I thought I would create this thread as a variant of “What happened in Your Game Today?”
Serial and non-serial updates are welcome, but I know that merfolk are in other people’s games. Are they vendors? Are they playing the Violin or Guitar just because? What do you see your merfolk doing while playing another household in Rotation?
While I’m telling my story, I often check on my merfolk as they wander through the neighborhood.
Tip: The Merfolk don’t have to be your played household and they can even be a premade townie!
My Only Rule: Keep the updates focused on merfolk!
I still need to get into that other save for Casey the grandson. Because he's a mer-were-pire, he very foolishly attempted to go swimming during the day and he fried in the sun. It's a household of teens, and there is a spellcaster but he hasn't learned how to revive yet so once he learns that spell I'll bring Casey back to life.
This is Patrick, he is one of the sims I used as Salty's base. He's based off an Irish song I loved as a kid about a sailor who became a merman. I tried to make him as he was described in the song.
I recreated the Pleasants from Sims 2. On Daniel and Mary Sue met in college and honeymooned in Sulani. They both majored in marine biology. (Mostly because Daniel wanted to be in the same class as Mary Sue). On honeymoon, Mary Sue fell in love with the premade mermaid. They had an affair that last a couple decades. But now live happily married in the eco living area. Mary Sue wants to save the world! Daniel became a successful (although a little shady) lawyer.
I revived Casey, he is force to be reckoned with and a menace to society! I think his grandads back in Sulani would be proud of his ability to cause so much mayhem.
I do have to keep an eye on him because he keeps autonomously going for a swim in the lake, not taking the time of day into consideration. That's how he died the last time. https://s8.gifyu.com/images/06-28-22_4-48-23AM.png
Dongmei is from my main save. She is the eighth generation of the family that I have played, and I think she's a third-generation mermaid. She's living in Henford-on-Bagley at the moment, spending most of her day taking care of a llama and several chickens (so many chickens!), and not particularly connected to her mermaid roots, but she does keep slipping off to go play in the pool when I'm not looking. When she ages up to young adult, I'll probably take her to live in Sulani to try to reconnect with her mermaid heritage.
I've been playing Kazumi a lot recently, because his save is very different than Dongmei's. He is only the third generation of the family, but his mother was a mermaid as well. Kazumi is a world-famous celebrity singer and guitar player, living in the city. He has extremely good social skills, so now that he is a young adult, he is really playing the field with the townies until he finds one that is good enough to join the household. So he spends a lot of time at the karaoke bars in the city, talking to girls, and then a lot of time at the lounge, flirting with girls, and a lot of time on the beach in Sulani, swimming around until he finds a pretty girl to talk to...
One of Ikkanu's roles as a (trainee) shaman is to help lost spirits who occasionally wander into the living world. They don't always listen to him though.
He is in luck. The spectre is a connoisseur of fine art and likes Ikkanu's use of tone and colour in his still life of a fruit bowl. It dumps some wax on his floor in appreciation. "Um... thanks?"
I mentioned before that Flipper isn't right in the head. For example, why is he swimming like a low fitness human? Maybe it's hard for him to navigate around all those urn obstacles in the water. :D https://s8.gifyu.com/images/06-29-22_3-15-12AM.png
Nah I think it's because of hybrid wonkiness, as you'll see below.
This is currently the whole household, including Mayor Whiskers. Flipper's other dad is BJ. This save actually started with BJ in Willow Creek just before Island Living was released. He lived in Willow Creek for a sim year before moving to Sulani. He adopted Mayor Whiskers during that year and they moved to Sulani. BJ was originally dating Farrah with the shark teeth but she was too high maintenance and he's non-committal, so that didn't work out. Then Bubbles moved next door and then it became a sort of beach bum household for a while. He became a spellcaster later on. There was a bunch of them living there for a while, then it ended up being just the two of them and then they had all those kids. They just can't get rid of Flipper. I say that jokingly, I love Flipper. His absent headedness and the silly things he does makes me laugh. I had moved him out before but he always seemed miserable on his own, so I moved him back home with his parents and he's been there since.
So yeah, notice the family portrait in the background and that Flipper still has his fins on? He does that sometimes. Although I now use a hybrid stablizer, there is still a bit of wonkiness. That's probably why he was swimming like a weirdo. https://s8.gifyu.com/images/06-29-22_3-25-07AM.png
I've got a merman in my gang of supernatural thieves, Ripley Tidus. He prefers to call himself a "water demon," because it sounds more menacing. He's an overconfident, pretty-boy conman; kind of vain, with a mean streak...But he's loyal to the gang and is good at what he does, and that's all that matters.
