#i made some new sims and already imagining their backstories and such

[cactus-sim]

#i made some new sims and already imagining their backstories and such #also how cute is the right one's hair #i cant with the little heart at the top #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 portraits #my sims

[authorspirit]

🐾🐾 Boop! Boop! 🐾🐾

I'd love to know what simmer has got you hooked right now! Please share what you're binge-reading on Simblr!

Share this with other simmers to get some recommendations on who to follow! Let's keep spreading some love! 💚

This list is going to be long. :') SORRY BUT NOT SORRY. And I'm sure I'll be missing people here.

There are a lot of stories I have started reading in the middle of it and intend to catch up the beginning of them. But I can instantly get hooked on so many stories, as long as someone puts "previous | next" buttons, I'm in danger of falling into a story's universe. (I also have the hardest time to follow everyone but I try to.)

@matchalovertrait (OF COURSE YOU) I still need to catch up before I met sassy toddler Dulce. I can't believe she's a preteen now. I do enjoy following people's legacy challenges and I like how I forget that it's one with how you really create your own storylines around the base requirements.

@ice-creamforbreakfast I'm not going to lie, I came for the CC, I stayed for the BACC challenge and I am now following the Romano legacy.

@gooretrait I really do love following legacy challenges. Also, console player?? It's also a good reminder of all the fun you can get without cc and mods, just very inspiring imagination-wise.

@eurosimmer breaks the fourth wall in her captions and it's hilarious to me. It's also a legacy challenge, but oh boy I forget it everytime.

@pleasanttaleswithkaityb completely changed my way of playing! (and also of sharing content on tumblr) I also have a soft spot for taking townies as a base, because we kind of all know the backstories for them a bit. (I say that and I never played Sims 2, just binge-watched Sims lore videos.) I love how people change their stories.

@ruthplaysthesims Talking about appropriating Sims townies and make them evolve, I LOVE Kaori's story. In TS4 we all know the lore is meh (with it being on supposedly another timeline etc). The Mt. Komorebi storyline is SO interesting, I really have to play in that world someday without ruining them all. And somehow, Ruth made it even more interesting! Like I already wanted to know more about them, now I'm looking for any little bit of detail referencing their childhood or something. Anyway I highly recommend, I love all the new stories she put out as well (Raina 💖)

@kamiiri Back to other Sims lore game, I LOVE Strange! I watched a LP of Sims 2 on PS very recently and somehow found Strange at the same time... The setting, the weaving of all the storylines together, continuing all of them together... I love it. It's also very cinematic I'd say? There's something in those screenshots, I love it.

@holocene-sims One day I saw a notification of them and next thing you know I was trying to read everything about Grant from the start on mobile (but it's hard to read on mobile so I have A LOT to catch up). So now I'm catching up the recent story posts! But as I'm writing this post, I know I have a lot to catch up already.

@cinamun Add it to the list of "I should really read the beginning of it but for now I'll just keep on trying to catch any post they make", Things Fall Apart's universe has really sucked me in and I really like how cinamun interacts with everyone! (I admit I am a lurker but I want to try this lemon pepper wings recipe someday and share them with all the readers.) Reading TFA really gives me the vibes of watching a daily evening TV show with my family: we did not necessarily watch since the beginning, we just one day started watching all together, and now we're eating dinner in front of it every night. (And of course sharing our reactions)

@havenroyals If you like some spice and love messy stuffs, you'll be served. I also really like the Gossip queen edits it's just such an interesting way to add variation to tell stories.

@theroyalsims In the same vein of the Gossip Queen edits, I really like how we follow the story of the royal families with articles about them and not from their direct point of view. (I'm also currently trying to guess who is getting married soon because I know there is a royal wedding soon among those sims.)

OK small pause because we've entered the royal simblrs that I follow. There are a lot, it's how I found the simblr community in the first place. One thing I have to say is that I love all the collabs people do, the way so many stories are interconnected through everyone's sim and I genuinely think it's a lovely community (even if I'm not part of it myself as I'm just a reader).

@sosa-royals is the first royal simblr I came across and read everything. The drama? I LOVED it.

@officalroyalsofpierreland After meeting child Maria Aisha I had to learn more about her family. I was not disappointed.

@funkyllama this inevitably led me to want to learn more about the Ionian Union and I really like the world building in general? Also those last edits? I love it.

@empiredesimparte of course there is the complete Europeansim on my list. I particularly enjoy reading in French sometimes when my mind just wants to rest from reading in English. I also love Hortense and everytime I see a big event in the story I would be like: "oh J'AI LA REF ! It really looks like in real life." (you are very talented at building). And in general, I really recommend the worldbuilding tag? Because I love it?

@anachrosims' @prydainroyals Talking about someone talented at building? Yeah, I still have to catch up from the beginning. But this one should be feasible as it is more recent? (I don't know, you're also a good writer, PLEASE tell me what you can't do.)

@nexility-sims Among stories that are easy to start digging in someone's universe, I would recommend reading 1992. Eventually I'll read the story it's a spin-off of and @/armoricaroyalty's story, but yeah. My list of stories to catch up is already long for now.

@trentonsimblr and @ardeney-sims I'm putting both of them in the same bullet point because I've been wanting to enjoy their stories for a while and only decided to fully commit when Between A Rock and A Hard Place started. Similarly to 1992, it can be enjoyed without having the whole back story but yeah. I'll definitely enjoy reading the back stories of main characters and "side" characters (which you see glimpses of in BRHP).

@thegrimalldis Very similarly to the previous bullet points, I started reading with a "spinoff", the prequel "Maximilian" rather than the main story after seeing the username a lot of times. I have since caught up the main story I believe, but I may have to reread to be sure. I also have to read the story of succession (because it's complete and I like complete stories).

@theroyalthornoliachronicles and if we have to go back in time, I would highly suggest Ali's story! Though I can't wait to see modern Thornolian generations? 👀 Also, I'm a reader from after Ali lost her blog and I would say now is the best time to start reading if you're like me and have a massive TBR pile, since we're at chapter one!

OK I think I had most of my currently followed stories. I'm 100% missing people but I will try to reblog more of people's stories so you all can see what I'm reading at the moment!

Did this post take me two hours because I'm catching up on reading WHILE answering? Yes.

#answered #recs #as speaks

[x-digitaldollhouse-x]

🦋Digital Dollhouse Makeover Challenge: A 12 Day CAS challenge all about makeovers!🦋

Hello Simblr! Since joining the community like a month ago I've been really interested in CAS Challenges, and while participating in other people's challenges, I got inspired to make my own.

This challenge mostly focuses on dressing up or reworking existing sims rather than creating new ones, so it's good for players who have a lot of sims they're already attached to. I also largely wanted to avoid the typical "nerd girl takes off her glasses" type of movie makeover and instead tried to come up with prompts that involve a different type of transformation than just "'''''ugly'''''' to '''''pretty''''''".

RULES: not many tbh. Do all 12 or pick and choose, do them out of order, just have fun! However, make sure to include Before and After photos for each makeover!

Take one of your favorite sims and make them over into the complete opposite of their usual aesthetic!

Humanize an occult sim, or occult-ify a human sim!

Imagine that a "What Not To Wear"/"Queer Eye"-type show exists in your Sim universe-- make a before-and-after of a sim that got made over on that show! (It's up to you whether the makeover is actually any good— you remember those old 2000s makeover shows that made everyone dress so boring, right?).

Download an "ugly to beauty challenge" sim from the gallery, but give them a makeover that embraces their existing features instead of completely changing them.

Take a randomly-generated townie in a wacky outfit and try to make them over in a way that maintains their general appearance and vibe! Refine their outfit, make them more cohesive, adapt them into your own style-- but keep them recognizable as the sim you started with.

