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...
Please let me know what you think
BTW This one's all about Oscar - Louise hasn't turned up in town yet so he doesn't even know she exists. He's a bit glum. It's all about the back story and setting up for her arrival - soon but not next episode.
I also make reference to Gerty McFluff as her story is also set in Hidden Springs and I'm setting up both versions of Hidden Springs with the same builds of mine in them.
I've added a not to be played at all version of Oscar in the McFluff save and I will add a not to be played at all version of Gertie and her cats in this save too.
Just so we might get to see characters from each story around town occasionally as townie sims.
I now have all four of my ongoing stories begun on YouTube. I won't be adding any more for a while as I have plenty of work to do on these four. That is 1. The Isla Paradiso Bunch 2. Caroline and Friends 3. The McFluff Story 4. The Story of Oscar and Louise
I've been diverted with thoughts of my Oscar's Childhood series of videos.
He's a teen now and I'm making plans for how his future will turn out so I can be sure to steer him in the right direction rather than let him just do a random wander through the many worlds he's about to begin visiting with his buddies Eric and Susanne.
First thing I did was find the save in Erewhon where their home was left burning fiercely after that evil alien, Fleur, called down a meteor strike that killed Oscar's Parents.
Elouise was sent to Erewhon to pick up Oscar as there was no trace of any members of his family having survived and he was a child needing assistance.
The thing no one knew was Oscar's older siblings had been out at sea with their mermaid friends and knew nothing of the meteor strike until much later. When they got home they couldn't find any trace of Oscar but they did find their parents' graves which they picked up before leaving Erewhon to start a new life in a new world, Our Beach City.
I managed to get a bit of video recorded of them preparing to leave Erewhon. It will appear eventually as part of the Oscar's Teen Years series of videos. I will add that story to this thread as it is all connected.
I believe the maker of Our Beach City is @Rflong7. I had previously played in her Beach City world and for some reason thought this was another version of that world. I discovered it isn't.
In preparation for the family's move to Our Beach City I thought I'd pack up their furniture from the Erewhon house and I'd build them a new place in Our Beach City. But they had so much stuff I decided to save the entire house to my library and placed it in the new world before demolishing everything above ground. Most of their living area was in the basement. That's the part I wanted to keep and I didn't want their Erewhon house (the part above ground) to be in the new world. I want it to look like they have a new house.
When I finally got Our Beach City open I discovered it was totally unfamiliar to me. It was also totally empty. Devoid of almost all buildings. I think I found a few buildings, maybe 2 or 3. So I placed the Jacobsen family and their old house onto a large lot away from the town.
The save for Oscar's Teen Years has at least 13 worlds plus the 3 World Adventures worlds and there are about 800 sims living in them. Most of those sims are sims I've made over the years.
I know there are sims I've made but not included in these worlds and I needed sims to populate Our Beach City.
I plan to eventually add this version of that world to the big save - otherwise known as My Big Game.
I needed to find sims that are not in any of the worlds already in my Big Game. I particularly looked for sims I've not played before. I have quite a lot of them. I make a new sim and then I move on. I have hundreds of old save games as well and many of the new sims I've made over the years were never exported so they are still in the save in which they were made and maybe played for a while or not played at all. One day I might go looking for some of those sims. Probably not though.
So I spent about 2 days scouring my hard drives looking for sims that were scattered around. I found a lot. I think I ended up adding about 100 to the new save. There are a few duplicates with sims in the Big Game, but not too many I hope. If I wasn't sure I left them out. But a couple of them I may have to change their name to make them into different sims. I already did that for one of them. Her name is Glory Flower and in the Big Game she is married to a werewolf and they have babies. I rarely play that world but I expect Oscar and his buddies will visit it eventually. So I named her copy in this world Minnie Flower. She's a fairy.
Next thing I did was add all of the rabbit holes I felt I needed in the world. There are a lot of them. I avoided rabbit holes that are combinations. This is a big world and I didn't come close to using all of the available lots. I think I managed to get all of the rabbit holes I needed into the world. I still need to landscape their lots. That'll happen eventually.
I also got as many venues for as many of the different lot types as I could find. I avoided some of the Late Night venues as I didn't want skyscrapers in the world and I didn't want to make myself any new venues that weren't skyscrapers just to have all venue types in the world. There are a few tall buildings. I added one of them, the others were already in the world but they are not near the town part of the world.
I used the Gothic Library as my library.
The world ended up being a mixture of old and futuristic builds. I included two rabbit holes from Into the Future. The Bot Arena and the Mercury Stellar Observatory. The Observatory is a very tall building but I put it way out of town near an airfield. I put the tiny military base rabbit hole there too. I noticed the Ford Focus Sky Diving Centre was already placed there. I had been planning to use it so that was good. It's designated as a gym but I added another gym in the main part of town. The Skydive Centre is no longer available from the store - it came with cars at one point. I don't use it as a gym as it's a rabbit hole. I have sent a sim there occasionally when they have a wish to get pumped otherwise I don't have much actual use for it.
I used a few of the venues that came from the store and that includes the gym and art gallery and the greenhouse. Most of the rabbit holes I used were from the store too.
I added a heap of sims to a few empty lots. Then I relented and placed some houses around town planning to let the game move them into houses. But then I moved them into houses without having too much regard to where each of them lived or if they even knew their new housemates. I added some extra empty houses. I noticed the game is moving them around.
Here are a few pics on what I've done with the world so far. I did it all as fast as possible so I suspect it'll gradually gain more character as I continue to play in the world.
There's a lot of screenshots so I'll add a spoiler. The first group are scenes around Our Beach City after I added rabbit holes and houses.
This is the new above ground bit I built for the Jacobsen's new home with the ITF Observatory in the background. https://i.postimg.cc/dVdfxL28/Our-Beach-City001.jpg
I used Verde Park (the festival grounds from one of the worlds) instead of Performance Park. I used the version where it is just a park, not a festival grounds. Hoping it works the same way as Performance Park as it has a stage. It mightn't matter if I don't have any Showtime performers in the game. https://i.postimg.cc/JhQMSTNc/Our-Beach-City010.jpg
When I picked up the Jacobsen family from Erewhon I wondered if I'd find a mermaid who had lived with them for a while before moving out. I unexpectedly found her when looking for something else. She had a puppy named Ollie. So I added them to the household before I moved them all to Our Beach City. This is little Ollie sleeping in his new bed in the Jacobsen house. https://i.postimg.cc/7YCPbn4w/Our-Beach-City016-Ollie-Sims.jpg
Olive is the teenaged older sister of Oscar. She's going to need to age up to Young Adult soon but I'll have to play them for a while first before I do that. I found she had an imaginary friend in her inventory. I found all of the Jacobsen's have imaginary friends in their inventory. I wonder if Oscar has one? Not sure about that. I'll have to check when I next load up his game. If I remember.
This is Olive, she's the eldest of Oscar's two older sisters. She's in the front yard of their new home in Our Beach City. https://i.postimg.cc/9XgFWNvL/Our-Beach-City017-Olive-Jacobsen.jpg
This is a sim I was glad to find. It's years since I've seen him and I have no idea what I named him. I added him to the world as a townie and came across him skating at the festival grounds. I used the Bridgeport Festival Grounds because I almost never play Bridgeport. https://i.postimg.cc/br1hH3wt/Our-Beach-City023.jpg
Here is Millie Flower - she was originally Glory Flower but Glory is already in a seldom played world in the Big Game. https://i.postimg.cc/RFkmHj4m/Our-Beach-City024-Millie-Flower.jpg
Owen Jacobsen. He's Oscar's eldest brother and has their parents' grave stones in his inventory. He was in the military career but became unemployed during the move so I got him to join the military career again. He's starting at the bottom. Again. https://i.postimg.cc/CLyMBfx8/Our-Beach-City025-Owen-Jacobsen.jpg
Fleur Shukopoi is an evil alien in disguise. The rest of the household still have no idea that she is the one who called down the meteor that killed their parents and possibly their little brother, Oscar. https://i.postimg.cc/Twp2mVbV/Our-Beach-City026-Fleur-Schukepoj.jpg
Just a shot of town. https://i.postimg.cc/wBbg61r7/Our-Beach-City027.jpg
Simone is almost engaged to Owen. I am still planning on something happening there. She is a mermaid and I sent her to investigate one of the many dive lots that came with the world. Unfortunately none of them came decorated. I've only decorated two of them so far. I overdid the décor of the first dive lot. https://i.postimg.cc/3NGKf3nW/Our-Beach-City028-Simone-Salmon.jpg
Here is Olwyn Jacobsen. She's a teen and is the youngest of Oscar's siblings. I found her imaginary friend, Wiggles, in her inventory and decided to get rid of it in my own unique way. I used Debug Enabler to force it to become live and now poor Olwyn has to find the potion to turn it real. Her logic skill is already at level 8 so it may not take her long to find that potion. https://i.postimg.cc/MTN6Yn0h/Our-Beach-City029-Olwyn-Jacobson.jpg
Simone finally made it to the dive lot. As you can see it needs some work. I'll get to it eventually. She needed to swim as she had the dried out moodlet. https://i.postimg.cc/J7pcRMrS/Our-Beach-City031-Simone-Salmon.jpg
While she was there Rose Flower turned up. I'm not sure if Rose is already in my Big Game. If she is I'll have to change her a bit. https://i.postimg.cc/yxpFjXp7/Our-Beach-City32-Simone-Salmon-Rose-Flower.jpg
Sukie went to the first dive lot I decorated. It's somewhat overdone. I might change it a bit at some point. Move things around and remove a few spawner. https://i.postimg.cc/nzZYhLQf/Our-Beach-City33-Sukie-Sims.jpg
Sukie will stay with the active household as she's a mermaid. I've discovered any mermaids I add as townies soon loose their mermaid status and become regular sims and I like her scale colour.
Olwyn is now discovering potions. She wants to find a Ninja Vanish potion. I want her to find a potion to turn Wiggles real. She's at level 8 of logic and still has not discovered any potions. https://i.postimg.cc/mrW7mrj1/Our-Beach-City035-Olwyn-Jacobsen-Wiggles.jpg
Little Ollie woke up. Looks like he may have made a puddle but Olwyn couldn't clean it up. https://i.postimg.cc/4NM6hPh5/Our-Beach-City036-Olwyn-Jacobsen-Wiggles-Ollie.jpg
Fleur Shukopoi and Owen Jacobsen in their home basement kitchen. https://i.postimg.cc/xCRGJSKJ/Our-Beach-City037-Fleur-Shuokopoi-Owen-Jacobsen.jpg
Now this is where things get a bit unusual. I was working on my video for Episode 34 of the 30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt. I wanted to verify what a Sim had wished for at the wishing well when they get surrounded by pink sparkels. So I decided to add a wishing well to a lot in town where everyone can use it. I put the Tree of Prosperity on the lot too so they pixies or the fireflies would visit the wishing well at night.
I found an empty lot in the middle of town. I added the wishing well and ToP. Then I needed to add a few more things. I added a few trees. Many different varieties. Some of these trees I've never used before as I tend to stick to just a few. Then I added some spring riders and a sandpit and some community rubbish bins.
I had decided I didn't want to add a huge wedding center to the world so I added a wedding arch in a corner then thought I'd place a few chairs and a buffet table (not sure how that'll work on a community lot) and some other décor around it to make it look special.
There was also a smallish fountain and the Twaillan statue and a fire pit as well. A few picnic tables and I thought that's it. Finished. Saved and realised we needed lights. I added some strings of coloured lights around the outside instead of using a fence and then scattered a few other outdoor lights around.
It was time to find out what my sim had wished for to produce the colours I am seeing in my video. My sims often autonomously wish for things and I have no clue what they wish for. So I decided my victim would be my least favourite evil alien and told her to present herself at the wishing well in town. She did as she was told.
Before Fleur arrived at the newly decorated lot Sandi O'Donnel turned up. She's another one I've rarely played and I'm not sure if she's in the Big Game already or not. Her hair is green. https://i.postimg.cc/SNjLs3jR/Our-Beach-City038-Sandi-ODonnel.jpg
Now, there are some things a sim can wish for that I won't use. But I wasn't thinking very hard about what each of those choices could do. So I wondered what colour she'd be surrounded with if she wished for love.
Fleur approached the Wishing Well and she wanted to steal a coin and she succeeded. Made me wonder if evil sims always succeed at that. https://i.postimg.cc/7Pj15XzN/Our-Beach-City042-Fleur-Sandi.jpg
I had been planning to get her to wish for Power and for Happiness to see what colours she got. So I saw she could wish for Love. I never let my sims wish for love at the wishing well. But I didn't think too hard and vaguely wondered what colour she'd be surrounded by. I was surprised she was holding a huge frog which she kissed and suddenly she had a elderly love interest. https://i.postimg.cc/G252S7Rg/Our-Beach-City043-Fleur.jpg
She attempted wishing for wealth a few times and the fairies delivered her some simoleans each time.
She wished for happiness and power several times and never had any of her wishes granted. I also decided she could perhaps get that evil child that comes out of the wishing well occasionally and got her to wish for a child a few times and never got one.
Later on Oliver came to the lot and he wished for love, a child, power, and happiness. He didn't get a child. He got a frog which he kissed and he was rejected. It leapt back into the wishing well. When wishing for happiness he got surrounded by pink and later on gold lights. Wishing for power gave him green lights. So I think that answers my question. I was confused because I thought only pink was produced when they wished for happiness. I wondered about the gold. Don't remember seeing green before. Maybe the colours are random.
Some of the sims on the lot were hungry so I told Fleur to light a fire and toast marshmallows. She was soon joined by others. In th is pic we see, from L to R Pam Gates, Fleur Shukopoi, Ruben Gould (Fleur's Romantic Interest from the Wishing Well), Oliver Jacobsen and Maurice Smith. https://i.postimg.cc/yx3dqmY1/Our-Beach-City044-Pam-Gates-Fleur-Shukopoi-Ruben-Gould-Oliver-Jacobsen-Maurice-Smith.jpg
Maurice is a sim I made at some point. If he has high sculpting skill he'll be one of the sculptors I made a few years ago when I was trying to get a group of sims that can make all possible sculptures in ice that doesn't melt. I have a group of 4 that between them can do that now.
Then I realised the lot type is "Sports Bar". I briefly thought of changing it to Small Park or something similar. Then thought - why not add a bar? Then once I added the bar it needed 4 walls and a roof. The roof wouldn't comply with my wishes so I added a fence up there. That fence came with Katy Perry Sweet Treats, as did the bar and bar stools used in this new Sports Bar.
I have a mod that lets me use any bar as a professional bar. I tried to use it. I needed to click onto the bar. No go. The bar is shut. It opens between 11 am and 3 am and the in game time was 3:30 am. I'll worry about that tomorrow.
I took a little break from Oscar's Teen Years series. I didn't expect it to take over 2 years. But I had too many stories on the go and decided to complete the 30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt before resuming my other stories. Well, Gerri has her 30+ grandchildren now and I didn't get a badge, but that's it for that story. I'll eventually add another world to this save, my Big Game, so Oscar will probably visit their world and meet up with Gerri's family one day.
