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Samstag, 25. Juni 2016

The Tricou Challenge - My Gameplay: The Family Photo



TotallyMaxis just posted their Open House announcement, which gave me the nudge to finally make that family photo I had planned and then was too lazy to do :-)

Challenge 16: Family Photo

The Tricou Family (only partially resurrected)

From left to right:

Arn (Patrick), Orion, Loren, Jon, Aureus, Jennail, Kvornan, Tiave, Jan (Kestrel) and Pandora (Swan) Tricou. I kept some names from my German game.

Still in limbo (not pictured):

Jennicor, Kiernan, Nylissit, Gvaudoin, Fricorith, and Rainelle Neengia.


The Tricou Challenge
My Tricou Gameplay

Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2016

The Tricou Challenge - My Gameplay I


Warnings: Dark pictures, ghosts, sparse text, adultery, half-nakedness, Photoshop. Oh yeah, and ghosts.

This will probably never be finished, but enjoy what is there (Five chapters). Based on the Tricou Challenge I wrote up here.

It all started when Lucien decided to have some posh dinner downtown.


While feasting on his Lobster Thermidor, he suddenly spotted an unfamiliar face in the crowd he had never seen before.


He quickly became friends with Orion, and the idea for the whole challenge was born! I realized I had finally found one of the elusive Tricou kids. Years ago, when I started playing in a different hood, I spotted a townie that looked different, but before my Sim had a chance to speak with him, he was gone again. And here he was again!

Orion quickly received a little makeover:


As did the house, which had this terrible basement:



Yeah, nice, right? They had swimming vampires back in the day. I know "the basement under water effect" can be avoided, but who needs a basement 250 steps down anyway?

This is how the house looked after a makeover:




Orion moved in, got a job, and started contacting his siblings struggling for his life.


Eating and food were of great concern first - Orion was not a great cook.


And the ghosts kept stealing food.




Thankfully, Lucien invited him once in a while to feed him.



There were constant thunderstorms.


Lightning hitting the graves, which woke up the ghosts also during daytime.


Did I mention the ghosts?


Poor Orion, it was a struggle to survive.

I forgot to mention the fires.


A little cat kept him company once in a while.

 

Ghosts jumped out of the toilet to scare the visitors, or took bubbly showers.




I am afraid of no ghost!


Orion tried not to lose his spirit, but to no avail.



Gvaudoin Tricou will definitely be the last to be resurrected!

The source of the evil spirits.


Going to bed early because of exhaustion.


And thus the first installment ends!

Continue to Part 2!

Dienstag, 26. Mai 2015

My Medieval Veronaville


I have been playing a medieval hood for a while now, located in Veronaville. I don´t have the patience and language skills needed for a story, but still I would like to share some images and infos about the families I play. I don´t know how long my talkative mood will last, but have at least the start!

The hood started out as a Victorian/Steampunk Hood but slowly and quietly morphed into a medieval hood. This doesn´t really make any sense, but that is the way it was.


Tybalt Capulet

The three Capulet siblings Tybalt, Juliet and Hermia lived with their grandfather after their parents had died in an accident.

Tybalt was an insecure, clumsy teenager who struggled to come to terms with his preference for men by constantly getting into fights with other boys, preferably the Montague boys Mercutio and Romeo.




He had sort of an affair with Stella Roth, a much older woman and married to Mortimer Roth, and for a moment she thought of leaving her husband for young Tybalt, but then decided to stay with him.



Tybalt was devastated.

Until he took a closer look at Puck, his younger sister´s friend. But he soon realized that Puck was way out of his league. And he became even more depressed.


To top it all off, Tybalt´s grandfather Consort decided that he as his successor should earn his own spurs, so Tybalt had to move out of the spacious Capulet Manor and find a place of his own.


To say Tybalt was miffed was clearly an understatement.


Things took a change when Tybalt stumbled upon Puck at the local pub. He gathered all of his courage to approach Puck, who - surprise, surprise - didn´t mind the attention. Not at all.

Then Puck grew up.



And moved in with Tybalt, bringing some elven flair into the humble hut. Tybalt was not too happy at first.





But after a few weeks living with Puck, he knew he was the one.



 They visited the Temple of Venus near Veronaville to receive their blessings.








 Other citizens of Veronaville went there on a pilgrimage, too.


They married, and were allowed to move back into Capulet Manor.



Puck, being his sexy as heck self:




When you´re in love, even burnt pancakes taste great.



Becoming a father was not so easy for Puck. But they managed, and had two cute children, Paris and Allasea.



 Especially Puck showed a great amount of dedication raising their kids.



As an interesting side-note, I am intrigued both kids have blond hair when clearly their parents are redheads.


Both Paris and Allasea turned out really cute.



Oh really?


Allasea with her aunt Juliet


When Paris joined the military training camp, he became unhappy very quickly. He hated spending his days and nights at the barracks, learning how to fight was not what he wanted. 

Aelfric Gossamer, Oberon Gossamer´s son, couldn´t agree more.


Tybalt, who himself was in the military, was rather upset about Paris´ disinterest. It took Puck a lot of sweet talking and persuasion to let Paris spend his training year with the Elves. 



Paris was overjoyed when he heard the news.



In the meantime, Allasea met Benoit Montague, Mercutio´s son, and fell in love.





Madly in love. I expect you two to remain faithful until you are grown up and can be married!


Have a totally unrelated picture of Veronaville´s gardener, because he is adorable:


Paris was elated when he came to the Elven Realm. He met Laethlaeril Druindar and his two sons Vaeril and Khyssoun.




He stayed until his birthday, and friends and family came to his birthday.


For the time being, this ends the little tale of Tybalt Capulet. Expect more when the stars align again in the proper position for me to be in a sharing mood :-)

Have a picture of that beautiful elf Laethlaeril as a parting gift: