The next morning Adam, Marshall and Dedric climb down the ladder with lanterns and explore the tunnel. The tunnel north leads to an archway and a dead end. Adam notices something gleaming in the rubble at the dead end. He reaches down and picks it up. It is a dragon egg. Victor has a dragon and taught him about dragons. He will call Victor later to find out about this egg. How old might it be and is it possible it would hatch. Victor will know.
The guys enter the archway and go through a closed door. They stare in surprise at the statues they find in the room. The statues look elven in nature and very old. There is one ancient statue of a dragon. Of course, this place is called Red Dragon Lair. Perhaps dragons still visit and lay their eggs in the tunnels. How do they get in though? The door in the wall is covered in strange runes and does not open. Adam takes several pictures of all the statues and the door and close ups of the runes. He sends those off to Rafe in a text message. He receives a call back. "We are coming for the birthing. I'd like to see them in person."
Adam asks if they can move the statues out to make a lair for Victor and Rafe agrees. "You don't need to make a lair for us, we are comfortable sleeping above ground. I think it is habit with Victor more than anything, but he will be more comfortable and most pleased with you for doing the lair."
The south end of the tunnel is another dead end. This time from collapsed walls and rocks blocking the way ahead. Adam texts Rafe.
"Bring that magical sledge hammer of yours please."
"Will do."
Adam suggests they go ahead with the north end and build a proper staircase down to be safer for the pregnant ladies. "Alice is not going to be happy being left out of this, but, it is not really safe for us, let alone her. We need to do some shoring of the walls, provide some support beams and get some electricity set up to improve the lighting. You think we can keep her busy buying furniture and supplies?"
Marshall just looks at Adam and shrugs. "Depends on her mood and she is further along then Jennifer so probably moodier."
Dedric motions with his arms. "I'm not touching that. You get to be the one to tell her she can't come down here."
Adam, Marshall and Dedric finish moving the statues to the other area and head back upstairs. Adam asks them to start working on a list of things to purchase for a new staircase and to shore up the walls. Dedric and Marshall go back to Marshall's house to start the list, and leave Adam with Alice. Adam and Alice walk upstairs and he tells her about the tunnel leading to the room full of elven statues and a door with strange runes. He shows her the pictures he took and sent off to Rafe. "The room is perfect for a lair and Rafe approved moving the statues to a holding area until he can get here to see them. He and Autumn plan to be here for the baby so it is good timing. The area is still quite dangerous and we need to make a safer access to get up and down. The ladder is not safe for pregnant women. We also need to shore up the walls before we do much work as the walls are crumbling in places. Part of the tunnel has collapsed and we are storing the statues down at that end. We will repair the walls and shore up the weak spots. When Rafe gets here he will bring that magical sledge hammer of his and we can easily break the rocks and repair the walls at the same time. It will be much safer that way."
"That's great. That will give me plenty of time to finish the guest room for Rafe and Autumn, and order what is needed for the lair. I need pictures of the empty room so I know what to order."
She smiles at Adam and touches her belly.
"I think the baby is excited about everyone coming for the birth. It is kicking up a storm in there. I'm a bit disappointed I can't see the area and statues in person right now, but, this baby's safety comes before anything."
Adam helps her stand and puts his hands on her belly feeling how active the baby is. He is excited about being a father and loves feeling their baby moving around inside her. He is also happy she took the news of the dangerous tunnels so well. The safety of Alice and the baby are his prime concerns. He will take pictures of the empty room later, for now he wants to show his love to Alice.
Lauri tried to make some cookies, it didn't go well, so Ryan decided he'd make some Neopolitan Fudge.
Spring has come to Riverview, and Alex and Lindsey get prepared for a trip to Al Medina, just a small tourist trip.
Alex comes out of the trial with his boss's daughter. He was able to prove her guilty on both juvenile delinquency and acting as a lookout for a minor theft(i.e joint enterprise). He pushed for her to be imprisoned for 1 week, 200 hours of community service, and 1 month of daily detentions(plus paying 500 simoleans to the owner of the stolen money). On those counts the judge sided with leniency due to her mother's position and the fact that this case should be to preventative rather than punitive. She was sentenced to 2 days jail, 40 hours of community work, and 2 weeks of daily detentions.
Off on the trip.
They see museums, bookshops, antique stores, restaurants, the beach, and an art museum.
Them in front of the Mosque and Library of Al Medina. They had a good trip.
@Deshong04 I hope Jules finds the right person for him soon. Maybe Kanyin will come around once he realises Jules is genuine. I would be angry about the sims woohooing in the car too. Interesting that Jules got hearts for the offending female. @bekkasan I wonder how the egg got there in the first place. The statues in the Red Dragon Lair are cool. I'm intrigued by that door covered in the runes. Perhaps it leads somewhere special. I chuckled at Adam asking Rafe to bring his magical sledge hammer. I'm glad they're thinking of safety first in a place like this. I'm looking forward to seeing Rafe analyse the area. At least Alice is happy to stay away and focus on the furnishings. Shouldn't be long now until the baby comes. I love the tender moment between them at the end @meerkattime My skin crawls whenever I see a sim get that green lipstick. Liam is cute and can pull off the look though. Odessa looks very cool in her skeleton rocker costume. How frustrating that the party host didn't provide food. I find it funny that Connor is always found with his head deep in a book everytime he shows up in everyone's games. @jonny522 I hope the boss's daughter learns from her mistakes. I like the picture of Alex and Lindsey playing in the water the best. Pretty architecture. Looks like they saw a lot of the sights. I'm glad they had a nice time together.
@Silverofdreams30 Your sims are so helpful to each other! Congrats to Pamela on her passing grades. Hope the party is loads of fun.
Love the footsie picture!
@GraceyManor That was a terrible way to learn you were adopted! Shifu certainly took advantage of her confusion.
A lot of things are weird in custom worlds. I love some of them, but, I never use them as homeworlds, just vacation worlds. Too many have messed up my saves in the past.
@Nikkei_Simmer I hope you get it back soon too. I forgot you had other saves with them in it. I'm still shocked you killed them off!!
@Mstybl95 WOW....what an OMG moment in the game. Grim on one side of the wall and the happy party goers on the other...best party evah!!
@Brandontaylor lol...Bye Tyson!
Congrats to Lacie and Jason!
Congrats to Amanda and Ronald.
Ouch! That hurts
Glad to hear that the game is behaving so far and playing well for you.
@Deshong04 Certainly a sad tale of lost friendship and lost loves. Um...yep, don't make out in my car!! I think I would want it thoroughly cleaned too.
@meerkattime Thanks for the comments. I think saving certain pictures is important so I usually have a sim that is also the storage sim.
Alice is realizing she is gonna be a Mom. She has started nesting, fixing up parts of the house, she keeps calling her Mom or Dad and wants them coming now.
I hope they have a successful and fun trip to China!
That is a weird lipstick on him!
Odessa looks great in her costume. The guy in the Chef outfit is quite a hunk.
@jonny522 What a great vacation. Love the pic of them splashing in the water. Beautiful scenery.
@coco Thanks for the comments. Yes, Alice is getting to be more sensible as she realizes she is gonna be a Mom.
Lou: Someone was here to see you Dragon Warrior.
Ena: Really who?
Lou: Uh, Long something...
Shifu: Ti-long!
Lou: Yeah, that was it.Put on a pretty good show with the furious five, knocked them out cold.