I wasn't sure how long it would take me to find Oscar's save. And in the end it didn't take very long at all. I opened it up and confirmed Oscar is now a teen. Here he is with one of his boarding school buddies, Jeanette Bright.
I had to refer to my spreadsheet to discover Jeanette comes from Barnacle Bay. She has no parents. She was probably living with an Inkbeard household. I do remember picking up a child without parents from one of the Barnacle Bay households. I thought she needed an education. She's a teen now and will age up in 299 days. So she will probably remain at the boarding school for the foreseeable future. When/if she ages up I'll probably send her to a home of her own somewhere.
I noticed the sims in this save have their imaginary friend dolls in their inventories. This was last played long before I started making those dolls real and giving them major makeovers. I'm wondering what I might do with some of those dolls.
Anyway, this is the series I'm going to start making videos for first. I'll make at least two videos before moving on to one of the other series I took a break from about 2 years ago.
In the beginning Gobias Koffi was partnered with Patience. Patience had tried to get me the badge for a sim having 15 children. She failed. She had the 15 children but the badge didn't work. I have since got that badge and as a result I decided to try for the 30 grandchildren badge. It failed to be awarded.
Anyway, Patience had 5 children with Gobias. Prior to Gobias, Patience had been married to Marty Hansen (a sim I made for her). Marty and Patience had 5 children too.
Patience moved on from Gobias to have a fling with Ted Fields. Another sim I made. Ted was very young - just aged up to Young Adult. Patience finally ended up with Christopher Steel from Sunset Valley - she always does tend to go for him.
One of the 5 children Patience had with Marty was Haley.
One of the 5 children Patience had with Gobias was Percy. Percy married Lorna McCann from Dragon Valley and they had two children together, Eric and Susanne. Eric and Sussanne are going to accompany Oscar on his travels in this new series of videos.
One day when I was playing Percy's household he was trying to find a potion to make Lorna young again as she was an elder and her time had run out. Percy had long ago lost his Imaginary Friend doll. I couldn't find it anywhere. I've recently discovered that the Imaginary Friends all live in the Homeless Sims household until they are made real. So this will explain why that doll suddenly turned up running around town. I could see it when Percy was active. I managed to get it to Percy's place and he made the potion to make it real and he did that. The result was a young adult male named Bob Koffi.
Bob and Haley got married and had a son together, Harry Koffi. So Bob and Harry are named Koffi but are not truly related to the Koffi family.
When I was playing another household Haley ran off and left Bob with their toddler son, Harry. I finally found her living with Gobias Koffi and they had 4 children together before Gobias died of old age. I plan for Oscar and Eric and Susanne to stay with Haley for a while during their travels as those children need to do some aging up. They live in Lucky Palms.
Anyway, back to the point of all of this. When you start a new game in Sunset Valley, sometimes you get told Gaylord Koffi just died of hunger. Gaylord is the father of Gobias and you can find Gaylord's grave in the Sunset Valley graveyard.
Now, Gobias has 9 children (that I know of). The first 5 are with Patience and the other 4 are with Patience's daughter, Haley. Complicated relationships seem to abound in this save.
Gobias had died. I was setting up my Big Game for multi worlds and moving sims around and setting up the new worlds when I discovered none of the Koffi children were related. Gobias was the link I needed between them. I sent a sim to the graveyard in whatever world it was in which he'd died of old age. I think it might have been Twin Towns by @jillbg . I put Gobias's grave into the graveyard in Cake Island which I was setting up with many of his offspring and their families. I made him a playable ghost and moved him into the boarding school there, and used Master Controller to fix his family tree. His father Gaylord was still in his family tree.
The game wasn't being totally stable for me and Gobias disappeared. His portrait is blank. I was afraid all of the connections between his offspring might break again so I headed off to Sunset Valley and got Gaylord's grave and took him back to Cake Island. I made him playable. Then at some point I revived him and he's now a living adult and at the start of that life stage.
I just opened this game after 2 years. I wanted to have a quick look at each of the sims to remind myself who they were and what plans I had for them before I go to sleep. It's now almost 1 am here. I found Gaylord chatting to a fairy. I clicked on his family tree and got a shock.
Gaylord's Family Tree https://i.postimg.cc/wxDF8fZW/Gaylords-Family-Tree.jpg Note: Eric and Susanne are Gaylord's great-grandchildren and are in this family tree. The plan is for them to take Oscar on a journey to meet all of their relations. Eric is related to more than just Gaylord's descendants.
Gobias is still in it and his portrait is blank. But he's married to Morrigan O'Reilly and they have a daughter I knew nothing about.
Gobias's family tree (he's the blank square) https://i.postimg.cc/YqkRpNwt/Gobias-Koffi-Family-Tree.jpg
This is how I just discovered he's still in the game somewhere and has a new daughter named Connie Koffi. I don't even have O'Reillys in my spreadsheet so I don't even know where to begin looking for them. Maybe Oscar will find them for me when he sets out on his travels.
That's a mystery to try to solve in this series. Sims seem to produce such surprises. If I do manage to find this little family I knew nothing about I might be able to get Gobias reset or hopefully fixed so he's no longer an empty box in his family tree.
I'm off the sleep now. It's after 1 am. I'll try to look at the rest of this household tomorrow. It's huge - there are 19 sims living at the boarding school and it's in one of Rflong7's worlds Moonfall Island.
I've been playing Oscar's game. He's in the boarding school in Moonfall Island.
Moonfall Island is a world made by Rflong7 / Rflong13. I'm not sure which studio it's available in now.
I decided to get a screen shot of everyone who is currently living at the boarding school to familiarise myself on who's there at the start of this adventure. There are 19 sims living in that household at the moment.
My investigations of the state of play in this game have uncovered some side adventures, one of which is 'Where is Gobias?'
Our Stars of the videos in the 'Adventures of Oscar, Eric and Susanne' Playlist on YouTube
There is one video in that playlist at the moment.
https://youtu.be/KGMWmvl2m7M
(the 'Not Suitable for Children' was added because YouTube were offering Oscar videos only to small children along with nursery rhymes. This was never meant to be a children's story. It is meant for adults.)
Firstly, our main sim, Oscar Jacobsen.
Oscar looks different now he's a teen.
For more on Oscar and his co-stars see the 'Oscar's Childhood' playlist.
This is the link to the first video in that playlist
https://youtu.be/Jfn4mFi0H90
Firstly let's go back in time a little to refresh our memories.
Here are three pics of Oscar before he became an orphan, his original childhood home before the tragedy, and the aftermath of that meteor attack on his home world. https://i.postimg.cc/SsPdkvHS/Oscar-Child001.jpg
Now we return to the present situation and the beginning of the rest of Oscar's life. Oscar has just celebrated his birthday and has now aged up to teen.
Oscar's still doesn't know what his lifetime wish will be - but I know it's going to be 'Rock Star'.
Oscar is an orphan after his whole family were killed by a meteor shower which was called down by an evil alien who lived with them. The story of the meteor attack and the evil alien and the loss of his family is in the first few episodes of 'Oscar's Childhood' YouTube series.
https://i.postimg.cc/XXMpZHGQ/Oscar.jpg
Then there is Eric Koffi. Eric is a teen but is about half way through his teen years.
https://i.postimg.cc/PrZMS04f/Eric-Koffi.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/KcCNrmts/Eric-Fishing.jpg
Susanne Koffi is still a child but she will be accompanying Oscar and her big brother, Eric, on their adventures to meet all of their huge extended family.
https://i.postimg.cc/zfqHScdQ/Susanne-Koffi.jpg
Eric and Susanne's parents are Percy Koffi and Lorna McCann.
Percy is the son of Gobias Koffi and Patience. That means Gaylord Koffi is Eric's grandfather. We will see more of Gaylord below.