Put a sim in drag!

Imagine what would happen if two of your sims gave each other makeovers.

Make over one of your LEAST favorite premade townie's original EA version without changing any genetics! Skin details, hair, clothing, defaults, etc. are fair game, but you can't change any sliders on their face or body.

Take one of your earliest Sims you have saved (a sim you made years ago, or whenever you were just getting started with TS4) and update them into your current style! If you don't have any of your old sims to update, remake and update a sim from a previous Sims game!

Show a sim who's had a physical change that mirrors some sort of development they've had as a person/character. I.E. they started dressing different after a major life event, made a change reflecting a change in personality, etc. Use an existing storyline from one of your saves or make up a hypothetical plotline/backstory!

Give a sim a fairytale transformation like Cinderella.

Dress one of your sims in a randomly generated aesthetic. (Generator 1 / Generator 2 / Generator 3 )

If you do any part of this challenge, PLEASE tag me and/or use the tag #DDCasMakeovers so I can check them out! I'd also love to just find new blogs to follow through this :)

#sims 4 #ts4 #cas challenge #ts4 cas challenge #ts4 challenge #the sims 4 #ts4 simblr #sims community #simblr #sims challenge #the sims 4 challenge #sims 4 challenge #sims makeover #ts4 makeover #DDCasMakeovers

[mattodore]

can you tell more about creating process of your ocs? do you create them with idea already? do you have a full story for all of them?

for example is matthias inspired by someone (or his story)?

also do you have an idea how your ocs sounds? how their voices are?

i’m so sorry omg that’s so many questions i’m sorry but i’m obsessed with them

don't be sorry!! i'm loving the excuse to talk about them!!!

the creative process behind my ocs... they're all very different. some ocs started with an idea of who they were from the jump (like theo), others from a mental picture of them (like delphi), and a few were from concepts i was interested in (like dionte). originally i just started with characters and then i developed stories around them. echthroi started with theo and then i added matthias (and imani by extension... they're a package deal in my head). lykos started with dionte and then i added alessandria. when i make a new oc i generally start with aesthetics, personality traits, and life events. i get into the finer details later. because of that i definitely wouldn't say they all have full backstories because some of them are far more developed. like with theo's other friends the reason they don't even have sims yet is because i still don't have a clear enough vision for them... and, like... they've been around for a while 😭

in matthias's case, he's not inspired by anyone and neither is his story. i just made a guy who would love theo no matter how much theo would fight him over it—actually, in that way i suppose his character and story are inspired by theo. i needed it to make sense for him to be so attached to theo despite how much theo evades him; that's why theo and matthias have so many similar life events and the same kind of traumas. i needed to make someone who would see and understand theo. i've definitely changed matthias a lot over the years, though. he used to be less interesting before lmao. originally, like five years ago, matthias was a nice charming guy who met theo at an event hosted by theo's family and politely hit on him. now matthias just has a veneer of charm that theo sees right through and i don't think there's a single polite thing about him other than the way he dresses.

i think the only oc's voice i've talked about on here has been matthias's over on this post. matthias was raised with polish as his first language but his accent was trained away at a very young age. still, it slips out occasionally if he's not thinking about it and it happens most often over the letter a in words. his voice is very cold and seductive. theo has a very quiet, airy voice... he doesn't sound like he's all there... i'd say his voice is sort of haunting. it's the kind of voice that makes you lean in because you want to keep listening to it and it adds to the natural magnetism he has. imani has a slightly watered down southern english accent from her parents. alessandria's voice is very husky and deep... sort of gravelly. you know that johnny cash rumble? yeah, they've got that. she growls a lot and is in wolf form frequently enough that you can hear something animalistic in their voice when they speak. delphi sounds EXACTLY like ava gardner to me like i don't need to describe it anymore than that. dionte's first language is french and his english is heavily accented as he recently emigrated. his voice isn't really deep or light, but when he speaks there's a morose quality to it that makes you just wanna hug him... ugh. nicholas is interesting because he has a very brash voice on average but when he talks to dionte he makes himself speak softer... it's very sweet. i've got nothing for sehyuk and dutchie coming to mind atm... sehyuk's first language is korean tho so i imagine his english is accented similar to how dionte's is, but not as extreme since he's been away from home for a much longer time. oh, and dutchie definitely has a southern accent too. no other thoughts on it tho... again, some ocs are a lot more fleshed out than others lmaooooo.

#river dipping #asks #anonymous #echthroi #lykos #oc extras #i don't write anything down so it's kind of all just in my head? #i really wanna get better at writing things down tho!! i need to start a google doc for everyone or something #honestly answering asks about them has helped me sort things out because i really have to think about it all in the grand scheme #like i actually changed a few things about matthias's backstory because of that ask i got about him a while ago #we're developing them together <3 #said i was going to answer this message and the other one in my inbox HOURSSSSSSSSSS AGO!!!!! #sawrry these two asks were just working my brain very hard and i was just doing a lot of thinking... hemming and hawing... #i finished them both tho i'm just gonna read over the other one to make sure it aligns with The Vision first

[aspl1tl1fe]

I think I mentioned switching out fellow vacationers in my Farming Town game every season, and thus making new folks in CAS. Well, I thought I’d share some of those sims here, but first, a disclaimer. 

One of my households consists of sims for Harveston County. I’ve been coming up with names (both sur and given) since I started editing the world, and all of them are either farm/ranch related or reference decolonial and/or revolutionary concepts or actions. This is because I imagine Harveston County as a Black farming community that has managed to survive and thrive despite continual racist oppression while also avoiding outright destruction (like the Tulsa massacre or the history of Central Park, or any of the number of places that used to be towns that are now highways/freeways or (coughwhitecough) man made lakes).

So....

This is Savage Apple, lol. He might end up being my tattoo artist in Harveston County... or a farm boy. I haven’t gotten as far as backstory, although he does have immediate family (again, haven’t worked out actual connections) as there are three other Apple surname names that I’ve come up with. 

Sav loves to swim, and thus has already met up with Conquer at the beach (the one I specifically set up), and they are currently developing a friendship as surf buddies along with Tanner, my tropical fish stall clerk.

The first picture is a close up of Sav in his everyday wear followed by Everyday wear, Formalwear, Athletic (you may be wondering what’s with the flip flops? Well I imagine Sav as the kind of guy who is always joining in games wearing the wrong gear because he has no commitment to athletics outside swimming, but is actually so athletically gifted people always invite him to play), Sleepwear, Swimwear, and Outerwear. There’s actually a second set of swimwear (just a basic wet suit) not pictured here.

OMG this is long.

As an aside, I’m super exhausted, so if this is riddled with more typos than usual, apologies.

#TS3 #FarmTown #TropicalVacation #ts3gameplay #TS3gameSetup #TheSims3 #black sims #Simprofiles #thesims

[stars-self-ships]

I could have easily answered this ask on my main blog (Which was the blog this ask was sent into), though I decided to take a screencap of @furryctional's ask to answer here because- simply put- I'm going to really kick up the F/O love for this one.

Now, at first, I was a little nervous about how I would go answering this ask for one reason; 90% of the music that I listen to is exclusively video game soundtracks. Though, nowhere in the ask itself did it say it couldn't be music from a video game, and it's a good thing too because I know the perfect F/O to talk about and the song I associate with her!

I'll be focusing on Clairen for this ask, as the song I associate with her has some backstory behind it. As some of you may know, way back earlier this year when I first got into Rivals of Aether, my favorite characters were Kragg, Elliana, and Absa. When I caught wind of the fact that there was a Rivals of Aether dating sim that anthro-fied the characters, I had to know what Absa looked like in the style.

The answer was and still partially is gorgeous.

