Hello All
I've been playing my game all day today. It's been a bit tiresome as there's been a lot of save, shut down and relaunch going on.
A couple of you mentioned the name Hetal. I agree it's unusual - it took me a while to work out what you were talking about at the time. Then I realised I'd mentioned Hetal in a post.
I became aware of her when I got a message from the game telling me she'd just aged up to Young Adult (or teen - I can't remember now). I only saw her for a few seconds but I thought she looked very colourful and deserving of a screen shot so you can all see her.
Here she is.
https://i.postimg.cc/8CGKDZjB/Hetal-Anjali-Tourist.jpg
I don't know what world she came from. I haven't come across her again. Don't expect to either. I don't think any of my sims ever met her.
I have more than enough recorded to make a video but it'd be a boring video. I've had them emergency skilling and reading books. Now that's done it's time to start moving sims around. I'm pleased I wrote out my step by step instructions on what to do when it's time to take the Wolff family back to Moonlight Falls because I remembered it just as they were arriving and I realised I had forgotten the plumbot. Looks like it'll get it's own special trip to Moonlight Falls to be returned to its family.
When I was finalising things and checking everyone had read or learned enough to go I suddenly got thrown across to the Steel household. I found Bonnie on fire. I wasn't able to save her.
I was recording the entire thing with Grimm arriving and her lying on the floor and then realised I didn't have OBS running so I paused the game and loaded OBS and got the end bit and we saw Grimm standing there before disappearing. Bonnie's red/orange ghost was floating behind Grimm.
https://i.postimg.cc/fb22bG2N/Bonnie-Died.jpg
Bonnie was the wife of Dan Steel. They are from an old game I found from 2010. I added Dan to Patience's family tree. In the old game Dan was the son of Patience and Christopher Steel. In this big game Patience and Christopher had a son so when I added Dan to the family that son got a brother. Of course, In the Big Game Patience has 14 other children as well, but not with Christopher.
Bonnie and Dan have 6 children ages range from child to teen. They live in a mansion on the edge of the ocean. They are quite close to the Moonfall Island boarding school but not right next door.
Here is Bonnie's urn.
https://i.postimg.cc/z3ZTB7Y5/Bonnie-Steel-Died-Of-Fire.jpg
Dan Steel is the half-uncle of Eric and Susanne.
I did briefly think about shutting down without saving but I couldn't endure another hour of sims sitting reading books. So she's in a golden urn on a golden side table on a golden half circle mat in the family living room in front of a huge window looking out over the ocean. I saved after she died and then thought about adding the side table and mat and putting the urn on it. Then it gave me Error 12 while I tried to save. So I relaunched and she got a different side table from the one in the picture. The one she now has is painted gold. This one is more white.
Previously I had sent sims off to the 3 World Adventure worlds to buy fishing bait books and recipes and the skill books from each world.
The first travellers were Gaylord, Oscar and Wilhemina . Oscar really wants to kiss Wilhemina for the first time but she isn't interested - her eyes are for Eric.
Just a pic of China.
https://i.postimg.cc/DZSC4xHb/China.jpg
Wilhemina and Oscar fishing. Oscar was keen but she wasn't interested. They did manage to catch a few fish. Meanwhile Gaylord was out and about picking fruit and exploring.
https://i.postimg.cc/nc43mjRT/Wilhemina-And-Oscar-In-China.jpg
I spotted Felix Flower, a tourist, in China. He is one of my sims. Hopefully Eric and Oscar and Susanne will come across him at home at some stage. Felix started out in the Fairy Village I made in Barnacle Bay.
https://i.postimg.cc/TYMkhq9p/Felix-Flower-In-China.jpg
We had a full moon one night during their time at the boarding school in Moonfall Island. Erica, Wilhemina and Gator all transformed to werewolf form. Next morning Erica had to rush off to work and didn't have time to transform back to human form. It made me wonder how her co-workers felt that day but noting special seemed to happen.
