I was still playing the Lightkeepers, but I always do a map view check on the other households. Brigida was nowhere to be found. I looked for her with NRaas. She was gone!
I backed out of the save and started again. This time I didn't unpause the game before looking for Brigida. I opened the Bay Watch home and found her in the playpen. But the second I unpaused, she vanished! I watched her go.
I restarted again, left the game paused, and used a cheat to reset her since there were no possible interactions while she sat in the playpen. I unpaused and she disappeared again!
I've never had a baby or toddler vanish like this. Her status was fine, I checked her mood and she was very happy. She was not neglected. I went back to the previous save, which was just before Grizelda had her baby. I didn't want to do that because it was like sacrificing one child for another. But it didn't matter anyway because Brigida vanished from that save too. I believe this was about her being a ghost.
So then I spent an hour or two, trying different things to save her (always clearing caches before restarts): reset, NRaas reset, remove ghost occult, and Edit in CAS to make human. Nothing worked. I looked info up online and found several posts about disappearing babies/toddlers, but particularly ghosts. Sometimes ghost babies/toddlers in inactive families are treated like haunting ghosts and will vanish around dawn.
Well, I couldn't take the risk of Brigida disappearing for good! I had to fix this. I read one suggestion that described using the NRaas family tree portrait to add her to the active family. I noticed that she did appear in the tree. So I cleared all the caches one more time, started the game, switched SP over to the Bay Watch family, and let Brigida vanish again. Then I followed the suggestion and used the NRaas family tree portrait to add Brigida back into the active household. That portrait was the only sign of Brigida anywhere!
She came back as a human, but with a ghostly voice. I took her into CAS and removed her ghost status. It says she's human, no occult listed anywhere, but she's still not fully human.
She interacts and behaves fine most of the time.
The family recognizes each other even though Brigida is probably a clone of her former self. I had to build up the relationships again.
For the most part, she seems normal. But she'd lost everything out of her inventory: death flower, teddy bear, and her Imaginary Friend. (The full moon rose at the end of this day, BTW.)
But when Brigida was put in her crib, another strange thing happened. She started remotely playing in the playpen!
She went through all the motions of using the abacus and the blocks in the playpen actually moved as she did!
Then she sat down and used the playpen mirror remotely too!
She wouldn't go to sleep. I brought a household member down to get her out of the glitched crib and try to put her to sleep again. Charlotte couldn't touch her. So once again, I reset Brigida. Charlotte (everyone else was still asleep) was then able to pick Brigida up and put her to bed. Brigida finally went to sleep.
I'm going crazy. I hope that when I start the game again everyone is all right. I don't know if the issues are from doing rotational play, from using a small world map, or from NRaas SP, but I need to take a break from this world before I go completely insane!
I also realized that Brigida's clothes are not the ones I gave her!
