Nanite colonies.
Interesting.
Yuri received some bad news when she arrives home.
She has been fired from her job.
However, being truly free to pursue her own interests is a nice upside.
Better call Lenny.
That's what friends are for.
I'm still playing TS3 and my Sunset Valley is so overpopulated that I'm bulldozing large lots and placing various versions of "The Urbanite" series.
I was happy to be back with Sithia's household, but it always makes me nervous to rotate between households.
You never know what you might find when you come back.
It's Spring, so Sithia can get her outdoor garden started.
Xara was doing laundry.
Katelyn is obsessed with dancing, in her underwear.
Lenny was probably tired for that time he spent in downtown Bridgeport.
Zane is obsessed with the piano.
I sent Lenny to pick up Yuri since she is jobless with plenty of free time on her hands.
Get out of the house and out of the city.
He has friends he wants you to meet.
I will finally have them all back together again.
Gotta take a bridge crossing shot.
In the original story, Yuri didn't join in until after Sithia built and moved into her castle.
I wanted Yuri to participate in getting to the castle this time.
The meeting of Sithia and Yuri in the original story was very enjoyable, but it was mostly scripted and I had control of both characters.
Yuri is a visitor this time.
I imagine that Lenny told Sithia all about Yuri, and that Sithia would see the value of having someone who knows about science and technology in the household.
Part of the old story plot was blessing Yuri with the Flight of Felicity, which was furn for her, so I decided to do it again.
There you go, Science girl, try some magic.
Whoa, she looks upset.
She's leaving!
What? Where are you going?
When did she get a car?
No matter. We are going to track her down wherever she goes.
She wasn't heading back into Bridgeport.
She was going deeper into the hills, until she decided to get out of the car.
For a brooding session.
How odd. And... what?
Jannet Merrick!
You have something to do with this?
Something is starting to make sense here, but later for that.
We have to get Yuri back.
No more gentle coercion for the Science girl.
You belong with us!
Welcome home, Yuri.
She is now part of the household...
...and I can get to the bottom of what is going on here.
It turns out that Jannet Merrick is Xara's boss at her fortunetelling job.
Jannet was on her way to work, and so was Xara..., and so was Yuri. It seems story progression gave Yuri a job that quick.
That explains why Yuri changed her clothes and left.
She was going to work. Well, she won't be needing that job.
She quit that so she can begin the work she needs to do here.
After taking a moment to do the I can fly! routine granted to her by the Flight of Felicity ability.
Now, to work.
There is a basement in the greenhouse.
A little upgrade to the nectar making machines and Sithia will be producing quality nectar.
It wasn't long before Sithia had fruit bearing plants.
Yuri had a harvester ready to go before she arrived.
Now she can put it to good use.
Good work. This will help speed up production.
She gave it to Sithia, but I think fairies are just bad with technology like this.
Although I do think Sithia would look good playing electric guitar.
Yuri is making another one, but I think Sithia will stick to harvesting by hand.
Yuri is better at harvesting than anyone else in the household.
The thing with Yuri being forced into the fortune teller career, thats a basegame mechanic that I really hate. Technical explanation: Every sim in a career needs to have a Boss and a few coworkers, and unlike normal real-life jobs, every sim has their own seperate Boss and coworkers. Its all randomly assigned, and the game will pluck any sim from the world thats unemployed or retired to fill these roles. That sweet old sickly lady thats retired? Suddenly shes your boss in the athletic career. The only way to protect against it, is to create manual townies at the start of the game, and assign them jobs in careers at level 5 and above, so that the game has no chance to steal people for it. This is pretty much required for all the new careers that old towns werent designed for, like Fortune Telling.
See my Sims 3 studio for latest progress.
I just stopped this thread cold turkey.
I just happened back today because I am working on a personal project related to these sims.
I want to convert my old supernatural story to a format I can enjoy offline and not worry about losing it if EA purges my old story thread.
I have a pretty sizable backlog of game play.
When Get Famous came along I got all caught with exploring that pack and creating content for my cosplaying sims.
And then Strangerville came along. I still haven;t finished that one. My interest is waning a bit.
So now I am reworking my TS3 Supernatural story. It's a big project. Which is fine because I after I finish off Strangerville, I propably won't touch TS4 until we get a Univeristy pack.
I did my supernatural sims up until moving into the castle.
I did have a great time with them. The nostalgia was fantastic.
But with all Sims game, once you arrive to the end-goal, it's not as much fun anymore.
I will probably go back into it because of my new project. I might need some extra content to flesh out the old story more.
I hope that you do continue your Supernatural Story and keep us informed by using an non EA format such as a tumblr, google docs, etc. I really did enjoy your supernatural stories as well as others have I'm sure
I am currently editing Champs Le Sims and I had to search just to find these pictures.
Now I will know where to find these if I ever need them again.
I think I am about to uninstall The Sims 3.
I was back into it for a while and just watched in dismay as Monte Vista slowly corrupted.
Missing sim icons, consignment stores not working, sims traveling below the ground, lag, crashing despite clearing my cache files,
I put too much work into it just to have my game become borked.
I had a great time and have plenty of pictures from it all, but the game just doesn't seem stable anymore for me.
I think I will just keep myself entertained with TS4 and all the other unplayed games I have in my Steam Library.
Plus removing all the TS3 content and CC will free up a lot of hard drive space.
And I also do play 4 but taking it slow. Just going now to check out some of the game changers video and see what the next one has to offer.
Take care.
AHQ Champion
Thanks.
I will keep it long enough to document all my TS3 house design plans.
That might help with any TS3 separation anxiety.
I am really getting bored with TS4 and I picked up TS3 again.
I'm back in the game with a new game play scenario that I have been meaning to play for years.
I am playing a Sim City version of the sims. Basically I have a sim that invests in the rabbit holes and community lots as his wealth increases.
I then upgrade the town.
Imagine Sunset Valley growing like a Sim City town would.
My sim married Lisa Bunch.
He is making his money by growing life fruit and money trees.
And they are investing in the grocery store as well as the book store. I believe I will have Lisa pursue politics and become mayor.
I've spent this morning looking for these pictures of this makeover of Sunset Valley that I no longer have as a save.
The goal is to make Sunset Valley look like this.
This is like a slowed down town makeover.
I play until they earn a nice chunk of cash and then I invest and buyout a business. I then make the lot over.
I am also slowly adding my favorite lots I have built over the years.
I think I will stay away from World Adventures this time.
My last game was fine until I edited the France and went on an adventure.