I've gotten a cold, for the first time in maybe two years, and since I can't really do anything productive, I've been playing a bit, and messing around with pictures. Also, I've been trying out some bold colours in my game (which usually consists of muted greens, browns and greys). Couldn't put away the greens, but I kinda like it anyway, in all ( Read more... )

Four months. It's been four months since my last post. Yeah. Life kind of took over. I had to concentrate on finishing my master's thesis, and during those months, sims fell on the backburner a bit. That included my bacc. Then NaNoWriMo came along, and I spent all day writing, not playing ( Read more... )

It being ages since my last update, I think a reminder of what's going on is in order. Josephine, the town's mayor, and her husband Lawrence got a kid, Quinn. He grew up into a cute, squishy looking toddler. Lawrence got his gold talent badge in fishing and thus started up Havenside's* first Oceanography career. 'Cept they don't really live near an ( Read more... )

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During week 1 in the settlement, several sims made it blatantly clear that they would be much happier living together. So come monday of the second week, I decided I needed to oblige them, and move them in with each other, to stave off inconsistencies in game play. This resulted in story telling inconsistencies instead (I swear I'm going to get ( Read more... )

During week 1 Lawrence and Josephine managed to fall in love all on their own, while I was playing other households, and they were just visiting. The cuteness was too much to bear, so come week 2, Lawrence moved in with Josephine straight away.


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The last family of the first week consists of June White, the town's (very bored) Pleasure sim. Life without electronics is proving very hard for June. She's managed to find some entertainment though. She was always over at the Ewings' when I played them, now it's Wallis who's always over at June's:


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Peggy Sutton is the small newfounded settler community's vampire. She doesn't really like being a vampire - it certainly wasn't something she chose. There was ... an incident. With a boy of immense magnetism. And it unfolded badly, like these things do. Only for Peggy, it was ten times worse than she could ever have imagined. And she's lamented it ( Read more... )