The Story of Oscar and Louise
The Story of Oscar and Louise - Episode 1 is now up on YouTube https://youtu.be/TBJL4UTuIMA This one's a bit different. I got creative. Expect a bit of drama and added sound effects etc... ...
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I've been working hard over the past few days trying to fix Cake Island. I can now see why I ran away from it when I visited initially.
There are a lot of young sims in this world that need attention. The world was slightly overpopulated so I should have been able to fix it by just moving one or two households out.
I moved the Black Household. It consisted of a family with 5 children.
Rod and Fleur Black are an old pair of sims I made ages ago. Fleur is the first fairy I ever made just after Supernatural was released. I made Rod at some point but don't remember if I made him specifically for her or not. I think I've only ever played him with her though.
I moved the entire household and their house to a new world. That's really All I had to do. But I didn't stop there.
The world I chose for them is 'Ridgeview - in Summer'. It is empty. Flat. Nothing in it other than geographic features and empty lots. It took me ALL Day to add buildings to the community lots. Then I had to do the rabbit holes. I think I got them all eventually. So I moved the family in.
I was aging them up and working on skills first. Then I needed to buy books. I told Fleur to buy books on line but it was greyed out and it said there was no bookshop in the world to shop for books on line at. So I added a bookshop.
I just plonked the rabbit holes down onto the lots and rarely did any decorating to the lots. They look a bit 'different' with huge business buildings sitting on mowed grass. Then I thought - I've seen that look before - when I was working I had to go to Canberra a few times. That's the Australian Capital City. And I saw lots of huge Government buildings with just grass - no concrete or anything covering the grass. They just have grass growing from the footpath right up to the bottom of the walls. So I am planning to leave the commercial buildings in Ridgeview with just grass around them - mostly.
I didn't get many screen shots. None of Ridgeview actually. I did manage a few of the Black family members. The youngest is a daughter named Yvonne. When I moved them Yvonne was a toddler. She is a fairy and I didn't manage to get a screen shot of her as a toddler. She completed her toddler skills and read her toddler books.
Here is Yvonne Black in Stylist
https://i.postimg.cc/hPjQQvnt/Yvonne-Black001.jpg
She was born in game so I gave her new hair and outfits.
Yvonne made her Imaginary Friend, Rags real.
I needed a potion to turn all of their imaginary friends real. I set Fleur and Felicity to work making the potions. Felicity is the first alien baby any of my sims had born in a game. She came along a few years after 2014. I don't remember exactly when. She was at the boarding school long before I ever started even thinking about making videos. She's still a teen because her family has been living in a world that hasn't been played much since she aged up to teen.
Eventually both Fleur and Felicity managed to work out how to make the Imaginary Friend Metamorphium potion. In the end Fleur made most of the potions I needed because Felicity had to go to school and there was after school activities and it was really hard to pin her down to do much of what I wanted her to do during a school week.
Here are pics of Yvonne with Rags after Rags became live.
https://i.postimg.cc/kGV990rq/Yvonne-And-Rags001.jpg
And of course Rags became real.
https://i.postimg.cc/KzpF6ZH0/Rags-Becoming-Real001.jpg
And became Ross
https://i.postimg.cc/mrRbMp9y/Yvonne-And-Ross001.jpg
Yvonne and Ross (previously Rags) worked on their child skills together.
https://i.postimg.cc/JnzMYyPy/Yvonne-Felicity-Rod-Epsilon-Yvonne-Ross003.jpg
Behind them Fleur was watching Rod and Felicity have a pillow fight and Epsilon had his Sprite to talk to.
Rod is Fleur's husband and father to their children and Felicity.
All of Fleur's children are fairies. Most inherited her blue wings. This couple surprised me once when I told them to woohoo in a fairy house expecting Rod, a human, wouldn't be able to enter the tiny house but he managed it and they had their fun together in a fairy house. Having so many fairies in the household there are several fairy houses in their home.
Just a pic of Cake Island - it looks deceptively empty. I almost deleted it and replaced it with an empty world but sent a sim back there to be sure and found after a while all the houses begin to appear.
https://i.postimg.cc/ncjctDZB/Cake-Island.jpg
There was a traffic incident outside the school in Ridgeview.
https://i.postimg.cc/5N6jNr5H/Traffic-Incident-Outside-School.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/C561sC0L/Black-Family-With-Real-IFs.jpg
This is one of the family Plumbots. They've been in the household from before the children were all born. They used to have chips but the chips seem to have vanished. Some times one or the other of them can garden. But never both at the same time and at first I thought I was confused but I did eventually pin them down and am now sure both of them can, and does garden, But never both at the same time. Weird. The other one is Wozza but I have no pictures of him. He is very different from Epsilon and has an oval shaped head with long skinny limbs and is black and orange in colour.
