Episode 14 of Oscar's Childhood loaded to YouTube and it is now ready for you to view.
I've already started putting Episode 15 together and it looks as if I have enough video recorded to do another two episodes - but I won't know until I start work on it as a lot of it could be of the game frozen and I suspect that may be what has happened for so many recorded videos to be there. It just means it'll take me longer to make the videos as I cut out all the frozen bits.
Anyway, here is the link to Episode 14 of Oscar's Childhood.
https://youtu.be/sR8-vPHzNOk
This episode opens in Lucky Palms where we pay very brief visits to the homes of relatives of Eric.
We find Eric's grandmother, Patience, in the art gallery with a few other relevant sims also there.
Mena Fields is in the art gallery. I haven't introduced you to Mena before. She is the younger sister of Ted who was once, briefly, Patience's Toy Boy and lived with Patience and they had 4 children before Christopher Steel replaced him in Patience's affections.
Christopher is a werewolf in this game and we will probably meet up with him in a future episode when Eric and Oscar visit Sunlit Tides to spend time with Heather. Christopher visited Sunlit Tides for Heather's wedding to Duncan and refused to go home with Patience.
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He became a homeless sim in Sunlit Tides before I rescued him and add him to Heather's household. I then visited Patience at her home as I wasn't sure if I had grabbed the real Christopher. I half expected to find him safely at home with Patience too. But he wasn't she lives alone these days.
Heather is Eric's aunt, and a daughter of Patience and Marty. Marty's son, Mark is also in the art gallery. Mark is the father of Oscar's friend Mike. Mike has recently returned from the boarding school to live with his family until it's time for him to go back to the boarding school as a teen.
Eric is gardening in this pic
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Eric is reading a bedtime story to Oscar here
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At the boarding school we focus mainly on training the 8 toddlers. The most important toddlers to be trained at this stage are Tyree Verona, Alexander Cross and Westerley Cross. The little Cross boys are sons of Odessa Cross from Barnacle Bay. Odessa was remarkable in her ability to produce babies fast. She has 5 at this stage of the game. There are 4 toddlers and a baby. Alexander and Westerley are the third and fourth of her toddlers to attend the toddler school. They all come from Barnacle Bay and will be sent home as soon as they have completed their toddler skills and read their toddler books. Additionally, there are two teens from Barnacle Bay still at the Boarding School. Coral Goldbeard arrived at the Boarding school as a child. She did her childhood skills there and aged up to teen so she stayed to do a few extra skills suited to a teen. She can now fish, garden and cook. Similarly, Serena Abe is now a highly skilled teen and is ready to return to her home in Barnacle Bay.
Others you will see at the boarding school include sims from Dragon Valley and Moonlight Falls.
Riordan Mithrilen has just aged up to teen and is without skill but provides some entertainment. He features more in Episode 15 but we do get a taste of his insanity in Episode 14. He is originally from Dragon Valley. But - I emptied Dragon Valley of its sims in this save because I built the Witches Village there and I decided to scatter the witches throughout the 13+ worlds I have in this big save. I thought I'd replace the existing world with a new version and moved all of the townies out so they would continue their relationships/friendships with Eric and his relatives. Eric's mother, for example, is Lorna McCann from Dragon Valley. When/if I add a new version of the world to this game I'll have to annihilate the entire Dragon Valley population in the new world to prevent and doppelganger issues from developing.
I found Erica Wolff living with her two children in a house in Moonlight Falls. I picked up the children to add to the boarding school and realised this would leave her living there alone so grabbed her too. I found them living at 3216 Waning Way. She seems to have moved out of her original family home.
Erica and her children, Wilhelmina and Gator are werewolves and are at the boarding school with Oscar. They are the first werewolves he's encountered. Erica is learning skills and building up her lifetime happiness points, as she does very good work with all of the toddlers in the nursery. We don't see much of Whilemina in this episode but Gator is often on screen. Both of these little Wolffs are almost ready to age up. I suspect Gator will age up first as he has only 3 days to go before the game ages him up in my game currently, but the recorded video I already have might make it take a few episodes before he does actually transform. He learns all of his toddler skills well before he becomes child. Wilhemina will age up to teen soon after Gator ages up to child. I might enjoy having them together as children for a short time before she ages up. I expect the Wolff trio to stay at the boarding school for several more episodes. Probably until after Eric and Oscar leave to begin their travels around the various worlds to meet all of Eric's relatives. Eric has a lot of relatives. This is why I an gradually introducing you to a few each episode.
Susanna Koffi is a toddler at the boarding school Susanna is Eric's little sister. She will have a birthday cake soon. I'd like Oscar to play with her for a while as a child. Eric and Susanna's parents are Percy Koffi and Lorna McCann. Percy's parents are Gobias Koffi and Patience. In the original game I started several years ago, Gobias was transformed into a Witch. Many of his descendants in the game are witches. This includes Eric, Susanna and Kathleen.
Kathleen Koffi is also a child at the boarding school. Her parents are Haley (Percy's half sister), and Gobias Koffi (Percy's father). Haley's story is complicated. It gets more complicated to longer she lives. I had her, I thought, safely married and with a baby boy. I went off to play a different household for a while and discovered the game had moved her out of her home. She left her husband, Bob, with their baby son Harry, and went to live with Gobias. She and Gobias ended up with 4 children together. She was a young adult and he was an elder. But, thinking about it - when she first aged up from teen to young adult she always wanted romantic relationships with elders. I kept breaking them up but she kept on doing it. I arranged her marriage with Bob who was a young adult. Then when I left her alone she left him to move in with Gobias who was an elder at the time. I gave up and left her to it. Gobias has since died of old age. Haley is now and adult and seems reasonably happily married to a younger sim but is having an ongoing relationship on the side with Shark Racket.
This is a pic of Haley with her son, Graeme Koffi
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Graeme is still a toddler but I'm going to have to pay more attention to him and his siblings as they ought to be growing up faster than they are.
Haley's eldest son, Harry is a teen and lives with his father in Sunlit Tides and she rarely sees him. Her next child is Kathleen and she's a child at the boarding school. They have 7 younger siblings/half siblings living with Haley and her husband in Lucky Palms.
Allyson Wilson is also at the boarding school. Allyson's parents are Tammy Fields and Jebidiah Wilson (from Riverview). Tammy is the daughter of Patience and Ted Fields. She is the niece of Mena Fields who is also at the boarding school as a young adult in this part of the story.
Other residents of the current boarding school include Bruce Winterbottom and his wife Carlie and their toddler son Francesco. Bruce and Carlie are sims I made and their son was born in game. He'll be aged up before Oscar and Eric start their travels. I plan to keep the Winterbottoms at the boarding school for quite a while as they have scarcely been played since I placed them into their home in Moonlight Falls. I'll probably move them to a different world eventually as Moonlight Falls seems to be overpopulated at the moment.
Cricket Irwin from Lucky Palms is a teen at the boarding school. She's learning a few skills and will be returned to her home in Lucky Palms when she seems ready to go.
Mara Nix is a child from Moonlight Falls. She'll go home eventually too.
And there is the dog. He just is present and randomly interacts with household members. He's a bit lonely these days since I moved his friend out due to lag in the game. His friend is Snow and large fluffy white dog who has moved to Lucky Palms.
I like this pic - it's Patience's reaction to Ted's marriage to Helena. Helena is the eldest daughter of Patience and Marty. Marty is the only Sim Patience ever married, but she had a long term relationship with Ted and they had 4 children together.
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