02-05. A Few More Outtakes

It's not always easy to find out what actually is making sims complain. It can get so annoying. I actually saw why my sims sometimes get stuck behind the plant by the ladder. It happens when another sim is blocking the way to the right, so the sim on the ladder steps off to the left through the half wall. I will need to fix this or I'll be forever resetting them!


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Some outtakes.

Bradley has the Savvy Sculptor trait. He had a wish to learn the skill, so I let him take time to do that.


Jeremy has the Handy trait and wanted to learn the handiness skill. He read book 1 on the MultiTab.


All the guys needed to improve their Charisma skill, so I had several of them in front of mirrors for a while. They learn through socializing too.


Steven's ghost girl Eileen was haunting the throne.


Dromio was getting in the way when all the romances were going on. I made him fish in the well during the night.


He caught all kinds of things, including a Robot Fish. I didn't get a screenshot of it, but the fish looks like this:


I tweaked the colors just a little on two of the tunics. I lightened the aqua color on Guy's and put a bit more green in Steven's turquoise plaid.


After the full moon romancing and some skill building, I let the boys spend some leisure time at the pool.

02-04. Full Moon Hauntings

Gratuitous gnome pic. Daryl fished this little man out of the well. His name is Emperor. 


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Busy night at the castle. I think this is the craziest sims game I've played. So much romance! 

Full Moon Hauntings

I moved all the gravestones to the home lot. Turns out it was another full moon and we had SIX more hauntings that night!

First, I had the gentlemen mourn their lady loves.


I'll share the latest on these 6 romances from the least to most successful. 

1. Chris and Sophia had barely met last time. They were only Acquaintances, but Chris managed to get that relationship up to Friend. Then he tried a little flirting, which went well.


Unfortunately the Heat of the Moment Kiss was a big mistake with Sophia! They lost their friendship and ended the night back as Acquaintances. Time was too short to build the relationship up again.


2. Aaron has an interesting relationship with Jacqueline. When she showed up, she was listed as a Distant Friend, but they soon became close Friends again.


There was a little flirting, but when I checked on them again, they were having a water balloon fight! She left soon after that.


3. No surprises with Bradley and Lotta. They were already Going Steady.


It didn't take long to get back in bed with each other.


4. Steven was also Going Steady with Eileen, so they were happy to see each other.


They easily flirted with each other.


Steven's Heat of the Moment Kiss went great and Eileen even agreed to woohoo, but she disappeared before they reached the shower.


5. It was smooth sailing for Guy and Amika. They were Going Steady too.


That night, they enjoyed some shower woohoo.


They even had time for more romance afterwards.


6. The big winner for the night was Jeremy and Charlotte. Remember, she was the one who gave him such a hard time when they first met. These two started the night as only Acquaintances. That quickly changed with a First Kiss!


Charlotte even agreed to Go Steady.


Which soon led to shower time together.


Jeremy and Charlotte went from Acquaintances to an intimate Going Steady that night!


Congratulations, Jeremy. 


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Bonus pic. I thought we might have a triangle in the making when Trevor walked in on Amika (Guy's girlfriend) while she was bathing! Hearts popped up between them, and Amika said she wanted to get to know Trevor better. I don't think so, Amika!

02-03. Becoming Knights

Two of the ghost ladies showed up the night before last, but they disappeared before the guys could interact with them. I might move ALL the gravestones to the castle. If I do, the cemetery will be changed to a home for some of the guys to move into with their resurrected girls later--when we can finally make the ambrosia.


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I wanted to take the boys into Stylist to give them each a medieval style outfit, just for fun. I spent ages in the game dressing the boys in knight outfits! 

Here are the gentlemen's CAS pictures in order of their age, oldest to youngest (all YAs though). Since we're all on a plaid kick, I chose plaids for their tunics based on their favorite colors. Some favorite colors were not what you'd normally expect on manly knights! 

Bradley, the Black Knight (You can't go wrong with basic black.)


Trevor the Orange Knight (A happy color!)


Daryl the Sea Foam Knight 


Aaron the Red Knight (Another good color for knights.)


Jeremy the Purple Knight (Royal purple works.)


Steven the Turquoise Knight 


Guy the Aqua Knight (I muted the color because Aqua looks similar to Turquoise.)


Chris the Irish Green Knight 


And here are the knights gathered around--not the round table--but the TV watching the Cooking Channel! (Except for Steven. He refused! I guess he thought he'd worked long enough that morning.)

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I moved the garden and put down sprinklers today too. Dromio upgraded them to automatic. And Steven reached level 7 in gardening and was able to plant two of the Life Fruits we bought from the harvest cart. I did look for seeds around the island today, but there weren't any seeds at all.

Also, notice the dirt in the garden. The castle's builder (Yogi-Tea) recolored sand piles from WA to make realistic garden dirt. I thought that was a great idea!


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At first, I was going to put all of the men in kilts instead of tunics, but the kilts were too much! Funny. I did let these two keep theirs though.

02-02. Fishing and Wishing for Romance

The gentlemen are making progress towards the Ambrosia recipe. We found 10 Life Fruits listed at the harvest cart and bought them all. I'm going to have my Green Thumb (Steven) try to plant a couple. I think he's high enough now to do that. I'll keep the other 8 in reserve.

And fishing has been successful too. No one has caught any deathfish from the wishing well, but we now have 6 deathfish from the fishing pond!

I took my top 4 fishermen to the pond and had them fish with Alley Catfish bait. We'd caught those the day before. Notice Aaron telling Chris how much he loves the graveyard! 


With the Alley Catfish, the guys caught angelfish. That's what we need as bait for the deathfish. Once we had enough angelfish, I put three of the guys on the deathfish spawner. Those three were level 6 and 7 in fishing. (My Angler is Steven, but he was home working on the garden since he's the Green Thumb too.)


The three top fishermen caught 2 deathfish each.






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Daryl got called away from fishing when his lady friend appeared in the cemetery. Remember, Daryl and Clara are Romantic Interests, but she refused his offer to go steady. At this meeting, they greeted each other and things were looking good--at first.


Then Clara started acting coy! I know she was doing it on purpose because she has the Flirty trait! Daryl tried a simple little kiss.
"Uh, uh, uh," she said while wagging her finger at him. 


He tried flowers and she refused them. The relationship bar was slowly sliding backwards!


Even compliments didn't work, so I had Daryl try a few friendly interactions, which went ok, but there weren't many options to choose from. ... And she and Daryl had gotten along so well at first!  Clara had even let him kiss her that first night. Poor Daryl! 


Is Clara somehow remembering her husband from Roaring Heights? NRaas doesn't show her as married or having any other RI here in Mysterious Island. Why is she playing so hard to get? 
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Meanwhile, back in the castle dungeon, Frankenstein's monster (Dromio) was getting his daily charge of electricity!