I feel a little guilty for not having made a post in the ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
aeronwen blog, but I got caught back up in the other save a started a while back featuring Gloria and her friends as children. The game became so interesting that I went even further back in time and started a game with all of the parents as young adults without children so I got to play through the birth's of Gloria, James, Allison, and Robin. For a while everyone lived in the Great Bear world, but when loading the save began taking quite a long time I used NRaas Porter to pack up all my custom households (including the newly created grandparents) and moved everyone to Moonlight Falls (now with the cobblestone road from Dragon Valley and with modern buildings replaced with Victorian styled ones).
The Winters family home in Moonlight Falls:
When Gloria and her friends grew out of the toddler stage, all four sets of parents had another child, so Gloria ended up with a little sister named Krystal. At that point I stopped controlling any breeding that that the other three households wanted to do and allowed them all to have more children if they wished. And they did. James' parents have four children at the time of this entry, while Robin's and Allison's parents each have had three.
Shortly after the move to Moonlight Falls, Gloria's parents also had a third child; a son named William who is still an infant at the time of this entry.
During Gloria's teen years her parent's horses (a mare named Crimson and an old palomino stallion named Snicker) produced Faith. With the understanding that the new foal was to be Gloria's horse, Gloria was given full responsibility for the new foal, frequently brushing and bottle-feeding it. Because both parent horses had the "Fearless Foals" happiness reward, little Faith didn't mind being away from her mother and quickly became best friends with Gloria.
Shortly before Faith reached adulthood (in horse terms she was a weanling), Crimson and Snicker were bred again and produced another foal; a dark bay filly named Hope. This new foal is supposed to belong to Krystal, but so far she hasn't been as diligent about caring for the little horse as Gloria was with Faith.
Since aging is turned on, it was inevitable that Gloria's childhood pets are about to become elders. Snicker has already passed, causing the entire family to have the Mourning moodlet. While I didn't get upset the way some Simmers do (I've been through real life pet death. Sim pets passing is absolutely nothing compared to that), I did think it was sad when I saw little Faith sleeping near her sire's grave stone.
At the time of this entry, Gloria and Faith have just reached adulthood. They can and will move out, but I might wait until after Krystal transitions into a teenager and William becomes a toddler. Once Gloria moves to her own lot the game will be at the stage where I normally play Gloria as a young adult. It took time to get through each childhood stage, but it's been worth it since it heavily fleshed out her back-story and her relationship with her family. Now having an actual past makes her present seem much richer.
I WILL be getting back to my Aeronwen/Elder Scrolls save soon. Now that Gloria is grown, my Bosmers are starting to call me back into their world.
aeronwen blog, but I got caught back up in the other save a started a while back featuring Gloria and her friends as children. The game became so interesting that I went even further back in time and started a game with all of the parents as young adults without children so I got to play through the birth's of Gloria, James, Allison, and Robin. For a while everyone lived in the Great Bear world, but when loading the save began taking quite a long time I used NRaas Porter to pack up all my custom households (including the newly created grandparents) and moved everyone to Moonlight Falls (now with the cobblestone road from Dragon Valley and with modern buildings replaced with Victorian styled ones).The Winters family home in Moonlight Falls:
When Gloria and her friends grew out of the toddler stage, all four sets of parents had another child, so Gloria ended up with a little sister named Krystal. At that point I stopped controlling any breeding that that the other three households wanted to do and allowed them all to have more children if they wished. And they did. James' parents have four children at the time of this entry, while Robin's and Allison's parents each have had three.
Shortly after the move to Moonlight Falls, Gloria's parents also had a third child; a son named William who is still an infant at the time of this entry.
During Gloria's teen years her parent's horses (a mare named Crimson and an old palomino stallion named Snicker) produced Faith. With the understanding that the new foal was to be Gloria's horse, Gloria was given full responsibility for the new foal, frequently brushing and bottle-feeding it. Because both parent horses had the "Fearless Foals" happiness reward, little Faith didn't mind being away from her mother and quickly became best friends with Gloria.
Shortly before Faith reached adulthood (in horse terms she was a weanling), Crimson and Snicker were bred again and produced another foal; a dark bay filly named Hope. This new foal is supposed to belong to Krystal, but so far she hasn't been as diligent about caring for the little horse as Gloria was with Faith.
Since aging is turned on, it was inevitable that Gloria's childhood pets are about to become elders. Snicker has already passed, causing the entire family to have the Mourning moodlet. While I didn't get upset the way some Simmers do (I've been through real life pet death. Sim pets passing is absolutely nothing compared to that), I did think it was sad when I saw little Faith sleeping near her sire's grave stone.
At the time of this entry, Gloria and Faith have just reached adulthood. They can and will move out, but I might wait until after Krystal transitions into a teenager and William becomes a toddler. Once Gloria moves to her own lot the game will be at the stage where I normally play Gloria as a young adult. It took time to get through each childhood stage, but it's been worth it since it heavily fleshed out her back-story and her relationship with her family. Now having an actual past makes her present seem much richer.
I WILL be getting back to my Aeronwen/Elder Scrolls save soon. Now that Gloria is grown, my Bosmers are starting to call me back into their world.