Lorna was an elder from Dragon Valley when Percy was a young adult and they got married. When Lorna was about to die of old age Percy started trying to find how to make the Elixir of Youth so she could become a Young Adult again. Each day was filled with stress during this process as Lorna had got to the point where her days were no longer counting down - she was overdue to die.
Percy eventually got the elusive elixir which Lorna drank and her age went down to the first day of the young adult stage. https://i.postimg.cc/KzJqymt3/Lorna004.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/QtSRXRRw/Lorna006.jpg This transformation of Lorna was exciting because I'd never seen that happen before. And Percy also created the potion to make his imaginary friend real, something else I'd never done before. And it was fortunate that he did that because at about this time Percy's previously lost Imaginary Friend turned up at Percy's place and after Percy and Bo bo became very good friends, and that took ages, Bo bo drank the potion and was renamed Bob and went on to marry Percy's sister Haley. Our travellers will be staying at Haley's place in Lucky Palms at some point in this series.
They wanted babies and had Eric but they just couldn't make themselves look after him all they wanted to do was go to work and spend the rest of their time out partying.
https://i.postimg.cc/wv00CcKc/Haley001.jpg Eric's aunt Haley used to visit when his parents were out partying and rescue Eric from the snow.
Eric was eventually moved to the boarding school and became a permanent resident there. He's moved from world to world over the years and is now almost grown up. Some time after Eric was removed from his parents his baby sister, Susanne was born and neglected just like Eric was so she too moved permanently to the boarding school where she grew up with her big brother.
Oscar is going to accompany Eric and Susanne as they begin travelling in an effort to find and get to know their entire, huge, extended family. A lot of their relations live in Lucky Palms so we will be heading to Lucky Palms a few times in future episodes.
The staff of the Boarding School in Moonfall Island.
Note: There are several boarding schools in this Big Game. Many of the worlds have a boarding school. Most are not currently occupied but our travellers might stay in them occasionally when visiting worlds without a base camp and none of Eric's relatives live there either.
Coral Carpenter was made by me reasonably recently, probably about 3 years ago. She hasn't been played much and has been hanging out at this boarding school.
She is in the Education career and is at level 3 (Substitute Teacher).
She recently attended a Charisma class and then visited the Gothique Library in town to read a Charisma skill book to help her gain progress in her job. She had no Charisma skill points before attending the class. She now has 3 Charisma points which is the minimum for her current job.
https://i.postimg.cc/N0G7fFwL/Coral-Carpenter.jpg
Coral is a Young Adult and is learning basic skills such as cooking, fishing and gardening as well as whatever else she needs to know. She's also reading recipes and fishing bait books. When she is fully skilled and has read all necessary books she might be moved to a home of her own somewhere to make room for another unskilled young adult to move into the boarding school.
The young adults get accommodation and an education in return for taking care of toddlers, children and teens that are at the boarding school to get to know each other and to learn skills and read books.
Elouise Britton is another relatively new sim. I think I made her before I made Coral. She's at the boarding school to develop skills and to assist with the younger members of the household. Elouise is in the culinary career. https://i.postimg.cc/Jh8ZYnhP/Elouise.jpg
Elouise is the sim who bravely travelled to Erewhon to collect the newly orphaned Oscar. She took him back to the boarding school in Chocolate Cake Island.
Harvey Miller is another relatively new sim.
He was probably made after all of the other sims in this household. I think he was made to try to even things up a bit. I'd been making lots of female young adults and rarely added a male to the game so I made a few males. He was one of them.
He came to the household with no skills and has been learning as well as taking care of the younger residents. He is in the Fortune Telling career.
The caravan Harvey works at is on the lot next door to the boarding school but he still has to catch a car pool to and from work. The caravan is closer than the location the car waits for him to drive him to work. https://i.postimg.cc/BbF2w127/Harvey-Miller.jpg
Kaylie Flower is new. I made her a couple of years ago but have scarcely played her. She's based on a favourite fairy of mine. I made her to try out the glittery pattern on her everyday outfit. I keep thinking I ought to put her into something more suitable but don't do it. At least not yet.
She's learning skills and works in the Political career. She's level 3. When I wanted to get a pic of her she was heading off to talk to Elouise. I stopped her and told her to stand in the light from her fairy house. She immediately put the handcuffs thought bubble up. I thought that was a bit amusing so decided to show it to you too.
https://i.postimg.cc/4NK6mqMb/Kaylie1.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/3JPgp9QM/Kaylie3.jpg
Isabel Howe is a sim I made long before any of the others I've mentioned so far but she's never really starred in a game.
I put her into the boarding school because I needed assistance with a bunch of toddlers and she needed to learn skills. The toddlers are now grown to children and getting ready to leave the boarding school.
It's time Isabel focused on learning some skills. I think she'll be one of the last to move out of here. Isabel is in the Magician Career and is at level 1. She will begin to progress when she has learned lots more skills and read all necessary books.
https://i.postimg.cc/13hq4tDs/Isabel-Howe.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/ZqjBfx25/Isabel-Howe001.jpg
Gaylord Koffi is the father of Gobias Koffi. I got him from the graveyard in Sunset Valley where he is buried. I made him a playable ghost and then got tired of him being a ghost so he got revived. I forget how now.
Gaylord needs to learn lots of skills and read books. He is in the Music career and is at level 3 (Stagehand). Here he is heading off to work. https://i.postimg.cc/bwh9WLCx/Gaylord-Koffi.jpg
Gaylord and Harvey were sitting together reading recipes and fishing bait books. Gaylord had to leave to go to work. https://i.postimg.cc/RFycRTJn/Gaylord-And-Harveymiller.jpg
The Wolff family
The final young adult who has been assisting the staff of the boarding school is Erica Wolff from Moonlight Falls. Erica is a werewolf and comes with the world which comes with the Supernatural Expansion Pack.
I found Erica living with her two children. I grabbed the toddler and child from her and then decided to add her to the boarding school too as she needed to learn some skills. Currently she's focused on recipes and fishing bait books. She's in the athletic career and she's a werewolf.
https://i.postimg.cc/FR7y36z4/Erica-Wolff.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/KzvLFHBT/Erica-Wolff-2.jpg
Erica's children have learned their skills and aged up while being at the boarding school.
Wilhemina Wolff is now a teen and Gator Wolff is now a child
https://i.postimg.cc/xdPHw2JY/Wilhemina-Wolff.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/pVmCFm5F/Gator-Wolff.jpg
Gator has a high level of logic skill and has managed to make the Imaginary Friend Metamorphium potion. He'll keep it in his inventory and probably use it when he returns to his home in Moonlight Falls. He has his imaginary friend in his inventory. They continue to be friends.
Whilemina and Gator are continuing to cram their skills and are trying to find all of the potions before leaving to go home to Moonlight Falls with their mother. Whilemina still needs to find out how to make the potion she needs to turn her imaginary friend real. I don't know why I'm doing this but they have imaginary friends in their inventories and I just have to make them real.
The other teens
I found Jeanette Bright living with a family in Barnacle Bay. She has no parents. She must have been homeless and somehow got added to the Inkbeard home by the game. I picked her up and sent her to boarding school after returning the Inkbeard children to their homes after attending boarding school in Barnacle Bay.
https://i.postimg.cc/k41S5vvp/Jeanette.jpg
Jeanette recently aged up to teen. She doesn't have many skills although she did complete her child skills. I'm thinking of keeping her at the boarding school until she is a young adult and ready to move out to a home of her own.
Most of the teens currently at the boarding school are in this pic. They are doing their homework. Well they were in the pic I meant to show. But it's vanished. Not even on my hard drive any more. Jeanette was about to sit down to do her homework at the table when this pic was taken.