Had to bring them home...
Shifu: What?! That means she's gotten stronger.
Ena: Oh no!
Shifu: You can stop her!
Ena: If the five couldn't....I'm just one girl.
Shifu: You'll have one thing they didn't.
Shifu: I should have given this to you from the beginning.I'm sorry.
He pulled out a golden box that contained the dragon scroll...
Ena: What happens when I read it?
Shifu: No one knows, but legend says you'll be able to hear
butterflies wings.
Ena: (excitably): Really?
Shifu: Yes, and see light in the deepest cave.
Ena: Can I cut through walls? Could I do a back flip.
Shifu: Focus...
Ena: And what happens...
Shifu: FOCUS!
Ena: Oh sorry.
She took the scroll and opened it.Unfortunately it was blank.
Shifu: It can't be...Oogway was wiser than this.
They raced back to the jade palace.
Mikey: What do we do now?
Shifu: Evacuate the village...I will have to take care of Ti-long.
Viper: She'll kill you.
Shifu: Then I will have paid for my mistake.evacuate everyone,
get them to safety.
Shifu: And Ena...
Ena: I know, I let everyone down...
Shifu: Don't say that.You have potential...
take the dragon scroll, and go as far as you can with it...I don't want her finding you.
@afai1261 Glad you've got your first year done and finally back to sims for a bit. I have to admire your restraint from playing during your university term. Lots of lovely pics of your sims and she looks like her Mom with a bit of Dad tossed in. Congrats on the new baby.
Aw thank you @bekkasan !
Actually, I physically couldn't play TS3 - I don't play it on my laptop and wouldn't have been able to even if I wanted to: I didn't bring my disks with me
Great updates everyone. It feels so good to be back here after what felt like so long.
I did play some more TS3 today after installing it on a different computer (keep having monitor issues on the computer I was using, and couldn't find my old monitor) with a better graphics card.
I was inspired to remake one of my TS4 sims - my elf boy Prosper:
He's Eco Friendly, Artistic, Loves the Outdoors, Perfectionist, and something else I can't remember off the top of my head
She chooses a great costume,
looked like it was a great party.
Skip and Pamela are not dating so it was interesting to see the
screenshot like that, no one else sat that way lol.
@GraceyManor I guess it is time for the showdown with Ti-long...or not. The scroll is blank! Maybe she should meditate about it.
I hope Shifu doesn't get beat up. That sounds like the plan for the Dragon Warrior.
I'm surprised she agreed to run away.
Sweet picture of him stroking her face.
@lisasc360 I personally didn't need a scientist telling me that.
I rather imagine if I had to play Sims 4 it would be a different story though. I would be unhappy and cranky and miserable because I don't like their looks, I would be frustrated not being able to have the colors and textures I want and the gameplay is just not what I had hoped for in a new version of sims. Can't even tell a teen from an adult. Duh! Nothing wows me about sims 4. zzzzZZZZzzzz
I would definitely go back to my RPG's that allowed me to take my miseries out on various monsters, beasts and bad guys and save worlds from them.
@afai1261 lol, well that is one way to stay on the straight and narrow not having the equipment to play the game.
Prosper looks like a cutie!
@Nikkei_Simmer I watched it over on you tube and got teary just like the first time I saw it. My Dad was in the Air Force for 26 years and Army for 4 years before that. Taps always gives me goose bumps and makes me sad.
@Silverofdreams30 Thanks for the comments. I didn't get as much time to play this weekend so we are still kinda stuck in pregnancy mode.
Ti- Long: I have returned home master.
Shifu: This is not your home and I am no longer your master.
Ti-Long: Yes...you have a new favorite.So where is this dragon warrior? Did I scare her off?
Shifu: This battle is between you and me.
Ti-Lung: SO that is how it is going to be.
Shifu: That is how it must be.
Ti-long: I suffered for 8 years because of you!!!
Shifu: Obeying your master is not weak!
Ti-long: You knew I was the dragon warriror!!! You always knew...but oogway said otherwise, what
did you do? You did nothing.
Shifu: You were not meant to be the dragon warrior!!! That was not my fault.
Ti-lung: Not your fault? Who filled my head with all those lies? Who made me train until I almost dropped?
Shifu: It was never my decision to make.
Ti-Lung: It is now...Oogway is gone.
Ti-lung: Give me the scroll!!!!
Shifu: I would rather die..
Ti-lung: Where is the scroll?!!!!
Shifu: You will never find it...The dragon warrior has it half way across china by now.
Ena: Let him go..
Ti-lung: Who are you.
Ena: I'm the dragon warrior.
Ti-lung: You? Her? This tiny little thing? What are you gonna do? Put make up on me and give me
a make over?
Ena: Don't tempt me..You wan't the scroll? Come get it.
Shifu: Ena...I told you to leave this to me.
Ti-lung: Aww, protecting your student are we?
Ena; And Everyone should know I don't listen.
Ti-lung: Give me that scroll!
Ena: Come get it.
Ena waved the scroll teasing her.
Shifu: Ti-lung, don't hurt her!
Ena dropped the scroll in agony as she stood up...
Ti-lung: Finally...
Ti-lung opened the scroll and it was blank...
Ti-lung: Its blank!!
Ena: I didn't understand it at first either.
Ti-lung: What?
Ena: There is no secrete, the secrete is believing in yourself.
Ti-lung: Gah, the scroll is making her stronger...
Ena grabbed ti-lung by her finger.
Ti-lung: The wushi finger hold...no way, shifu didn't teach you that move.You're bluffing.
Ena: Oh, you know this move? Then you know what happens when I flex my finger...
Ti-lung: You're bluffing...
Ena: Am I?
Ena flexed her finger, it sent ti -long flying.
vanishing into thing air.
While being suspended Gareth and Sarah had met up with Anta and invited Shelly out to explain their side of the story. Shelly was surprised to hear what had happened but agreed to meet up with them.
She met the group in the evening after college at a pub and they told her that Hana had been lying about them but Shelly was not too sure as she had not thought that Hana would be the type to make things up.
'The problem is Hana is obsessed with the the Lion and is trying to turn people against them,' said Sarah 'She was offended by us going out to protest,'
'Okay,' explained Shelly 'but why where you suspended?'
'Well I think it is due to Jean showing bias towards us,' said Gareth.
'What bias?' Shelly asked.
'Well Jean is against the Messiah so she would have taken Hana's side,'
Good night nelly everyone, I gotta catch up on some comments here before I delve deep into my game to start taking pics for my Christmas story.
I just printed off the story and oh my gosh it's such a beautiful feeling to see your story printed off onto paper. *Happy sigh*
Anyway these will be brief since I'm so excited to get working on this.
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@Silverofdreams30 Skip looks so cute the way he is looking at Nicole during their singing karaoke.
Oooh and him shirtless while typing on the laptop there!
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So many simmers here are a huge Cid fan. Are you? Me, not so much.
Looks like the gals are having lots of fun at Uni!
You caught simmies playing footsie!
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Oooh...NICE kiss!
@meerkattime My daughter did look like one adorable black cat.
Some of your lady sims there look like one's from CravenLestat's game.
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Lol! I was gonna say it looks like Liam has a leaf between his teeth!
Rockin' costume Odessa!
