Mysterious Mr Gnome

Here is the tombstone for a Mysterious Mr Gnome who died. I do remember seeing him regularly surrounded by other gnomes. I was sad to see he'd died because he is my favourite gnome.



Here are a few of the gnomes who surrounded him



There are others lying in the snow and you can hardly see where they are.



The gnomes lying under the snow are Cracklin Knackerbell, Sultan Sam and Lounge Lizard.

I found a Vampire Gnome inside watching TV.

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There are all of these teddy bears waiting to be turned in the next room and she hasn't touched any of them yet. I wonder why? Perhaps it is because there are so many other gnomes on the lot already. There are heaps of them around - I just haven't tracked them all down yet. Will post pics when I find them.



I keep finding these plates of links lying around the lot and in the kitchen. Do you think they have anything to do with gnomes? Or is something else going on in this lot?



And a few minutes later a few more have gathered in a different part of the garden. It is still snowing - only 3 days to spring now so some of the others may come out from wherever it is they are hiding.



I found Abracadabera the Laundry Gnome in someone's inventory - so I put him out in the snow near the others. It is getting late in the day and dark.



I also just noticed one of the teddy bears has vanished.

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I've been remodeling the house and garden that I found the gnomes in. Do you remember the colour the swimming pools were before they went a deeper blue?

Here is a pic of father and son relaxing by the old style pool.



And a few of the others are still lolling around the pool too. Not long before I took this shot just about all of them were gathered together in around this area. I didn't get a shot of them and only decided to post these two when I saw the baby gnome beside the pool.



So far no other types of gnome have appeared in the household.

They all seem to have gathered outside on the lawn.



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BlkBarbiegal wrote:
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samanthajane26 wrote:
I've never pulled a gnome out of the wishing well, maybe I just don't use it enough

Love the pictures of them all grouped together

In some games it happens a lot and not so often in others. I always have the tree of prosperity nearby too so I can get the pixies. I don't think that influences the number of gnomes that come out of the wishing well. But can't be sure.

I've flung games in Aurora Skies seem to produce the most gnomes for me so far. Barnacle Bay is good too. But I haven't played enough games to know if it is the location that is influencing it or if I just got lucky with that particular game.

Another thing that just occurred to me is that I have been sending supernaturals to fish at their wishing well on their own home lot. It may be that supernatural scare better at catching gnomes in the ww.

I very rarely use supernaturals in my active household but I want to unlock a few badges so I will be, I'll see if that makes a difference. I'm trying to get the 15 chidlren/30 grandchildren so I can't visit WA locations and I do like to get my gnomes randomly rather than the buydebug.

I snapped a piccy of the teen gnome. His expression make me laugh, he's such a stereotypical teen!

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I call this his "They're not with me" pose :D

Wow Samanthajane thanks for that. I've been waiting patiently to finally see one of them. My one baby gnome is still a baby last time I saw it.

Good luck with those badges. I think the 15 babies is possible if you do it exactly right. I've read you have to do it with the Sim in the same household all the time. I believe it is easier to do with a male Sim than a female. I of course, tried with a female and although she had all 15 babies I didn't get the badge. I might try again some time with a male Sim and see what happens.

I thought the gnomes were vanishing from my game last time I opened it as I could only find around 30 of them but this morning they are all back again. They have been very active this morning and zapping around together. I got a shot of a few of them inside the house. It would make a sim think twice about sitting down to breakfast with this lot around.



Then later on I noticed some of my gnomes are ageing and a lot of them are elderly now. I've never seen old gnomes before. I see you have some in your shot above.

Here is the picture I took of my elderly gnomes.



One of them is standing on top of his walking stick. Another is shaking his stick at someone. There are quite a few others like this around the garden. I suppose I'll have gnome tombstones next. I hope some new baby gnomes appear soon before they all die of old age.

I thought I'd add just one more. My Sim is fishing in the Wishing Well while the pixies are active. There are gnomes watching her - maybe they are wondering if she is going to catch a different type of gnome and let it loose on them. I thought she could keep it in her inventory if she found one but none have appeared so far in this game.



I thought I'd go into buydebug and get some of those ceiling lights so I could put some light on my gnomes pictures. I can't get them all into one shot as they are spread out all over the lot and inside the house but here are a few of them with light.





I never thought I'd have so much fun playing with such an old game. This game was started when only the base game was available so that is why there is only one type of gnome in it and I'd like to keep it that way for this household. There are other households in the game that I have set up and played with previously. I will keep playing them and they can have the other gnomes. I will also split this household up soon too as there are 3 generations living in it and it is time for teens to age up and the young adults to move out and set up on their own. I've had them collecting seeds from around the lot and skilling up in preparation for moving out and setting up their own places.

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They are all getting old.



I think I found a new one on me - and I suspect it is the baby/toddler gnome grown in to a child. He doesn't have a beard and is just sleeping.



Here are a few more pics of so many old gnomes.





I thought this was a bit cute.

Well - it's over for this little family of gnomes.

First thing I noticed is one of them turned into an evil looking gnome and it seems to be the Gnome of Death. A bit like the Gnome Grim Reaper. It moved around them and now it looks like they are all gone. Lots of little gold statues.

