#kulo seeri gameplay

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The trip to the Heart of the Village was pretty uneventful, as I would expect for a Day 1 before the relationships between my sims get going again. However, I did spot Demetrius - Etan’s current heir - turning down a compliment from a god, then getting shocked by his uncle Hudana.

Rivadya, who’s the closest to elderhood here, took the opportunity to lecture Hudana about it. Guess they won’t be flirting much after that?

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While I type up the story posts from the first household of new KS, have this... interesting Story Progression reset moment! Dom doesn’t look too happy about suddenly warping into squiggly lines when all he wanted to do was wave his daughters off on the Anachronism Express.

#sims 2 #ts2 #sims 2 gameplay #ts2 gameplay #kulo seeri #kulo seeri gameplay #nh kulo seeri #household: lorekeeper #sim: dominick irving #glitch

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Anyu sat in the sleeping tent not long after midnight, quietly playing with the toy horse Branch had carved for him. That had been one of his stepfather’s strengths, crafting things; he’d been a carpenter in Port Alma, and brought those skills to Kulo Seeri with him. But he’d never taken on an apprentice. Someone was going to have to learn fast.

His stomach was still growling at him. They’d disposed of the rotten meat, observing all the rituals to avoid angering the turkey’s spirit, and then Nita had gone straight back to bed. By then it was too late to ask anyone else to share some of their food stores.

It was then that Anyu had a thought. He’d seen a couple of birds’ nests that morning, in the trees around the village well. Children weren’t supposed to leave the village alone, but he wasn’t that far from the rites of manhood, and anyway the well was right in the middle of the village... ****** Ky was not impressed. Of all the nights to be on watch, it would be the one his nephew picked to sneak out. Still, he couldn’t be angry at the boy. Word of Branch’s death had already spread around the tribe, and Ky couldn’t help remembering his own wife and stepson, lost in a time rage. Anyu might not be ready to pick up a sword or a spear yet, but his intentions were good.

Sighing and yawning, Ky went to check his own food supplies for anything he could share with his sister’s family.

#sims 2 #ts2 #sims 2 gameplay #ts2 gameplay #kulo seeri #kulo seeri gameplay #nh kulo seeri #kulo seeri rotation 1 #household: nita #sim: anyu zan avira #sim: ky zan avira

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Nita's wants not long after being suddenly widowed: buy a game, be saved from the Grim Reaper and go on a date. I really need to develop some more of the Kulo Seeri mourning customs - this may or may not turn out to be a good idea, Nita...

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Wooo! I’ve finished a lot and its household! I am no longer staring at a blank page for my rebuild of Kulo Seeri, which for me is the worst part of starting a build. I’ve also opted to alternate between KS proper and Credence when building lots; this is the first Credence household, let’s meet them, shall we?

Moli zan-Zade is originally from Kulo Seeri. She studied at one of the Elephant Sea universities as a younger woman, before dropping out to be with a charming older man who bailed on her not long after they went to the fertility shrine together. She has four daughters, triplets from that shrine visit (all of whom were lost in a sudden time rage) and one with current husband Alexander - the youngest lives in Kulo Seeri as an apprentice shaman. She is due to give birth to her fifth and final child any day now.

Alexander Bachelor (better known to most simmers as Alexander Goth, but my sim world is mostly matrilineal) grew up in Ruggbyrne County in the Elephant Sea Alliance. His family offered Moli a place to stay while she was pregnant with the triplets, and he and Moli became firm friends despite an age gap of several starbands. Alex is known in Kulo Seeri for offering Moli’s family the cutest bride price in Nuidya history at the age of ten or eleven bands (see this post).

Persephone is the head of the household. (Don’t listen when Moli says that title belongs to her, she’s obviously lying.) She enjoys lounging in the sun, clawing the bookshelf and giving That Look to her pet humans when they spend too much time in the room they’re preparing for their human kitten.

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The herbalist and her apprentice had barely arrived when Melchol gave birth to two beautiful, healthy daughters. According to Nuidya tradition, they would not be named until they were a full starband old, hopefully preventing demons from sensing the girls’ presence while they were still infants.

(In other words, I hate naming sims I don’t know yet and prefer to have a few toddler traits to work with first. For now, the babies are 1 and 2, so I won’t be tagging them by name until they’re toddlers.)

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It had been only four days since Melchol's passing, and the village rumour mill was working overtime. Everyone had a theory about who the Beguiler’s spy was; admittedly, most of them thought it was Keru zan-Tia, who, within the last few starbands, had suddenly gone from being a relatively responsible man to starting fights with everyone. Yoshan zan-Li had another theory, though - one he hadn’t told anyone.

Yoshan made sure his daughters were completely engrossed in their play before approaching Hudana. Until recently, it was Hudana who’d been starting all the fights - things had changed towards the end of autumn, when he’d got into a brawl with Keru. That incident had seemingly passed the mantle of village troublemaker.