That first instant I saw Absa's redesign in Lovers of Aether, I knew I wanted to chase after her elusive ending and ultimately take her out to the homecoming dance. I went into Lovers of Aether completely blind, and because of this, I had no idea of the ridiculous criteria required just to have her maybe say yes. I can't imagine the heartbreak that would have been getting all the way to the end and having her say no.

But I, blissfully unaware that I was about to try and win the heart of the hardest dateable rival in the game, pressed on. Homeroom began, and I talked to Absa, Maypul, and Elliana in that order. Granted, I was rubbed the wrong way a slight bit when Absa broke out the "You are an enigma. A very stupid enigma." line, but even after I got done speaking to the triad of Rivals that I spoke to, I still wanted to ask her to the dance.

Then came the part of homeroom where Zetterburn asks the player if they know who they're going to ask to the homecoming dance. You can imagine I already had a definite answer in my head, and nothing was going to turn that around. I clicked on the 'I MIGHT have somebody in mind...' option, and then Zetterburn went:

"Oooooh, I know who it is... it's the new girl, isn't it?"

New girl? I remember thinking.

Then, she walked in.

And this song started to play.

And I saw her.

The instant Clairen appeared on screen, my heart fluttered. There had been plenty of times where I would see a character and think 'wow, they're kind of cute' before I realize I'm in love with them after a few days. But with Clairen? She hadn't even finished her first sentence before I made the realization that I had fallen for her.

Hard.

Her opening line practically sealed the deal, too.

"Oh, hey uh... Micah, right? I'm still trying to get all the names down. I remember yours for some reason, though. Heh."

I think it's fairly commonplace to associate an F/O with their theme song, and the song I linked to is indeed an arrangement of Clairen's theme in Rivals of Aether, Fire's Last Hope. But I think that the version of it that plays in Lovers of Aether when you see Clairen for the first time was arranged in a way to have a 'love at first sight' kind of feel to it.

To say that I have an obscure name would be underselling it. People will misspell and mispronounce my name literally all the time. But reading that line and just processing the fact that Clairen remembered my name— correctly— is beyond special to me, even to this day.

And if that's what they were going for, they nailed it. Pretty much every time I see Lovers of Aether Clairen... or any variant of Clairen, for that matter... my mind will on occasion default to thinking about this song, because I'll forever remember the precise moment when I fell in love with my beloved Clairen Fireaux... 🖤❤️🖤

... and that's why I associate 'Fire's Last Hope (Love Version)' with Clairen, explained to the most minute of detail in eight or nine paragraphs. I may have gotten off-track a bit, but at the very least my answer makes for a good and wholesome read!

#Star Writes #F/O #F/O Ask #F/O Gush #F/O Community #Self-Ship Community #「Clairen: My Ever-Kindled Flame」 #🖤❤️🖤 #「Absa: Shocking... isn't it?」 #Lovers of Aether really did bait and switch me. #Just when you think you're set on choosing your date for the homecoming dance #BAM #Zett introduces you to the most beautiful panther you could ever imagine #That's part of the reason why I made Absa a platonic F/O. I still loved her character and wanted to F/O her #And her being the 'no-nonsense but courteous deep down' type of friend was just perfect! #And what's REALLY weird is that I KNEW about Clairen before seeing her in Lovers #I had played and completed her tutorial before even knowing of LoA's existence #And at that time I simply thought ''Oh she's pretty cool!'' #And now... well... you know what I like to say #P L E A S E KISS ME CLAIREN

[maxismatchccworld]

Hey you lovely Simmers! It is time for our new Spotlight of the Month. Please give a warm welcome to MLys aka @mlyssimblr​. 😊

Hello!

I’m MLys, I’m a 27 years old French simmer and I’ve been sharing maxis match custom content for The Sims 4 for three years.

I’ve discovered the game with The Sims 1 back when I was 9 and I immediately fell in love. I still remember when I’ve unwrapped the base game and Vacation EP at Christmas! Thereafter, I’ve been a huge Sims 2 player (gameplay wise it’s still my favorite of the franchise), skipped The Sims 3, and out of curiosity and nostalgia, came back to the game with The Sims 4 without a lot of expectations. I just wanted to play time to time in my corner, mostly as a builder, and didn’t have any intention to start a blog and create CC.

The need of creating my own custom content quickly came up because I felt frustrated to not find the items I needed to design my builds the way I imagined them. I already downloaded CC as a kid, and was sooo obsessed about it back then! I ingeniously wished I could be able to do the same and run my own sims download website, but it wasn’t easy to find proper tutorials in French (and I most likely wasn’t mature and skilled enough ahah) so I had no idea how all those things worked. I just accepted that it was some computer magic. Several years and more experience later, that sweet memory contributed to make me want to give it a try and take my revenge!

Into the Simverse!

Pic: Exhibition set (Part 1)

My Exhibition set, specially made for the museum I was building, was the first CC I completed and shared on my blog. The set was very simple, but it was already foreshadowing what I would particularly love to do ever since: trying to expand the lore of the Simverse! As it can be deduced from this set, I was very inspired by the creative @femmeonamission’s Great Art Serie and the principle of only using resources from the game. Simlish fonts weren’t enough, I wanted to embrace the fact that the Sims live in a similar but alternative world to ours, with its own peculiarities and silly historical background.

Pic: Sim’Pop culture Tucked-in Tee

I’ve started to become a build mode catalog and Sims Wiki nerd, trying to collect Sim cultural references from all the games and brainstorm head canons that I could exploit for my builds backstories and CC design. I just need a consistent universe!!

I loved to imagine swatches for my tucked tee, which illustrates that approach pretty well. The TS4 concept artists have created so many cute and creative little gems in the game that need a second life, like the base game paintings and the movies from the Movie Hangout SP.

An other example is of course my baby Pufferhead Stuff, that was initially supposed to be a tiny set inspired by a base game poster, but that ended up being a liiiiittle bit more ambitious, whoops. I spent an outrageous time working on all the details I could think about to make the pack cohesive and refer to Harry Potter without losing the maxis match spirit. I am so so touched when I see simmers considering some elements from Pufferhead as canon in their game! During the process, I genuinely thought that I spent a useless time on things that most simmers would barely pay attention to, such as the Harnock sorting test, so it was really rewarding to discover that people actually appreciated the effort!

(If you like Simverse headcanon CC, my simblr crush @bottsbotts​ had also made a very creative set inspired by base game posters!)

Pic: Pufferhead Stuff Pack

We do love collaborations

The second part of the Exhibition set that I’ve made with @aroundthesims has a very special spot in my heart. I’ve been a big fan of Sandy’s work since day 1, and downloaded everything she did. When I’ve started to share CC, I needed to fangirl in her DM to tell her how she inspired me. It must sound silly, but when she proposed to collaborate, I felt so crazy happy and proud! If mini-MLys playing sims in her bedroom full of dolphin and HP posters had heard about that, her brain would have been like “Can’t… compute…”

Pic: Exhibition set (Part 2) / Screenshot features items by Sandy and me

I can’t introduce myself either without talking about my friends from The @Plumbobteasociety!  They’re the first friends I’ve ever made online and I love them (I’ve even met some irl!). Working on Cottage Garden Stuff with them was a blast. There was a real team spirit and it definitely made me progress. Never I would have been able to work by myself on Pufferhead without the Cottage Garden experience and without their support!

Pic: Cottage Garden Stuff pack / Screenshot features items by @magnolianfarewell @femmeonamissionsims @teanmoon @nolan-sims @litttlecakes @simlaughlove and me

There is something very fulfilling in collaborating with someone that got skills that you don’t have, and managing together to create something cool. I had that feeling with those projects, but also with the talented @illogicalsims who accepted to make the render of Pufferhead. It really was out of my current ability and his final render is fully part of the identity of the pack and I’m sure contributed to valorize it, so I can’t thank him enough for that!