This is Epsilon. I'm glad he's shiny silver again. There was a time when none of my shiny silver Plumbots were actually shiny.
https://i.postimg.cc/m2vZZg2q/Epsilon001.jpg
Here are Felicity and Yvonne.
https://i.postimg.cc/Tw0hpMHb/Felicity-And-Yvonne.jpg
Fred is the first born of the Black children. He made his Imaginary Friend, Boinky, real and she got the name Brooke. They were teens for a while but I needed to move a few of the children out so Fred and then Brooke aged up to Young Adult and I moved them into a house I placed from my library into the new world of 'Ridgeview - in Summer'. I think I'll just refer to it as Ridgeview as writing the entire name out all the time is a bit cumbersome.
Fred's Birthday - they had cake
https://i.postimg.cc/kMjBCCS3/Freds-Birthday001.jpg
Brooke had cake too. Ooh look - there's Wozza helping Brooke celebrate her birthday. So you do get to see both of the family Plumbots after all.
https://i.postimg.cc/SRKR9Twv/Brooks-Birthday.jpg
Then she went into Stylist and had an unfortunate moment or two with suggested hair and outfits.
https://i.postimg.cc/Z5v9jQCk/Brook-In-CAS.jpg
Brooke and Fred moved together into their new house in Ridgeview. I've given them similar traits so I hope they might end up a couple but I'm not going to do anything about that. I'll just leave them to it.
The second eldest of the Black family children is Frank. He is insane but manages to get along without too much trouble. I hope.
Frank had cake too.
https://i.postimg.cc/rmMKVFgc/Franks-Birthday.jpg
Frank had an imaginary friend named Buddy who became Bronwyn after being made real and aging up. I don't seem to have a pic of her. She standing directly behind him and is wearing a blue and pink dress with white spots. They've all just returned from Fred's graduation so they are in formal attire.
I moved Frank and Bronwyn out to live in another house I placed in the world for them.
Felicity had cake too and then she was a Young Adult. Her imaginary friend was Wiggles who became Winifred.
I got a couple of pictures of Winnifred
In Stylist
https://i.postimg.cc/zfnyYRC0/Winifred-In-CAS.jpg
And after she came out of Stylist.
https://i.postimg.cc/g09x7KZx/Winifred-At-Home.jpg
Winnifred and Felicity each got a small house to live in alone. We'll see what happens. There aren't many empty houses in the world currently. There might be one or two of them. I grabbed a sim from my library to help me set up the world before I put it into the game. That sim is living alone in a house on the other side of town.
Before moving anyone out to live in their own home I sent three of them to the Future. I'd been thinking Rod Black needed to go to the future to collect nanites. I've had these thoughts on and off for a few months now. So when I was actually playing his household, however briefly, I thought I should just do it. So I sent Rod with his son Fred and imaginary friend made real Brooke to the future.
This was a disaster. Nothing was visible inside the buildings. I could see sims sitting and using furniture but it was all invisible. And I couldn't move up or down any levels unless I had a sim with me. I tried really hard and they managed to catch a few nanites but in the end I just gave up and sent them home. The game crashed when they got home. So I had another go. This time it all worked perfectly. Maybe there wasn't enough available memory to cope during their first visit.
They came across a Spotted Sixam and I just had to get a screenshot of it. There was a nanite beside it.
https://i.postimg.cc/fRdLY0rD/Sixam001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/7YdhCNXK/Sixam002.jpg
They collected a few nanites. It was very helpful when Rod got enough lifetime happiness points to buy a Collection Helper. It made a huge difference when trying to find nanites in a hurry. They stayed a few days and collected some future stuff and picked some crystal flowers.
When they got home they planted a rough circle of crystal plants around the Tree of Prosperity.
https://i.postimg.cc/Dzg7cQdk/To-Pand-Crystal-Plants.jpg
A funny thing happened when I sent them home from Oasis Landing. They had to use the time portal and chose to travel home. Now, I'd sent only the 3 members of the Black household to the Future. But when they went 'home' from the future, they travelled to Twikkii Island and landed in the Genie household with Melanie Kelly. Now, Melanie is another sim I added when I needed a sim to assist me set up Twikkii Island. She never went to the Future with the Black family. While I am in Cake Island Melanie lives in a building I use as a traveller destination but isn't set up as a base camp. When I sent the Blacks from Cake Island to Ridgeview I sent them with Melanie so she could travel back to Cake Island and leave the Blacks all in Ridgeview. While I played with the Blacks in Ridgeview, Melanie was living on her own in a house near the Sim that I'd used to help me with setting up Ridgeview. However, when the Blacks arrived home from Oasis Landing in the Future, they turned up in the Genie Household with Melanie Kelly in Twikkii Island.
So I saved that and sent the Blacks, with Melanie, back to Ridgeview. I placed all of the Blacks into their new homes where necessary and grabbed Melanie and travelled back to Cake Island.
