In Every Universe
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This is the story of my big save, version 6.0. It starts off following Charlotte and Quintin Gilliam as they raise 4 infants plus a few extras along the way. As the kids grow up and branch out, additional sims may make it into the story. It's a mix of gameplay with a few story heavy posts to tie everything together, although it starts off way more story heavy to set things up. I don't have any sort of upload schedule planned as I tend to play in bursts, so it progresses as it progresses. None of the builds used are my own, though there may be very minor editing done to them.
Here's the longer, more complicated backstory taken off the main blog page and chapter index.
Prologue
Chapter 1 - New Arrivals
Chapter 2 - Falling for You
Chapter 3 - So Many Infants
This is the story of my big save, version 6.0. It starts off following Charlotte and Quintin Gilliam as they raise 4 infants plus a few extras along the way. As the kids grow up and branch out, additional sims may make it into the story. It's a mix of gameplay with a few story heavy posts to tie everything together, although it starts off way more story heavy to set things up. I don't have any sort of upload schedule planned as I tend to play in bursts, so it progresses as it progresses. None of the builds used are my own, though there may be very minor editing done to them.
Here's the longer, more complicated backstory taken off the main blog page and chapter index.
Spoiler
Technically this is the story of my Big Save 6.0. 1.0 was very basic, but introduced the Ruff siblings and the Montanos (any relevant backstory for them will be in flashbacks). The Big Save 2.0 moved everyone into a much nicer save with better housing, due to nebulous magic from the Montano brothers screwing around. Big Save 3.0 and 4.0 were the result of a better understanding of MCCC story progression and finding even better builds for everyone to live in.
Big Save 5.0 was where things got fun. In 4.0, Malcom Montano was just living his best life in a mansion with his resurrected wife (sure, one of her arms was a bit skeletal, but no magic is perfect), his son Jermaine, his brother Odin, and Lacey, the mermaid baby he took in as payment for services rendered to her mother. No one expects to pay with their firstborn anymore, but a magically induced pregnancy with no ongoing complications in exchange for becoming human was worth it to Aquata Ellis.
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Back: Hollie, Kristine, Odin, Malcolm, Jackie, Jagger, and Julie Montano
Front: Jermaine, Lila and Dominique (formerly Ruff)
Enter, Lorena North. She’s a spellcaster of mediocre talent, moonlighting as a paranormal investigator while trying to find a place in the Magical Realm. She just wants a great storybook romance, which is a challenge when you’re evil. One night a mischievous spirit gave her a gift that unlocked magic greater than she could even hope to find on her own: travelling between saves. She used the spell to seek out the sim who was destined to be her soulmate – and pulled.
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Lorena was never one for fine details, so she accidentally pulled Malcolm and his entire family along with the mermaid family, the Ellises, whose lives and in-laws were closely entwined with the Montanos. Oops. Waking up a mansion with a weird new neighbor who was so attracted to him that she moved dimensions was a bit of a shock, but Malcolm is nothing if not adaptable. Not so adaptable that he would abandon his family for a stranger, but that’s Lorena’s problem.
While Jermaine Montano, Dominique Ruff, and Lacey Ellis were growing up and starting their own families, Lorena continued her quest. Maybe these sims weren’t the answer to her problems, but maybe there was another save where they could be. Peeking into new realms is quite challenging; it’s hard to pinpoint differences without making the jump. Lorena refined her search – she needed a new world where a) she could access stronger magic and b) Malcom wasn’t in love with Jackie. This time, she jumped herself.
If she were a cleverer spellcaster, she would have known to check that her unrequited love actually existed in this world. She would have also questioned why magic was more powerful here. In her home save, tentative balance of occult power was maintained by each species keeping to themselves and leaving each other alone. Any alliances between occults were individual and could be redrawn at any moment. Everyone avoided drawing attention to themselves by blending in with the regular sims; they all knew what had happened in Strangerville when the humans got too close to discovering what existed beyond their social menus. Something in this new save was different, and Lorena’s quick glimpse hadn’t shown her that the spellcasters, mermaids, vampires, and werewolves had formed a Council to conceal their existence and let their members thrive in underground societies. Surprising no one but Lorena, a spellcaster culture that was allowed to thrive had consolidated magical power in the hands of a few elite families. Sure, the new world had magic more powerful than she imagined, but she had no way to access it short of overthrowing the Council.
This would be far too much for Lorena to do on her own; it would take years to infiltrate the Council and she would need powerful allies at her side. She could train an apprentice or two, but finding the right candidates might be impossible given how tightly the spellcasters clung to each other. If only she had taken some of her acquaintances from her home save; they might be inclined to help her if only to mold this world into something more familiar. Even their children would have served in a pinch, but their nonexistence in this world made them a dead end.