Whilemina Wolff, Jeanette Bright and Oscar. Eric had done his homework already and was out the back fishing in the new fishing hole so didn't make it into this pic. https://i.postimg.cc/ht11Bx6H/Whilemina-Wolff-Oscar-And-Jeanette-Bright-Doing-Homework.jpg
The Children
Gavyn Flower. He is a clone of George Flower. George was living with the mermaid household in the Colourful Mermaids short series of videos. George was an attempt at having a Fairy Mermaid hybrid. It wasn't very successful. George was cloned to produce Gavyn when George was still a hybrid. I wanted to see what the resulting baby would be. Gavyn is a fairy.
https://i.postimg.cc/htL7mB0x/Gavyn-Flower.jpg
Since George lives alone in Moonfall Island Gavyn will be easily transferred to his home as soon as he's ready to go. He is working on finishing a few skills and reading fishing bait books as well as trying to find potions.
Gregg Watson is a bit of a problem.
He was born in game to Maggie Flower and Ben Craig. Maggie and Ben were married and had several children and two Plumbots together. Then they got terribly corrupted. Babies disappeared but I managed to get them back, Plumbots disappeared but I've now located them and will return both to the household soon. They also changed their names from Craig to Watson. I am at a loss trying to work out how or why that happened.
So according to my spreadsheet Maggie and Ben Craig live in Moonlight Falls with their sons Brendan and Billy who are both fairies. Ben is human as he was made long before we had Supernaturals in the game. Ben is a bit chunky and was probably first made in 2009 or 10. They also have their Plumbot Ebony living with them.
Their Plumbot Silver is not with them. Neither is Gregg.
The spreadsheet also says Ben and Maggie Watson live with their children in Moonfall Island and it gives the address.
Gregg's family tree says Maggie and Ben Craig are his parents and their other children are his brothers.
I decided to try to find the Watsons at their home in Moonfall Island. When I went there the only occupant of the house was a Plumbot named Silver.
I have a plan. When everyone is ready to return to Moonlight Falls I'll send Silver and Gregg with the Wolff family. I will collect a few toddlers from two families in Moonlight Falls and return to Moonfall Island where the toddlers will join the boarding school for training. I've had these toddlers on my mind for a few years and am keen to play them for a while.
I think some of you will remember my werewolf toddler Jane Oxley. Here she is with her father, Eddie.
She will be coming to the boarding school to do toddler training as well as one of her cousins who is the son of her uncle Phil and his wife Gloria. Gloria is a fairy, Phil is the first werewolf I ever made in my game. I'm keen to see his toddlers trained at the boarding school too.
So the travellers who will be leaving Moonfall Island to go to Moonlight Falls first will be Erica, Whilemina and Gator Wolff and Gregg Watson/Craig and the Plumbot Silver.
I will need a sim to return to the boarding school with the toddlers so might take Oscar and one of the staff members. We will need someone capable of carrying each toddler to accompany them.
Gregg is trying to find the potion to make his imaginary friend real. https://i.postimg.cc/MHgj7Z40/Gregg-Watson.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/TYWbRmLt/Gregg-Watson-1.jpg
That leaves four more children
Petal Jayne is a Plant Sim who was originally picked in the Perfect Genitics Challenge and was saved to my library and then added to the Colourful Mermaids videos set in Cake Island.
Petal was sort of adopted by one of the female sims I made when I first started adding custom skins and hair to my game. I think this is the Sim I'm thinking of.
https://i.postimg.cc/KzJtZrY1/Sim002.jpg
Her name is Sarah Jayne and I already set her up as Petal's 'mother' and that's why Petal's family name is Jayne. Sara is living in Moonfall Island with Mia Azul. They have a house on the beach. I will fix their family tree so that this sim is Petal's mother.
I discovered this sim is living in Moonfall Island so I plan to return Petal to her and fix Petal's family tree to show her as Peta'ls mother. https://i.postimg.cc/9XkT51M4/Petal001.jpg
Mary Azul is a clone of Mia Azul. She has no family in her family tree. I plan to make Mia Azul her mother and return Mary to that household. I think it's the same household that Petal will be returning to. Mia Azul lives in a house on the beach with a few other sims. https://i.postimg.cc/j2D7nn8d/Mary-Azul1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/3xm2Zp3k/Mary-Azul2.jpg
Sandy Seaworth is a clone of Salty Seaworth. If I can't find Salty in this world I'll move him in with Mia Azul and keep the three children together.
https://i.postimg.cc/fySVRnLV/Sandy-Seaworth.jpg
While on the subject of mermaids. Maya Ocean continues to show up at the boarding school and uses the facilities. I'm pleased to see she's still a mermaid and living happily somewhere in Moonfall Island.
This is just a couple of shots of Maya Ocean visiting the boarding school uninvited. https://i.postimg.cc/9MM4sqHt/Maya-Ocean2.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/nLdKsxH2/Maya-Ocean.jpg
Finally that leaves little Kirsten Faulks. I noticed Kirsten as a child wandering around the world. I assumed she was a homeless sim but I kept seeing her so I checked and found she is one of my sims. She was born in game to Sally Bartlett and Kim Faulks.
I need to track Sally down. She's somewhere in one of the other worlds. In the big game Sally has had a lot of babies and most of them have different fathers and she always has the baby and leaves it with the father while she moves on. Kirsten is one of those babies. Most of the others take after Sally but Kirsten seems to have more of a physical resemblance to her father.
A pic I found of Sally. She's not in this world. I don't think Kirsten has ever met her mother. https://i.postimg.cc/fLHVQbpJ/Sally003.jpg
Kirsten Faulks. She has a lot to learn and will probably be at the boarding school until she's a teen. https://i.postimg.cc/hj5JnPSF/Kirsten-Faulks.jpg
That's it.
I have aging set to longest available in the game. Only sims in the currently active world age. This way I can go pick up toddlers to train when I'm ready without worrying that they'll be elders before I get to them - if they live in a different world from the boarding school. I got caught out with little Kirsten as I didn't realise she was in the world until she'd aged up to child.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oscar's Teen Years Episode 2 is now available for you to watch. It sure took long enough to load and process. I don't know exactly when it was finally finished but it was still processing at 81% when I turned my computer off last night. So it would have been over 24 hours to load and process. I hope it's worth it.
It is available in HD so that'll probably explain why it took so long to load and process. The file size I loaded was about 3 times the size it would have been if I'd loaded it as SD.
https://youtu.be/LIn9a4H61lc
I've got two alternate titles and we'll see how the story develops to find out which one is more appropriate. I'm thinking the main title will probably be 'The Adventures of Oscar, Eric and Susanne'.
In this episode we meet the 19 occupants of the boarding school. We see them interact and get up to all sorts of activities - some are things I've told them to do and some are what I unexpectedly come across them doing.
There are very brief visits to all three World Adventure Worlds, otherwise we stay at the boarding school in Moonfall Island throughout in this episode.
I'm having a bit of a rant at myself here - I didn't actually make a big mess of things but I did make myself a lot of extra work that I'm going to have to fix up before I can continue with Oscar's story.
It's all about my spreadsheet that I use to keep track of all of the sims. I need it to make sure I can return the boarding school residents to their homes when they are ready to go home.
Well, I haven't touched this game or the spreadsheet for a couple of years. And since I did episode 1 of 'Oscar's Teen Years' - or 'the adventures of Oscar, Eric and Susanne' I added a heap of new worlds to the game. I had to do this because the game was getting totally unplayable due to overpopulation of several worlds. For example, Sunlit Tides didn't have any spare lots or houses. I was shoving more than one family into a lot. They needed separate homes. The computer/game was struggling with all of the sims. So I moved a heap of sims out of a heap of worlds.
