#pleasanttown

[strangextown]

Uberhood rotation - Lothario update (s0e1)

Hi, cuties!  Since I take a gazillion screenshots per session, I figured I might as well post some of them here. I’m already 8 rounds into my Uberhood rotation so before I start posting (fairly) regularly, I’d love to make an update post for each(ish) family!

 The Lothario family obviously comes first. :P

While being a grade-A slut with commitment issues for most of his early 20s, Don was profoundly drawn back to Nina Caliente; again and again. The deal was sealed when she appeared at his doorstep one morning, announcing her unexpected pregnancy.  Don could’ve dashed, sure, but instead, he took it as a sign from the universe to finally take responsibility - possibly for the first time ever. 

Don and Nina moved in together shortly after. Their first place was a cozy apartment downtown where they enjoyed the early family years. Although they didn’t let go of their player tendencies at first, they always lived a comfortable, harmonious life. With Devon growing up and another baby on the way, the family moved into a house nearby. 

Don couldn’t believe his eyes when his child (allegedly* his) turned out to be blonde and ...a little green. That’s when Nina dropped the “Oh yeah, my grandfather was an alien!” bomb on him. 

Devon is a sweet 16-year-old girl who spends her days hanging out with friends, watching anime, and drawing. Her best friend is her cousin Jasmine, daughter of Dina Caliente. Despite being shy and not too eager to jump into relationships, teenage boys from all over the town are obsessed with her. It’s the inborn Lothario rizz, I’m telling y’all. 

The second Lothario child is Xavier. He shares the green hue of his skin with Devon; with the difference of a tan vitiligo spot covering his right eye, eyebrow and cheek. 

The Lothario family is incredibly close with the Landgraab family - Malcolm, Dina (Nina’s sister) and Jasmine. 

Here’s elderly Don on his way to rizz up elderly Nina. They’re the fucking CUTEST. 

Thanks for reading!  The Goth family will be next! 

#lothario #the lothario family #don lothario #the sims 2 #the sims story #sims screenshots #the sims 2 screenshots #uberhood #uberhood rotation #ts2 rotational #rotational play #nina caliente #the calientes #the sims 2 rotation #pleasantview #strangetown #pleasanttown #strangeview #ts2 #ts2 premades #premade sims #premades #uberhood rotation screenshots

[budgieflitter]

Not to be autistic but I have created a concept for Pleasanttown

lets gooo!!!! i would love to read more :o

[1000tragicclowns]

SETTING UP MY PLEASANTTOWN AND UHH ALRIGHT

#ts2 #within seconds of setting their sexualities LMAO

[elleshie-plays]

Oh no, I opened CAW again!

I still have enough Nur gameplay posts in my queue to last until the 20th, but I wanted to talk about the project that I just started and which will quite probably take over my tumblr after the Nur posts are over. It’s my Christmas gift for myself (or birthday gift, depending on how long it takes me, lol). It’s a combination of Pleasantview and Strangetown for The Sims 3 built on the map of Lucky Palms.

My thought process and a few very early CAW pictures under the cut:

So, grandelama’s amazing Simsville got me in a nostalgic mood, but when it comes down to it the only townies I ever cared about were those of The Sims 2, specially those of Pleasantview and Strangetown. I know Pleasant Sims did a Sims 3 version of Pleasantview and aaronrogers8i3 did Strangetown, but I couldn’t decide which one I wanted to play.

What I really wanted was a world that included both neighborhoods, so my first idea was taking the houses and households from Pleasant Sims and aaronrogers8i3′s worlds and plop them down in one place, but I couldn’t find any worlds that had both a desert area for Strangetown and a grassy side for Pleasantview.

Then I thought of Lucky Palms, since I remembered that, despite being a desert world, it had grassy areas. Unfortunately the grassy areas were a bit too small to fit the whole Pleasantview in it.

Then I remembered Jackscreations’ A Greener Lucky Palms, but that is way too green.

In the end I decided to grab Lucky Palms’ CAW files from Cawster and do it myself. And, while I’m at it, I might as well rebuild the lots with the edits I prefer (like trying to make the upper floor of the Pleasant house suck less) and remake the sims too so I can, for example, make sure that the Strangetown aliens are actual Sims 3 aliens (even if they look different).

So far I have started changing the vegetation and other deco items to avoid store content. I’m limiting myself to items from the base game, World Adventures, and Into the Future (although the ItF stuff is not that necessary). I also removed the “houseboat” area, deleted all lots except for the bistro, and changed the layout and style of the road in the desert area that’s going to become the Strangetown side of the map.

I’m not 100% sure on the pampas grass and the plum trees, so I might still change them. Maybe Buckhorn and/or brambles instead of the pampas grass? But I don’t have any good desert tree, unless I go for palm trees. I tried using this tree from ItF but I didn’t quite like it.

After I’m done with the decor I’ll place the empty lots for Strangetown and edit the terrain paint in that area, and then I need to figure out the Pleasantview layout while leaving space for the many community lots I need to play The Sims 3. Then I’ll have to paint the terrain in that side of the map too, actually build the lots, and finally create all the sims and edit their relations, etc. Since Sims 2 townies have very detailed family trees, I want to include at least one generation of dead ancestors and add them to the graveyard.