That's when the mayhem really broke out. The next post will explain what's happening in Cake Island.
Happy Simming All
There are a lot of young sims in this world that need attention. The world was slightly overpopulated so I should have been able to fix it by just moving one or two households out.
I moved the Black Household. It consisted of a family with 5 children.
Rod and Fleur Black are an old pair of sims I made ages ago. Fleur is the first fairy I ever made just after Supernatural was released. I made Rod at some point but don't remember if I made him specifically for her or not. I think I've only ever played him with her though.
I moved the entire household and their house to a new world. That's really All I had to do. But I didn't stop there.
The world I chose for them is 'Ridgeview - in Summer'. It is empty. Flat. Nothing in it other than geographic features and empty lots. It took me ALL Day to add buildings to the community lots. Then I had to do the rabbit holes. I think I got them all eventually. So I moved the family in.
I was aging them up and working on skills first. Then I needed to buy books. I told Fleur to buy books on line but it was greyed out and it said there was no bookshop in the world to shop for books on line at. So I added a bookshop.
I just plonked the rabbit holes down onto the lots and rarely did any decorating to the lots. They look a bit 'different' with huge business buildings sitting on mowed grass. Then I thought - I've seen that look before - when I was working I had to go to Canberra a few times. That's the Australian Capital City. And I saw lots of huge Government buildings with just grass - no concrete or anything covering the grass. They just have grass growing from the footpath right up to the bottom of the walls. So I am planning to leave the commercial buildings in Ridgeview with just grass around them - mostly.
I didn't get many screen shots. None of Ridgeview actually. I did manage a few of the Black family members. The youngest is a daughter named Yvonne. When I moved them Yvonne was a toddler. She is a fairy and I didn't manage to get a screen shot of her as a toddler. She completed her toddler skills and read her toddler books.
Here is Yvonne Black in Stylist
https://i.postimg.cc/hPjQQvnt/Yvonne-Black001.jpg
She was born in game so I gave her new hair and outfits.
Yvonne made her Imaginary Friend, Rags real.
I needed a potion to turn all of their imaginary friends real. I set Fleur and Felicity to work making the potions. Felicity is the first alien baby any of my sims had born in a game. She came along a few years after 2014. I don't remember exactly when. She was at the boarding school long before I ever started even thinking about making videos. She's still a teen because her family has been living in a world that hasn't been played much since she aged up to teen.
Eventually both Fleur and Felicity managed to work out how to make the Imaginary Friend Metamorphium potion. In the end Fleur made most of the potions I needed because Felicity had to go to school and there was after school activities and it was really hard to pin her down to do much of what I wanted her to do during a school week.
Here are pics of Yvonne with Rags after Rags became live.
https://i.postimg.cc/kGV990rq/Yvonne-And-Rags001.jpg
And of course Rags became real.
https://i.postimg.cc/KzpF6ZH0/Rags-Becoming-Real001.jpg
And became Ross
https://i.postimg.cc/mrRbMp9y/Yvonne-And-Ross001.jpg
Yvonne and Ross (previously Rags) worked on their child skills together.
https://i.postimg.cc/JnzMYyPy/Yvonne-Felicity-Rod-Epsilon-Yvonne-Ross003.jpg
Behind them Fleur was watching Rod and Felicity have a pillow fight and Epsilon had his Sprite to talk to.
Rod is Fleur's husband and father to their children and Felicity.
All of Fleur's children are fairies. Most inherited her blue wings. This couple surprised me once when I told them to woohoo in a fairy house expecting Rod, a human, wouldn't be able to enter the tiny house but he managed it and they had their fun together in a fairy house. Having so many fairies in the household there are several fairy houses in their home.
Just a pic of Cake Island - it looks deceptively empty. I almost deleted it and replaced it with an empty world but sent a sim back there to be sure and found after a while all the houses begin to appear.
https://i.postimg.cc/ncjctDZB/Cake-Island.jpg
There was a traffic incident outside the school in Ridgeview.
https://i.postimg.cc/5N6jNr5H/Traffic-Incident-Outside-School.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/C561sC0L/Black-Family-With-Real-IFs.jpg
This is one of the family Plumbots. They've been in the household from before the children were all born. They used to have chips but the chips seem to have vanished. Some times one or the other of them can garden. But never both at the same time and at first I thought I was confused but I did eventually pin them down and am now sure both of them can, and does garden, But never both at the same time. Weird. The other one is Wozza but I have no pictures of him. He is very different from Epsilon and has an oval shaped head with long skinny limbs and is black and orange in colour.