OMGosh the phone DOES ring at the worst times! It's just as bad in the sims as it is in real life! I eventually had to silence Sam's phone because he was so charming the entire town of Hidden Springs knew him and EVERYONE called him! (Especially the ladies, asking him out on dates. )
She got home to find Connor reading (surprise, surprise)
^ Oh if only @Charlottesmom were here, she'd get a laugh out of that too.
@bekkasan Yup. I don't know why some pose creators DON'T have their poses as listable! Codes are annoying! And then you get dumb folks who post the link to the pose and it's NOT listable and there's NO codes for it... 🤦♀️A lot of sense that makes...
(Sorry, mini rant over. )
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Yay a new story update!
Dragon egg. They are so cool!
The tunnels are a Dragon's Lair?
Oh yeah, that's right: Rafe can decipher/interpret those runes! Very nice! (Oh and I miss Rafe. )
Sweet that they are being considerate of Rafe and Victor and making accommodations for them.
Sounds like a plan Adam. 👍
Marshall just looks at Adam and shrugs. "Depends on her mood and she is further along then Jennifer so probably moodier."
^ Lol!
And Dedric be like, "Nope! This is your guy's problem!"
I'm glad Alice was okay with the tunnel issues, I kinda figured she would be. She's awesome like that.
Aww, she's all cute pregnant and I never looked that good when I was 9 months along!
Loved the update and I can't wait to see what happens next, especially when Rafe, Autumn, Victor and Gardenia arrive.
@DeafSimmer Yes, because Luna can practically read people's minds by seeing their dreams.
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For some reason, she knew that if she were to harm the younger sister, the elder one would be furious at the villains. Also, Celestia was the more powerful of the two. Maybe she should go for Celestia first, and then get Luna later.
^That may be a good idea Chrysalis... (even though I don't condone it of course. ) Little does she know she's gonna get her butt whooped!
@jonny522 I always enjoy your posts. You really capture the realism of military life and how heart wrenching it is to say goodbye to a loved one...through words and pictures. Awesome job!
@Puddinroy Hello back. Keep on checking in, especially on December 2nd when I roll out the first chapter of my Christmas story.
@GraceyManor Which Asian world were you using? The new world you chose looks beautiful! (Is it Salmon Woods?)
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Wow I didn't realize how "endowed" Ena is until seeing that side shot of her.
Shifu is too sweet.
@Nikkei_Simmer Wow, how long have you been waiting to get your computer fixed? I'd be going nuts! (And I'd probably get my computer back and find someone else to do it, but that's just me. )
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God bless our troops and Veterans all over the world.
@afai1261 Oh my JULES! Such lovely pics of him you shared there. It's great to see him again! I mean, it's great to see you too. Hope college wasn't too rough on ya. Would love to see more of your gameplay. The thread has gotten too quiet lately.
^I always knew it.
It's nice to see some validation. I totally shared that link on my Facebook.
Alrighty, all caught up. I gotta get to work now. 👍
I do have to admit my friends that for the next little while I may only be able to give out tiny comments or...none at all because all my free time has to go to taking pictures for my Christmas story. I know you all understand. You're wonderful.
Keep the awesome posts coming! And as always I read them each day and hand out L&A's.
I got your mention, thank you.
Skip always sits opposite my sim but they ara not dating, as shes going out
with Jeffrey atm. I am not a big fan of Cid no.
@emorrill
The asian world was called taipingluanshi I had to go through loop holes to get it downloaded.The look of the world was nice, but the interiors of all the lots left much to be desired.
The new world is called Entworld http://sims3.thesimscatalog.com/sims3/worlds/medium/entworld/
Hello all. I've been trying to keep up with Likes and Awesomes.
Today I'm not very well - I managed to catch a cold. And I'm tired. But I'll get over it.
As some of you will know, I have two video series currently being recorded in my Big Game. The Big Game started years ago. Initially it was just an ordinary little game in Sunlit Tides. Later on I got mods and could have more than 8 sims in a household so I resurrected that little game and wanted a new world so I moved them all to Dragon Valley. I saved the sims I wanted to move in a single huge household and started a fresh game with them in Dragon Valley.
If you've been watching my Oscar's Childhood video series you'll be familiar with a lot of these sims. You'll know all about Eric and his parents, Percy and Lorna. Well Percy was a newly aged up Young Adult when his family moved to Dragon Valley and I wasn't playing his household when I noticed he'd married a local, a much older lady named Lorna McCann. She quickly became an elder so Percy made a potion that she drank and became a Young Adult again. They eventually had two babies, Eric and Susanne. They were bad parents as they just want to be a couple together and ignored the children so Eric and Susanne live at the boarding school now.
It was in Dragon Valley that I first got the original idea for the boarding school. I had so many toddlers in so many different households and I wanted them all to learn their toddler skills and playing rotationally was taking so much time I decided to move them all into a single household and started the toddler school. That gradually evolved into the boarding schools I have now and they continue to evolve depending on the requirements of the game.
I already had found a habit of playing a house and rotating sims through it rather than rotating to different households. I found that worked well as sims that moved out often visited and some even stayed the night occasionally. I had no control of them but it was fun to have visitors that liked to stay over. We usually had lots of extra beds just in case.
Well, eventually Dragon Valley got too crowded and I got a custom world. It's a HUGE version of Sunset Valley - and it is called Sunset Valley Second Edition Final. It is a populated world and I discovered sims in that world come from many different worlds including Sunset Valley, Riverview and Twinbrook. Many of the Twinbrook sims were new to me and I don't usually play in that world. I just don't like it much although as I get to know it better it is sort of growing on me.
Again I saved my sims from Dragon Valley to a huge household in my library using NRAAS Porter mod. I grabbed all the sims in the whole world and placed them into Sunset Valley Second Edition Final.
I played for a while in this new world and soon it was unplayable due to so many new sims being born. I packed them up again and tried Beach City - another player made world by @Rflong7. I loved it there too but it couldn't cope with the number of Sims I added to the world so I packed them all up again and moved to Twin Towns by @jillbg. Another wonderful world. I added lots of households I had saved in my library on top of the sims I packed up from Beach City. Naturally soon Twin Towns no longer coped.
Another pack up and back to have another go at Sunset Valley Second Edition Final. That didn't go so well as I had too many sims. Even though I'd left a few behind in Twin Towns. Sadly. I missed them.
I tried Legacy Island III next. Another wonderful world by Rflong7. I had to leave behind quite a few sims in Sunset Valley Second Edition Final or Legacy Island III wouldn't have room for them all. Soon this world too became unplayable with so many sims in it. I just couldn't leave enough of them behind and my households wanted to have more babies.
I decided the only way to go was to try having sims living in multiple worlds. NRAAS Traveler mod helps me achieve that. So I started adding extra worlds and moving sims to them. I currently have Sims living in about 15 worlds. Barnacle Bay
Cake Island; Cake Island II; Chocolate Cake Island; Cotes d'Ambonnay; Dark Harbor; Erewhon; Grey Meadow Islands; Hidden Springs; Isle of Sims III; Lucky Palms; Moonfall Island; Moonlight Falls; Norbrewych; Sunlit Tides. These are by a variety of makers including EA, Rflong7, SilverDrake, Quailhoggs and others.
Some of these worlds are currently over populated and I need to move sims out of them. Some of them have only a single household and there is space in them to move sims from the over populated worlds. I work on doing that occasionally.
