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The Queen in my For Reals save. Lady Tross Rosewind of Illaria. I went with a more traditional fantasy look for her. Her traits are Scholarly and Whale Ate My Parents and her Flaw is Insecure. In my head the backstory for her is that she was never supposed to be Queen her parents and her older brother who was the heir of the kingdom were lost at sea (ate by a whale? I guess I'll see if there's actually one in here or if it's just a sea monster story lol) her life plan was to live quietly enjoying scholarly pursuits eventually finding a dull, boring younger son of some noble family, who had no interest in children, who would leave her alone to do her studies. Now she finds herself Queen with no clue what she's doing and if she would be able to do it even if she did know what she was doing. Okay I definitely think more about my characters in Sims Medieval then I do for my normal play throughs lol.
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Don't mind me Mr. Bully I'll get to you in a second first I have very important Wildflower Picking to take care of. (I am a Collect the Shines player in most games and this game is no different. I can't resist the flower bushes even though I don't need to do anything with them yet lol)
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I am still getting used to the facial features in game but they're growing on me and I think she's actually quite pretty.
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The water in this game is so pretty. I also really love the sound the streams make. Very well done.
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This idiot. So tell me straight am I allowed to throw him in The Pit or do I need to save him for something later. Because I Really, Really want to throw Chuckles here into the pit. He was really rude to Tross and then...well we'll get to the other thing a little later in this recap lol.
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Tross hun I really don't think that's how you're supposed to release a messenger pigeon...
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I'm still getting used the dollhouse nature of the buildings in this game and how that wall is always cutaway like this but it sometimes makes for some really pretty shots like this one. Even if it does make the castle seems like it's not completely built yet sometimes lol.
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So yes Chuckles here. We were doing one of the subquest things about hearing petitions when ol'Chuckles comes up and asks for $1,000. I was flabbergasted at the amount but I gave it to him because Tross is a good, kindhearted person and would do it. We also got a lot of popularity from it but still he has continued to be rude to us and I REALLY don't like him and want to feed him to the pit monster.
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By this point I had finished the tutorial quest with Tross and had built our first additional building. I chose the Barracks because it seemed like the logical thing to do so after that point knights started to spawn among them this girl who doesn't look exactly like Tross but is pretty close. I was going to give her a makeover but I decided in the end to leave her be. It makes sense that the Queen would have a body double around just in case.
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Of course along with the Barracks I had to create my playable Knight. I created Sir Lir (like leer, named after the character from The Last Unicorn). I had much fun creating him and think he turned out quite nice. He's Chivalrous and Adventurous and his trait is Morose. I definitely have tentative plans for these two to get together but...we'll see where the game takes us. She might decide she likes someone else more in the end lol.
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This table right here is probably one of my favorite things I've come across in this game so far. It's just so much fun to watch them "play" it and I also really love how they also use it for storytelling purposes. Very cool and I would love to see something similar brought into Sims 4. They could figure out a way to modernize it or even maybe use it for a newly added military career or something. Please Maxis? Pretty please?