This is Epsilon. I'm glad he's shiny silver again. There was a time when none of my shiny silver Plumbots were actually shiny.
https://i.postimg.cc/m2vZZg2q/Epsilon001.jpg
Here are Felicity and Yvonne.
https://i.postimg.cc/Tw0hpMHb/Felicity-And-Yvonne.jpg
Fred is the first born of the Black children. He made his Imaginary Friend, Boinky, real and she got the name Brooke. They were teens for a while but I needed to move a few of the children out so Fred and then Brooke aged up to Young Adult and I moved them into a house I placed from my library into the new world of 'Ridgeview - in Summer'. I think I'll just refer to it as Ridgeview as writing the entire name out all the time is a bit cumbersome.
Fred's Birthday - they had cake
https://i.postimg.cc/kMjBCCS3/Freds-Birthday001.jpg
Brooke had cake too. Ooh look - there's Wozza helping Brooke celebrate her birthday. So you do get to see both of the family Plumbots after all.
https://i.postimg.cc/SRKR9Twv/Brooks-Birthday.jpg
Then she went into Stylist and had an unfortunate moment or two with suggested hair and outfits.
https://i.postimg.cc/Z5v9jQCk/Brook-In-CAS.jpg
Brooke and Fred moved together into their new house in Ridgeview. I've given them similar traits so I hope they might end up a couple but I'm not going to do anything about that. I'll just leave them to it.
The second eldest of the Black family children is Frank. He is insane but manages to get along without too much trouble. I hope.
Frank had cake too.
https://i.postimg.cc/rmMKVFgc/Franks-Birthday.jpg
Frank had an imaginary friend named Buddy who became Bronwyn after being made real and aging up. I don't seem to have a pic of her. She standing directly behind him and is wearing a blue and pink dress with white spots. They've all just returned from Fred's graduation so they are in formal attire.
I moved Frank and Bronwyn out to live in another house I placed in the world for them.
Felicity had cake too and then she was a Young Adult. Her imaginary friend was Wiggles who became Winifred.
I got a couple of pictures of Winnifred
In Stylist
https://i.postimg.cc/zfnyYRC0/Winifred-In-CAS.jpg
And after she came out of Stylist.
https://i.postimg.cc/g09x7KZx/Winifred-At-Home.jpg
Winnifred and Felicity each got a small house to live in alone. We'll see what happens. There aren't many empty houses in the world currently. There might be one or two of them. I grabbed a sim from my library to help me set up the world before I put it into the game. That sim is living alone in a house on the other side of town.
Before moving anyone out to live in their own home I sent three of them to the Future. I'd been thinking Rod Black needed to go to the future to collect nanites. I've had these thoughts on and off for a few months now. So when I was actually playing his household, however briefly, I thought I should just do it. So I sent Rod with his son Fred and imaginary friend made real Brooke to the future.
This was a disaster. Nothing was visible inside the buildings. I could see sims sitting and using furniture but it was all invisible. And I couldn't move up or down any levels unless I had a sim with me. I tried really hard and they managed to catch a few nanites but in the end I just gave up and sent them home. The game crashed when they got home. So I had another go. This time it all worked perfectly. Maybe there wasn't enough available memory to cope during their first visit.
They came across a Spotted Sixam and I just had to get a screenshot of it. There was a nanite beside it.
https://i.postimg.cc/fRdLY0rD/Sixam001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/7YdhCNXK/Sixam002.jpg
They collected a few nanites. It was very helpful when Rod got enough lifetime happiness points to buy a Collection Helper. It made a huge difference when trying to find nanites in a hurry. They stayed a few days and collected some future stuff and picked some crystal flowers.
When they got home they planted a rough circle of crystal plants around the Tree of Prosperity.
https://i.postimg.cc/Dzg7cQdk/To-Pand-Crystal-Plants.jpg
A funny thing happened when I sent them home from Oasis Landing. They had to use the time portal and chose to travel home. Now, I'd sent only the 3 members of the Black household to the Future. But when they went 'home' from the future, they travelled to Twikkii Island and landed in the Genie household with Melanie Kelly. Now, Melanie is another sim I added when I needed a sim to assist me set up Twikkii Island. She never went to the Future with the Black family. While I am in Cake Island Melanie lives in a building I use as a traveller destination but isn't set up as a base camp. When I sent the Blacks from Cake Island to Ridgeview I sent them with Melanie so she could travel back to Cake Island and leave the Blacks all in Ridgeview. While I played with the Blacks in Ridgeview, Melanie was living on her own in a house near the Sim that I'd used to help me with setting up Ridgeview. However, when the Blacks arrived home from Oasis Landing in the Future, they turned up in the Genie Household with Melanie Kelly in Twikkii Island.
So I saved that and sent the Blacks, with Melanie, back to Ridgeview. I placed all of the Blacks into their new homes where necessary and grabbed Melanie and travelled back to Cake Island.
That's when the mayhem really broke out. The next post will explain what's happening in Cake Island.
Happy Simming All
