Survivors - The River
Opening Post Biographies: (active characters) Greg Preston (Preston house) Greg was born in the year 2669. Greg was raised in the Mountain Village “Ent”. He was the son of a restaurant owner, ...
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Episode 3 – Above and Afar
Visionary mountains - Above and afar,
Like answers to questions - Of life, love,
Love and the longing to survive - Truth though distorted.
Are words I create - Today the parting - Tonight, tonight
At the peak of your - Visionary mountains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_lwVj1QtSs
Greg turned 56 in August, but he did not think about it at all, just another day for him at the cottage by the river.
Greg Preston’s Diary 28th of August 2724 AD.
This was my last day in the cottage, we would leave for the mountain village tomorrow. Pongo would come with me. I found some old pieces of fence, at a ruined farm to secure the chickens and not lose them to wild animals.
http://i.imgur.com/HXeTEOm.jpg
Greg Preston’s Diary 7th of September 2724 AD.
It took me 8 days to get back to the mountain village, naturally much harder to do the uphill journey than the downhill. I still have a small house here and to begin with It was quite nice to be back.
http://i.imgur.com/Y2t4ZNv.jpg
Greg Preston’s Diary 15th of September 2724 AD.
I have now been here about two weeks. It is starting to get on my nerves. I am looking forward to get back to the river. I have bought, a shelf, a bicycle, food and other small things. I saw a very smart dishwasher, but decided not to get it, it was to heavy and expensive. Tonight, I need a good meal at the restaurant, heading back tomorrow.
http://i.imgur.com/01hCEmO.jpg
Greg Preston’s Diary 26th of September 2724 AD.
I borrowed an Oxe and Wagon from one of my few friends in the village, now I was back in the river cottage with all the new stuff I bought. I have 6.721$ left after getting back to the cottage
http://i.imgur.com/K1dXcqD.jpg
Greg Preston’s Diary 2rd of October 2724 AD.
The first I did after coming back was to tear down that awful fence around the chickens, then just cleaning up a bit in the garden. Anyway, this morning I woke up to horrible weather, staying inside I just cooked a bit of food, glancing out the window I saw her, Jenny was back.
http://i.imgur.com/QGIgzMO.jpg
Editorial comments for those who want a deeper look into the setup and tricks behind the story:
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http://i.imgur.com/4HnU6Fb.jpg
Visionary mountains - Above and afar,
Like answers to questions - Of life, love,
Love and the longing to survive - Truth though distorted.
Are words I create - Today the parting - Tonight, tonight
At the peak of your - Visionary mountains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_lwVj1QtSs
Greg turned 56 in August, but he did not think about it at all, just another day for him at the cottage by the river.
Greg Preston’s Diary 28th of August 2724 AD.
This was my last day in the cottage, we would leave for the mountain village tomorrow. Pongo would come with me. I found some old pieces of fence, at a ruined farm to secure the chickens and not lose them to wild animals.
http://i.imgur.com/HXeTEOm.jpg
Greg Preston’s Diary 7th of September 2724 AD.
It took me 8 days to get back to the mountain village, naturally much harder to do the uphill journey than the downhill. I still have a small house here and to begin with It was quite nice to be back.
http://i.imgur.com/Y2t4ZNv.jpg
Greg Preston’s Diary 15th of September 2724 AD.
I have now been here about two weeks. It is starting to get on my nerves. I am looking forward to get back to the river. I have bought, a shelf, a bicycle, food and other small things. I saw a very smart dishwasher, but decided not to get it, it was to heavy and expensive. Tonight, I need a good meal at the restaurant, heading back tomorrow.
http://i.imgur.com/01hCEmO.jpg
Greg Preston’s Diary 26th of September 2724 AD.
I borrowed an Oxe and Wagon from one of my few friends in the village, now I was back in the river cottage with all the new stuff I bought. I have 6.721$ left after getting back to the cottage
http://i.imgur.com/K1dXcqD.jpg
Greg Preston’s Diary 2rd of October 2724 AD.
The first I did after coming back was to tear down that awful fence around the chickens, then just cleaning up a bit in the garden. Anyway, this morning I woke up to horrible weather, staying inside I just cooked a bit of food, glancing out the window I saw her, Jenny was back.
http://i.imgur.com/QGIgzMO.jpg
Editorial comments for those who want a deeper look into the setup and tricks behind the story:
Spoiler
I don’t think I will keep updating too much on these kind of things in the long run, but for now I expect that some might be interested what the restrictions are for my story, so here is a few details.:
Stuff like the fence I see as a storyline “purchase” and it will have no effect on the household economy.
(will be bought and sold to 0 value)
The mountain village is a save of it own, so will have no side effect in the “main save” also just a storyline décor. Can’t gain skill or anything else to be transferred to main save there.
Every sim will start with 1 (or more) skill in everything as that seems to be the value to trigger the sims to be more active.
The Book Shelf was something I decided Greg should get, to test if he would read skill books, expect he won’t but off course hope he will. (he paid)
The bike and also a sun protective parasol was both stuff he bought, while I was watching him from my “Heavenly” house, (the secret lot created to later import new characters)
Jenny (my name) was not a character I created. She was really a homeless sim that suddenly called him. I just edited her to look homeless (nothing else). She is still the personality the game created. I just called her back and invited her over. (she now lives in the “Heavenly” house not to lose her, as I have “remove all homeless every night activated”)
Another action I will take (sort of against my intensions) is repair, as I would rather do that than have “outsiders” in the game, that goes for every outsider, they will be avoided at all cost no matter the consequence. The only allowed AI will be the post and the newspaper, everyone else will be annihilated, besides the very few that will be adapted as characters like Jenny
Stuff like the fence I see as a storyline “purchase” and it will have no effect on the household economy.
(will be bought and sold to 0 value)
The mountain village is a save of it own, so will have no side effect in the “main save” also just a storyline décor. Can’t gain skill or anything else to be transferred to main save there.
Every sim will start with 1 (or more) skill in everything as that seems to be the value to trigger the sims to be more active.
The Book Shelf was something I decided Greg should get, to test if he would read skill books, expect he won’t but off course hope he will. (he paid)
The bike and also a sun protective parasol was both stuff he bought, while I was watching him from my “Heavenly” house, (the secret lot created to later import new characters)
Jenny (my name) was not a character I created. She was really a homeless sim that suddenly called him. I just edited her to look homeless (nothing else). She is still the personality the game created. I just called her back and invited her over. (she now lives in the “Heavenly” house not to lose her, as I have “remove all homeless every night activated”)
Another action I will take (sort of against my intensions) is repair, as I would rather do that than have “outsiders” in the game, that goes for every outsider, they will be avoided at all cost no matter the consequence. The only allowed AI will be the post and the newspaper, everyone else will be annihilated, besides the very few that will be adapted as characters like Jenny
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http://i.imgur.com/4HnU6Fb.jpg
