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Strangetown (Sims 2) to Strangerville (Spoilers within)
Hermitgirl
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I was wondering if anyone else is converting Strangetown (Sims 2) sims to live in Strangeville. I'm kind of obsessed with it right now and if you are I'd love to see your pictures of builds, storylines, and pictures. I'm going to label this a spoiler thread because it may show different levels of the storyline in it.
I may use it as a photo dump but would love to see if others are doing this in any form.
I may use it as a photo dump but would love to see if others are doing this in any form.
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The Grunt House and the Curious house. I'm playing the Grunts the most, but have played them all some.
The Curious and Beaker houses.
The Specters (although my time line is off) and The Smiths.
Anyway to me they look great and I feel like they are home. I'm having such fun when I go in and play with them.
I might upgrade and redo the houses if I have time but it's so full of nostalgia for me... and frankly with the careers they can have and engage in when I go to play them. I'm really getting connected to my sims, be they good or bad.
The Smiths I'm waiting on a little more so I'll get to the meat of the story but will play them in rotation. Right now Pollination Tech 9 is an adult and he and Jenny still need to have their children. I really don't have the Specters in the Specter home right now. It's the Muendas living there and Olive and Willow are teens because I want to progress that story separately but need some things to do it
Buzz and Lyla moved to Strangeville when he was stationed there. That things were odd in this town became evident very quickly although they still felt it was a nice little place. Lyla got friendly with the locals while Buzz was busy training and going to work.
The situation hit home when he saw she was suddenly like "them". His wife! They got his wife! Buzz tried everything to snap her out of it. Trying to talk to her, giving her medicine, heck he even tried.. well nevermind.. and she's pregnant now. The local hospital wasn't much help either.. Can't find anything wrong with her they said. Buzz started digging around and this burg had many secrets... He "bugged" his wife and others. He had to live with his pregnant wife having attacks in the meantime.
He wasn't making much headway in the investigation when his son Tank was born.. He'd do anything to protect this child. Lyla's attacks continued now and then and since Buzz was trying to help with the baby and work he had to stay closer to home for awhile. He finally got a babysitter to come when he was away at work because Lyla was basically useless as a mother... However she did manage to get pregnant again. Really Buzz you really should control yourself. On the bright side they obtained new housing and it was farther away from others and the more congested burg below.
One day he found his wife feeding Tank that strange fruit and all heck broke loose!
I made a blog about my progress. I have finished the story but am putting together the actual blog now. Here is the preface!
https://rjhennsims.wordpress.com/2019/02/28/welcome-to-strangerville-preface/
I love that they finally added the military career so we can have a proper Grunt family!
Oh! And for where I am going with the story...Lyla gets possessed in mine too... and Buzz eventually saves her and the town. He confesses his love to her (it was a secret)... and they end up together.
But seeing Lyla possessed and going through what he did, he becomes very xenophobic toward Aliens and occult’s... becoming like his TS2, and TS2 PSP self. This will eventually drive him and Lyla apart as she feels he’s become too obsessive.
Lastly, I think that was my Grunt House build! Either that or a VERY similar build, which is possible! It’s titled “Fort Grunt” on the gallery, under my same userID!
Anyways, cheers!! And love that someone else had a similar idea as me!! Love the story so far, enjoy!
I thought it had to start with Buzz definitely. My timeline is all off for this town but I'm not worried because in this world anti-aging and ways to extend life can be the norm.. I may ignore some of the canon too depending ..
I have some heavy marital discord going on in this family, and big flaws/craziness on both sides. They still love each other in their own ways though. I can't print all that has happened .. I've never told a picture story so I'm not good with it .. but I had to share part of my fun and hope others will share theirs.
The Grunt family is now on the Gallery for anyone interested.
Meanwhile in the house...
When Buzz came to he looked around. Baby Ripp was screaming, and Tank was crying nearby. The baby was filthy! Lyla was no where to be found, of course.
He took care of his boys and set things in order. "This can't go on", he thought. "I think it's happening to me too.."
He called the nanny. He'd have to have round the clock care for the children, there was just no getting around it. Shameful to have a wife that can't do her job. He had to find his wife.. He had to .. solve this, make it right somehow..
Think, think! ..There were some scientists living nearby. Buzz had never had much use for guys like that but he knew it took all kinds to move the world and.. well... he needed some help.
"The Curious Brothers...", what a laugh Buzz thought as he moved up to the walk. "Curious-Scientists." Man, he was glad he didn't have a name that was so eye-rollingly obvious.
