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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Over the past couple of months I've been working through all of the sims in the Big Game. I had ignored them all for such a long time things had got way out of balance and I could no longer rely on my spreadsheet to tell me where they all were currently living. Many of the worlds were overstuffed. There were large gardens that were making worlds difficult to play in and often impossible to save. I found dozens of imaginary friend dolls in inventories of sims aged between baby and adult. I'd been ignoring the dolls. I find them useful for toddlers to have as they tend to play with their dolls instead of sitting crying whenever they have some idle time. I usually have large households and if there are a few toddlers in the household it is next to impossible for me to keep them all entertained all of the time and crying toddlers tend to disrupt smooth running of the game for most of the sims in the household and they are also annoying to listen to.
I decided I would have some fun and turn real all of the imaginary friends I found in inventories of sims that were child and over in age. The child sims still like to play with their dolls but I decided to make the dolls real where possible at the child age to give them a chance of learning some child skills. I doubt that level of skilling is of much benefit though. It would be better for them to age up at the toddler stage but then that would defeat the primary purpose of them getting the dolls in the first place.
My aim was to remove all dolls from inventories. I soon discovered that was fraught with confusion - I was constantly asking 'where did he/she get that doll?'. It turns out some of the children love having the doll in their inventory. They are quite happy to turn their dolls real as they seem to have a way of obtaining a replacement doll. At first I thought they were stealing dolls from younger siblings but I soon worked out that was not the case. Somehow the game generates replacement dolls for them. As fast as I make them real they generate another doll. As a result, several households have more imaginary friends made real than sims who received dolls in the first place. Eventually I got the message and stopped making the additional dolls real. I decided if those young sims are so attached to having a doll in their inventory they can keep it. I was so over making them all real and giving them makeovers. I started experimenting with all sorts of looks for them. I like to give my sims a unique look but after a while they seemed to me to be looking all the same so when I was moving around facial sliders I started forcing myself to do the opposite of what I usually did and this did add a little more variety to some of them. They are all still just sims though.
I have lots of short videos I recorded along the way. I'm not sure if I should put them together and put them up onto YouTube as an 'outtakes' type of video. Or maybe to a few short videos containing a few outtakes every so often.
Here are a few recent screen shots.
This is one group of Sims gathered together in Cake Island and about to set off for another world. Possibly they are headed for Ridgeview - in Summer. That was one of the most recent new worlds I added to the game.
https://i.postimg.cc/JnB55Pkp/AGroup-Of-Sims-Setting-Off-For-ANew-World001.jpg
This hair was given to a variety of newly made real imaginary friends. Not all had this particular colour combination. This is the second one I've posted here. It is not easily forgotten.
https://i.postimg.cc/Dw253r9z/Aother-One-Got-This-Look-Be-Default001.jpg
With this imaginary friend made real I resisted the temptation to give him a flat profile and a well defined nose. I'll have to do things like that more often.
https://i.postimg.cc/02GZ4WH3/ASlightly-Different-Look-After-Make-Over001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/rsxgMQyD/ASlightly-Different-Look-After-Makeover002.jpg
I've forgotten his name but he was the Imaginary Friend of Stanley O'Shea. Stanley is the eldest son of Gloria O'Shea. Gloria is one of Gobias Koffi's daughters and she married Kearney O'Shea from Dragon Valley. Expect Eric and Susanne and Oscar to spend some time in this household. Gloria is almost an Elder now and she and Kearney had two teenage sons so during the time I've been doing this project I organised for them to have two more children. They now have a pair of toddlers named Tad and Grace. Tad was born while I was off doing something else and the game named him, I chose Grace and was so pleased to not have to look up a list of baby names beginning with c, or b, or j or anything not being a first initial of a given name of an imaginary friend.
Here are some more pics of the O'Shea household.
https://i.postimg.cc/vB13SGpL/OShea-Household001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/QtRS2RDL/OShea-Household002.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/HWy6ws0T/OShea-Household003.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/bvVmTZFw/OShea-Household004.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/nhkRXR47/OShea-Household005.jpg
I tried to give most of the Imaginary Friends some skills after they were made real. While in Cake Island I made a lot of them real and they all had to go fishing at some point. Here are a couple of the latecomers. I was getting over the fishing idea by this time.
https://i.postimg.cc/XqfKTqxF/Cake-Island-IFs-Made-Real-Fishing001.jpg
This is the toddler I found living alone in the Lochlan house in Dragon Valley. Not only was he alone in the house, but he was the only sim living in the world. Last time I saw him he was a child living with his brother and mother in Norbrewych. Then he became corrupt and invisible. I tried really hard to fix him but couldn't and I think I eventually did the total annihilation on him to try to stop him from breaking the game. Much later I found him as a toddler in an otherwise empty Dragon Valley.
