The Jackle-Thorn Household

[crown_of_antlers]

It seems that no matter where Neldor goes, Thorinor follows. And with Thorinor comes his lovely wife and household.


Thorinor Jackle-Thorn



And a shot of his attire. Don't ask what's under his kilt. That's only for Sarasvati to know.



For his appearance I used the following mods:

Four Assorted Sci-Fi Eyes as Contacts
Antlers Accessory
3 Ambitions Hair Converted for Men

Sarasvati



I'm not sure I like her skin tone, but I'll keep looking for mods that might add a more bluish gray as an option.

The household. I have them two horses, a dog and a cat. I like to give the non-controlled/npc families pets since it appears that the only World that gives any of the families pets is Appaloosa Plains, and I find it hurts immersion when Neldor and Aeronwen are the only ones who have pets. For this reason I have some player-made families in my game library which all have pets which I place on the other available properties. I like seeing the other characters out walking their dogs or riding along the road on their horses.



I might temporarily merge Neldor's and Thorinor's household so I can tell the game that the two mers are brothers. That should have an effect on how they react when they see each other around town.

Comments

[darth_eldritch]

Sarasvati looks fine.

I like the kilt. Is it part of the store updates?

It looks like Sarasvati's horse is spooked because Thorinor is looking at the horse as if it would be dinner, lol.

[crown_of_antlers]

I got it as part of the Dragon Valley world, but it's possible to get it separately here:

Celtic Kilt.

Right after I took this screenshot the whole household headed into town. I thought Sarasvati would ride the black horse, but instead she got up on the buckskin mustang that I had in mind for Thorinor. LOL You never know what these Sims will do.

[darth_eldritch]

Lol, these SIMS have minds of their own. That buckskin looks like golden butter. Probably because Sarasvati has in game has a Say'ldi named Honeysweet, lol. Wait till you deal with followers and mounts in Skyrim. It's fun, though.

Thanks. I'm still downloading stuff and looking through the Store updates and getting an archive of that. Looks like a lot of goodies.

I downloaded the game overnight. Still have to install it. So, you turn off firewall, and install as admin and set game to run as admin, which I do all the time, anyways. How do you set the game to not go on the internet?

[crown_of_antlers]

I'll need to ask my husband exactly how he did that. Hopefully it's not too complex. I know our firewall has a way to specify if a program should be blocked but I don't know if there was more to it than that.

[darth_eldritch]

Thank you. I'll have to look at my firewall settings.

[crown_of_antlers]

He said he doesn't believe my game ever tried to connect, but what he did was set a couple of firewall rules.

Through the firewall, he went to the folders: Sims_3/Game/Bin and blocked the "TS3W" and the "S3Launcher" files.

While Neldor and Aeronwen were in the Bistro having dinner I switched over to the Jackle-Thorn household and saw that Thorinor and Sarasvati are both already employed. They went and got jobs at the theater.

Oh and another mod you might like: Playable Harp and Lute

[darth_eldritch]

Thanks for the info!

Lol, the theater. Is it possible to make an actual band in the game? Clever Prank, of course.

Nice instruments! What I like about that site is that the mod authors usually tell you what other mods they are using in the pics. Like the 4 LOTR dresses linked in that instrument mod.

[crown_of_antlers]

Is it possible to make an actual band in the game?

Yes you can. I haven't tried it yet, and I think it's easier to do when the potential band members are all a part of the same household. That's another reason I might temporarily merge the two households.

It's currently the middle of the night in my game, but in the morning I might have Aeronwen and Neldor ride over to the Jackle-Thorn house to welcome Thorinor and Sarasvati to the neighborhood. The four of them should get along since they share a lot of the same traits.

Thorinor and Sarasvati certainly have their own ideas about which horse is whose. Sarasvati was brushing the buckskin and leading it into the stable while Thorinor was looking after the black mare.

[dlichnum]

All of the sims games are a bit of a special interest of mine, so I am doing my absolute best to not info dump about ALL THE MODS you could use.

For the pets, there's a bit of a bug where strays don't spawn. Here's a cool article explaining the two mods to get and how to set them up. Its way, way easier than it looks.

https://pleasantsims.com/sims-3-adopt-strays/

Those antlers look pretty rough. These might fit him a little bit better - https://shokoninio.tumblr.com/post/58556930443/more-horns-from-skyrim-as-accesory-i-know-it-i
use packages, they work better.
there is also these, by a modder who specializes in animal sims - https://www.tumblr.com/ashuriphoenix/663437721279381504/ts3-lace-tsm-deer-antlers-more-colorable

Have you gotten the smooth patch? even with almost no mods it helps a lot and makes the game playable https://lazyduchess.tumblr.com/post/657467259898527744/the-sims-3-smooth-patch-21

I personally try to avoid using sims3packs as much as possible because even with all the fixes the game has gotten i cannot close my launcher without using task manager which is annoying. If you want to get package versions of the store content, and be able to be very picky on exactly what you put in your game, I can recommend this tumblr. I'm using the all combined versions with no problems -> https://blamseastore.tumblr.com/

I can keep an eye out for any elder scrolls skins, if you'd like. I know about khajiit and argonian ones, but you don't seem the type to want deformed broken skulled sims in your game. Making custom, animalistic heads in sims 3 never ends well.

[crown_of_antlers]

Thank you so much for the links. I've seen the Khajiit and Argonian mods but haven't downloaded them for the reason you mentioned.

I wasn't aware of the stray pet bug. I'll look into the mods that fix it. I have wild horses spawning, but no dogs or cats (obviously).

Have you gotten the smooth patch?

I saw that one but haven't downloaded it since so far my game is running smoothly and I haven't had any issues with closing it down.