In episode 3, which I have started work on, I sent Oscar and Eric to Moonlight Falls boarding school with Erica Wolff and her children Wilhemina and Gator. And I sent Gregg Craig (Watson) with them as my spreadsheet says that's where his family is. Well, I had no problem returning the Wolff family to their home. I needed to extend it a bit to get them all to fit but all is good for them now. Erica has a teenaged son there who didn't get to boarding school yet but I decided not to bother with him for now. He may get there at some point or he may just age up to YA without learning much more than he already knows.
I found the Craig house with Gregg's parents' names on it and all but it was empty. There was no sign of them in the world. So, it dawned on me that I'd probably moved them out to another world - but which one?
I looked at my save file and found several worlds that are not mentioned in my spreadsheet.
The worlds in the save now are: Barnacle Bay Bellatrix - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it) Cake Island - (this is why I can't put the 30 Grandchildren families into the big game and have them live in Cake Island. I'll have to add a new world for them) China - World Adventures Chocolate Cake Island Cotes d'Ambonnay - (too hard to video sims at home in this world as all houses are very tiny so I'll be moving any sims living there out to other worlds) Dark Harbor (this is where the McFluff Story main characters are currently living) Dragon Valley Egypt - World Adventures Erewhon - where Oscar used to live with his original family before the meteors destroyed everything France - World Adventures Glenvale County - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it) Grey Meadow Islands - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it) Hidden Springs - This is where Old Gertie McFluff started out and still lives. Oscar and Louise belong here too. It's not in the Oscar videos yet but will play a big part in his story once he becomes a YA. Isle of Sims III - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it) Legacy Island III - not exactly new but I emptied it of everyone a long time ago and now I think I might have moved a few sims back there. Lucky Palms Moonfall Island Moonlight Falls Norbrewych - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it) Sunlight Tides
So, between now and when I do the next episode I'm probably going to have to fully update my spreadsheet to include all sims in all worlds. That might take a year or two so I'll have to manage the best I can.
I already have almost enough recorded for Episode 3. But I can't return Gregg to his family so he'll go back to Moonfall Island until I can work that out. But I started my census in Moonlight Falls and found a few young sims in desperate need of an education so I'll quickly work on them and stay in Moonlight Falls for a bit longer.
I think I'll take Isabel as the travelling sim while I go searching for Gregg's parents and everyone else I need to find. I don't want Oscar and Eric and Susanne to become elders while I do this with them. They will only age while they are in an active world. I do have base camps in most of the worlds. And I added lots of new sims that were not already in the game as I did this.
Gregg has his father and their Plumbot ebony in his relationship panel. I tried getting him to ring his father but wasn't allowed to because he didn't know this celebrity well enough. He was able to chat with the Plumbot but this didn't help discover which world the household now lives in.
When I start Isabel on her travels I will only take her to the new worlds I've added to the game but not the spreadsheet. I'll gradually update other worlds as Oscar visits them.
Another thing I discovered. There were missing sims from Moonlight Falls. I consulted my spreadsheet and discovered that I had left sims behind in the boarding school in Chocolate Cake Island. I do remember it was overcrowded and the game was having big problems so I probably left a few students behind until I moved a few out of the Moonfall Island boarding school. I have 19 in Moonfall Island boarding school before moving the Wolff family out. I'll have to send Isabel or Elouise to Chocolate Cake Island to try to collect the resto of the young sims from there and move them to Moonfall Island so they can complete their education and go home to their families.
@Karritz Good luck getting your spreadsheet organized after time away from it. And sending your missing sims back where they belong. When I'm away from a game for a long period of time, it always takes me awhile to remember what I was doing when I quit! :D
I watched the 2nd episode about Oscar. Good to see him as a teen! Here are a few quick comments about some things that stood out to me. ...Gaylord has an interesting story line. ...The trampoline scene was funny, seeing the sim jumping up so high! ...Neat that the Maya the mermaid just showed up on your lot. ...That is an awesome educational boarding school you've created for sims. I like the other school lot too. ...The werewolves were great. Sims 4 doesn't have any, except with mods. ...I love those little fairy castles. Sims 3 has some imaginative items. ...Oscar was sure working hard clearing the garden. ...I liked seeing the sims mixing potions at the chemistry tables. ... It was cute seeing the young sim playing with her Imaginary Friend. ...I'd forgotten about kite flying! ...That was a great mini dungeon adventure. ...LOL at the fainting coward! ...All the kids doing homework after school was also cute. ...I enjoyed the video. Great selection of activities. :)
An update after completing my census of Isle of Sims III world in my Big Game.
I've got a few screen shots - not everyone in the world is here. But I did add a lot of them in the end.
The history of this Big Game.
It started in about 2010 in Sunset Valley when I decided Patience would have 15 babies for the badge to get a sim to have 15 babies. She had the babies but no badge. I worked out why and had another go with a different sim and it worked.
I loved playing with all of Patience's 15 children and did so for a long time. But eventually put them away thinking I'd go back to them one day.
The way I did it was she moved out each time she'd had 5 babies and moved in with a different daddy sim to have 5 more. This is why I didn't get the badge. You have to stay in the same house throughout.
At some point, early in this original Sunset Valley save I discovered the game had turned Gobias into a witch and Christopher Steel into a Werewolf. That's when I turned off Supernaturals in my Options. I want to control who becomes a supernatural in my games.
Later on I added a mod from NRAAS that I discovered was turning all of the toddlers in the game into Fairies. I got rid of that mod but I kept the little fairies as fairies. But no more were turned into supernaturals.
Initially I made a husband for Patience. His name was Marty Hansen. They had their 5 babies and she moved out to live with Gobias Koffi and stayed there until they had 5 babies. Then she moved out to live with a brand new sim I made for no real purpose, Ted Fields. Patience and Ted had 4 children together before Patience got involved with Christopher Steel. She always does that if he's in the game anywhere. She has a thing for Gobias too. She's a heartbreaker but hasn't achieved her lifetime wish yet - ever.
It was in this game that I first started playing a household and moving different sims through it. I wanted Patience to have time with all of her children so she moved into a large house and different children would stay with her for a while and they got skills and moved back with their father to allow others to move in with Patience. I found the children that had moved back with their father would often drop by after school and some would even stay the night. That was interesting and fun. I had no control over them but they would usually find a spare bed and spend the night with their mother.
Once I got mods in my game I thought I could more with them.
I packed them up in a NRAAS Porter save and moved them, with a few friends from Sunset Valley to Dragon Valley. I played there for ages. At the time I packed them up to move some of the children she had with Marty were teens and some were becoming young adults.
Henry Hansen met and married Siobahn Murphy and Percy Koffi met and married Lorna McCann. I didn't like that marriage but I found it impossible to break them up. Percy had just become a YA and Lorna was an elder. Haley Hansen kept getting involved with an elder too until he died of old age. I kept breaking them up but she kept going back to him. I made a couple of sims for her but she wouldn't have anything to do with them. They eventually married others from Dragon Valley and are in the game somewhere.
In Dragon Valley these oldest children of Patience were beginning to have babies. I was rotating between the houses trying to teach the toddlers their toddler skills and read toddler skill books. Eventually that got too much and I started moving them all into a single house. Then I got the idea of having a toddler school and I moved all of the townie toddlers in too.
Eventually Dargon Valley became unplayable and I used NRAAS Porter again to move everyone from Dragon Valley into Sunset Valley 2nd Edition Final world. It comes with some sims in it. It uses Sunset Valley but extends the playable area to most of the world and adds lots of extra lots and houseboats and sims. I don't know where all of the sims used to populate the world came from. I suspect some came from the Exchange and I know at least one came from Twinbrook.
