Henford-On-Bagley and Down the Hogwarts Rabbit Hole I Go
Join me in my descent to a place I did not expect to go this year. :) I sent my sim on a trip to sell vegetables in Henford and had them explore the land later. There is a 64x64 property and I w...
Thank you for all the comments. I have spent quite a bit of the day going over how I am going to get over a few problems here.
1. THERE ARE TOO MANY CHARACTERS IN HARRY POTTER! 2. There are too many Gryffindors in Harry Potter. I was surprised to find that there are about as many Gryffindors as there are Slytherins, Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws combined. So things are really unbalanced when you want to represent 4 houses. 3. I only have seven slots for students and one for a teacher.
I have planned to use clubs from the beginning, to help make the place feel like there are more than 8 sims living there. There will be a club for each house. Two for Dumbledore: Teachers (Snape, McGonagall, Trelawney, Flitwick, Sprout, Binns, Flitwick), Support Staff (Filch, Irma Prince, Poppy Promfrey, Hooch, Guest Teacher(Lupin, Moody, Slughorn)
Teachers will rotate each week. Dumbledore will teach the first week of each year. Then he will appear randomly with a key, or when a staff gathering occurs. Filch will have a key too.
I have decided to use a focus approach and will be playing the last 3 years of Harry Potter. I will focus on one house. It will have 4 students. The other houses will have one student each and they will be leaders of their clubs. Keys will be given to several members of each club so they can appear randomly. The keys will rotate each season.
This is a rough stab at it. I even added typos. I always add typos.
So I will start with a focus on Fred and George, along with Lee Jordan and Angelina Johnson. They will be playing through Fall, Winter, and Spring with a summer break. Their goal is to have reached the end goals by Spring (14 Spells, 9 potions, Adept Level magic status) and they are done officially. They will be hanging around to help with immersion. The Leaders of the other 3 houses will do the same.
The next year will belong to Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Draco, Cho Chang, and Cederic Diggery in the Fall. Ginny Weasley will star in the final year. Oh, and there is no Voldemort in my Potterverse. He died when he tried to kill Harry. Things are complicated enough trying to organize this. I can always bring him in on a replay when I have the game play perfected.
I did more thinking than playing today, but I did manage to continue my trial run.
I fixed the portal problem by simply making that open arch a doorway and making it the front door. I put the portal here. No one can simply walk through it now. Cederic Diggery is visiting Monique in Hufflepuff. The portal is linked to another by the entrance to the basement.
I sent the Hogwarts students to meet the true potter characters at the farm. They needed to meet so I can start forming clubs.
It is a Saturday and they finally have some time to actually practice magic. Their Muggle school grades will soon be in A/B territory and they can start alternating between magic and muggle studies. They have no wands because they have to earn them mastering their first spell.
Nanami learned Repario first.
Dumbledore bought a few wands before the term started.
She's a Slytherin with an eye for wands. That's the most expensive one.
Marielle learned her spell next.
Nanami wouldn't touch such a muggle looking wand, but Marielle thinks it's cute.
They are done. Training ends at 3:00.
These open areas are making for nice practice areas. I had a couple of cauldrons here, but I put them away because I was tired of the students making Mac and Cheese all the time. With practice over, I had them invite their other house members over.
Monique headed off with purpose. I was curious. She was going to repair something. I didn't know she had learned a spell. Being Hufflepuff and helpful, fixing things is part of their group activities. She is heading towards the Ravenclaw common room.
You have earned your wand. I am going to have to fix that door so it opens towards the wall and sims don't walk though it.
It is the man himself.
And looking quite dapper, I must say.
And now it was time to test these common rooms as a group setting. I had already figured I would need some attractors to this room. As you can see, they are already heading off for other things to do. I was looking to add the needed coffee maker and a music player, but the creator of this build had already thought of that. I just needed to make the coffee and turn on the music. And add sinks because there is about to be a lot of dirty dishes.
This is starting to turn around already.
Splendid!
I might consider adding a cooler for quick meals because it's a long way to the dinning hall.
This is working and it is easy to imagine a busy Hogwarts when you are focused here. They need a gaming table----I just fit one in. I hope they can get around. Space is tight.
I am going to allow computer. These don't feel so distracting. Computers will help me direct where they should be and where other sims can find them. The Gryffindors will be the only ones with access to this one.
You aren't Gryffindor. Oh, it's the Hufflepuff. She's harmless. Come on in. It's the Slytherins that they have locked out. Why is she letting off a spell?