https://i.postimg.cc/RC6DgTm5/Davis-Mithrilen001.jpg
I took the toddler, Davis, to the library where it was quiet so he could get through reading his toddler books quickly. Fortunately the Sim with the megaphone didn't interrupt his studies.
https://i.postimg.cc/8c6XsT4P/Davis-Mithrilen002.jpg
Melanie and Isabel arriving in Norbrewych with toddler Davis.
https://i.postimg.cc/K8FpvSMx/Melanie-Kelly-Isabel-Howe-Davis-Mithrilen001.jpg
Since the game wouldn't let my sims travel from a totally empty world I made a new fairy to stay all alone in Dragon Valley. I don't know if we'll see her again. But here is a picture of her.
https://i.postimg.cc/D09JWzSZ/Titania-Flower001.jpg
Davis's elder brother is a teen and his imaginary friend was made real and given the name of Carol. I didn't give the imaginary friends of the Mithrilen boys blue skin, but I gave their hair a blue tint. I like to try to make the imaginary friends blend into their new families if I can manage it. Since Davis was a child in this world I aged him up from toddler to child and he made his imaginary friend real too.
https://i.postimg.cc/G2NSc4k5/Riordan-Davis-Carol-Mithrilen-And-IF001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yNLbbQWB/Riordan-Davis-Carol-Mithrilen-And-IF002.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/QtVyGQW7/Riordan-Davis-Mithrilen-And-IF001.jpg
The little fairy with the curly yellow wings is the daughter of Lucy and Freddy Flower. Lucy is a genie and Freddy is a fairy. They also have a son, JohnPaul Flower. He is a hybrid Fairy/Genie. The little mermaid with the dark scales is Puck Kluver - he is the son of a version of Salty Seaworth and I changed his scale colour to reflect Salty's scale colour.
https://i.postimg.cc/65hLc78x/Flower-And-Kluver-With-IF001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/fTsfY7Tv/Puck-Cluver-And-IF001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yNxPkVY4/IFAbout-To-Be-Given-APotion-To-Drink001.jpg
I don't remember the names of all of the dozens of imaginary friends I gave makeovers to but I did occasionally manage to get a screen shot.
https://i.postimg.cc/g2NszwpH/IFMade-Real-Getting-AMakeover001.jpg
These are some of the children who were imaginary friends and are now real and enjoying the tree house in Cake Island.
https://i.postimg.cc/D0kdjLQn/IFs-Made-Real-In-Tree-House001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/xdZPmWck/IFs-Made-Real-In-Tree-House002.jpg
I moved all of the sims from the boarding school in Chocolate Cake Island. I deleted the huge farm/garden that was across the street from the boarding school building and the world is now playable. However I wasn't able to leave the world without any sims in it. The travel option didn't give me an error - it just didn't happen. So I moved a couple of households into it and left them there. If I ever use that boarding school again I suppose we might meet some of them. They've all come from really old games and haven't been played for years prior to 2014 so I'm sure they won't mind being left there without being disturbed.
Mara Nix was one of the teens who had travelled to the boarding school in Chocolate Cake Island and she was returned to her parents in Moonlight Falls. I had to enlarge their house to make room for her and her stuff and her imaginary friend made real.
https://i.postimg.cc/GpmMGFKf/Nix-Household001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/GhvSCh9X/Nix-Household002.jpg
This was interesting to watch. While Mara worked on making the required potion I watched her Imaginary Friend stand and watch her for a while but every so often it'd wander off and set a booby trap on something. It did it in the adjoining bathroom and then I got a pic of it standing up from making a trap on the computer. I actually watched it doing it. For some reason it had never occurred to me that it was the imaginary friends that were not yet made real that were setting all of those traps around my sims houses.
This is some other Imaginary Friend becoming friends with its owner prior to being made real. The owner could be another imaginary friend made real. Those dolls were multiplying in inventories and I eventually gave up the idea of getting rid of them out of all inventories by making them all real. They multiply.
https://i.postimg.cc/v8fv12MB/Pillow-Fight-To-Make-Friends001.jpg
Finally, once everyone was settled into their worlds we dropped Melanie Kelly off to live with Mary Genie in Twikkii Island and then Isabel Howe headed back to the Boarding School in Moonfall Island. That's were I found Aislin Walshe's cat and then discovered I'd dumped Aislin there too. She came with Dragon Valley. She is almost an elder when a new version of Dragon Valley first starts up. She has interested me for a long time because I found her so difficult to get a hold of. She is there and then she's and elder and sort of vanishes. So I dropped her off at the currently active Boarding School where I plan to give her a Young Again Potion so I can play her for a while. This of course means I'll have to move a current baby sitter or two out of the boarding school. I haven't decided which ones yet. I'll have to check on their skills.
