Crown of Antlers

Aeronwen and Neldor just had an interesting day to say the least. After a few basic chores around their home they decided to take Tinsel and Caspar to the dog park. There was a "Dog Social Hour" event going on, and they had always been too busy to attend one of those during the planting season, so why not? Neldor and Caspar headed out first. Aeronwen and Tinsel caught up with them at the park following a stop at the consignment shop where Aeronwen dropped off a few bottles of Rosewood Nectar to sell.
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After taking a look at most of the characters' work schedules I decided to have Neldor and Aeronwen host their party on a Saturday afternoon. While checking their contacts I noticed that there was one person whom neither of them have met and was therefore not on their list of people they could invite: Gilvoth.

Neldor knows more people than Aeronwen so he is the one who will be sending out the invitations. This also meant that he had the thankless task of tracking down Gilvoth and talking to him just long enough to get him in his relationship panel. Sure I could use the "Know everyone" mailbox cheat, but that would also place service sims into the relationship panel and make the list of contacts bigger than it needs to be.

Neldor, I am so sorry that I did this to you. Perhaps things would have gone better if I had sent Aeronwen, but as mentioned, you know more people.

By using the map tags, Neldor rode out to where Gilvoth was, dismounted and introduced himself and...it was all downhill from there. Gilvoth was nothing but a snide, sarcastic bastard.
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As we all know, we can't have too many pretties for our games, and while browsing the web looking for other horse mane and tail mods I came across Lakeside Saddlery which had some goodies that I had to grab.

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After looking for mods that could place Yanna's daughter in a better home and finding none, I decided to use the same trick with the NRaas Master Controller that I used to take the kitten Maggie from Erandre's home and giving her to Thorinor and Sarasvati.

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The last day of summer was a rainy one in New Ascadia, so everyone at Rosewood remained indoors. This didn't stop activity from happening elsewhere in the valley, giving Nerst much to report.
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I feel so stupid for not noticing that there is a way to block pregnancies in the NRaas Store Progression settings. The path is NRaas - Story Progression - Sim. About midway down the list are the settings that pertain to pregnancy. It's a simple matter to set Allow Pregnancy to Disallow for females and to set Pregnancy, Allow Participation to Disallow for males. The thing is I remember seeing those settings when I was making changes to keep unfit characters from adopting pets. It just didn't enter my mind to make some changes to keep unfit sims from having children. It should have, but it didn't.

Anyway, I went into map view so I could see everyone's tags, then edited the settings for all of the unmarried Sims. Now the next time the game decides it's time to bring in another baby, it will have to choose one of the married couples. I wish I had done this before Yanna became pregnant, but what's done is done. I changed Yanna's settings so she won't have any more children.

On another note, here is a screenie of Sifina that I took when I saw her with her zebra at the horse training grounds: ( Read more... )

Vemyn and Therana aren't often seen around the valley, but when they are they make a scene. Earlier this particular morning they lost control of the local grocery store due to a pair of concerned citizens buying the controlling shares of the business.

A chipmunk reporter managed to capture this scene at the horse training grounds on memory crystal:
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You will not guess who the next expectant parents are. Before we get to the news, here is a screenie of Aeronwen and Neldor enjoying a quiet evening in their newly redecorated home, watching a show on their wall-mounted Dwemer-made television set.

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This renovation took a while, but it was worth it. I'm very happy with the results. The layout of the house is the same, but it's been decorated almost entirely with items from the Once Upon a Cottage and Fairie Folk packs. I was a little worry that my sims would get upset because some items, such as those used in the kitchen, are less expensive than the ones I had originally placed there, but so far both Aeronwen and Neldor seem thrilled with the changes.

Off topic: as they were walking through the new version of their home they were both given the Eternally Faithful moodlet.

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I just finished playing through a busy day in New Ascadia. After Aeronwen and Neldor finished tending to their slowly diminishing garden (autumn is approaching) the Wolf-Mutt now turned Samoyed showed up outside the fence. After spending more time with him (and reaching Best Friends Forever level without even trying), they have adopted him. He has been given the name Caspar; not for the Friendly Ghost although I can understand why many would think that. He is named for Caspar of the Three Wise Men, so like the other pets he has a Christmas themed name.

As soon as Caspar was adopted he immediately trotted through the gate and began making friends with the other pets. I was a little surprised to see that he and Holly were already friends until I remembered that for quite a few nights when they were both strays they each slept out in the little stray shelter area outside the fence. Occasionally they would sniff noses and play together, so that explains why they were already friends.

Here is a screenie of Tinsel and Caspar goofing around in the yard while Ivy sleeps and dreams of butterflies nearby: ( Read more... )