The Story of Oscar and Louise

I just finalised loading Oscar's Childhood Episode 22 and making it available to view on YouTube.

Here's the link.

https://youtu.be/UkHvP3XwQW0

This video has a lot of different things happening in it. In the beginning we get a map of the world so we all know how it all fits together. Then we see Oscar having a story read and then Oscar and some of the other children fishing. After that it is about general Sims going about life in Moonfall Island. Some special little bits include a bit on Bonehilda, I included some screen shots from when she got singed in one of my games.

We come across some of the sculptors from the McFluff Story. They vanished from Gertie's place in hidden Springs by jumping into the Time Machine. They reappeared in Moonfall Island. They all seem to be there.

Another group that has many of its members in Moonfall Island is the Colourful Mermaids household. In this world they are not all living together. And we meet one of the toddlers that is a clone of one of the previous members of the Colourful Mermaids household.

I hope you find time to watch the video.

I'm now working on Episode 23.

Here is the link to the next episode of Oscar's Childhood.

https://youtu.be/zc2jvhXhne0

This episode seemed to take less time than usual for me to edit. I'll get to work on the next one now. I'm trying to get Oscar aged up to teen before the end of November. Then I'll move on to new episodes of Caroline and Friends.

I've got a schedule worked out for the birthdays so expect a few in the next few episodes.

This episode is quite fast paced and lots of things are happening. For example, it's the night of the full moon. I temporarily activate another household to see what's going in over there. I don't have any actual game play while in that household, just record a bit of their 'interesting' and unexpected activities. Then I shut down the game and reloaded so as to not lose the wishes and opportunities Oscar's household has.

We meet lots of sims around town. I show you the two new rooms I've built on the ground floor of the boarding school and the changes I made to the attractive and useful objects I have placed on the complex large lot with the school, theater, diner, grocery store and spa. Lots of sims are visiting it. Some of them haven't been seen in the videos previously, others are becoming familiar to those of you who watch the series. Meaning, I don't give massive amounts of info on a sim I've already introduced in previous episodes.

I hope you enjoy the videos.

I've been working on Episode 24 of this series. Oscar is currently in the boarding school in Moonfall Island. This is another beautiful world made by @Rflong7.

I noticed a couple (or more) sims appear to have vanished from the world. I use NRAAS Story Progression and it regularly cleans out homeless sims and I've seen notices advising that large numbers of sims have been run out of town on occasion. So I'm wondering if they have been deleted.

In one household there is a single child. His parents and siblings have vanished. They are not in the world and they are not in his relationships panel but they are all in his family tree. This is a family I have played extensively in the past and I want them in the world.

I am also missing three of my mermaids from the Colourful Mermaids household. Harry Genie, Belinda Bombay and Julia Ericksen. I'm wondering if the mermaids might be out in another world as tourists.

Currently I've stopped work on my video to do a census of the sims I have living in the various worlds in this game. I've found one tourist so have made a note of him - but he isn't one that I've already flagged as being missing from his home world. His name is Dave Webb.

The thing is though, there are a lot more worlds in this game than I thought. Here's a list of the worlds that have nhd files in my save game.

Barnacle Bay; Cake Island; Cake Island II; Chocolate Cake Island; Cotes d'Ambonnay; Dark Harbor; Dragon Valley; Erewhon; Grey Meadow Island; Hidden Springs; Isle of Sims III; Legacy Island III; Lucky Palms; Moonfall Island; Moonlight Falls; Norbrewych; Sunlit Tides

I happen to know that of that list, Dragon Valley, Cake Island II and Legacy island III are empty. Meaning no sims of mine living there. Sometimes I use townies that I find in the world - particularly if they have started a relationship with some of my own sims. Mostly I have a group of my own sims from my library that I add to worlds. They are usually sims I've played previously in old games and have kept in my library just in case I want them in future. I know these sims and most of the versions I use of them are well played with skills and families.

A few of the worlds are overpopulated so I'll be moving a few sims from them to other worlds. Worlds I know are over populated include Sunlit Tides and Barnacle Bay. I will be moving sims from those worlds to other worlds. When I do this move of sims I could include any played townies so townies that may have originated in any world could find themselves living elsewhere. Occasionally I will capture a role sim and add them to the played population. This doesn't happen often.

The reason Dragon Valley is empty is I sent Patience and her family to live in Dragon Valley in the early stages of my Big Game. Several of her children married sims from Dragon Valley. When I moved Patience and her family to Dragon Valley I took some other sims from Sunset Valley with them and there has been some inter marriage between them too. So when I found Dragon Valley was unplayable due to some of the things I'd done to it, I moved all of the sims out of it. Now some of the original residents of Dragon Valley have died of old age and others have large families within the Big Game so I don't want to grab a new, populated version of that world for my Big Game. Since the world is sitting there empty I could move sims back into it at some stage.

I suspect it'll take me a few days to complete my census of the various worlds in this save.

And as a side note, if you're watching the McFluff Story series of videos - they are also recorded in this save.

I just made Episode 24 of Oscar's Childhood available to view.

https://youtu.be/LU1OFFUH-Qg

It runs for about 21 minutes. But there is a lot happening. I did the whole narration this week so my voice isn't quite right but it isn't that different from usual. I think that is part of the reason the video is a little shorter than usual. I just didn't find that much to say so it moves along faster than usual and a lot more happens. I was hoping for 2 birthdays but added a third. And we get a look at the garden, group science project, beginning of a group game of pool, magician performing for tips, a fairy house party and lots more.

I hope you are able to enjoy it.

Happy Simming

I've discovered YouTube appears to classify Oscar's Childhood as meant for very young children to watch as it is now showing nursery rhyme and other videos meant for small children in the list of suggested videos on the right of the screen when someone watches Oscar's Childhood.

