01-11. Fountain Park

I built a small park with a fishing pond on Mysterious Island. It's between the Arcane Guild and the Cemetery. I kept it open so there would be room for horses if they chose to visit the lot.


After the night of the full moon, when the ghost ladies had gone and my guys had rested, I sent them all over to build fishing skills. The pond has 4 spawners: common, uncommon, rare, and death fish. As the boys improve, I move them up to the next spawner level. 


The park has a community picnic table, but later I added a grill.


An overhead view of the park's location.

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The last renovations were on my home lot and nearby. First of all, I added the Wishing Well to the castle yard. Here it is at night.


Next, I took out the covered wagon in the world map and put down a broken ruins piece. I thought the ruins fit better with the theme of the buildings I had on the island.


Just after dawn.


An overview of this end of the island.


A better view of the Wishing Well later in the day.


Bonus pic: The Once and Future Sim. King Arthur VS Alien. 

01-10. Old Tomes Library

Well, I've been in game for a good part of the day today. A lot happened. All the guys have met their ghost girls, thanks to a full moon!  But tonight I'll just share two updates showing more building and renovating I've done. I had a lot of fun doing these lots.

I installed Old Tomes Bookstore and Tearoom from MTS. I love this build, but I did make some changes to it to fit what I was doing on Mysterious Island. It's designated a library in my game. Notice the Weather Stone appeared on this lot too.


My library includes bookcases, sports, arts, inventing, and the Science Center RH.


I took out counters and books to make room for the Science RH rug. Originally I had a Bookstore RH, but decided the Science Lab would be more useful for my Gentlemen Prefer Ghosts challenge.


I replaced the barista bar with a self-serve juice bar and added a snack area on the second floor. I really liked the music stage that was already there--and so did my sims!


A lot of the things my boys are doing in the next screenshots were things they chose to do themselves. Can you pick out my two Virtuosos? (Guy and Aaron) What about one of the Genius sims? (Daryl) Chris just came to watch.


Athletic Trevor and two more with athletic skills (Steven and Jeremy) went straight for the sporting activities.


Avant Garde and Daredevil. Born to be a Rebel. Bradley chose dumpster diving.


How ... sweet. Listening to the music box. Steven's idea.


I did tell Daryl to fix everyone something to eat.


Most of the guys ate outside.


Chris asked Steven to play chess.


I put Bradley, Trevor and Aaron on crafting stations: painting, inventing, sculpturing.


But Steven found a sketch pad himself and joined the artists.


Daryl went on the computer.

01-09. Ghosts at Home

It was difficult trying to get the guys over to the cemetery when I happened to see a ghost, so I took Grizelda's and Lotta's gravestones and placed them in the home yard. 

Two ghosts at a time are as much as I can handle! And these are the two who've been romanced.


The graves at night.


Bradley came out to investigate, but he was only critiquing the flowers (Avant Garde trait). Luckily, he approved. 

01-08. Gentlemen Prefer Ghosts: Matchmaking for Two

Two ghost ladies showed up while all the gentlemen were on watch. I used NRaas to check the girls' traits and zodiac signs and picked out two of the guys who were most compatible. True love was the goal.

Grizelda was the first to arise. She was a Gemini, Flirty and a Party Animal. Oh, I had one of those! Dancing Trevor was a Leo too--Air and Fire zodiacs get along great.

Instant hearts. 


After a little chit chat and compliments, Trevor offered Grizelda flowers.


Being Flirty, Grizelda was enjoying the attention. Trevor was a happy man!


Maybe she would accept his Heat of the Moment kiss.


She most definitely did! 


They exchanged a few more kisses and hugs, but I didn't get other advanced romantic options.


I think Grizelda was tired, so I let them wander downstairs into the crypt. They continued their romance there.


And I had them finish the night with a dance.


Too soon, it was time for Grizelda to go back into her grave.

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Meanwhile, Lotta had also risen. Her traits told me that she was Charismatic and a Pisces. Bradley was Charismatic, and he was a Cancer. Two Water signs. Definitely the best choice for her!

Hearts also popped up for this couple. 


But things didn't go so smoothly for Bradley at first! When he complimented her Ghastliness, Lotta was not amused. Bradley found out she had No Sense of Humor. Ok, we'll remember that!


He made a charming apology and Lotta forgave him. I have to mention that Bradley was also working with another disadvantage. Lotta was standing on higher ground than he was, so she looks like an Amazon next to him! A Lady in Charge. 


Bradley began a serious romance with Lotta (no naughtiness). He tried to ignore the fact that he was kissing her neck, but didn't dare risk asking her to step down!


Bradley got more advanced options with Lotta than Trevor had with Grizelda. He even asked Lotta to go steady and she accepted!


There was time for more romance under the trees.


Bradley used his eyes to mesmerize Lotta!


They spent some tender moments together.


Then, Lotta was whisked away from Bradley.

01-07. Gentlemen Prefer Ghosts: Waking the Dead

The second night on Mysterious Island, I sent all the gentlemen over to the cemetery to wake the ghost girls. Each man was told to mourn a lady in hopes of encouraging her to rise.










Then the guys all went inside the crypt to wait ...