Here's Erica rushing off to work in her werewolf form.
https://i.postimg.cc/KcgqZst6/Erica-Wolff-Off-To-Work-In-Werewolf-Form.jpg
Oscar, Kaylee, Eric and Jeanette chatting and enjoying the view at home one day. Home was Moonfall Island Boarding School.
https://i.postimg.cc/hGPZcD0s/Oscar-Kaylee-Eric-Jeanette.jpg
Big brother Eric was reading a bedtime story to his little sister, Susanne.
https://i.postimg.cc/k4LTQxPY/Eric-Reading-To-Susanne.jpg
Kirsten Faulks looking a little less frightening than she did last time I posted a pic of her. She lives in Moonfall Island. I'm thinking of holding her in the boarding school for a while as her father seems to have an active social life and she tends to wander around town alone and not doing her homework.
https://i.postimg.cc/WzrXXh2N/Kirsten-Faulks.jpg
This is Kirsten's father, Kim Faulks
https://i.postimg.cc/TPcXDW6X/Kim-Faulks.jpg
She seems to have inherited his mouth.
Spooky Day arrived. All of the children and teens got into costume and tried to go trick or treating but they had no luck. So they all went home and had a party of sorts. It wasn't an official party but they were all hanging out together in the big main room and one of them was playing guitar and others were dancing. Unfortunately there were no screen shots I was too busy trying to get it onto video. So I think I'll have some fun and colourful things to include in the video. I'll start working on that tomorrow.
Finally the day arrived for the sims from Moonlight Falls to return home from Moonfall Island boarding school. Sadly I forgot to move them into Silver, the plumbot's house so she could travel home with them. Silver will have to do it alone at some later time.
Here are the travellers, Erica, Eric, Oscar, Wilhemina, Gator and Gregg
https://i.postimg.cc/P5MVgp1N/Going-Home-Day.jpg
Gregg, Gator, Wilhemina, Eric and Oscar all have imaginary friend dolls in their inventories. I didn't make them real back in Moonfall Island because of overcrowding and I don't really want my computer to actually blow up. I made one of the imaginary friends real there because it came alive unexpectedly and I decided to make him real. His name is Pat and he belonged to Mary Azul. I haven't given him his final makeover yet - not game to due to overcrowding. I'll fix him up when I send Mary home.
Gregg is going back to his family and made his imaginary friend real. Here are Gregg and Russel, the imaginary friend made real. I was trying to do something different with Russel's face. I'm not sure it worked. He seems to have a huge head. I'll see what he looks like when he ages up to teen before having another go at him.
https://i.postimg.cc/K8bsprkd/Gregg-And-Russel.jpg
The final imaginary friend to be made during this visit to Moonlight Falls is Gator's imaginary friend, previously peanut but now known as Perry.
https://i.postimg.cc/05L4Dq85/Perry-And-Gator.jpg
I will get Perry and Russel to learn the basic child skills. Here they are working on their block skill. Next it'll be toy oven then they'll be sent back to their own homes.
https://i.postimg.cc/NFr1BVVp/Perry-And-Russel.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/DZNrVFCS/Russel-And-Perry.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/KzjPs45X/Perry-Was-Peanut.jpg
Finally Whilimena and her imaginary friend Hesper watch TV. Hesper has since been made real but I've not begun giving her a makeover yet. That'll be for tomorrow as it's way too late here now. I need some sleep.
https://i.postimg.cc/NfmzxPM6/Whilimean-And-Hesper.jpg
That's it from me
Happy Simming
EDIT: While in Moonlight Falls the travellers are staying at the old boarding school. This build is the original from Sunset Valley. The very first boarding school started in Dragon Valley but that was mostly just done by moving a few toddlers into other sim's homes and training them all together. It started out as my toddler school. I gradually turned into a boarding school idea where sims of all ages can learn skills and get to know each other.