#the sims 3 #ts3 #create a world #ts3 caw #should I call this Pleasanttown or Strangeview? #Strangeview #that's the name

[strangextown]

Uberhood rotation - Goth update (s0e2)

It's the Goth family's turn!

I'll go over the most important events that took place after I began my Uberhood rotation. And it's gonna be a doozy.

If you're not a fan of all the jabbering, at least take a peek at the screenshots, they're cute and/or hilarious. I PROMISE!

Mortimer Goth married Dina Caliente shortly after Bella's disappearance - within a year if we want to be specific. Regardless of what the back-fence talk was, Mortimer truly loved her and she loved him. The thing most of the blabbermouths missed was how Mortimer and Bella's marriage lost its spark years before the incident even took place. The high school sweethearts simply drifted apart, ending up unfulfilled and bored in the long run, and the separation process was in motion. It's not surprising that Mortimer Goth became the main suspect in the beginning stages of police investigations - the charges were dropped in short order though. While he was officially clear of blame, some residents of Pleasantview held onto their own hunches. His son Alexander was one of them.

Deep inside, Alexander knew it was a setup. Misconduct of SOME kind must have taken place. It HAD to. The whole thing just didn't add up - the timing, the circumstances, the so-called "proof" of everyone's innocence, the "investigation", and most of all, the silence. The God-forsaken, gut-wrenching, agonizing, harrowing silence that swallowed the town whole. One day, Bella was there and she was gone the other. That's how it all went down, simple as that. It's like everyone around him was playing pretend that she was never there to begin with, making him feel utterly alone and at the edge of insanity.

And so he began his own investigation, confidently believing that his father was to blame.

Although he knew Lilith by sight, mainly because his sister Cassandra babysat the Pleasant twins years ago, he finally got to know her at college. After some long night walks, diner dates, and a few kisses shared over the grave of her late father, the deal was sealed. He loved her immensely. Lilith became the light in his sea of darkness, the serene voice in the torturous, mute void.

Mortimer died of old age around that time.

After they both successfully got their degrees, they moved back into the Goth mansion together. To say Lilith was ecstatic would be an understatement; oh the delightful life she was almost guaranteed... She could finally be at peace. Safe.

With two children around and one on the way, Lilith was preoccupied with the homely duties of your average parent. Those same duties caused Alexander great agony; he's gone completely off-grid. He felt immense guilt for getting carried away from what mattered the most; the truth. Enlightenment.

His frustration caused him to behave rather recklessly and in a desperate attempt to feel closer to that alluring enlightenment, he ended up luring a grand vampire into the mansion and locking her up in the attic, right where his father's experiments took place. While the first days were rough, soon it almost felt like she wasn't interested in getting away anymore. With time passing they bonded, one thing soon led to another and...

He became a creature of the night.

As pale as paper and as thin as bone, eyes red like fire glimmering with lust. At moments entirely weak, sporadically oozing power.

(He felt a wee bit silly in the last shot.)

And you know what's hilarious about all of this? His family was clueless. Not forever, but for an embarrassingly long while. Taking care of three toddlers while your husband locks himself up in the attic 24/7 causes you to become exhausted and absentminded at times? No way! What?!

Anyway, the grand vampire dashed after successfully turning Alexander. His family understood that the state he found himself in wasn't a simple case of flu when they saw his skin burn up at the slightest touch of sunlight. That and his teeth. And eyes. And the constant "Bleeh!"ing. Oh and the bat form. That felt a little out of place.

Lilith wanted to support her sweetheart in his dreams but it was getting harder and more taxing with time. She never saw him anymore. It felt like he never showed interest in her or their children anymore. The days were the worst; that's when the Goth mansion fell completely silent, with Alexander deep in slumber and the children at school.

She isn't proud of it. Who in their right mind would be? She's betraying Alexander, the children... Herself. But is it really that simple?

She believes it's the crippling exhaustion and loneliness that led her into Dustin's arms. With him, she has something special; history. Intertwined, complicated history that goes back years and years. The sense of familiarity brings her sheer comfort in these trying times. Oh, what they've been through...

Don't get her wrong though; she didn't act on it. Physically speaking, at the very least.

Stay tuned to find out more about this drama in the Pleasant family and the Broke family update. :P

Lilith, Alexander being spooky in a tank top and their first son Edgar just chilling.

Edgar trying to bond with a school friend while his father's being his good ol' stinky vampire self.

That's it for now! If you made it this far, thank you so MUCH for basically reading my messy game notes.

Writing all of this out is really helping me remember all the plot points happening in my game and sharing the screenshots just brings me so much joy. Man, this is fun.

#the sims 2 #strangetown #ts2 #the sims #sims #alexander goth #lilith pleasant #lilith goth #the goth family #the goth household #the goths #premades #ts2 premades #the sims 2 gameplay #the sims 2 rotation #rotational play #uberhood rotation #uberhood #pleasanttown #strangeview #mortimer goth #dina caliente #dustin broke #pleasantview #simblr #sims screenshots #sims story

[elleshie-plays]

Testing the Strangetown side of Strangeview. And yes, I decided to name this world Strangeview; mostly because I don’t like the double t in Pleasanttown and I couldn’t think of a better name.

#the sims 3 #ts3 #Strangeview