Other stuff

“Sorry, I’ve been quite absent recently…”

I update my simblr very irregularly, and my content can be quite random. To be honest I don’t feel like I have produced that much? I really wish I did! I have so much ideas condemned to stay in my notebook forever… RIP. Here are my favorite editing and building projects:

31 years of Simblreen (2017)

The Windenburg Old Town Square

Forever grateful…

…Like for real. I don’t try to be mushy or something. That simblr really helped me at times when I needed it. I definitely have a creative profile, but without a specific goal in mind, I tend to want to do and learn so much things at the same time, that I end up feeling overwhelmed and uninspired, and don’t practice anything. And then I feel frustrated and can’t manage to have a consistent hobby. When I started the blog, I totally underestimated all the various skills it would actually make me work on: 3d modeling, texturing, editing, illustration, storytelling, my English… and even video editing for the Pufferhead trailer! I admit that I haven’t talked about that blog to a lot of my irl friends, because I’m afraid they wouldn’t understand that it’s not “unworthy”. And well, I myself also devalue a lot what I produce in general. I’m working on feeling more confident and share with them all the good memories and touching moments I have from my simming experience! All the adorable support I’ve received here through those last 3 years really really helped for that, and I can’t express how much it means to me <3

Thank you Kerstin for the Spotlight (and aw sorry for the delay) ! Especially for the month of my birthday, such a cute coincidence :)

Thanks for reading, have a great week, and happy simming everyone!

#s4cc #s4mm #ts4cc #ts4mm #maxis match #thesims4 #s4 spotlight #mlyssimblr

[lizzodorito]

quick vent

because i legit have no where else to put this sort of feeling and just.. writing it in a book or a doc just... isnt as cathartic. Hope this just fades into the void, please dont bother reading it.

Hey. screw proper grammar and spelling I just need to get thihis out.

my name is liz and hoenstly fuck this website because last time i actively used it for something other than mandolorian memes or sims mods/cc my ex boyfriend was fucking stalking me on it and catfishing me and comfort me by sending me those ask lists and i... i dunno if im over that. Fuck you Sven.

not the point, just wha t I have to think about every single damned time I find myself here no matter what.

I am so lonely. I dont have many friends at all and the ones I do are out to use me or not Get Into It with me, thouhg fair because im a shit load of a lot to deal with i guess. other friends i have are pretty backstabbing and they refuse to properly grow up and LIVE and THINK FOR OTHERS AND ALSO THINK FOR THEMSELVES WITHOUT IT HAVING TO BE DEFINED BY HOW PROUDLY TERRIBLE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH IS FUCK

And then i get shit for it

love being used guys hell yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah  no i dont i hate it so much literally when was the last time anyone loved me right outside of my family and even so its not like my parents treat me well. mother you may have improved drastically,  but similar to my self esteem, its still very much BELOW PAR and i hate having to witness both.

I am so lonely.

I go so long without saying any word sometimes, its a wonder i stil breath, although sometimes when i was young id forget to.

why is it that i get more depressed when i come back to the family home

does anyone else understand being family oriented to a family that really for the majority doesn’t treat you the same?

The voice in my head wont stop. it wont stop telling me all  the ways i have potentially fucked my budding friendships with my new friends isha and matt 

how am i a person who shares so little yet so much

BUT MY LORD THANK YOU these are people who... who are considerate and are processing what i am saying and are thinking of me

but how fucked up am i

and will that push them away

im often distasteful but all the same complex and layered and so useful and so interesting

and that’s why often enough it seems people dont put in the effort, or frankly, dont give a shit about me once i requrie effort, though their “care” for me beofre then was only for their own benefit.

im exhausted 

One of my best internet friends was raped and i was the one who revealed that to her and she just didnt realize it yet and i havent been able to fall asleep without thinking about it

i have needed to cry for over a week now and i haVent gotten to still i am so sad i am SO SAD

I am so charming yet cannot help being alone no matter how enjoyable i am for others to have around

Matt

He makes me question if im asexual

But I am only a human

porbably deifntieyl still asexual

but too much all the same 

Im just lonely and touch starved probably (more than usual to be clear) and want to be hugged and loved and he’s so smart and we talk for hoours and comfortably, for me, occupy eachothers’ space we talk for 

hours.

this is becoming poetry.

I feel like i am beginning to sound like a hobo johnson broken record

stop being poetic fuck off liz

he;s so 

I havent been hopeful like this in people for a long time

we went to a museum to support isha (she had to do a project that invovled socializing so ya know the inrovert crew (though i dont know fi matt considers himself one)) and we just were togeter (in rather close proximinity) just speaking in accents, partly hoping to excite the strangers crowding everywhere about “foriegners” being here at the exhibit... but i think it was mostly just for us. for our fun 

because voices is what we like to do

i love voice acitng 

he committed to it, i fell out of it more times than he did and he gets more specific with accents than i do

he likes what i do

he loves the characters and my many talents

he loves my writing

he wants me to join his dnd campaign over the summer with his friends

is it for me?

does he want... me

or just my character maggie that everyone loves

he wants me to join the campign he’s in npw with his friends, as he’s a player character and not a dm as he would be over the summer

he doesn’t quite get how lonely i am

i worry i made him and isha uncomfortable last night... i joked about actually being loved properly

he immediately looked at me strange, me not realizing the joke was taken as truth

“Liz, is there something you need to talk about?”

“Oh! Oh, well, um...” hi i come from an abusive family and you both dont realize how much it meant to me that you wanted me to come and are consitently telling me and thanking me for coming because... you’re telling me im good company and its been so long since i have had real friends or gone out with friends and ACTUALLY FULLY AND COMPLTELY HAD A GOOD TIME OH MY GOSH YOU DONT EVEN KNOW I AM SO SHY ABOUT ALL OF THIS BECAUSE HOLY FUCK I CANT EVEN ASK HOW I BECAME SUCH A BASKET CASE BECAUSE I ALREADY KNOW I ALRWADY KNOW I ALREADY KOW I ALRADY KNOW AND I HAVENT’ GOTTEN TO REALLY TELL ANYONE IN SO LONG WITHOUT THEM LEAVING ME 

its been so long since ive been understood by a peer

(hi my name is liz and i am weepign right now)

“No, not yet at least.”

*isha laughs and it joined by matt soon. I’m smiling comfortably. I genuinely have a soft, contented hope i might get to tell them at least some of it one day.*

“not yet at least! sorry matt you have to be at least a level 4 friend to learn the tragic backstory”

thank you isha for lightening the mood

thank you for making the joke so many people who gave less than a fuck about me got offeneded at and confused when i made it so often years ago.

my comment was laughed off, we continued to watch the critical role espidoe i had missed

soon it was just matt and i. isha was to bed.

just him and i, and i, like id been all night (concious but making the decision to pipe down and trust the people around me), was all curled up, very relaxed and off my posture, sinking into the couch. MAtt was always upright ish. sometimes hed sink a bit or rest his hips on their side curl a little rest his head, but not as intesely as i did

sometimes he’d scoot closer to me, sometimes hed scoot away. sometimes hed move his legs so our knees would touch. i dont mind (not because i was finding it romantic, im not twelve, i just am understadning of the small situation we are in and its a knee for crying out loud) i wonder if i was taking up too much space with the way i’d sit comfortaly. I wonder if he thought so.

i would be lying if i said i didnt imagine us actually having contact with eachother. cuddling platonically.. on multiple occassions.

I have an imagination that thinks of everything and so many scenarios all at once and all the time after all

i was comfortable with the idea but

it would be a bigger lie to say i wasnt absolutely and perfectly content wiht the way it did go.

i dont thiink i will ever know if he was comofrtable on that couch or more so if it was me he was comfortable or uncomfrtoable with. 