Aislin Walshe and Elouise Britten a the Moonfall Island boarding school.
https://i.postimg.cc/8k2n9rkF/Aislin-Walshe-And-Eloise-Brittian001.jpg
Happy Simming All.
I decided I would have some fun and turn real all of the imaginary friends I found in inventories of sims that were child and over in age. The child sims still like to play with their dolls but I decided to make the dolls real where possible at the child age to give them a chance of learning some child skills. I doubt that level of skilling is of much benefit though. It would be better for them to age up at the toddler stage but then that would defeat the primary purpose of them getting the dolls in the first place.
My aim was to remove all dolls from inventories. I soon discovered that was fraught with confusion - I was constantly asking 'where did he/she get that doll?'. It turns out some of the children love having the doll in their inventory. They are quite happy to turn their dolls real as they seem to have a way of obtaining a replacement doll. At first I thought they were stealing dolls from younger siblings but I soon worked out that was not the case. Somehow the game generates replacement dolls for them. As fast as I make them real they generate another doll. As a result, several households have more imaginary friends made real than sims who received dolls in the first place. Eventually I got the message and stopped making the additional dolls real. I decided if those young sims are so attached to having a doll in their inventory they can keep it. I was so over making them all real and giving them makeovers. I started experimenting with all sorts of looks for them. I like to give my sims a unique look but after a while they seemed to me to be looking all the same so when I was moving around facial sliders I started forcing myself to do the opposite of what I usually did and this did add a little more variety to some of them. They are all still just sims though.
I have lots of short videos I recorded along the way. I'm not sure if I should put them together and put them up onto YouTube as an 'outtakes' type of video. Or maybe to a few short videos containing a few outtakes every so often.
Here are a few recent screen shots.
This is one group of Sims gathered together in Cake Island and about to set off for another world. Possibly they are headed for Ridgeview - in Summer. That was one of the most recent new worlds I added to the game.
https://i.postimg.cc/JnB55Pkp/AGroup-Of-Sims-Setting-Off-For-ANew-World001.jpg
This hair was given to a variety of newly made real imaginary friends. Not all had this particular colour combination. This is the second one I've posted here. It is not easily forgotten.
https://i.postimg.cc/Dw253r9z/Aother-One-Got-This-Look-Be-Default001.jpg
With this imaginary friend made real I resisted the temptation to give him a flat profile and a well defined nose. I'll have to do things like that more often.
https://i.postimg.cc/02GZ4WH3/ASlightly-Different-Look-After-Make-Over001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/rsxgMQyD/ASlightly-Different-Look-After-Makeover002.jpg
I've forgotten his name but he was the Imaginary Friend of Stanley O'Shea. Stanley is the eldest son of Gloria O'Shea. Gloria is one of Gobias Koffi's daughters and she married Kearney O'Shea from Dragon Valley. Expect Eric and Susanne and Oscar to spend some time in this household. Gloria is almost an Elder now and she and Kearney had two teenage sons so during the time I've been doing this project I organised for them to have two more children. They now have a pair of toddlers named Tad and Grace. Tad was born while I was off doing something else and the game named him, I chose Grace and was so pleased to not have to look up a list of baby names beginning with c, or b, or j or anything not being a first initial of a given name of an imaginary friend.
Here are some more pics of the O'Shea household.
https://i.postimg.cc/vB13SGpL/OShea-Household001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/QtRS2RDL/OShea-Household002.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/HWy6ws0T/OShea-Household003.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/bvVmTZFw/OShea-Household004.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/nhkRXR47/OShea-Household005.jpg
I tried to give most of the Imaginary Friends some skills after they were made real. While in Cake Island I made a lot of them real and they all had to go fishing at some point. Here are a couple of the latecomers. I was getting over the fishing idea by this time.
https://i.postimg.cc/XqfKTqxF/Cake-Island-IFs-Made-Real-Fishing001.jpg
This is the toddler I found living alone in the Lochlan house in Dragon Valley. Not only was he alone in the house, but he was the only sim living in the world. Last time I saw him he was a child living with his brother and mother in Norbrewych. Then he became corrupt and invisible. I tried really hard to fix him but couldn't and I think I eventually did the total annihilation on him to try to stop him from breaking the game. Much later I found him as a toddler in an otherwise empty Dragon Valley.
https://i.postimg.cc/RC6DgTm5/Davis-Mithrilen001.jpg
I took the toddler, Davis, to the library where it was quiet so he could get through reading his toddler books quickly. Fortunately the Sim with the megaphone didn't interrupt his studies.