-I feel like I have to say I do play in stereotypes often. It doesn't mean I believe or condone stuff. It just amuses me. It would be actually interesting to tell the story from Lyla's point of view but I haven't been taking pictures to show that. Her take would be really different of course.-
*bookmarking this for later reading, as I'm not through with the story myself*
Don't feel any pressure at all lol. I'm the same. I love to share pics and what's going on, but I never write out a whole story and tend to just play it out in my head as it goes. You just never know where the game and circumstance will take it. I absolutely LOVE this element of weirdness with this pack and it's been missing for so long in the Sims!
Right, no pressure! Just do it as long as you have fun & it comes naturally.
I agree, the pack is a great asset to get players into storytelling. I always was a storyteller, but Strangeville got me to decorate more. Here, for my standards that is already lots and lots of clutter (spoilered because unrelated to strangetown):
and
http://enkisstories.tumblr.com/post/183141022678/sorry-rowan-but-this-is-not-howmore-we
Love the pics, especially the one where Lyla is standing goofy looking at the bassinet (where second baby was brought home) and Buzz sitting on the bed (just look at his face). Oh, this is a good pic for a Name this pic or title or whatever that thread was (could have been a S3 thread though, not sure).
Sometimes, I wish that The Sims 4 was The Sims 3. The Sims 4 just seems like a perfect follow up from The Sims 2 and it correlates, even this pack shows it!
Obviously some things are newer than The Sims 3 but if it was actually switched in time, The Sims 4 (actually Sims 3 in real life) would probably have a very pleasing advancement, for example, click & pull CAS with color wheels, more pets, and a free world.
It's an unrealistic idea, and I don't mean to complain, but just one of my thoughts.
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The Curious Brothers were enjoying their day off. They were scientists at the FutureSim Labs.
They had a fairly good reputation in their community. However, they were known to be a little quirky. Also, you had to question .. three grown men making good money still living together? What was up with that? Well that was the general consensus in the town anyway. Then there was their family ties. We won't go into that just now but suffice to say it's weird. Well the world is a strange place right?
Pascal and Lazlo went to answer .. "Why in the heck did they use the back door! They always use the backdoor!" Pascal muttered before opening the door to.. Hello, what have we here?
He was taken aback as a strange group shuffled in.
Okay, this was weird stuff. He took a step back and looked at Lazlo and hoped these.. people weren't dangerous or catching. "Act natural" he whispered to his brother and went to warn Vidcund, their eldest brother.
The people shuffled and snapped around the house walking jerkly. Their mouths were stretched wide in an unnatural smile. Their eyes were opened wide, wide but their stare was blank and dead. The jerky movements they made were off-putting to say the least. Did that woman's neck actually just bend like that? They didn't seem in pain though..
The boys decided to quietly observe and pretend to be natural.
They tried to engage them in normal activities but the strange people didn't react to most things, and what was with this pollen in the air? Did they bring it in with them?
After awhile, maybe a half and hour or so the strange people suddenly turned and started to leave en mass. They hadn't said a word to each other. Just left.
No sooner had the door closed behind them Pascal noticed a strange growth in the sink.. long colorful tendrils seemed to be reaching toward him. Then the door banged open and in walked some official looking sorts in black suits.
"There is a problem happening in the community and the place is under martial law. We need to look around." The people in black then proceeded to take their refrigerator.
Pascal had had it and blew up, "Just what do you think your doing!?"
"Our job Sir.. please stand aside." The woman in black answered coldly. Then after poking around a bit more they left.
Pascal looked down into the sink when they departed. Okay, they take our refrigerator but leave this stuff? Government incompetence. He took a sample of the weird and unusal plant then cleaned it out of the sink.
He turned to give his brothers a worried look. "What now?" The strange pollen floated and danced gracefully in the air. "Well at least they didn't find our secret lab.." Lazlo said and winked.
Vidcund and Lazlo stepped out to watch the officials get into their van and have a look down the street. Lazlo heard a gasp as he watched their van disappear and looked over at his brother.
Vidcund had his hands clasped over his mouth looking at the exotic looking plant nearby.
"This wasn't here yesterday", he said tightly.
Sorry about going few games back. Please continue.
You should give it a shot
And thanks to everyone that said something nice before this last post. I'm still hoping someone else is doing this by the way.
Nervous Subject hasn't been born yet in my game so I'll doubt I'll get to that in that manner @Sigzy05. Olive is a teen in my game.. I want to fill up her graveyard myself
I've been tempted to find a place for the Curious brothers and Nervous Subject myself, but have been holding off since I have about 3-4 single sims running through stories and a legacy and 100 baby challenge I'm working on.
It's also way cool to see your take on Buzz and his (Alive!) wife, and to see their kids being born during such a time.