Now you'd think I'd be happy with so many sims. But I miss all of those sims I left behind. Many of them had been through my boarding schools. Over the past few days I've looked for and found the latest version of Sunset Valley Second Edition Final and Twin Towns games. I don't know if I have the absolute last version of each world as I could only find a couple of each of them. I suspect most of my saves will be on my computer I was using at the time and it got upgraded to Windows 10 when someone else was using it and now it can't be opened without wiping the hard drives. So I'm happy with what I've found.
I went through both worlds and packed up all of the sims I found that I don't currently have in my Big Game. There are quite a lot of them.
The sims I packed up from Twin Towns I have now finished placing in another new world, Glenvale County by Rflong7. It took me all day yesterday to do this. I've never played in this world before and didn't know what to expect. It is beautiful and flat and has so many empty lots I was able to place houses for all of my packed sims and also place some of my community lots including some I built and that are in my Studio.
I decided to share some pictures with you. I'll put them, with extra info, behind a spoiler.
You may remember Theresa Fields. She lives in Lucky Palms with Charlie Smith. They have 3 children, but there ought to be 4. She has lost one along the way. Well I found the toddler in Twin Towns and I packed her up with everyone else. She is Lana Fields and I made a 'nanny' for her to teach her the toddler skills she needs to know before aging up to child. Since she is the eldest she needs to be a child before she goes back to her family as her sister has just aged up to child already.
While going around the world to see if everyone was in appropriate homes I found 3 dogs, each of them had a house all to themselves, as did little Lana. I added the new sim, Tania to Lana's house and then added all 3 dogs to their house too.
While I was getting little Lana to read her toddler books I heard an ominous sound - the Grim Reaper had arrived to take one of the dogs. I wondered why as the dog wasn't an elder yet and was in good health and happy.
The death of Toule Delaney
Tania Watson was sad when her dog died. She is an animal lover. She is the sim I made to look after Lana until her mother can visit to collect her.
And then here are some shots around Glenvale County. I added the houses and some of the community lots. It seems to be mostly base game with some lots from Riverview.
The Gazebo and community garden from Riverview. I added the Performance Park that came with Showtime.
This is a Bakery I built soon after that store set was released. I tried to put a flat for the owners to live in on top but it doesn't work very well as the customers like to go up there and treat it as their own home. I tried locking doors but that doesn't seem to work either.
In another bakery I managed a bit better by using a barrier to entry door but the sims who own the bakery don't really want to live up there on a community lot.
I tried making it a residential lot in another build but that had issues too so in the end I just gave up and now just place my bakeries into my worlds as places for my sims to visit and buy food.
This is a big build. I can't remember if I put it onto the Exchange or not. But it is the bakery I tried to place on a residential lot. I had just about every sim in the world all trying to get into it at the same time and then it took all night for them all to get home again.
This is the view looking out from the front of the house above.
Another view of my big lot. It has a barn for horses and a space for them to run around. It goes onto a 64x64 lot and there is an empty 60x60 lot next door just in case I do decide to play this household and want more space for the horses. There is a greenhouse and a garden plus a water wheel. I put a scare crow in the outdoor section of the garden. That's when I discovered horses get the 'panicked' moodlet from seeing a scarecrow.
I put my Sweet Treats Fun Park into this world. I used the version I don't have on the Exchange as I replaced one of the circular groups of spring riders with the carousel. The carousel set was released after I built this park. The version on the Exchange fits onto a 50x50 lot but dosen't have the carousel.
That's Fiona McIrish running...
The houses mostly came with various expansion packs. I put them around where needed and ended up with too many for the sims I had to place in the world. Some were left empty but the game has been busily moving sims around to break up households even though there was no need to - for example 3 YA siblings in that huge 64x64 lot I built with the barn and garden and water wheel should have been good for them - it was designed for at least 8 sims to live in it. But one of them got moved to an empty house.
I made sure I set one of the empty houses as a Base Camp to be sure my traveling sims can always land in the world.
Next I'm going to record all of the sims I've unpacked into Bellatrix, also by Rflong7. This is another world I've never played before and it has lots of houses already placed so all I had to do was unpack my sims. But of course I'm going to have to go to each household and make sure they have been placed into suitable homes. Often single sims end up in mansions with lots of bedrooms while huge families end up in single bedroom houses. I will also want to record the names and addresses of each of the sims.
Once I've done this I'll add the two worlds to my Big Game save. Then I'll get back onto working on the next episode of Oscar's Childhood. I'll keep working on him through November as I want him aged up to teen by then. Currently there are lots of birthdays happening in that video series as there are a few sims that need to age up before Oscar does.
@GraceyManor Ti-lung was nice enough to delay her attack until Ena was stronger haha. I wonder what the meaning of the blank scroll is. Ena can't abandon Shifu now!
A battle in the rain is extra dramatic, I love it. I knew she wouldn't really leave Shifu to die. Oh no I didn't expect her to actually lose. So the secret was believing in yourself, well I'm sure that's not what Ti-lung wanted to hear. I imagine when Ena sent Ti-lung flying that there would have been a sparkle in the sky when she disappeared, like something from Pokemon lol. @afai1261 Welcome back At first glance I thought that was Jules, I think it was his plump lips that caught my eye lol. Prosper is absolutely gorgeous and the pink hair is so cute on him @meerkattime I wouldn't have guessed that he came from a premade sim @Nikkei_Simmer I hope you can get that fan soon. I can tell that you're desperately pining to play @Silverofdreams30 I love parties with big bonfires. That was a cute kiss between Jeffrey and Pamela. I bet her party was better anyway. @king_of_simcity7 Glad to hear you arrived back safely. I hope the trip was a nice distraction from the politics.
I really hope Shelly doesn't turn against Hana. She should know better than to listen to Anta of all people. @emorrill So how many pages did you have to print out in the end? I'm so excited for you!
I really feel the frustration about the poses you had that came without codes. It's like you take all that time to start up the game and eventually get into the world and then you can't find it. If it's a pose that I really want, I just write down a description of what it is in my notebook and the code so it's in front of me.
Y'know I have never had a sim adopt a cat before. I guess because I have only ever had dogs in real life. But I didn't know they could hide under furniture either. So cute!!
@emorrill Awwww....man I sure do miss having kitties in game and in my life too. That is an adorable kitty!
This is a picture of a curly haired cat. I want one of those. If you get a pure breed cat 800-1000$. I've never had a pure breed cat. Can't afford one for sure! I'm gonna start haunting the animal shelters around here.
@emorrill Awwww....man I sure do miss having kitties in game and in my life too. That is an adorable kitty!
This is a picture of a curly haired cat. I want one of those. If you get a pure breed cat 800-1000$. I've never had a pure breed cat. Can't afford one for sure! I'm gonna start haunting the animal shelters around here.
^Oooohhh my goodness what an adorable little fluff ball!!! I've never seen a cat like that!
(Oh and I could never buy purebred either. Not just because of the cost, but I hear they come with lots of health problems depending on the breed. )
@coco It was 62 pages. Thanks.
Yeah I haven't really played with sim pets in a while so that was an adorable surprise.
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Midnight Hollow, The Ballan Family
Adam's Quest
The next morning Adam, Marshall and Dedric climb down the ladder with lanterns and explore the tunnel. The tunnel north leads to an archway and a dead end. Adam notices something gleaming in the rubble at the dead end. He reaches down and picks it up. It is a dragon egg. Victor has a dragon and taught him about dragons. He will call Victor later to find out about this egg. How old might it be and is it possible it would hatch. Victor will know.