There will be no more Oscar's Childhood videos. From now on the videos will be about Oscar's Teen Years. That is until he becomes a Young Adult, then he'll eventually meet Louise and a whole new story will begin.

I'm excited - happy - Oscar is now a TEEN!!!!!!!

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I usually run with the hair and outfit they get on aging up until I decide if I can live with it or not. In Oscar's case I was prepared to keep the hair but the outfit had to go. So before he grabbed his piece of cake he had an emergency visit to Stylist. He got 2 everyday outfits and the rest of his outfits were chosen while keeping in mind his future is to become a Rock Star even though he still doesn't have a lifetime wish.

On emerging from Stylist I managed to save successfully. Shut down and reloaded so as to avoid Error 12 next time I save.

Oscar grabbed his piece of cake and went off to eat it. Everyone else stood around the cake and I left them to decide who will get cake and who will have to settle for the buffet.

It was taking quite a while for them to work it out. Then I was stunned to see Gaylord solve the problem. He picked up the whole cake and put it away in the fridge. I've never seen that happen before. It's all going to be in the video when I put it together.

Of course this means Oscar and Eric and Susanne are about to leave the boarding school and start their adventures. There won't be any more Oscar's Childhood videos as Oscar is no longer a child. The next set of videos will probably be Oscar's Teens. Or something similar.

Happy Simming all.

The first episode of Oscar's Teen Years has been loaded to YouTube and is now available for you to watch.

https://youtu.be/KGMWmvl2m7M

Hopefully it won't be recommended for toddlers only by YouTube.

In this video two of the Children in the Boarding School age up to teen. Jeanette Bright and Oscar.

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Jeanette had to age up first because she was older than Oscar.

Oscar gets a guitar for his birthday and plays us out at the end of the video.
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Two of the teens learn to drive. Several of the sims get some very lucrative wishes to improve their gardening skills so there is a renewed interest in gardening. This doesn't take much time up in the video but does result in the garden reducing in size and barren plants are removed and I think Error 12s are becoming less frequent.

Where to from here with this story...

I expect the next episode to be mostly at the boarding school as I tidy a few things up there. Most of the children left in the boarding school will be returned to their own homes. This includes the 3 clones - Sandy, Mary and Gavyn. Sandy and Mary are little mermaids and Gavyn is a fairy. Petal, the Plant sim will accompany Sandy and Mary to live on the beach with Mia Azul. Mary is a clone of Mia. Sandy is a clone of Salty Seaworth who is not living in this world. Gavyn is a clone of one of my sims, George Flower. Petal was originally picked in my Perfect Genetics Challenge videos and a copy of her was transferred to the Colourful Mermaids game and when that game was incorporated into my Big Game she ended up at this boarding school. I'm sending her back to live with Mia Azul along with the two little mermaids.

There is a stray child currently in the boarding school. He is Gregg Watson. I found him living alone in a house in town. I investigated and found he belongs to one of my old Sim families and his parents and siblings were living in Moonlight Falls. That world was overcrowded and I moved his family to Glenvale County.

Gregg has now completed his child skills. He'd already done his toddler skills years ago. I've decided, the first time Oscar and his buddies travel, they'll take Gregg to his family. We'll play in Glenvale County for a while. Gregg's family is a bit complicated due to me doing my usual thing of adding instant babies, mostly to liven things up a bit.

There is a group of three houses together in Glenvale County. The sims living in them are now interconnected.
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The Bachelor family live in one of the three houses. Simis has died of old age but Jocasta, Michael and Bella are there in one of the three houses. I think I might have added Simis's grave to the local cemetery.

The Craig family live in another of the 3 houses. This is Gregg's family. His father is Ben who is married to Maggie. Maggie is a fairy.
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They have 3 children including Gregg who went mysteriously missing and is about to be returned to them. I think I've since given Ben a makeover with a new skin and hair.

The occupants of the third house are Agnes Crumplebottom and her two toddler daughters. I wanted her to pass on her genes and she constantly was getting into a relationship with Michael Bachelor. I didn't want that to happen but the game seems to have insisted. So I made her have two instant babies. One fathered by Michael and the other by Gregg's father, Ben.

To add more interest to the situation I added the occupied grave of Eric Darling to the graveyard. I'm sort of half considering resurrecting him and adding him to Agnes's house. At this point she doesn't know of his existence.

I have these little situations going on all over the various worlds and anything can happen. It could be interesting to explore further the goings on in these 3 households. I'll get Oscar, Eric and Susanne to stay with the Craig family for an episode or two to see what happens there.

This will also give another little girl a chance to age a little so she will be ready to be delivered to her family in Lucky Palms. I'd like to send Oscar and his friends to Lucky Palms next and will probably take that little girl with them. She will be delivered to her parents, Theresa and Charlie. Theresa is Eric and Susanne's aunt. Their parents also live in Lucky Palms and the trio (Oscar, Eric and Susanne) will stay with Percy and Lorna while they are in Lucky Palms.

I don't have any other screen shots to share at the moment. I've spent ages looking. I mostly just do videos now and taking screen shots messes up my videos so I avoid them mostly.

I hope you are able to enjoy the video.

Happy Simming

@Karritz: Awesome video. OOO, shiny lights. Are you ever planning on Oscar having an alien baby?

"Puddinroy;c-17330922" wrote:
@Karritz: Awesome video. OOO, shiny lights. Are you ever planning on Oscar having an alien baby?

Thank you. I hadn't thought of alien babies for Oscar. But I do plan for him to have lots of babies with Louise once he finds her. After that anything is possible.

@Karritz: Your welcome. Cool