Back on topic - I'm now busy adjusting my Moonwood Mill :) I have fun, I think the world is very good, and I don't regret getting it. I find it a tad dark when building, but no big deal. I have not explored the werewolf features quite yet, but has just started checking the new UI. I understand each werewolf has 4 temperaments, and I think I like how they work. Yesterday I realized the fury that builds, and I really worry for the actions that probably must be taken once the fury gets full...
The entire hood is owned by a Count, 4 lots by the county's Trust, the last one by the Count privately, at the moment is it let to a renter. The Count and his family resides at the largest lot (ex bar), and there is a detailed back story that I posted on my blog yesterday. It was fun building a high nobility estate based more on rustic timber/nature themes, rather than damask/gold themes. Greg is the Count's late father's grand-uncle.
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The interesting part about this household though, is their live-in Cook - Lily Zhu! The Count and Countess have no idea that their servant is a werewolf, I can't wait to see how long this will be possible. Will she fight them once her fury gets full? Will se bite them, too? I would not mind having a Count who is secretly a werewolf, but I will go with the flow rather than decide these things :)
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Just started to play the old guy who rents "Moonwood House" (the originally empty lot, owned privately by the Count). He is married, and they are expecting a baby just before wife gets too old. It was fun watching them during the Welcome wagon, not knowing that several guests at their table were werewolves :) I never had such a big group visiting, the Count and Countess with Cook and a relative boy came, but then also Kristopher Volkov appeared. It all went fine, but I noticed there will be full moon the next night I play them...
Today I'll turn the Library into a Moonwood Center, will mostly keep the building as is, but it will include a bar, a library nook and a section with woodworking tables as a hint to the closed town industry. Hopefully something more. The Mill was operated by the former Count, by the way.
The Collective will stay for now, Kristopher rents from the Count, so I must make a renting deal for them. The smaller lot (used to have a vacant house) is now a forest campground, where I will send adventurous teenagers to stay in a tent while exploring the forest at night - looking so much forward to this :)
More pictures on my blog.
Adding: Here is Moonwood House, once built by the current Count's grand-aunt Lady Sylvina, now rented by a couple from Tartosa.
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Lady Sylvina was obsessed with pureness and fairness, so most textures are white or grey, in contrast to the dark feel of the wood. The yellow-ish shed might be home to a horse, some day... Hopefully werewolves won't attack a horse...