I will respect him to tell me.

he;s good at eyecontact and its comfrotable enoguh where i dont have to look away (it’s been a problem i never used to  have recently)

I’d peek up at him when he’d talk to me

i felt young again

when the stream was over he got up to leave.

i dont know if we daudled. dawdled? yep thats the word

i dont know if we did

we made small talk

shitty jokes that he declared wouldn’t be the last thing we said to eachother that evening

i agreed.

the last words that night were goodnights.

me with my raspy evening voice from a day full of talking and him with a look over the shoulder from the hall as the door closed behind him

he was obviosuly very slap happy sleepy as he was talking about the light not being too bright in the hall (to his happiness)

it was a nice night

when was the last time i went to bed so happy? thanking God over and over and praying for my friend i mention way earlier

i didnt even have to drown my insomnia with a youtube video

i just went to sleep

2 am

i hope the weather continues

- jaques cruzio, pink panther

now im just in bed

at the family home

not my dorm

fighting my depression (its been three hours, i was getting exhausted by 9:30 due to it) as i rest

i was curled in a ball, slumped and face planted, arms slumped when i decided i need to talk to someone, or say something mroe than what i vented to my little sister (small bits about how lonely i feel and how i worry ive fucked things up) hours ago

and here we are 

12:14 am

just some broken twenty something asexual with a mind that’s usually over sixty talking about the amazing people i met two weeks ago while in the background i think about the girl i used to be the boss of (online moderator work) and how she’s essentially in love with her idea of me and how i make her feel... and not just for me.

i am mysterious and cool and smart and hot and talented and useful to her.

I want to be complex and dedicated and helpful and pretty and so skilled and hardworking and wanted for me.

i want to  be considered and deserving and im hoping that isha, matt and my other two roommates can help start to fill that hole in my life

because, God, so far they have so much potential for it in my eyes

(so far)

thanks for listening, void.

actually feeling quite a bit better. the misery is still lingering, i wonder if i should cry more. But, i can breathe easier and my eyes dont feel dead. I just am tired and am prepared to enjoy things again.

proabbly will watch claire from BA make jelly beans.

or the Noel Miller guy isha told me about.

I dont know if it’s appropriate if i downloaded matt’s contact into my phone from when isha put us both in a groupchat together and i hope its not weird and i hope maybe he did the same, but by God i dont think i’ll be texting him first.

i like in person better.

with anyone.

always have

i have so much more on my mind

#me

[ts3storylines]

TS3 Freedom’s call Challenge

Here again with new Challenge!

You know I love dystopia-apocalypse-destrucionstyle challanges, so here I am with new one.

I came across few good ones, and I’ve decided to go for this one called FREEDOM’S CALL. I won’t drag much about the rules and stuff, because you know - here it is: RULES. It’s made by glorious MistyDW! I love her story imagination! The backstory is my life.

I have played apocalypse challenge (here) by Phaenoh few times and i wanted something different. When I found Freedom’s call, I literally danced.

And this is the place. I didn’t want to go for the Future world of Oasis Landing becouse you know, I’m getting bored of it. So instead I scrolled the internet for dystopian worlds. Unfortunatelly there aren’t many. But I’ve managed to find one that is perfect and I’ve not played here before (so huraay!)

The world of Cronor by CroNor

So yeah

This gameplay will be different for me in few ways. I will play a story of more then one char/family.  According to the rules, player shoud pick the kind of sims he/she plays. I’ve decided to go for my already made chars. But before I introduce the first group of them, here are changes in the plot given by MistyDW.

SETTING: Many years ago, the government began to gradually infringe upon the rights of the populace in the name of “fighting terrorism”. It seemed harmless at first, but as time passed more and more rights were stolen. Approximately ten years ago, the New World Order came into being, a conglomerate of international governments coming together as one universal body in the name of peace. Those governments who would not submit were branded as terrorists and their lands seized and placed under the thumb of the NWO. The newly united government was the final nail to be driven into the coffin of freedom when SINs (otherwise known as Sim Identification Chips) were implemented. Each citizen was implanted with a chip containing a unique identification number. Without one, you couldn’t buy anything, get a loan, have a job, the list goes on. Refusing to accept a SIN made you a criminal and justice was swift and merciless. The face of the NWO is its founding President, Aiden Drake. Many point the finger of blame at President Drake calling him the mastermind of modern slavery. Many more believe him to be the foretold antichrist…of course those who dare to make such accusations publicly are rarely seen again to repeat them. These are indeed dark times and darker are yet to come. Now, in the year 2042, the common man or woman makes few choices about his or her life. Big government decided long ago that citizens were not wise enough to lead their own lives without intervention. You’re told what job you will have, who you will marry, what movies you can watch, what items are acceptable and what is black-listed, and much more.

Furthermore the people who obliged themselves to NWO’s life rules don’t know the whole truth. While their lives are publicly controlled, somewhere else the whole species are being murdered. Once Drake’s people had started to implant SINs they found out there are creatures they didn’t even believe exist. These supernatural creatures pictured a whole new threat for goverment. They have decided to build special camps for them, where they will be studied and experimented on. Experiments confirmed Drake’s predictions - a big thread comes with big powers. A big fraction of supernaturals haven’t survived, only few stayed alive. If it weren’t for their powers, which the NWO wanted to control and use, they’d be already dead.

The supernaturals thought that the Cronor Project was their peace station - they would be away from the people who wanted to murder them - for the exchange of accepting NWO’s rules.

GENERATION 1

Characters

Genevieve Desttra

Spieces: Werewolf

Fetish: Anger issues

Given Career: Firefighter

Genevieve and her mother were the ones of the first inhabitants of Cronor. Her father was murdered by silver bullet in head in prison camp in Alaska. Since the first day she had come, she hadn’t really believed Drake and the NWO’s shitty promises. With her anger issues, she had been more then 5 times arrested for minor offences. She doesn’t have many friends, but even the ones that don’t like her believe in her.

She is the one behind organizing rebel meetings and protests. Almost everyone reads her anti-NWO blog. She stands for people’s rights and fights for freedom.

Cain Rodgers

Species: Gin

Fetish: Prescription drugs

Given Career: Detective (Police office)

Cain is an outlaw. She was never put in camp. As the last one of her species she decided to stay free no matter what it cost. Hiding in deep forrests and forgotten caves, meeting only with other outlaw supernaturals and searching for other still living Gins. Thanks to her powers she does not need food or sleep and can read minds and make people think what she wants, and therefore was searched for everywhere - the most powerful kind of supernatural, Drake’s dream.

The challenge starts on the day Cain comes to the Island of Cronor. She is heavily drugged and medically monitored. She suffers deep paranoia and mood swings and thus is not posible to control.

That’s all for now but don’t forget to check for actual storyline. I’d be glad to hear from you guys. Tell me what you think and ask me questions if you don’t understand anything. My heart is yours, hope you like characters.

Write to me if you’d like to propose some story twist or new character, I’m open for your ideas.

See ya guys.

#the sims 3 #sims 3 #sims 3 challenge #sims 3 story #TS3 Freedom’s call Challenge

[katatty]

Characters

Part 5 of my Custom Neighbourhood Guide

While working on your neighbourhood you most likely already have an idea of the families and sims that will be living there, and how they relate to each other. Now’s the time to flesh those characters out! This section of the guide will cover creating sims, characterisation, relationships, and the question of whether to include townies and/or NPCs. 

(As always do take everything I say in this guide with a grain of salt – every creator is different and my own preferences & opinions might not be your own. But hopefully there’ll be something useful in here for everyone.)

