Sui Returns
It's been a bit since my last update. To recap, my founder Serafina Sapphire and her husband Urshanabi had founded something truly wacky and together had five kids, two sets of twins and one bad apple. The eldest set of twins, Basil and Briar, were off at college, Briar had become heiress. The younger set of twins, Olive and Orchid were finishing out their teenhood while the youngest sibling Ornella had only begun to be a teen, and was now old enough to get into some real mischief if I didn't watch it! Also living with the family was family friend Owain and his alien daughter Violet. Brahm, another family friend, had moved out earlier. Also living with the family was a family of wild wolves. Whitlock, his mate Sui and their pups Birch and Onyx where all members of the family at one time. Whitlock and Onyx still lived at home, Birch had been given away to Brahm and Sui ran away after some rather sinister growling and chasing from her son Onyx. But, that's all behind us now. The remaining members of the household live together more or less peacefully, for now.
Some things never change though...
"Looks like you'll be safe from my neglect, little fishies, I'm not heiress after all."
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Posted by Bitsy at 05:41 PM | Comments (22)
The Gables Redux
Wow, who ever thought I'd get around to this? I finally worked out what was going wrong and can share my legacy house! I'm a little nervous about it actually, because it's really not all that great. I've built much better houses than this, though not on this scale of course. Keep in mind, this was built a very long time ago and has remained pretty much unchanged, this started as a Base and Uni legacy and still remains pretty much a Base and Uni house. I have made small concessions to the new EPs in playing style and such but in furnishings and use of new EP stuff, not so much.
Some things to keep in mind about The Gables. One, this is a no Free Will house, with bare bone furnishings. Everything in it is on a need to own basis. No TVs or gaming systems, no decorations of any kind, just what is required. I took the time to strip out all of the custom content and replace it with default equivalents. The house looks a bit different because of that. Also everything is furnished to my particular play style. A quick overview for those not familiar with my legacy.
- Child's study room. Once a kid gets an A+ in school they do not need to do that day's homework. You can use that homework book to reserve a space for them. Sell one of the daisy vases and set their homework there. The next day use camera angle 5 to watch them do homework and when their bar starts to spin down hit pause and cancel the interaction. They will leave the assignment underneath untouched and bring future assignments there so you can keep track of them.
- Mausoleum. Keep the beds of the dead in the basement I provided underneath the mausoleum. Buy stairs on a need to use basis or else the ghosts will get out. The ghosts will get out anyway on their first night of haunting when they go to mourn their death. All future nights they will spend in the mausoleum.
-Portrait studio. Every Saturday Sim time I hit camera angle 9 and have everyone gather in the Portrait Studio for their weekly picture. I use a combination of moveobjects, snapobjects to grid and the camera career reward to arrange things. I have a lighting fixture exported from the game that is used in CAS to light up their faces. Some other bright light would do though, it's a bit dark without it. Going into tab mode and hitting 4 should give you a well framed picture, if not you can adjust it from there with little effort.
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Posted by Bitsy at 11:11 AM | Comments (6)
Time to Vote for the Heir/ess!
But, first a short update to get caught up to where I'm at in game. Since there are a lot of Sims, here's everyone on the lot. We have my founder Serafina and her husband Urshanabi. We have the alien baby's daddy Owain and his daughter Violet. We have five potential heir/ess': Basil, Briar, Olive, Orchid and Ornella. Yeah, I went from naming the founder after a firestone to naming all of the kids after plants. I'm strange. We also have the founder wolf Whitlock whose mate Sui has run away and their pups Birch and Onyx.
Here Olive and Orchid finally give their opinion on Owain's grilled cheese as opposed to Brahm's that they grew up with.
"It's really good, Owain. You're such a sweetie! Like a live in servant almost!"
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Serafina Sapphire Deals With Teenagers
On the same night that Violet became a child, the twins Olive and Orchid became teens. They had pretty much been dressed and treated identically up until now but now they had differing aspirations and personalities so i decided it was time to dress them to suit. For Olive I rolled Popularity, so it was time to deck her out (in pink!) and give her some nice make-up and tweased eyebrows. Very much the teen daughter that's always tying up the phone now.
"Pink is so my color."
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Anaitis Windling Goes Greek
After an invigorating New Years party things settled down for a while at Windling Gables, until Cael gave birth to his second set of twins that is. He gave birth to a third son that I named Vale and his first daughter that I named Valeda. The entire family came into the nursery to welcome the new additions.
"Yay! MOAR Aliens!"
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Whitlock and Sui Have Puppies
Now that I had my alien it seemed overkill to have so many guys at loose ends in the house. So I decided to wait until Owain reached the top of his career and then have him quit his job in perma-plat and get to live in the main house with his daughter as a live in Maid/Repairman/Cook/Nanny/Tutor/Wolf Caretaker person. Brahm was going to stay until Owain could quit though because the work schedules of everyone in the house meant there were brief times when only kids and Brahm were home still. So for now Brahm was still the live in Maid/Repair-ah you get it.
"You know if you keep cooking us nothing but Grilled Cheese to eat we're all going to get as big as Sumo Wrestlers!"
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New Years at Windling Gables
It has been a long time since I have blogged my Windlings! Two more updates and then I will do a Windling Retrospective. Which will include a Windling family tree (finally!) and a nice easy overview of the Windling family over the past fifteen generations. I know I get confused at times so you guys must be postively lost.
Anyway, as a refresher to where we are. We are in sixth generation, second bloodline. The heir Cerebrus and his wife Veronica were elders, their ten children Anaitis, Arthur, Louhi, Adella, Anastasia, Eros, Eris, Epona, Erato and Erebrus were all off at college. Cerebrus' brother Cael was staying with him and his wife, and raising his two alien sons Vasu and Vasanta while plodding along with his second alien pregnancy. Mercury, of course, lurked in the background as he always does.
Updating for the first time in over a month and it's a filler chapter, I'm sorry!
"Happy New Year, everyone!"
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Posted by Bitsy at 07:30 PM | Comments (8)