The guys enter the archway and go through a closed door. They stare in surprise at the statues they find in the room. The statues look elven in nature and very old. There is one ancient statue of a dragon. Of course, this place is called Red Dragon Lair. Perhaps dragons still visit and lay their eggs in the tunnels. How do they get in though? The door in the wall is covered in strange runes and does not open. Adam takes several pictures of all the statues and the door and close ups of the runes. He sends those off to Rafe in a text message. He receives a call back. "We are coming for the birthing. I'd like to see them in person."
Adam asks if they can move the statues out to make a lair for Victor and Rafe agrees. "You don't need to make a lair for us, we are comfortable sleeping above ground. I think it is habit with Victor more than anything, but he will be more comfortable and most pleased with you for doing the lair."
The south end of the tunnel is another dead end. This time from collapsed walls and rocks blocking the way ahead. Adam texts Rafe.
"Bring that magical sledge hammer of yours please."
"Will do."
Adam suggests they go ahead with the north end and build a proper staircase down to be safer for the pregnant ladies. "Alice is not going to be happy being left out of this, but, it is not really safe for us, let alone her. We need to do some shoring of the walls, provide some support beams and get some electricity set up to improve the lighting. You think we can keep her busy buying furniture and supplies?"
Marshall just looks at Adam and shrugs. "Depends on her mood and she is further along then Jennifer so probably moodier."
Dedric motions with his arms. "I'm not touching that. You get to be the one to tell her she can't come down here."
Adam, Marshall and Dedric finish moving the statues to the other area and head back upstairs. Adam asks them to start working on a list of things to purchase for a new staircase and to shore up the walls. Dedric and Marshall go back to Marshall's house to start the list, and leave Adam with Alice. Adam and Alice walk upstairs and he tells her about the tunnel leading to the room full of elven statues and a door with strange runes. He shows her the pictures he took and sent off to Rafe. "The room is perfect for a lair and Rafe approved moving the statues to a holding area until he can get here to see them. He and Autumn plan to be here for the baby so it is good timing. The area is still quite dangerous and we need to make a safer access to get up and down. The ladder is not safe for pregnant women. We also need to shore up the walls before we do much work as the walls are crumbling in places. Part of the tunnel has collapsed and we are storing the statues down at that end. We will repair the walls and shore up the weak spots. When Rafe gets here he will bring that magical sledge hammer of his and we can easily break the rocks and repair the walls at the same time. It will be much safer that way."
"That's great. That will give me plenty of time to finish the guest room for Rafe and Autumn, and order what is needed for the lair. I need pictures of the empty room so I know what to order."
She smiles at Adam and touches her belly.
"I think the baby is excited about everyone coming for the birth. It is kicking up a storm in there. I'm a bit disappointed I can't see the area and statues in person right now, but, this baby's safety comes before anything."
Adam helps her stand and puts his hands on her belly feeling how active the baby is. He is excited about being a father and loves feeling their baby moving around inside her. He is also happy she took the news of the dangerous tunnels so well. The safety of Alice and the baby are his prime concerns. He will take pictures of the empty room later, for now he wants to show his love to Alice.
The Cowboy and the Mermaid
Lauri tried to make some cookies, it didn't go well, so Ryan decided he'd make some Neopolitan Fudge.
Spring has come to Riverview, and Alex and Lindsey get prepared for a trip to Al Medina, just a small tourist trip.
Alex comes out of the trial with his boss's daughter. He was able to prove her guilty on both juvenile delinquency and acting as a lookout for a minor theft(i.e joint enterprise). He pushed for her to be imprisoned for 1 week, 200 hours of community service, and 1 month of daily detentions(plus paying 500 simoleans to the owner of the stolen money). On those counts the judge sided with leniency due to her mother's position and the fact that this case should be to preventative rather than punitive. She was sentenced to 2 days jail, 40 hours of community work, and 2 weeks of daily detentions.
Off on the trip.
They see museums, bookshops, antique stores, restaurants, the beach, and an art museum.
Them in front of the Mosque and Library of Al Medina. They had a good trip.
@bekkasan I wonder how the egg got there in the first place. The statues in the Red Dragon Lair are cool. I'm intrigued by that door covered in the runes. Perhaps it leads somewhere special. I chuckled at Adam asking Rafe to bring his magical sledge hammer. I'm glad they're thinking of safety first in a place like this. I'm looking forward to seeing Rafe analyse the area. At least Alice is happy to stay away and focus on the furnishings. Shouldn't be long now until the baby comes. I love the tender moment between them at the end
@meerkattime My skin crawls whenever I see a sim get that green lipstick. Liam is cute and can pull off the look though. Odessa looks very cool in her skeleton rocker costume. How frustrating that the party host didn't provide food. I find it funny that Connor is always found with his head deep in a book everytime he shows up in everyone's games.
@jonny522 I hope the boss's daughter learns from her mistakes. I like the picture of Alex and Lindsey playing in the water the best. Pretty architecture. Looks like they saw a lot of the sights. I'm glad they had a nice time together.
@Silverofdreams30 Your sims are so helpful to each other! Congrats to Pamela on her passing grades. Hope the party is loads of fun.
Love the footsie picture!
@GraceyManor That was a terrible way to learn you were adopted! Shifu certainly took advantage of her confusion.
A lot of things are weird in custom worlds. I love some of them, but, I never use them as homeworlds, just vacation worlds. Too many have messed up my saves in the past.
@Nikkei_Simmer I hope you get it back soon too. I forgot you had other saves with them in it. I'm still shocked you killed them off!!
@Mstybl95 WOW....what an OMG moment in the game. Grim on one side of the wall and the happy party goers on the other...best party evah!!
@Brandontaylor lol...Bye Tyson!
Congrats to Lacie and Jason!
Congrats to Amanda and Ronald.
Ouch! That hurts
Glad to hear that the game is behaving so far and playing well for you.
@Deshong04 Certainly a sad tale of lost friendship and lost loves. Um...yep, don't make out in my car!! I think I would want it thoroughly cleaned too.
@meerkattime Thanks for the comments. I think saving certain pictures is important so I usually have a sim that is also the storage sim.
Alice is realizing she is gonna be a Mom. She has started nesting, fixing up parts of the house, she keeps calling her Mom or Dad and wants them coming now.
I hope they have a successful and fun trip to China!
That is a weird lipstick on him!
Odessa looks great in her costume. The guy in the Chef outfit is quite a hunk.
@jonny522 What a great vacation. Love the pic of them splashing in the water. Beautiful scenery.
@coco Thanks for the comments. Yes, Alice is getting to be more sensible as she realizes she is gonna be a Mom.
The Cowboy and the Mermaid
Lou: Someone was here to see you Dragon Warrior.
Ena: Really who?
Lou: Uh, Long something...
Shifu: Ti-long!
Lou: Yeah, that was it.Put on a pretty good show with the furious five, knocked them out cold.
Had to bring them home...
Shifu: What?! That means she's gotten stronger.
Ena: Oh no!
Shifu: You can stop her!
Ena: If the five couldn't....I'm just one girl.
Shifu: You'll have one thing they didn't.
Shifu: I should have given this to you from the beginning.I'm sorry.