It wasn’t going to be obvious whether Yoshan’s theory was correct. The Beguiler, if the lorebooks were anything to go by, didn’t do obvious.

But maybe it would give him a clue.

#sims 2 #ts2 #sims 2 gameplay #ts2 gameplay #kulo seeri #kulo seeri gameplay #nh kulo seeri #kulo seeri rotation 1 #household: lorekeeper #sim: yoshan zan li #sim: alisa zan li #sim: prali zan li #sim: hudana zan avira

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We’re now moving on to the household of resident lorekeepers Yoshan zan-Li and Dominick Irving! Enjoy this rambly recap post (my game LOVES throwing these two curveballs) complete with a pic from late in Zera’s round of two sims with the Hydrophobic trait about to get ACR-y in the most awkward place for them both...

Yoshan: I will never understand how merfolk manage to live in this stuff.

Right. Recap (of stuff that mostly didn’t get blogged about because I lost my last save) coming up:

Dom and Yoshan have been the most adorkable couple in KS since they met. However, Yoshan’s Nuidya upbringing left him struggling to stick to the stable, monogamous relationship he knows his partner needs. He’s so far had a fling with former head warlock Hyde, kissed some random townie guest at Etan and Melchol’s wedding after having too much to drink, and most recently, met with the town council of the neighbouring mining settlement of Credence, spent too much time in the Wolf’s Tail Tavern, and woke up married to one of the Credence elders.

Returning to KS with the older man, Yoshan hoped to clear up the misunderstanding and reconcile with Dominick, but both of them were in for a surprise: Yoshan came home to find that Dom had been abducted while stargazing and returned as a vampire, while Dom was shocked when Yoshan’s accidental spouse walked in, took one look at Dom and said “...Son?” Yup, Yoshan went and got hitched to none other than hs lover’s long-lost father Alistair. Then Dominick got abducted again and came back as a vampire ghost.

Yoshan then somehow lost his memory of who Dom was, as well as forgetting about their two aetherling daughters, but somehow still remembered marrying Alistair... that was my first sign that I was going to lose the save. Between rebuilds, things seemed to clear up: both hoods’ councils agreed to annul the accidental marriage, Yoshan now remembers his family, Dom is back to his usual not-undead-twice-over self. and Alistair decided to stay in KS and try to make things right with his son and granddaughters.

Fresh start? I hoped so, and so did they... but what does this rotation have in store for this household?

#the sims 2 #ts2 #ts2 gameplay #sims 2 gameplay #kulo seeri #kulo seeri gameplay #nh kulo seeri #kulo seeri rotation 1 #household: lorekeeper #sim: yoshan zan li #sim: dominick irving

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Previously on Kulo Seeri, Melchol gave birth to twin voidlings, revealed that the vengeful Beguiler had a mole in the village and died. His grave will be moved to the burial grounds next rotation - in KS, you don’t anger a spirit by turfing it out of its home straight away!

The rest of the rotation passed uneventfully, but here are some highlights of the last couple of days:

Immediately after Melchol’s death, ACR kicked back in with a first kiss between Zyulo and Wild Kiss. Is Sophos crying for his brother, or is it because his love interest has just got romantic with someone else?

The twins had to be adopted out, since there are only three nursing mothers in KS. Since one is Melchol’s ex and another is a Vedraloga, Lark zan-Ace was the only choice. She came by with her brother Caleb to take the babies back to her tents.

A litter of skuncoons are on the way...

...and Melchol is not taking kindly to the fact that the kitchen has become a mess in his absence.

#sims 2 #ts2 #ts2 gameplay #kulo seeri #kulo seeri gameplay #nh kulo seeri #kulo seeri rotation 1 #household: zera #sim: melchol zan ku #sim: sophos zan ku #sim: kuvamatazyulo zan serena #sim: wild kiss #sim: lark zan ace #sim: caleb zan ace #sim: zera sho ku #pet: skunky #pet: el bandito

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I’ve decided not to rebuild this iteration of Kulo Seeri - I’m just starting over at a point before I played any of my households. However, I am giving my sims one rotation without ROS or blogging - unless something major happens in my game that I can’t not share. And something did.

The older guy in this pic is Abraxius Platinum, NPC head warlock turned senior husband of Headwoman Etan mi-Avira. The younger woman who’s flirting with him is Kuona, Etan’s daughter. No, Kuona and Abraxius are not biologically related. However, there is a law in the tribe, written by Etan, that any spouses of your mother, grandmother etc. are off-limits - usually I use Found Family to set that, but I forgot in this case.

Now, if they’d just stayed flirting in the bush, they might have been able to cover it up. But no...

