Crown of Antlers

This is better than any soap opera.
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An update from Gloria's world (cobble-stoneized Moonlight Falls)). Snicker, the old family horse who recently left with the Reaper, returned as a ghost. For most of the night he stood around his grave in the back corner of the lot. Unfortunately before dawn he decided to make his presence known to everyone.

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He went into the barn and started haunting one of the stalls, practically making the door come off its hinges. The living horses became spooked, broke out of their stalls and ran around the paddock with the Panic moodlet. They all needed to be calmed down. The human members of the family and the dog didn't seem all that thrilled to see Snicker's ghost hanging around either. The only one who didn't seem to care was Jasper the family cat.

I think they were all relieved when the ghost suddenly disappeared. Since Snicker's visit was so bothersome to the household, I had them buy a tiny lot a short distance down the road for them to use as a pet cemetery. I moved Snicker's gravestone and flowers there, put an iron fence around it and added a gate that only household members (living ones that is) can use. Now if Snicker comes back he should be confined to the smaller lot and won't be spooking the horses. The new foal has the Nervous trait so she easily gets upset even on the best of days. She doesn't need the ghost of her sire rattling the stall doors.

In other news regarding the Moonlight Falls community; Robin and Allison, who have been woohooing with each other since they became teenagers, have now gotten married, moved to a little starter house and are expecting their first child.

James is now moved into his own home with his own pets because his parents are now expecting their fifth child and their house is at the point of overflowing. I think James is glad for the peace and quiet.

So the only one of the four characters who is still living at home since becoming a young adult is Gloria, and she is living in a small apartment over the barn. I've held off moving her to her own place because I wanted to see if she gets a wish to move out. So far there's been no such wish even though I know that, like James, she would enjoy the peace and quiet.

At this point I'm curious to see if the Flowers, Hunt, Woods, and Winters households ends up out-breeding the vanilla MF households, because with the way they all produced children they certainly seem intent on it.

I spent a good bit of time trying to turn a zebra into a donkey, but without a slider to adjust the animal's size it just didn't work, and I knew that a horse sized donkey would bug me, so I went with creating a mule and am pleased with the results.

At the moment I haven't thought of an official name for her, so for now she's just "Jenny Mule". Her primary purpose is to be a barnyard friend and companion for Gloria's horse. However, since I recently allowed Gloria to buy a mule cart and the mule on it is similar in color I can just roleplay in my mind that Jenny pulls the cart when Gloria needs to drive her garden's produce into town.

Jenny's traits are Genius, Brave, and Friendly because mules and the donkeys they are bred from really aren't as stubborn as is commonly believed. They aren't so much as stubborn as they are very smart. Smarter than horses in fact, and tend to be better at sensing danger and will not allow themselves to be prodded into situations where they might be harmed.

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She has just been added to the household so nothing has really happened with her yet, but I'm sure she'll fit right in once she and the other animals have had a chance to get acquainted with each other.

Since I know that this will be a lengthy entry I'll go ahead and place the cut: ( Read more... )

Since the werewolves have added a new level of entertainment to my Elder Scrolls themed town I thought it would be interesting to add some vampires as well. At first I couldn't think of any Elder Scrolls vampires who would be suitable, but then I remembered that they didn't have to be characters from Morrowind. Being immortal, they could come from a much earlier time, such as the Second Era.

So...in a Victorian themed manor, literally next door to Voryn and Ashara's home, I have added the lead vampires from House Ravenwatch.

The household consists of Count Verandis Ravenwatch (Altmer), Adusa daro (Khajiit), Fennorian (Altmer), and Gwendis (Bosmer).

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Although it took quite a while to set up the mainland Morrowind town in Moonlight Falls, it was worth every minute of it, because so far this has been the most entertaining town. It makes a difference when the game has more sims to work with that aren't off limits the way the core households are.

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So far the new reports in the mainland town have been rather spares and I am guessing it's because I have all of the characters' settings locked down so tight to prevent out of character behavior. For example, Yanna was the Town Tart but the game recently retired her from the role because "she wasn't meeting requirements". In other words, there were not enough males in town who were permitted to fool around with her. The game attempted to have her get something going with Basnik (even though I have him set to not cheat on Alandis) but when I caught them slow dancing I used the Master Controller to reset him. This snapped him out of Yanna's arms and sent him home. Forget it, Yanna/Sims Game. The Clever Prank boys don't do such things.

I did however permit the game to break up a household. Skink in Tree's Shade, Traveling New Woman, Ra'Virr and Ahnassi were brought in as one household and set up in Victorian style townhouse (with a big garden and greenhouse in the back for Traveling New Woman). Before the first day was through the game/Nerst broadcasted this message:

"Ra'Virr is simply not welcome in this home any longer," remarked Skink in Tree's Shade. "I have put up with his nonsense for long enough. Now it is time for him to leave."

Following Skink's statement, it was announced over the airwaves that Ra'Virr and Ahnassi moved into a house closer to the center of town.

The only other messages that came up during the first day were about the Harpy Gang;

"No one seems to like us. I can't understand why," smiled Sophelia while preening next to Morgana le Hex. "We're young, we're pretty, we are simply fabulous. What's not to love?"

"I love how everyone stares when we walk by. They are totally checking out my glutes!" grinned Sophelia LaChance.

"Are not, ho! They are obviously checking out my legs!" retorted Morgana le Hex. "Whatever! As long as their eyes are on us, nothing else matters!"

Oh, and there was the usual message that Nalcarya was paying Crassius for Gigolo services. And Merriweather Golden paid the other gigolo Tanor the Sleaze (Ewwww, Merri, I thought you had higher standards).

The game doesn't seem to like having so many of the residents locked down and off limits for certain things, but that's tough. I want to keep the characters whom we love and come to know so well to do things that they would never ever do.

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The snow topped mountains, the dense trees and the gorgeous crystal blue water of Moonlight Falls made me unable to resist; I had to make an Elder Scrolls themed town and head-canon that it's in a north-western area of mainland Morrowind, just southeast of Skyrim. No, I have not downloaded the CAW and now I probably won't bother because the save I created wouldn't work with a changed map. This would mean I would have to start over again from the ground level. And I do mean the ground level.

I started with a save that I downloaded from Mod the Sims: Moonlight Falls Emptied. Not only were the households and buildings all removed, the lots themselves had been taken out. By placing the lots myself, I had the freedom to lay out the town exactly as I wanted, which each lot being the size that was needed. This way I was able to keep the business buildings centralized.

First I placed the town hall and office building. From there I added more businesses such as the grocer, the school, the library, and the police/military base. The next circle consisted of entertainment type businesses, such as the theater and taverns. The next group were the small homes of non-horse owners who live in small houses that are in rows on the outer edge of town. Finally in the wide open spaces I placed the homes of the horse owners and I had more than enough room for all of them. In fact some of them were able to have bigger lots than they had in New Ascadia. Darkfell's and Acacia's lot is now a 60 x 60, giving their horses a lot more room. There's plenty of space for a playground area when their son comes along.
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Since I'm between game weeks in both Appaloosa Plains and Dragon Valley/New Ascadia I spent some time playing some short games in two of the other worlds. I knew that Midnight Hollow would be too dark (lighting-wise) for my tastes but figured I may as well check it out anyway. I installed the Midnight Dream Lighting Mod which helped some, but with the textures themselves being so dark there is only so much that can be done. And not only is the world dark, but there is also very little space to move around. In spite of the world's large size, the game-play area isn't much more than narrow stripes of roads that wind between nearby hills. After about three game days I had enough.( Read more... )