Or did it? Lorena was still a bit fuzzy on the finer points of pulling sims between saves, but she remembered that if she pulled a sim’s hard coding as an infant, she didn’t need their parents to exist. The obvious downside would be raising a handful of infants on her own. Unless there was another couple who could be suckered into doing the work. Lorena wracked her brain, trying to remember the names of a human couple Malcolm had told her about. They’d been the first to pay him with a firstborn child, and went on to have several more of their own. “Picture perfect suburban parents,” he’d called them mockingly, gliding through life as if they they hadn’t traded off two babies to a spellcaster in their youth. If she could just remember their names…
https://i.imgur.com/SQPQ3am.jpg
Big Save 5.0 was where things got fun. In 4.0, Malcom Montano was just living his best life in a mansion with his resurrected wife (sure, one of her arms was a bit skeletal, but no magic is perfect), his son Jermaine, his brother Odin, and Lacey, the mermaid baby he took in as payment for services rendered to her mother. No one expects to pay with their firstborn anymore, but a magically induced pregnancy with no ongoing complications in exchange for becoming human was worth it to Aquata Ellis.
https://i.imgur.com/6OMz8EN.jpg
Back: Hollie, Kristine, Odin, Malcolm, Jackie, Jagger, and Julie Montano
Front: Jermaine, Lila and Dominique (formerly Ruff)
Enter, Lorena North. She’s a spellcaster of mediocre talent, moonlighting as a paranormal investigator while trying to find a place in the Magical Realm. She just wants a great storybook romance, which is a challenge when you’re evil. One night a mischievous spirit gave her a gift that unlocked magic greater than she could even hope to find on her own: travelling between saves. She used the spell to seek out the sim who was destined to be her soulmate – and pulled.
https://i.imgur.com/EkHkg7K.jpg
Lorena was never one for fine details, so she accidentally pulled Malcolm and his entire family along with the mermaid family, the Ellises, whose lives and in-laws were closely entwined with the Montanos. Oops. Waking up a mansion with a weird new neighbor who was so attracted to him that she moved dimensions was a bit of a shock, but Malcolm is nothing if not adaptable. Not so adaptable that he would abandon his family for a stranger, but that’s Lorena’s problem.
While Jermaine Montano, Dominique Ruff, and Lacey Ellis were growing up and starting their own families, Lorena continued her quest. Maybe these sims weren’t the answer to her problems, but maybe there was another save where they could be. Peeking into new realms is quite challenging; it’s hard to pinpoint differences without making the jump. Lorena refined her search – she needed a new world where a) she could access stronger magic and b) Malcom wasn’t in love with Jackie. This time, she jumped herself.
If she were a cleverer spellcaster, she would have known to check that her unrequited love actually existed in this world. She would have also questioned why magic was more powerful here. In her home save, tentative balance of occult power was maintained by each species keeping to themselves and leaving each other alone. Any alliances between occults were individual and could be redrawn at any moment. Everyone avoided drawing attention to themselves by blending in with the regular sims; they all knew what had happened in Strangerville when the humans got too close to discovering what existed beyond their social menus. Something in this new save was different, and Lorena’s quick glimpse hadn’t shown her that the spellcasters, mermaids, vampires, and werewolves had formed a Council to conceal their existence and let their members thrive in underground societies. Surprising no one but Lorena, a spellcaster culture that was allowed to thrive had consolidated magical power in the hands of a few elite families. Sure, the new world had magic more powerful than she imagined, but she had no way to access it short of overthrowing the Council.
This would be far too much for Lorena to do on her own; it would take years to infiltrate the Council and she would need powerful allies at her side. She could train an apprentice or two, but finding the right candidates might be impossible given how tightly the spellcasters clung to each other. If only she had taken some of her acquaintances from her home save; they might be inclined to help her if only to mold this world into something more familiar. Even their children would have served in a pinch, but their nonexistence in this world made them a dead end.
Or did it? Lorena was still a bit fuzzy on the finer points of pulling sims between saves, but she remembered that if she pulled a sim’s hard coding as an infant, she didn’t need their parents to exist. The obvious downside would be raising a handful of infants on her own. Unless there was another couple who could be suckered into doing the work. Lorena wracked her brain, trying to remember the names of a human couple Malcolm had told her about. They’d been the first to pay him with a firstborn child, and went on to have several more of their own. “Picture perfect suburban parents,” he’d called them mockingly, gliding through life as if they they hadn’t traded off two babies to a spellcaster in their youth. If she could just remember their names…
https://i.imgur.com/SQPQ3am.jpg
Prologue
Chapter 1 - New Arrivals
Chapter 2 - Falling for You
Chapter 3 - So Many Infants