He pulled out a golden box that contained the dragon scroll...
Ena: What happens when I read it?
Shifu: No one knows, but legend says you'll be able to hear
butterflies wings.
Ena: (excitably): Really?
Shifu: Yes, and see light in the deepest cave.
Ena: Can I cut through walls? Could I do a back flip.
Shifu: Focus...
Ena: And what happens...
Shifu: FOCUS!
Ena: Oh sorry.
She took the scroll and opened it.Unfortunately it was blank.
Shifu: It can't be...Oogway was wiser than this.
They raced back to the jade palace.
Mikey: What do we do now?
Shifu: Evacuate the village...I will have to take care of Ti-long.
Viper: She'll kill you.
Shifu: Then I will have paid for my mistake.evacuate everyone,
get them to safety.
Shifu: And Ena...
Ena: I know, I let everyone down...
Shifu: Don't say that.You have potential...
take the dragon scroll, and go as far as you can with it...I don't want her finding you.
Ena took the scroll and left...
Shifu: ...
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Aw thank you @bekkasan !
Actually, I physically couldn't play TS3 - I don't play it on my laptop and wouldn't have been able to even if I wanted to: I didn't bring my disks with me
Great updates everyone. It feels so good to be back here after what felt like so long.
I did play some more TS3 today after installing it on a different computer (keep having monitor issues on the computer I was using, and couldn't find my old monitor) with a better graphics card.
I was inspired to remake one of my TS4 sims - my elf boy Prosper:
He's Eco Friendly, Artistic, Loves the Outdoors, Perfectionist, and something else I can't remember off the top of my head
Throwing this one back up for Veteran’s Day; known as Remembrance Day above the 49th where I live.
I have another video but can’t access it due to the CPU fan issue.
To our veterans;
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
@bekkasan
Alice is glowing during her pregnancy, she looks great
too. Too bad about the dead-end in the tunnel I love your
building creativity skills.
@meerkattime
She chooses a great costume,
looked like it was a great party.
Skip and Pamela are not dating so it was interesting to see the
screenshot like that, no one else sat that way lol.
@GraceyManor
Ena and Shufu are cute together.
The new world is gorgeous, hope it works ut for you.
@GraceyManor I guess it is time for the showdown with Ti-long...or not. The scroll is blank! Maybe she should meditate about it.
I hope Shifu doesn't get beat up. That sounds like the plan for the Dragon Warrior.
I'm surprised she agreed to run away.
Sweet picture of him stroking her face.
@lisasc360 I personally didn't need a scientist telling me that.
I rather imagine if I had to play Sims 4 it would be a different story though. I would be unhappy and cranky and miserable because I don't like their looks, I would be frustrated not being able to have the colors and textures I want and the gameplay is just not what I had hoped for in a new version of sims. Can't even tell a teen from an adult. Duh! Nothing wows me about sims 4. zzzzZZZZzzzz
I would definitely go back to my RPG's that allowed me to take my miseries out on various monsters, beasts and bad guys and save worlds from them.
@afai1261 lol, well that is one way to stay on the straight and narrow not having the equipment to play the game.
Prosper looks like a cutie!
@Nikkei_Simmer I watched it over on you tube and got teary just like the first time I saw it. My Dad was in the Air Force for 26 years and Army for 4 years before that. Taps always gives me goose bumps and makes me sad.
@Silverofdreams30 Thanks for the comments. I didn't get as much time to play this weekend so we are still kinda stuck in pregnancy mode.
The Cowboy and the Mermaid
Ti- Long: I have returned home master.
Shifu: This is not your home and I am no longer your master.
Ti-Long: Yes...you have a new favorite.So where is this dragon warrior? Did I scare her off?
Shifu: This battle is between you and me.
Ti-Lung: SO that is how it is going to be.
Shifu: That is how it must be.
Ti-long: I suffered for 8 years because of you!!!
Shifu: Obeying your master is not weak!
Ti-long: You knew I was the dragon warriror!!! You always knew...but oogway said otherwise, what
did you do? You did nothing.
Shifu: You were not meant to be the dragon warrior!!! That was not my fault.
Ti-lung: Not your fault? Who filled my head with all those lies? Who made me train until I almost dropped?
Shifu: It was never my decision to make.
Ti-Lung: It is now...Oogway is gone.
Ti-lung: Give me the scroll!!!!
Shifu: I would rather die..
Ti-lung: Where is the scroll?!!!!
Shifu: You will never find it...The dragon warrior has it half way across china by now.
Ena: Let him go..
Ti-lung: Who are you.
Ena: I'm the dragon warrior.
Ti-lung: You? Her? This tiny little thing? What are you gonna do? Put make up on me and give me
a make over?
Ena: Don't tempt me..You wan't the scroll? Come get it.
Shifu: Ena...I told you to leave this to me.
Ti-lung: Aww, protecting your student are we?
Ena; And Everyone should know I don't listen.
Ti-lung: Give me that scroll!
Ena: Come get it.
Ena waved the scroll teasing her.
Shifu: Ti-lung, don't hurt her!
Ena dropped the scroll in agony as she stood up...
Ti-lung: Finally...
Ti-lung opened the scroll and it was blank...
Ti-lung: Its blank!!
Ena: I didn't understand it at first either.
Ti-lung: What?
Ena: There is no secrete, the secrete is believing in yourself.
Ti-lung: Gah, the scroll is making her stronger...
Ena grabbed ti-lung by her finger.
Ti-lung: The wushi finger hold...no way, shifu didn't teach you that move.You're bluffing.
Ena: Oh, you know this move? Then you know what happens when I flex my finger...
Ti-lung: You're bluffing...
Ena: Am I?
Ena flexed her finger, it sent ti -long flying.
vanishing into thing air.
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Todays update
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The fraternity also had a party so not too many guests showed up
at Pamela's destination party.
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But she had light a fire for the evening.
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Some dancing
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Jeffrey ditched the fraternity party to join hers.
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Which she loved.
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Someone leaving after an hour or so.
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Walter arriving back to dormitory.
All for today
While being suspended Gareth and Sarah had met up with Anta and invited Shelly out to explain their side of the story. Shelly was surprised to hear what had happened but agreed to meet up with them.
She met the group in the evening after college at a pub and they told her that Hana had been lying about them but Shelly was not too sure as she had not thought that Hana would be the type to make things up.
'The problem is Hana is obsessed with the the Lion and is trying to turn people against them,' said Sarah 'She was offended by us going out to protest,'
'Okay,' explained Shelly 'but why where you suspended?'
'Well I think it is due to Jean showing bias towards us,' said Gareth.
'What bias?' Shelly asked.
'Well Jean is against the Messiah so she would have taken Hana's side,'
I just printed off the story and oh my gosh it's such a beautiful feeling to see your story printed off onto paper. *Happy sigh*
Anyway these will be brief since I'm so excited to get working on this.
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@Silverofdreams30 Skip looks so cute the way he is looking at Nicole during their singing karaoke.
Oooh and him shirtless while typing on the laptop there!
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So many simmers here are a huge Cid fan. Are you? Me, not so much.
Looks like the gals are having lots of fun at Uni!
You caught simmies playing footsie!
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Oooh...NICE kiss!
@meerkattime My daughter did look like one adorable black cat.
Some of your lady sims there look like one's from CravenLestat's game.
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Lol! I was gonna say it looks like Liam has a leaf between his teeth!