In the meantime, one of the Sims fished a Magical Gnome of Invention out of the Wishing Well.

Here are the last few pictures of this gnome story - which I'm sure will continue with a new family of gnomes about to appear???

Fall arrived so I closed up the greenhouse. Don't want the plants in there to go dormant.

The elderly gnomes gathered out front for a get-together.





While many of the old gnomes were enjoying the sun, a few were in the back room where the swimming pool, tree of prosperity and wishing well are - along with a few other things.



Grace decided to have a home birth and found she had a gnome for company.



Baby Janice arrived with the brave and disciplined traits.



The old gnomes spent some time examining the Chicken Coop.





Grace's mother, Ebony made a wish for happiness while the gnomes watched silently.



Look closely in this image above. At the back of the picture, near the swimming pool there is a dark gnome without a cane. I think he is the baby gnome I was so happy to have. I didn't see him being a teenager - unless that was him being a teenager when he was lying around all white and I thought he must be a child.

I think he may also be in the other pictures above with the chicken coop, but he is partly hidden by other gnomes so I can't really tell for sure.

This next image is the first close up I got of him. I think it must have been on the night of the full moon.

I've never seen them do this before.

I just added mods this week.

I do have Story Progression on but that is just the version that comes with the EA Game. I have ageing turned off and age my Sims up as I want. This often means moving a Sim into my active household so I can age them up and maybe get them a few more skills, then move them back home.

The mods I have are Nrass Overwatch, Traveler and Master Controller.

I got them to see if they made any difference to the game. They seem to fix the stuck Sims problem.

Pre Mods, if I played multiple families I would just make sure I kept in touch with them all by visiting, or having them move in with my current household, or I'd just switch between households fairly often.

That way I seem to be able to keep track of them. But I haven't had more than 3 generations before the game became unplayable. I'm hoping with mods now I will be able to get further before the game becomes unplayable.

This particular game I'm playing now did become unplayable and I wanted to have a go at some of those old games I spent so much time on before they got to the point where I couldn't play them any more. That's why I got the mods now.

I see I have at least 2 other households (unrelated to this one) that I had set up when this was my current game. It was from before WA was released.

In this game, one of the issues was the main couple became separated while I was playing another household. He moved out and I eventually found him living in a different household. I moved him back in but their relationship had broken and they didn't know each other even though they had been married with 3 children when I left them alone for too long.

Now when I opened the game with mods, they are back together again. So I don't know if the mod fixed it or if I found a save game that was before they got split up. O think the mod must have fixed it though because their eldest daughter is married and already had a child when I opened the game this time. I think that her marriage happened after her parents became strangers. I just gave up on the game at that point as I couldn't get them to be anything other than strangers. I kept the save but started a new game - in the vain hope that EA might eventually fix some of these issues.

They had a huge garden for the size of the lot. They have way too many money trees, omni plants and death flowers; and got lots of gnomes from getting metals smelted. It is a game I've always had in the back of my mind to resurrect. And its been fun so far with all these gnomes.

I'm about to post the gnome tombstone pictures now. I think they have all become tombstones now. I don't know where that killer gnome is though. His appearance reminds me of the Phantom of the Opera - or a Vampire. Maybe he's a cross between the two.

Edit: I think you just have to have the TOP on the same lot as the Wishing Well. But I like to put them close together.

This is the end of the gnomes in my garden...



At this point I am wondering what this dark gnome is and where he came from?



The old gnomes are still making their presence felt in the house.



This is when I first got the idea that they were dying...



That dark gnome is in this picture - close to the camera, looking at the other old gnomes who are still living at the moment



A few more tombstones have appeared - and that dark gnome is in the picture again.



I found one on the front path



And more on the other side of the lot. It is interesting how one often seems to be standing in the middle of the fence.



This is when I start thinking that dark gnome must be the gnome Grim Reaper. There seem to be only two gnomes left alive at this moment...



And then there was one ...



I was trying to get a clear shot of his face - it isn't easy even though they aren't moving.



Of course, by the end the path to the front door is clogged with gnome tombstones.



I think I'll gather all the tombstones in one place.

Interestingly all of the gnomes were named. I know I do have a habit of clicking onto them occasionally and accepting the default name. Even that dark gnome is named - and I am almost certain he is that baby who appeared right at the beginning.

At least now I won't worry about allowing other types of gnomes loose in this household for fear of them ganging up on the old residents. One of my Sims already has a Magical Gnome of Invention in his inventory - he fished it out of the Wishing Well. I might let it out of his inventory now.

At least I still have the original save tucked safely away so I can resurrect them all if I really want to. Right now I really don't want to. But it reminds me a bit of those theories of many different parallel universes with many different possible outcomes.

My big question is : what is that dark gnome? Is he just a lonely teenager who has been left lonely after all of his family has gone and died of old age? Or is he some sort of grim reaper of gnomes? I have heard of teenage gnomes - but not grim reaper gnomes. So he's probably just an unlucky teenager who will live for a while until he grows old and dies - or until one of the vampire (or other) gnomes gets him.