Some things never change though...

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.

Here Olive and Orchid finally give their opinion on Owain's grilled cheese as opposed to Brahm's that they grew up with.

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::, :Eros2::, :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!

The Maryland is a three bedroom, four bathroom home with a nursery. It is designed for my peculiar playability with a teen/child play room filled with Gamer career rewards and an extensive skills room in the basement, energizer rooms in the basement and on the ground floor, a child/teen study room on the ground floor and a two room nursery upstairs, but it still could work for standard play as it wouldn't take much to convert the rooms. The double doors on two of the bedrooms upstairs are to keep the Bad Apple out of them by locking each of the doors to "Allow Only Me" for each of the two occupants of the room. The Study Room is my way of keeping track of homework. Once they get an A in school they don't need to do homework that night. You can use that homework book to "reserve" a spot on one of the tables and they will take all future assignments there. After they finish that next night's homework, as soon as the meter starts spinning down you can cancel the interaction and they won't even touch the lower assignment thus keeping their place. When you have six kids it makes it much easier to keep track of who has what homework and whether or not it's done.

Note: Ignore the stuff in the pictures that requires stuff packs. I felt guilty and took all stuff pack required stuff out at the last minute. No stuff packs are needed!

For giggles the original description of this house plan:

Homes are not constructed alone of brick and stone and wood. These are merely the materials out of which the walls are fashioned. Artistic structures like The Maryland are simply inviting, comfortable places where ambitious hearts can quietly and undistrubed build homes of culture, refinement and love which neither climate nor man can mar.

Basically what this set of eyes will do is make it possible for townies to have more than the five basic eye colors, they will be able to display any of the 28. The eyes have also been geneticised, which means they are not going to always be uber dominant like custom eyes are but have been categorized in the same way as the standard eye colors. I only use the genetic levels that the game uses (one dominant and two recessive) and don't go down to the unused recessives at three and four because I actually want all of the eyes to be possibilities in children and grandchildren and not be suppressed out of all existence because they were too recessive.

Anyway, here's how I have them categorized as genetics, keep in mind I enjoy the fantastical and, of course, I made sure my founder's flamingo eyes from my wacky boolprop challenge were made dominant because I do not want to see those eyes fade out if I can help it.

I also made a set of default eye replacements out of these eyes. So the geneticised and townified eyes come with a version to be used with these defaults and a version you can use without. The second .zip is just to help you not double up on certain eye colors if you decide to use my defaults. The first set can be used with any other default replacement set!

Download EnaylaEyes.zip
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Download EnaylaEyes-UseWithMYDefaults.zip
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And, finally, here are the defaults.

Download EnaylaDefaultEyes.zip
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This bath was made by Simlogical. You need to go to that site first to get the Dog Bath. It is under Sims 2 Downloads > Petting. The textures are Maxis textures, not mine, all I did was some finagling in SimPE.

Download DogBath-BitsyRecolors.zip
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A few notes about CC and the neighborhood. I have geneticized and NPC available skins by Enayla installed (all the ones from her Pixie set, basically) so there are 24 possible skin tones you will see NPCs, townies, etc show up in. Another thing, instead of just being either s1 or s2 babies can be born with either the mother's s1, the father's s2 or the several skintones that have been assigned inbetween when they were geneticized. Much, much more variety in skin tones both in playables and non-playables alike. Secondly, eyes, I have a set of 24 towniefied and geneticized eyes, Enayla's eyes for the eyeless from Insim, this means townies can have any of the 24 eye colors and the custom ones outside of the range of six standard eyes have been given normal genetics so they aren't always dominant. Thirdly, I have new face templates in, so you'll notice a difference in the faces of the Sims. Fourthly, I have a clean empty neighborhood so there are no default townies. Finally, I have my new mythology name hack installed. So everyone has cool names too. Now, moving on to the challenge.

Meet Serafina Sapphire. And, yes, there are pink sapphire's, they're quite beautiful actually. She's a neat freak Knowledge Sim with a penchant for the paranormal. She has a lifetime want to max her skills. The easiest LTW in the game. I tried and failed this challenge once with her as an adult and am trying again with her going to college first.

This is a hack that will replace all of your townie names with names from mythology. This will only work on new townies, NPCs and orphans that are generated and will not affect any existing ones. This will only work in English US and UK language installs of the game. If you have another language install and would like this hack please let me know.

For a look at the names included in this hack check out the following lists.

Female First Names
Male First Names
Last Names
Female Pet Names
Male Pet Names

Download BitsyMythologyNameHack.zip
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