Rockin' costume Odessa!
OMGosh the phone DOES ring at the worst times! It's just as bad in the sims as it is in real life! I eventually had to silence Sam's phone because he was so charming the entire town of Hidden Springs knew him and EVERYONE called him! (Especially the ladies, asking him out on dates. ) ^ Oh if only @Charlottesmom were here, she'd get a laugh out of that too.
@bekkasan Yup. I don't know why some pose creators DON'T have their poses as listable! Codes are annoying! And then you get dumb folks who post the link to the pose and it's NOT listable and there's NO codes for it... 🤦♀️A lot of sense that makes...
(Sorry, mini rant over. )
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Yay a new story update!
Dragon egg. They are so cool!
The tunnels are a Dragon's Lair?
Oh yeah, that's right: Rafe can decipher/interpret those runes! Very nice! (Oh and I miss Rafe. )
Sweet that they are being considerate of Rafe and Victor and making accommodations for them.
Sounds like a plan Adam. 👍 ^ Lol!
And Dedric be like, "Nope! This is your guy's problem!"
I'm glad Alice was okay with the tunnel issues, I kinda figured she would be. She's awesome like that.
Aww, she's all cute pregnant and I never looked that good when I was 9 months along!
Loved the update and I can't wait to see what happens next, especially when Rafe, Autumn, Victor and Gardenia arrive.
@DeafSimmer Yes, because Luna can practically read people's minds by seeing their dreams.
---- ^That may be a good idea Chrysalis... (even though I don't condone it of course. ) Little does she know she's gonna get her butt whooped! ^Uh oh! You got caught! Bwa ha ha!
@Babykittyjade Welcome to the thread. Post anytime!
@jonny522 I always enjoy your posts. You really capture the realism of military life and how heart wrenching it is to say goodbye to a loved one...through words and pictures. Awesome job!
@Puddinroy Hello back. Keep on checking in, especially on December 2nd when I roll out the first chapter of my Christmas story.
@GraceyManor Which Asian world were you using? The new world you chose looks beautiful! (Is it Salmon Woods?)
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Wow I didn't realize how "endowed" Ena is until seeing that side shot of her.
Shifu is too sweet.
@Nikkei_Simmer Wow, how long have you been waiting to get your computer fixed? I'd be going nuts! (And I'd probably get my computer back and find someone else to do it, but that's just me. )
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God bless our troops and Veterans all over the world.
@king_of_simcity7 I'd wondered where you'd run off to.
@afai1261 Oh my JULES! Such lovely pics of him you shared there. It's great to see him again! I mean, it's great to see you too. Hope college wasn't too rough on ya. Would love to see more of your gameplay. The thread has gotten too quiet lately.
@PalmArrow This picture cracks me up!
@Mstybl95 Goodness! I don't use birthday cakes anymore for that very reason...
And I think it was so stupid that EA made that happen in the game.
@brandontaylor Lots of wonderful happenings in your story.
This picture!
^I've totally had sims do that. Darn glitches, but this one is funny!
@lisasc360 ^I always knew it.
It's nice to see some validation. I totally shared that link on my Facebook.
Alrighty, all caught up. I gotta get to work now. 👍
I do have to admit my friends that for the next little while I may only be able to give out tiny comments or...none at all because all my free time has to go to taking pictures for my Christmas story. I know you all understand. You're wonderful.
Keep the awesome posts coming! And as always I read them each day and hand out L&A's.
Keep calm and Sim on!
I got your mention, thank you.
Skip always sits opposite my sim but they ara not dating, as shes going out
with Jeffrey atm. I am not a big fan of Cid no.
@meerkattime @bekkasan @emorrill Thanks for the comments! I wish I was able to be on the forums more often, hopefully I can soon.
The asian world was called taipingluanshi I had to go through loop holes to get it downloaded.The look of the world was nice, but the interiors of all the lots left much to be desired.
The new world is called Entworld http://sims3.thesimscatalog.com/sims3/worlds/medium/entworld/
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This one I think I knew, but forgot about, but I didn't realize that cats will hide under furniture!
^Look at that cute, wittle baby with her paw sticking out and everything!
And it gets better.
I had no idea that cats...............
can lay around on the newspaper!
I saw this and thought it was the cutest thing EVER!
D'awwwwww!
@bekkasan I am tagging you for obvious reasons.
Today I'm not very well - I managed to catch a cold. And I'm tired. But I'll get over it.
As some of you will know, I have two video series currently being recorded in my Big Game. The Big Game started years ago. Initially it was just an ordinary little game in Sunlit Tides. Later on I got mods and could have more than 8 sims in a household so I resurrected that little game and wanted a new world so I moved them all to Dragon Valley. I saved the sims I wanted to move in a single huge household and started a fresh game with them in Dragon Valley.
If you've been watching my Oscar's Childhood video series you'll be familiar with a lot of these sims. You'll know all about Eric and his parents, Percy and Lorna. Well Percy was a newly aged up Young Adult when his family moved to Dragon Valley and I wasn't playing his household when I noticed he'd married a local, a much older lady named Lorna McCann. She quickly became an elder so Percy made a potion that she drank and became a Young Adult again. They eventually had two babies, Eric and Susanne. They were bad parents as they just want to be a couple together and ignored the children so Eric and Susanne live at the boarding school now.
It was in Dragon Valley that I first got the original idea for the boarding school. I had so many toddlers in so many different households and I wanted them all to learn their toddler skills and playing rotationally was taking so much time I decided to move them all into a single household and started the toddler school. That gradually evolved into the boarding schools I have now and they continue to evolve depending on the requirements of the game.
I already had found a habit of playing a house and rotating sims through it rather than rotating to different households. I found that worked well as sims that moved out often visited and some even stayed the night occasionally. I had no control of them but it was fun to have visitors that liked to stay over. We usually had lots of extra beds just in case.
Well, eventually Dragon Valley got too crowded and I got a custom world. It's a HUGE version of Sunset Valley - and it is called Sunset Valley Second Edition Final. It is a populated world and I discovered sims in that world come from many different worlds including Sunset Valley, Riverview and Twinbrook. Many of the Twinbrook sims were new to me and I don't usually play in that world. I just don't like it much although as I get to know it better it is sort of growing on me.
Again I saved my sims from Dragon Valley to a huge household in my library using NRAAS Porter mod. I grabbed all the sims in the whole world and placed them into Sunset Valley Second Edition Final.
I played for a while in this new world and soon it was unplayable due to so many new sims being born. I packed them up again and tried Beach City - another player made world by @Rflong7. I loved it there too but it couldn't cope with the number of Sims I added to the world so I packed them all up again and moved to Twin Towns by @jillbg. Another wonderful world. I added lots of households I had saved in my library on top of the sims I packed up from Beach City. Naturally soon Twin Towns no longer coped.
Another pack up and back to have another go at Sunset Valley Second Edition Final. That didn't go so well as I had too many sims. Even though I'd left a few behind in Twin Towns. Sadly. I missed them.
I tried Legacy Island III next. Another wonderful world by Rflong7. I had to leave behind quite a few sims in Sunset Valley Second Edition Final or Legacy Island III wouldn't have room for them all. Soon this world too became unplayable with so many sims in it. I just couldn't leave enough of them behind and my households wanted to have more babies.
