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Do mermaids EVER say yes?
Stutum
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As you all know, asking anyone if they're a mermaid is a nice way to lose relationship points. Whether they are mermaids or not, and no matter how good friends you are, they'll get insulted and deny it. Even when I played as a mermaid myself, and found another one swimming, we were conversing in the water, fishtails out and everything, and I asked, but the response was the same. "Where did you get that idea?" =P Makes me wonder why that option is even there when the reply will always be the same. xD
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Thanks, I'll see if I can find that shell somewhere.
They will eventually say yes.
My sim became best friends with one and she finally admitted she was a mermaid.
She was visiting him in San Myshuno at the time.
He had given her the key to his apartment, so she could visit often and he could work on their friendship.
I had him ask her to stay the night, hoping she would get dehydrated and he could catch her in the tub as a mermaid.
She admitted to being a mermaid before this however, so I never got to see a surprise reveal.
She probably only did this because they had become best friends.
Vaughn didn't have any reaction to seeing her in the tub this way.
When she got out of the tub, she said she had to leave for personal reasons.
When they both arrived at his vacation house in Sulani she finally took her mermaid form in public.
It was a bit underwhelming though.
I thought it would be a more interesting reveal.
Too bad it was underwhelming, my motivation to make it happen kinda fades. xD
ugh that really stinks that they have no reaction to finding out surprise or in general. Not even a moodlet? I don’t think they have a reaction to finding out a sim is a alien or a vampire either, missed opportunity.
Now I can't wait to have my Holly eat the kelp.
They must have nerfed the reaction to aliens.
I only experienced it once and never again.
It was with a sim outside the household though,
so maybe I haven't been zapping anymore townies.
Ooo la la!
edited to add some o's: that phrase started with a nice long 'ooooo!'
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Never mind, Photobucket is doing their Plan shenanigans, trying to get more money out of people without totally losing them. This started June 1st apparently.
Sure, the reaction was fun, don't get me wrong. It's just a shame that it didn't do much else. No moodlet for discovering a mermaid or something like that. Huh, hidden is right, I don't see that trait anywhere.
also, on the hidden trait thing, those are only visible with certain mods, like mccc or showsiminfo (i use the latter). there are actually a huge number of hidden traits, most of which are just for little things like being right- or lefthanded, if the sim has discovered what one of the outdoor retreats plants is, gotten one of the challenge items (growfruit challenge, magic bean challenge and such), seen first snow. some allow some type of gameplay thing, though, like the sulani mana one that enables a sim to summon a lava bomb once every few hours
here's a screenshot of using the latter to check who all has the 'woke' hidden trait in my game... a whopping 3 sims, 2 of which are mermaids:
lia is the townie who starts the game living with the chieftain in her lot in the main town of sulani. i added the 'lava-man' maxis sim to that household as a defender of sorts to them (and gave him the sulani mana trait then started decorating around his cabin with lava boulders he summons). i haven't played the household overmuch, but she did find an 'ordinary' conch shell and blew it while standing next to one of the premade mermaids
here you can see all her hidden traits in my game:
fatima is pretty similar, except she was a selvadoradan townie i had edited a long while ago and moved to sulani to become an environmentalist. so she's got the 'isnative' selvadoradan trait instead of the 'islander' trait lia has. she also found some mermaid kelp in the cave and ate it, becoming a mermaid. after she discovered a mermaid through using the conch shell
manuia is similar, except he was created as a mermaid in my game (my first sim for island living, even) and i played him a whole lot, so he's got plenty of other hidden traits the others don't (like 'first kiss' and 'had woohoo' since he's started a romantic relationship with one of the island spirits he can summon). he was the first to find the conch shell and used it a whole lot with no results until nalani happened to be walking by. that was my introduction to what it does
Oh, if the hidden traits are only accessible by mods, then I won't bother. Thanks, though.