https://i.postimg.cc/8c6XsT4P/Davis-Mithrilen002.jpg
Melanie and Isabel arriving in Norbrewych with toddler Davis.
https://i.postimg.cc/K8FpvSMx/Melanie-Kelly-Isabel-Howe-Davis-Mithrilen001.jpg
Since the game wouldn't let my sims travel from a totally empty world I made a new fairy to stay all alone in Dragon Valley. I don't know if we'll see her again. But here is a picture of her.
https://i.postimg.cc/D09JWzSZ/Titania-Flower001.jpg
Davis's elder brother is a teen and his imaginary friend was made real and given the name of Carol. I didn't give the imaginary friends of the Mithrilen boys blue skin, but I gave their hair a blue tint. I like to try to make the imaginary friends blend into their new families if I can manage it. Since Davis was a child in this world I aged him up from toddler to child and he made his imaginary friend real too.
https://i.postimg.cc/G2NSc4k5/Riordan-Davis-Carol-Mithrilen-And-IF001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yNLbbQWB/Riordan-Davis-Carol-Mithrilen-And-IF002.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/QtVyGQW7/Riordan-Davis-Mithrilen-And-IF001.jpg
The little fairy with the curly yellow wings is the daughter of Lucy and Freddy Flower. Lucy is a genie and Freddy is a fairy. They also have a son, JohnPaul Flower. He is a hybrid Fairy/Genie. The little mermaid with the dark scales is Puck Kluver - he is the son of a version of Salty Seaworth and I changed his scale colour to reflect Salty's scale colour.
https://i.postimg.cc/65hLc78x/Flower-And-Kluver-With-IF001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/fTsfY7Tv/Puck-Cluver-And-IF001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yNxPkVY4/IFAbout-To-Be-Given-APotion-To-Drink001.jpg
I don't remember the names of all of the dozens of imaginary friends I gave makeovers to but I did occasionally manage to get a screen shot.
https://i.postimg.cc/g2NszwpH/IFMade-Real-Getting-AMakeover001.jpg
These are some of the children who were imaginary friends and are now real and enjoying the tree house in Cake Island.
https://i.postimg.cc/D0kdjLQn/IFs-Made-Real-In-Tree-House001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/xdZPmWck/IFs-Made-Real-In-Tree-House002.jpg
I moved all of the sims from the boarding school in Chocolate Cake Island. I deleted the huge farm/garden that was across the street from the boarding school building and the world is now playable. However I wasn't able to leave the world without any sims in it. The travel option didn't give me an error - it just didn't happen. So I moved a couple of households into it and left them there. If I ever use that boarding school again I suppose we might meet some of them. They've all come from really old games and haven't been played for years prior to 2014 so I'm sure they won't mind being left there without being disturbed.
Mara Nix was one of the teens who had travelled to the boarding school in Chocolate Cake Island and she was returned to her parents in Moonlight Falls. I had to enlarge their house to make room for her and her stuff and her imaginary friend made real.
https://i.postimg.cc/GpmMGFKf/Nix-Household001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/GhvSCh9X/Nix-Household002.jpg
This was interesting to watch. While Mara worked on making the required potion I watched her Imaginary Friend stand and watch her for a while but every so often it'd wander off and set a booby trap on something. It did it in the adjoining bathroom and then I got a pic of it standing up from making a trap on the computer. I actually watched it doing it. For some reason it had never occurred to me that it was the imaginary friends that were not yet made real that were setting all of those traps around my sims houses.
This is some other Imaginary Friend becoming friends with its owner prior to being made real. The owner could be another imaginary friend made real. Those dolls were multiplying in inventories and I eventually gave up the idea of getting rid of them out of all inventories by making them all real. They multiply.
https://i.postimg.cc/v8fv12MB/Pillow-Fight-To-Make-Friends001.jpg
Finally, once everyone was settled into their worlds we dropped Melanie Kelly off to live with Mary Genie in Twikkii Island and then Isabel Howe headed back to the Boarding School in Moonfall Island. That's were I found Aislin Walshe's cat and then discovered I'd dumped Aislin there too. She came with Dragon Valley. She is almost an elder when a new version of Dragon Valley first starts up. She has interested me for a long time because I found her so difficult to get a hold of. She is there and then she's and elder and sort of vanishes. So I dropped her off at the currently active Boarding School where I plan to give her a Young Again Potion so I can play her for a while. This of course means I'll have to move a current baby sitter or two out of the boarding school. I haven't decided which ones yet. I'll have to check on their skills.
Aislin Walshe and Elouise Britten a the Moonfall Island boarding school.
https://i.postimg.cc/8k2n9rkF/Aislin-Walshe-And-Eloise-Brittian001.jpg
Happy Simming All.