I decided the only way to go was to try having sims living in multiple worlds. NRAAS Traveler mod helps me achieve that. So I started adding extra worlds and moving sims to them. I currently have Sims living in about 15 worlds. Barnacle Bay
Cake Island; Cake Island II; Chocolate Cake Island; Cotes d'Ambonnay; Dark Harbor; Erewhon; Grey Meadow Islands; Hidden Springs; Isle of Sims III; Lucky Palms; Moonfall Island; Moonlight Falls; Norbrewych; Sunlit Tides. These are by a variety of makers including EA, Rflong7, SilverDrake, Quailhoggs and others.
Some of these worlds are currently over populated and I need to move sims out of them. Some of them have only a single household and there is space in them to move sims from the over populated worlds. I work on doing that occasionally.
Now you'd think I'd be happy with so many sims. But I miss all of those sims I left behind. Many of them had been through my boarding schools. Over the past few days I've looked for and found the latest version of Sunset Valley Second Edition Final and Twin Towns games. I don't know if I have the absolute last version of each world as I could only find a couple of each of them. I suspect most of my saves will be on my computer I was using at the time and it got upgraded to Windows 10 when someone else was using it and now it can't be opened without wiping the hard drives. So I'm happy with what I've found.
I went through both worlds and packed up all of the sims I found that I don't currently have in my Big Game. There are quite a lot of them.
The sims I packed up from Twin Towns I have now finished placing in another new world, Glenvale County by Rflong7. It took me all day yesterday to do this. I've never played in this world before and didn't know what to expect. It is beautiful and flat and has so many empty lots I was able to place houses for all of my packed sims and also place some of my community lots including some I built and that are in my Studio.
I decided to share some pictures with you. I'll put them, with extra info, behind a spoiler.
While going around the world to see if everyone was in appropriate homes I found 3 dogs, each of them had a house all to themselves, as did little Lana. I added the new sim, Tania to Lana's house and then added all 3 dogs to their house too.
While I was getting little Lana to read her toddler books I heard an ominous sound - the Grim Reaper had arrived to take one of the dogs. I wondered why as the dog wasn't an elder yet and was in good health and happy.
The death of Toule Delaney
Tania Watson was sad when her dog died. She is an animal lover. She is the sim I made to look after Lana until her mother can visit to collect her.
And then here are some shots around Glenvale County. I added the houses and some of the community lots. It seems to be mostly base game with some lots from Riverview.
The Gazebo and community garden from Riverview. I added the Performance Park that came with Showtime.
This is a Bakery I built soon after that store set was released. I tried to put a flat for the owners to live in on top but it doesn't work very well as the customers like to go up there and treat it as their own home. I tried locking doors but that doesn't seem to work either.
In another bakery I managed a bit better by using a barrier to entry door but the sims who own the bakery don't really want to live up there on a community lot.
I tried making it a residential lot in another build but that had issues too so in the end I just gave up and now just place my bakeries into my worlds as places for my sims to visit and buy food.
This is a big build. I can't remember if I put it onto the Exchange or not. But it is the bakery I tried to place on a residential lot. I had just about every sim in the world all trying to get into it at the same time and then it took all night for them all to get home again.
This is the view looking out from the front of the house above.
Another view of my big lot. It has a barn for horses and a space for them to run around. It goes onto a 64x64 lot and there is an empty 60x60 lot next door just in case I do decide to play this household and want more space for the horses. There is a greenhouse and a garden plus a water wheel. I put a scare crow in the outdoor section of the garden. That's when I discovered horses get the 'panicked' moodlet from seeing a scarecrow.
I put my Sweet Treats Fun Park into this world. I used the version I don't have on the Exchange as I replaced one of the circular groups of spring riders with the carousel. The carousel set was released after I built this park. The version on the Exchange fits onto a 50x50 lot but dosen't have the carousel.
That's Fiona McIrish running...
The houses mostly came with various expansion packs. I put them around where needed and ended up with too many for the sims I had to place in the world. Some were left empty but the game has been busily moving sims around to break up households even though there was no need to - for example 3 YA siblings in that huge 64x64 lot I built with the barn and garden and water wheel should have been good for them - it was designed for at least 8 sims to live in it. But one of them got moved to an empty house.
I made sure I set one of the empty houses as a Base Camp to be sure my traveling sims can always land in the world.
Next I'm going to record all of the sims I've unpacked into Bellatrix, also by Rflong7. This is another world I've never played before and it has lots of houses already placed so all I had to do was unpack my sims. But of course I'm going to have to go to each household and make sure they have been placed into suitable homes. Often single sims end up in mansions with lots of bedrooms while huge families end up in single bedroom houses. I will also want to record the names and addresses of each of the sims.
Once I've done this I'll add the two worlds to my Big Game save. Then I'll get back onto working on the next episode of Oscar's Childhood. I'll keep working on him through November as I want him aged up to teen by then. Currently there are lots of birthdays happening in that video series as there are a few sims that need to age up before Oscar does.
Happy Simming all
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A battle in the rain is extra dramatic, I love it. I knew she wouldn't really leave Shifu to die. Oh no I didn't expect her to actually lose. So the secret was believing in yourself, well I'm sure that's not what Ti-lung wanted to hear. I imagine when Ena sent Ti-lung flying that there would have been a sparkle in the sky when she disappeared, like something from Pokemon lol.
@afai1261 Welcome back At first glance I thought that was Jules, I think it was his plump lips that caught my eye lol. Prosper is absolutely gorgeous and the pink hair is so cute on him
@meerkattime I wouldn't have guessed that he came from a premade sim
@Nikkei_Simmer I hope you can get that fan soon. I can tell that you're desperately pining to play
@Silverofdreams30 I love parties with big bonfires. That was a cute kiss between Jeffrey and Pamela. I bet her party was better anyway.
@king_of_simcity7 Glad to hear you arrived back safely. I hope the trip was a nice distraction from the politics.
I really hope Shelly doesn't turn against Hana. She should know better than to listen to Anta of all people.
@emorrill So how many pages did you have to print out in the end? I'm so excited for you!
I really feel the frustration about the poses you had that came without codes. It's like you take all that time to start up the game and eventually get into the world and then you can't find it. If it's a pose that I really want, I just write down a description of what it is in my notebook and the code so it's in front of me.
Y'know I have never had a sim adopt a cat before. I guess because I have only ever had dogs in real life. But I didn't know they could hide under furniture either. So cute!!
@emorrill Awwww....man I sure do miss having kitties in game and in my life too. That is an adorable kitty!
This is a picture of a curly haired cat. I want one of those. If you get a pure breed cat 800-1000$. I've never had a pure breed cat. Can't afford one for sure! I'm gonna start haunting the animal shelters around here.
The Cowboy and the Mermaid
^Oooohhh my goodness what an adorable little fluff ball!!! I've never seen a cat like that!
(Oh and I could never buy purebred either. Not just because of the cost, but I hear they come with lots of health problems depending on the breed. )
@coco It was 62 pages. Thanks.
Yeah I haven't really played with sim pets in a while so that was an adorable surprise.
@Silverofdreams30 ^I figured. We think a lot alike in the male department.
@GraceyManor Ugh, I hate sites with annoying ads!
@Brandontaylor Take your time, we'll always be here.
@Karritz Hope you feel better soon.
What do you think of Tisha?
What kind of traits would you give her? What kind of career?
Now, I have to catch up on everyone's updates. Happy Simming !