Making Sims

You can create you sims in either Bodyshop or Create a Sim. There are advantages to both! Many people find Bodyshop easier to use and it has slightly more tools available, plus it will allow you to save copies of your sims easily. CAS sims won’t be able to be saved without first extracting their appearance in SimPE – however it will allow you to do genetic mixing more easily, and with debugging mode on will enable more of the catalog, such as career outfits and alien skins. Whichever one you use is really just down to personal preference.

When creating sims to populate a neighbourhood, it’s generally good to have plenty of genetic diversity. You might choose otherwise, for example if you are closely basing your neighbourhood on a real-world location with a less diverse population, but a good rule of thumb is to try to include at least one sim with each of the available hair colours, eye colours, skin colours, etc.

Different players will have different tastes when it comes to sim faces. I have bad facial recognition and like extreme, cartoony features. Other players might prefer prettier sims! Again, this is something that’s entirely up to you. Almost all players, however, like to see sims with unique and recognisable faces, so try and avoid simply using templates when creating sims. Pick at least one “unusual” feature, perhaps a large nose, beady eyes, a slightly upturned mouth - anything to make them stand out! Another possible idea is to combine existing templates for more interesting results.

It’s also worth looking at the some Custom Sliders! Sims made using these will still work in a cc-free game, and they open up a lot of new options, like asymmetrical features, buck teeth and elfier ears. Honestly, I am not the greatest at face sculpting, so I’ll link to a few resources and tutorials on it by other people:

Sims 2 Sliders - index of all sliders

Pooklet’s Method - a “randomisation” method for making interesting faces

The final detail for you sim will be their hair & outfit! Resist the temptation to pick the cutest items in the catalog – think about the personality, occupation and interests of the sim you are making and try and give them an appearance that suggests that. Desiderata Valley is actually a great example of this being done well – most of the inhabitants dress in a way that reflect their chosen hobbies. Remember that many players LOVE giving everyone makeovers so don’t get too attached to their appearance! This is another reason to place more importance on getting across their characterisation rather than focusing on making everyone look cute.

Characterisation 

To me this is one of the most important aspects of a sim! Aside from their physical appearance, there are so many things that can help flesh out and define a sim:

Bio – This is one of the least subtle as it is literally what you tell the players about your sim, so make it count! I like my bios to be short and snappy, and try to include fun facts, personality traits, or info about the character’s values and motivations.

Memories – I’ll go into more detail about editing memories in the next part, but memories are one of the easiest ways to show a character’s history. Who taught them their toddler skills, if anyone? When did they have their first kiss? Did they ever run away from home? Take a look at the full List of Memories for more ideas!

Storytelling images – Another good way to show a family history!

Aspiration – This is one of the things that most defines a sim. They might be a very typical sim for their aspiration, like the Curious brothers, who are very much classic knowledge sims! Aspiration doesn’t have to define them, however, and there’s no reason they have to follow the classic stereotypes. Maybe they’re a family sim in love with two people, like Widespot’s Mary Hart? Maybe a shy, grouchy romance sim like Nina Caliente? Take a look at Rockethorse’s Alternate Reads of Aspirations and Dinuriel’s Psychology Version of Aspirations for some “outside the box” ideas.

Personality Points – Bear in mind that more extreme personalities will result in more interesting behaviour from a sim! In my view it’s worth giving each sim at least one extreme personality trait (such as being a mega-slob or a outgoing chatterbox) to help define them.

Zodiac – This will effect chemistry, which is the only real gameplay effect, but players into astrology might infer some character traits from this!

Interests – This mainly effects the conversations sims will have, but again will give players ideas about their personality. A refined sim might have a lot of interest in culture. A high interest in crime could point towards a potential criminal career, or maybe in law enforcement. Eco warriors might have a high interest in environment, politics and animals.

Hobby – Similar to interests, this can flesh out what a sim is all about, and in some cases can even give them new traits and abilities. I particularly enjoy giving sims points in the film & lit hobby so that they’ll walk around with a book in their hand.

Skills – It makes sense for a sim to have a few skills, especially if they are an adult or elder! As a general rule I give sims skills corresponding with the point they are at in their career.

Many of these things, like interests, skills and hobbies, will be assigned to a sim when they are created, but these can easily be changed with testing cheats, SimPE, the Simblender, or the Batbox if you have a strong preference for what they’re into! There are other things you could consider too, like turn ons, sexual orientation, vacation memories, skill badges, etc.  

This is my own preference, but when defining a sim’s personality I think it’s importance to give them both some positive and negative traits, and keep the details ambiguous enough that there is plenty of room for player interpretation. Donna Fusilli, for example, can be interpreted as a victim, villain, or something in between. She’s a mob boss’s wife, they have a low relationship and it’s implied she married for money, but she also does love him, and has turned down the opportunity to have an affair according to her memories. She has a good relationship with her kids but is thoroughly detested by her mother-in-law, and the reason for this is up to the imagination of the player.

Then again, perhaps you prefer more clear-cut good guys and bad guys? That can work, too! Bear in mind though, that the player might not agree with the roles you have cast them in. Don Lothario and the Caliente sisters seem to me as though they were intended to be villains by Maxis, but many players like to give them more sympathetic backstories and motivations. Remember that the characters you are creating should be giving the players prompts and ideas rather than dictating any one “correct” interpretation.

Relationships 

Another important part of a sim is the relationships they have with other characters in the neighbourhood! How big is their family? Does it only consist of their household, or do they have other relatives living in the neighbourhood? Do they get on well with their family, and who are they closest to? Who are their closest friends? Are their friends in the same age group, or do they get on better with a different age group? How long have they been friends? Are they married, single, do they have a love interest? Multiple love interests? What about enemies, or rivals? Is there anyone in town that they dislike, or who dislikes them?

One-sided rivalries or crushes can be particularly interesting! When I made Europa, for example, I made all of the elder females dislike Viola Rochetti – implying (along with her biography) that she was the subject of a lot of gossip.

For most neighbourhoods the interwoven network of relationships will comprise a lot of the plot. Pleasantview has its tangled love web, Veronaville has its bitter rivalries, Strangetown has its complex family trees… the only limit is your imagination. When creating a sim I like to work out what their connections are to the rest of the town very early on – there shouldn’t be any sims included with no relevance to the neighbourhood plot and no links to the other residents. (Unless perhaps they’re a hermit or recluse? In which case, carry on.)

You might find it helpful to scrawl out some family trees or relationship maps on paper, especially if the set-up you are envisioning is complicated!

Townies and NPCs

When setting up your neighbourhood you will have taken steps to avoid generating unnecessary townies and NPCs. However, perhaps you want a few townies around so that the dating options in the neighbourhood are more varied? There might be some NPCs you can’t avoid generating, and maybe you want to customise them to fit in better with your neighbourhood?  Perhaps you’d like a few non-playables to play a role in the plot, like Kaylynn Langerak? Most sharable neighbourhoods contain a few townies and NPCs, and even Meetme’s uberhood templates contain a few “plot relevant” townies, like Crystal Vu.

You may even want to include a complete townie and NPC pool. There are pros and cons to doing this; some players prefer fewer character files and like being able to choose whether to add townies themselves, whilst others might appreciate having less work to do, and being able to play a more customised neighbourhood which feels fully populated. Quadington University and Tumbleton are a few examples of this! Creating multiple versions of your neighbourhood with and without townies and NPCs is also an option.

Something I haven’t seen done but am interested in trying myself in a future neighbourhood is townie-owned community lots! According to some testing by @dramallamadingdang, it’s possible to have a townie purchase a community lot and run it as an owned business. This could open up some interesting possibilities, like shops that can sell just about anything, restaurants with more selective menus, staff that you can pick out and customise yourself very easily... could be fun to experiment with!

