01-03. Exploring Côtes d'Ambonnay

Today I installed a few mods having to do with routing fixes. I also installed NRaas Traffic. I still need to tune Traffic settings for the medieval world.

It's a little strange seeing the food truck parked beside 15th century slums. 


And what do you think would happen to Lotta if the medieval locals found her looking like this!


Or, how would Dromio explain his devil familiar? Do you think the Inquisitors would be fooled by his shiny sackcloth disguise? 


I spent a little time adding a few essentials to one of the houses. I still have a lot of decorating to do. But I'm going to try to keep it simple this time. The houses are smaller. That will help. And there's a lot more things to do in the world. If my sims want to be entertained, they can explore.


I used a save file to begin the world. It included a lot of NPCs that were already dressed in period clothing. This is the little papergirl. Isn't she cute in her costume?


Meet one of Côtes d'Ambonnay's bartenders. Wonder if he has any quests to offer?


Here's the barista taking a break from serving herb teas and pastries. Sweet rolls, probably.


This isn't a cave or tomb. It's a tunnel leading from the road to a secluded cove.


A lovely spa.


I found a group of my inactives visiting the Enchanted Forest. It's a children's theme park.


A play castle in the park.


One of the castle rooms.


A play pirate ship and fish pond.


A haunted witch's house.


And look at this awesome spring rider stand! What a creative job someone did here.

01-02. Mysteriously Ported to Côtes d'Ambonnay

There was a task I wanted to complete for the Gentlemen Prefer Ghosts households.

I spent time last night moving my Mysterious Island sims to the new larger world of Côtes d'Ambonnay using NRaas Porter. All is well. 

Everyone made it in one piece and the process was smooth, no issues. Well, Dromio had to have a makeover to get him to his former self, but that's a common problem with plumbots being saved to the bin.

This is the initial house I chose for unpacking the households. There were 4 households, with a total of 24 sims.


This is a nice farm-style home, and I decided to leave this family here.


The other 3 families didn't fare so well in where Porter placed them. The castle group ended up in a shack called the Pale Shelter. You can see that Dromio is totally messed up.


These guys were given the Black Roof shed--barely a roof over their heads at all, black or otherwise!


And this family was sent to The Wages of Sin homestead. I thought that was ironic because two of these sims were the cheaters!


Yes, I'm afraid these 3 families were now living in the slums. I had to find them new homes.


At first, I tried putting down copies of their old houses into this new world, but I couldn't find level lots that would accommodate the homes. The terrain looked uneven and wonky. So I searched for decent houses in the main area of the world.

I moved these folks here. I love this lot, but I'll probably level a little more of the terrain in front for the horse.


This group was given the converted Monastery in the town. I thought that was ironically fitting for socialites and party animals!


There was a neat castle, but it was huge and too far away from the other households. So I copied one the the nicer homes in town and placed it on a rural lot for this family. I'll need to do a little more landscaping for it.


I was able to import my NRaas settings with Overwatch without any problems too. And I put the non-active households into my caste group. The next thing to do was check each family's inventory, etc. and make sure the houses had what they needed.

I made Dromio's household active first so that I could fix him. I had saved his bot parts in CAS, so it was a quick process. I also needed to reinstall his trait chips. He looks quite shiny in broad daylight!

The second I unpaused, Guy went straight over to Jacquelin (Aaron's wife) and flirted with her. Sigh.


It wasn't a serious attempt, but Dromio and Amika were not happy about it.


Aaron didn't notice. He was busy playing with his daughter Lefay.


By this time, it was getting late and I needed to close the game. But I checked on the other households first. These girls had bought themselves a medieval carriage! I'll have to do something about limiting vehicles. Probably installing NRaas Traffic.


I found this family all taking off in a new boat, even Derby the horse.


Unfortunately for Derby, there wasn't room for him in the boat and he got kicked back to shore.


Clara drove them around the main island. I'm not sure where they were headed because I quit the game before they disembarked.


It's a big world, and I couldn't locate everyone just by looking around. But I did see Jeremy at the marketplace.

01-01. A New World for the Mysterious Island Families

I installed a new world: Côtes d'Ambonnay. It's a medieval themed world, complete. It even has diving lots. My plan is to move my knight families from the small Mysterious Island to the larger world, using Porter.

CÔTES D'AMBONNAY - A FRENCH MEDIEVAL WORLD - FEATURED







Here are a few screenshots I took last night while looking over the world.

05-15. Leaving Mysterious Island

I've decided to move the four Mysterious Island households to a larger world. Now that I've resurrected all the ghost ladies and learned the basics of NRaas Story Progression, my experiment on this small island is complete.

But I'm still going to place the families in a modified "Medieval" style land. (See my Côtes d'Ambonnay world story.) I'll also continue to play the households in rotation to practice that method of game play.
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Two more final random screenshots from Mysterious Island:

After the birthday party, the unicorn was still at the Lightkeepers lot.


Jeremy and Sophia now have faithful reputations. Remember, these two were betrayed by their first partners, Charlotte and Chris, who became a new couple themselves. I'm glad things worked out for everyone involved in that fiasco.

05-14. Loch's Toddler Birthday: Part 2

Loch aged up with a little bit of hair, red like his mother's. I took him into Stylist to give him better clothes and another hairstyle.




A blue-eyed redhead.




Loch Loves the Outdoors, so he was happy. He had his teddy bear too--Gene the Genie. ... No Imaginary Friend. Peanut was gone forever!


Everyone shuffled around to eat birthday cake. 


And they all continued to have fun.


Derby and the unicorn played horse games together.


Dexter talked sims into brushing him, feeding him treats, and playing games.


Beowulf was doing the same, but I lost sight of him until the end of the party.


Jacquelin practiced her guitar and stayed away from the crowds.


Sophia served drinks.


And Trevor had a few too many.


Lotta flirted with Daryl. I watched him lean in close at first, but then he gently backed away. He was thinking that Chris would tell on them.


He was right. Chris was watching.


At the end of the day, everyone had enjoyed themselves.




Bradley rowed part of the way home. I have no clue why.


It had been an "awesome" party.


Happy Birthday, Loch!