How to survey ocean wildlife as a mermaid?

good question. they should give the mermaids a snorkeling animation, minus the snorkel, and call it “explore the sea bed” or something similar. that’d fix this and just be cool lol.

i also saw someone mention that sunbathing is grayed out for vampires, so they can’t complete the beach life aspiration. i think it’d be better to give them a moodlet about being unable to tan their dead skin (but still count it toward the aspiration after the interaction is over. for the vamps with sun resistance.) than to disable the option altogether.
or to add “moonbathing” as i saw someone else on the forums mention. let them “moonbathe” on the beach at night, raise their vampire energy instead of tan, and let that qualify for the aspiration.

occults need a little more love/planning, hopefully these things can be resolved.

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