Abraxius had to put some ACR moves on a couple of other visitors to the Heart of the Village... who also happen to be gods. The one in the red robe, hugging Abraxius in the above pic, is the Seeker - god of self-awareness, intuition and the pursuit of knowledge and enlightenment (and is also sort of my simself). The blonde dragon god in the corner there is Air - god of creativity, agility, inspiration and freedom - who Abraxius also flirted with in front of Kuona. I don’t have a picture of that...

...but as you can see, Kuona took it badly. It actually degenerated into her slapping and poking both Air and the Seeker repeatedly before the sim I was controlling went home. All that has to have consequences (for Kuona in particular) but I’m not sure what.

To add insult to injury, Abraxius is not my type. :P

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Rotation 1, Household 1: ROS = unexpected pregnancy (it was a death ROS, but I don’t allow those in the first rotation so I rerolled)

As their first order of business, Rivadya and Sivu make their way to the Heart of the Village to flirt with apartment neighbours and play some treeball. Oh, and maybe fetch water, that might be important?

Dill has an even better idea: stay home and spy on Headwoman Etan. What could possibly go wrong?

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Back to Kulo Seeri gameplay now! And since I’ve fixed the apartment landlord issue (and I’m planning to build for each household as I get to them) the first household I’ll be playing will be one of the apartment-dwelling ones.

Say hi to these three roomies! On the right is Dill zan-Zita (I’ve changed the clan naming convention and will probably make a rambly lorepost about it later) and in the middle is Rivadya sho-Serendipity. The voidling on the left is Dill’s adoptive nephew, Sivu. All three of them - and all other residents of the apartment - are single adults, either childless or with children who have flown the nest. Basically, it’s Teal Camp for grown-ups.

My game: Good luck with that...

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ACR continues unabated through the first day...

Game: *chimes*

YOU TWO. NOT AGAIN.

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Off to the next family now, and my d12 tells me it’s the household of Zera sho-Ku. Just let me load their lot...

Looks like I have a decapitastic case of the invisible soup! To make things weirder, it’s actually a family of seven....

#sims 2 #ts2 #sims 2 gameplay #ts2 gameplay #kulo seeri #kulo seeri gameplay #nh kulo seeri #kulo seeri rotation 1 #household: zera #graphics issues

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Kulo Seeri returns to simblr with a new iteration that I’ll be building as I go - and I really need to stop complaining about first rotations being slow, because when I do, things like THIS happen:

I mean, seriously? We never even got to meet this guy in the story! But since he’s gone and got himself hit by a falling sky rock on day one, and I forgot to get a screenshot of him before that... time to ramble.

Voidling Branch Anderer, around middle age, was the husband of the significantly younger Nita zan-Avira, a seer living in Kulo Seeri. They met in Port Alma about a thirband (seasonal year) ago, when Nita and her siblings were travelling back to KS, and agreed to marry her and join the Nuidya tribe.

Since then, many of the Nuidya have mentioned his uncanny similarities to the late Branch Timbley, one of two husbands of former zan-Ace matriarch Zita. They didn’t look much alike, but the personality traits were almost identical, to say nothing of the name. Branch Timbley was also known for death from above, himself shuffling off from a falling sky rock once and lightning twice, and Nuidya lore says that if you’re struck by lightning and die, you’re immediately reincarnated and don’t get to kick back in the ancestors’ realm first. I think this incident proves my suspicions that the two of them were the same dude.

Branch leaves his wife Nita and her voidling son Anyu (not actually Branch’s son; Nita was abducted before she met him) as well as Nala and Mike, two of the three cats they adopted in Port Alma (Taz, the third, lives with Nita’s siblings Ky and Alana). Per Nuidya tradition, the family will observe two starbands of mourning, and Branch will be laid to rest in the burial grounds next rotation once I’ve built the dang lot.

Moral of the story: do NOT complain about first rotations being slow, boring or anything of the sort. I learned from several experiences like this that the game WILL strike someone down for it. :P

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Soon enough, it’s morning, and time to collect wood and water from the Heart of the Village. Zyulo, Sophos and Wild Kiss are sleeping off the previous night’s shenanigans, so the task falls to Busuteta - the only quiet, scholarly and relatively drama-free member of the zan-Ku family. (Well, I say drama-free, but look at him in that first pic making eyes at his brother’s partner...)

Yoshan and Busuteta are paternal half-siblings, so under Nuidya tribal law they’re not related at all, but they’ve always been close. The relationship between Yoshan and his partner Dominick (who appears courtesy of @esotheria-sims) has been challenged a LOT in the time they’ve been together, mostly by Yoshan struggling to stick to the monogamous relationship he knows Dom needs. The two brothers discuss the rumours about Yoshan “just having a thing about elves” - given that both the other guys he’s had minor ACR flings with have been elves, village gossip may have a point - and Busuteta tries taking Yoshan’s mind off it with a story about his new werewolf roommate and her ACR flings.

Towards the end of the visit, though, he gets some ACR of his own in with Chase sho-Carmela.

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