There are quite a few ways to go about making and customising townies and NPCs, and the method you use will depend on your game configuaration and exactly what you want to do with them. Personally I create townies in CAS and townify them with the Simblender. I let NPCs generate through normal gameplay then change their appearance using SimPE. I’ll link a few tutorials/resources below:

Alternate Sim Surgery Plugin 

How to Use Sim Surgery with SimPE

Modifying a Sim's genes

Extracting & Packaging sims

Clean custom neighbourhoods + townie creation

NPC and Townie Maker

Make your own hobby sims

Make Your Own Default Townies, Downtownies, Dormies, and Adoptable Pets!

#ts2 tutorial #ts2 resource #custom neighbourhood guide

[dndcharacterideas]

@treegona

You know what, why not?

I assume this is relating to a post about brass dragons I reblogged. I mentioned I wanted to share a story from an old campaign but I was busy at the time and didn’t want to hijack the post. 

Fair warning, this post is long and rambly.

The campaign was basically a wild west sort of setting where magic had been outlawed and magical races were slowly being eradicated as humans took more and more their native land. Yes, the parallels with real life events was intentional. The less human you looked, the more likely you were discriminated against. Difficult bitch that I am, I decided to be a tiefling. Our party consisted of a half-elf alchemist, human bard, human gunslinger, elf druid (along with his pack of animal companion coyotes by the end of the game), and my tiefling cleric trying her fucking damndest to hide her demon bits in a nun’s outfit.

We were level 2 when word around town started to spread that there was something big out in the desert, people had gone out to hunt it only to never return. Collectively we decided to say “fuck that” and didn’t pay it any mind again until we were level 5. Our DM really wanted us to check it out, because he had kept the listing for it on the guild’s job board from pretty much day one and eventually made the town form a goddamn mob because too many guild members had gone missing trying to take the job. We got the message and insisted that, no, the various men who kept the town running probably shouldn’t lead a charge out into the desert, where they’d likely die of exposure. We “volunteered” to go see what the commotion was all about, in exchange for double the coin the listing was originally worth, of course.

After riding for a week, tired of sand and already sick of this mission, we found a town that shouldn’t exist, every building looking brand new. The town was full of people of all races, magical or otherwise, all of whom looked very tired but were friendly enough. After doing some digging, were realized that everyone in the town were the people who had left to find the monster that should have been roughly in this spot. Asking around, all the town’s folk insisted that there was no monster, they had all just found this spot and decided it was a perfect place to settle down. They also stressed that we were welcome to stay as long as we wanted, like by everyone who spoke to us. Our alchemist immediately insisted we got the fuck out of there before we were brainwashed by whatever had all of these people.

Our gunslinger being the honorable idiot he was, would not leave until the job was done. So we hit the tavern, where most of the people were gathering. Inside we found a jovial, incredibly handsome man (according to our DM), playing the piano with far too much energy compared to the rest of the town’s people. Upon seeing us, he stopped playing, stood up in a hurry, and rushed us, not to attack us but to shake our hands. He introduced himself as the mayor of the town and wanted to sit and talk with all of us over drinks, his treat. The bard was a raging alcoholic and said yes for all of us.

For the next several hours he talked to all of us about anything and everything. None of us could get a read on him and he kept getting great charisma rolls against us, which made us want to stick around. The gunslinger passed our at some point and I used that as an excuse to get us out of the conversation. The mayor bought us rooms at the tavern and insisted we stay, as long as we like. We did not want to stay but were too drunk and tired to go anywhere.

That was the end of the session and our DM gave us our next level and some down time, telling us we could basically do anything that didn’t require leaving the town. The next time we came back to the game, a house had been built for us and we were pretty much just common citizens in the town now. The bard put on a show with the mayor every night, the druid helped with the life stock the town was keeping, the alchemist became the town’s apothecary and doctor, the gunslinger helped fight off hostel monsters and animals, and my cleric found out that the town had a chapel but no one was running it, so of course she found her purpose.

We all decided we didn’t want to spend the rest of the game playing a weird D&D version of Sims, so we started pressing the town’s people for information about why they wouldn’t leave and what was up with the mayor. Eventually we forced it out of the first person to be stuck there that he had originally found the mayor months ago, alone in the tavern (which had been the only structure at the time) and that he was nice enough but he was also very lonely and clearly didn’t want to be alone. He decided to stay for a while, just to make him feel better and eventually started running the tavern. More and more people began to show up and they would stay too, because the mayor was so nice and generous and just a little bit lonely. After a while people started feeling obligated to stay to the point that any time someone would try to leave, resulting in the mayor becoming distressed, the people around town would capture them before they could go and throw them in the town’s jail until they changed their mind. This information was immediately followed by half the town overpowering us, taking out gear and forcing us into jail cells.

My cleric was so angry about everything going on that she went into a fit of rage (a character trait from her backstory) which did very little good because they weren’t in combat but it did manage to draw the mayor into the jail. He asked what was going on and I yelled at him that his damn town is insane and that they won’t let anyone leave because they’re worried about making him sad. Our bard accused him of charming the people, because it’s the only way that so many people, many of whom were once adventurer, would become this way.

Our DM then gave us all a chance to make an arcane check to figure out what he was. Somehow I got a nat 20 when no one else got anything and pretty much screamed “how the fuck are you dragon?” We talked more with him and he admitted, yes, he was a brass dragon but he didn’t mean to keep anyone here. He was just lonely, there were so few dragons left in the world, his mate was slain long ago, and going into human towns and cities was dangerous and could get him IDed as a dragon and hunted for the rest of his life.

We convinced him to let us out of our cells and tell his people the truth. They all clearly loved him and would surely stand by him if he was honest. Sure enough this big reveal went over well and he managed to convince his people to go back to their families and friends, that he would still be there should ever they want to return. The town’s boarders were effectively opened and the druid suggested that they could advertise the town as an actual town, which would bring more people traveling through for the mayor to socialize with and could open trade with other towns.

The town ended up being our main hub after a while and over time we would find good natured monsters and magic folk and would bring them there, knowing the mayor would welcome and protect them. We pretty much started taking jobs just to try to reason with the monsters and convince them to come with us to some place they would be safe.

So please imagine, when word finally did get out that the mayor was actually a dragon, the army of adventurers and monsters, who all had grown to love him, ready to fight off any bounty hunters that came looking for him.

#D&D #Dungeons and Dragons #DnD #roleplay #Brass Dragon #long post

[tumblunni]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa tfw u have another game idea AGAIN i think my brain hollowed itself out for more idea space at the expense of everything else like ability to actually create my ideas or ability to remember to eat :P

this kinda isnt a NEW idea, its just something floating around in my brain that ive now got more of a concrete idea for, i guess? playing Oxygen Not Included reminded me of it and made me feel maybe people would actually be interested in it, yknow? and its probably not something i could ACTUALLY make, cos it’d require like.. a lot of my own programming. not really easy to just make in a helpful gamemaker enginey thing like rpgmaker. tho it is an rpg... kinda...?? ehhhh im not feeling very good today, sorry my writing is... bad

ANYWAY WHAT WAS I SAYING

Well the idea I has was for kind of a roguelike tower climbing rpg, like Azure Dreams or Persona 3 The premise would be that there’s a mysterious underground civilization, trapped for generations with no memory of the surface world. Between them and sunlight is this potentially-infinate magical labyrinth that nobody has managed to make it through. (At least as far as anyone knows. Everyone wants to believe that friends who dissappeared in the labyrinth actually made it to the other side, rather than.. well.. the other side.) So the game would be about tackling this labyrinth in multiple short sessions. My favourite genre: roguelikes that actually have some form of progression in them! Even though you’re dying a lot, you retain a small amount of what you gathered each time in the form of townbuilding progressyness and ~friendship routes~ and ~ETCETERA~!