At some point I decided to build a boarding school while in Sunset Valley 2nd Edition Final. I started training toddlers, children and teens from town. Originally I had a group of nannies who were permanent nannies. Then I decided to let them leave and moved in new nannies. Now I use the boarding school for training sims of just about any age. Nannies get skills while there too and once they have learned enough they move out and others move in.
When Sunset Valley 2nd Edition Final became unplayable I moved the all to Beach City and then to Twin Towns but always I ran into problems. Then they were all moved to Legacy Island III. Same problem.
Next I got the idea of using NRAAS Traveller mod and started using it to move households to other worlds. Then those worlds were all becoming unplayable for the reason of too many sims in town. So I added new worlds and moved sims around. But when did this I failed to update my spreadsheet which is why I'm now doing my census of all of the worlds in the game.
I have now completed my census and updated my spreadsheet for Moonlight Falls and Isle of Sims III.
Below I have listed some of the sims I found in Isle of Sims III.
------------------------------- Firstly relatives of Eric and Susanne. I found a few of them in Isle of Sims III
The first 5 babies Patience had were with Marty Hansen. I found one of them in The Isle Of Sims 3 world.
Henry Hansen with his wife Siobahn (Murphy from Dragon Valley) Hansen and their two children Richie and Raymond. I haven't played with this household very often or for long. Richie and Raymond have been to toddler school and primary (child) school. They need to go to teen school yet and might end up back at the boarding school for a while to do that.
Henry Hansen - son of Patience and Marty Hansen https://i.postimg.cc/WzyWkQGB/Henry-Hansen.jpg
Siobahn Hansen - Wife of Henry - originally Siobahn Murphy from Dragon Valley https://i.postimg.cc/Hsfvs1s5/Siobahn-Murphy-Hansen.jpg
Raymond and Richie Hansen - teen sons of Henry and Siobahn https://i.postimg.cc/JzZ6sYGF/Raymond-Hansen.jpg
Ritchie (the eldest of the two and he's had the most education) https://i.postimg.cc/fT3gNRZD/Richie-Hansen.jpg
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I found a two of the children of Patience and Gobias Koffi in Isle of Sims III Gary Koffi and his wife and children and Plumbots
Gary is an adult https://i.postimg.cc/8zNKrBMP/Gary-Koffi.jpg
Fran Koffi (formerly Fran Flower - one of my sims I've used in a few games so she might be familiar to some of you). Fran is a fairy. https://i.postimg.cc/vHW2BS1N/Fran-Koffi.jpg
Brandi Koffi - daughter of Gary and Fran. Brandi is a toddler and a fairy and has no skills. She needs to go to boarding school soon. https://i.postimg.cc/xCTtF0tr/Brandi-Koffi001.jpg
Vince Koffi - son of Gary and Fran. Vince is a toddler and a fairy and has no skills. I see boarding school in his future. https://i.postimg.cc/h4NNhd2f/Vince-Koffi.jpg
The family has 3 Plumbots. Perl https://i.postimg.cc/7LQmcFcf/Perl-Koffi.jpg Gabe https://i.postimg.cc/pLC0QhJQ/Gabe-KOffi.jpg Grant https://i.postimg.cc/J4wdRWhX/Grant-Koffi.jpg
I already showed you the Finnegans
Gabbi Finnegan is Gary Koffi's sister and the daughter of Patience and Gobias
Gabbi married Aaron Finnegan from Dragon Valley
Aaron Finnegan is an elder now and Gabbi is an adult Aaron https://i.postimg.cc/pXtg0kWH/AaronFinnegan001.jpg
Aaron and Gabbi have 2 teenage children - Andy and Doris
Andy has been well trained in toddler school and child boarding school https://i.postimg.cc/DZ9t3P11/AndyFinnegan001.jpg
Doris missed out and just aged up to teen without any skills. Doris looks a lot like her grandmother, Patience, with dark hair. https://i.postimg.cc/3R4Pqc0K/DorisFinnegan001.jpg
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Patience and Christopher Steel had a son, Craig. In this save Christopher and Craig and werewolves.
I found Craig in this world. Isle of Sims III. Craig was Patience's 15th child. He is still unmarried but I'll need to get him married soon if he's to have any babies before he becomes an elder.
Craig Steel - werewolf. Craig has inherited his mother's looks. https://i.postimg.cc/sXw0VBvD/Craig-Steel.jpg
NOTE: I have since given Craig a brother. Dan Steel was found by me in an old save from 2010 and he had a wife and 6 children. I added them to Patience and Christopher's family tree as another son. He was a son of that couple in the save I found him in. I've got Dan and his family living in Moonfall Island. Recently there was a tragic accident in the game when Dan's wife, Bonnie, burned to death.
That's it for the descendants of Patience in Isle of Sims III.
Oscar, Eric and Susanne have three households to visit in this world to get to know 6 of Eric and Susanne's cousins.
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Some of the other sims I have in this world as townies. I do play them occasionally. They are all sims I made or who were born in game to sims I made.
Deb Dee is in my studio on the Exchange. I had her in the fairy village for a while but she isn't a fairy. She's single. https://i.postimg.cc/TYWQsNqP/DebDee.jpg
Don Genie was made by me to add a bit of trouble. He is a bit of a trouble maker. He flirts a lot and breaks their hearts. He is a Genie. No family for him yet.
https://i.postimg.cc/kGGYDnbN/DonGenie.jpg
Errol Flower. A fairy I made with some difficult traits to add some fun. He was introduced while I was playing in Beach City. I never saw him with the hair or outfit he's wearing in this picture. He tends to need to breath into a paper bag occasionally. He's still single.
https://i.postimg.cc/2ygG6nmm/Errol-Flower.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/1RdJJ1FT/Errol-Flower001.jpg
I found out old friend (from 30 Grandchildren series) Klaus Warner. He seems to be in the military career in this world. He will be familiar to anyone who watched the 30 Grandchildren series of videos.
https://i.postimg.cc/MZ3rNjC9/Klaus-Warner.jpg
Louis Flower, a fairy toddler needing training. I didn't get pics of his parents. Both are old sims of mine. Elaine is a human made well before Supernatural was released, and her husband Jack Flower is in my Studio on the Exchange. Louis inherited his father's occult state. Louis needs to learn some skills - boarding school is in his future. https://i.postimg.cc/3RS9sPck/Louis-Flower.jpg
Rose Flower. I think she's sharing a house with someone but is not romantically involved with anyone. She is in my studio on the Exchange. I have played with her in a few games but not recently. https://i.postimg.cc/mkPVB8v8/Rose-Flower.jpg
This sim is one I made relatively recently. She is Monique Potter. I made her initially as part of a small group of sims to live on a tiny island. Eventually I got so bored with such a tiny island that I abandoned the save. I eventually added the entire group to this save while it was in Twin Towns. I haven't played with her much. One of the others is currently married to Haley, Patience's wayward daughter, and they live in Lucky Palms.
Monique was used as my travelling sim when I wanted to move sims to and from Hidden Springs. She spent some time there in limbo while I played with others. Eventually I went to get her and she has now been moved to Isle of Sims III. I still haven't played much with her and I think she has about 1 skill. I feel I ought to marry her off to someone. I'll have to check traits to see if I have an available male sim for her to be with so they can have babies. I'd like it to be Craig Steel but I don't know if they have any compatible traits. https://i.postimg.cc/Jh8TZ3Xz/Screenshot-47.jpg
The thing about Hidden Springs is I never really played in the world with the sims I placed there. Then I wanted to merge the McFluff Story videos with this Big Game. So I moved any of my sims I still had living in Hidden Springs to other worlds and then I replaced the .nhd file for Hidden Springs in this save with the .nhd file I had for Hidden Springs in the McFluff Story save. That's how I got Old Gertie and all of her cronies and their homes into this Big Game. Now they are spreading around different worlds in this Big Game.
One thing I learned during this census is that fairy toddlers who get hungry can, and do, spin into their tiny form and enter the fairy house to drink pollen punch. I saw both Louis and Vince do this. I got at least one of them on video while doing it so you'll see it if you watch the video when I put it all together.
Now I have to move on to the next world. I wonder who I'll find there.
I had a busy day yesterday doing my census of the sims in Moonfall Island. I found a few in my spreadsheet that were not in the world, but I already knew about them and that's what prompted my census. And I found a heap that were in the world but not in my spreadsheet.
The method I used was 1. I added a column in my spreadsheet where I put the day's date that I found them in the world. 2. I clicked on the computer and chose NRAAS | Master Controller | Sim | Make Active | Homeworld. This gave me a list of sims I could make active in the current world. This was very helpful because other lists of sims I got included service sims and others I didn't want to know about. 3. I updated my spreadsheet with the details in which I was interested and added the date in my new column. 4. After working through ALL of the sims I could make active using Master Controller via the computer, I checked my spreadsheet by filtering on the HomeWorld column and seeing if there were any blanks. That told me who was in the spreadsheet but not updated. A quick check verified the ones not in the world.
So now I know who is in Moonfall Island as well as Moonlight Falls.
Because I made each household active I updated the details I wanted in my spreadsheet. And I thought it might be a good idea to check a few other things. I found a surprising number of sims were frozen. That explained why my teens had not had any success with trick or treating earlier. They only knocked on one door and stood and waited for that sim to emerge. When I got to that house doing my census I found the sim frozen just inside the front door and he was extremely sad. I reset him using ResetSim cheat. That fixed. There were a few others in similar situations.
Apart from resetting a few sims, other things I did were use Master Controller to pollinate at least one couple. I think I might have done it twice. The couple I remember doing it to was Triton King and his girlfriend, Cheryl. Cheryl is a mermaid I made and added to the household of the sim who I found frozen inside his front door. I had expected to find Triton King living in a large household of fellow mermaids. But I did remember seeing a message that Triton and Cheryl had taken their relationship to the next step and so, since he's nearly an elder in this game now, I thought they perhaps should start having babies. I did consider getting them married but decided not to as I was doing so much else to the whole world at the time. It'll be fun to have a baby or two of his in this save. I have his clone in the Isla Paradiso Bunch save. And I think I might have added those sims to a world in this save too.
This is the house the group of mermaids live in. https://i.postimg.cc/CxjmjMVH/Mermaid-House.jpg
I didn't want to take up much room on the beach so made the bottom level really small and expanded the size of each floor as I went up. I did this a few years ago. Recently I discovered somewhere in Europe people really built houses that got wider as they went up higher because they got taxed on how much space the ground floor covered.
I remembered to give each mermaid the 'permanent mermaid' lifetime reward. A few had lost their scales, including Triton King, but I was surprised that most still had them. One of the mermaids I made was the only problem as I couldn't remember exactly what her original scales looked like so I improvised. She has scales now. Of course, they lose their scales where they are no longer a mermaid. Two of the sims that had lost their scales I left without the mermaid occult state because they were sims I made and had added mermaid to their already existing occult state. One was a fairy and the other a witch. The sim who had been frozen just inside his front door was the fairy who had previously been a mermaid too. It was never successful with him and his tail often looked like he was walking around in a sack. The witch had worked better but I decided she could be just a witch for now.
I found a most of the sims I encountered has lots of stuff in their inventories. I sold all the small pets that go into cages or terrariums because they die in their cages and terrariums and it was going to be easier to just sell them, particularly since I often found 30 or 40 or more of them in each inventory. Other things I put into chests or the Supernatural cabinets. When I went to the Steel household the game kept freezing and it was just about impossible to play. I started emptying Dan Steel's inventory. He is the father of the household. I found he had hundreds of several different harvestables in his inventory. The standout was over 800 neutral crystal flowers. Once I emptied his inventory the game ran much better. When I emptied the inventories of all 6 of his children as well the game simply flew along. And since then I can save several times and the memory is being released much better now. For example after 4 or 5 saves I shut down and reloaded due to me being nervous. The memory usage still looked ok to keep going. Looks like I'll be emptying inventories in all of the worlds as I go along.
Back to George Flower. He was the one stuck inside his front door. I moved his little clone, Gavyn Flower, from the boarding school to live with George. I used Master Controller to make George adopt Gavyn so Gavyn is now his son. While Gavyn had been at the boarding school there had been a stray imaginary friend doll standing on the floor and I ignored it for ages but eventually I just had to clone it a few times to make sure everyone at the boarding school at the time had a doll.
Gavyn had been playing with his doll and I decided to make it real. I gave him his makeover and was happy. Then I cleaned out the family inventory. There was Gavyn's original doll. I pulled it out and put it on the floor to decide what to do with it. I was thinking of trying to transfer it to the boarding school to give to some other doll-less toddler or child or teen. As I was thinking of how to do that when the thing went live. I had a second or two of astonishment followed by panic followed by a decision to get Gavyn to make another potion to turn this second imaginary friend real. Then the second little IF became real and got his makeover.
Gavyn Flower with his two Imaginary Friends made Real, Ray and Bart. Previously Rags and Bo bo https://i.postimg.cc/Sx7Hmfjh/Gregg-Flower-With-Two-IFs-Made-Real.jpg
I was feeling poor George had been so lonely stuck inside his front door with no other sims living with him and how he has 3 little boys to play with. As I left the lot I saw the three children running around squealing and laughing as they played tag while George played in the sprinkler - and yes it is Autumn and the trees are all frosty. I left them to it before someone started complaining about the cold.
Eventually I got to the point where only the boarding school was left for me to deal with. It was time to send Mary Azul and her Imaginary Friend Pat with Petal Jayne home. They all live together with their mothers in a house on the beach. I
used Master Controller to get Mia Azul to 'adopt' Mary and Pat. And Sarah Jayne 'adopted' Petal to make them all officially little families. Mia Azul also 'adopted' Sandy Seaworth. I haven't found Salty yet. Sandy is a clone of Salty, and Mary is a clone of Mia.
When I had them all living together in a big house in Cake Island and I was making the 'Colourful Mermaids' videos I cloned George Flower, Mia Azul and Salty Seaworth just to see what would happen. At the time George Flower was a mermaid/fairy. I really wanted to see what his clone would be. Little Gavyn turned out to be a fairy. Back then George had red wings but they've gone white now. Gavyn has the red wings though.
Next thing was to make the imaginary friends real. Mary Azul had already made hers real while at the boarding school when I found her playing tag with him. So I got Petal to make hers real first. It turned out to be a little girl I named Coco. Then Sandy turned his real and he got a little boy named Richard. I saved after giving them makeovers. I was getting my screenshots when I heard a child singing to an imaginary friend. There was Pat, Mary Azul's IF made real singing to his imaginary friend. Where did that come from. That was when I realised I hadn't given Pat a proper makeover yet. He was still wearing his IF outfit. Mia Azul adopted Pat and Richard, and Sarah Jayne adopted Coco. Now I have to go back there and sort Pat out and his imaginary friend too.
Mary, Pat, Richard, Sandy, Coco and Petal at home. https://i.postimg.cc/dVTggKcL/Mary-Azul-Pat-Azul-Richard-Sandy-Seaworth-Coco-Petal-Jayne001.jpg
Here they all are again but with Mia Azul and Sarah Jane joining them. https://i.postimg.cc/CKT9g6wJ/Mia-Azul-Sarah-Jayne-And-Kids.jpg
That's it from me for now.
I'm getting back to work on sorting this spreadsheet out and the sims too.
Happy Simming all
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