But then after playing Oxygen Not Included I kinda have a burning desire to see a game that has the good bits of that and not the... Frustration. To say its a roguelike without progression is understating it, gahhhhhhhhhh! Roguelike sim game of 8 hour game sessions that get destroyed cos of one stupid mistake and you have to be all perfect and lucky and YOURE ALWAYS STARVING and gahhhhhhhhh THIS IS MEANT TO BE MY GAME IDEA NOT VENTING ABOUT THAT GAME Anyway I was thinking how it’d be really cool if a game like that actually DID have a sense of progression. And an actual end goal. Like.. if you were actually digging towards the surface! With periodic savepoints and characters that dont die so easily and have more personality to them and you get all attatched! I already got all attatched to my dumb sim characters and then just got really upset how they kept dying and the game seemed to not give a shit :P

But yeah its not like I can just completely copy that game, lol. Even if I wanted to, I dunno how to program a simulation type engine thing from scratch! So i was thinking like.. a regular roguelike randomized dungeon generator actually IS possible in Rpgmaker, so I dunno.. I could find a way to make that work with some kind of ‘you are actually creating the dungeon’ type thing. i really like the idea of being able to dig your own path through the thing and have it permenantly etched there forever. I was thinking it could be an awesome idea if in the postgame you could come back to the now-empty labyrinth after everyone’s escaped to the surface, and be able to walk through it and have a big ol nostalgia trip. One that’d be unique to every player! And like.. maybe even be able to see changes, like it being reclaimed by nature and flowers? And you could upload a dungeon seed for your own personal dungeon, so that other players could play it, and that could be the postgame replay value~!

game name ideas i guess Catacomb Crawl Boundless Down

and I was thinking the protagonists could be two kids and be a grumpy older sibling who’s a jerk to their well-meaning-but-immature lil sib, but loves them deep down, and has to learn a lesson about becoming a more responsible sib, and etc like.. yeah.. basically inspired by over the garden wall i didnt really like that show, and i felt bad about it cos everyone was telling me it was a masterpiece. alas! :P aaanyhoo they’re not very developed yet, except older sib being a bit of a comical greedy coward type of person and lil sib actually being quite wise but always underestimated. Like, they have more common sense than their big sib even though they are a lil naive sometimes cos theyre so optimistic. Both sibs get each other into trouble pretty often, but they balance out perfectly to save each other each time! And lil sib is kind of a pushover who just obeys big sib unquestionably and can never stick up for themself when big sib is being all ‘ugh ur so immature im totally better'. They’re just like... the sort of person who’s so scared of their friends leaving them that they let anyone hurt them as much as they want as long as they stay. Very relateable to Bunni! Also they sorta try and pretend to be the dumb sidekick and class clown. Cos again theyre worried if they disagree or try and stand out too much then their sibling will hate them. Quite often their ‘dumb mistakes’ are actually the older sib’s fault, and they’re stuck like ‘AAAA I CANT TELL THEM TO STOP COS ITD BE OUT OF CHARACTER. I NEED TO BE THE CUTE BABY.’ And its all super complicated cos older sib acts like they resent them for never growing up too, its like.. cant ever win. This whole thing has kinda turned them into an anxious mess deep down. part of big sib’s whole redemption arc would involve them having to realise that their actions arent harmless, and treating such a young child this way actually has a permenant effect. And like... big sib doesnt know how to take care of little sib on their own because they’re immature themself! Being able to admit that instead of trying so hard to be all fake ultra mature and infallible, thats another big character arc. As well as aknowledging that lil sib is indeed growing up and becoming someone intelligent and independant. And realizing that the reason they keep putting them down is so they can try and deny that, and the reason they’re denying it because theyre JEALOUS! Jealous that little sib might have their emotions more alltogether than them, scared that their emotionless facade of perfect big sibness will be broken, and scared that without that they’ll have nothing left. Need to become more comfortable with trusting and relying on your lil sib, need to actually talk to them about this stuff, yo! Ideally I’m gonna try and write it in a way that doesnt make big sib seem like a completely hateable villain. Their backstory is gonna involve being from not exactly the nicest family, and both struggling to escape what they’ve been shaped into. And trying to learn how to take care of each other as a real family, when they have no real frame of reference for what real love looks like. And also climbing a bigass tower to save humanity from being entombed underground, but that’s comparatively easy, lol! But yeah the idea is that big sib kinda absorbed more of their bad parents’s ideals, and like... they love their sibling so utterly and deeply because they just did not know what family love felt like until they came along. And it really REALLY hurts them whenever they realise they’ve been subconciously being neglectful or hateful towards the lil fella, but theyre so distracted by like.. the greed of being free now. And doing anything and everything, drunk on that freedom! And not really being capable yet of caring about other people when they havent even learned how to care about themself. They keep being all decadent and delinquent and it seems like theyre egotistical but still deep down they HATE themself and this is all just like a ‘fake it til you make it’. And its so easy to get caught up and go too far to try and put on this facade, and they feel they cant really vent their real feelings to anyone. Cos they’re super cynical dont trust anyone except sibling loyalty like. Only way to survive! And like... cant talk about it with the sib either, because little kid wouldnt understand, and if they do then that means theyre not little anymore. They dont wanna ruin lil sib’s childish innocence cos like.. that innocence is their only reason to live. Innocent stupid bastion of family love, came into their life and gave them the courage to deal with those shitty parents gahhh! And part of them ‘knows’ that the only way to love anyone is to be deluded and innocent. You have to be too stupid to realise that the world is awful and everyone sucks and loving people just gets you hurt! And big sib is toooootally smart cos they know that life is meaningless. But they’re entertained by seeing a stupid person stupidly believe in optimism. Totally. Thats the only reason they wanna protect that innocence. Totally. sooooo basically imagine a very mentally ill mess of a preteen that’s curled up in the corner crying perpetually within their own mind, while on the outside they’re all HA HA I’M AMAZING, BITCHES And also imagine that bunni is able to write good enough to explain these damn characters aaaa im very tired im sorry

anyway summary: protagonist is a jerk, Character Development: The Game, you will cry for little sib whom is basically like penny from inspector gadget also I was thinking maybe this could be the one and only time I do the Amnesiac Protagonist Cliche Setup. eeeexcept not really?? well i mean I think it’d work cool if these characters were new to this setting, but I wouldnt actually do 100% amnesia thing I was thinking more like... they are the only two people who came from the outside world. And they just can’t remember how they got here, they wake up trapped in this place and everyone thinks theyre crazy for talking about being from somewhere aboveground. So you have an even more desperate motivation to escape compared to everyone else! I mean of course everyone wants to return to the surface, but its been so long that no-one remembers what it’s like, and so many attempts have failed that they’ve all given up. So you can act like a beacon of hope and lead the people even though you’re just a child. Like, this is about a morally bankrupt trash protagonist being dragged kicking and screaming into heroism, lol And of course we can have some good ‘ol mystery amnesia reveal type plot thingies! But without having to have a protagonist who’s COMPLETELY clueless, and a game beginning with no direction whatsoever. Its more like a ‘trapped in another world’ story except its the same world just a few thousand miles underground, lol. And revealing how exactly they got there and what they’ve forgotten is gonna be a plot, yes, but also there’s the bigger mystery of what on earth this doom labyrinth is and what caused these poor people to be trapped in it! And what they’ll even find when they finally reach the surface again, will it really be the sort of paradise they’re all hoping for? also many tears for sad dysfunctional tiny family of awkward childrens, ye also (hopefully) fun dungeon gameplays

so yeah bunni is tired and delirious and rambling Thoughts at you dunno if anyone was interested in any of this, but there you go!

#labyrinth sibs game